Cookies are small files that are installed on the hard drive or in the browser of a computer, tablet, smartphone, or equivalent device with browsing functions through the Internet. They help, among other things: personalize the services of the website owner, facilitate navigation and usability through it, obtain aggregated information from website visitors, enable the playback and display of multimedia content on the website itself, allow elements of interaction between the user and the website, enable security tools, etcetera.

DEFINITIONS USED IN THIS COOKIE POLICY

Data: It is the information obtained through the user's terminal equipment through the data storage and retrieval device (cookies or others). The data will be personal when it is information about identified or identifiable natural persons, in the terms established by article 4 of the GDPR.

Aggregated Information: Non-nominal information, typically numerical, for statistical purposes.

Terminal Equipment: It is the device from which the user accesses the service, such as a personal computer, a mobile phone, a tablet, etc., and from which the information is obtained.

Publisher: The entity responsible or owner of the website.

Third Party: External entity, collaborator, service provider, or related to the publisher, intervening in the management of some cookies.

Cookie Controller: The publisher, responsible, owner of the website, or even the third party in some cases.

Browsing Habits: Trends that the user shows when navigating through a website such as, for example, time spent on the page, sections visited, most frequent sections, origin of the visit, destination of the visit, among others.

WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES EXIST?

According to the entity that manages it:

Own cookies: those sent to the user's terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by the publisher itself and from which the service requested by the user is provided.

Third-party cookies: those sent to the user's terminal equipment from a computer or domain that is not managed by the publisher, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through cookies.

According to the period of time they remain active on the terminal equipment:

Session cookies: those designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a website. They are usually used to store information that is only of interest to keep for the provision of the service requested by the user on one occasion (for example, a list of purchased products) and disappear when the session ends.

Persistent cookies: those in which the data is still stored on the terminal and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the cookie controller, which can range from a few minutes to several years.

According to the purpose for which the data obtained through cookies is processed:

Technical cookies: those that allow the user to navigate through a website, platform, or application and use the different options or services that exist in it, including those that the publisher uses to allow the management and operation of the website and enable its functions and services, such as, for example, controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, accessing restricted access parts, remembering the elements that make up an order, carrying out the purchase process of an order, managing payment, controlling fraud linked to the security of the service, making the request for registration or participation in an event, counting visits for the purpose of billing licenses for the software with which the service operates (website, platform, or application), using security elements during navigation, storing content for the dissemination of videos or sound, enabling dynamic content (for example, loading animation of a text or image) or sharing content through social networks. Also belonging to this category, due to their technical nature, are those cookies that allow the management, as efficiently as possible, of the advertising spaces that, as another element of design or "layout" of the service offered to the user, the publisher has included on a website, application, or platform based on criteria such as edited content, without collecting information from users for different purposes, such as personalizing that advertising content or other content.

Preference or customization cookies: those that allow remembering information so that the user accesses the service with certain characteristics that may differentiate their experience from that of other users, such as, for example, the language, the number of results to show when the user performs a search, the appearance or content of the service depending on the type of browser through which the user accesses the service or the region from which the user accesses the service, etc.

Analysis or measurement cookies: those that allow the person responsible for them to monitor and analyze the behavior of users of the websites to which they are linked, including the quantification of the impacts of advertisements. The information collected through this type of cookies is used in the measurement of the activity of websites, applications, or platforms, in order to make improvements based on the analysis of the usage data that users make of the service.

Advertising cookies: those that allow the management, as efficiently as possible, of the advertising spaces that, if applicable, the publisher has included on a website, application, or platform from which the requested service is provided based on criteria such as the edited content or the frequency with which the ads are displayed.

Behavioral advertising cookies: those that allow the management, as efficiently as possible, of the advertising spaces that, if applicable, the publisher has included on a website, application, or platform from which the requested service is provided. These cookies store information on the behavior of users obtained through continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows developing a specific profile to display advertising based on it.

SPECIFICALLY, WHAT COOKIES DO WE USE?

Cookie Name

Own / Third Party

 

Type of Cookie

Purpose

Duration

Transfer of data outside the European Union

PHPSESSID

Own

Technical

Maintain user session (log-in)

Session

No

mercureAuthorization

Own

Technical

Maintain session in real-time chat system

Session

No

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Third Party (Stripe Payments Europe Limited)

Technical

Prevention of fraud in the Stripe payment system

Persistent, 1 year

Yes (Stripe, Inc.)

These cookies do not create profiles of users browsing the web, nor are automated decisions based on this data made.

You can find out about transfers to third countries made by the third parties identified in this cookie policy, as well as the risks involved in such transfer in accordance with their own policies unrelated to this website, by accessing their respective cookie policies provided in each case in the above table.

HOW TO DISABLE COOKIES?

Blocking or disabling all cookies helps protect privacy, but it can also limit the experience on some websites, as well as limit functionality or even not allow proper navigation or use of some of its services.

You can activate or deactivate the cookies described above (except for technical cookies, which are necessary for correct operation) through the configurator that appears in the cookie usage notice when accessing our main page. Please note that if you accept third-party cookies, you will need to delete them from the browser options or from the system offered by the third party itself.

Similarly, if you want to know how to disable cookies in the most popular web browsers, access the following tutorials:

Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Internet Explorer
Safari
Chrome for Android
Opera

If you have any questions or doubts about this Cookie Policy, you can contact us through the contact means on our website.

If you want complete and specific information on personal data protection, we refer you to our privacy policy.

Source: https://www.aepd.es/sites/default/files/2020-07/guia-cookies.pdf

On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of