Cookies Policy

As defined in Wikipedia: a cookie is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while the user is browsing that website. Every time the user loads the website, the browser sends the cookie back to the server to notify the website of the user's previous activity.

The use of cookies is a common, safe practice and is essential for the proper functioning of the Internet, providing advantages by offering interactive services, facilitating navigation and usability of the website. Cookies cannot harm your computer, they only contain data which are safe for software; they do not contain code.

Depending on the entity that manages the computer or domain from which cookies are sent and how they use the data obtained, we can distinguish between:

• Own cookies: These are sent to the user's terminal from a computer or domain managed by the editor itself and from which the service requested by the user is provided.

• Third Party Cookies : These are sent to the user's terminal from a computer or domain that is not managed by the editor, but by another entity seeking data that is obtained through cookies.

In the event that cookies are installed from a computer or domain managed by the editor itself; however, if a third party manages the information collected by these, they cannot be considered as own cookies.

According to the purpose for which the data collected through the cookies are used, we can distinguish between:

• Technical Cookies: These are cookies that allow the user to navigate through a website, platform or application and use different options or services that exist, for example, control traffic and data communication, identify the session, access to restricted parts, remember the elements of an order, turn the buying process into an order, make an application for registration or participation in an event, use security features while browsing, store content for sharing videos or audio, or share content via social networks.

• Customizable Cookies: Are those that allow users to access the service with some features of a general nature based on a predefined set of criteria for a terminal that the user controls, such as the language, the type of browser used to access a service, the regional configuration from which you access the service, etc.

• Analytical Cookies: Are those that allow the developer to monitor and analyze the behavior of users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected by these cookies is used to measure the activity of websites, applications or platforms for profiling users' browsing history for such sites, applications and platforms, in order to make improvements based on the analysis of data usage of the users of that service.

Regarding what is done with the data collected through cookies analysis, although they are not exempt from the obligation of obtaining informed consent for their use, it is unlikely to pose a risk to the privacy of users, as long as they refer to first-party cookies, aggregate data dealing with a strictly statistical purpose, that information about their use is facilitated and the possibility that users express their refusal to their use is included.

• Advertising Cookies: cookies that enable the management, the most efficient way of advertising spaces, if the editor is included on a website, application or platform from providing the requested service based on criteria as the edited content or the frequency at which the ads are displayed.

• Behavioral Advertising Cookies: are those that enable management of advertising spaces in the most efficient way possible, if the editor has included the provided requested service on a website, application or platform. These cookies store information on user behavior obtained through continuous observation of your browsing habits, allowing to develop a specific profile to display ads based on it.

• cookiesDirective: cookie that controls whether the user accepts the cookies policy. Does not store personal data.

Analytical Cookies are used to track user browsing habits to meet for further analysis and to optimize processes and site pages. Collect statistical data of the activity.

• _utma,_utmb,_utmc entre otras. They are cookies provided by the measurement tool Google Analytics, it is widely used and found on most professional websites.

Depending on the browser used, the procedure for removing cookies or limitation of its use will vary. The best option is to consult your browser's help to obtain accurate information for this action.

Current browsers offer a way to surf anonymously. When creating a new private or anonymous search, the cookies that are stored during the search are destroyed when the browser is closed.

Here is a list of the main browsers with a link to the configuration information for cookies and private browsing.

• Internet Explorer 8 and above; In Private

• Safari 2 and above; Private Browsing

• Opera 10.5 and higher; Private Browsing

• Firefox 3.5 and higher; Private Browsing

• Google Chrome 10 and above; Incognito