What is a cookie?
Cookies are files that contain small amounts of information that are downloaded to the user's device when they visit a web page. Their main purpose is to recognise the user whenever they access the website, whilst also allowing for the website's quality and usage to be improved.
This website uses cookies to:
- Ensure that web pages work properly.
- Store preferences, such as the language or text size selected.
- Understand the user's browsing experience.
- Collect anonymous statistical data, such as which pages the user visited and how long they stayed on the website.
What type of cookies do we use?
AENOR uses the following types of cookies on its pages:
- Cookies that are strictly necessary to provide the service requested by the user.
- Performance cookies (anonymous) needed to maintain content and browsing capabilities. With these cookies, we only need to inform users of their existence.
- Third-party cookies that allow for the user to be monitored on websites not owned by AENOR. These are normally advertising or analytical cookies, where the user is uniquely and clearly identified.
Renew or change your consent over cookies
Required (10)
Required cookies help to make a website usable by activating basic functions, such as browsing on the page and access to secure areas. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
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Name
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Supplier
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Purpose
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Expiration
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Type
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| AI_buffer |
Microsoft
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Used in relation with 'AI_sentbuffer' to limit the number of server data updates (Azure). This synergy also allows the site to detect any duplicate server data update. |
Session |
HTML Local Storage |
| AI_sentBuffer |
Microsoft
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Used in relation with 'AI_buffer' to limit the number of server data updates (Azure). This synergy also allows the site to detect any duplicate server data update. |
Session |
HTML Local Storage |
| ai_session |
Microsoft
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This stores user statuses in all page requests. |
1 day |
HTTP Cookie |
| AITR_InvalidBackendResponse |
Microsoft
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This cookie is used to detect errors on the website. This information is sent to the website's technical staff to improve the website's visitor experience. |
Session |
HTML Local Storage |
| AITR_TransmissionFailed |
Microsoft
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This cookie is used to detect errors on the website. This information is sent to the website's technical staff to improve the website's visitor experience. |
Session |
HTML Local Storage |
| CookieConsent |
AENOR |
This stores the user's cookie consent status for the current domain |
1 year |
HTTP Cookie |
| WSS_FullScreenMode |
AENOR |
This cookie is used internally by website owners, when they upload or renew content on the website. |
Session |
HTTP Cookie |
| CONSENT |
YouTube |
Used to detect whether the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookies banner. This cookie is necessary for the website to comply with GDPR. |
6045 days |
HTTP Cookie |
Statistical (5)
Statistical cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with the web pages, gathering and providing information anonymously.
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Name
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Supplier
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Purpose
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Expiration
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Type
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| _at.hist.# |
Oracle |
Used by the platform for sharing social content, AddThis, to store the history of the widget's use so that the user can share content through AddThis. |
Persistent |
HTML Local Storage |
| _ga |
Google
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Google Analytics helps website owners to generate statistics on how users interact with the website content. |
2 years |
HTTP Cookie |
| _ gat |
Google
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Used by Google Analytics to monitor the rate of requests |
1 day |
HTTP Cookie |
| _ gid |
Google
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Google Analytics helps website owners to generate statistics on how users interact with the website content. |
1 day |
HTTP Cookie |
| ai_user |
Microsoft
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Used by Microsoft's Application Insights to gather statistical purposes and telemetry data. The cookie saves a unique identifier to identify users on return visits over time. |
1 year |
HTTP Cookie |
Marketing (24)
Marketing cookies track a user across websites. The aim is to target advertising to a user (behavioural targeting), and they are therefore more valuable for editors and third-party advertisers.
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Name
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Supplier
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Purpose
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Expiration
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Type
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| loc |
Oracle
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Geolocation, which is used to help suppliers determine where users who share information with each other are geographically located (at state level). |
1 year |
HTTP Cookie |
| uvc |
Oracle
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It detects how often the social sharing service, AddThis, finds the same user. |
1 year |
HTTP Cookie |
| anj |
Appnexus
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Records a unique identification that identifies the device of a returning user. Identification is used for specific ads. |
3 months |
HTTP Cookie |
| uuid2 |
Appnexus
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Records a unique identification that identifies the device of a returning user. Identification is used for specific ads. |
3 months |
HTTP Cookie |
| __atuvc |
Oracle
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This updates the count of social media shares of a website. |
13 months |
HTTP Cookie |
| __atuvs |
Oracle
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This ensures that the user sees the updated count if a page is shared with the Add This social sharing service. |
1 day |
HTTP Cookie |
| _at.cww |
Oracle
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Used by the AddThis social content sharing platform. |
Persistent |
HTML Local Storage |
| _gcl_au |
Google
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Used by Google AdSense to experiment with advertising efficiency through the web pages using its services. |
3 months |
HTTP Cookie |
| IDE |
Google
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Used by Google DoubleClick to record and report user actions on the website after viewing or clicking on one of the advertiser's ads for the purpose of measuring the effectiveness of an ad and presenting user-specific ads. |
1 year |
HTTP Cookie |
| RUL |
Google
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Used by DoubleClick to determine whether a website's advertising has been shown properly. This is done to make marketing efforts more efficient. |
1 year |
HTTP Cookie |
| ads/ga-audiences |
Google
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Used by Google AdWords to reconnect with visitors who may become customers, based on the online behaviour of the customer on web pages. |
Session |
Pixel Tracker |
| at-lojson-cache-# |
Oracle
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Used by the AddThis social content sharing platform. |
Persistent |
HTML Local Storage |
| at-rand |
Oracle
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Used by the AddThis social content sharing platform. |
Persistent |
HTML Local Storage |
| AFFICHE_W |
Weborama
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Used by the Weborama advertising platform to determine the interests of the visitor according to page visits, the content on which they have clicked and other actions on the website. |
13 months |
HTML Local Storage |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
Google
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To calculate the user's bandwidth on pages with built-in YouTube videos. |
179 days |
HTTP Cookie |
| YSC |
Google
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Records a unique identification to maintain statistics on which YouTube videos the user has seen. |
Session |
HTTP Cookie |
| pagead/1p-user-list/# |
Google
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Pending |
Session |
Pixel Tracker |
| yt-remote-cast-installed |
Google
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This records the user's video player settings when watching embedded YouTube videos. |
Session |
HTML Local Storage |
| yt-remote-connected-devices |
Google
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This records the user's video player settings when watching embedded YouTube videos. |
Persistent |
HTML Local Storage |
| yt-remote-device-id |
Google
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This records the user's video player settings when watching embedded YouTube videos. |
Persistent |
HTML Local Storage |
| yt-remote-fast-check-period |
Google
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This records the user's video player settings when watching embedded YouTube videos. |
Session |
HTML Local Storage |
| yt-remote-session-app |
Google
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This records the user's video player settings when watching embedded YouTube videos. |
Session |
HTML Local Storage |
| yt-remote-session-name |
Google
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This records the user's video player settings when watching embedded YouTube videos. |
Session |
HTML Local Storage |
Unclassified (1)
Unclassified cookies are those that we are still in the process of classifying, along with individual cookie providers.
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Name
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Supplier
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Purpose
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Expiration
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Type
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| SPAnimationEnabled |
AENOR |
Pending |
Persistent |
HTML Local Storage |
How long are cookies activated for?
Depending on how long they are used for, cookies can either by session cookies or permanent cookies. The former expire when the user closes their browser. The latter expire when their objective has been met (e.g. the user staying identified on the website), or when they are deleted manually.
Who processes or manages the cookies?
The data collected in cookies can be managed either by AENOR or third parties.
Technical cookies (required) are created and managed solely by AENOR.
Analytical cookies use applications from third parties who provide a service to measure and analyse the audience of our web pages and video and document downloads, whilst facilitating and monitoring the connection and publication of content between the AENOR website and different social networks.
The third-party applications used by AENOR are Google and LinkedIn.
The information they obtain is related to the number of pages visited, the language, the social media on which our news is published, the region from which the page is accessed, the number of new users, the frequency, length and repetition of visits, the web browser and operator or type of terminal from which the visit is made.
These third-party applications may also use this information to improve their own services and offer services to other companies. You can get more information on the privacy policies of Oracle, Google and LinkedIn at the following links:
How can you activate your options on cookie control?
You can decide whether to accept cookies through the settings on your web browser or smartphone. Your web browser or smartphone gives you the option to delete all cookies, including technical cookies. These cookies are an important part of how our online services work, so you should bear in mind that if you choose to reject or delete cookies, this may affect the availability and functionality of AENOR online services.
Please note that the option to reject cookies is specific to each browser you use. Therefore, if you choose to reject cookies on one device and want this option to apply to another device, you need to select the same option on the other device.
The cookies installed on your system should be configured through your browser options:
We recommend that you consult our cookie policy regularly to get information on any potential changes.
AENOR is available to answer any questions on our website's Cookie Policy by emailing
datos@aenor.com.