What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file, which is stored on your computer, tablet, cell phone or ultimately on the device you use to browse the Internet. It can save information about how often you visit a websites, your browsing preferences, the information you are most interested in, usernames, product registration, etc. Depending on the information they contain and the way you use your computer, they can be used to recognize the user.

Types of cookies

Depending on their nature, cookies can be classified into:

• “Session Cookies” or “Permanent Cookies”: the first are deleted when you close your browser, while the latter remain on your computer.
• “Own Cookies” or “Third-party Cookies”: depending on whether they belong to the owner of the website itself, or to a third party.

According to their purpose they can be:

• “Technical Cookies”: These allow the user to navigate through a web page, platform or application and use the different options or services that exist therein, such as, for example, controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, accessing parts of restricted access, remembering the elements that make up an order, making the purchase process of an order, making the application for registration or participation in an event, using security elements during navigation, storing content for the dissemination of video or sound or sharing content through social networks.
• “Personalization cookies”: are those that allow the user to access the service with some general characteristics predefined according to a series of criteria in the user’s terminal, such as the language, the type of browser through which the user accesses the service, the regional configuration from where the user accesses the service, etc.
• “Analysis cookies”: are those that allow the person in charge of them, the monitoring and analysis of the behaviour of the users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected by means of this type of cookie is used to measure the activity of the websites, application or platform and for the elaboration of navigation profiles of the users of these sites, applications and platforms, in order to introduce improvements based on the analysis of data regarding the usage made by the users of the service.
• “Advertising Cookies”: are those that allow the management, in the most efficient way, of the advertising spaces that, in its case, the publisher has included in a web page, application or platform from which it provides the requested service based on criteria such as the edited content or the frequency in which the ads are shown.
• “Behavioural advertising cookies”: These are cookies that allow the management, in the most efficient way possible, of the advertising spaces that, if applicable, the publisher has included in a web page, application or platform from which it provides the requested service. These cookies store information on user behaviour obtained through continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows the development of a specific profile to display advertising based on it.

What cookies do we use and what is their purpose?

See Own Cookies

See Third Party Cookies

Google has developed a Google Analytics cookie disabling plug-in for the most common browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Opera, which makes it easy to exclude the installation of these cookies. You can obtain more information by visiting this external link:

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

How do I refuse cookies or revoke consent?

You can set your browser to accept or reject the installation of all, or any, cookies, or to request to be notified when a cookie is placed.

Each browser has specific configuration instructions. Below, we provide links to information regarding the most common browsers:

Google Chrome

Mozilla Firefox

Internet Explorer

Safari