Master in Translational Medicine-MSc

Cookies Police

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don't have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

Cookies are essential for internet to work correctly by providing several advantages to improve interactive services, making web browsing easier. Cookies do not damage hardware but rather help us to identify and solve errors.

Relation and description of the cookies that we use on the web page
Name Type Use/Further information
PHPSESSID Session cookie Cookie used to establish the sessions of the user who visits our website. It is always to identify and manage the state for a specific user, and to be able to move that information trhough our web.
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Personalization cookie Cookie that identifies if the user has accepted the use of cookies.
How to control cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

The following is a list of the most common browsers:

Internet Explorer
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies

Safari
https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac

Opera
https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/

Firefox
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences

Google Chrome
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en