MÁS ACERCA DE LAS COOKIES

¿What is a cookie?

Cookies are small harmless files which are stored on a computer’s browser. They are designed to hold a modest amount of data specific to a particular client and website, and can be accessed either by the web server or the client computer. This allows the web to preserve information from one visit to the website (or related site) to the next.

¿What is NOT a cookie?

A cookie is not a virus, not a trojan, a worm, spam, pop-up, spyware…

¿Which data can a cookie store?

cookies normally don’t contain any personal information. They don’t scan your computer or do any kind of investigation to find out your personal information, as credit cards or bank account numbers. The information stored in a cookie is usually of a technical nature and is used to customise the webpage appropiately. The web server does not recognize you as a person, it recognizes your web browser, in fact, if you change your browser you will realize that the web does not recognize you as the same user.

¿What types of internet cookies are there?

Technical Cookies: They are the most basic cookies and enable the web to recognize if the user is human or an authomatic app, if the user is anonymous or registered…
Analytic cookies: They store information about your habits when surfing the net.
Advertising cookies: They customize advertising depending on your language, country, preferences…

Own cookies and third party cookies

Own cookies are those generated by the website that you are visiting, and third party cooles are those generated by external servers or providers such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.

¿What if I disable cookies?:

Among others:

You will not be able to share the content of the web on FB, Twitter or any other social network.
The website will not be able to customize your experience.
You will not be able to Access the private área of the web (such as my accout, my profile, order history…)
You will not be able to buy on line.
The website will not be able to analyze the traffic what will seriously handicap its competitivity.
You will not be able to post in the blog or share any comment.
You will not be able to access any social Network.

¿Can cookies be eliminated?

Yes, users can eliminate sookies and set their browsers to accept or reject all, or certain, cookies

How to control cookies on some of the most popular browsers

(all of them depending on the versión)

Google Chrome

Click on the «Tools» menu and select «Options». Click the «Under the Bonnet» tab and locate the «Privacy» section, and choose the «Content settings» button. Click the «Cookie settings» tab and choose your preferred settings. Google Chrome allows all cookies by default, but you can restrict the behaviour of first-party and third-party cookies or even block them completely. Click on the Close button when you’ve finished.

Internet Explorer

Choose Tools and then Internet Options Click the Privacy tab Move the slider to choose your preferred settings. For more specialised cookie settings click on Advanced, check the ‘Override cookie handling’ button and modify the settings to suit your requirements. Para acceder a la configuración de cookies del navegador Firefox siga estos pasos (pueden variar en función de la versión del navegador):

Firefox 3.0

Click on Tools, then Options (or Edit | Preferences on Linux) Select Privacy Select Cookies. Choose your preferred settings (You can configure which sites are allowed to set cookies, how long to keep them for, and view and manage your existing cookies.)

Safari for OSX

Select Preferences and then Privacy Go to Block Cookies to select your preferred setting

Safari for iOS

Go to settings and then Safari. Go to Privacy and Security, you will see the option block cookies, where you can choose your preferred block setting.