What is a cookie?

A cookie is a harmless text file that is stored in your browser when you visit almost any web page. The usefulness of the cookie is that the website is able to remember your visit when you return to browse this page. Although many people do not know about cookies, they have been used for 20 years, when the first browsers for the World Wide Web appeared.

What is not a cookie?

It is not a virus, nor a trojan, nor a worm, nor spam, nor spyware, nor does it open pop-up windows.

What information does a cookie store?

Cookies do not usually store sensitive information about you, such as credit cards or bank details, photographs, your ID or personal information, etc. The data they save are 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 with Internet Explorer and try to browse the same website with Firefox or Chrome you will see that the web does not realize that you are the same person because it is actually associating the browser, not the person.

What kind of cookies are there?

• Technical cookies: They are the most basic and allow, among other things, to know when a human or an automated application is browsing, when an anonymous and registered user navigates, basic tasks for the operation of any dynamic website.
• Analysis cookies: They collect information about the type of navigation you are doing, the sections you use most, products consulted, time slot of use, language, etc.
• Advertising cookies: They show advertising based on their browsing, their country of origin, language, etc.

What are our own and third-party cookies?

Own cookies are those generated by the page you are visiting 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 deactivating cookies may have, we show you some examples:
• You will not be able to share content from this website on Facebook, Twitter or any other social network.
• The website will not be able to adapt the contents to your personal preferences, as usually happens in online stores.
• You will not be able to access the personal area of this website, such as Account, or My profile or My orders.
• Online stores: It will be impossible for you to make purchases online, they will have to be telephone or visiting the physical store if you have it.
• It will not be possible to customize your geographical preferences as time slot, currency or language.
• The website will not be able to perform web analytics on visitors and web traffic, which will make it difficult for the website to be competitive.
• You will not be able to write on the blog, you will not be able to upload photos, post comments, rate or rate content. The website will not be able to know if you are a human or an automated application that publishes spam.
• Sectorized advertising will not be shown, which will reduce the advertising income of the web.
• All social networks use cookies, If you disable them you will not be able to use any social network.

Can cookies be deleted?

Yeah. Not only delete, also block, in general or particular for a specific domain.

To delete cookies from a website you must go to your browser settings and there you can search for those associated with the domain in question and proceed to its elimination.

Cookie settings for the most polular browsers.

Below we explain how to access a specific cookie from the Chrome browser. Note: these steps may vary depending on the browser version:

1. Go to Settings or Preferences through the File menu or by clicking the customization icon that appears at the top right.
2. You will see different sections, click the Show advanced options option.
3. go to Privacy, Content Settings.
4. Select all cookies and site data.
5. A list will appear with all the cookies sorted by domain. To make it easier for you to find the cookies of a certain domain, enter partially or totally the address in the Search cookies field.
6. After performing this filter, one or more lines with the cookies of the requested website will appear on the screen. Now you just have to select it and press the X to proceed with its elimination.

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

1. go to Tools, Internet Options
2. Click Privacy.
3. Move the slider until you adjust the level of privacy you want.

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

1. Go to Options or preferences according to your operating system.
2. Click Privacy.
3. In history choose Use custom settings for history.
4. Now you will see the Accept option, you can activate it or disable it according to your preferences.

To access the cookies configuration of the Safari browser for OSX follow these steps (they may vary depending on the browser version):

1. go to preferences, then Privacy.
2. In this place you will see the option Block cookies to adjust the type of blocking you want to perform.

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

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

To access the browser cookie settings for Android devices follow these steps (they may vary depending on the browser version):

1. Run the browser and press the Menu key, then Settings.
2. go to Security and Privacy, You will see the Accept option to activate or deactivate the box.

To access the browser cookie settings for Windows Phone devices follow these steps (they may vary depending on the browser version):

1. Open Internet Explorer, then More, then Settings
2. Now you can enable or disable the allow cookies box.