Cookie Policy
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit our website.
First party cookies are cookies set by our website. Only that website can read them. In addition, the website might potentially use external services, which also set their own cookies, known as third-party cookies.
Persistent cookies are cookies saved on your computer and that are not deleted automatically when you quit your browser, unlike a session cookie, which is deleted when you quit your browser.
Every time you visit our website, you will be prompted to accept or refuse cookies.
The purpose is to enable the site to remember your preferences (such as username, language, etc.) for a certain period.
That way, you don’t have to re-enter them when browsing around the site during the same visit.
Cookies can also be used to establish anonymized statistics about the browsing experience on our sites.
What kind of cookies do we use?
Depending on the owner of the Cookies, they can be classified as:
A. Identical cookies.
The cookie is sent from a computer or domain managed by the publisher itself, from which the service is offered. The cookie is sent to the user’s computer or domain. The cookie is sent from a computer or domain managed by the publisher to a computer or device on the user’s computer.
B. Third-party cookies.
These are those sent to the user’s computer or device by a user’s computer or domain that is not managed by the publisher, but by another entity that the data obtained through cookies are processed by a third party that is not managed by the publisher but by another party that processes the data obtained through the cookies.
Depending on the purpose of the Cookie, they can be classified as:
a. Absolutely necessary (technical) cookies.
Those allow the user to browse a website, platform or application and use the different options (e.g., traffic control, identification of the user, etc.) or the use of certain services and applications (e.g. traffic recognition, data identification or login period, access to restricted sections or content) , or the use of services and applications such as web browsing, recall of the elements constituting an order, execution of the order, access to specific functions, such as the purchase process of an order, the management of payment, the control of security-related fraud, the use of security features during browsing, the requesting registration or participation in an event, storing content for transmission of video or audio files, activation of dynamic content (e.g., animation loading text or images) or sharing content via social networks.
The technical aspects cookies are taken by default when they display the website or provide the service requested by the user, because they are strictly necessary.
b. Functionality or personalization cookies:
These cookies are those that allow information to be retained so that the user can access the service or the service or platform with specific features that can differentiate the user’s experience.
This allows the service provider to provide the user with features that make the website experience different from that of other users, such as, for example, the language, the number of results to be displayed when the user performs a search, the appearance or content of the service depending on the type of browser used by the user or the region from which the service is accessed, etc. Not accepting these cookies may lead to slow performance of the website or poorly tailored proposals.
c. Analysis cookies:
These allow the quantification of the number of the number of users, the modules visited on the platform and the way in which they have visited the platform.
These are the modules that have been visited and the way in which they interact with it, to carry out the measurement and statistical analysis.
The measurement and statistical analysis of the use made by users, to introduce improvements based on the analysis of users’ usage, and to measure and analyze the use of the platform and its components, and to measure and analyze the use made by users of the platform or service.
d. Behavioral advertising cookies:
Those cookies store information about user behavior obtained through continuous observation of user habits.
This allows the development of a specific profile for the display of advertisements based on this. These cookies allow the management, in the most effective way possible, of the advertising spaces that it may have included by the curator directly or in collaboration with third parties.
What’s the purpose of cookies on our site?
The information collected in Cookies also allows us to improve our website by evaluating statistical data and usage patterns (number of visits, most visited sections, most visited sections, time of visit, etc.), to know in a statistical way how users interact with the website, to improve our services, as well as to adapt the website to your individual interests, speed up searches, etc.
In any case, we never store sensitive information in the cookies we use such as passwords, credit, or debit card details, etc.
Third-party cookies
Some of our pages display content from external providers, e.g. YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.
To view this third-party content, you first must accept their specific terms and conditions. This includes their cookie policies, which we have no control over.
But if you do not view this content, no third-party cookies are installed on your device.
Third-party providers on our website:
1. Youtube
How can you manage cookies?
· Remove cookies from your device.
You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing history of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited.
Be aware though that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, site preferences).
· Manage site-specific cookies
For more detailed control over site-specific cookies, check the privacy and cookie settings in your preferred browser.
· Block cookies
You can set most modern browsers to prevent any cookies being placed on your device, but you may then have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site/page. And some services and functionalities may not work properly at all (e.g. profile logging-in).