Regulations on the use of cookies

What is a Cookie?

Types of Cookies

• Session Cookies: are those designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a web page. They are usually used to store information that is only interesting to keep for the provision of the service requested by the user on a single occasion (for example, a list of products purchased) and disappear when the session ends. Session cookies last only for the duration of your visit and are deleted when you close your browser. Its main purpose is to identify the type of device, support website security or its basic functionality. They do not contain personal information that allows us to identify a person.
• Persistent or Permanent Cookies: are those in which the data is still stored in the terminal and can be accessed and processed during a period defined by the person responsible for the cookie, which can range from a few minutes to several years. They are stored on the device's hard drive and our website reads them each time you visit the website again; It has a specific expiration or expiration date, after which the cookie stops working. They allow us to identify your actions and preferences; analyze visits and help us understand how users reach our page and improve our services.
• Technical Cookies, strictly necessary: (excepted from compliance with the obligations established in article 22.2 of the LSSI when they allow the service requested by the user to be provided). They are those that allow the user to navigate through a web page, platform or application and the use of the different options or services that exist in it, including those that the editor uses to allow the management and operation of the web page and enable its functions and services, such as, for example, controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, accessing restricted access parts, remembering the elements that make up an order, carrying out the purchase process for an order, managing payment , control fraud related to the security of the service, make the request for registration or participation in an event, count visits for the purposes of billing licenses for the software with which the service works (website, platform or application), use elements security while browsing, store content for the broadcast of videos or sound, enable dynamic content (for example, animation of loadinga text or image) or share content through social networks.
• Preference or customization cookies: are those that allow the user to remember information so that the user accesses the service with certain characteristics that can differentiate their experience from that of other users, such as, for example, the language, the number of results to display when the user performs a search, the appearance or content of the service depending on the type of browser through which the user accesses the service or the region from which the service is accessed, etc.
• Geo-location cookies: they are used to find out in which country or region the user is when accessing a service on the website in order to offer content or services appropriate to their location.
• Analysis or measurement cookies: are those that allow the person responsible for them to monitor and analyze the behavior of the users of the websites to which they are linked, including the quantification of the impacts of the advertisements. The information collected through this type of cookie is used to measure the activity of the websites, application or platform, in order to introduce improvements based on the analysis of the use data made by users of the service.
• Behavioral advertising cookies: are those that store information on the behavior of users obtained through the continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows the development of a specific profile to show advertising based on it.
• Anonymous: they only collect information about the advertising spaces shown on the website, independently of the user who accesses the website, that is, without expressly identifying them.
• Personalized: they collect personal information from the website user by a third party, for the personalization of said advertising spaces.
• Functionality Cookies: allow you to remember decisions made by the user, such as their login or identifier. The information these cookies collect is anonymized (that is, it does not contain your name, address, or other data).
• Own Cookies: they are those that are sent to the user's terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by the publisher itself and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
• Third Party Cookies: third-party cookies are cookies installed by a website other than the one you are visiting; for example, those used by social networks (such as Facebook) or by external content plugins (such as Google Maps). In addition, some advertising companies use these types of files to keep track of your visits on each site where they advertise.