There are several types of cookies depending on different criteria:

Depending on ownership:

• Own cookies: These belong to the owner of the website.
• Third-party cookies: These are owned by a third party, other than the owner of the website, who will be the one to process the information collected.

Depending on its purpose:

• Technical cookies: These are cookies that allow the user to navigate through a website, platform or application and use the different options or services that exist therein, including those that the editor uses to allow the management and operation of the website and enable its functions and services, such as, for example, controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, accessing restricted access parts, remembering the elements that make up an order, carrying out the purchase process of an order, managing payment, controlling fraud linked to the security of the service, making the request for registration or participation in an event, counting visits for the purposes of billing licenses for the software with which the service works (website, platform or application), using security elements during navigation, storing content for the dissemination of videos or sound, enabling dynamic content (for example, animation for loading a text or image) or sharing content through social networks.

Also belonging to this category, due to their technical nature, are those cookies that allow the management, in the most efficient way possible, of the advertising spaces that, as another element of the design or “layout” of the service offered to the user, the editor has included in a web page, application or platform based on criteria such as the edited content, without collecting information from users for different purposes, such as personalizing that advertising content or other content. Technical cookies will be exempt from compliance with the obligations established in article 22.2 of the LSSI when they allow the provision of the service requested by the user, as is the case of the cookies listed in the previous paragraphs. However, if these cookies are also used for non-exempt purposes (for example, for behavioral advertising purposes), they will be subject to said obligations.

• Preference or personalization cookies: These are cookies that allow information to be remembered so that the user accesses the service with certain characteristics that may differentiate their experience from that of other users, such as, for example, the language, the number of results to be displayed when the user performs a search, the appearance or content of the service depending on the type of browser through which the user accesses the service or the region from which the user accesses the service, etc.

If the user chooses these features (for example, if he or she selects the language of a website by clicking on the icon of the flag of the corresponding country), the cookies will be exempt from the obligations of article 22.2 of the LSSI because they are considered a service expressly requested by the user, and this is only provided that the cookies obey the selected purpose.

• Analysis or measurement cookies: These are cookies that allow the person responsible for them to monitor and analyse the behaviour of users of the websites to which they are linked, including the quantification of the impact of advertisements. The information collected through this type of cookies is used to measure the activity of the websites, application or platform, in order to introduce improvements based on the analysis of the data on the use made by users of the service.

Regarding the processing of data collected through analysis cookies, although they are not exempt from the obligation to obtain informed consent for their use, it is unlikely that they represent a risk to the privacy of users provided that they are first-party cookies, that they process aggregated data for strictly statistical purposes, that information is provided about their uses and that the possibility for users to express their refusal to use them is included.

• Behavioural advertising cookies: these are cookies that store information on user behaviour obtained through continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows the development of a specific profile to display advertising based on it.

Depending on the time they remain activated on the terminal equipment, we can distinguish:

• Session cookies: These are designed to collect and store data while the user is accessing a website. They are usually used to store information that is only of interest to the user for the provision of the service requested on a single occasion (for example, a list of purchased products) and they disappear at the end of the session.
• Persistent cookies: these are cookies in which the data remains stored on the device and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the person responsible for the cookie, which can range from a few minutes to several years.