Types of cookies and new European regulations

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Behavioural advertising or marketing 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."

In other words, they are cookies for targeted advertising purposes, the most intrusive level of this entire classification and the reason why new European guidelines have been drawn up.


2.2. Depending on the activation period: session and persistent cookies
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 enviar un email a un periodista 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 those in which the data remains stored in the terminal 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."

NOTE – It is recommended to periodically clean cookies and cache files on different devices, since there are persistent cookies that will not disappear without deletion.

Now that we know the types of cookies, we are going to analyze how their management affects compliance with the new guidelines of the European Data Protection Committee (EDPC) collected by the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD).

It's time to get your cookies in order!