WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are small information files that are placed on your electronic equipment and which can perform various functions, such as storing user preferences for certain types of information or storing information relating to your visit to each site, with the main objective of detecting the user during their visits to the site and the respective configuration parameters.
The use of cookies on the Internet is commonplace and does not harm users’ computers and other electronic web access equipment in any way.
WHAT ARE THE FUNCTIONS OF COOKIES?
Cookies perform a number of functions, including helping the website content management and updating department to gain a deeper understanding of how the website is used, facilitating browsing, storing your preferences and generally improving your user experience, as well as ensuring that the websites present relevant content to each user. They are therefore instruments for the continuous improvement of the user experience.
WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES DO WE USE?
There are different types of cookies with different forms of action and purposes in your internet browsing. Here are the existing categories we use:
– Strictly necessary cookies: these are essential cookies because they guarantee navigation on the website and the use of its functionalities, including recording whether or not the user has authorized the use of cookies by the website. These cookies cannot be rejected when using a website.
Retention period for data collected in this context: one year after collection.
– Functional cookies: these are cookies that allow websites to remember information about the choices made by the user, such as username, language, the region from which the user accesses the website, and to personalize the user’s browsing experience. These cookies expire at the end of the user’s session (for example, when the user closes the browser window) or may remain for a longer period of time in order to memorize the user’s preferences and choices on the site.
Retention period for data collected in this context: one year after collection.
– Advertising cookies: these are cookies that collect information about the user’s habits when using a browser, recording the use of websites. They are used to support more targeted marketing and communication actions, making it possible to distinguish and identify individual user preferences or store a code that makes it possible to translate a set of user habits or preferences.
The advertising cookies we may use belong to Facebook and Google.
Retention period for data collected in this context: eighteen months after collection.
– Analytical cookies: these cookies are used to analyze how users use the site and to monitor its performance, for example, which pages have the highest volume of visits or whether any error messages are returned to the user. This allows us to provide a high quality experience by personalizing the offer and quickly identifying and correcting any problems that arise. These cookies are used for the purposes of continuous improvement and statistical analysis.
For this purpose, we use the Google Analytics analysis tool, Facebook and its cookies.
Retention period for data collected in this context: two years after collection.
HOW CAN YOU MANAGE YOUR COOKIES?
Different browsers offer different ways of managing the cookies implemented by the websites you browse. There is no standard way of removing cookies, and depending on the browser you use, there are several advanced ways of managing them. However, all browsers allow a general removal of cookies from your computer.
We remind you that disabling cookies means that all or some of the available functionalities may be inhibited, penalizing your browsing experience.
To manage the use of cookies in your browser, follow these steps:
Google Chrome
– Select the “Settings” menu;
– Select the “Show advanced settings” option;
– Under “Privacy”, select “Content Settings”.
Mozilla Firefox
– Select the “Tools” menu;
– Select the “Preferences” option;
– At the top, select the “Privacy” icon.
Internet Explorer
– Select the “Tools” menu;
– Select the “Internet Options” option;
– Select the “Privacy” tab.
Safari
– Select the “Edit” menu;
– Select the “Preferences” option;
– At the top, select the “Privacy” icon.
If you use more than one browser, you will have to manage cookies independently for each one.
More information about Cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org
UPDATES TO THE COOKIES POLICY
We reserve the right to make changes to this Cookies Policy at any time, which will be duly publicized.