A distinction is made between own cookies and third party cookies, depending on who manages the domain from which the cookies are sent and the data is processed.
Cookies can also be classified according to the length of time they are stored in the user’s browser, distinguishing between session cookies and persistent cookies.
Finally, depending on the purpose for which the information is collected, cookies can be classified into the following categories:
- Technical cookies: they allow the user to navigate through a website and use some of the services offered by it (for example those that serve to remember the elements in a shopping cart).
- Personalization cookies: they allow the user to access the website with certain characteristics, such as language.
- Security cookies: they serve to prevent or hinder attacks against the website.
- Plug-in cookies to exchange social content: so-called plug-ins, which allow content to be shared on social networks.
- Analysis cookies: they allow the person in charge to track the user’s behavior.
- Advertising cookies: they allow the management of the website’s advertising spaces.
- Behavioral advertising cookies: like the previous ones, they are used to manage the website’s advertising spaces based on the information collected on the user’s behavior and habits, adapting advertising to the user’s profile.
- Geolocation cookies: used to find out the country where the user is.