What is a cookie?
A cookie is a file that is downloaded to your computer when accessing certain web pages. Cookies allow a web page, among other things, to store and retrieve information about the browsing habits of a user or their equipment and, depending on the information they contain and the way they use their equipment, they can be used to recognize to user.
Cookies are essential for the operation of the internet, providing countless advantages in the provision of interactive services, facilitating the navigation and usability of our website.
Types of cookies
Cookies can be classified in a general way:
Own cookies of the web: those placed by the owner of a website to facilitate and improve user navigation.
Third-party cookies: these are third-party cookies (other companies) but that are applied when entering a specific web page. For example, cookies from Google Analytics, Google Adwords or affiliate systems.
Depending on the duration of cookies you can find:
Session cookies: they expire at the end of the session in the browser
Permanent cookies: cookies that last even after the browsing session is over and still active for a certain period of time that varies depending on the website that places the cookies.
Depending on its purpose:
Technical cookies: these are necessary for proper web browsing.
Personalization cookies: allow the user the characteristics (language) for browsing the website
Analysis cookies: they allow the provider the analysis linked to the navigation performed by the user, in order to keep track of the use of the website, as well as to make statistics of the most visited contents, number of visitors, etc.
Cookies from WWW.ISHOLIDAYS.COM
www.isholidays.com uses the following cookies:
Own cookies of the web - use of cookies strictly necessary to provide our web contents as well as to ensure the functionality and performance of visits to our website.
Google AdWords cookie - cookie intended to count conversions derived from advertising on Google.
Google Analytics cookie - cookie for analytics that allows to generate statistical reports and generate information on how they find the website and how it is used.
How to disable or configure cookies
Likewise, www.isholidays.com informs the user that it has the possibility to configure its browser so that it is informed of the reception of cookies, being able, if it so wishes, to prevent them from being installed on its hard disk.
Next, we provide you with the links of various browsers, through which you can make such configuration:
Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/habilitar-y-deshabilitar-cookies-que-los-sitios-we
Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647
Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/windows7/how-to-manage-cookies-in-internet-explorer-9
Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042
Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/11.50/es-ES/cookies.html