A cookie<\/em> is an inoffensive<\/strong> text file that is stored on your browser when you visit almost any web page. The use of the cookie<\/em> is that the website is able to remember you when you revisit it. Although many people do not know this, cookies <\/em>have been used for the last twenty years. They were first used when the first browsers for the World Wide Web appeared.<\/p>\n It is not a virus, nor a Trojan horse, nor a worm, it is not spam, nor spyware, nor does it open pop-up windows.<\/p>\n Cookies <\/em>don\u2019t usually store sensitive information about you, such as credit card or bank details, photos, your ID card number or personal information, etc. The data that is stored in cookies <\/em>is usually technical data, personal preferences, content personalisation, etc. First party cookies<\/em> are generated by the website that you are visiting and third party cookies<\/em> are generated by external services or providers such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.<\/p>\n To better understand the effect that disabling cookies<\/em> can have we can show you some examples:<\/p>\n Yes. Not only deleted, they can also be blocked, either in general or individually for a specific domain. Below we explain how to access a specific cookie <\/em>using Chrome<\/strong>. Note: these steps may vary depending on the version of the browser:<\/p>\n To access the cookie<\/em> settings of Internet Explorer <\/strong>follow these steps (this can vary depending on the version of the browser):<\/p>\n To access the cookie<\/em> settings of Firefox<\/strong> follow these steps (this can vary depending on the version of the browser):<\/p>\n To access the cookie<\/em> settings of Safari for OSX<\/strong> follow these steps (this can vary depending on the version of the browser):<\/p>\n To access the cookie<\/em> settings of Safari for iOS<\/strong> follow these steps (this can vary depending on the version of the browser):<\/p>\n To access the cookie<\/em> settings for Android<\/strong> devices follow these steps (this can vary depending on the version of the browser):<\/p>\n To access the cookie<\/em> settings for Windows Phone<\/strong> devices follow these steps (this can vary depending on the version of the browser):<\/p>\nWhat isn\u2019t a cookie?<\/h2>\n
What information does a cookie<\/em> store?<\/h2>\n
\nThe web server does not recognise you as a person, but does recognise your web browser. In fact, if you usually use Internet Explorer and you try to use the same website with Firefox or Chrome you will see that the website does not realise that you are the same person, because in reality it is recognising the browser, not the person.<\/p>\nWhat types of cookies exist?<\/h2>\n
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What are first party cookies<\/em> and third party cookies<\/em>?<\/h2>\n
What happens if I disable cookies<\/em>?<\/h2>\n
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Can cookies<\/em> be deleted?<\/h2>\n
\nTo delete the cookies <\/em>of a web site you should go to the settings of your browser and there you can look for the cookies<\/em> associated to the domain in question and proceed to delete them.<\/p>\nCookie<\/em> settings for the most popular browsers <\/h2>\n
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