What Are They and What Do We Use Them For?
This website, like most websites on the Internet, uses cookies to enhance the user experience. Below, you will find information about what cookies are, the types of cookies this site uses, how to disable cookies in your browser, and how to specifically disable the installation of third-party cookies.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small files that some platforms, such as websites, can install on your computer, smartphone, tablet, or smart TV. Their functions can vary widely: storing your browsing preferences, collecting statistical information, enabling certain technical functionalities, and so on. Sometimes, cookies are used to store basic information about a user’s browsing habits or their device, to the point where, in some cases, they can even recognize you.
Why Are They Important?
Cookies are useful for several reasons. From a technical standpoint, they allow websites to function more efficiently and adapt to your preferences, such as storing your language or country’s currency. Additionally, they help website owners improve the services they offer, thanks to the statistical information they collect through them.
Types, Purpose, and Functioning of Cookies
Cookies, depending on their duration, can be divided into session cookies or persistent cookies. The former expire when the user closes the browser. The latter expire when the purpose for which they serve is fulfilled (for example, to keep the user logged in on the pages of www.mudanzasdiagonal.com) or when they are manually deleted.
Additionally, depending on their purpose, cookies can be classified as follows:
Performance Cookies: This type of cookie remembers your preferences for the tools found on the pages, so you don’t have to reconfigure them each time you visit. Examples of this type include:
– Volume settings for video or audio players.
– Video streaming speeds compatible with your browser.
Geolocation Cookies: These cookies are used to determine which country you are in when browsing the web. This cookie is completely anonymous and is only used to help orient content to your location.
Registration Cookies: Registration cookies are generated once the user has registered or subsequently logged in, and are used to identify them on the pages for the following purposes:
– To keep the user identified so that if they close a page, the browser, or the computer and at another time or another day return to this page, they will remain identified, thus facilitating their navigation without having to log in again. This functionality can be suppressed if the user clicks the “log out” function, which deletes this cookie, and the next time they enter the page, the user will need to log in to be identified.
– To check if the user is authorized to access certain pages, for example, to participate in a contest.
– Additionally, some pages may use connectors with social networks such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, or Twitter. When the user registers on a page with social network credentials, they authorize the social network to save a persistent cookie that remembers their identity and grants them access to the pages until it expires. The user can delete this cookie and revoke access to the pages through social networks by updating their preferences on the specific social network.
Analytical Cookies: Each time a user visits a page, a tool from an external provider (in our case, Google Analytics) generates an analytical cookie on the user’s computer. This cookie, which is only generated during the visit, will serve in future visits to the pages of www.mudanzasdiagonal.com to anonymously identify the visitor. The main objectives pursued are:
– To allow the anonymous identification of browsing users through the “cookie” (it identifies browsers and devices, not people) and therefore the approximate counting of the number of visitors and their trend over time. – To anonymously identify the most visited and therefore most attractive content for users.
– To know if the accessing user is new or a repeat visitor.
Important: Unless the user decides to register on the www.mudanzasdiagonal.com website, the “cookie” will never be associated with any personal data that could identify them. These cookies will only be used for statistical purposes that help optimize the user experience on the site.
