1. What are cookies and why do we use them on this website.
A cookie is a file that is downloaded to the user’s device when accessing certain web pages to store and retrieve information about the navigation performed from that device.
Cookies allow the website, among other things, to store and retrieve information about the user’s decisions and habits. On this website, we use them to enhance the experience within our web, identify and remember the registered user, and facilitate navigation.
It is important to note that the use of cookies does not provide personal data of the user.
The user can configure their browser not to accept the use of cookies, in which case the customization of the experience will not be applied, although they will still be able to access the contents of our websites normally.
On the Wikipedia page, you can find more information about what cookies are and how they work. Access Wikipedia here.
2. What types of cookies does our website use?
Cookies can be classified based on their permanence into session cookies or permanent cookies. The former expire when the user closes the browser. The latter expire depending on when the purpose for which they serve is fulfilled (for example, to keep the user identified on the website) or when they are manually deleted.
Additionally, based on their purpose, cookies can be classified as follows:
· Performance Cookies: This type of cookie remembers your preferences for the tools available in the services, so you don’t have to reconfigure the service each time you visit. For example, this type includes:
Volume settings for video or sound players.
Video transmission speeds compatible with your browser.
· Geolocation Cookies: These cookies are used to find out which country you are in when requesting a web or service. This cookie is completely anonymous and is only used to help tailor content to your location.
· Registration Cookies: Registration cookies are generated once the user has registered or subsequently logged in, and are used to identify them on the websites and services with the following purposes:
To keep the user identified so that if they close a service or website, the browser or computer, and later return to that service or website, they will remain identified, thus facilitating their navigation without having to log in again. This functionality can be removed if the user clicks the “Log out” feature, in which case this cookie is deleted, and the next time the user enters the website, they will need to log in to be identified.
To check if the user is authorized to access certain services or functions of the website.
Additionally, some services may use third-party connectors such as Facebook, Twitter, or Google. When the user registers for a service with credentials from a social network or third-party identification system, they authorize it to store a persistent cookie that remembers their identity and guarantees access to the website until it expires. The user can delete this cookie and revoke access to the website through social networks or third-party identification systems by updating their preferences in the specific social network.
· Analytics Cookies: Each time a user visits a website or service, a tool from an external provider (Google Analytics, comScore, and similar) generates an analytics cookie on the user’s device. This cookie, generated only during the visit, will serve to anonymously identify the visitor. The main objectives pursued are:
To allow the anonymous identification of browsing users through the “Cookie” (it identifies browsers and devices, not people) and therefore the approximate counting of the number of visitors and their trend over time.
To anonymously identify the most visited content and therefore the most appealing to users.
To know whether the user accessing the site is new or returning.
· Advertising Cookies: This type of cookie allows for expanded information on the ads shown to each anonymous user on the website. Among other things, it stores the duration or frequency of display of advertising positions, interaction with them, or the user’s browsing patterns and/or behaviors as they help shape an advertising interest profile. This way, they allow for the offering of ads aligned with the user’s interests.
3. How to disable cookies in the browser
Most browsers currently allow the user to configure whether they wish to accept cookies and which ones. These settings are usually found in the ‘options’ or ‘Preferences’ menu of your browser.
Here are instructions for configuring cookies in major browsers:
Chrome: Settings -> Show advanced options -> Privacy -> Content settings. For more information, you can consult Google support or the browser Help.
Firefox: Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> History -> Custom Settings. For more information, you can consult Mozilla support or the browser Help.
Internet Explorer: Tools -> Internet Options -> Privacy -> Settings. For more information, you can consult Microsoft support or the browser Help.
Safari: Preferences -> Security. For more information, you can consult Apple support or the browser Help.
If you want detailed information on the New Spanish Cookie Law, click here. (PDF document)