Cookies

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What is a cookie?

A cookie is a piece of information, usually a small text file, that is generated by a web server and saved on your device. A primary objective of cookies is to improve your user experience while surfing the web and to help websites make your next visit easier.

A cookie can be classified by its lifespan and the domain to which it belongs. By lifespan, a cookie is either a:

• session cookie which is erased when the user closes the browser or
• persistent cookie which remains on the user's computer/device for a pre-defined period of time.

As for the domain to which it belongs, there are either:

• first-party cookies which are set by the web server of the visited page and share the same domain
• third-party cookies stored by a different domain to the visited page's domain. This can happen when the webpage references a file, such as javascript, located outside its domain.

How do we use cookies?

Costamaretraining.com uses cookies to preserve users preferences and 3rd party cookies (Google Analytics) to detect traffic.

Opting Out and Disabling Cookies

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If you don't want websites to store cookies on your computer at all, set your browser to receive a notification before storing each cookie. Alternatively, you can set your browser to refuse all cookies or only third-party cookies. You can also delete all cookies already present in the system. It's important to emphasize that the settings must be changed separately on each browser and computer you use. If you want to block the storage of cookies, the correct functioning of the website will not be guaranteed. Some site's functions may not be available and you may not be able to view certain web sites.  

This Cookie Policy that applies to the www.costamaretraining.com website was last updated on October 2015.