COOKIE CONCEPT
A cookie is a file that is downloaded on a user’s computer/smart phone/tablet when accessing certain web pages. It stores and recovers information about the navigation that is done from this machine.
Technically, cookies are arbitrary pieces of data defined by the web server and sent to the browser. The browser returns them to the server without modifying them, thus reflecting a state (memory of previous events) in the HTTP transactions, that in any other way would be independent from this state.
Without cookies, each request on a website or component on a web page would be an isolated event, without any relationship with other requests from other pages on the same site. But by returning a cookie to the web server, the browser provides a server with a way to relate the request from the current page with requests from previous pages. Besides being defined by a web server, cookies can also be defined by a script in a language like JavaScript, if this is supported and enabled in the web browser.
Specifications of cookies suggest that browsers support a minimal number of cookies or a minimum amount of memory to store them. In particular, they expect a browser to be capable of storing at least 300 4 kilobyte cookies and at least 20 cookies per server or domain.
The server that establishes the cookie can specify a deletion date, in which case the cookie will be erased on that date. A shopping site would want to be able to help potential customers to remember the things that were in their shopping cart, even if they close the browser without making the purchase and return later, in order to prevent them from having to look for the products again. In this case, the server would create a cookie with a deletion date according to the wishes of the website’s designer. If there is no deletion date set, the cookie is erased when the user closes their browser. Therefore, setting a deletion date is a way to make the cookie survive between sessions. For this reason, the cookies with a deletion date are called persistent.
To find out more information on cookies, we suggest you go to the following link: http://www.iabspain.net/privacidadeninternet/usuario.
COOKIES THAT USE THE WEBSITE
On this website, the following cookies are described in the following Cookie picture
- Technical cookies. These are used for maintaining the session in restricted access areas that require authentication with a user name and password or digital certification. If cookies are disabled, you cannot access these sections. Once the session is finalised, they can be removed with no issue.
- Analysis cookies. These are used to measure and analyse the navigation of users in order to improve the contents and services provided. They do not obtain personal information on the user, just anonymous information like the number of users, number of pages visited, frequency and repetition of the visits, duration, browser used, operator, browser language or the origin machine’s IP address. This page uses Google Analytics, an analytical web service developed by Google. If cookies are disabled, no statistic analysis will be performed but the website will function properly.
DISABLING COOKIES
Information obtained from cookies, in regards to the user’s machine, will be able to be combined with your personal information only if you are registered on this website. At any time, the user can choose which cookies they want to work on this website by disabling Cookies:
1. browser configuration; for example:
2. specified opt-out systems in regards to how cookies are treated (these systems can require installing an “opt-out” cookie so that your disable choice works); or
3. other third party tools, available online, that allow users to detect cookies on every website they visit and manage disactivation (for example, Ghostery: http://www.ghostery.com/privacy-statement, http://www.ghostery.com/faq).
COOKIE POLICY CHANGES
We may update the Cookie Policy on our website, which is why we recommend reviewing this policy every time you access our website in order to be properly informed about how and why we use cookies.
