What is a cookie?
A cookie is a harmless text file that is stored in your browser when you visit almost any website. The value of the cookie is that the web is able to remember your visit when you return to browse this page. Although many people do not know it, the cookies have been in use for 20 years, when the first browsers for the World Wide Web.
What is NOT a cookie?
It is not a virus or a Trojan or a worm, no spam, no spyware, no pop-up window opens.
What information does a cookie store?
Cookies do not usually store sensitive information about you such as credit card or bank account information, photos, your ID or personal information, etc.. The data stored is technical, personal preferences, content personalization, etc..
The web server will not associate you as a person but your web browser. In fact, if you regularly browse with Internet Explorer and try to browse the same web with Firefox or Chrome you will see that the web does not realize that you are the same person because you are actually associating the browser, not the person.
What kinds of cookies are there?
• Technical cookies: These are the most basic and allow, among other things, knowing when a human is sailing or an automated application, when an anonymous user navigates and one registered basic tasks for running any dynamic web.
• Analysis cookies: collect information on the type of navigation being carried, the sections you use most, viewed products, times of use, language, etc..
• Advertising cookies: show advertising based on browsing, their country of origin, language, etc..
What are own and third-party cookies?
Own cookies are those generated by the page you are visiting and third-party cookies are generated by internal or external providers such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc..
What happens if you disable cookies?
In order to understand the scope that disabling cookies may have, here we show you some examples:
• You can not share content of this site on Facebook, Twitter or any other social network.
• The web site will not adapt content to your personal preferences, as often happens in online stores.
• You can not access the staff area of that site, such as My Account, or Me or My orders.
• Shop online: It will be impossible to make purchases online, phone or will be visiting the physical store if you have one.
• You can not customize your geographic preferences as time zone, currency or language.
• The web site will not perform web analytics on visitors and web traffic, making it difficult to be competitive anywhere.
• You can not blogging, you can not upload pictures, post comments, rate or rate content. The web may not know whether you are a human or an automated application that publishes spam.
• No advertising may show sectioned, reducing the income of the website.
• All social networks use cookies, if you disable may not use any social network.
¿Can cookies be eliminated?
Yes. Not only remove, also block, general or particular to a specific domain.
To remove cookies from a Web site you should go to your browser settings and there you can find the associated domain in question and proceed with removal.
Setting cookies for the most popular browsers
Here’s how to access a particular cookie in Chrome browser. Note: These steps may vary depending on the version of the browser:
- Scroll to Settings or Preferences by right clicking the icon customization that appears at the top right or File menu.
- You will see different sections, click the Show Advanced Options option.
- Scroll Privacy Content Settings.
- Choose All cookies and site data.
- A list appears with all ordered cookies per domain. To make it easier to find the cookies of a given domain partially or fully enter the address in the Search field cookies.
- After making this filter will appear on screen one or more lines with the requested Web cookies. Now just select it and press X to proceed with removal.
To access the cookie settings in Internet Explorer follow these steps (may vary depending on your browser version):
- Go to Tools, Internet Options
- Click on Privacy.
- Move the slider to adjust the level of privacy you want.
To access the configuration of cookies using Firefox browser follow these steps (may vary depending on your browser version):
- Scroll to Options or Preferences depending on your operating system.
- Click on Privacy.
- In History, choose Use custom settings for history.
- You will now see the Accept Cookies option, you can turn on or off according to your preference.
To access the cookie settings for OSX Safari browser follow these steps (may vary depending on your browser version):
- Scroll to Settings, then Privacy.
- Here you will see the Block cookies to fit the type of lock to perform.
To access the cookie settings for iOS Safari browser follow these steps (may vary depending on your browser version):
- Scroll to Settings, then Safari.
- Scroll Privacy and Security, you will see the Block cookies to fit the type of lock you want to perform.
To access the browser’s cookie settings from Android devices follow these steps (may vary depending on your browser version):
- Run the browser and press the Menu key, then Settings.
- Scroll to Security and Privacy, where you will see the Accept Cookies option to activate or clear the box.
To access the browser of cookie settings from Windows Phone devices follow these steps (may vary depending on your browser version):
- Open Internet Explorer, then More, then Settings
- You can now enable or disable the Allow cookies check box.
