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Cookie policy

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This website uses first-party and third-party cookies to give you a better browsing experience, allow you to share content on social media and enable us to obtain statistics about users.

You can prevent cookies from being downloaded by changing your browser settings, so that cookies are not stored on your device.

As the owner of this website, I inform you that we do not use any personal information obtained from cookies. We only compile general visit statistics that do not involve any personal information.

It is very important that you read this cookie policy and understand that, if you continue browsing, we will consider that you accept the use of cookies.

Under the terms of Article 22.2 of Law 34/2002 on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce, if you continue browsing, you will be giving your consent to the use of these mechanisms.

The entity responsible for collecting, processing and using your personal data, within the meaning of the Personal Data Protection Law, is this website.

Cookies are a set of data that a server places in a user's browser to collect standard Internet log information and information about visitors' behaviour on a website. In other words, they are small text files stored on the computer's hard drive that identify the user when they connect to the website again. Their purpose is to record the user's visit and save certain information. They are commonly and frequently used on the web because they allow websites to work more efficiently and provide greater personalisation and analysis of user behaviour.

The cookies used on our website are session cookies and third-party cookies. They allow us to store and access information about language, the type of browser used and other general characteristics predefined by the user, and to monitor and analyse the user's activity in order to introduce improvements and provide our services more efficiently and in a more personalised way.

Depending on how long they remain in place, cookies can be divided into session cookies and persistent cookies: those that expire when the user closes the browser, and those that expire when the purpose for which they are used has been fulfilled (for example, keeping the user identified in the website's services) or when they are deleted manually.

Cookies listed in this policy
Name Type Expiry Purpose Classification
__utma Third-party (Google Analytics) 2 years Used to distinguish users and sessions. Not exempt
__utmb Third-party (Google Analytics) 30 minutes Used to determine new sessions or visits. Not exempt
__utmc Third-party (Google Analytics) At the end of the session Configured for use with Urchin. Not exempt
__utmz Third-party (Google Analytics) 6 months Stores the source or campaign that explains how the user reached the website. Not exempt

Cookies can also be classified according to their purpose as follows:

Performance cookies

This type of cookie remembers your preferences for the tools included in the services, so that you do not have to configure the service again every time you visit. Examples include volume settings for video or audio players; video transmission speeds compatible with your browser; and items saved in the shopping basket of e-commerce services such as online shops.

Geolocation cookies

These cookies are used to determine which country you are in when you request a service. This cookie is completely anonymous and is used only to help tailor the content to your location.

Registration cookies

Registration cookies are generated once a user has registered or subsequently signed in, and are used to identify the user in the services for the following purposes:

  • Keeping the user identified so that, if they close a service, the browser or the computer and return to that service at another time or on another day, they will remain identified. This makes browsing easier because they do not have to identify themselves again. This function can be removed if the user selects [sign out], which deletes the cookie. The next time they access the service, they will have to sign in to be identified.
  • Checking whether the user is authorised to access certain services, for example, to enter a competition.

In addition, some services may use connectors to social networks such as Facebook or Twitter. When a user registers for a service with social network credentials, they authorise the social network to save a persistent cookie that remembers their identity and grants them access to the services until it expires. The user can delete this cookie and revoke access to the services through social networks by updating their preferences in the relevant social network.

Analytics cookies

Each time a user visits a service, a tool provided by an external provider generates an analytics cookie on the user's computer. This cookie, which is generated only during the visit, will be used on subsequent visits to the website's services to identify the visitor anonymously. Its main purposes are:

  • Allowing browsing users to be identified anonymously through the cookie (it identifies browsers and devices, not people), and therefore providing an approximate count of visitors and their trend over time.
  • Anonymously identifying the most visited content and therefore the content most attractive to users.
  • Determining whether the user accessing the service is a new or returning visitor.

Important: unless the user decides to register for a service on the website, the cookie will never be associated with any personal data that could identify them. These cookies will be used only for statistical purposes that help improve the user experience on the site.

Advertising cookies

This type of cookie allows more information to be obtained about the advertisements shown to each anonymous user in the website's services. Among other information, the duration or frequency with which advertising placements are displayed, interaction with those placements, and the user's browsing patterns and/or behaviour are stored, as they help to create an advertising interest profile. This makes it possible to offer advertising related to the user's interests.

Third-party advertising cookies

The companies that generate these cookies have their own privacy policies.

Different browsers can be configured to notify the user when cookies are received and, if desired, prevent them from being installed on the computer. The user can also check which cookies are installed in their browser and when they expire, and can delete them.

For further information, consult your browser's instructions and manuals:

You can find more information about online behavioural advertising and online privacy at: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/es/

Google Analytics data protection: http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html

How Google Analytics uses cookies: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage?hl=es#analyticsjs

When significant changes are made to this Cookie Policy, users will be informed through the website or by email to registered users.