Cookie Law

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that is stored in your browser when you visit almost any web page. Its usefulness is that the web is able to remember your visit when you return to browse that page. Cookies usually store information of a technical nature, personal preferences, personalization of content, 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.

Cookies used on this website

Following the guidelines of the Spanish Agency for Data Protection we proceed to detail the use of cookies made by this website in order to inform you as accurately as possible.

This website uses the following own cookies:

Session cookies, to ensure that users who write comments on the blog are human and not automated applications. In this way, spam is fought.

This website uses the following third-party cookies:

Google Analytics: Stores cookies to be able to compile statistics on traffic and volume of visits to this website. By using this website you are consenting to the processing of information about you by Google. Therefore, the exercise of any right in this sense must do so by communicating directly with Google.

Deactivation or elimination of cookies

All browsers allow to change the Cookies configuration. These settings are usually found in the 'options' or 'Preferences' menu of your browser.

You can configure Cookies in your browser by clicking on the following links:

Chrome

Chrome for Android

Firefox

Explorer

Safari

Safari for iOS

What happens if Cookies are disabled:

Some functionalities of the services will be disabled, for example, to remain identified or keep purchases in the shopping cart.

1. APPLICABLE REGULATIONS

The second section of article 22 of Law 34/2002, of July 11, on Services of the Information Society and Electronic Commerce (hereinafter, LSSI-CE), establishes the following:

2. Service providers may use data storage and retrieval devices in terminal equipment of recipients, provided that they have given their consent after they have been provided with clear and complete information about their use, in particular, on the purposes of data processing, in accordance with the provisions of Organic Law 15/1999, of December 13, on the Protection of Personal Data.

When technically possible and effective, the consent of the recipient to accept the processing of the data may be facilitated by using the appropriate parameters of the browser or other applications, provided that it must proceed to its configuration during installation or update through an action Express for that purpose.

The foregoing shall not prevent the possible storage or access of a technical nature for the sole purpose of transmitting a communication through an electronic communications network or, to the extent that is strictly necessary, for the provision of a service of the information society. expressly requested by the recipient.

According to the "Guide on the use of cookies", published by the Spanish Agency for Data Protection (hereinafter, AEPD) in 2013, the LSSI-CE is applicable to any type of file or device that is downloaded in the terminal equipment of a user with the purpose of storing data that can be updated and recovered by the entity responsible for its installation. The cookie is one of those devices widely used so, from now on, we will generically call these devices as cookies.

Cookies used for any of the following purposes are exempted from compliance with the obligations established in article 22.2 of the LSSI-CE:

- Allow only communication between the user's equipment and the network.

- Strictly provide a service expressly requested by the user.

2. TYPES OF COOKIES ACCORDING TO THEIR PURPOSE

A cookie is a file that is downloaded to your computer when you access certain web pages. Cookies allow a web page, among other things, to store and retrieve information about the browsing habits of a user or their equipment and, depending on the information they contain and the way they use their equipment, they can be used to recognize to user.

As stated in the "Guide on the use of cookies" of the AEPD, according to the purpose for which the data obtained through cookies are processed, we can distinguish between:

- Technical cookies: Are those that allow the user to navigate through a web page, platform or application and the use of different options or services that exist in it, for example, control traffic and data communication, identify the session, access restricted access parts, remember the elements that make up an order, perform the purchase process of an order, make the request for registration or participation in an event, use security elements during navigation, store content for the broadcast videos or sound or share content through social networks.

- Personalization cookies: These are the ones that allow the user to access the service with some predefined general characteristics based on 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 you access the service, etc.

- Analysis Cookies: These are those that allow the person responsible for them to monitor and analyze the behavior of the users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected through this type of cookies is used in the measurement of the activity of the websites, application or platform and for the elaboration of navigation profiles of the users of said sites, applications and platforms, in order to introduce improvements in function of the analysis of the usage data made by the users of the service.

- Advertising cookies: Are those that allow the management, in the most efficient way possible, of the advertising spaces that, if applicable, the editor has included in a web page, application or platform from which the requested service is provided based on criteria such as the content edited or the frequency in which the ads are displayed.

- Behavioral advertising cookies: These are those that allow the management, in the most efficient way possible, of the advertising spaces that, if applicable, the editor has included in a web page, application or platform from which the requested service is provided. These cookies store information on the behavior of users obtained through the continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows the development of a specific profile to display advertising based on it.

Own cookies:

Third party cookies: