INFORMATION ABOUT COOKIES

Due to the coming into force of the modification to the «Law on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce» (LSSICE), established by Royal Decree 13/2012, it is mandatory to obtain the express consent of the user of any website that uses non-essential cookies, before the user browses them.

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies and other similar technologies such as local shared objects, flash cookies or pixels, are tools used by web servers to store and retrieve information about their visitors and to ensure proper functioning of the site.
The use of these devices allows the web server to remember certain data on the user, such as their preferences for viewing the pages of that server, name and password, products they are most interested in, etc.

COOKIES AFFECTED BY THE REGULATION AND EXEMPTED COOKIES

According to the EU directive, the cookies that require the user’s informed consent are analytical cookies and advertising and affiliation cookies, with the exception of technical cookies and those necessary for the functioning of the website or the provision of services expressly requested by the user.

TYPES OF COOKIES

ACCORDING TO PURPOSE

• Technical and functional cookies: these are cookies that allow the user to browse a website, platform or application and to use the different options or services that exist on it.
• Analytical cookies: these are cookies that allow the party responsible for them to monitor and analyse the behaviour of the users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected through these types of cookies is used to measure activity on websites, applications or platforms, and for the creation of browsing profiles of the users of these sites, applications and platforms, in order to introduce improvements based on the analysis of the data on the use made by service users.
• Advertising cookies: these are cookies that allow the most effective management of the advertising spaces that, if applicable, the publisher has included on a website, application or platform from which the requested service is provided, based on criteria such as the edited content or the frequency at which the advertisements are shown.
• Behavioural advertising cookies: these collect information on the user’s preferences and personal choices (retargeting) to enable the most effective management of the advertising spaces that, if applicable, the publisher has included on a website, application or platform from which the requested service is provided.
• Social cookies: these are set up on the services by social media platforms to allow you to share content with your friends and social networks. Social media platforms have the ability to track your online activity outside the Services. This may affect the content and messages you see on other services you visit.
• Affiliate cookies: these enable visits to be tracked from other websites with which the website has an affiliation contract (affiliation companies).
• Secure cookies: these store encrypted information to prevent the data stored in them from being vulnerable to malicious attacks by third parties.

ACCORDING TO OWNERSHIP

• First party cookies: these are those that are sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by the publisher themselves and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
• Third-party cookies: those that are sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain that is not managed by the publisher, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through the cookies.

ACCORDING TO RETENTION PERIOD

• Session cookies: these are a type of cookie designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a web page.
• Persistent cookies: these are a type of cookie for which the data remains stored in the terminal and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the party responsible for the cookie, which can range from a few minutes to several years.

THIRD-PARTY COOKIES

Third-party services are beyond the publisher’s control. Providers may modify their terms of service, purpose and use of cookies, etc. at any time.

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From this panel you will be able to configure the cookies that the website may install in your browser, except for technical or functional cookies that are necessary for browsing and using the different options or services offered.

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