Cookies Policy
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don't have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
Cookies are essential for internet to work correctly by providing several advantages to improve interactive services, making web browsing easier. Cookies do not damage hardware but rather help us to identify and solve errors.
Cookies used on this website
| Name | Purpose | Description | Supplier | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | Required | This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a users' unique session ID for the purpose of managing user log-in on the website. The cookie is a log-in cookie and it is deleted when all the browser windows are closed. | Client | Session |
| cookieControl cookieControlPrefs |
Required | This cookie identifies whether the user has accepted the use of cookies or not. | Client | Session |
| lang | Personalization | This cookie is used to store the language preferences of a user to serve up content in that stored language the next time the user visits the website. | Client | 1 year |
| _ga | Analysis | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, log-ins and campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. | Google Analytics | 2 years |
| _gid | Analysis | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected include the number of visitors, the source where they come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. | Google Analytics | 1 day |
For a better understanding of the different types of cookies, below we provide the following information:
- Necessary cookies: these are only exist while the user is browsing the web and disappear when the user leaves the website. They serve to maintain basic information about navigation and thus be able to offer a better user experience.
- Personalization cookies: they are kept between visits to the same website and are used to store the users' personalization, such as the language in which they browsed.
- Analytical cookies: they are stored in order to compile statistics on the traffic and volume of visits to this website.
- Advertising cookies: they show advertising based on your browsing, your country of origin, language, etc.
- Social networks: sometimes in some sections of the website you can share the content on social networks and they can use their own cookies.
You can change your consent at any time by going to the Cookie Settings on our website. Change your consent
Other third party cookies
Some of our pages may display content from external providers, e.g. YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.
To view this third-party content, you first have to accept their specific terms and conditions. This includes their cookie policies, over which we have no control.
But if you do not view this content, no third-party cookies are installed on your device.
Third-party providers that this website may have:
These third-party services are beyond the control of the Commission. Providers may, at any time, change their terms of service, purpose and use of cookies, etc.
How to control and delete cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent cookies from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.
Below we provide information that will allow you to manage the cookies installed in the most popular browsers:
Internet Explorer
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Safari
https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
Opera
https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/
Firefox
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
Google Chrome
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
Additional notes
Neither this website nor its legal representatives are responsible for the content or veracity of the privacy policies that may have the third parties mentioned in this cookie policy.
Web browsers are the tools in charge of storing cookies and from this site to exercise their right to delete or deactivate them. Neither this website nor its legal representatives can guarantee the correct or incorrect handling of cookies by these browsers.
In some cases it is necessary to install cookies so that the browser does not forget your decision not to accept them.
In the case of Google Analytics cookies, this company stores cookies on servers in the United States and undertakes not to share them with third parties, except in cases where it is necessary for the operation of the system or when required by law. Google Inc. is a company that adheres to the Privacy Shield (https://www.privacyshield.gov/welcome) which guarantees that all transferred data will be treated with a level of protection in accordance with European regulations. By using this website, you consent to the processing of your data by Google. Accordingly, the exercise of any right in this regard must be communicated directly to Google.
If you wish, you can find out more about Google's use of cookies. https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
Update: October 2020