What are cookies?

This website uses cookies or similar technologies that store and retrieve information when you browse the site. In general, these technologies can be used for a variety of purposes, such as recognising you as a user, obtaining information about your browsing habits, or personalising the way in which content is displayed. The specific uses that the Social Security makes of these technologies depend on the type and are described below:

• Own technical cookies: These cookies allow users to browse a website, platform or application and use the different options or services that exist on it. These cookies are necessary for the correct functioning of the web portal, for example, to search for news on the page, set the language, select categories and subcategories of content.
  
  
• Own personalisation cookies: These cookies allow information to be remembered so that users can access the service with certain characteristics that may differ from those of other users. They are used to modify the language of the web page chosen by the user.
  
  
• Third-party analysis or measurement cookies: These cookies allow the responsible party to monitor and analyse the behaviour of the users of the websites to which they are linked. This is a cookie sent by the Akamai platform which is used to measure the performance of the pages, based on the actions performed by the user.

You can allow or block cookies, as well as delete your browsing data (including cookies) from the browser you are using. Please refer to the options and instructions provided by your browser for this. The cookies used are persistent, meaning that they remain on your computer even after your session on the Social Security resource has ended.