What is a cookie?

Cookies are small text files placed in your browser’s directory, which may be placed on your device. When you access a website, the cookie that is placed on a device will send information to the party that placed it. Cookies are extremely common and used on numerous websites. These technologies can serve a variety of purposes, such as recognising you as a user, obtaining information about your browsing habits, or customising the way content is displayed.

The specific uses we make of these technologies are described below.

Identification of cookies used (adapt the following text according to the cookies used on your website)

The cookies used on this website are classified as follows:

First-party cookies: these are cookies specific to the person responsible for the website. Their use allows us to operate an efficient service and study the behaviour pattern of website users.

Third-party cookies: are those placed on your device by another entity that processes the data, not by the person responsible for the website. This information is controlled in its entirety by the third party in question, in accordance with their respective privacy policy.

Session cookies: These collect and store data while the user accesses a website. When your browser session ends, the cookie expires.

Persistent cookies: They store data in the terminal so that they can be accessed and processed for a defined period of time by the party responsible for the cookie -from a few minutes to several years-.

Technical cookies: These allow the user to browse through a website, platform or application and use the different options or services that exist on it.

Analysis cookies: These allow the party responsible for them to monitor and analyse the behaviour of the users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected through this type of cookies is used to measure the activity of the websites, application or platform and for the elaboration of browsing profiles of the users of these sites, applications and platforms, in order to introduce improvements based on the analysis of the usage data of the users of the service.

The following table shows the own and third-party cookies that we use on the website and the purpose for which each one is used. The cookies used by your website should then be included in a table, similar to the one below (the following are only an example):

NAME	CLASS	Ownership	Temporality	Purpouse
PHPSESSID	Sesión	Propia	Duración sesión del navegador	Usada para identificar la sesión. Es esencial para el funcionamiento de la web
Cookieaccept	Técnica	Propia	1 año	Control de aparición y aceptación para el aviso de cookies.
APSID, HSID	Analítica	Ajena. Propiedad de Google	6 meses	Recoge diversa información sobre la navegación para poder ofrecer servicios personalizados en sitios web con “Google maps”, publicidad comportamental.
Sociales (Facebook, Twitter, etc)	Sociales	Ajena	Depende de cada red social. Temporales y permanentes	Depende de cada red social. https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/ https://twitter.com/privacy
….	….	……	……	…..

Disabling cookies

You can allow, block or delete the cookies installed on your computer by configuring the options of the browser installed on your computer. Please read the help section of your browser carefully to find out more about how to activate the “private mode” or unblock certain cookies.

Internet Explorer: Tools -> Internet Options -> Privacy -> Settings.

For more information, you can consult Microsoft support or the browser’s Help.

Firefox: Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> History -> Custom Settings.

For more information, you can consult Mozilla support or the browser’s Help.

Chrome: Settings -> Show advanced options -> Privacy -> Content settings.

For more information, you can consult Google support or the browser’s Help.

Safari: Preferences -> Security.

For more information, you can consult Apple support or browser Help.