Due to the entry into force of the relevant amendment to the “Law on Information Society Services” (LSSICE) established by Royal Decree 13/2012, it is mandatory to obtain the express consent of the user of all websites that use non-essential cookies before they browse them.

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies and other similar technologies such as local shared objects, flash cookies, or pixels are tools used by web servers to store and retrieve information about their visitors, as well as to ensure the proper functioning of the site.

By using these devices, the web server can remember certain user data, such as their preferences for viewing the pages of that server, username and password, products that interest them most, etc.

COOKIES AFFECTED BY REGULATIONS AND EXCEPT COOKIES

According to the EU directive, cookies that require informed consent from the user are analytics cookies and advertising and affiliate cookies. Technical cookies and those necessary for the operation of the website or the provision of services expressly requested by the user are exempt.

WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES EXIST?

ACCORDING TO PURPOSE

• Technical and functional cookies: These are cookies that allow the user to navigate through a website, platform, or application and use the different options or services available on it.
• Analytical cookies: These are cookies that allow the party responsible for them to track and analyze the behavior of users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected through these types of cookies is used to measure the activity of websites, applications, or platforms and to create browsing profiles of users of these sites, applications, and platforms, in order to introduce improvements based on the analysis of user data.

  Advertising cookies: These cookies allow for the most effective management of advertising spaces that the publisher may have included on a website, application, or platform from which the requested service is provided, based on criteria such as the content displayed or the frequency with which ads are shown.

  Behavioral advertising cookies: These cookies collect information about the user’s preferences and personal choices (retargeting) to allow for the most effective management of advertising spaces that the publisher may have included on a website, application, or platform from which the requested service is provided.

• Social Cookies: These are set by social media platforms on the Services to allow you to share content with your friends and networks. Social media platforms have the ability to track your online activity outside of the Services. This may affect the content and messages you see on other services you visit.
• Affiliate Cookies: These allow tracking of visits from other websites with which this website has an affiliate agreement (affiliate companies).
• Security Cookies: These store encrypted information to prevent the data stored in them from being vulnerable to malicious attacks from third parties.

DEPENDING ON THE OWNER

• First-Party Cookies: These are sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by the publisher and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
• Third-Party Cookies: These are sent to the terminal equipment from the user from a computer or domain that is not managed by the publisher, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through cookies.

DEPENDING ON THE RETENTION PERIOD

• Session Cookies: These are a type of cookie designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a website.
• Persistent Cookies: These are a type of cookie in which the data remains stored on the terminal and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the cookie owner, and which It can range from a few minutes to several years.