COOKIES POLICY
- What are cookies?
Cookies are small files with information that is stored in your web browser to access and use certain web pages. These files allow web pages to retrieve information about your habits and preferences of navigation or on the device from which you connect.
They are essential to provide a good service. However, they can also be dangerous to your privacy, depending on the information they contain. For this reason, Spanish legislation compels us to ask users to accept o refuse cookies. In this Cookie Policy, we want to inform you clearly and adequately about the type of cookies that we use in this Website.
- What types of cookies do we use?
On this Website we use cookies to improve your browsing experience. Cookies we use can be divided into the following categories:
According to the entity that manages them:
- Own Cookies ‒ Cookies that are sent to your device from our own equipment or from our domain.
- Third Party Cookies ‒ Cookies that are sent to your browser from a computer or domain that is not managed by us. These cookies are managed by external providers.
According to its purpose:
- Technical Cookies ‒ Cookies that are essential for the proper operation of a Website.
- Analytics Cookies ‒ They analyse the use users make of a Website. They allow to quantify the number of users who visit the Website and identify which layers of the Website are most visited and, therefore, more popular.
- Session cookies ‒ Cookies that identify users in a website so that any changes you make, any items you select or data you enter will be recalled from one to another page.
Some cookies are persistent. It means that they remain stored on your device during a certain period of time, which may vary depending on cookies. If you do not remove these cookies, they are deleted when they reach their expiration date.
In the following table you will find details about cookies we use on this Website, its purpose, its duration and information about whether it is an own cookie or a third-party cookie:
Name |
Purpose |
Own / Third Party |
Duration |
_ga |
This cookie enables the control of unique visits, so it distinguishes users. It is used for analysis of use and measurement of the website, to differentiate between users and sessions and, ultimately, to improve our services. |
Third Party (Google Inc.) |
2 years. |
PHPSESSID |
Used by the PHP language to store session variables on the web server. |
Own |
48 hours or session. |
__utma |
Used to distinguish users and sessions. It is created when you run JavaScript and there is no cookie __utma. It is updated every time data are sent to Google Analytics. The information collected is completely anonymous. It’s not able to identify visitors. |
Third Party (Google Inc.) |
2 years. |
__utmt |
Used to limit the percentage of requests. The information collected is completely anonymous. It’s not able to identify visitors. |
Third Party (Google Inc.) |
10 minutes. |
__utmb |
It measures the completion of a session. _utmb records the time of arrival to the site while _utmc checks whether it should keep the session open or you must create a new session. |
Third Party (Google Inc.) |
30 minutes from the last page visited record. |
__utmc |
It measures the completion of a session. _utmb records the time of arrival to the page while _utmc checks whether it should maintain the open session, or you must create a new session. |
Third Party (Google Inc.) |
After you quit your browser. |
_gid |
Used to distinguish users and sessions. |
Third Party (Google Inc.) |
24 hours. |
_gat |
Used to limit the percentage of requests. |
Third Party (Google Inc.) |
1 minute. |
CatAccCookies |
Cookie created when you accept Cookies, it remembers that you have accepted to use cookies. |
Own |
30 days. |
Our Website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., (hereinafter, «Google»), a Delaware company whose main office is at 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043, United States. Google Analytics uses cookies to help the website analyse the use of the same as users do. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information to track your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and Internet usage.
If you would like more information about the use of Google Analytics cookies used on the Website, please refer to the following link: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage?hl=es.
- How can you control cookies?
It is important to know that you can withdraw your consent to the Cookie Policy at any time, eliminating the cookies stored on your web browser. Just check so in your settings and configuration options.
You can change your browser preferences to manage yourself which cookies are accessing your computer and which you prefer to limit. This option is usually found in «Options» or «Preferences» menu in browsers. If you use any of the following, choose the link and follow its instructions:
- Cookie Preferences in Internet Explorer
- Cookie Preferences in Chrome
- Cookie Preferences in Firefox
- Cookie Preferences in Safari
However, if you change your preferences and limit the access of cookies to your device, some of the features of the web may stop working and it may hinder your navigation.
- Changes to the Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy is available for you for future reference, you can store it or print it whenever it is deemed convenient. This Cookie Policy may be updated at any time to suit changes on our Website, cookies or in keeping legal requirements and Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) new criteria. For this reason, we reserve the right to modify the Cookie Policy at any time.
Last updated: 02 December 2020.