In compliance with Article 22.2 of Law 34/2002 of 11 July on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce (LSSI), supplemented by the EU General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, “GDPR”) and Spanish Organic Law 3/2018 on Personal Data Protection and Digital Rights (LOPDGDD), we inform you about what cookies are, which ones we use on our website, how to accept, delete or configure them on your device, and we will request your consent for their use.

What Are Cookies?

A cookie is a small file placed on your computer, mobile phone or tablet through your browser. It contains numbers and letters identifying your browsing session and sends information back and forth between the browser and visited websites. Cookies can only be read and understood by the website that created them; they cannot contain viruses or be executed, as they are not active files.

Cookies serve various purposes, such as recognising you as a user, obtaining information about your browsing habits or customising how content is displayed.

General Types of Cookies

According to the party that manages them:

• First-party cookies: Managed by us.
• Third-party cookies: Managed by others and provide us with aggregated statistical information about user browsing.

According to their purpose:

• Technical cookies: Enable browsing on our website based on the platform or application we use. They provide functionalities (sharing, purchasing, security, etc.) that would otherwise not be possible.
• Preference / personalisation cookies: Allow you to choose preferred language, number of search results, look and feel depending on your browser, mobile or tablet, create a user profile and remember settings on subsequent visits (only if you choose those features).
• Analytics / measurement cookies: Create user profiles based on preferences or browsing habits, letting us know which parts of the website interest users most, geographical areas, age ranges, gender, browser used, visit duration, etc. The aggregated statistical information helps us improve content and services.
• Marketing cookies: Use aggregated information about user profiles and browsing habits to display personalised advertising that matches your preferences when you visit our website. They also help us manage online advertising campaigns.
• Social cookies: Set by social-media platforms to allow you to share content. Such platforms can track your activity outside the Services, which may affect the content and messages you see on other sites.
• Affiliate cookies: Track visits from other websites with which our site has an affiliation agreement..
• Security cookies: Store encrypted information to prevent data stored in cookies from being vulnerable to malicious attacks.

According to the length of time they remain actives:

• Session cookies: Active only while you browse during a session; they disappear afterwards.
  
• Persistent cookies: Remain on your computer for a longer period to allow continuous tracking when you return to our website.

Cookies Exempt from the Consent Requirement (optional)

Aquellas que únicamente permiten la comunicación entre el equipo del usuario y la red o que se utilizan estrictamente prestar un servicio expresamente solicitado por el usuario (como las que incorpora una tienda virtual, un reproductor multimedia o una red social si tiene abierta la sesión)

“User-input” cookies Session and user-input cookies are typically used to track a user’s actions while filling out online forms across multiple pages, or to function as a shopping cart that keeps track of items the user has selected after clicking a button.

Authentication (or user-identification) cookies (session-only cookies).

User-security cookies,For example, cookies used to detect repeated, failed login attempts to a website.

Multimedia-player session cookies.

Load-balancing session cookies.

User-interface customization cookies

Certain plug-in cookies for sharing social-media content
(The exemption applies only to users who have chosen to stay logged in.)

What types of cookies do we use on our website?

COOKIES USED ON THIS WEBSITE

COOKIES CONTROLLED BY THE PUBLISHER

Technical & functional

Analytics

Advertising

THIRD-PARTY COOKIES

Third-party services are outside the publisher’s control. Providers may change their terms, purpose and use of cookies at any time.c.

Third-party provider:

Additional Information on Accepting, Rejecting, Revoking Consent or Deleting Cookies

You can allow or block cookies, as well as delete your browsing data (including cookies), via the browser you use. Please refer to your browser’s options and instructions. If you accept third-party cookies, you must delete them from the browser options..

On desktop browsers

On mobile or tablet browsers

Private-browsing alternative:

• We do not carry out international data transfers. Third-party providers identified in this cookie policy may, however, transfer data to third countries—see their respective policies via the links provided above.

  We do not use any cookies or trackers that create legal-effect profiling of our users.

  Retention periods

  Each service sets its own cookie-retention period, reflected in the cookie tables.

  Exercising your rights

  You may exercise your rights before the data controller as described in the Privacy Policy. Consent may be withdrawn at any time by entering your browser settings, clearing browsing history and adjusting cookie-preferences in the privacy section, or via the consent manager.

  Additionally, you can easily manage cookies using browser extensions such as “Ghostery” or “Baycloud Bouncer,” which let you select which cookies to accept or block. Ad-blockers like “Adblock” can also be used.

  30 October 2020