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Cookie policy

This website uses cookies and similar technologies to provide our services, as well as to allow us to improve them, and for other purposes, by obtaining statistics on the website’s usage. Browsing this website necessarily involves the use of cookies and similar technologies, whenever they are needed for its correct functioning. Similarly, cookies and local storage are subject to prior user consent, for certain specific purposes. You can choose to accept or reject cookies through your established system’s settings, and it’s also possible to set up the browser to prevent their use.

What are cookies?

“Cookies” are small temporary files, created on the user’s device (computer, telephone, tablet, etc.) when they visit a website, allowing it to store or recover browsing information. For example, they can be used to store the user’s usage preferences, or to be able to recognise the user on their subsequent visits, in addition to getting information on their browsing habits. When a website creates a cookie on the user’s device, it stores the address/domain of the website that created the cookie, the duration of the cookie, which can range from just a few minutes to several years, as well as the cookie content. The user can disable cookies at all times using this website’s settings, as well as configure their browsing software to prevent (block) the use of cookies on specific websites, and erase any previously stored cookies.

What are cookies used for?

The most common uses of cookies are:

  • Essential technical cookies: are used to manage the navigation flow on the website, or to keep the user connected to it. When disabled, it’s likely that certain parts of the website won’t work correctly.
  • Analytical cookies: they help us and third-party entities to collect information on the user’s origin and their browsing within our website, for the purpose of statistical analyses, which gives us the ability to improve the website’s structure and content.
  • Advertising cookies: are used to manage ads displayed on other websites, and to decide on the content and frequency of the ads.
  • Behavioral advertising cookies: they help to collect the user’s browsing habits to create a profile of their interests and show ads adapted to them.
  • Social sharing cookies: are needed for authenticating the user on their social media sites, thus allowing them to share content from our website.

What does “technologies similar to cookies” mean?

By “technologies similar to cookies” we mean any type of data storage and recovery mechanism used on a user’s device for purposes of obtaining information. The most common ones include:

  • Browser local storage. Certain websites use local storage called “sessionStorage” and “localStorage”, as well as the indexed database from the Internet browser to store information.
  • Local storage of browser plug-ins, namely Flash local storage (“Flash Local Shared Objects”) or Silverlight local storage (“Isolated Objects”).
  • Web beacon is a tracking technique, which consists in inserting into a website (or an e-mail) an image hosted on an Internet server, in a way that when a browser or an e-mail application connects to the server to download and view the image, this connection is registered. This allows us to know when a user viewed a web page or the e-mail. Sometimes this image is very small or transparent, preventing the user from being aware of its existence.
  • “Fingerprinting” is a technique combining information obtained from the browser or navigation equipment to set a user apart in their subsequent visits to different websites.

What are third-party cookies? Who receives this information?

This website’s cookies can be classified into two categories, based on who creates them:

  • Proprietary cookies: are created and managed from our websites and web domain. The obtained information is managed in a direct or indirect manner by us for our own purposes.
  • Third-party cookies: are cookies created and managed from other websites, which while not entirely under our control, provide features and characteristics we’ve decided to include on our website, such as: video and multimedia elements, social sharing buttons, etc. These cookies are controlled by the third-party entity providing the corresponding feature.

Most third-party features involve access or information collection (and use of cookies) by a third-party entity providing the feature, and it is based on their own criteria and purposes, including the collection of information regarding browsing habits for displaying personalised advertising. In the next section we indicate which third-party features and characteristics we use on our website.

How long do cookies and similar technologies stay active?

Depending on their permanence or activity period, we can differentiate between:

  • Temporary session cookies: these remain stored in the navigation equipment until the user leaves the website. The browser erases these cookies once the browsing session ends.
  • Persistent cookies: these remain in the navigation equipment, and the website reads them each time the user returns to the website. This type of cookies are deleted automatically after a period of time, which can either be short or very long.

This policy includes information about the cookie duration. For more information please check our privacy policy, as well as the information provided by third-party web feature providers’ privacy policies.

Use of web browsers with private browsing mode

If you wish to use this website with a high degree of privacy, and prevent cookies from remaining stored for long periods of time, we recommend you to use a web browser which provides a “private” browsing mode. You can get more information on this possibility by visiting the support page of the most common Internet browsers.

BROWSER NAME OF THE PRIVATE BROWSING FEATURE GET MORE INFORMATION
Internet Explorer 8 y superior
Microsoft Edge		 InPrivate https://support.microsoft.com/es-es/products/internet-explorer (Explorer)
https://support.microsoft.com/es-es/instantanswers/34b9a3a6-68bc-510b-2a9e-833107495ee5/browse-inprivate-in-microsoft-edge (Microsoft Edge)
Safari 2 and over Private browsing https://support.apple.com/es-es/HT203036
Opera 10.5 and over Private browsing http://help.opera.com/Windows/12.00/es-ES/private.html
FireFox 3.5 and over Private browsing https://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/navegacion-privada-Firefox-no-guardar-historial-navegacion
Google Chrome 10 and over Incognito https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/7005900?rd=1

 

How to prevent the use of cookies, and how to erase them.

Most Internet browsers allow users to disable cookies on a global level. Many browsers also allow the removal of cookies associated with specific websites/domains. To do this, the user will need to go to the browsers “Help” section. Below, we are going include links to help you find cookie settings on each of them:

To erase data saved in the browser’s local storage the user can clear their browsing history.
For other browsers, as well as for any further questions or clarification regarding cookies used by this website, you can contact us using the contact data provided for this website.
Important warning: if you block our cookies, it’s likely certain services or features of the website won’t work correctly.