Cookies Policy | The Institute of Skills

Cookies Policy

We collect and use information on this website as described in our privacy
policy. One of the ways we collect information is through the use of technology
called “cookies”. At theinstituteofskills.com, we use cookies for
several things.

What is a cookie?

A “cookie” is a small amount of text that is stored in your
browser (such as Google’s Chrome or Apple’s Safari) when you browse most
websites.

What is NOT a cookie?

It is not a virus, Trojan horse, worm, spam, spyware, or pop-up windows.

What information does a cookie store?

Cookies do not usually store sensitive information about you, such as credit
card or bank details, photographs or personal information, etc. The data they
do store are technical, statistical, personal preferences, content
personalization, etc.

The web server does not associate you as a person but your web browser. In
fact, if you usually browse with the Chrome browser and try browsing the same
website with the Firefox browser, you will see that the web does not realize
that you are the same person because it is actually associating the information
to the browser, not to the person.

What types of cookies exist?

Technical Cookies: These are the most basic and allow, among other things,
to know when a human or an automated application is browsing, when an anonymous
user and a registered user are browsing, basic tasks for the operation of any
dynamic web.

Analysis Cookies: Collect information about the type of navigation you are
doing, the sections you use most, products consulted, time of use, language,
etc..

Advertising cookies: They show advertising based on your browsing, your
country of origin, language, etc.

What are first-party and third-party cookies?

First-party cookies are those generated by the page you are visiting and
third-party cookies are those generated by external services or providers such
as Mailchimp, Mailrelay, Facebook, Twitter, Google adsense, etc.

What cookies does this website use?

This website uses its own and third party cookies. The following cookies are
used on this website and are detailed below:

Own cookies:

Personalization: Cookies help us remember which people or websites you have
interacted with, so we can show you related content.

Preferences: Cookies allow us to remember your settings and preferences,
such as your preferred language and privacy settings.

Security: We use cookies to avoid security risks. Mainly to detect when
someone is trying to hack your account.

Third-party cookies

This website uses analytics services, specifically, Google Analytics to help
the website analyze how users use the website and improve the usability of it,
but in no case are associated with data that could identify the user. Google
Analytics, is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., The user can
see here the type of cookies used by Google.

theinstituteofskills.com uses the platform for supplying and hosting
WordPress blogs, owned by the American company Automattic, Inc. For this
purpose, the uses of such cookies by the systems are never under control or
management of the responsible for the web, they can change their function at
any time, and enter new cookies. These cookies also do not provide the website
owner with any benefit. Automattic, Inc. also uses other cookies in order to
help identify and track visitors to WordPress sites, learn about their use of
the Automattic website, as well as their preferences for accessing it, as
stated in the “Cookies” section of its privacy policy.

Social networking cookies may be stored in your browser while browsing theinstituteofskills.com
for example, when you use the share button theinstituteofskills.com content on
any social network.

Below you have information about cookies from social networks that use this
website in their own cookie policies:

Facebook cookies (they have their own cookies policy which you can freely
consult).

Twitter Cookies (they have their own cookies policy which you can freely
consult)

Amazon cookies (they have their own cookie policy which you are free to
consult).

Google cookies (they have their own cookie policy which you are free to
consult).

ADD ANY SERVICE YOU USE THAT USES COOKIES IN THE ABOVE FORMAT.

We use affiliate service platforms that use browser cookies to track sales
that originated on this website in affiliate programs with which this website
collaborates.

Can I delete cookies?

Yes, and not only delete them, but also block them, either generally or for
a specific domain.

To delete cookies from a website you should go to your browser settings and
there you can search for those associated with the domain in question and
proceed to its elimination.

More information about cookies

You can consult the regulation on cookies published by the Spanish Data
Protection Agency in its “Guide on the use of cookies” and obtain
more information on cookies on the Internet, http://www.aboutcookies.org/.

If you wish to have greater control over the installation of cookies, you
can install programs or add-ons to your browser, known as “Do Not
Track” tools, which will allow you to choose which cookies you wish to
allow.

This cookie policy was last updated on 07-April-2023