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- Customization cookies: these cookies let users access the service under certain generally predefined characteristics depending on a series of criteria on the user’s terminal, such as the language, the type of browser used to access the service, the regional configuration from where the service is accessed, etc.
- Analysis cookies: these cookies let the cookie owner follow up on and analyse user behaviour on the websites they are associated with. The information gathered by this kind of cookies is used to measure activity on websites, applications and platforms and to draw up user browsing profiles on said websites, applications and platforms, in order to make improvements in accordance with the analysis of the service user data.
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