What are cookies and how do they work?
A cookie is a small piece of data (text files) that a website, when visited by a user, asks your browser to store on your device to ensure that the page functions correctly and remember information about you, such as language preference, your login information, understanding your browsing experience and collecting anonymous statistical information (the pages you have visited or how long you have spent on the website).
We use cookies set by us which are called first-party cookies, and third-party cookies (which are cookies from a domain other than the domain of the website you are visiting). Cookies are used for website functionality purposes and for our analytics studies.
Cookies may collect personal data from users, such as their computer’s IP address or a user/visitor identifier. To learn more about the processing we carry out on this data, consult our Privacy Policy.
The specific uses we make of these technologies are described below.
Type and functionality of cookies
Cookies, depending on their permanence, can be divided into session or permanent cookies. The first ones expire when the user closes the browser. The latter expire when the purpose for which they serve is fulfilled (for example, so that the user remains identified on the website) or when they are manually deleted.
Additionally, depending on their objective, Cookies can be classified as follows:
- Strictly necessary (technical): These are those essential for the correct functioning of the page. They are normally generated when the user accesses or logs in to the website and are used to identify you on the website for the following purposes:
- Keep the user identified so that, if they leave the website, browser or device and at another time access said website again, they will continue to be identified, thus facilitating their navigation without having to identify themselves again.
- Check if the user is authorized to access certain services or areas of the website.
- Performance: They are used to improve the browsing experience and optimize the operation of the website, such as, for example, storing service configurations, or storing the purchase made in a shopping cart.
- Advertising: These are those that collect information about the advertisements shown to website users. They can be of two types:
- Anonymous: They only collect information about the advertising spaces shown on the website, independently of the user who accesses the website, that is, without expressly identifying them.
- Personalized: They collect personal information from the website user by a third party, for the personalization of said advertising spaces.
- Geolocation: These Cookies are used to find out which country or region the user is in when accessing a service on the website in order to offer content or services appropriate to their location.
- Analytics: They collect information about the user’s browsing experience on the website, normally anonymously, although sometimes they also allow the user to be uniquely and unequivocally identified in order to obtain reports on the users’ interests in the services they provide. offers the website.
Cookies used on this website
Below is a table with the Cookies used on this website, incorporating a “level of intrusiveness” criterion based on a scale from 1 to 3, in which:
Level 1 : corresponds to Cookies strictly necessary for the provision of the service requested by the user.
Level 2: corresponds to performance Cookies (anonymous) necessary for the maintenance of content and navigation, of which it is only necessary to inform about their existence.
Level 3: corresponds to Cookies managed by third parties that allow user tracking through websites of which the data controller is not the owner. They normally correspond to advertising or analytical Cookies where the user is identified in a unique and obvious way.
International data transfer
This website uses Google Analytics, so your data may be transferred outside the European Economic Area. You can find expanded information on this topic at https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=es
How to disable the use of cookies
If the user so wishes, it is possible to stop accepting Cookies from the browser, or stop accepting Cookies from a particular service.
All modern browsers allow you to change Cookie settings. These settings are usually found in the “Options” or “Preferences” menu of the browser.
The user may, at any time, disable the use of Cookies on this website by:
Browser settings, for example:
- Google Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=es&answer=95647
- Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/windows7/how-to-manage-cookies-in-internet-explorer-9
- Mozilla Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/habilitar-y-deshabilitar-cookies-que-los-sitios-we
- Apple Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042
Other third-party tools, available online, that allow users to detect Cookies on each website they visit and manage their deactivation (for example, Ghostery: http://www.ghostery.com/privacy-statement).
What happens if you disable cookies
Some functionalities and services may be disabled or behave differently than expected, such as remaining identified, keeping purchases in the “shopping cart” in an e-commerce service or receiving information directed to your location, among others.
If you disable the use of Cookies on this website, it is likely that you will no longer be able to access certain areas of the website or that the browsing experience on the website may be significantly degraded.
Cookie policy update
The data controller may modify this Cookies Policy based on legislative and regulatory requirements, or with the purpose of adapting said policy to the instructions issued by the Spanish Data Protection Agency, therefore users are advised to visit it. periodically.
When significant changes occur in this Cookies Policy, the entity will proceed to reflect them on the website.