What are cookies on computers?
Also known as browser cookies or tracking cookies, cookies are small text files, often encrypted, that are placed in browser directories. They are used by website developers to enable their users to navigate more easily and to perform certain functions. Because of their central role in augmenting and even enabling certain website processes, disabling cookies may prevent users from using certain web pages.
Cookies are created when a user’s browser loads a particular page. This page sends information to the browser, which then creates a text file. Each time the user returns to the same page, the browser retrieves this file and sends it to the page’s server. Cookies are not only created by the website that the user is visiting, but also by other websites that develop advertisements, tools or other elements present on the page that is being loaded. These cookies regulate how advertisements should appear or how tools and other elements of the website work.
How can I configure cookies?
Most browsers currently allow users to configure whether and which cookies they wish to accept. These settings are usually found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your browser. These are the instructions for configuring cookies in the main browsers.These instructions are for guidance only and may be changed at any time by the people responsible for them:
– Chrome: Settings -> Show advanced options -> Privacy -> Content settings.
For more information, you can consult Google support or the browser’s Help.
– Firefox: Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> History -> Custom Settings.
For more information, you can consult Mozilla support or the browser’s Help.
– Internet Explorer: Tools -> Internet Options -> Privacy -> Settings.
For more information, you can consult Microsoft support or the browser’s Help.
– Safari: Preferences -> Security.
For more information, you can consult Apple support or browser Help.
What type of cookies are used on this website?
Cookies, depending on their permanency, can be divided into session or permanent cookies. The former expire when the user closes the browser. The latter expire depending on when the purpose for which they are used is fulfilled (for example, so that the pages are always displayed in the same language), or when they are manually deleted.
Additionally, depending on their purpose, Cookies can be classified as follows:
– Technical Cookies: These allow the user to navigate through a website, platform or application and the use of the different options or services that exist in it such as control traffic and data communication, identify the session, access parts of restricted access, remember the elements that make up an order, make the buying process of an order, make the application for registration or participation in an event, use security features while browsing, store content for broadcasting videos or sound or share content through social networks.
– Personalisation cookies: These cookies allow the user to access the service with some predefined general characteristics depending on a series of criteria in the user’s terminal, such as the language, the type of browser used to access the service, the regional configuration from which the service is accessed, etc.
– Registration Cookies: Registration Cookies are generated once the user has registered or has subsequently opened their session, and are used to identify them on the website and services for the following purposes:
◦ To keep the user identified so that if you close a service or website, browser or computer and at another time or another day re-enter that service or website, you will continue to be identified, thus facilitating your browsing without having to identify yourself again. This functionality can be deleted if the user clicks on the “Exit” function, so that this Cookie is deleted and the next time the user enters the website he/she will have to log in to be identified.
◦ Check whether the user is authorised to access certain services, for example, access to the registered user area.
◦ Additionally, some services may use third-party connectors such as Facebook, Twitter or Google. When the user registers with a service using credentials from a social network or third-party identification system, they authorise the service to store a persistent cookie that remembers their identity and grants them access to the website until it expires. The user can delete this cookie and revoke access to the website through social networks or third-party identification systems by updating their preferences in the specific social network.
– Analytical cookies: Every time a user visits a Website or Service, a tool from an external provider (Google Analytics and similar) generates an analytical cookie on the user’s device. This cookie, which is only generated during the visit, will be used in future visits to anonymously identify the visitor. The main objectives pursued are:
◦ To allow anonymous identification of browsing users through the “Cookie” (identifies browsers and devices, not people) and therefore the approximate counting of the number of visitors and their trend over time.
◦ Identify anonymously the most visited and therefore most attractive content for users.
◦ Know whether the user accessing the site is new or a repeat visitor.
Cookie statement INFO – REQUIRED COOKIES
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Required cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions such as page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiration | Type |
moove_gdpr_popup | atlantic-holidays.com | Stores the user’s cookie consent status for the current domain 1 year | 1 year | HTTP Cookie |
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Statistical cookies help website owners understand how visitors interact with websites by gathering and providing information in an anonymous form.
Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiration | Type |
_ga [x3] | atlantic-holidays.com | Records a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data about how the visitor uses the website. | 2 years | HTTP Cookie |
_gat | atlantic-holidays.com | Used by Google Analytics to monitor the request rate | 1 day | HTTP Cookie |
_gid [x3] | atlantic-holidays.com | Records a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data about how the visitor uses the website. | 1 day | HTTP Cookie |
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Marketing cookies are used to track visitors on websites. The intention is to show relevant and attractive ads to the individual user, and therefore more valuable to publishers and third party advertisers.
Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiration | To |
NID | google.com | Technical | 6 months | HTTP Cookie |
NID | .gstatic.com | Technical | 4 months | HTTP Cookie |
OGP | .google.com | Technical | 1 month | HTTP Cookie |
OGPC | google.com | Technical | 1 month | HTTP Cookie |