Cookies

Our use of cookies and similar technologies

Our services use cookies and other similar technologies, such as pixels or local storage, to provide you with a better, faster and more secure experience. These are some of the ways our services (including our suite of websites, SMS, APIs, email notifications, applications, buttons, tools, and ads) use these technologies: to log in to Friends, save your preferences, customize the content you see, protect you from spam and abuse, and show you ads that are most useful to you. Below, we will explain how Friends, our partners and other outside companies use these technologies, your privacy settings and the other options available to you.

What are cookies, pixels, and local storage?

Cookies are small files that websites place on your computer as you browse the web. Like many websites, Twitter, Periscope, and our other services use cookies to discover how people are using our services and to make them work better.

A pixel is a small amount of code on a web page or in an email notification. As many services do, we use pixels to learn whether you’ve interacted with certain web or email content. This helps us measure and improve our services and personalize your experience.

Local storage is an industry-standard technology that allows a website or application to store information locally on your computer or mobile device. We use local storage to customize what we show you based on your past interactions with our services.

Main Cookies we Use

Google Adsense: Advertising provider on our website.
Google Analytics:Analytics is a statistics provider in Friends, with Analytics we measure user behavior in order to make decisions according to general behavior and optimize Friends.
Youtube: We use Google player to show certain videos in posts, and may use cookies in their data collection.
Facebook: We give users the ability to register using the Facebook API and log in.
Jquery: Used to give dynamism and speed to the website.
Own Cookies: We use them in certain parts of the website to save your preferences on your device.


The information obtained through these cookies, referred to the user's computer, may be combined with your personal data only if you are a registered user of the site. is registered on this website.

You can disable cookies in your browser settings for example:

Chrome, from http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=es&answer=95647
Explorer, from http://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/windows7/how-to-manage-cookies-in-internet-explorer-9
Firefox, from http://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/habilitar-y-deshabilitar-cookies-que-los-sitios-we
Safari, from http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042

Or you can revoke the consent of the cookies,

Revocation of Cookie Consent: Click here to revoke.

other third-party tools, available online, that allow users to detect cookies on each website they visit and manage their deactivation (for example, Ghostery: https://www.ghostery.com/about-ghostery/privacy-statements/, http://www.ghostery.com/faq).

Storage on your computer (browser)

These services may generate third-party cookies, which are also stored on your browser device.

Why do our services use these technologies?

Our services use these technologies to deliver, measure, and improve our services in various ways. These uses generally fall into one of the following categories:

Authentication and security:

To log in to Friends.
To protect your safety.
So you can view content with limited distribution.
To help us detect and combat spam, abuse and other activities that violate the Friends Rules.
For example, these technologies help authenticate your access to Friends, and help prevent unauthorized people from accessing your account. They also allow us to show you appropriate content through our services.

Preferences:

To remember information about your browser and preferences.
For example, cookies help us remember the language you prefer or the country you are in. This way, we can provide you with Friends content in your preferred language without having to ask you every time you visit Friends. At Friends, we can also customize the content for your country. We can show you the topics that are trend near your location or retain certain content based on applicable local laws. Learn more about the trends and content retained by the country.

Statistics and research:

To help us improve and understand how people use our services.
For example, cookies help us test different versions of our services to see what specific features or content users prefer. We may also optimize and improve your experience at Friends by using cookies to learn how you interact with our services, how to analyze when and how often you use them, and which links you click. We use Google Analytics to facilitate this process. We may also use cookies to track the number of users who viewed certain activities or posts.
The main cookie in relation to the statistics is the Google Analytics cookie.

Custom Content:

To customize our services with more relevant content, such as personalized trends, stories, advertisements.

Advertising:

To help us deliver ads, measure their results and make them more relevant to you, based on criteria such as your activity on Friends and your visits to our advertising partners' websites.
For example, we use cookies and pixels to customize ads and measure their results. With the use of these technologies, we can show you ads and evaluate their effectiveness based on your visits to the websites of our advertising partners. This helps advertisers deliver high-quality ads and content that might be of more interest to you.
Mainly we use Google Adsense.
In addition, we work with third-party advertising partners, such as Google, to promote our services and serve ads on behalf of our advertisers, including sending ads based on user interests.

Customization on all devices:

If we better understand how devices relate to each other, we can use information from one device to personalize the Friends experience on another device. We may use this information (generally, IP addresses and the time at which the information was received) to determine whether an account is compliant with the Friends Rules