A “cookie” is a data file written to a user’s computer hard drive by a website that identifies the user and allows the website to remember the user, customize preferences, or eliminate the need to fill out forms or data on future visits. It also allows a website or advertising companies to monitor users’ browsing patterns or behavior.
Users can configure their browsers to alert them of the existence of “cookies” on the websites they visit, or to directly prevent “cookies” from being installed on their hard drives.
2.1: Own Cookies - Third-party Cookies
All cookies are stored on your computer with an expiry time. If they expire when you leave the website, we are talking about session cookies, on the other hand, if their expiry lasts longer, they are called persistent cookies.
An example of the use of a session cookie would be when you make a purchase on a website. When you select a product to buy, a cookie is sent to you. With this cookie on your computer, the website can read it and recognise that you want that product and add it to your shopping cart. Without this cookie, it will not be able to differentiate you from the rest of its visitors. Once the process is finished, the cookie is deleted from your computer.
An example of a persistent cookie: An online store that sees that you are interested in one of its products could send you a cookie with the following data "this visitor is interested in Korean cosmetics" and with that cookie installed, show you advertising banners in the following days with information about that type of product.
Depending on their purpose, we can distinguish the following cookies.
Technical cookies: generally sent by the site itself, which make it easier for you to navigate the portal. An example could be the social network Facebook. When you add your username and password, Facebook sends you a cookie to identify you from the rest of its visitors and show your personal information restricted to the rest of the users.
Personalization cookies: these are those that save your preferences within the portal, such as your language.
Analysis cookies: they are used to see how visitors behave on a website within them. Data such as which pages they view, how many seconds they spend on each one, etc. These cookies are useful to improve the services that a portal provides based on how users interact with it.
Advertising cookies: they are used to personalize the advertising that a portal shows to its users based on the content of the website and the frequency at which the ads are shown.
Behavioral advertising cookies: These cookies store information about users and their behavior to then offer relevant information to them in the available advertising spaces.
www.cigarte.com uses the following cookies:
Session cookies: These allow data entries to be recorded on the website. For example, when the user fills out a form.
User authentication cookies: These allow you to be identified as a registered user and allow you to browse the different contents of the website, only for the duration of the session.
Social cookies: These are used for relations with external social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Google, Pinterest, etc.). Their function is to control the interaction with social widgets within the pages. This type of cookies is used in domains such as facebook.com, twitter.com or google.com.
Analysis cookies: These are used to study the behaviour of users anonymously when browsing our website. This way we can find out which content is most viewed, the number of visitors, etc. This information will be used to improve the browsing experience and optimise our services. These can be our own cookies but also from third parties. Among the latter are Google Analytics cookies.
If you want to configure your browser so that it does not accept cookies, you can do so by following these links:
For more information on how to disable the use of cookies in Firefox, click here.
For more information on how to disable the use of cookies in Chrome, click here.
For more information on how to disable the use of cookies in Explorer, click here.
For more information on how to disable the use of cookies in Safari, click here.
For more information on how to disable the use of cookies in Opera, click here.
