What is a Cookie?

A cookie is a small, harmless text file that is stored in your browser when you visit almost any website. Its usefulness is that the website can remember your visit when you return to browse that page. Cookies usually store technical information, personal preferences, content customization, usage statistics, links to social networks, access to user accounts, etc. The purpose of the cookie is to adapt the website’s content to your profile and needs; without cookies, the services offered by any webpage would be significantly impaired.

What is NOT a Cookie?

It is not a virus, a Trojan, a worm, spam, spyware, or pop-up windows.

What information does a cookie store?

Cookies usually do not store sensitive information about you, such as credit cards or banking data, photographs, your ID, or personal information, etc. The data they store is of a technical nature, personal preferences, content customization, etc.

The web server does not associate you as a person but rather associates your web browser. In fact, if you browse the same website with Internet Explorer and then try it with Firefox or Chrome, you will see that the website does not realize that you are the same person because it associates with the browser, not the individual.

What types of cookies are there?

• Technical Cookies: These are the most basic and allow, among other things, to know when a human or an automated application is browsing, when an anonymous user and a registered user are navigating, basic tasks for the operation of any dynamic website.
• Analytical Cookies: These collect information about the type of navigation being carried out, the sections most used, consulted products, usage time frame, language, etc.
• Advertising Cookies: These display advertisements based on your browsing, your country of origin, language, etc.

What are first-party and third-party cookies?

First-party cookies are generated by the website you are visiting, while third-party cookies are generated by external services or providers such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.

Types of Cookies According to Their Purpose:

• Technical Cookies: These allow users to navigate a website, platform, or application and use the various options or services it contains, such as controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, accessing restricted access parts, remembering items in an order, carrying out the purchase process of an order, requesting registration or participation in an event, using security elements during navigation, storing content for video or sound broadcasting, or sharing content through social networks.
• Personalization Cookies: These allow users to access the service with predefined general characteristics based on a series of criteria in the user’s terminal, such as language, the type of browser used to access the service, the regional configuration from which the service is accessed, etc.
• Analytical Cookies: These allow those responsible for them to monitor and analyze the behavior of users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected through this type of cookie is used to measure the activity of websites, applications, or platforms and to create navigation profiles of their users, with the aim of introducing improvements based on the analysis of the usage data made by users of the service.
• Advertising Cookies: These enable the most efficient management possible of the advertising spaces that, if applicable, the editor has included on a website, application, or platform from which the requested service is provided, based on criteria such as the content edited or the frequency with which ads are displayed.
• Behavioral Advertising Cookies: These allow the management, in the most efficient way possible, of the advertising spaces that, if applicable, the editor has included in a website, application, or platform from which the requested service is provided. These cookies store information on user behavior obtained through the continuous observation of their browsing habits, allowing the development of a specific profile to display advertising based on it.

What Happens if I Disable Cookies?

Disabling cookies may prevent you from:

• Sharing content from that website on social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter.
• Personalizing your preferences, such as language or currency, as is common on online stores.
• Accessing your personal area on that website, such as My Account or My Profile.
• Making online purchases, which will have to be done by phone or in person at a physical store, if available.
• Personalizing your geographic preferences, such as time zone, currency, or language.
• Allowing the website to perform web analytics on visitors and website traffic, which can hinder the website’s competitiveness.
• Writing in a blog, uploading photos, posting comments, rating or reviewing content. The website also won’t be able to distinguish between a human and an automated spamming application.
• Displaying targeted advertising, reducing advertising revenue for the website.
• Using any social media platform, as all of them use cookies.

Cookies Used on This Website

Following the guidelines of the Spanish Data Protection Agency, we proceed to detail the use of cookies by this website in order to provide you with the most accurate information.

This website uses the following first-party cookies:

• Session Cookies: These are used to ensure that users who write comments on the blog are humans and not automated applications. This helps combat spam.

This website uses the following third-party cookies:

• Social Media: Each social network uses its own cookies to enable you to click on Like or Share buttons.

Disabling or Deleting Cookies

The cookies used on this website and their specific purposes are as follows:

Necessary Cookies:

Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

• _Elementor: Used in relation to the WordPress theme of the website. This cookie allows the website owner to implement or change website content in real-time.

At any time, you may exercise your right to disable or delete cookies from this website. These actions are performed differently depending on the browser you are using. Here is a quick guide for the most popular browsers.

Users have the right to exercise their rights of access, rectification, cancellation, and objection to their data by sending a written request, accompanied by a copy of an official document proving their identity, addressed to TRANSCREART, via email to the address info@transcreart.com, indicating the right they wish to exercise in the subject line.