Cookies, depending on their expiration date, can be classified as session or permanent Cookies. The former expire when the user closes the browser while the latter remain for a longer time during which the data is still stored in the terminal and can be accessed and processed.

They can also be distinguished according to the entity that manages the computer or domain from which the Cookies are sent and the data that will be obtained is processed. In this case, they are classified as:

• Own cookies: those that are sent to the User’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by the Owner of the Web and from which the service requested by the User is provided.
• Third-party cookies: those that are sent to the User’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain that is not managed by the Owner of the Website, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through Cookies.

Cookies can also be classified according to their purpose and therefore we can talk about:

• Technical Cookies: allow the User to navigate through a web page, platform or application and the use of the different options or services that exist in it, such as, for example, controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session or carrying out the process of purchase of an order.
• Personalization Cookies: they allow the User to access the service with some predefined general characteristics based on a series of criteria in the user’s terminal, such as the language or the type of browser.
• Analytical Cookies: they allow the person responsible for them to monitor and analyze the behavior of the users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected is used to measure the activity of the websites, applications or platforms and to create browsing profiles of the users of said sites, applications and platforms, in order to introduce improvements based on the analysis of the data made by users of the service.
• Advertising Cookies: allow the management, in the most efficient way possible, of the advertising spaces that, where appropriate, the editor has included in a web page, application or platform from which the requested service is provided based on criteria such as the content edited or the frequency where the ads are displayed.