Cookie Policy

How Madrid Now uses cookies, what they do, and how to manage your preferences and exercise your rights.

Updated on: July 19, 2026

  • Strictly necessary cookies. Strictly necessary cookies allow core website functionality such as user login and account management. The website cannot be used properly without strictly necessary cookies.
  • Performance cookies. Performance cookies are used to see how visitors use the website, eg. analytics cookies. Those cookies cannot be used to directly identify a certain visitor.
  • Targeting cookies. Targeting cookies are used to identify visitors between different websites, eg. content partners, banner networks. Those cookies may be used by companies to build a profile of visitor interests or show relevant ads on other websites.
  • Functionality cookies. Functionality cookies are used to remember visitor information on the website, eg. language, timezone, enhanced content.
  • Unclassified cookies. Unclassified cookies are cookies that do not belong to any other category or are in the process of categorization.

Strictly necessary

CookieScriptConsent
Provider/Domain: CookieScript, .madridnow.es
Expiration: 4 weeks 2 days
Description: Remembers visitor cookie consent preferences; necessary for the Cookie-Script.com banner to work.

VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA
‍Provider / Domain: YouTube — .youtube.com
Expiration: 5 months 4 weeks
Description: This cookie is used to store the user's consent and privacy choices for their interaction with the site. It records data on the visitor's consent regarding various privacy policies and settings, ensuring that their preferences are honored in future sessions.

Performance

_ga
Provider/Domain: Google LLC, .madridnow.es
Expiration: 1 year 1 month
Description: Associated with Google Analytics; distinguishes unique users via a randomly generated ID, used to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data.

_ga_DKLRENNVX1
Provider/Domain: Google LLC, .madridnow.es
Expiration: 1 year 1 month
Description: Used by Google Analytics to persist session state.

Functionality

_cfuvid
Provider/Domain: Cloudflare, .madridnow.es
Expiration: Session
Description: Used to track users across sessions to maintain consistency and optimize user experience.

__Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN
‍Provider / Domain: .youtube.com
Expiration: 5 months 4 weeks
Description: YouTube uses this cookie to roll out new features and measure their impact when other cookies and identifiers cannot be used for the same purpose.

Targeting

__Secure-YNID Provider / Domain: .youtube.com
Expiration: 5 months 4 weeks
Description: Google services use this cookie for YouTube's analytics.

YSC
Expiration: Session
‍Provider / Domain: Google LLC — .youtube.com
Description: This cookie is set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos.

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
‍Provider / Domain: Google LLC — .youtube.com
Expiration: 5 months 4 weeks
Description: This cookie is set by YouTube to keep track of user preferences for YouTube videos embedded in sites; it can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the YouTube interface.