Depending on the entity that manages the domain from which the cookies are sent and treats the data obtained, two types of cookies can be distinguished:

• Own Cookies: those that are sent to the user’s terminal computer from a computer or domain managed by the publisher itself and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
• Third-party Cookies: those that are sent to the user’s terminal computer from a computer or domain that is not managed by the publisher, but by another entity that handles the data obtained through the cookies. In the event that cookies are installed from a computer or domain managed by the publisher itself but the information collected through them is managed by a third party, they cannot be considered as their own cookies.

Furthermore, there is also a second classification according to the time period that remains stored on the client’s browser which could be:

• Session Cookies: Designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a web page. Usually, these cookies are used to store information that is only intended to preserve for the provision of the service requested by the user on a single occasion (e.g. a list of products purchased)
• Continuous Cookies: The data is stored in the terminal and are accessible and handled for a period defined by the cookie manager, and can go from a few minutes to several years.

Finally, there is another classification with five types of cookies according to the purpose for which the obtained data are handled:

• Technical Cookies: Those that allow the user to navigate through a Web page, platform or application and the use of the different options or services that exist in it, such as controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, access parts of restricted access, recollecting the elements that make up an order, perform the process of buying an order, make the application for registration or participation in an event, use security during browsing, storing content for videos or sound broadcasting, or share content over social networks.
• Customization Cookies: Allows the user to access the service with some predefined general characteristics according to a series of criteria in the user’s terminal such as the language, the type of browser through which the service is accessed, the regional settings from where you access the service, etc
• Analysis Cookies: allow the responsible party, the monitoring and analysis of the behaviour of the users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected by this type of cookies is used in the measurement of the activity of the web site, application or platform and for the elaboration of navigation of profiles of the users of such sites, applications and platforms, in order to introduce improvements according to the analysis of the user’s data.
• Advertising Cookies: They allow the management, as efficiently as possible, to make use of advertising space.
• Behavioural advertising Cookies: They store information about the behaviour of the users obtained through the continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows to develop a specific profile to show advertising according to it.
• External social network Cookies: Used to allow visitors to interact with the content of different social platforms (facebook, youtube, twitter, linkedIn, etc..) that are generated only for the users of these social networks. The conditions of use of these cookies and the information collected are governed by the privacy policy of the corresponding social platform.