How do we use cookies and other methods to collect data about the use of our website?
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our website. Cookies are files with a small amount of data that may include an anonymous unique identifier.
Cookies are sent to your browser from the website and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies, such as beacons, tags and scripts, are also used to collect information and to analyze and improve our website.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are stored on your computer, smartphone, tablet or any other device when you visit a website. They enable the website owner to retrieve certain information about your browsing patterns from the device in question.
Types of cookies on the benshi.ai website and their purposes
Below we offer information about the different types of cookies on our website and what they are used for.
- Types of cookies according to who uses them:
- There are two types of cookies in terms of the entity that manages the terminal or domain from which they are sent and that processes the data collected:
- First-party cookies: These are the cookies that are sent to your terminal from benshi.ai.
- Third-party cookies: These are the cookies that are sent to your terminal from a terminal or domain that is not managed by benshi.ai but by another entity, which processes the data collected through the cookies. Since these cookies are sent by a third party, it is their specific conditions and mechanisms that dictate how to block and delete them.
- Types of cookies according to their lifespan on your terminal:
- Session cookies: These are designed to collect and store data while you are visiting a website. They are deleted once you close your browser.
- Persistent cookies: These are saved on your terminal and the data collected can be accessed and processed during a certain period of time (determined by the entity responsible for the cookies), which may range from a few minutes to several years.
- Why do we use cookies?
- If you have consented to our use of cookies, we will automatically collect, store, and use the following categories of data when you browse and search our site:
- Technical information, for example, the type of device (and its unique device identifier) you used to access our site, the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your device to the Internet, browser type and version, time zone settings, browser plug-ins and versions, operating system, mobile network information, and platform.
- Information about your visit to our site, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), clickstream to, through and from the website (including date and time), pages you viewed, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.
How can you manage benshi.ai cookies?
You can allow, block or delete the cookies installed on your device by setting the appropriate options on your Internet browser. If you do not allow cookies to be installed on your browser, you may not be able to access certain services and your experience on our website may be less satisfactory.
How can I reject or opt out of receiving cookies?
You can refuse to accept cookies by modifying the settings of your Internet browser (e.g. Internet Explorer, Chrome or Firefox). Remember that if you block the use of cookies in certain areas of our website, the contents may not be accessible or may not function properly.
The following links contain details on how to manage the cookie settings on each browser:
However, please bear in mind that if you delete your cookies, we will not be able to automatically recognize whether you have agreed to the website privacy policy, cookie policy and terms of use, so we will have to ask you to confirm your acceptance every time you visit the website.
Cookies used on benshi.ai
- cookie:accepted: Lasts forever and is related to technical information. Remembers your decision on whether to allow or reject cookies
Third-party cookies
Google Analytics:
We use Google Analytics to track website traffic. Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google. Google uses the collected data to track and monitor the use of our website. These data are shared with other Google services, and Google may use them to contextualize and personalize the ads of its advertising network. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en. We also encourage you to review Google’s policy for safeguarding your data: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.
- _ga: Expires after 2 years. Used to distinguish users.
- _gid: Expires after 24 hours. Used to distinguish users.
- _gat: Expires after 1 minute. Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property-id>.
- AMP_TOKEN: Expires after 30 seconds to 1 year. Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service.
- _gac_<property-id>: Expires after 90 days. Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt out.
- _utma: Expires after 2 years from setting/update. Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the JavaScript library is executed and no __utma cookie exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
- __utmt: Expires after 10 minutes. Used to throttle request rate.
- __utmb: Expires after 30 minutes from setting/update. Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the JavaScript library is executed and no __utmb cookie exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
- __utmc: Expires at the end of the browser session. Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit.
- __utmz: Expires after 6 months from setting/update. Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached the site. The cookie is created when the JavaScript library is executed and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
- __utmv: Expires after 2 years from setting/update. Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor-level custom variable. This cookie was also used for the deprecated _setVar method. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
