A “cookie” is a small file which is stored in the computer of the User and allows us to recognise it. The set of cookies helps us to improve the quality of our website, allowing us to control which pages our users find useful and which are not.
These cookies are essential for working on the internet, providing innumerable advantages in the providing of interactive services, aiding the navigation and usability of our website. Please note that cookies may not harm your computer and that, in turn, those that are enabled help us to identify and resolve errors.
The information we provide below will help you understand the different types of cookies:
Session cookies: These are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the webpage so that none is recorded on the user’s hard disk. The information obtained through these cookies serve to analyse traffic patterns on the web. In the long term, this allows us to provide a better user experience and improve the content and facilitate its use.
Permanent cookies: These are stored on the hard drive and our website reads them every time you visit our site. A permanent cookie has a specific expiration date. The cookie will stop working after that date. We use them, generally, to facilitate the services of purchase and registration.
Below we publish a list of the main cookies used in our websites, distinguishing:
Strictly necessary cookies, for example, those that allow a correct navigation or those that allow to perform services requested by the user. Also, cookies that serve to ensure that the content of the web page is loaded efficiently.
Third party cookies, such as those used by social networking sites or external content complements, such as Google Maps.
Analytical cookies are for purposes of periodic maintenance, and in order to guarantee the best possible service to the user, websites usually use “analytical” cookies to collect statistical data of the activity.
The relations and description of the cookies
- The tables below show the cookies previously described and used in the different Phylumtech S.A websites:
| Cookie Name | Purpose |
| Session Cookie | Provision of service and control of the session |
| Google Analytics Cookie | The application we use to get and analyze navigation information is: Google Analytics: www.google.com/analytics/ and https://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html
This application has been developed by Google, which provides the service of analysis of the audience of our page. This company can use this data to improve its own services and to offer services to other companies. You can discover these other uses from the indicated links. |
| MixPanel Cookie | To track clicks |
| CrazyEgg Cookie | To make heat maps |
| Optimizely Cookie | To do A / B Tests and know which designs have the best acceptance |
| AdRoll Cookie | Cookie for retargeting. By using this cookie users who have visited the website but without registering receive their targeted ads from this web page to capture their interest again. |
| Analytic cookie | This cookie is used to know which page the users of our website have previously visited. |
Additional Guarantees – Cookies Management
As an additional safeguard to those described above, the registration of cookies may be subject to your acceptance during the installation or update of the browser used, and this acceptance may at any time be revoked by the settings of content and privacy available.
Many browsers allow you to activate a private mode by which cookies are always deleted after your visit.
Depending on each browser this private mode may have different names. Below is a list of the most common browsers and the different names of this “private mode”:
- Internet Explorer 8 and higher; InPrivate: Accessing the tools menu and then “InPrivate exploration” (Ctrl + Shift + P)
- Safari 2 and higher ; Private Navigation: by accessing the menu button in the upper right corner and selecting the option “private browsing”
Opera 10.5 and higher; Private Navigation: by accessing the menu button in the upper left corner and selecting the option “new private window” (Ctrl + Shift + N)
- FireFox 3.5 and higher; Private Navigation: by accessing the menu button in the upper right corner and selecting the option “new private window” (Ctrl + Shift + P)
- Google Chrome 10 and higher; Incognito: by accessing the menu button in the upper right corner and selecting the “new incognito window” option (Ctrl + Shift + N)
Important: Please read the help section of your browser carefully to learn more about how to activate “private mode”. You can continue visiting our websites even if your browser is in “private mode”, although browsing our website may not be optimal and some utilities may not work correctly.