What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site.
- First party cookies are cookies set by the website you’re visiting. Only that website can read them. In addition, a website might potentially use external services, which also set their own cookies, known as third-party cookies.
- Persistent cookies are cookies saved on your computer and that are not deleted automatically when you quit your browser, unlike a session cookie, which is deleted when you quit your browser.
Every time you visit this website, you will be prompted to accept or refuse cookies.
The purpose is to enable the site to remember your preferences for a certain period of time.
That way, you don’t have to re-enter them when browsing around the site during the same visit.
Cookies can also be used to establish anonymised statistics about the browsing experience on our sites.
How do we use cookies?
Galileo Information Centre-Chile website mostly use “first-party cookies”. These are cookies set and controlled by us, not by any external organisation.
However, to view some of our pages, you will have to accept cookies from external organisations.
The 2 types of first-party cookie we use are to:
- store visitor preferences
- gather analytics data (about user behaviour)
Visitor preferences
These are set by us and only we can read them. They remember if you have agreed to (or refused) this site’s cookie policy
NAME | SERVICE | PURPOSE | TYPE | DURATION |
pll_language | Polylang plugin | Stores Language preference | First party | 1 year |
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | Cookie consent plugin | Records the default button state of the corresponding category. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. | First party | 1 year |
cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary | Cookie consent plugin | Records the default button state of the corresponding category. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. | First party | 1 year |
cookie_notice_accepted | Cookie consent plugin | This cookie is for accepting cookies | First party | 1 month |
wordpress_test_cookie | Cookie consent plugin | Cookie consent kit | First party | Session |
viewed_cookie_policy | Cookie consent plugin | Is the primary cookie that records the user consent for the usage of the cookies upon accept and reject. It doesn’t track any personal data and is set only upon user action(accept/reject). | First party | 1 year |
Analytics cookies
This website uses Matomo Analytics. This tool helps website owners to understand how their visitors engage with their properties. It may use a set of cookies to collect information and report site usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors.
Third-party cookies
Some of our pages display content from external providers, e.g. YouTube, Twitter and Linkedin.
To view this third-party content, you first have to accept their specific terms and conditions. This includes their cookie policies, which we have no control over.
But if you do not view this content, no third-party cookies are installed on your device.
Third-party providers:
You Tube
Twitter
Vimeo
LinkedIn
These third-party services are outside of our control. Providers may, at any time, change their terms of service, purpose and use of cookies, etc.
NAME | SERVICE | PURPOSE | TYPE | DURATION |
SIDCC | YouTube | Google/Youtube: Security cookie that protects the user data from unauthorised access | Third party | 1 year |
__Secure-3PAPISID | YouTube | Used to secure Google Adveritising cookies | Third party | 2 years |
SAPISID | YouTube | Used by Youtube as part of their embedded services on the Websites | Third party | 2 years |
__Secure-3PSID | YouTube | Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising | Third party | 2 years |
APISID | YouTube | Used by Youtube as part of their embedded services on the Websites | Third party | 2 years |
HSID | YouTube | Used by Google in combination with SID to verify your Google user account, if you have one, and your most recent login time to your Google account. | Third party | 2 years |
__Secure-APISID | YouTube | Used by Google for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising | Third party | 3 months |
SID | YouTube | Used by Google in combination with HSID to verify your Google user account, if you have one, and your most recent login time to your Google account. | Third party | 2 years |
__Secure-SSID | YouTube | Youtube: This cookies are used to deliver more relevant ads for you and your interests. | Third party | 3 months |
SSID | YouTube | Used by Youtube as part of their embedded services on the Websites | Third party | 2 years |
How can you manage cookies?
You can manage/delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org.
Removing cookies from your device
You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing history of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited.
Be aware though that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, site preferences).
Managing site-specific cookies
For more detailed control over site-specific cookies, check the privacy and cookie settings in your preferred browser
Blocking cookies
You can set most modern browsers to prevent any cookies being placed on your device, but you may then have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site/page.
Managing analytics cookies
You can manage your preferences concerning cookies from the Google page: https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en