What are cookies?
A cookie is a file that is downloaded onto the user’s device (computer, tablet, or mobile phone) when accessing certain web pages. Cookies allow a website to store and retrieve information about the user’s browsing habits and the usability of the pages to help improve their functionality, appearance, or the products and services offered. Some cookies can also be used to recognize the user.
What Types of Cookies Are There?
According to the Entity That Manages Them:
First-party cookies: These are sent to the user’s device from a system or domain managed by the website owner and used to provide the requested service.
Third-party cookies: These are sent to the user’s device from a system or domain not managed by the website owner, but by another entity that processes the collected data.
According to Their Purpose:
Session cookies: These are designed to collect and store data while the user is browsing a website. They are typically used to retain information that only needs to be kept for the duration of the session, such as a list of purchased products.
Persistent cookies: Data remains stored on the device and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the cookie owner, which may range from a few minutes to several years.
Technical cookies: These allow the user to navigate through a website, platform, or application and use its various options or services, such as controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, accessing restricted areas, remembering items in a shopping cart, completing a purchase, requesting registration or participation in an event, using security elements while browsing, storing content for video or audio playback, or sharing content on social media.
Personalization cookies: These allow the user to access the service with certain predefined general features based on a set of criteria stored on the user’s device, such as language, browser type, or regional settings from which the service is accessed.
Analytics cookies: These enable the tracking and analysis of user behavior on websites. The collected information is used to measure website, application, or platform activity and to create browsing profiles of users. This helps implement improvements based on the analysis of user interaction data.
Advertising cookies: These allow the management of advertising spaces that the website owner has included on a website, application, or platform providing the requested service. These cookies store information about user behavior obtained through the observation of browsing habits. This enables the creation of a specific profile to display ads based on those habits.
For more information, please refer to Wikipedia.
What Cookies Does This Website Use?
This website uses functional cookies for user data management purposes, such as processing orders. The website has a system in place to manage these cookies. You have the option to reject all cookies, but this will affect the website’s functionality and it may not work properly. Therefore, we recommend accepting all cookies.