What are cookies?
Cookies are small files in your computer that are used to access certain web sites. Among other things, Cookies allow a web site to store and recuperate information about your Internet browser habits or your computer. Also, and depending on the information it contains and how your computer uses it, it could be used to recognize a given user.
This recuperated information must always respect user privacy, and with this in mind, reforms have been made in the Privacy Legislation with the creation of the new EU and National Regulation, which safeguards the interests of individuals and corporations using an IT service.
How many cookies are used?
We use as many of our own cookies as is necessary for the smooth running of this web site, as well as third-party cookies, generated by third-party services.
Our own Cookies
Our cookies store only the necessary information to correctly operate our web site. The cookies used are:
- PHPSESSID: Session information generated by the web programming language used, which is necessary for daily web site functions.
- has_js: Information about Javascript for your browser, which is essential for advanced functions.
- Cookie that stores whether or not you accept the cookie policy.
Third-party Cookies
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics provided by Google, Inc. Its main office address is 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043, USA.
Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyze how users use our site. The stored information about your site use (including you IP address) will be sent directly to and filed by Google on its servers to analyze your browser habits; this information about site activity and provides other services regarding site activity and Internet use. Google may transfer said information to third parties when required by law or when said third party processes information for Google.
Google analytics does not collect personal information of those visiting this web site. The main function of Google cookies is to:
- Determine the domain to be studied.
- Differentiate between individual users.
- Remember the number and time of previous visits.
- Collect information about traffic origins.
- Determine the duration of a session.
- Determine the value of personalized variables in a segment.
Upon using this site, you consent to Google using your data in the manner and to the uses indicated above.
These are the cookies used by Google, and their characteristics:
- __utma: Used to differentiate user sessions.
- __utmb: Used to determine new sessions and/or visits.
- __utmc: Temporary cookie to indicate that a session is open or closed. This is not usually used.
- __utmz: Used to calculate the traffic coming from search engines (organic and PPC), publicity campaigns displayed and the browser within the same web site (internal links).
- __utmv: Used to store data obtained from registers, which are segmented demographically at a later date.
- _ga: Used to differentiate users.
Further information about Google privacy can be found at: http://www.google.es/policies/privacy/
Google Maps
Google maps facilitate the insertion of maps into third party web sites, and provide the map service that we use on some of the pages of our web site.
The cookies used by google maps are: SID, SAPISID, APISID, SSID, HSID, NID and PREF. These cookies establish various unique identifiers, except the PREF cookies, which are used to show zoom preferences on maps.
Further information about Google’s privacy policy regarding its map service can be found here: http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/types/
How to eliminate cookies
Most browsers have an option that allows you to see and delete the cookies installed in your computer. If you would like to remove your computer’s cookies, we recommend that you use a web browser (for example, google.com). Search using the terms: “delete cookies in xxx” (without the quotation marks) and substitute xxx for the name of browser you usually use. To facilitate the task, we have included a number of direct access information sites about how to delete cookies on the main search engines/browsers:
- Delete cookies in Chrome
- Delete cookies in Firefox
- Delete cookies in Internet Explorer
- Delete cookies in Safari
- Delete cookies in Opera