What is a Cookie?

The term “cookie” refers to a short text file that is provided to you and saved on your computer or mobile device. The next time you visit the same websites, the same sites will receive the cookie file again. Cookies allow a website to remember a user’s activities and preferences so that they don’t need to be repeated when the user visits it again or moves between pages. Examples of these preferences include login information, preferred language, font size, and other display settings. As a result, cookies are used for digital authentication, session monitoring, and the storage of information about users’ online activity. They may also contain a special identifying code that follows a user’s transit within the site itself for marketing or statistical purposes.

On your computer or mobile device, third-party cookies (cookies from websites or web servers other than the one you are visiting) may also be downloaded while you are browsing a website. Cookies are sometimes required for the site to operate correctly and certain operations cannot be completed without their use.

Cookies come in various varieties, and depending on their individual qualities, they serve various purposes. They have varying retention times on the user’s computer or mobile device. For instance, permanent cookies stay on the user’s device for a defined period of time, while session cookies are automatically removed when the browser is closed.

The usage of cookies is currently legal even though the user’s express consent is not always necessary. Technical cookies, or those required for the functioning of the website or to carry out tasks that the user has asked for, in particular, do not need this consent.

However, in order to improve the service offered, the user’s prior consent is needed for functionality cookies, which are used to activate particular site features and a number of selected criteria (such as language and the products chosen for purchase); analytical cookies, including third-party cookies, which help us better understand how you and other users use the Site; and advertising cookies, which are used to create user profiles and are used to send advertisements to the user.

What kind of Cookie do we use?

In addition to other cookie types, the Site uses all of the aforementioned cookie types to function properly and provide services to users, comprehend and improve user browsing experiences, and serve you advertisements based on your web browsing preferences.

      The numerous cookie varieties can be categorized as follows:

  • Technical cookies, also known as surfing or session cookies, which are essential required for the Site to function or for you to be able to use the content and services you have requested;
  • Functionality cookies, which are needed to enable particular Site features and a few chosen criteria
  • Advertising cookies, including third-party cookies, which are cookies used to create user profiles and used to send you advertisements based on your preferences expressed while browsing the web; analytical cookies, including third-party cookies, which assist us in understanding how both you and other users use the site.

The site will only activate and utilize functional cookies, analytical cookies, and advertising cookies with your prior consent.

Cookies from websites or web servers other than www.spassia.com, or “third party cookies,” are also used for purposes particular to these third parties.

How to block or remove Cookies?

Through the individual browser features, you can authorize, block, or remove (in full or in part) cookies. The Site might not be available, some services or certain functions of the Site might not be available or won’t function correctly, and you might have to manually enter or modify certain information or preferences each time you visit the Site if some or all of the cookies (technical or functional cookies, even including third-party cookies) are disabled.

Please refer to the relevant instructions for more information on how to establish settings for the usage of cookies through your browser.

Links to cookie settings for the most popular browsers are provided below:

  • Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
  • Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
  • Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en&hlrm=fr&hlrm=en
  • Opera: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies
  • Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH19255?viewlocale=en_UK