Cookies are small text files generated by the web pages you visit, which contain session data that may be useful later on in the website. The data allows the website to maintain your information between pages, and also to analyze how you interact with the site. Cookies are secure in that they can only store information that is put in place by the browser, which is information that the user has entered into the browser or that which is included in the page request. They cannot execute code and cannot be used to access your computer. Cookies are essential to the functioning of the Internet, providing countless advantages in the provision of interactive services, facilitating navigation and usability of the web. Cookies cannot harm your computer and having them enabled helps to identify and resolve errors. Below, we provide more information to better understand the different types of cookies that can be used:
- Session cookies: these are temporary cookies that remain in the browser’s cookie file until you leave the website, so that none is recorded on the user’s hard drive. The information obtained through these cookies is used to analyze web traffic patterns. In the long run, this allows to provide a better experience to improve the content and facilitate its use.
- Persistent cookies: these are stored on the hard drive and are read by the website each time a new visit is made. Despite its name, a permanent website has a specific expiration date. The cookie will stop working after that date. They are generally used to facilitate the different services offered by websites. Below, we publish a list of the main cookies used on our websites, distinguishing:
- Strictly necessary cookies such as, for example, those that serve for proper navigation or those that allow the payment of goods or services requested by the user or cookies that serve to ensure that the content of the website loads efficiently.
- Third-party cookies such as, for example, those used by social networks, or by external content plugins.
- Analytical cookies for periodic maintenance purposes and, in the interests of ensuring the best possible service to the user, with which websites collect statistical data on activity. The tool used is Google Analytics.
- Supplementary guarantees. Cookie management: All Internet browsers allow you to limit the behavior of a cookie or disable cookies within the browser settings or options. The steps to do this are different for each browser, and instructions can be found in the help menu of your browser. Many browsers allow you to activate a private mode whereby cookies are always deleted after the visit. Depending on each browser, this private mode may have different names. Below is a list of the most common browsers with a link to the cookie settings and the different names of this “private mode”:
- Internet Explorer 8 and higher; InPrivate, Cookie management
- Safari 2 and higher; Private Navigation, Cookie management
- Opera 10.5 and higher; Private Navigation, Cookie management
- FireFox 3.5 and higher; Private Navigation, Cookie management
- Google Chrome 10 and higher; InPrivate, Cookie management
THE OWNER OF THE WEBSITE may use cookies during the provision of website services. Cookies are physical files of personal information stored in the user’s own terminal. The user has the ability to configure your browser so as to prevent the creation of cookie files or warn of the same. If you choose to leave our website through links to websites not belonging to our entity, THE OWNER OF THE WEBSITE will not be responsible for the privacy policies of such websites or cookies that they can store on the user’s computer. Our policy with respect to e-mail focuses on sending only communications that you have requested to receive. If you prefer not to receive these messages by e-mail, we will offer you the possibility of exercising your right to cancel and waive the receipt of these messages, in accordance with the provisions of Title III, Article 22 of Law 34/2002 of Services for the Information Society and Electronic Commerce.