Cookies

INFORMATION ON COOKIES

Due to the entry into force of the referenced modification of the “Spanish Law on Information Society Services” (LSSICE) established by Spanish Royal Decree 13/2012, obtaining express consent from the user of all websites that use essential cookies is required before they browse them.

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies and other similar technologies such as local shared objects, flash cookies or pixels are tools used by webservers to store and recover information on their visitors as well as offer proper site functioning.

The use of these devices allows the webserver to remember some user data such as their preferences for page display on that server, name and password, the products they’re most interested in, etc.

COOKIES AFFECTED BY THE LAW AND EXEMPT COOKIES

Pursuant to the EU Directive, the cookies that require informed consent from the user are analytical and advertising and affiliation cookies with all technical cookies and those necessary for website functioning or the provision of services expressly requested by the user exempt.

WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES EXIST?

There are five major groups of cookies:

• Analytical cookies: they collect information on the use of the website.
• Social cookies: they are necessary for external social networks.
• Affiliate cookies: they make it possible to track visits from other websites with which the website has an affiliate contract (affiliation companies).
• Advertising and behavioural cookies: they collect information on the user’s personal preferences and choices (retargeting).
• Technical and functional cookies: they are strictly necessary for the use of the website and the provision of the service contracted.

COOKIES USED AT THIS WEBSITE

• PHPSESSID: a technical and strictly necessary cookie that contains the session identifier. It is deleted upon closing the browser window.
• _lang: a technical and strictly necessary cookie that contains the session language. It is deleted upon closing the browser window.
• ac_cookies: a technical and strictly necessary cookie that contains the value of whether or not the installation of cookies was accepted. It expires 1 year after the most recent update.
• _ga: a Google Analytics cookie that enables the single visit control function. This cookie is installed the first time a user enters the website through a browser. When this user returns to the website using the same browser, the cookie will consider it is the same user. It will be considered a different user only if the user switches browsers. It expires 2 years after the most recent update.
• _gat: This cookie is associated with Google Analytics Universal. It is used to limit request speeds - a data collection limitation at high-traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes.
• _utma: a Google Analytics cookie that records the date of the first and most recent time the user visited the website. It expires 2 years after the most recent update.
• _utmb: a Google Analytics cookie that records the arrival time at a website. It expires 30 minutes after the most recent update.
• _utmc: a Google Analytics cookie used for interoperability with the urchin.js tracking code. It is deleted upon closing the browser window.
• _utmt: a Google Analytics cookie. This cookie is used to process requests from the user. It expires at the end of the session.
• _utmv: a Google Analytics cookie. This cookie is used to segment demographic data. It expires at the end of the session.
• _utmz: a Google Analytics cookie that stores the source of traffic or a campaign to explain how the user reached the website. It expires 6 months after the most recent update.

REVOKING CONSENT TO THE INSTALLATION OF COOKIES

HOW TO DELETE COOKIES FROM YOUR BROWSER

Chrome

1. Select the Tools icon
2. Click on Settings.
3. Click on Show Advanced Settings.
4. In the “Privacy” section, click on Content Settings.

• Delete cookies: Click on All cookies and site data...
• Block all cookies.

5. Click on Delete browsing history (clear the cache).
6. Close and restart your browser.

Click here for more information on Chrome:

 http://support.google.com/chrome/answer/956477hhes

Internet Explorer. Version 11

1. Select Tools | Internet Options.
2. Click on the General tab.
3. In the “Browsing history” section, click on Delete browsing history on exit.
4. Select Delete files.
5. Select Delete cookies.
6. Click on Delete.
7. Click on OK
8. Close and restart your browser.

Click here for more information on Internet Explorer:

http://windows.microsoft.com/es-419/windows7/how-to-manage-cookies-in-internet-explorer-9

Firefox. Version 18

1. Select Firefox | History | Clear your recent history.
2. Click on the down arrow next to “Details”.
3. Tick the following verification boxes: Cookies, Cache, Active Logins
4. Using the “Time range to clear” area in the dropdown menu, select Everything.
5. Click on Clear now.
6. Close and restart your browser.

You may accept or reject cookies individually under Firefox Preferences, in the History section available under Tools > Options > Privacy.

Click here for more information on Mozilla Firefox:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/websites/

Safari Version 5.1

1. Select the Safari icon / Edit | Reset Safari.
2. Tick the following verification boxes: Clear history, Remove all website data
3. Click on Reset.
4. Close and restart your browser.

Click here for more information on Safari:

 https://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042?locale=es_ES&viewlocale=en_US

Opera

Options - Advanced - Cookies.

The cookies options control the way in which Opera handles them and, therefore, accepts or rejects them.

Click here for more information on Opera:

 https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies

Other browsers

Check the documentation for the browser you have installed.