1. What are cookies and why do we use them on the web of exercitpopular.org?
A cookie is a file that is downloaded to the user’s device when accessing certain web pages to store and retrieve information about the navigation that is made from that equipment.
Cookies allow the web, among other things, to store and retrieve information about the decisions and habits of the user. At exercitpopular.org we use them to customize the experience within our websites, identify and remember the registered user and facilitate navigation.
It is important to note that the use of cookies does not provide the user’s personal data, which in the face of exercitpopular.org remains anonymous.
The user can configure his browser not to accept the use of cookies, in which case the personalization of the experience would not be applied although he will be able to continue accessing the contents of our webs with normality.
In the Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie) it is possible to get more information about what with cookies and how they work
2. What kind of cookies does the web of exercitpopular.org use?
Cookies, depending on the permanence of the user. It can be divided into session or permanent cookies. The first ones expire when the user closes the browser. The second ones expire depending on when the purpose for which they serve is met (for example, for the user to be identified on the web and services of exercitpopular.org) or when they are manually deleted.
In addition, according to their purpose, Cookies can be classified as follows:
- Performance Cookies: This type of Cookie remembers your preferences for the tools found in the services, so you do not have to reconfigure the service each time you visit. By way of example, this typology includes:
– Volume adjustments of video or sound players.
– Video transmission speeds that are compatible with your browser. - Geolocation Cookies: These cookies are used to find out what country you are in when you request a website or service. This cookie is completely anonymous, and is only used to help guide content to your location.
- Registration Cookies: Registration Cookies are generated once the User has registered, and subsequently has opened a session, and it is used to identify you on the web and serves with the following objectives: – Keep the user identified so that, If you close a service or web, the browser or the computer server at another time or another day re-enter that service or web, will remain identified, facilitating its navigation without having to re-identify. This functionality can be suppressed if the user clicks the “Exit” functionality, so that this Cookie is deleted and the next time it enters the web the user will have to log in to be identified.- Check if the user is authorized to access To certain services, for example, to participate in a contest. In addition, some services may use third party connectors such as Facebook, Twitter or Google. When the user registers in a service with credentials of a social network or third party identification system, it authorizes the same to keep a persistent cookie that remembers its identity and guarantees access to the web until it expires. The user can delete this cookie and revoke the access to the web through social networks or third party identification system updating their preferences in the specific social network.
- Analytics Cookies: Each time a User visits a Web or Service, a tool from an external provider (Google Analytics, comScore, and the like) generates an analytic cookie on the user’s device. This cookie that is only generated in the visit, will serve in next visits to the services of exercitpopular.org to anonymously identify the visitor. The main objectives are: – To allow the anonymous identification of the navigating users through the “Cookie” (identifies browsers and devices, not people) and therefore the approximate accounting of the number of visitors and their tendency in time – Identify anonymously the most visited content and therefore more attractive to users – Know if the user who is accessing is new or repeat visits.
Important: Unless the User chooses to register on a website of exercitpopular.org, the cookie will never be associated with any personal data that can identify you. Such cookies will only be used for statistical purposes to help optimize the users’ experience on the site.
More information on the privacy policy of these analytical tools at: Google Analytics
3. How to disable cookies in the browser
Most browsers currently allow the user to configure whether or not they want to accept cookies. These settings are usually found in the ‘Options’ or ‘Preferences’ in the menu of your browser.
Here are the instructions for setting up cookies in the main browsers:
- Chrome: Settings -> Show advanced options -> Privacy -> Content settings
For more information, you can check Google support or browser Help. - Firefox: Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> History -> Custom Settings
For more information, you can consult Mozilla support or browser Help. - Internet Explorer: Tools -> Internet Options -> Privacy -> Settings
For more information, you can consult Microsoft support or browser Help. - Safari: Preferences -> Security.
For more information, you can check Apple support or browser Help.