Definition. What are cookies?
Cookies are files, often including unique identifiers, that are sent by web servers to web browsers, and which may then be sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
Cookies can be used by web servers to identity and track users as they navigate different pages on a website, and to identify users returning to a website.
What kind of cookies does this website use?
Cookies may be either ‘persistent’ cookies or ‘session’ cookies. A persistent cookie consists of a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, which will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date). A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
Additionally, Cookies can be classified as follows depending on its objective:
Site performance cookies
This type of cookie remembers your preferences for tools found on the Services, so you don’t have to re-set them each time you visit.
Registration cookies
When you register with a site, it generates cookies that let the webpage know whether you are signed in or not and if you are allowed access to a particular service with the following objectives:
It also allows the site to associate any comments you post with your username.
If you have not selected ‘keep me signed in’, your cookies get deleted when you either close your browser or shut down your computer.
While you are signed into the site, we combine information from your registration cookies with analytics cookies, which we could use to identify which pages you have seen on the site.
Additionally, some services can use connectors with social media such as Facebook or Twitter. When you register in a Service with social media credentials, you give the social media permission to keep a persistent cookie which remembers your identity and guarantees access to the Services until it expires. You can delete this Cookie y deny access to Services through social media updating your settings in the specific social media.
Analytics cookies:
These cookies can tell us whether or not you have visited the site before. Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies and, if you don’t, we generate new ones. We use them to gather statistics, for example, the number of visits to a page. If you are logged in, we will also know the details you gave to us for this, such as your username and email address, thus improving the offers we make.
Advertising cookies:
These cookies allow us to know whether or not you’ve seen an advert or a type of advert, and how long it is since you’ve seen it. These cookies help the site use targeted advertising. We may use cookies set by another organization so we can more accurately target advertising to you. These cookies are anonymous – they store information about what you are looking at on our site, but not about who you are. We also set anonymous cookies on certain other sites that we advertise on. If you receive one of those cookies, we may then use it to identify you as having visited that site if you later visit the us. We can then target our advertising based on this information.
It is usually possible to stop your browser accepting cookies, or to stop it accepting cookies from a particular website by adjusting the settings in your computer:
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