Cookies

Cookies are files that are installed on the computer from which you access our Web Site. Thanks to them, information can be collected about the navigation of users on multiple variables such as, for example, the number of times the page has been visited, identify the registered user, ensure the user’s session while browsing the page, in short, information that is used to provide a better experience.

In general, cookies are classified according to three criteria: origin, duration and purpose. According to these three criteria, cookies can be:

According to their ownership or origin: own or third party.

Own cookies: are those that we send to the user’s computer from a computer or domain managed by STEMOnLine.

Third-party cookies: those that are sent to the user’s computer from a computer or domain that is not managed by STEMOnLine, but by another entity that processes data obtained through cookies, for example, Google.

According to the time they remain active: session or persistent.

Session cookies: are those designed to collect and store data while users access an application or web page, which disappear when the session is closed.

Persistent cookies: are those in which the data continues to be stored in the user’s device even after the session has ended. The person responsible for the cookie can access them and can process them for a defined period of time, which is different for each cookie.

According to their purpose: (i) Technical or Functional; (ii) Preference or Personalization; (iii) Analytical or Measurement; and (iv) Behavioral advertising.

Technical or operational cookies: are those that allow the user to browse a web page and use the different options or services that exist in it.

Preference or personalization cookies: these are those that allow the user to remember information so that the user can access the service with certain characteristics that can differentiate their experience from that of other users, such as, for example, the language, the appearance or content of the web page depending on the type of browser, etc.

Analysis or measurement cookies: are those that allow the person responsible for the website to analyze the behavior of users who visit the site, in order to make improvements to it.

Behavioral advertising cookies: are those that store information on the behavior of users obtained through the continuous observation of their browsing habits, to create profiles to display targeted advertising according to those behaviors.