What are cookies?

Cookies are small files with information that are stored in your web browser when accessing and using certain web pages. These files allow web pages to retrieve information about your browsing habits and preferences or about the device from which you connect.

Although they are essential for providing a good service, depending on the type of information they contain, they can be dangerous to your privacy. For this reason, Spanish legislation has established that in order to install certain types of cookies in users’ browsers, it is necessary to inform them in advance and obtain their consent. Through this Cookie Policy, we want to clearly and sufficiently inform you about the types of cookies we use on this website.

What types of cookies do we use?

On this website, we use cookies to facilitate your navigation and provide you with a better browsing experience. The cookies we use can be divided into the following categories:

According to where they are sent from:

First-party cookies: These are cookies that are sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a device or domain managed by us and from which the requested service is provided. Third-party cookies: These are cookies sent to your browser from a device or domain that is not managed by us, but by another collaborating entity. According to the length of time they remain active:

Session cookies: Designed to collect and store data while the user accesses our website. They are usually used to store information that is only of interest to keep for the provision of the service requested by the user on one occasion. Persistent cookies: The data remains stored on the terminal and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the cookie controller, which can range from a few minutes to several years. According to their purpose:

Technical cookies: These are essential for the functioning of the website. They allow the user to navigate and use different options or services, such as controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, accessing restricted access parts, using security elements during navigation, or sharing content through social networks. Analytical cookies: They aim to analyze the behavior and use that the user makes of the website. They allow quantifying the number of users who visit the website and identify which layers of the website are most visited and, therefore, more popular. Personalization cookies: They allow the user to access the service with some predefined general characteristics on the user’s terminal, such as language, the type of browser through which they access the service, the regional configuration from which they access the service, etc. Cookies used by external content plugins: These are necessary for the provision of some type of service and are stored by third parties. Within this category of cookies are, for example, multimedia player cookies, which are used to store technical data for the purpose of playing video or audio content, such as image quality, loading parameters, etc. The website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., (“Google”), a Delaware company whose main office is at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States. Google Analytics uses cookies to help the website analyze how users use it. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be directly transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of tracking your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity, and providing other services related to website activity and internet usage.

If you want more information about the use of Google Analytics analytical cookies used on the website, please see the following link:

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage?hl=en.

How can you control cookies?

It is important for you to know that at any time you can withdraw your consent to the Cookie Policy by deleting the cookies stored in your web browser through its settings and configurations.

If you wish, you can easily change your browser preferences to control which cookies access your computer and which ones you prefer to limit. This option is usually found in the “options” or “preferences” menu in browsers. If you use any of the following, you only need to select the link and follow the instructions provided on the linked page:

Cookie preferences in Internet Explorer Microsoft Edge preferences Cookie preferences in Chrome Cookie preferences in Firefox Cookie preferences in Safari However, if you change your preferences and limit cookie access to your device, some website functionalities may stop working, and this may hinder your browsing experience.

Changes to the Cookie Policy

We provide you with this Cookie Policy so that you can consult it, archive it, or print it whenever you deem it appropriate. It is possible that it may undergo modifications due to changes on the website or in the cookies used, legislative or jurisprudential developments, or the establishment of new criteria by the Spanish Data Protection Agency or the corresponding Control Authority (www.aepd.es). Therefore, we reserve the right to modify this Cookie Policy at any time.