What is a cookie?

A cookie is a harmless text file that is stored in your browser when you visit almost all web pages. The cookie’s usefulness is that the website is able to remember your visit when you return to this page. Although many people are unaware, cookies have been used for 20 years, when the first browsers for the World Wide Web appeared.

What is NOT a cookie?

It’s not a virus, Trojan horse, worm, spam, spyware or windows pop-up.

What information does a cookie store?

Cookies do not generally store sensitive information about you, such as credit cards or bank details, photographs, your identity or personal information, etc. The data they keep is of a technical nature, personal preferences, personalization of content, etc. The web server does not associate you as a person, but your web browser. In fact, if you regularly browse Internet Explorer and try to browse the same website with Firefox or Chrome, you will find that the web does not realize that you are the same person because it actually associates the browser and not the person.

What kind of cookies does it exist?

• Technical cookies: They are the most basic and allow, among other things, to know when a person or an automated application browses, when an anonymous and registered user browses, basic tasks for the operation of any dynamic website.
• Analytics Cookies: They collect information about the type of navigation you do, the sections you use most, the products you view, the time of use, the language, and so on.
• Advertising cookies: they display advertisements according to your navigation, your country of origin, your language, etc.

What are own and third party cookies?

The own cookies are those generated by the page you visit and those of third parties are those generated by external services or providers such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.

What happens if I disable cookies?

To understand the scope that disabled cookies may have, we show some examples:

• You may not share the content of this site on Facebook, Twitter or any other social network.
• The website will not be able to adapt the content to their personal preferences, as is often the case in online stores.
• You can not access the personal area of ​​this website, such as My Account, My Profile, or My Orders.
• Online Stores: It will be impossible to shop online. They will have to call or go to the physical store if you have one.
• It will not be possible to customize your geographical preferences as time zone, currency or language.
• The website will not be able to perform web analytics on visitors and web traffic, which will make the website difficult to compete.
• You can not write on the blog, you can not upload photos, post comments, rate or rate the content. The Web will not be able to know if you are a human or an automated application publishing spam.
• It will not be possible to display sectored advertising, which will reduce the advertising revenue of the Web.
• All social networks use cookies, if you disable them, you can not use any social network.

Can cookies be deleted?

Yes, not only delete, but also block, generally or specifically for a specific area. To remove cookies from a website, you must go to your browser settings. You can search for names associated with the domain in question and proceed to their elimination.

Set cookies for the most popular browsers

Here’s how to access a specific cookie in the Chrome browser. Note: These steps may vary depending on the browser version:

1. Go to Settings or Preferences via the File menu or by clicking on the personalization icon that appears at the top right.
2. You will see different sections, click on the option Show advanced options.
3. Navigate to Privacy, Content Settings.
4. Select All cookies and site data.
5. A list of all cookies sorted by domain will appear. To make it easier to find cookies for a given domain, enter the address partially or completely in the Search for cookies field.
6. Once this filter is created, one or more lines containing the cookies of the requested website appear on the screen. All you have to do is select it and press the X to eliminate it.

To access the cookie settings of the Internet Explorer browser, follow these steps (may vary depending on the browser version):

1. Go to Tools, Internet Options
2. Click on Privacy.
3. Move the slider to set the desired privacy level.

To access the Firefox browser cookie settings, follow these steps (may vary depending on the browser version):

1. Go to Options or Preferences depending on your operating system.
2. Click on Privacy.
3. In History, choose Use Custom Settings for History.
4. Now you will see the Accept cookies option, you can turn it on or off according to your preferences.

To access the Safari browser for OSX cookie configuration, follow these steps (may vary depending on the browser version):

1. Go to Preferences and then Privacy.
2. Here you will see the Block cookies option so that you can adjust the type of blocking you want to create.

To access the Safari browser settings for iOS, follow these steps (may vary depending on the browser version):

1. Go to Settings, then Safari.
2. Go to Privacy and Security, you will see the Block cookies option so that you can adjust the type of blocking you want to create.

To access browser cookie settings for Android devices, follow these steps (may vary by browser version):

1. Run the browser, and then press the Menu key and Settings.
2. Go to Security and Privacy, you will see the option Accept cookies to enable or disable the box.

To access browser cookie settings for Windows Phone devices, follow these steps (may vary by browser version):

1. Open Internet Explorer, then More, then Settings.
2. You can now enable or disable the Allow cookies check box.