A cookie is a small text file that is stored in your browser when you visit almost any web page. Its utility is that the web can remember your visit when you return to browse that page. Cookies usually store technical information, personal preferences, content customization, usage statistics, links to social networks, access to user accounts, etc. The purpose of the cookie is to adapt the content of the web to your profile and needs; without cookies, the services offered by any page would be significantly reduced.
What information does a cookie store?
Cookies do not usually store sensitive information about you, such as credit card or bank data, photographs, your ID, or personal information, etc. The data they keep is of a technical nature, personal preferences, content customization, etc.
The web server does not associate you as a person but rather your web browser. In fact, if you usually browse with Internet Explorer and try to browse the same web with Firefox or Chrome, you will see that the web does not realize that you are the same person because it is actually associating the browser, not the person.
Consent
By registering and accepting the conditions, the user consents to the use of the selected cookies. This website uses those strictly necessary for its proper functioning and to perform web usage statistics, which in no case make the user identifiable. By using the website, you are authorizing us to store the trace left by your IP address for the purpose of managing systems, improving the effectiveness of the page, and conducting global statistical studies, as well as a security measure and to respond to legal requirements if necessary. You have the possibility to accept or reject cookies by configuring your browser, and you can be notified on the screen of the receipt of cookies to prevent their installation on your hard drive, as well as delete cookies that have already been installed. The management of cookies varies depending on the browser, so we recommend that you go to the "options" or "tools" menu of your web browser to configure the security level and authorization of cookies. In that case, it is possible that, for technical reasons, some of the web functionalities may not respond adequately.
What types of cookies exist?
According to ownership:
First-party cookies: sent to the user's device from the domain from which the requested service is provided.
Third-party cookies: sent to the user's device from a domain of another entity that processes the data obtained through the cookies.
According to their permanence:
Session cookies: designed to collect data while the user accesses the web page. They expire when the user closes the browser.
Persistent cookies: designed to remain on the device, allowing the cookie owner to treat it during the retention period. They expire when the purpose for which they serve is fulfilled or when they are manually deleted.
According to their functionality:
Functional or technical cookies: The most basic and allow, among other things, knowing when a human or an automated application is browsing, when an anonymous user and a registered one are browsing, basic tasks for the functioning of any dynamic web. They allow the user to navigate through a web page, platform, or application and use the different options or services that exist, such as controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, accessing restricted access areas, remembering the elements that make up an order, carrying out the purchase process of an order, making the request for registration or participation in an event, using security elements during navigation, storing content for the dissemination of videos or sound, or sharing content through social networks, the items saved in the "shopping cart" in e-commerce services such as stores, video transmission speeds compatible with your browser.
Analytics cookies: allow the responsible party to monitor and analyze the behavior of users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected through this type of cookie is used to measure the activity of websites, applications, or platforms and for the development of browsing profiles of the users of these sites, applications, and platforms, with the aim of making improvements based on the analysis of the usage data made by the users of the service. You can see more information about Google's privacy conditions at the following link https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
Registration cookies: Generated once the user has registered or subsequently opened their session, and used to identify them in the services with the following objectives: Keeping the user identified so that, if they close a service, the browser, or the computer and at another time or another day re-enter that service, they will remain identified, facilitating their navigation without having to identify themselves again. This functionality can be suppressed if the user presses the "logout" functionality so that this cookie is deleted and the next time they enter the service, the user will have to log in to be identified. Check if the user is authorized to access certain services, for example, to participate in a contest.
Personalization cookies: Allow the user to access the service with some general predefined features based on a series of criteria in the user's terminal such as the language, the type of browser through which the service is accessed, the regional configuration from where the service is accessed, etc.
Geolocation cookies: Used to determine which country you are in when a service is requested. This cookie is completely anonymous and is only used to help guide the content to your location.
Advertising cookies: Allow the information of the advertisements shown to each anonymous user in the web services to be expanded. Among other things, they store the duration or frequency of viewing advertising positions, interaction with them, or user navigation patterns and/or behaviors as they help create a profile of advertising interest. In this way, they allow offering advertising related to the user's interests.
Third-party advertising cookies: Allow the most efficient management of the advertising spaces that, if applicable, the publisher has included on a web page, application, or platform from which the requested service is provided based on criteria such as the edited content or the frequency at which the ads are shown. Thus, these third parties can store cookies sent from this web from the users' browsers, as well as access the data stored in them.
Social cookies: Set by social networks in their services to share content with third parties. When using social networks like Instagram or Facebook and accepting their legal texts, you may receive our advertising.
Cookies used on this website
Following the guidelines of the Spanish Data Protection Agency, we proceed to detail the use of cookies made by this website to inform you as accurately as possible.
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COOKIE
TYPE
DURATION
FUNCTIONALITY
MANAGEMENT
_ga
Analytics
2 years
An anonymous identifier to distinguish anonymous users and perform analysis on user interactions in the application in order to optimize the services offered. It has a duration of two years.
Google
_gid
Analytics
1 day
Used to identify the same user during a single day.
