Cookie Policy - Handyratings

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In compliance with Article 22.2 of Law 34/2002, of July 11, on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce, handyratings.com informs, in this section, about its cookie collection and processing policy.

By entering this website, you have already been informed about the use of cookies through a notice or alert. If you have accessed and continue browsing, you are accepting the installation of these cookies.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a file that is downloaded to your computer or device when accessing certain websites. Cookies allow a website, among other things, to store and retrieve information about the user’s browsing habits or their device, and depending on the information they contain and how your device is used, they can be used to recognize the user.

What type of cookies do we use?

Cookies, depending on their duration, can be divided into session cookies or permanent cookies. The first ones expire when the user closes the browser. The second ones expire based on when the goal for which they serve is fulfilled (for example, to keep the user logged in to handyratings.com websites and services) or when manually deleted.

Additionally, depending on their purpose, cookies can be classified as follows:

Performance cookies: This type of cookie remembers your preferences for the tools found in the services, so you do not have to reconfigure the service each time you visit. For example, this category includes:

Volume settings for video or audio players.
Video transmission speeds compatible with your browser.

Geolocation cookies: These cookies are used to find out in which country you are when requesting a website or service. This cookie is completely anonymous, and is only used to help tailor the content to your location.

Registration cookies: Registration cookies are generated once the user has registered or later logged in, and they are used to identify them on the websites and services with the following purposes:

Keep the user logged in so that if they close a service or website, and at another time or day they return to that service or website, they will remain logged in, thus facilitating their navigation without having to log in again. This feature can be removed if the user clicks the “Log out” feature, so this cookie will be deleted, and the next time the user enters the website, they will need to log in again to be identified.
Check if the user is authorized to access certain services, such as participating in a contest.
Additionally, some services may use third-party connectors such as Facebook, Twitter, or Google. When the user registers for a service with credentials from a social network or third-party identification system, they authorize it to store a persistent cookie that remembers their identity and guarantees them access to the website until it expires. The user can delete this cookie and revoke access to the website through social networks or the third-party identification system by updating their preferences on the specified social network.

Analytics cookies: Every time a user visits a website or service, an external provider tool (Google Analytics, comScore, etc.) generates an analytical cookie on the user’s device. This cookie, which is only generated during the visit, will serve on future visits to handyratings.com services to anonymously identify the visitor. The main objectives sought are:

Allow the anonymous identification of browsing users through the “Cookie” (it identifies browsers and devices, not people), and thus the approximate counting of the number of visitors and their trend over time.
Identify anonymously the most visited content, and therefore the most attractive for users.
Determine whether the user accessing is a new user or a returning visitor.

Important: Unless the user decides to register on any handyratings.com website, the cookie will never be associated with any personal data that can identify them. These cookies will only be used for statistical purposes to help optimize the user experience on the site.

Advertising cookies: This type of cookie allows the extension of information on the ads shown to each anonymous user on handyratings.com websites. Among others, it stores the duration or frequency of viewing advertising positions, interaction with them, or user navigation patterns and/or behaviors as they help build an advertising interest profile. This way, they allow the offering of advertisements that align with the user’s interests.

For the management of advertising on handyratings.com, third-party advertising service tools are used (Adservers – http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adserver). These third parties may store cookies sent from handyratings.com websites through the users’ browsers, as well as access the data stored in them.

The companies that generate these cookies have their own privacy policies.

Currently, handyratings.com uses Google’s Doubleclick platform to manage these services. For more information, visit https://www.google.com/intl/es/policies/privacy/partners/

Deactivating Cookies.

The user can allow, block, or delete the cookies installed on their device through the browser settings on their computer.

Most web browsers offer the option to allow, block, or delete cookies installed on their device.

Below you can access the settings for the most common web browsers to accept, install, or deactivate cookies:

Third-Party Cookies.

handyratings.com uses third-party services to collect information for statistical and website usage purposes. DoubleClick cookies are used to improve the advertising included on the website. They are used to target ads based on content that is relevant to a user, thus improving the quality of the user’s experience.

Specifically, we use the services of Google Adsense and Google Analytics for our statistics and advertising. Some cookies are essential for the functioning of the site, such as the embedded search engine.

Our site includes other functionalities provided by third parties. The user can easily share content on social networks like Facebook or Twitter, using the buttons we have included for that purpose.

Warning About Deleting Cookies.

The user can delete and block all cookies from this site, but part of the site will not function, or the quality of the website and content may be affected.