Cookies Policy

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files containing a string of characters that can be placed on your computer or mobile device that uniquely identify your browser or device.


What are cookies used for?

Cookies allow a site or services to know if your computer or device has visited that site or service before. Cookies can then be used to help understand how the site or service is being used, help you navigate between pages efficiently, help remember your preferences, and generally improve your browsing experience. Cookies can also help ensure marketing you see online is more relevant to you and your interests.


Cookies on our website

When you visit our Website for the first time, we inform you of the existence of both our own and, where applicable, third-party cookies through the informative notice (banner) on the Website itself and this Cookies Policy, in which we provide greater detail about the different types of cookies. Likewise, we inform you how you can configure the cookies you want to install among the different categories we use.

Metropolis uses the following cookies on this website, for the following purposes:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential, as they enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing logged-in or secure areas.

Technical cookies are exempt from compliance with the obligations established in article 22.2 of the LSSI when they allow the service requested by the user to be provided.


Analytics Cookies

These cookies allow us to obtain anonymous statistical information on how visitors use our website, with the sole purpose of helping us improve its performance and content.

Analytics cookies are installed only if you accept them.

Examples of analytics cookies we use:

  • _pk_id.[siteID].[domainHash] – Stores a few details about the user such as the unique visitor ID. (Expires: 13 months)
  • _pk_ses.[siteID].[domainHash] – Short-lived cookie used to temporarily store data for the visit. (Expires: 30 minutes)

How long cookies stay on my device?

The length of time a cookie will stay on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies will only stay on your device until you stop browsing. Persistent cookies stay on your computer or mobile device until they expire or are deleted.


First and third party cookies

First-party cookies are cookies that belong to Metropolis, third-party cookies are cookies that another party places on your device through our website. Third-party cookies may be placed on your device by someone providing a service for Metropolis, for example to help us understand how our website is being used.


How to control and delete cookies

If you want to delete cookies follow the instructions at [http://www.wikihow.com/Clear-Your-Browser%27s-Cookies](http://www.wikihow.com/Clear-Your-Browser%27s-Cookies). If you wish to disable your browser from receiving cookies follow the instructions at [http://www.wikihow.com/Disable-Cookies](http://www.wikihow.com/Disable-Cookies). Note that if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain parts of our Service and other parts of our Service may not work properly. You can find out more information cookie settings at third-party information sites, such as [www.allaboutcookies.org](www.allaboutcookies.org)