Cookies are small text files that are stored in your browser when you visit our website. These files contain information about your browsing and interaction with our website, with the purpose of making your user experience more efficient. Some cookies are essential for the proper functioning of our website, such as technical or user interface personalization cookies, and others, such as analysis cookies or behavioral advertising (or marketing) cookies, require that we inform you and that you give us your consent before we can use them.

LocalStorage and SessionStorage are two data storage spaces located in your device's browser and, like cookies, can be your own (when they are created by our own website) or third-party (when they are created by our service providers or our partners). The difference between the two spaces is that LocalStorage stores information indefinitely or until you decide to clear your browser data, while SessionStorage stores information for as long as the tab where our website is being used remains open and, once closed, the information is deleted. The difference with cookies is that these two spaces allow you to store more information than cookies without impacting the performance of our website.

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In general, the level of risk of cookies depends on the type of cookies, and whether they are first-party or third-party. Most cookies are not dangerous. Specifically:

Technical and preference cookies have more benefits than risks

The Article 29 Working Party (former WG29 and current European Data Protection Board) in its Opinion 4/2012, “about the exemption from the cookie consent requirement”, considers that they do not pose a risk to you and exempts from the obligation to obtain prior consent for their use all cookies that:

• are necessary for communications to be transmitted through a network between the user and the servers that host the website, and to all those that
• are necessary to provide a specific functionality explicitly requested by the user.

This exemption from the obligation to base the legality of its use on your consent, so as not to represent a risk for you, is also reflected in the cookie guides published by most of the Data Protection Agencies of the EU countries (for example, in the case of Spain, it is included in section 4.1 of the guide on the use of cookies, July 2020).

GT29 even defined the purposes that it explicitly considers to present more benefits than risks for you:

Cookie purposes explicitly excluded from informed consent

With regard to their purpose, GT29 explicitly excludes the following cookies from the obligation to obtain the visitor's informed consent:

• Cookies called “user input”, which are usually used to track the user's actions when filling out online forms in an http session, or to remember the shopping cart that the user has selected in an e-commerce),
• Session cookies that are used for user authentication or identification, which store a kind of token (proof that the user is who they say they are and has already been authenticated) to prevent this user from having to give their username or password on each page they request and have restricted access control,
• User security cookies, introduced specifically to reinforce the security of the service explicitly requested by the user. For example, to detect erroneous and repeated attempts to connect to a website, or abuses,
• Media player session cookies,
• Session cookies to balance the load of information systems,
• User interface personalization cookies, such as remembering your preferred language, and
• Certain plug-in cookies to exchange social content.

In general, in those cases in which a website offers its visitors a service, to use cookies exclusively for the purposes for which consent is not required, listed above, whether they are our own or third-party, it will not be necessary for the person responsible for the website, us, to inform the visitor of their use or to obtain their consent.

Statistical cookies DO NOT pose any significant risk.

Regarding the processing of data collected through analysis cookies, the aforementioned opinion of the current European Data Protection Committee stated that, although they are not exempt from the duty to obtain consent for their use, they are unlikely to pose a risk for the privacy of users whenever they are their own cookies, which process aggregated data for a strictly statistical purpose, which provide information about their uses and include the possibility for users to express their refusal to use them.

First-party cookies also do not usually pose a significant risk to you.

Our own cookies are generated by our website, while third-party cookies are generated by services or providers independent of us, and it is these independent providers who define the purposes and means of the processing they carry out.

Our only responsibility with respect to third-party cookies is the necessary collaboration of our website in placing these cookies on your computer, a placement that we will normally be obliged to do as it is necessary to be able to use the services provided to us by said third parties (for example, to verify that you are not a robot of those that abound on the Internet, and thus prevent the requests or comments that you could send us through the forms on our website from harming the attention of the authentic ones).

the technical cookies are those that allow the user to navigate through a website, platform or application as well as use the different options or services that exist in it, including the management and operation of the website and the enabling of its functions and services (for example, identifying your session, accessing parts of the website that have restricted access, remembering the elements that make up your order, carrying out the purchase process of your order, managing your payment, etc.). The website or app cannot function properly without these cookies, which is why they are considered necessary.

In our specific case, we use the following:

the Preference or personalization cookies allow our website to remember information that changes the way our pages behave or look in order to differentiate your experience from that of other users. As an example, it is usually remembered the language in which you want to view our website. If you are the one who voluntarily chooses these features, for example, by checking the flag or letters that identify the language, it is considered a service expressly requested by you as long as the cookies are used exclusively for the purpose of personalization, so in this case it would not be necessary to ask for your explicit authorization.

Our website uses the following preference cookies:

the statistical or analysis cookies, are those that allow us to understand how visitors interact with the pages of our website and thus perform statistical analysis of the services we provide. The information collected is used to measure activity on our site in order to introduce improvements in the products and services we offer you.

We will use analysis cookies exclusively if you authorize us to do so, by pressing the corresponding button on the cookie banner or through its settings menu.

Specifically, our website uses the following analysis cookies:

We inform you that although the purpose of the third-party cookies we use, for which we are responsible, is as indicated in the table above, these third parties may dedicate the data collected by their cookies to other purposes for which they are solely responsible. In the case of third-party cookies, our responsibility for the purposes of third parties is limited to downloading the cookies to your device (which we do for the purpose indicated above). You can find out about the purposes of these third parties, and whether or not they make transfers to third countries in their corresponding policies (see the links in the table).

For example, we use cookies from the Google Analytics service, from Google Ireland Ltd, to extract aggregate statistics. This means that the cookies can also send the information they collect to Google Ireland Ltd. To avoid this, we recommend that you install the following in your browser: add-on designed by Google itself to not send the data collected by these cookiesThis add-on does not prevent your browser from sending data to our website and does prevent it from being sent to Google.

You can learn more about how Google uses your data by visiting the following pages from this provider:

• Google privacy and terms
• Safeguard your data

The cookiesmarketing or behavioral advertising They store information on user behavior obtained through continuous observation of your browsing habits, which allows a specific profile to be developed to display relevant and attractive advertisements for the individual user, and therefore, more valuable for third-party advertisers.

We will use marketing cookies exclusively if you authorize us to do so by pressing the corresponding button on the cookie banner or through its settings menu.

Specifically, our website uses those indicated in the table below:

You can administer, manage and deactivate the cookies used by our website at any time from your browser, for example, to withdraw your consent, following the instructions provided by the manufacturer of your browser:

• Instructions for Microsoft Edge
• Instructions for Google Chrome
• Instructions for Google Android
• Instructions for Internet Explorer 11
• Instructions for Mozilla Firefox
• Instructions for Opera
• Instructions for Safari

If you disable the installation of cookies in your browser, you will be able to continue accessing our website with it, but your browsing may not be optimal and some of the services offered may not function correctly.

We will update this Cookie Policy whenever necessary to reflect changes in our products and services.

If there are substantial changes to this policy, we will notify you before they come into effect by publishing a prominent notice in the cookie banner. In any case, we recommend that you periodically review this Cookie Policy to know which cookies we use and how we use them.