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What is a cookie?
A “cookie” is a small amount of text that is stored in your browser (such as Google’s Chrome or Apple’s Safari) when you browse most websites.
What is NOT a cookie?
It is not a virus, nor a trojan, nor a worm, nor spam, nor spyware, nor does it open pop-up Windows.
What information does a cookie store?
Cookies do not usually store sensitive information about you, such as credit card or bank details, photographs or personal information, etc. The data they save is technical, statistical, personal preferences, content customization, etc.
The web server does not associate you as a person but your web browser. In fact, if you regularly browse with the Chrome browser and try to browse the same website with the Firefox browser, you will see that the website does not realize that you are the same person because it is actually associating the information with the browser, not with the person. .
What kind of cookies are there?
There are five large groups:
- Technical and functional cookies: They are the most basic and allow, among other things, to know when a human or an automated application is browsing, when an anonymous user and a registered user are browsing, basic tasks for the operation of any dynamic website.
- Analysis cookies: They collect information about the type of browsing you are doing, the sections you use the most, products consulted, time slot of use, language, etc.
- Social cookies: are those necessary for external social networks.
- Affiliate Cookies: allow you to track visits from other websites, with which the website establishes an affiliation contract.
- Advertising and behavioral cookies: collect information about the preferences and personal choices of the user.
What are own and third-party cookies?
Own cookies are those generated by the page you are visiting and third-party cookies are those generated by external services or providers.
What cookies does this website use?
This website uses its own and third-party cookies. The following cookies are used on this website:
Own cookies
- Personalization: Cookies help us remember which people or websites you have interacted with, so that we can show you related content.
- Preferences: Cookies allow us to remember your settings and preferences, such as your preferred language and your privacy settings.
Third party cookies
This website uses analysis services, specifically Google Analytics to help the website analyze the use made by users of the website and improve its usability, but in no case are they associated with data that could identify the user. Google Analytics, is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., the user can consult here the type of cookies used by Google.
Thegreenvector.com is a user of the WordPress blog hosting and supply platform, property of the North American company Automattic, Inc. For this purpose, the use of such cookies by the systems is never under the control or management of the person in charge of the web, they can change their function at any time, and enter new cookies. These cookies do not report any benefit to the person in charge of this website. Automattic, Inc., also uses other cookies in order to help identify and track visitors to web sites. WordPress, know how they use the Automattic website, as well as their access preferences, as stated in the “Cookies” section of their privacy policy.
Social network cookies can be stored in your browser while you browse Thegreenvector.com, for example, when you use the Thegreenvector.com content sharing button on a social network.
Below is information about the social network cookies that Thegreenvector.com uses in its own cookie policies:
- Linkedin cookies, see more information in its cookie policy
Can cookies be deleted?
Yes, and not just delete, but also block, in a general or particular way for a specific domain.
To delete cookies from a website you must go to the settings of your browser and there you can search for those associated with the domain in question and proceed to their elimination.
- Cookie settings for Google Chrome
- Cookie settings for Apple Safari
- Configuring cookies for the Internet Explorer
- Cookie settings for Mozilla Firefox
More information about cookies
If you wish to have greater control over the installation of cookies, you can install programs or add-ons to your browser, known as “Do Not Track” tools, which will allow you to choose those cookies that you wish to allow, programs such as: Ghostery or Your Online Choices.