WHAT ARE COOKIES?

A cookie is a small amount of information that is downloaded to your computer or device when you visit certain websites. We use several types of cookies on the https://quimerco.com/co/ website, including strictly necessary cookies, performance cookies, advertising cookies, social media cookies, and content cookies. Cookies improve your browsing experience by allowing the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login and region selection). This means you don’t have to re-enter this information each time you return to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide information about how people use the website, for example, whether it’s their first time visiting or if they are repeat visitors.

Learn more about cookies—and other similar tracking technologies—and how we use the data collected through these technologies in our Personal Data Processing Policy.

WHAT COOKIES DO WE USE AND WHY?

Some cookies are necessary to allow you to navigate our website, use its features, and access secure areas. The use of these cookies is essential for the website to function. For example, we use user input cookies throughout a session to track a user’s input when completing forms that span multiple pages.

We also use functional cookies to remember choices you have made or information you have provided. This allows us to customize your website experience specifically to your preferences. For example, authentication cookies are functional cookies that are used throughout a session—or persistent, if you consent to the “remember me” feature—to allow users to authenticate on subsequent visits or access authorized content across multiple pages. The functional cookies we use include the following:

User-centric security cookies to detect authentication abuses for a limited persistent period, such as repeated failed login attempts. These cookies are set for the specific function of increasing the security of the service. Media player session cookies (Flash cookies), which are used throughout a session to store technical data necessary to play video or audio content, such as image quality, network link speed, and buffering parameters.
Load balancing session cookies, which are used throughout the session to identify the same server in the group so that the load balancer can redirect user requests appropriately.
Persistent user interface customization cookies, which are used to store a user’s preferences for a service across websites.

At QUIMERCO S.A.S., and in order to provide a better user experience, we use various tools to help us improve our website and our commerce platform. To this end, we use information and analytics cookies to collect information about how you use our website or our merchants’ stores and how often. These cookies only collect information for statistical purposes and only use pseudonymous cookie identifiers that do not directly identify you. The performance cookies we use include the following:

First-party analytics cookies: We use these cookies to estimate the number of unique visitors, improve our website, and detect the most searched terms on search engines that link to a web page. These cookies are not used to target you with online marketing. We use these cookies to understand the performance of our website and make relevant improvements to optimize your browsing experience.
Third-party analytics cookies: We use Google Analytics and other third-party analytics providers listed below to help measure how users interact with our website content. These cookies “remember” what our users have done on previous pages and how they interacted with the website. To learn more about Google Analytics, please visit the following link: https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en. For instructions on opting out of Google Analytics, please see below.

Our website uses advertising cookies to tailor marketing to you and your interests, and to provide you with more personalized service in the future. These cookies remember that you have visited our website, and we may share this information with third parties, such as advertisers. Although these cookies can track your device’s visits to our website and other sites, they generally cannot identify you personally. Without these cookies, the ads you see may be less relevant and interesting to you. Learn more about how companies use cookies for targeted or retargeted advertising at https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en. We do not set advertising cookies through our merchants’ storefronts, although merchants may choose to do so independently.

Finally, many social media plug-ins—for example, the Facebook “Like” button—place social and content cookies and other tools intended to provide or enhance a website’s content—for example, services that allow you to play video files or create comment sections.

We integrate these modules into our platform to improve your browsing experience and interaction with our websites. Please note that some of these third-party services place cookies that are also used for things like behavioral advertising, analytics, or market research.

HOW LONG WILL COOKIES STAY ON MY COMPUTER OR MOBILE DEVICE?

The length of time a cookie remains on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it’s a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies last until you stop browsing, and persistent cookies last until they expire or are deleted. Most of the cookies we use are persistent and will expire between 30 minutes and two years from the date they are downloaded to your device. See the section below on controlling cookies for more information on how to delete cookies before they expire.

WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU DISABLE OR DO NOT ACCEPT COOKIES?

As mentioned, cookies allow for a better browsing experience on the website. Therefore, by not accepting, deleting, or blocking them, some of the services offered by our website may be disabled for you and/or the quality of the website may be reduced at some point.

HOW ARE COOKIES CONTROLLED?

You can control and manage cookies in several ways. Please note that deleting or blocking cookies may negatively impact your user experience, and you may no longer be able to fully access certain parts of our website.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser controls, often found in your browser’s “Tools” or “Preferences” menu. For more information on how to change your browser settings or how to block, manage, or filter cookies, please consult your browser’s help file or sites such as: https://www.colombiaaprende.edu.co/politicas-cookies

Many of the third-party advertising and other tracking services mentioned above offer you an option to opt out of their tracking systems. You can learn more about the information they collect and how to use the opt-out option through the privacy policy links mentioned above.

This policy is effective as of February 21, 2023, and will remain in effect for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes stated in this policy.

QUIMERCO S.A.S. reserves the right to modify this policy at any time; however, any changes will be promptly notified and published on the website https://quimerco.com/co/, and the date of the change will be indicated there.