COOKIES POLICY

TYPE OF COOKIES

Depending on who is the entity that manages the domain from which the cookies are sent and processes the data obtained, two types can be distinguished:

• Own cookies: those that are sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by the editor itself and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
• Third party cookies: those that are sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain that is not managed by the editor, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through cookies.

In the event that the cookies are installed from a computer or domain managed by the editor itself, but the information collected through them is managed by a third party, they cannot be considered as own cookies.

There is also a second classification according to the period of time that they remain stored in the client’s browser, which may be:

• Session cookies: designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a web page. They are usually used to store information that is only interesting to keep for the provision of the service requested by the user on a single occasion (e.g. a list of products purchased).
• Persistent cookies: The data remains stored in the terminal and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the person responsible for the cookie, which can range from a few minutes to several years.

Finally, there is another classification with five types of cookies depending on the purpose for which the data obtained is processed:

• • Technical cookies: those that allow the user to navigate through a web page, platform or application and use the different options or services that exist there, such as, for example, controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, accessing restricted access parts, remember the elements that make up an order, carry out the purchase process of an order, make a request for registration or participation in an event, use security elements while browsing, store content for the dissemination of videos or sound or share content through social networks.

• • Personalization cookies: They allow the user to access the service with some general characteristics predefined based on a series of criteria on the user’s terminal, such as the language, the type of browser through which the service is accessed, the regional configuration from which it is accessed. to the service, etc.

• • Analysis cookies: They allow the person responsible for them to monitor and analyze the behavior of the users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected through this type of cookies is used to measure the activity of the websites, applications or platforms and to prepare navigation profiles of the users of said sites, applications and platforms, in order to introduce improvements in based on the analysis of usage data made by users of the service.

• • Advertising cookies: They allow the management, in the most efficient way possible, of advertising spaces.

• • Behavioral advertising cookies: They store information on user behavior obtained through continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows the development of a specific profile to display advertising based on it.