A Cookie is a file that is downloaded to your computer when you access certain web pages. Cookies allow a website, among other things, to store and retrieve information about the browsing habits of a user or their computer and, depending on the information it contains and how you use your computer, can be used to recognize the user.
Cookies are essential for the functioning of the Internet, providing countless advantages in the provision of interactive services, facilitating navigation and usability of our website.
TYPES OF COOKIES
Cookies are then sorted according to a number of categories. However, it is necessary to bear in mind that the same cookies can be included in more than one category.
1. Types of cookies according to the entity that manages them
Depending on the entity that manages the computer or domain from which cookies are sent and processes the data obtained, two types can be distinguished:
Own Cookies- These are those that are sent to the user's terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by the editor and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
Third-party Cookies- These are those that are sent to the user's terminal equipment from a computer or domain that is not managed by the publisher, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through cookies.
In the event that cookies are installed from a computer or domain managed by the publisher but the information collected through them is managed by a third party, they cannot be considered as own cookies.
2. Types of cookies according to the period of time they remain active
Session Cookies - A type of cookie designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a web page.
Persistent Cookies - A type of cookie in which data remains stored in the terminal and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the person responsible for the cookie, which can range from a few minutes to several years.
3. Types of cookies according to their purpose
Technical Cookies - Are those that allow the user to navigate through a website, platform or application and the use of different options or services that exist in it.
Personalization Cookies - These are those that allow the user to access the service with some general characteristics predefined according to a series of criteria in the user's terminal.
Analysis Cookies - These are those that allow the person responsible for them to track and analyse the behaviour of the users of the websites to which they are linked.
Advertising Cookies - These are those that allow the management, in the most efficient way possible, of the advertising spaces that, where appropriate, the publisher has included in a website, application or platform from which it provides the service requested based on criteria such as the content edited or the frequency in which the ads are displayed.
Behavioral advertising cookies - These are those that allow the management, in the most efficient way possible, of the advertising spaces that, where appropriate, the publisher has included in a website, application or platform from which it provides the service requested. These cookies store information on the behaviour of users obtained through the continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows the development of a specific profile to display advertising according to the same.
In accordance with the provisions of article 22.2 of Law 34/2002, of 11 July, on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce (LSSI-CE), FUNDACIÓN SOÑAR DESPIERTO informs you of the cookies used on our website:
Google Analytics, a web analytics service developed by Google, which allows the measurement and analysis of navigation on web pages. According to the above typology, these are third party, persistent and analysis cookies.
HOW TO DISABLE COOKIES IN COMMONLY USED BROWSERS
Likewise, FUNDACIÓN SOÑAR DESPIERTO informs the user that he has the possibility of configuring his browser so that he is informed of the reception of cookies, being able, if he so wishes, to prevent them from being installed on his hard disk.
Below, we provide the links to various browsers, through which you can make this configuration: