Use of Cookies and Web Bugs by the Periodical News Websites
Typology, purpose and operation of Cookies
How to disable Cookies and Web Bugs in the main browsers
What happens if Cookies are disabled
1. Use of Cookies and Web Bugs by the Periodical News Websites
The Periodical News websites use “Cookies” and other similar mechanisms (hereinafter, Cookies). Cookies are files sent to a browser through a web server, which are downloaded to the User’s device, to record the User’s activities on a specific website or on all the websites, apps and / or services of the Periodical websites.
Periodical (hereinafter, the Services). The first purpose of Cookies is to provide the User with faster access to the selected Services. In addition, Cookies personalize the Services offered by the Periodical News Websites, facilitating and offering each User information that is of interest or that may be of interest to them, based on the use they make of the Services.
The Periodical News Websites use Cookies to personalize and facilitate User navigation as much as possible. Cookies are only associated with an anonymous User and their computer and do not provide references that allow the User’s personal data to be deduced. The User may configure their browser to notify and reject the installation of Cookies sent by the Periodical News websites, without affecting the User’s ability to access the Contents. However, we point out that, in any case, the quality of operation of the website may decrease.
Registered Users, who register or who have logged in, will be able to benefit from more personalized services geared towards their profile, thanks to the combination of the data stored in the cookies with the personal data used at the time of registration. These Users expressly authorize the use of this information for the stated purpose, without prejudice to their right to reject or disable the use of cookies.
Likewise, the Periodical News Websites will be able to know all the Periodical News Services requested by the Users, so that they can provide or offer information appropriate to the tastes and preferences of each User.
The Periodical News websites also use Web Bugs, which are tiny and transparent images embedded in emails. When the User opens the email, this image is downloaded along with the rest of the email content and allows to know if a specific email has been opened or not, as well as the IP address from which it was downloaded. The Periodical News websites use this information to obtain statistics and to be able to carry out analytical studies on the reception of their emails by Users.
2. Type, purpose and operation of Cookies:
Cookies, depending on their permanence, 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 objective for which they serve is fulfilled (for example, so that the User remains identified in the Periodical News services) or when they are manually deleted.
Additionally, depending on their objective, 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. As an example, this typology includes:
· Of favorite values, with which the values that you most consult are saved.
GEO-LOCATION COOKIES: These Cookies are used to find out in which country you are when a Service is requested. This Cookie is completely anonymous, and is only used to help guide the content to your location.
REGISTRATION COOKIES: Registration Cookies are generated once the User has registered or subsequently opened his session, and are used to identify him in the Services with the following objectives:
Keep the User identified in such a way that, if he closes a Service, the browser or the computer and at another time or another day he re-enters said Service, he will continue to be identified, thus facilitating his navigation without having to re-identify himself. This functionality can be suppressed if the User presses the “close session” functionality, so that this Cookie is eliminated and the next time the User enters the Service, the User will have to log in to be identified.
Check if the User is authorized to access certain Services, for example, to access payment areas.
Additionally, some Services may use connectors with social networks such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. When the User registers for a Service with credentials from a social network, they authorize the social network to save a persistent Cookie that remembers their identity and guarantees access to the Services until it expires. The User can delete this Cookie and revoke access to the Services through social networks by updating their preferences in the social network that they specify.
ANALYTICAL COOKIES: Every time a User visits a Service, a tool from an external provider generates an analytical Cookie on the User’s computer. This Cookie, which is only generated during the visit, will be used in future visits to the Periodical News Services to anonymously identify the visitor. The main objectives pursued are:
Allow the anonymous identification of browsing Users through the Cookie (identifies browsers and devices, not people) and therefore the approximate count of the number of visitors and their trend over time.
Anonymously identify the most visited content and therefore the most attractive for Users.
Know if the User who is accessing is new or repeats visit.