More Information About Cookies

Last Updated:30/11/2025

At Verizon Galaxy, we believe in being transparent about how we use technology. This guide provides detailed information about what cookies are, how they are used on the internet, and how you can manage them on your device.

1. What is a Cookie?

A cookie is a harmless text file that is stored in your browser when you visit almost any webpage. The usefulness of the cookie is that the web is able to remember your visit when you return to browse that page. Although many people do not know it, cookies have been used for 20 years, when the first browsers for the World Wide Web appeared.

2. What IS NOT a Cookie?

It is not a virus, not a trojan, not a worm, not spam, not spyware, and it does not open pop-up windows.

3. What information does a Cookie store?

Cookies usually do not store sensitive information about you, such as credit cards or bank details, photographs, your ID or personal information, etc. The data they keep is technical, personal preferences, content personalization, etc.

The web server does not associate you as a person but rather your web browser. In fact, if you usually browse with Internet Explorer and try browsing the same web with Firefox or Chrome, you will see that the web does not realize that you are the same person because it is actually associating the browser, not the person.

4. What types of Cookies exist?

  • Technical Cookies: They are the most elementary and allow, among other things, to know when a human or an automated application is browsing, when an anonymous user and a registered user are browsing, basic tasks for the operation of any dynamic web.
  • Analysis Cookies: They collect information about the type of navigation you are doing, the sections you use most, products consulted, time slot of use, language, etc.
  • Advertising Cookies: They show advertising based on your browsing, your country of origin, language, etc. This is crucial for sites like Verizon Galaxy to remain free to use.

5. What are own and third-party Cookies?

  • Own Cookies: Are those generated by the page you are visiting (in this case, verizongalaxy.com).
  • Third-party Cookies: Are those generated by external services or providers such as Facebook, Twitter, Google (AdSense, Analytics), etc.

6. Managing Cookies by Browser

You can restrict, block, or delete cookies from Verizon Galaxy or any other web page using your browser. In each browser the operation is different; the 'Help' function will show you how to do it.

7. Managing Google AdSense Cookies

Since we use Google AdSense to display ads, you should know that Google uses the "DoubleClick" cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times a given ad is shown to you.

You can opt-out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ad Settings.

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