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Cookies for mortals<\/span><\/h2>\n

I know that the title is a bit controversial, but after a lot of reading, analyzing and working on cookies<\/strong>, my opinion concludes that everyone knows about cookies<\/strong> but no one knows exactly what to do with them.<\/p>\n

If you have a website or you are a user of these and you are interested in the subject and you want practical and simple information on how to deal with them, welcome to this modest article by Business Adapter. <\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n

What is a cookie?<\/span><\/h3>\n

Let’s start at the beginning and briefly define a cookie as a small, simple file that stores and retrieves information when you browse, and that your browser\"\"<\/a> stored on the hard drive of your computer or other device you use during your visit. The recorded information may be returned to the web site owner’s servers or to the servers of authorized or contracted third parties for subsequent visits. <\/p>\n

They can be used for many things, for example, to recognize you as a user, obtain information about your browsing habits, send you advertising or personalize the way in which web content is displayed to you.<\/p>\n

As you will see, a cookie can know a lot about you and that personal information is protected by the General Data Protection Regulation (RGPD<\/a><\/strong>) that defends us as citizens and users, requiring the owners of the web, we are the users who decide how much we want these cookies know about us.<\/p>\n

In order to do so, companies must comply with the GDPR<\/a><\/strong> in its entirety and, with respect to the use of cookies, ask the user’s authorization to activate them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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User consent<\/span><\/h3>\n

The owner of a website must request express consent to the user, to activate the cookies available on its website, but it must provide complete information beforehand, so that we can freely decide which cookies can be used while browsing its website. That is, information on: <\/p>\n

Whether or not they are necessary for your visit <\/h4>\n

If they are not unnecessary, (e.g. advertising) you should be allowed to disable them easily.<\/p>\n

If they are necessary they cannot be deactivated because they are essential to visit the web. For example: <\/p>\n