COOKIES POLICY

Cookies are small text files that are stored in your browser when you visit our website. These files contain information about your navigation and interaction with our website, with the aim 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 own (when created by our own website) or third-party (when 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 the 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 storing more information than cookies without impacting the performance of our website.

You can get more information here.

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

Technical and preference cookies have more benefits than risks

The working group of article 29 (former GT29 and current European Committee for Data Protection) in its Opinion 4/2012, "on the exemption from the cookie consent requirement”, considers that they do not pose a risk for you and exempts from the obligation to obtain consent prior to their use all cookies that:

• are necessary for communications to be transmitted through a network between the user and the servers that host the web, and 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 Spanish, it is included in section 4.1 of the guide on the use of cookies, July 2020).

WG29 even defined the purposes that it explicitly considers to have more benefits than risks for you:

Purposes of cookies explicitly excluded from informed consent

With regard to its purpose, the GT29 explicitly excludes the following cookies from the obligation to obtain the informed consent of the visitor:

• Cookies called "user input", which are usually used to track the user's actions when filling out the online forms of an http session, or to remember the shopping basket that the user has selected in an e-commerce),
• Session cookies used for authentication or user identification, which store a kind of token (witness that the user is who he claims to be and has already been authenticated) to prevent this user from having to give his username or password on each page you request and have restricted access control,
• User security cookies, introduced specifically to strengthen the security of the service explicitly requested by the user. For example, to detect erroneous and repeated attempts to connect to a website, or abuse,
• Media player session cookies,
• Session cookies to balance the load on information systems,
• User interface personalization cookies, such as to remember 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 it is not necessary to obtain consent, listed above, whether they are own or third parties, 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 an appreciable risk either

Regarding the treatment 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 the users as long as it is about own cookies, which treat aggregated data with a strictly statistical purpose, that information is provided about their uses and the possibility for users to express their refusal about their use is included.

First-party cookies also usually do not pose an appreciable risk to you

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 ends and means of the treatments they carry out.

Our sole responsibility with respect to third-party cookies is the necessary cooperation of our website in the placement of these cookies on your computer, placement of which we will normally be obliged to be necessary to be able to use the services provided to us by said third parties (for example, to check that you are not a robot of these that are so abundant on the Internet, and thus avoid that the requests or comments that could be sent to us through the forms on our website harm the attention of the authentic).

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

In our specific case, we use the following:

the preferences 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 usually remembers the language in which you want to view our website. If you are the one who voluntarily chooses these features, for example, by marking the flag or letters that identify the language, it is considered a service expressly requested by you as long as the cookies obey exclusively for the purpose of personalization, so in this case it would not be necessary to ask you for an explicit authorization.

Our website uses the following preference cookies:

the statistical or analysis cookies, they are those that allow us to understand how visitors interact with the pages of our website and thus carry out the 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 configuration menu.

Specifically, our website uses the following analytics cookies:

We inform you that although the purpose of the third-party cookies we use, for which we are responsible, is that indicated in the table above, these third parties may dedicate the data collected by their cookies to other purposes for which they are sole responsible In the case of third-party cookies, our responsibility for the purposes of the third parties is limited to the download of 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 Ireand Ltd, to extract aggregate statistics. This means that cookies can also send the information they collect to Google Ireland Ltd. To avoid this, we recommend installing in your browser the add-on designed by Google itself so as not to send the data collected by these cookies. This add-on does not prevent your browser from sending the data to our website and it does prevent it from being sent to Google.

You can get more information about how Google uses your data by consulting the following pages of this provider:

• Google privacy and terms
• Safeguard your data

The biscuits marketing or behavioral advertising store user behavior information obtained through continuous observation of your browsing habits, which allows the development of a specific profile to show ads that are relevant and attractive to the individual user, and therefore more valuable to 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 navigation may not be optimal and some of the services offered may not work properly.

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

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