COOKIES POLICY

INFORMATION ABOUT COOKIES

Owing to the entry into force of the aforementioned modification to the “Information Society Services Law” (LSSICE) established by Royal Decree 13/2012, it is compulsory for the explicit consent of any user using websites that employ non-essential cookies to be obtained before he/she begins browsing.

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 recover information about website visitors, and also to ensure correct functioning of the website. The use of these devices allows the Web server to remember some user data, such as his/her preferences for viewing the pages on that server, name and password, products of most interest to him/her, etc.

COOKIES AFFECTED BY THE LEGISLATION AND COOKIES EXCEPTED

According to the EU Directive, the cookies that require the user’s informed consent are analytics cookies and cookies used for advertising and membership; excluded from this category are those of a technical nature and those necessary for the website to function correctly and the services explicitly requested by the user to be provided.

WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES EXIST?

There are five major groups of cookies:

• Analytics cookies: they collect information on the use made of the website.
• Social cookies: these are necessary for external social networks.
• Affiliate cookies: these allow tracking of visits from other websites, with which the website has signed an affiliate agreement (affiliated companies).
• Advertising and behavioral cookies: these collect information on the user’s personal preferences and choices (retargeting).
• Technical and functional cookies: these are the cookies strictly necessary for the use of the website and the provision of the contracted service.

COOKIES USED ON THIS WEBSITE

List of the name of the cookies, type, owner, function and expiry, for example:

• PHPSESSID: a strictly necessary technical cookie that contains the session identifier. It is erased when the browser is closed.
• _lang: a strictly necessary technical cookie that contains the session language. It is erased when the browser is closed.
• ac_cookies: technical and strictly necessary cookie that contains the value of whether the installation of cookies has been accepted. It expires 1 year after the last use.
• _ga: Google Analytics cookie that enables the monitoring function for single visits. The first time a user enters the website via a browser, this cookie will be installed. When this user re-enters the website with the same browser, the cookie will consider that it is the same user. Only if the user changes browser will he/she be considered a different user. It expires 2 year after the last use.
• _gat: this cookie is associated with Google Analytics Universal. It is used to limit the request speed – a limitation on the collection of data on websites with high traffic. It expires after 10 minutes.
• _utma: Google Analytics cookie that records the date of first and last time the user visited the site. It expires 2 year after the last use.
• _utmb: Google Analytics cookie that records the time of arrival at the website. It expires 30 year after the last use.
• _utmc: Google Analytics cookie used for interoperability with the tracking code urchin.js. It is erased when the browser is closed.
• _utmt: Google Analytics cookie. This cookie is used to process the type of request made by the user. It expires when the session ends.
• _utmv: Google Analytics cookie. This cookie is used to segment demographic data. It expires when the session ends.
• _utmz: Google Analytics cookie that stores the traffic source or a campaign to explain how the user reached the website It expires 6 months after the last use.