COOKIES POLICY
We use cookies to provide you with a better service and to give you a better browsing experience, as well as to be able to show you advertising based on your browsing habits. We are responsible for the installation of the cookies we use and for what we do with the data we obtain, whether they are our own or third party cookies.
In the following table you will find links to facilitate your access to the points of this policy that are of interest to you, however, we recommend that you read it in its entirety:
1. What are cookies and what other things are stored in the browser?
- Technical and preference cookies have more benefits than risks
- Statistical cookies do NOT pose an appreciable risk either
- First-party cookies do not usually pose an appreciable risk to you either.
3. Which technical cookies do we use and why?
4. Which preference cookies do we use and why?
5. Which statistical cookies do we use and why?
6. What marketing cookies do we use and why?
7. What other elements do you use in the browser and why?
8. How can I manage or disable cookies?
9. Modifications to this Cookie Policy
1. What are cookies and what other things are stored in the browser?
Cookies are small text files that are stored in your browser when you visit our website. These files contain information about your browsing and interaction with our website, in order to make your user experience more efficient and to be able to show you advertising based on your browsing habits. Some cookies are essential for the proper functioning of our website, as is the case of technical cookies or personalisation of the user interface, and others, such as analysis cookies or behavioural advertising (or marketing) cookies, require that we inform you and that you give us your consent before we can use them.
LocalStorage and SessionStorage are two data storage spaces located in the browser of your device and, like cookies, they can be our own (when they are created by our own website) or third party (when they are created by our service providers or partners). The difference between the two is that LocalStorage stores information indefinitely or until you decide to clear your browser data, whereas SessionStorage stores information for as long as the page where you are using our website remains open and, once closed, the information is deleted. The difference with cookies is that these two spaces allow more information to be stored than cookies without impacting the performance of our website.
You can get more information here.
Finally, we inform you that although the purpose of the third-party cookies that we use, for which we are responsible, is the one indicated in the tables in the following sections, these third parties may use the data collected by their cookies for other purposes for which they are solely responsible. In the case of third-party cookies, our responsibility for the purposes of the third party is limited to the downloading of the cookies to your device (which we do for the stated purpose). You can find out about the purposes of these third parties, and whether or not they make transfers to third countries in their respective policies (see the links on the table).
2. Are they perishable?
In general, the level of risk of cookies depends on the type of cookie and whether they are first-party or third-party cookies. Most cookies are not harmful. Specifically:
Technical and preference cookies have more benefits than risks
The Article 29 working group (former WG29 and current European Committee for Data Protection) in its Opinion 4/2012, ""on the exemption from the requirement of consent for cookies"”, considers that they do not pose a risk to you and exempts all cookies from the obligation to obtain consent prior to their use:
- necessary for communications to be transmitted through a network between the user and the servers that host the website, and to all those that
- are necessary to provide a specific functionality explicitly requested by the user.
This exemption from the obligation to base the lawfulness of its use on your consent, so as not to represent a risk for you, is also reflected in the guidelines on cookies published by most of the Data Protection Agencies of the EU countries (for example, in the case of Spain, it is included in section 4.1 of the guide on the use of cookies, dated July 2020).
The WG29 will define the goals that it explicitly considers to have more benefits than risks for you.
Purposes of cookies explicitly excluded from informed consent
With regard to their purpose, the WG29 explicitly excludes the following cookies from the obligation to obtain the visitor's informed consent:
- Cookies called "user input cookies", which are usually used to track user actions when filling out forms in an http session, or to remember the shopping cart that the user has selected in an e-commerce site),
- Session cookies that are used for user authentication or identification, which stores a kind of token (proof that the user is who they say they are and has already been authenticated) to prevent this user from having to give their username or password on each page they request and have restricted access control,
- User security cookies, introduced specifically to reinforce the security of the service explicitly requested by the user. For example, to detect incorrect and repeated attempts to connect to a website, or abuse,
- Multimedia player session cookies,
- Session cookies to balance the delivery of information systems,
- Cookies to personalise the user interface, such as, for example, to remember the user's preferred language, and
- Certain plug-in cookies for sharing social media content.
In general, in those cases in which a website offers its visitors a service, in order to use cookies exclusively for the purposes for which it is not necessary to obtain consent, listed below, whether they are own or third party cookies, it will not be necessary for the website manager, us, to inform the visitor of their use or to obtain their consent.
Statistical cookies do NOT pose an appreciable risk either
With regard to the processing of data collected through analytics cookies, the aforementioned opinion of the current European Data Protection Committee stated that, although they are not exempt from the duty to obtain consent for their use, it is unlikely that they represent a risk to the privacy of users as long as it is a question of own cookies, which process aggregated data for strictly personal purposes, it is unlikely that they represent a risk to the privacy of users, provided that they are proper cookies, that they process aggregated data for strictly statistical purposes, that information is provided on their use and that the possibility for users to express their refusal of their use is included.
First-party cookies do not usually pose an appreciable risk to you either.
Our own cookies are generated by our website, whereas third-party cookies are generated by services or providers independent of us, and it is these independent providers who define the purposes and means of the processing they carry out.
Our only responsibility with regard to third-party cookies is the necessary collaboration of our website in the placement of these cookies on your computer, which we are normally obliged to do as it is necessary in order to be able to use the services provided by these third parties (e.g. to check that you are not one of those robots that are so common on the Internet, and thus avoid the requests or comments that could be sent to us through the forms on our website harming the attention of the real ones).
3. Which technical cookies do we use and why?
Technical cookies are those that allow the user to navigate through a website, platform or application as well as the use of the different options or services that exist in it, including the management and operation of the website and the enabling of its functions and services (for example, identify your session, access parts of the website that have restricted access, remember the elements that make up your order, carry out the purchase process of your order, manage your payment, etc.). The website or app cannot function properly without these cookies so they are considered necessary.
4. Which preference cookies do we use and why?
Preference or personalisation cookies allow our website to remember information that changes the way our pages behave or the way they look in order to differentiate your experience from that of other users. For example, you can remember the language in which you want to view our website. If you voluntarily select these characteristics, for example, by marking the flag or letters that identify the language, it is considered a service expressly requested by you as long as the cookies are used exclusively for the purpose of personalisation, so in this case it would not be necessary to ask for your explicit authorisation.
5. Which statistical cookies do we use and why?
Statistical or analysis cookies are those that allow us to understand how visitors interact with the pages of our website and thus carry out statistical analysis of the services we provide. The information collected is used to measure the activity on our site in order to introduce improvements in the products and services we offer you.
We will only use analytics cookies if you authorise us to do so by pressing the corresponding button on the cookie banner or by using your settings menu.
6. Which marketing cookies do we use and why?
Marketing or behavioural advertising cookies stores information on user behaviour obtained through the continuous observation of your browsing habits, which allows us to develop a specific profile to display relevant and attractive ads for the individual user, and therefore more valuable to third party advertisers.
We will only use marketing cookies if you authorise us to do so by pressing the corresponding button on the cookie banner or by using the configuration menu.
7. What other elements do you use in the browser and why?
8. How can I manage or disable cookies?
You can administer, manage and deactivate the cookies used by our website at any time from your browser, for example, to withdraw your consent, following the instructions provided by the manufacturer of your browser:
- Instructions for Microsoft Edg
- Instructions for Google Chrome
- Instructions for Google Android
- Instructions for Internet Explorer 11
- Instructions for Mozilla Firefox
- Instructions for Opera
- Safari Instructions
If you deactivate the installation of cookies in your browser, you will be able to continue accessing our website with your browser, but your browsing may not be optimal and some of the services offered may not work correctly.
9. Changes to this Cookie Policy
We will update this Cookie Policy whenever necessary to reflect changes to our products and services.
If there are substantial changes to this policy we will notify you before they come into force by publishing a prominent notice in the cookies banner. In any case, we recommend that you periodically review this Cookie Policy to find out which cookies we use and how we use them.
Last update: 17 November 2022