Cookies Policy

General Information

With entry into force of the amended version of the Spanish Information Society Services Act (Ley de Servicios de la Sociedad de la Información), via Spanish Royal Decree 13/2012 (Real Decreto 13/2012), it has become mandatory to obtain express consent from the users of all websites that use non-essential cookies, before they are able to navigate there.

What are cookies?

Cookies and other similar technologies such as local shared objects, flash cookies, and tracking pixels, are tools used by a website’s servers to store and recover information about the website’s visitors, and to ensure proper functioning of the website.

Using these devices allows the website’s server to remember certain types of information about each user, such as their preferences for viewing the various web pages, usernames and passwords, products of interest, etc.

Cookies affected and not affected by the legislation

According to the applicable European Union Directive, analytical cookies, advertising cookies, and affiliate cookies require each user’s informed consent, while that consent is not required for technical cookies, cookies essential for functioning of the website, or cookies used to provide services expressly requested by the user.

What types of cookies exist?

Classified by their owner

First-party cookies: these are cookies sent to a user’s equipment from the equipment or domain that is managed by the website’s publisher and used to provide the service selected by the user.

Third-party cookies: these are cookies sent to the user’s equipment from equipment or a domain not managed by the website’s publisher, but instead by another entity that processes the data obtained via the cookies.

Classified by duration

Session cookies: these are cookies designed to collect and store data only while a user is visiting a website.

Persistent cookies: these are cookies that will remain stored on the user’s equipment, so they can be accessed and processed for a period of time defined by the party that installs those cookies, which can range from just a few minutes to several years.

Classified by function

Essential cookies: these cookies are essential to allow proper functioning of a website. They are not designed to collect data about a website’s users, but instead, information such as the language preferences, whether the website’s cookies policy has been accepted, etc.

Analytical cookies: cookies of this type are used by a website as first-party cookies, or by third parties as third-party cookies. They allow a website to quantify its number of users, as a way of performing measurement and statistical analysis regarding how those users are making use of the services offered. This is done by analysing the users’ navigation at the website, for the purpose of improving the products or services being offered.

Advertising or marketing cookies: these cookies are used to optimise management of any advertising spaces that a website’s publisher has incorporated into a website, app, or online platform used to provide requested services. They can be used to determine which advertising content will be displayed, and how frequently.

Behavioural advertising or personalised marketing cookies: these cookies are also used to optimise management of the advertising spaces a website’s publisher has incorporated into a website, app, or online platform used to provide requested services. In this case, however, they store information about each users’ behaviour, by observation their browsing habits as they make use of the website. This allows the website to develop a profile for each user, which will help determine the specific advertising elements displayed to them. It is also possible that when a user visits a website or opens an email where an advertisement or promotion appears for a specific product or service, a cookie will be saved on their web browser. This will allow advertising related to a search they performed to be displayed later, for example. The website is therefore able to monitor its advertising, in terms of the number of views, where the various contents are being displayed, what time of day they are appearing, etc.

To find further information about the types of tracking and data analysis cookies used by Google, click here.

How to delete cookies from a web browser.