--- title: "Cookie Policy" description: "What are Cookies? Cookies are a tool used by web servers to store and retrieve information about their visitors. They are simply text files that some servers ask our browser to write on our hard drive..." url: https://www.thebeertimes.com/en/cookie-policy/ date: 2026-07-15 modified: 2026-07-15 author: "Carlos Uhart M." type: page lang: en --- # Cookie Policy ## What are Cookies? Cookies are a tool used by web servers to store and retrieve information about their visitors. They are simply text files that some servers ask our browser to write on our hard drive, containing information about what we have been doing on their pages. They have an expiry date, which can range from the duration of a session to a specified future date, after which they cease to be operative. ## The cookies used by this website This website uses its own and third-party cookies to help you have a better browsing experience, to allow you to share content on social networks, to show you adverts based on your interests and to obtain user statistics. The cookies used on [www.thebeertimes.com](https://www.thebeertimes.com/en/) are associated only with an anonymous User and their computer, they do not provide references that allow the User’s name and surname to be identified and cannot read data from their hard drive or include viruses in their texts. Likewise, [www.thebeertimes.com](https://www.thebeertimes.com/en/) cannot read the cookies installed on the User’s hard drive from other servers. 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It is important that you know these are temporary cookies that it is not always possible to inform about and which are only used for study and evaluation purposes. In no case will cookies that compromise your privacy be used. Among the more stable third-party cookies are: Those generated by analytics and advertising services, specifically Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Google Adwords, to help the website analyse how Users use the website and improve its usability. In no case is this data associated with information that could directly identify the user. Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Google Adwords is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., a Delaware company whose principal office is at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043, United States (“Google”). The user can consult [here](https://www.google.es/intl/es/policies/technologies/types/) the type of cookies used by Google. 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