What is a cookie?
Cookies are small text files sent to a device when it visits a website. Cookies are sent back to the website of origin every time the device visits it, or to another website which recognises the cookie. Cookies act as a memory of a website, allowing the device to be remembered on subsequent visits. Cookies can also remember the user’s preferences, improve the user’s experience and adapt adverts to the user.
Cookies used on this website
This website uses its own and third-party cookies. First-party cookies are sent to your computer from our own computers or domain. Nevertheless, in certain cases, we may work in collaboration with other third parties to provide services through the Website (third-party cookies).
Depending on the time period for which they remain activated on the device, cookies are divided into:
– Session cookies
These are a type of cookie designed to collect and store data while the user is accessing a web page. As their name suggests, these cookies are stored on the user’s terminal until their browsing session is over.
– Persistent cookies
This is a type of cookie in which the data is stored on the terminal and can be accessed and processed for a set period by the party responsible for the cookie. This period can vary from a few minutes to a number of years.
Depending on the purpose for which data obtained by cookies is processed, they are divided into:
– Technical cookies
Technical cookies are those which are essential and strictly necessary for the proper functioning of a Web portal and the use of the different options and services it offers.
– Personalisation cookies
These cookies allow the user to access the service with certain characteristics of a general nature predefined in their terminal, or defined by the user themself. These could include the language, the type of browser through which the user accesses the service, the design of the content selected, geolocation of the terminal and the settings for the region from which the service is accessed.
– Analytical cookies
Our website uses Google Analytics cookies. The purpose of analytical cookies is the statistical monitoring and analysis of the behaviour of all the users as a whole.
The information obtained has a strictly statistical purpose: number of users who access the website, number of pages viewed, frequency and repetitiveness of visits, their duration, the browser used, the operator that provides the service, the language, the terminal used, and the city to which the user’s IP address is assigned. This information makes it possible to provide a better service.
The information gathered by these cookies is transferred and filed by Google on its servers in the USA, in accordance with its privacy practices. For further information on the privacy practices of Google and how they apply to Google Analytics, visit: Google Analytics Privacy Policy.
– First-party cookies
| Cookie | Type | Duration | Purpose |
| PHPSESSID | Technical cookie | Deleted when the browser is closed | Contains the session identifier |
| _lang | Technical cookie | Deleted when the browser is closed | Contains the session language |
| ac_cookies | Technical cookie | Expires 1 year after the last update | Contains whether or not the installation of cookies has been accepted |
| gdpr[allowed_cookies], gdpr[consent_types], gdpr[privacy_bar] | Technical cookie | Expires 1 year after the last update | Stores the information of whether or not the user has accepted the use of cookies |
– Third-party cookies
| Cookie | Type | Duration | Purpose |
| _ga | Google Analytics cookie | Expires 2 years after the last update | Enables the unique visits monitoring function |
| _gat | Google Analytics cookie | Expires after 10 minutes | Used to throttle request rate |
| _utma | Google Analytics cookie | Expires 2 years after the last update | Records the date of the first and last time that the user visited the website |
| _utmb | Google Analytics cookie | Expires 30 minutes after the last update | Records the time of arrival on the webpage |
| _utmc | Google Analytics cookie | Deleted when the browser is closed | Used for interoperability with the monitoring code urchin.js |
| _utmt | Google Analytics cookie | Expires when the session finishes | To process the type of request by the user |
| _utmv | Google Analytics cookie | Expires when the session finishes | To segment demographic data |
| _utmz | Google Analytics cookie | Expires 6 months after the last update | Stores the traffic source or a campaign to explain how the user reached the website |
How to control and delete cookies
Most web browsers accept cookies, but you can change your web browser’s settings so that it rejects new cookies, deactivates those already present or tells you when somebody sends you a new cookie on the device. To change the settings, follow the instructions provided by each browser:
Internet Explorer: Tools> Internet Options> Privacy
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Firefox: Tools> Options> Privacy> History> Personalised Settings.
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Chrome: Settings> Show advanced settings> Privacy> Contents settings.
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Safari: Preferences> Security.
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Opera: Settings.
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Blocking the use of cookies on your browser may cause some of the services or characteristics of the website to be unavailable.
