1. What are cookies and why do we use them on the website?
A cookie is a file that is downloaded to the user's device to access a certain website to store and retrieve information about the navigation that is done on the computer.
Cookies allow this website, among other things, to store and retrieve information about the user's options and habits. On this website, the cookies that exist are necessary for its operation.
It is important to note that the use of cookies does not provide personal data of the user.
2. What types of cookies exist?
Depending on the time they remain activated, cookies can be divided into session or permanent cookies:
- Session cookies: the data collected and stored by these cookies is collected while the user is browsing the website, and is deleted when the browser is closed. They are usually used to store information that is of interest to keep for the provision of the service requested by the user on a single occasion.
- Persistent cookies: through these cookies, the data continues to be stored in the terminal for a certain period of time, thus facilitating the control of the chosen preferences without having to repeat certain parameters each time the website is visited.
Additionally, depending on the entity that manages them, cookies can be classified as first-party or third-party:
- First-party cookies: these cookies are sent to the user's terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by the publisher itself and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
- Third-party cookies: these cookies are sent to the user's terminal equipment from a computer or domain that is not managed by the publisher, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through the cookies.
As for the purpose, cookies can be:
- Technical cookies: these cookies allow control of traffic and data communication.
- Personalization cookies: these cookies allow users to access certain characteristics that are collected (browser, language, etc.).
- Analysis cookies: these cookies allow the person responsible for them to monitor and analyze the behavior of users of the websites and allow a user profile to be created.
- Advertising cookies: these cookies collect data on the management of advertising spaces.
3. What type of cookies does the website use?
Name |
Domain |
Purpose |
Expiration |
_gid |
.madel.com |
Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
1 day |
_gat |
.madel.com |
Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. |
1 day |
CONSENT |
.google.com |
Technical cookie to control the acceptance of cookies. |
20 years |
1P_JAR |
.google.com |
To personalize ads based on user interests. |
1 week |
NID |
.google.com |
For Google to count the number of users using the maps. |
7 months |
4. How to disable cookies in your browser?
The user can allow, block or delete cookies installed on their computer by configuring the options of the browser installed on their computer. Please read the help section of your browser carefully to learn more about how to activate “private mode” or unblock certain cookies.
- Information about cookies for Internet Explorer.
- Information about cookies for Mozilla Firefox.
- Information about cookies for Opera.
- Information about cookies for Google Chrome.
- Information about cookies for Safari.