What are cookies and why are they used?
A cookie is a file that is downloaded to the user’s device when they access certain websites which stores and retrieves information about the browsing activity on their computer.
Cookies allow this website, among other things, to store and retrieve information about the user’s decisions and habits. Some of the cookies used on this website are necessary for it to function.
It is important to highlight that the use of cookies does not provide access to the user’s personal data.
What type of cookies are there?
Depending on the time they remain active, Cookies can be divided into session or persistent cookies.
- Session cookies are designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a website and are removed as soon the explorer is closed. They are normally used to store information which only needs to be kept in order to provide the service requested by the user on just one occasion.
- Persistent cookies remain stored on the device and can be accessed and handled during a period specified by the user of the cookie, which may be from a few minutes to several years.
Additionally, depending on the organisation managing them, cookies may be classified as first-party or third-party cookies.
- First-party cookies are sent to the user’s device from a computer or domain managed by the website publisher and are used to provide the service requested by the user.
- Third-party cookies are sent to the user’s device from a computer or domain that is not managed by the website publisher, but by another organisation that handles data obtained from the cookies.
In terms of their purpose, the types of cookies are:
- Technical cookies: Technical cookies allow the user to browse a website, platform or application and use the different service options found there.
- Profiling cookies: Profiling cookies allow the user to access the service with some predefined general features based on a series of criteria on the user’s device such as language, settings, etc.
- Analytical cookies: Analytical cookies allow the website owner to track and analyse user behaviour on the websites to which they are linked. The information collected is used to measure activity on the websites and to create users’ browsing profiles, with the aim of introducing improvements.
- Advertising cookies: Advertising cookies allow the advertising spaces which the publisher puts on the website to be managed as efficiently as possible.
What type of cookies does the website use?
The user may be consult and set up the website cookies managed by the website publisher at Cookie settings
The user should take account that although the cookies may be set up, certain cookies are needed and must be installed to ensure the proper access and use of the website, this cookies does not require the user’s agreed neither its management.
Cookie Type Duration Description _ga third party 1 year 1 months 4 days This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, camapign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randoly generated number to identify unique visitors. _ga_* third party 1 year 1 months 4 days Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page visits. AWSALB third party 7 days AWSALB is an application load balancer cookie set by Amazon Web Services to map the session to the destination. AWSALBCORS third party 7 days Amazon Web Services sets this cookie for load balancing. AWSALBTG third party 7 days This cookie is associated with the Elastic Load Balancing functionality of Amazon Web Services. It is used to respect fixed sessions and allow target groups to be set. When the load balancer first routes a request to a weighted target group, the cookie is generated and included in subsequent requests to the load balancer. It is used to direct requests to the target group specified in the cookie. AWSALBTGCORS third party 7 days This cookie is associated with the Elastic Load Balancing functionality of Amazon Web Services. It is used to respect fixed sessions and allow target groups to be set. When the load balancer first routes a request to a weighted target group, the cookie is generated and included in subsequent requests to the load balancer. It is used to direct requests to the target group specified in the cookie. In particular, the AWSALBTGCORS cookie is used with CORS (cross-origin resource sharing) requests that require the SameSite attribute to enable membership. It includes all the same information as the AWSALBTG cookie plus the SameSite attribute set. CONSENT third party 2 years YouTube sets this cookie via embedded YouTube videos and records anonymous statistical data. cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement persistent 1 year Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie records the user's consent to cookies in the "Advertising" category. cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics persistent 11 months This cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user's consent for cookies in the "Analytics" category. cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional persistent 11 months This cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user's consent to cookies in the “Necessary” category. cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary persistent 11 months This cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user's consent to cookies in the “Necessary” category. cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance persistente 11 months This cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user's consent for cookies in the "Performance" category. CookieLawInfoConsent persistent 1 year Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie records the user's consent to cookies in the "Advertising" category. viewed_cookie_policy persistent 11 months The cookie is set by the GDPR cookie consent plug-in and is used to store whether the user has given their consent or not for the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE third party 5 months 27 days YouTube sets this cookie to measure bandwidth, determining whether the user gets the new or the old player interface. VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA third party 5 months 27 days The description is not currently available. Pending classification wp-wpml_current_language session session This WordPress multi-language plugin cookie stores the current language. YSC third party session YouTube sets this cookie to track the views of videos embedded in YouTube pages. yt-remote-connected-devices third party never YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video preferences using embedded YouTube videos. yt-remote-device-id third party never YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video preferences using embedded YouTube videos. yt.innertube::nextId third party never YouTube uses this cookie to record a unique identifier in order to store data about the YouTube videos the user has watched. yt.innertube::requests third party never YouTube uses this cookie to record a unique identifier in order to store data about the YouTube videos the user has watched.
How do you disable cookies in a browser?
The cookies set up is directly reflected to the browser used, however here are additional information about how the user can adjust the settings in their browser so as not to accept the use of cookies, in which case the user would not have a customized browsing experience. Choosing this setting may result in certain parts of the website not being accessible, as this may cause less effective browsing.
Most browsers currently allow the user to choose whether they want to accept cookies and which types. These settings are usually found in the “settings” or “preferences” in your browser’s menu.
Depending of the browser used by the user and its functionalities used may suppose the installation of cookies that are considered as a Third-party cookies. For example, in case of user chooses Google’s browser and uses its translate tool of the full website, Google install its own cookies in the user’s computers which are not managed by the website publisher as well as has not liability about them. The settings of the browser cookies should be done by the user directly at the browser website.
These are the instructions to change the cookie settings in the main browsers:
- Information about cookies for Internet Explorer.
- Information about cookies for Mozilla Firefox.
- Information about cookies for Opera.
- Information about cookies for Google Chrome.
- Information about cookies for Safari.
Further informartion
Further information about cookies as well as how to block them at www.allaboutcookies.org, www.youronlinechoices.eu. For any qüestions or comments about this website cookies, shall contact by email to info@eurecat.org as a web publisher or as a web service supplier.
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