COOKIES POLICY

Article 4 of R.D-Law 13/2012 transposes Directive 2009/136/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council into Spanish law, amending Article 22.2 of the LSSI (Law 34/2002), thus configuring the current regulations of the so-called “Cookies Law or Anti-Cookies Law”. As a result, the owners of websites that install cookies (including third-party cookies such as Google Analytics cookies) must provide adequate information and ensure that their users consent to the installation of cookies.

It makes no difference whether the website is hosted by a European hosting provider, Facebook, etc. In any case, if your entity is Spanish or provides services specifically aimed at the territory of the Spanish State, you must comply with the Law.

The Cookies Law is different from the Data Protection Law. They are to be applied as follows:

• Cookie that is not used to process personal data: Only the Cookie Law must be complied with.
• Cookie that is used to process personal data: The Data Protection Law and, in addition, the Cookie Law must be complied with.

The information provided below will help you understand the different types of cookies:

• Necessary: Some cookies are necessary for you to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information. For example, these cookies allow you to log in to your account and add products to your basket and checkout securely.
• Statistics: These cookies store information such as the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the origin of the visit, etc. This data helps us to understand and analyse the performance of the website and areas for improvement.
• Marketing: Our website displays advertisements. These cookies are used to personalise the adverts we show you so that they are meaningful to you. These cookies also help us to track the effectiveness of these advertising campaigns. The information stored in these cookies may also be used by third party advertising vendors to serve ads to you on other websites in your browser.
• Functional: These are cookies that support certain non-essential functionalities of our website. These functionalities include embedding content such as videos or the ability to share website content on social media platforms.
• Preferences: These cookies help us store your browsing settings and preferences, such as language preferences, so that you have a better and more efficient experience on future visits to the website.

Depending on how the data is stored

• Session cookies: these are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the website, so none of them remain registered on the user’s hard drive. The information obtained through these cookies is used to analyse web traffic patterns.
• Permanent cookies: these are stored on the hard disk and our website reads them each time you make a new visit. A permanent website has a specific expiry date. The cookie will stop working after that date. It is generally used to facilitate the purchase and registration services, and to remember settings and preferences in the user’s navigation, such as: language selection, theme selection, menu preferences, internal web page marking, etc.

Depending on the level of relationship with the user

• First-party cookies: served directly by the same web domain visited by the user (e.g. www.nombredeldominio.com) and normally linked to the provision of the service or web analytics tasks.
• Third-party cookies: linked to alternative domain names of the same provider, or to external providers specialised in the management of advertising campaigns, personalisation or, likewise, web analytics. While all browsers initially accept first-party cookies, some of them disable third-party cookies in the absence of an express action by the user.

Levels of intrusiveness

The above cookies can be classified according to the criterion of “level of intrusiveness”, on a scale of 1 to 3:

• Level 1: corresponds to internal use cookies essential for the provision of the service requested by the user.
• Level 2: corresponds to anonymous cookies for internal use necessary for the maintenance of content and navigation, as well as cookies managed by third parties within the framework of services expressly requested by the user on their websites (e.g.: Social Plugins from Facebook or Twitter).
• Level 3: corresponds to cookies managed by third parties within the framework of services not expressly requested by the user, allowing them to be tracked through websites of which the owner of the website visited by the user is not the owner (e.g.: display advertising management platforms). The specification of this level is accompanied by its owner. The use of level 3 cookies is subject to the prior permission of the user by expressly confirming their acceptance.

The following list details the cookies used on our website.

The user can freely decide whether or not to place cookies from our website on their hard drive and whether or not to delete them, following the procedure established in the help section of their browser.

The user can also configure their browser to accept or reject all cookies by default or to receive an on-screen warning of the reception of each cookie and decide at that time whether or not to place them on their hard drive. Many browsers also allow you to activate a private mode whereby cookies are always deleted after your visit. Depending on the browser, this private mode may have different names.

If you configure your browser to reject all cookies or expressly reject our cookies, your browsing on the website may be slower or you may experience errors. In any case, if you continue browsing, we consider that you accept the use of cookies on our website. Below we provide three links where you can consult everything related to the administration of cookies, including their total or partial elimination or non-acceptance, in some of the most common browsers:

Firefox
http://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/habilitar-y-deshabilitar-cookies-que-los-sitios-we

Chrome
http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=es&answer=95647

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

Safari

 http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042

Opera

 http://help.opera.com/Windows/11.50/es-ES/cookies.html