We use cookies to provide you with a better service and provide you with a better browsing experience, as well as being able to show you advertising based on your browsing habits. We are responsible for the installation of the cookies we use and what we do with the data we obtain from them, whether they are our own or third-party cookies.
In the following table you will find links to facilitate access to the points of this policy that are of interest to you, however we recommend that you read it in its entirety.
Cookies are small text files that are stored in your browser when you visit our website. These files contain information about your navigation and interaction with our website, with the purpose of making your user experience more efficient and being able to show you advertising based on your browsing habits. Some cookies are essential for the proper functioning of our website, such as technical or user interface personalization cookies, and others, such as analysis cookies or behavioural advertising (or marketing) cookies, require that we inform you and that you give us your consent before we can use them.
LocalStorage and SessionStorage are two data storage spaces located in your device's browser and, like cookies, can be first-party (when created by our own website) or third-party (when created by our service providers or our partners). The difference between the two spaces is that LocalStorage stores information indefinitely or until you decide to clear the browser data, while SessionStorage stores information for as long as the tab where our website is being used remains open and, once closed, the information is deleted. The difference with cookies is that these two spaces allow storing more information than cookies without impacting the performance of our website.
In general, the level of risk of cookies depends on the type, and whether they are first-party or third-party cookies. Most cookies are not dangerous. Specifically:
The Article 29 Working Party (the old WP29 and the current European Committee for Data Protection) in its Directive 4/2012, "on the exemption from the requirement of consent for cookies", considers that they do not pose a risk for you, and are left exempt from the obligation to obtain prior consent to their use, all cookies that:
This exemption from the obligation to base the legality of its use on your consent, so as not to represent a risk for you, is also reflected in the guides to cookies published by most of the Data Protection Agencies of EU countries (for example, in the case of Spain, it is included in Section 4.1 of The Guide to the Use of Cookies, from July 2020).
WP29 even defined the purposes that it explicitly considers to have more benefits than risks for you.
Purposes of cookies explicitly excluded from informed consent
With regard to their purpose, WP29 explicitly excludes the following cookies from the obligation to obtain the informed consent of the visitor:
In general, in those cases in which a website offers its visitors a service, to use cookies exclusively for the purposes for which it is not necessary to obtain consent, listed above, whether they are first-party or third-party, it will not be necessary for the person responsible for the website, us, to inform the visitor of their use or to obtain their consent.
Regarding the treatment of data collected through analysis cookies, the aforementioned directive of the current European Data Protection Committee stated that, although they are not exempt from the duty to obtain consent for their use, it is unlikely to represent a risk to users' privacy as long as they are first-party cookies, that treat aggregated data for a strictly statistical purpose, that provide information on their uses and include the possibility for users to express their negativity about their use.
First-party cookies are generated by our website, while third-party cookies are generated by services or providers independent of us, and it is these independent providers who define the ends and means of the treatments they carry out.
Our only responsibility regarding third-party cookies is the necessary collaboration of our website in the placement of these cookies on your computer, placement of which we will normally be obliged to make necessary in order to be able to use the services provided to us by the said third parties (for example, to check that you are not a robot, which are so abundant on the Internet, and thus avoid that the requests or comments that could be sent to us through the forms on our website take attention away from the real ones).
Cookies that are strictly necessary to enable the basic functionality of the website, such as user login and account management. The website cannot be used properly without strictly necessary cookies.
Analytics cookies are used to see how visitors use the website, for example, analysis cookies. These cookies cannot be used to directly identify a particular visitor.
Marketing or behavioural advertising cookies store information on user behaviour obtained through the continuous observation of your browsing habits, which makes it possible to develop a specific profile to show relevant and attractive ads to the individual user, and to thus, more valuable to third-party advertisers. We will use marketing cookies only if you authorise us to do so by pressing the corresponding button on the cookies banner or through their configuration menu.
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We inform you that although the purpose of the third-party cookies we use, for which we are responsible, is that indicated in the table above, these third parties may dedicate the data collected by their cookies to other purposes for which they are solely responsible. In the case of third-party cookies, our responsibility for the purposes of the third parties is limited to the downloading of the cookies on your device (which we do for the purpose indicated above). You can find out about the purposes of these third parties, and whether or not they make transfers to other parties in their corresponding policies (see the links in the table).
For example, we use cookies from the Google Analytics service, from Google Ireland Ltd, to extract aggregate statistics. This means that cookies can also send the information they collect to Google Ireland Ltd. To avoid this, we recommend that you install in your browser the plug-in designed by Google itself so as not to send the data collected by these cookies. This add-on does not prevent your browser from sending the data to our website and it does prevent it from being sent to Google.
You can get more information about how Google uses your data by consulting the following pages of this provider:
You can administer, manage and deactivate the cookies used by our website at any time from your browser, for example to withdraw your consent, following the instructions provided by the manufacturer of your browser:
If you disable the installation of cookies in your browser, you will be able to continue accessing our website with the same browser, but navigation may not be optimal and some of the services offered may not work properly.
We will update this cookie policy whenever necessary to reflect any changes to our products and services.
If there are substantial changes to this policy, we will notify you before they become effective by posting a prominent notice in the cookie banner. In any case, we recommend that you periodically review this Cookies Policy to find out which cookies we use and how we use them.