A cookie is a file that is downloaded to your computer when accessing certain webpages. Cookies allow a webpage, among other things, to store and retrieve information about the browsing habits of users or their computer and depending on the information they have and the way in which they use their computer, cookies can be used to recognise the user.<\/p>\n
This type of cookies allows the user to browse a webpage, platform or application and use the different options or services within it. For example, controlling the traffic and communication of data, identifying a session, accessing parts with restricted access, remembering the elements of a purchase order, completing the buying process of an order, completing a request for registration or participation in an event, using security features while browsing, storing content for broadcasting videos or sound and sharing content via social networks.<\/p>\n
These allow the user to access the service with some general features that are predefined according to a set of criteria in the user’s terminal, such as the language, the type of browser through which to access the service, the regional configuration from which they access the service, etc.<\/p>\n
They are those that allow the persons responsible for them to monitor and analyses the behaviour of users of the websites to which they are linked. The information gathered through such cookies is used in measuring the activity of websites, applications or platforms and for creating user navigation profiles of these websites, applications and platforms, in order to make improvements based on analysis of data of the use made by users of the service.<\/p>\n