Softonic
Cookies Policy
Softonic, on its own account or that of third-party service providers, may use cookies and other similar technologies for storing and retrieving data on users' terminal devices (hereinafter "Cookies").
With cookies it is possible for the server where our website is hosted to recognize the browser you are using, in order to make browsing easier, allowing, for example, access to you if you have previously signed up, access to specific areas, services, or promotions reserved exclusively for you without you having to sign up on each visit. Cookies are also used to measure the audience and traffic parameters, as well as to control the progress and number of entries.
What are the cookies?
A cookie is a file that is installed in the user's browser when accessing certain pages or applications. Cookies allow the owner of a website or app, among other things, to store and retrieve information about the browsing habits of a user or their device and, depending on the information they contain and the way they use their devices or browsers, they can be used to recognize the users.
Types of cookies
| By the company managing the domain | First-Party cookiesThird-party cookies |
| By the time they remain on your device | Session cookiesPersistent cookies |
| By their purpose | Technical cookiesPersonalisation cookiesAnalysis cookiesMarketing cookies |
What types of cookies does this website use and what are their purposes?
By the entity managing the domain:
- First-party cookies: these are those installed in the user's device or browser using a domain managed by Softonic and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
- Third-party cookies: those that are installed in the user's terminal device or browser from a domain that is not managed by Softonic, but by another entity that processes the data collected via cookies..
For the length of their permanence:
- Session cookies: These are a type of cookie designed and used to collect and store data while the user accesses a website. As their name suggests, these cookies are stored in the device or browser until the end of the user's browsing session.
- Persistent cookies: these are those in which the data continue to be stored in the device or browser and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the domain, and which can range from a few minutes to several months.
By their purpose:
Marketing cookies: these are cookies that store information on the behaviour of users obtained through the continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows a specific profile to be developed to display advertising based on the same.
Technical cookies: cookies that allow the user to browse through a website and use the different options or services that exist on it, including those that are used to allow the management and operation of the website and enable its functions and services.
Personalisation cookies: are those that allow information to be remembered so that the user can access the service with certain characteristics that can differentiate their experience from that of other users.
Analysis cookies: these are those that allow us to quantify the number of users and thus carry out the measurement and statistical analysis of the use made by users of the service offered. To do this, your browsing on our website is analysed to improve the range of products or services that we offer.
List of cookies used by Softonic
| Cookie name | Domain | Type | Time period | Further information |
| didomi_token | softonic.com | Technical | 1 year | https://hello.softonic.com/cookies-policy/ |
| didomi_token | softonic.com | Technical | Session | https://hello.softonic.com/cookies-policy/ |
| _gcl_au | softonic.com | Marketing | 3 months | https://business.safety.google/adscookies/ |
| _gcl_ls | softonic.com | Marketing | Session | https://business.safety.google/adscookies/ |
| _uetsid | softonic.com | Marketing | Session | https://help.ads.microsoft.com/#apex/ads/en/53056/2 |
| _uetsid_exp | softonic.com | Marketing | Session | https://help.ads.microsoft.com/#apex/ads/en/53056/2 |
| _uetsid | softonic.com | Marketing | 1 day | https://help.ads.microsoft.com/#apex/ads/en/53056/2 |
| _uetvid | softonic.com | Marketing | Session | https://help.ads.microsoft.com/#apex/ads/en/53056/2 |
| _uetvid_exp | softonic.com | Marketing | Session | https://help.ads.microsoft.com/#apex/ads/en/53056/2 |
| _uetvid | softonic.com | Marketing | 1 year | https://help.ads.microsoft.com/#apex/ads/en/53056/2 |
| _cltk | softonic.com | Analytics | Session | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/clarity/setup-and-installation/clarity-cookies |
| _clck | softonic.com | Analytics | 1 year | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/clarity/setup-and-installation/clarity-cookies |
| gtm_session_start | softonic.com | Analytics | 30 minutes | https://support.google.com/tagmanager/answer/6102821?hl=es |
| _clsk | softonic.com | Analytics | 1 day | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/clarity/setup-and-installation/clarity-cookies |
| c.clarity.ms_/c.gif | c.clarity.ms | Analytics | Session | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/clarity/setup-and-installation/clarity-cookies |
| euconsent | softonic.com | Technical | 1 year | https://www.cookiehub.com/ |
| euconsent | softonic.com | Technical | Session | https://www.cookiehub.com/ |
| _ga_# | softonic.com | Analytics | 2 years | https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=es |
| _ga | softonic.com | Analytics | 2 years | https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=es |
| cto_tld_test | softonic.com | Technical | 1 day | https://www.criteo.com/privacy/how-we-use-your-data/ |
| criteo_write_test | softonic.com | Technical | 9 minutes | https://www.criteo.com/privacy/how-we-use-your-data/ |
| criteo_localstorage_check | softonic.com | Technical | Session | https://www.criteo.com/privacy/how-we-use-your-data/ |
| www.google.es_/ads/ga-audiences | softonic.com | Marketing | Session | https://business.safety.google/adscookies/ |
| ra_user#ra_user#undefined | softonic.com | Personalization | Session | https://docs.oracle.com/cd/F88970_01/English/User_Guides/user_general/10292387.htm |
| cto_bundle | softonic.com | Marketing | 1 year | https://www.criteo.com/privacy/how-we-use-your-data/ |
| cto_bundle | softonic.com | Marketing | Session | https://hello.softonic.com/cookies-policy/ |
| _swo_pos | softonic.com | Analytics | 15 days | https://hello.softonic.com/cookies-policy/ |
| ber-country-code | softonic.com | Personalization | 30 minutes | https://hello.softonic.com/cookies-policy/ |
| ber-city | softonic.com | Personalization | 30 minutes | https://hello.softonic.com/cookies-policy/ |
| ber-region | softonic.com | Personalization | 30 minutes | https://hello.softonic.com/cookies-policy/ |
| ber-browser-name | softonic.com | Analytics | 30 minutes | https://hello.softonic.com/cookies-policy/ |
| ber-user-platform-id | softonic.com | Analytics | 30 minutes | https://hello.softonic.com/cookies-policy/ |
| ber-device-type | softonic.com | Analytics | 30 minutes | https://hello.softonic.com/cookies-policy/ |
| ber-is-bot | softonic.com | Technical | 30 minutes | https://hello.softonic.com/cookies-policy/ |
| ber-is-landing | softonic.com | Analytics | 30 minutes | https://hello.softonic.com/cookies-policy/ |
| ber-utm-medium | softonic.com | Marketing | 30 minutes | https://hello.softonic.com/cookies-policy/ |
| ber-utm-source | softonic.com | Marketing | 30 minutes | https://hello.softonic.com/cookies-policy/ |
| ber-utm-campaign | softonic.com | Marketing | 30 minutes | https://hello.softonic.com/cookies-policy/ |
| utm | softonic.com | Marketing | 1 month | https://hello.softonic.com/cookies-policy/ |
| MUID | bing.com | Marketing | 1 year | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2289901/purposes-of-bing-cookies |
| CLID | www.clarity.ms | Analytics | 1 year | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/clarity/setup-and-installation/clarity-cookies |
| SM | c.clarity.ms | Analytics | Session | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/clarity/setup-and-installation/clarity-cookies |
| MUID | clarity.ms | Marketing | 1 year | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/clarity/setup-and-installation/clarity-cookies |
| MR | c.bing.com | Marketing | 7 days | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2289901/purposes-of-bing-cookies |
| SRM_B | c.bing.com | Marketing | 30 minutes | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2289901/purposes-of-bing-cookies |
| MR | c.clarity.ms | Marketing | 1 year | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/clarity/setup-and-installation/clarity-cookies |
| ANONCHK | c.clarity.ms | Marketing | 30 minutes | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/clarity/setup-and-installation/clarity-cookies |
| uid | criteo.com | Marketing | 1 year | https://www.criteo.com/es/privacy/ |
| rauid | uidsync.net | Marketing | 1 year | https://rollerads.com/cookies.html |
This information table will be updated as soon as possible when the services offered on this website change. However, it is possible that the information table may temporarily not include a cookie, tag or other similar device due to an update, although there will always be devices with identical purposes to those included in this chart.
Who are the recipients of the information and where are they located?
The information collected with Cookies may be used both by Softonic and by third party service providers, such as AdTech agents and web analysis agents, for the purposes described in the earlier section.
Some of these partners are US-based companies certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which guarantees a similar level of data protection to that guaranteed by the EU legislation. Therefore, your data may be subject to international data transfers, whenever any of our partners and service providers are based outside the European Economic Area. In that case, we will take all precautions needed to guarantee a similar level of protection to your data and your privacy (e.g.: signing contracts including the EU Standard Contractual Clauses).
The user can find out more about these third parties, as well as the types of cookies they install, the purposes for which they process data, the guarantees they offer for carrying out international transfers, retention periods and how preferences can be configured with respect to them, through their privacy policies. In any case, Softonic is not responsible for the accuracy and content of the privacy policies offered by those third parties on their websites.
Cookie management
Considering the information provided through this Cookies Policy, below we offer you information on how you can manage the cookies used on the website through the different options offered by the most common browsers (Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera). The Help function of most browsers tells you how to configure your browser not to accept cookies, to let you know each time you receive a new cookie, as well as to completely disable all cookies.
For example, you can find information on how to manage your cookie preferences in the most common browsers through the following links:
Firefox from here.
Chrome from here.
Explorer from here.
Safari from here.
Opera from here.
If your browser is not one of the above, please consult the specific documentation for your browser.
The opt-out mechanism creates a cookie that allows us to remember that you do not want more cookies. However, if you remove cookies after you have asked us to remove them, you will have to repeat the process.
These changes only apply to the browser through which you are currently logged in. To remove cookies from other devices, you must follow the process described for those devices.
If the installation of all cookies on the website is prevented, some functionalities of the website and some content may be affected.
Additional information
You can contact Softonic through dpo@softonic.com, where you can write to exercise your rights of access, rectification or erasure, restriction of processing, objection, to data portability or not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, as well as to withdraw the consent given, if applicable.
To the extent that the information processed relates only to unique codes or identifiers of devices or browsers used by the user and does not relate to data that directly identifies the user, the above rights shall not apply, unless the user provides additional information that allows his or her identification.
If you wish to know more information about the processing of your data, you can consult our Privacy Policy.
This Cookies Policy has been revised and published on 5th of February of 2026.