COOKIESPOLICY
WHAT ARE COOKIES AND HOW DOES THIS WEBSITE MANAGER USE THEM?
This website, like the majority of the websites on the Internet, uses cookies to improve and optimise the user experience. A cookie is a file installed in your browser or device (mobile, tablet or connected TV) by the website or app while you are browsing them that helps collect information about your visit. Like the majority of the Internet websites, the website’s manager web portal can use cookies with the purpose of:
- Ensuring the web pages are running correctly.
- Remembering your preferences such as the language or font size selected.
- Knowing about your browsing experience.
- Collecting anonymous statistical information, such as the pages you have visited and how long you have been using our media.
The use of cookies allows us to optimise your browsing experience, adapting the information and services to your interests, in order to provide you with the best experience every time you visit us. This website uses cookies in order to operate, adapt and make it as easy as possible for you to browse it.
Cookies are only associated to anonymous users and their computers/ devices and do not provide references that enable personal data to be revealed. You may set up the cookies from your browser at all times in order to amend and/or block the installation of cookies that the website sends without preventing access to the contents. However, the quality of the services might be affected.
Users completing the registration process and logging using their access data can access customised services that are adapted to their preferences based on the personal information provided at the time of registration and the information stored in the cookies of their browser.
The website manager’s e-marketing tools may use small images that are invisible to users, but are included in emails. Such technology allows us to know whether an email has been read or not, the date in which it was read, the user’s IP address, etc. This information is used to carry out statistical and analytical studies on the outgoing and incoming emails in order to improve the service offering to which the user has subscribed and propose information of their interest.
WHY ARE COOKIES IMPORTANT?
- From a technical point of view, cookies allow the smooth operation of a website by adapting it to the user preferences, i.e. remembering the language, the currency of the country or identifying the device from which you access it.
- They establish protection and security levels that prevent or hinder cyber-attacks against the website or its users.
- They help web administrators know the statistical data collected by the cookies with the purpose of improving the quality and experience of its services.
- They help optimise the advertising that is shown to users, offering the type that most relates to their interests.
WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES COULD OUR WEBSITE BE USING?
Statistic Cookies: With the purpose of carrying regular maintenance and ensuring the best service possible to the user, this website can make use of “statistic” cookies to collect statistics about user activity. The information collected shall under all circumstances be anonymous and no association will be made between the browsing patterns and physical individuals. The user may exclude its individual activity using the exclusion systems provided by the statistic system suppliers that use these cookies, such as Google Analytics.
Other internal cookies: Additionally, this website may use various cookies to maintain user sessions with different logins to private areas or user-management, where provided. Disabling these cookies can often cause hassle to users because it blocks functions. This is why these cookies are necessary for the running of this website.
Cookies used by social media: Additionally, when social plugins are used, this website can participate in various social media platforms in order to allow the user to share contents of his/ her interest with their social circle.
Cookies used by content external complements: This website may use content viewing complements such as Google Maps in order to let the user view geographic locations. Their use implies the occasional use of certain cookies. Some of these cookies are installed and managed by the suppliers of such complements and cannot be accessed by this website.
Third-party cookies that help customise advertising spaces: This website may use ad servers and therefore associated cookies that help draft profiles based on your preferences and behaviour.
LIST AND DESCRIPTION OF COOKIES. LEVELS OF INTRUSIVENESS:
The following table is a summary of the cookies explained above with their “level of intrusiveness” on a scale of 1 to 3, where:
Level 1: This is the level of the necessary internal cookies that help run the website and therefore provide the service requested by the user, as well as the cookies that are managed by third parties with the only purpose of enabling the smooth running of content external complements. They are necessary for this website to show correctly.
Level 2: This is the level of anonymous, statistic and internal cookies that are necessary for the maintenance of the contents and the browsing experience and are only managed by this website.
Level 3: This is the level of the cookies that are managed by third parties and enable us to follow up the user through other websites or services.
TABLE OF THE COOKIES THAT THIS WEBSITE MAY USE WITH AN INDICATION OF THE MANAGER WHEN THIS IS A THIRD PARTY
Cookie | Term | Purpose | Intrusiveness |
Sessionid | 1 month | – Own cookie. Maintenance of the user session on the website and its forms. | level 1 |
__utma | 2 years | – When the user logs on our website again with the same browser, the cookie will recognise the user. Only in the event the users changes his/ her browser, Google Analytics will consider it as another user. | level 2 |
__utmb | 30 minutes | – Internal statistics with Google Analytics. Enables the function for the calculation of the session time. It registers the log on time. | level 2 |
__utmc | Session | – Internal statistics with Google Analytics. Enables the function for the calculation of the session time. It checks whether the session must be left open or if a new session must be created. It is automatically removed when changing websites or closing the browser. | level 2 |
__utmz | 6 months | – Internal statistics with Google Analytics. Enables the function that registers the user origin. The data registered will be, amongst others, whether the user lands on our website directly or is redirected from another website, from an advertising campaign or from a search engine (indicating the key word and the source). | level 2 |
HOW CAN I DISABLE OR REMOVE THESE COOKIES?
The user can select the cookies they want to enable for this website at any time by, for example, changing the settings in the relevant browser:
Internet Explorer: https://privacy.microsoft.com/es-es/privacystatement
Safari: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/es/cookies/
Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=es&hlrm=en
Google: https://www.google.com/intl/es/policies/privacy/
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/Borrar%20cookies
Opera: https://www.opera.com/es/privacy
Android (Google): https://www.google.com/intl/es/policies/privacy/
Windows Phone (Microsoft): https://privacy.microsoft.com/es-es/privacystatement
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE COOKIES ARE DISABLED?
Some service functions will be disabled too.
COOKIE POLICY UPDATE
The website manager may regularly update the Cookie Policy of this website. We recommend you to check this policy every time you access the website with the purpose of being adequately informed on how and why we use cookies.