WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are small files installed on the hard drive or browser of your computer, tablet, smartphone, or equivalent device. They help to: personalize website services, facilitate navigation and usability, collect aggregated information about visitors, enable multimedia content playback, allow user interaction with the website, enable security tools, etc.
DEFINITIONS USED IN THIS COOKIE POLICY
- Data: Information obtained via the user’s terminal equipment through storage and retrieval devices (cookies or others). Data is personal when it relates to identified or identifiable individuals under Article 4 of the GDPR.
- Aggregated information: non-nominal, typically numeric information used for statistical purposes.
- Terminal equipment: device through which the user accesses the service, such as computer, mobile phone, tablet, etc.
- Information society service: any service provided at the individual request of a user, for payment or free, remotely and electronically, constituting economic activity for the publisher and generating cookie usage.
- Publisher: responsible person or entity for the website.
- Third party: external entity, collaborator, or service provider involved in managing some cookies.
- Cookie controller: publisher, responsible party, website owner, or in some cases, the third party.
- Browsing habits: trends displayed by the user while navigating the website, such as time spent, sections visited, frequency, origin, and destination of the visit.
WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES EXIST?
By management entity:
First-party cookies: sent from a domain managed by the publisher providing the requested service.
Third-party cookies: sent from a domain not managed by the publisher but by another entity processing the data.
By duration:
Session cookies: store data while the user accesses the site and disappear at session end.
Persistent cookies: remain stored for a period defined by the cookie controller, from minutes to years.
By purpose:
Technical cookies: allow navigation and use of site services, including traffic, session identification, restricted access, orders, purchases, payments, fraud control, event registration, visit counting, security, multimedia, and ad management.
Preference or personalization cookies: remember user preferences such as language, number of results, layout, content, region, etc.
Analytics or measurement cookies: track and analyze user behavior, quantify ad impact, and improve services.
Advertising cookies: manage advertising spaces effectively.
Behavioral advertising cookies: store information about user behavior to create profiles and display targeted ads.
SPECIFICALLY, WHICH COOKIES DO WE USE?
| Cookie name | First-party / Third-party | Type | Purpose | Duration | Data transfer outside the EU |
| cookiesplus | First-party | Technical | Stores cookie preferences. | 1 year | No |
| PHP_SESSID | First-party | Technical | Native PHP cookie for session management and temporary state data. | Session | No |
| PrestaShop-# | First-party | Technical | Stores open sessions, orders, language, currency, last categories, viewed products, customer account, login, encrypted password, and cart ID. | 480 hours | No |
| _ga | Third-party (Google) | Analytics / Measurement | Registers unique ID to generate statistical data about site usage. | 2 years | Yes, Google LLC |
| _gat | Third-party (Google) | Analytics / Measurement | Used by Google Analytics to control request rate. | 1 day | Yes, Google LLC |
| _ga_# | Third-party (Google) | Analytics / Measurement | Tracks number of visits and first/last visit dates; used by Google Analytics. | 2 years | Yes, Google LLC |
| _gd# | Third-party (Google) | Analytics / Measurement | Google Analytics session cookie generating statistics; removed after closing browser. | Session | Yes, Google LLC |
| _gid | Third-party (Google) | Analytics / Measurement | Registers unique ID to generate statistical data about site usage. | 1 day | Yes, Google LLC |
These cookies do not create user profiles or enable automated decisions based on the data.
You can accept, refuse, or withdraw consent via the cookie configurator or browser settings.
HOW TO DISABLE COOKIES?
Blocking cookies helps protect privacy but may limit functionalities or prevent proper navigation. Technical cookies cannot be disabled.
For third-party cookies, remove them via browser options or the third-party service.
Tutorials for disabling cookies on popular browsers:
For questions, contact us via our website. For detailed personal data protection info, see our Privacy Policy.