TYPES OF COOKIES

Types of cookies based on the entity that manages them:

• Own cookies: These are sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by the owner of the website providing the service requested by the user.
• Third-party cookies: These are sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain that is not managed by the owner of the website providing the service requested by the user, but by another entity that processes data obtained through cookies. Additionally, if cookies are installed from a computer or domain managed by the website owner but the information collected through them is managed by a third party, they will also be considered third-party cookies.

Types of cookies based on their purpose:

• Technical cookies: These allow users to navigate through a website, platform, or application and use the different options or services available, including those used by the publisher to manage and operate the website, enable its features and services. Examples include traffic and data communication control, session identification, access to restricted access parts, remembering elements of an order, completing the purchase process of an order, managing payment, controlling fraud related to service security, requesting registration or participation in an event, counting visits for software license billing, using security elements during navigation, storing content for video or sound dissemination, enabling dynamic content (e.g., loading animation of text or image), or sharing content through social networks.

  Also belonging to this category, due to their technical nature, are cookies that allow the most effective management of advertising spaces, as part of the design or “layout” of the service offered to the user by the publisher on a website, application, or platform, based on criteria such as edited content, without collecting information from users for different purposes, such as personalizing that advertising content or other content.

• Preference or customization cookies: These allow the website to remember information so that the user can access the service with certain features that differentiate their experience from that of other users. Examples include language, the number of results to show when the user performs a search, the appearance or content of the service based on the type of browser through which the user accesses the service, or the region from which the user accesses the service.

• Analysis or measurement cookies: These allow the party responsible for them to monitor and analyze the behavior of users on the linked websites, including quantifying the impacts of advertisements. The information collected through this type of cookies is used to measure the activity of websites, applications, or platforms, with the aim of introducing improvements based on the analysis of user service usage data.

• Behavioral advertising cookies: These allow the most effective management of advertising spaces on the website. These cookies store information on user behavior obtained through continuous observation of their browsing habits, allowing the development of a specific profile to display advertising based on it.

• Geolocation cookies: Used to determine the user’s location when requesting a service. This cookie is anonymous and is used, for example, to offer appropriate information depending on the country in which the user is located.

Types of cookies based on the duration of activation:

• Session cookies: Designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a website. They are usually used to store information that is only of interest to keep for the provision of the service requested by the user on one occasion (e.g., a list of purchased products) and disappear when the session ends.

• Persistent cookies: These are cookies in which the data remains stored on the device and can be accessed and processed for a defined period by the party responsible for the cookie, ranging from minutes to several years.