Cookies Policy

a) First-party cookies

These are those that are sent to the user's terminal equipment from equipment or a domain managed by the publisher itself and from which the service requested by the user is provided.

b) Third-party cookies

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

In the event that cookies are served from equipment or a domain managed by the publisher itself, but the information collected through them is managed by a third party, they cannot be considered as first-party cookies if the third party uses them for its own purposes (for example, the improvement of the services it provides or the provision of advertising services in favour of other entities).

a) Technical cookies

These are those that allow the user to browse a web page, platform or application and use the different options or services that exist therein, including those that the publisher uses to allow the management and operation of the web page and to 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 purposes of billing software licences with which the service operates (website, platform or application), using security elements during browsing, storing content for the broadcast of videos or sound, enabling dynamic content (for example, loading animation of a text or image) or sharing content through social networks.

Those cookies that allow the management, in the most efficient way possible, of the advertising spaces that, as one more element of design or "layout" of the service offered to the user, the publisher has included on a web page, application or platform based on criteria such as the edited content, without information being collected from users for different purposes, such as personalising that advertising content or other content, also belong to this category due to their technical nature.

Technical cookies will be exempt from compliance with the obligations established in article 22.2 of the LSSI when they allow the service requested by the user to be provided, as is the case with the cookies listed in the preceding paragraphs. However, if these cookies are also used for non-exempt purposes (for example, for behavioural advertising purposes), they will be subject to said obligations.

b) Preference or personalisation cookies

These are those that allow information to be remembered so that the user accesses the service with certain characteristics that can 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 they access the service, etc.

If it is the user himself who chooses these characteristics (for example, if he selects the language of a website by clicking on the icon of the corresponding country flag), the cookies will be exempt from the obligations of article 22.2 of the LSSI as they are considered a service expressly requested by the user, and this provided that the cookies obey exclusively the selected purpose.

c) Analysis or measurement cookies

These are those that allow the person responsible for them to monitor and analyse the behaviour 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 the websites, application or platform, in order to introduce improvements based on the analysis of usage data made by users of the service.

Regarding the processing of data collected through analysis cookies, the WP29 stated that, despite not being exempt from the duty to obtain informed consent for their use, they are unlikely to represent a risk to the privacy of users provided they are first-party cookies, that they process aggregated data for a strictly statistical purpose, that information about their uses is provided and that the possibility for users to express their refusal of their use is included.

d) Behavioural advertising cookies

These are those that store information on user behaviour obtained through continued observation of their browsing habits, which allows the development of a specific profile to display advertising based on it.

a) Session cookies

These are 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 a single occasion (for example, a list of purchased products) and disappear when the session ends.

b) Persistent cookies

These are those in which the data continues to be stored in the terminal and can be accessed and processed during a period defined by the person responsible for the cookie, and which can range from a few minutes to several years.