Cookie policy

This website, like most internet sites, uses Cookies to improve and optimise the user's experience.

Below you will find detailed information about what Cookies are, what type of Cookies this website uses, how you can disable them in your browser and how to specifically block the installation of third-party Cookies.

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are files that websites or applications install in the browser or on the device (smartphone, tablet or connected television) of the user while they are browsing the pages of the site or the application with the purpose of storing information about their visit.

Like most sites on the internet, this website uses Cookies to:

• Ensure that web pages can function properly.
• Store your preferences, such as the language selected or font size.
• Learn about the user's browsing experience.
• Collect anonymous statistical information, such as which pages the user has visited or how long they have spent on the website.

The use of Cookies allows browsing to be optimized, adapting the information and services offered to the user's interests to provide a better experience every time this website is visited.

This website uses cookies to operate, adapt and facilitate user navigation as much as possible.

2. Type, purpose and operation

In terms of their permanence, cookies can be divided into session or permanent cookies. Session cookies expire when the user closes their browser. Permanent cookies expire when the purpose for which they serve is fulfilled (for example, to keep the user identified on the website) or when they are manually deleted.

Additionally, depending on their objective, Cookies may be categorised as follows:

• Strictly necessary (technical): These are essential for the proper functioning of the page. They are normally generated when the user accesses the website or logs in and they are used to identify them on the website with the following objectives:
  1. To keep the user identified so that, if they leave the website, browser or device and at another time attempts to access the website again, they will continue to be identified, thus facilitating their browsing without having to identify themselves again.
  2. Check if the user is authorized to access certain services or areas of the website.
• Performance: They are used to improve the browsing experience and optimize the operation of the website, such as storing service settings, or storing items placed in a shopping cart.
• Advertising: Cookies that collect information about the ads shown to users of the website. There can be two types:
• Anonymous: They only collect information about the advertising spaces shown on the website, regardless of the user who accesses the website without expressly identifying them.
• Personalized: They collect the website user's personal information on behalf of a third party, for the personalization of the aforementioned advertising spaces.
• Geo-location: These Cookies are used to find out which country or region the user is in when accessing a service on the website to offer content or services appropriate to their location.
• Analytics: They collect information about the user's browsing experience on the website, usually anonymously, although sometimes they also allow the user to be uniquely and unequivocally identified to obtain reports on the user's interest in the services offered by the website.

3. Cookies used on this website

Below is a table with the Cookies used on this website, incorporating a criterion of "level of intrusion" supported on a scale of 1 to 3, in which: :

• Level 1: corresponds to Cookies strictly necessary for the provision of the service requested by the user.
• Level 2: corresponds to (anonymous) performance cookies necessary for the maintenance of content and navigation, awareness of the existence of said cookies is necessary for information purposes only.
• Level 3: corresponds to Cookies managed by third parties that allow user monitoring through websites not owned by the entity. Normally these correspond to advertising or analytical cookies where the user is identified in a unique and evident manner.

Table of cookies used
Cookie	Duration	Type	Purpose	Intrusion
JSESSIONID	Session	Technical	Track a user's session	Level 1
_utma	2 years	Analysis	Internal metrics with Google Analytics	Level 3
_utmb	30 minutes	Analysis	Internal metrics with Google Analytics	Level 3
_utmc	Session	Analysis	Internal metrics with Google Analytics	Level 3
_utmz	6 months	Analysis	Internal metrics with Google Analytics and AdWords	Level 3
wbc_cookie_accept	Permanent	Technical	Identify if the user accepts the use of cookies	Level 2

4. Disable the use of Cookies

If the user so wishes, it is possible to stop accepting browser Cookies, or to stop accepting Cookies from a particular service.

All modern browsers allow for changes to be made to the Cookie settings. These settings are usually found in the "Options" or "Preferences" of the browser menu.

The user may, at any time, disable the use of Cookies on this website by:

Configuring their browser, for example:

• Google Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=es&answer=95647
• Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/windows7/how-to-manage-cookies-in-internet-explorer-9
• Mozilla Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/habilitar-y-deshabilitar-cookies-que-los-sitios-we
• Apple Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042

Other third-party tools, which are available online, allow users to detect Cookies on each website they visit and manage their deactivation (for example, Ghostery: http://www.ghostery.com/privacy-statement).

5. What happens when cookies are disabled?

Some features and services may be disabled or may behave differently, such as maintaining the user's identity, keeping items in the "shopping cart" in an electronic commerce service or receiving information related to their location, among others.

If you disable the use of Cookies on this website, it is likely that you will no longer be able to access certain areas or that the browsing experience will be significantly and negatively impacted.

6. Updating the Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy may be modified in accordance with legal or regulatory requirements to adapt the aforementioned policy to instructions issued by the Spanish Agency for Data Protection, therefore, users are advised to visit this page regularly.

Any significant changes to this policy shall be reported to users, either through the website itself or via emails sent to registered users.

 

7. Google Analytics Legal Notice

The website uses Google Analytics, a Website analysis service provided by Google Inc., a company from Delaware whose main office is located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043, USA ("Google").

Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information on our behalf to track its use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services related to the website's activity and Internet use. Google may also transfer this information to third parties, when required by law, or when such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other piece of information held by them.

You can block the processing of your data or information by rejecting the use of cookies, which you can do via the appropriate settings on your browser. However, you should be aware that doing so may impede you from having access to all the website's functions. By using this website you consent to the processing of your data by Google in the manner and for the purposes described above.

More information at: http://www.google.com/intl/es/policies/privacy/