What are cookies? A cookie is a file that is downloaded to your computer when you access certain web pages. Cookies allow a website, among other things, to store and retrieve information about the browsing habits of a user or their computer and, depending on the information they contain and the way you use your computer, can be used to recognize the user.
The website www.visitbcn.barcelona uuses the following cookies:
| Cookie | Tipo | Finalidad | Caducidad |
| User login, authentication and language cookies | Technique | Own management of the operation of the web portal as the user login control, cookie to accept cookies and other platform cookies for language control or the ASP.net session itself. | Expires in the session |
| ga | Follow-up | This cookie generates a unique user ID and records the date, first and last time the user visited the site. It is used to count how many times a unique user visits the site. | Expires 24 months from last update |
| gat | Follow-up | This cookie is used to limit the percentage of requests. | Expires one minute after last update |
| gId | Follow-up | This cookie is used to distinguish between users. | Expires 24 months from last update |
To allow, know, block or delete cookies installed on your computer you can do so by configuring the browser options installed on your computer.
You can find information on how to do this in the case you use as a browser:
- Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/es/products/firefox/cookies
- Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=es&answer=95647
- Internet 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://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/privacy/
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