Definition and purpose of cookies
What are cookies? A cookie is a file downloaded to your computer when you access certain websites. A website’s cookies make it possible, among other things, to store and recover information about a user’s browsing habits or computer and, depending on the information it contains and the way the computer is used, they may be used to recognise the user.
What types of cookies does this website use?
First-party cookies: These are sent to the user’s computer terminal from a computer or domain managed by the publisher itself and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
Session cookies: These are a type of cookie designed to collect and store data while the user browses through a website.
Persistent cookies: These are a type of cookie in which data continue to be stored on the computer terminal while being able to be accessed and processed for a time period defined by the cookie owner, which may last from a few minutes to several years. In our case, cookies are kept for 2 years at most.
Technical cookies: They are necessary to browse through the website.
Analytics cookies: They enable us to quantify the number of users and thus perform analytics and statistics on how users use the service offered.
Specifically, the cookies we use are as follows:
PHPSESSID: It is deleted at the end of the browsing session. To properly maintain the user’s session while browsing the website.
_utma: It lasts 2 years at most. It is used to learn how many times a user accesses a website.
_utmb: It lasts 30 min at most. It is used to learn the session’s login time and calculate when the session has ended.
_utmc: It is deleted at the end of the browsing session. It is used to learn the session’s login time and to calculate when the session has ended.
_utmv: It is deleted at the end of the browsing session at most. It is used to store custom variable data about the user’s preferences.
_utmz: It lasts 6 months at most. It stores information about where the user accessed the website from, whether it was through an ad, from another website, from a search engine, etc.
_utmt: It lasts 10 min at most. It is used to process the type of request required by the user.
Links to other websites and social media
In case there is a link to another website or social media, these will have their own cookies policies, for which we are not responsible in any case. To this end, you should consult their respective cookies policies.
Withdrawal and deletion of cookies
You can modify your browser’s privacy settings to enable, block or delete the cookies installed on your computer.
For more information on how to block the use of cookies, here are some useful links:
Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/windows-vista/block-or-allow-cookies
Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=es&answer=95647
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/impedir-que-los-sitios-web-guarden-sus-preferencia
Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042
Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/11.50/es-ES/cookies.html