COOKIE POLICY
1. INFORMATION ON COOKIES
Due to the entry into force of the relevant amendment of the «Law on Information Society Services» (LSSICE) established by Royal Decree 13/2012, it is mandatory to obtain the user’s express consent for all websites that use expendable cookies, before he sails through them.
2. WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies and other similar technologies such as local shared objects, flash cookies or pixels are tools used by Web servers to store and retrieve information about their visitors, as well as to provide a correct functioning of the site.
Using these devices allows the Web server to remember some data concerning the user, such as their preferences for viewing the pages of that server, name and password, products that most interest them, etc.
3. COOKIES AFFECTED BY THE REGULATIONS AND EXCEPTED COOKIES
According to the EU directive, cookies that require informed consent by the user are analytics cookies and advertising and affiliation cookies, except those of a technical nature and those necessary for the operation of the website or the provision of services expressly requested by the user.
4. WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES EXIST?
There are five main groups of cookies:
- Analytical cookies: collect information about the use of the website.
- Social cookies: these are necessary for external social networks.
- Affiliate cookies: allow you to track visits from other websites, with which the website establishes an affiliation agreement (affiliate companies).
- Advertising and behavioural cookies: collect information on the preferences and personal choices of the user (retargeting).
- Technical and functional cookies: these are strictly necessary for the use of the website and for the provision of the contracted service.
5. COOKIES USED ON THIS WEBSITE
- PHPSESSID: technical and strictly necessary cookie that contains the session ID. It is deleted when closing the browser.
- _lang: technical and strictly necessary cookie containing the language of the session. It is deleted when the browser is closed.
- ac_cookies: technical and strictly necessary cookie containing the value of whether the installation of cookies has been accepted. It expires in 1 year since the last update.
- _utma: Google Analytics cookie that records the date of the first and last time the user visited the website. It expires at 2 years since the last update.
- _utmb: Google Analytics cookie that records the arrival time to the website. Expires 30 minutes after the last update.
- _utmc: Google Analytics cookie used for interoperability with urchin.js. tracking code.
- _utmt: Google Analytics cookie. This cookie is used to process the type of request requested by the user. It expires at the end of the session.
- _utmv: Google Analytics cookie. This cookie is used to segment demographic data. It expires at the end of the session.
- _utmz: Google Analytics cookie that stores the traffic source or a campaign to explain how the user arrived at the website. Expires 6 months after the last update.
6. HOW TO DELETE BROWSER COOKIES
The way to disable cookies is different for each browser. Usually, it can be done from the Tools/Options/Settings menu. We recommend that you consult the Help menu of your browser, where you will find the necessary steps to do so.
