Information about cookies
This Policy of cookies (HTTP cookies) explains what cookies are and how we use them on the website in which you find yourself.
Here you will learn about:
- What are cookies?
- What are the types of cookies that we use, that is to say, what information we collect through them?
- How do I use this information?
- And how do you manage the configuration of cookies?
What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of text sent to your browser by the website or web application that you visit. Help, among other things, to store information about your visit, which can facilitate your next visit and make it more useful for you. Cookies are an integral part of the functioning of modern websites. It should be noted that these files are not computer programs and, as such, does not run as applications. They are simply a type of data packet transmitted between the user's browser and the server of the web site. Cookies cannot contain malicious software or viruses, can not access your hard disk or to take control of your computer. The obligation to inform you about the cookies policy arises because of privacy issues. Cookies serve functions useful, and sometimes necessary, in browsing the Internet. Allow, for example, to store state information (such as items added to a shopping cart in an online store, the state of logging in to an online bank) in the device of the user or track the browsing activity of the user (most of the customizations and integrations of social networking web sites rely on cookies one form or another).
What are cookies?
Cookies are placed on your device from which you access the website (currently it can be a computer, a smartphone, a tablet, a tv, etc). In practice, when you visit a website, the website sends cookies to your device, and your device stores them in files of your web browser.
What about privacy and security?
Since cookies are only text files, harmless, why all the fuss about, and why, according to the law (see law), arose the obligation to inform about cookies? The issue is more related to privacy with security. In terms of safety, we must also take into account a few things to use cookies, as not to use the option to remember passwords and forms (which uses cookies) on computers of others. With respect to the privacy and cookies, the problem in the first place had to do with the systems of tracking statistics and advertising systems. Thanks to an extensive network advertising, some companies, whose cookies are handled by many websites, you can point out with greater precision to the preferences of the users, which may affect your privacy. In practice, this means that, for example, you're looking for something on the Internet, visits to various sites and then, for a time, appear in Internet advertisements related to what you are looking for. This whole mechanism is handled by the data stored in the cookies. When you enter a website that contains ads, the script reads the cookies from the previous session, and based on them, the algorithms adjust the content. Here is where the problem arises of privacy, the question is: to what extent do we want to allow our searches on the Internet will be used for marketing purposes?
How do we use cookies? – three types of cookies
We know that web sites use HTTP cookies to improve the use of the Internet. The operation of cookies on the web sites can be divided into 3 categories, which represent three types of data:
- Management of user sessions – User sessions make it easy to interact securely between the user and any service or application. When the user continues to interact with the web application, it sends requests to help track the state of the user during the session. In practice, these cookies are used for the logon session, the auto-completion of form fields, shopping lists, etc., The session cookies, also known as temporary cookiesthere are only in temporary memory (when the user is on the website). Browsers normally delete session cookies when you close the browser window.
- User customization – Customization of the user saves the preferences and settings of the user for re-use when the user logs on or run the application. The settings are saved and synchronized with a central database to help users to return to the preferred settings to be used during the first interaction with the application. Examples of this use are in the user settings, themes, language of the site.
- Follow-up – The tracking log and analyze browsing habits on the website of the user and finds the number and types of pages they visit. The details include the time you spend on the site and the sequence of pages in the session of the user. Due to the confidential information related to the monitoring, users should be aware of the vulnerabilities of security when you visit unsafe websites. These cookies are used for statistics as well as marketing activities.
Our website uses cookies
You use our website according to the settings of your browser or device to browse the Internet. If your settings allow you to save cookies, these will be saved.
Specific activities of cookies on our site:
- Improving navigation on the site: thanks to the cookies, in some cases we can check the preferences for a user's prior, which allows the scripts to provide most appropriate content. So we increase the efficiency of the website.
- Thanks to the cookies we can check to see if you're a new user or recurrent, and, therefore, we can adjust the site to not show you the same information several times, as well as to show you special information only for returning users, as a banner of subscription to a newsletter.
- Cookies allow us to use statistics and analysis to understand the preferences and the origin of the users. This also allows us to develop our portal in the right direction, increasing your efficiency, as we know what is the most popular in our service.
- If the site has a shopping cart (it is possible to make purchases), payments, etc, these mechanisms use cookies.
- If the site allows the logon – access subscriber-only, registered users, uses cookies.
- Cookies may be used to ensure security, it is used to detect abuses within the service.
- If the site allows for votes/ratings, may use cookies.
- If the site allows for the follow-up of recommendations – program membership, partners, use cookies. Thanks to this function, we can trace the recommendations – you can check who recommended our site to another user, which increases the functionality of our service.
- If you display advertisements on the site, thanks to the cookies we can track your basic indicators and their effectiveness.
- On our website, you can test their different versions.
- Thanks to the cookies we can better monitor the errors on our site, and to correct them more quickly.
Cookies related sites:
We use external services that may use cookies. These cookies allow third parties to recognise that you have visited our website. We and our third-party service providers we may also combine the information obtained from these cookies with personal information available from other sources, including the data collected about you when you use other websites. In the sub-pages can be displayed items that use cookies, such as:
- Links (hyperlinks) to other web sites, each of these sites has its own cookie policy, if you use it (you click on the link) you should become familiar with the cookies policy of the site on which you find yourself.
- Google tools: Google Analytics statistics, Google ads, Google maps, Google tool Plus, videos from YouTube and other – detailed description of the cookies policy of the services related to Google can be found here: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
- Tools of Facebook and other social networks – you can find on our site the framework tool fans, the like button and other tools provided by social networks.
- The site may also have other buttons ‘embedded’ and promotional materials, applications that allow the users of the website to give me like, link, and perform other actions via social networks and related. We do not control these services, each one has its own configuration of cookies, each of these services has its own cookie policy. Selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, you can decide if you want to give these companies the possibility.
How do I disable cookies?
By browsing this site, you are using a device or browser software on the computer) that allows you to save cookies. Browsers allow you to change the settings of cookies. These settings are usually found in the "Options" menu, "Settings" or "Preferences" of your browser. In many cases, the option to save cookies are enabled by default. Information about the setting of cookies and similar technologies – blocking, deletion, can be found in the materials browser helper device that you are using at this time or in the page How do cookies work?. The use of these solutions may affect your ability to use our web site, our applications, as well as sites and related applications. Unfortunately, despite our greatest desires, we cannot guarantee the efficient operation of the site, for devices with cookies disabled.
How to change your consent?
If you have not changed the settings of your browser (your browser is configured by default to accept cookies), you consent to the use of cookies when you access our website. If you wish to withdraw your consent at any time, you must change the settings of your browser.