COOKIE POLICY
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are data files stored in your browser and on your device when you visit any website. Cookies can have various uses, such as recognizing the user, storing and retrieving information about a user’s browsing habits, or customizing how content is displayed.
WHAT INFORMATION DO COOKIES STORE?
Cookies store technical information, personal preferences, and content customization. Cookies normally do not contain any personal information.
Any personal information they may contain is solely what the user has entered into a site form.
Most of the time, when a cookie contains personal information, it is encrypted so that it is unreadable to any third party who might access its cookie file.
WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES EXIST?
Depending on the entity that manages the domain from which the cookies are sent and processes the data obtained, the following are distinguished:
- First-party cookies: These are sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by the editor itself and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
- Third-party cookies: These are sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain that is not managed by the editor, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through the cookies.
Depending on the length of time they remain stored in the user’s browser, the following are distinguished:
- Session cookies: These collect and store data while the user accesses a web page. They are usually used to store information that is only relevant to keep for the provision of the service requested by the user on a single occasion (e.g., a list of purchased products).
- Persistent cookies: Data remains stored in the terminal and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the cookie owner, which can range from a few minutes to several years.
Depending on the purpose for which the data obtained is processed, the following cookies are distinguished:
Technical cookies: These allow the user to navigate through a website, platform, or application and use the different options or services that exist therein, such as controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, accessing restricted access parts, remembering the elements that make up an order, carrying out the purchase process of an order, making the request for registration or participation in an event, using security elements during navigation, storing content for broadcasting videos or sound, or sharing content through social networks.
- Personalization cookies: These allow the user to access the service with some general characteristics predefined based on a series of criteria in the user’s terminal, such as the language, the type of browser through which they access the service, the regional configuration from which they access the service, etc.
- Analytics cookies: These allow the controller to monitor and analyze the behavior of users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected through this type of cookie is used to measure the activity of websites, applications, or platforms and to create browsing profiles of users of said sites, applications, and platforms, in order to introduce improvements based on the analysis of the usage data made by users of the service.
- Advertising cookies: These allow the management of advertising spaces as effectively as possible.
- Behavioral advertising cookies: These store information on user behavior obtained through continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows a specific profile to be developed to display advertising based on it.
- External social media cookies: These are used so that visitors can interact with the content of different social platforms (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) and are generated only for users of these social networks. The conditions of use of these cookies and the information collected are regulated by the privacy policy of the corresponding social platform.
WHAT COOKIES ARE USED ON THE WEBSITE
THIS SECTION MUST BE DEVELOPED BY A WEB DEVELOPER OR IT SPECIALIST, WHO WILL KNOW WHICH COOKIES (FIRST-PARTY AND/OR THIRD-PARTY) YOUR WEBSITE USES.
LEGITIMACY AND RETENTION PERIODS OF COOKIES INSTALLED IN YOUR BROWSER
Upon entering the website, a cookie notice will be activated, allowing the user to accept the installation of all cookies used by the website or, alternatively, to not authorize the use of cookies, by accessing the Cookie Preferences Settings section to disable them all or select and authorize the installation of those cookies of interest to them.
However, you are informed that, by using the website, the user expressly accepts, in any case, the installation of technical cookies necessary for the proper functioning of the Website.
The user is informed that the information obtained through the use of cookies will be retained for their persistence periods.
DEACTIVATION AND DELETION OF COOKIES
The user can allow, block, or delete cookies installed on their device by configuring their browser options. By deactivating cookies, some of the available services may cease to be operational. The method for disabling cookies is different for each browser.
Chrome browser:
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=es
Internet Explorer browser:
Mozilla Firefox browser:
https://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/impedir-que-los-sitios-web-guarden-sus-preferencia
Safari browser for OSX:
http://safari.helpmax.net/es/privacidad-y-seguridad/como-gestionar-las-cookies/
Opera browser:
https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies
