What are cookies?

A “cookie” is a file or a small piece of data, which is downloaded into your computer or device when accessing different websites. Cookies allow a website, among other functions, to recover and store all type of information concerning the users’ behavior or about his computer and, depending on the information they contain and on how your computer is going to be used, it might be helpful to recognize the user.

What cookies does our website use?

Name Provider Typology Purpose Location Permanence
CookieConsent esat.es Preferences Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain Ireland 1 year
wordpress_logged_in_# esat.es Preferences Used to check if a user is logged in Belgium 1 day
wordpress_test_cookie esat.es Preferences Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies Belgium Session
_ga esat.es Statistics Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website Belgium 2 years
_gid esat.es Statistics Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website Belgium 1 day
_gat esat.es Statistics Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate Belgium 1 day
learn_press_user_guest_id esat.es Technical Usada por el Learning Management System del sitio web Belgium 6 days
_fbp esat.es Marketing Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products Belgium 3 months
fr facebook.com Marketing Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products Brazil 3 months
tr facebook.com Marketing Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products Netherlands Session
yt-player-bandaid-host youtube.com Marketing Used to determine the optimal video quality based on the visitor’s device and network settings United States Permanent
yt-player-bandwidth youtube.com Marketing Used to determine the optimal video quality based on the visitor’s device and network settings United States Permanent
yt-player-headers-readable youtube.com Marketing Used to determine the optimal video quality based on the visitor’s device and network settings United States Permanent
YSC youtube.com Marketing Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen United States Session
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE youtube.com Marketing Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos United States 179 days
ads/ga-audiences google.com Marketing Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behaviour across websites United States Session
NID google.com Marketing Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device and is used for targeted ads United States 6 months
IDE doubleclick.net Marketing Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing ads or clicking on them United States 1 year
test_cookie doubleclick.net Marketing Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies United States 1 year

How to allow, disable or delete cookies?

Most internet browsers are automatically set up to accept cookies. You can allow, block or delete cookies installed on your computer by using your web browser settings. If you disable cookies, this may alter the proper functioning and the optimization of the websites you are using.

Please visit one of the following internet browsers to learn more about how you can control your cookie settings: