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