What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are received in the terminal from a visited website and are used to record certain interactions of the navigation on a website by storing data that can be updated and recovered. These files are stored on the user’s computer and contain anonymous data that is not harmful to your computer. They are used to remember the user’s preferences, such as the selected language, access data or personalization.
Cookies can also be used to register anonymous information about how the visitor uses the website. For example, from what web page the website has been accessed or if you have used a banner ad to reach it.
What uses do different types of cookies have?
- According to its purpose:
- Technical cookies
Technical cookies are those essential and strictly necessary for the proper functioning of a website and the use of the different options and services offered. For example, those used for the maintenance of the session, management of response time, performance or validation of options, use of security elements, content sharing with social networks, etc.
◦ Personalization cookies
These cookies allow the user to specify or customize some characteristics of the general options of the web page. For example, define the language, the regional configuration or the type of browser.
◦ Analytical cookies
Analytical cookies are those used by our website to create navigation profiles and to know the preferences of users in order to improve the supply of products and services. For example, an analytical cookie would control the geographic areas of most interest of a user, which is the most widely accepted product, etc.
◦ Advertising / advertising cookies
Advertising cookies allow the management of advertising spaces according to specific criteria. For example, the frequency of access, the edited content, etc. Advertising cookies allow, through the management of advertising, the storage of behavioral information through the observation of habits, studying access and forming a profile of user preferences, to offer advertising related to the interests of their profile.
- According to term:
◦ Session cookies
◦ Session cookies are those that during the time that the user is browsing the web page and are deleted when it ends.
◦ Persistent cookies
◦ These cookies are stored in the user’s terminal for a longer time, thus facilitating the control of the chosen preferences without having to repeat certain parameters each time the website is visited.
Why do we use cookies?
We use the strictly necessary and essential cookies for you to use our website and can move freely, use secure areas, configure customized options, etc. We also use cookies that collect data related to the analysis of the use of the web. These are used to help improve the user experience and the performance of the page.
In some sites of the web third-party cookies can be installed. We do not control the cookies used by these third parties on external websites. For more information about cookies from unknown websites we advise you to review your own cookie policies.
The cookies used by this site are:
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Purpose
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In other places of the site third-party cookies are installed to all visitors, although they are not registered users in the corresponding platforms:
- On Facebook: datr, reg_fb_gate, reg_ext_ref, reg_fb_ref. Its purposes are described in the Facebook cookie page.
- On Twitter: pid, _twitter_sess, guest_id, _utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz, _utmv, _utmt. Its purposes are described in the Twitter cookie page.
How to manage cookies?
To use this website it is necessary to install cookies. If you continue browsing our website without denying authorization, it implies that you accept the use. You have to take into account that if you reject or delete the navigation cookies, we will not be able to maintain your preferences and it is possible that some features of the web pages will not be operational.
You can revoke the consent granted by stopping the navigation, not accept them or configure your browser to block them, and if necessary eliminate them. More information for each browser:
Firefox desde http://support.mozilla.org/es/products/firefox/cookies
Chrome desde http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=es&answer=95647
Explorer desde http://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/windows7/how-to-manage-cookies-in-internet-explorer-9
Safari desde http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042