What are cookies and how do they work?
A cookie is a small piece of data (text files) that a website, when visited by a user, asks your browser to store on your device to ensure the site functions correctly and to remember information about you, such as your language preference, your login information, your browsing experience and to collect anonymous statistical information (the pages you have visited or how long you have stayed on the website).
We use cookies set by us which are called first party cookies, and third party cookies (which are cookies from a domain other than the domain of the website you are visiting). Cookies are used for website functionality purposes and for our analytics studies.
Cookies may collect personal user data, such as the IP address of your computer or a user/visitor identifier. To learn more about how we treat this data, please see our Privacy Policy.
The specific uses we make of these technologies are described below.
Types and functionality of cookies
Cookies, depending on their permanence, can be divided into session or permanent cookies. The former expire when the user closes the browser. The latter expire when the purpose for which they are used is fulfilled (for example, for the user to remain identified on the website) or when they are manually deleted.
In addition, depending on their purpose, cookies can be classified as follows:
- Strictly necessary (technical): These are essential for the correct functioning of the page. They are normally generated when the user accesses or logs in to the website and are used to identify the user on the website for the following purposes:
- To keep the user identified so that, if they leave the website, browser or device and access the website again at another time, they will continue to be identified, thus facilitating their browsing without having to identify themselves again.
- Check whether the user is authorised to access certain services or areas of the website.
- Performance: They are used to improve the browsing experience and optimise the functioning of the website, such as storing service configurations, or storing the purchase made in a shopping cart.
- Advertising: These collect information about the advertisements shown to users of the website. They can be of two types:
- Anonymous: They only collect information about the advertising spaces displayed on the website, regardless of the user accessing the website, i.e. without expressly identifying the user.
- Personalised: These collect personal information about the website user from a third party in order to personalise the advertising space.
- Geolocation cookies: These Cookies are used to find out in which country or region the user is located when accessing a service on the website in order to offer them content or services appropriate to their location.
- Analytics: These collect information about the user's browsing experience on the website, usually anonymously, although sometimes they also allow the user to be uniquely and unequivocally identified in order to obtain reports on users' interests in the services offered by the website.
Cookies used on this website
Below is a table with the Cookies used on this website, incorporating a criterion of "level of intrusiveness" based on a scale of 1 to 3, in which:
Level 1Cookies strictly necessary for the provision of the service requested by the user.
Level 2: corresponds to performance cookies (anonymous) necessary for the maintenance of content and navigation, of which it is only necessary to inform about their existence.
Level 3: corresponds to Cookies managed by third parties that allow the tracking of the user through websites of which the data controller is not the owner. They usually correspond to advertising or analytical Cookies where the user is uniquely and clearly identified.
Cookie table used | ||||
Cookie | Duration | Type | Purpose | Intrusiveness |
CookieConsent | 1 year | HTTP | Stores user's cookie consent status for current domain | Needed |
is_eu | Session | HTML | Determines when the user is located within the EU and therefore subject to data privacy laws. | Needed |
PHPSESSID | Session | HTTP | Retain user statuses for all requests on the page. | Needed |
PrestaShop-# | 5 days | HTTP | Pending | Needed |
_fbp | 3 months | HTTP | Used by Facebook to provide a range of advertising products such as real-time bidding from third-party advertisers. | Marketing |
lastExternalReferrer | Persistent | HTML | It detects how the user found the web page by registering its last URL address. | Marketing |
lastExternalReferrerTime | Persistent | HTML | It detects how the user found the web page by registering its last URL address. | Marketing |
log/error | Session | Pixel | Used to detect and record potential tracking errors. | Marketing |
_gcl_au | 3 months | HTTP | Used by Google AdSense to experiment with advertising efficiency across websites using their services. | Marketing |
test_cookie | 1 day | HTTP | Used to check whether the user's browser supports cookies. | Marketing |
ads/ga-audiences | Session | Pixel | Used by Google AdWords to reconnect with visitors who are likely to become customers, it is based on the customer's online behaviour across websites. | Marketing |
pagead/1p-user-list/# | Session | Pixel | Used to track whether the visitor has shown a specific interest in products or events across multiple sites and to detect how the visitor navigates between sites - This is used for measurement of advertising efforts and to facilitate cross-site delivery rates. | Marketing |
_pin_unauth | 1 year | HTTP | Used by Pinterest to track usage of the services. | Marketing |
_pinterest_ct_ua | 1 year | HTTP | Used by Pinterest to track usage of the services. | Marketing |
ar_debug | 1 year | HTTP | Pending | Marketing |
v3/ | Session | Pixel | Used by Pinterest to track usage of the services. | Marketing |
International transfer of data
This website uses Google Analytics, so your data may be transferred outside the European Economic Area. Further information on this subject can be found at https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=es.
How to disable the use of cookies
If the user so wishes, it is possible to stop accepting browser Cookies, or to stop accepting Cookies from a particular service.
All modern browsers allow you to change your Cookie settings. These settings are usually found in the "Options" or "Preferences" menu of the browser.
The user may, at any time, disable the use of Cookies on this website by:
Browser settings, for example:
- Google Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=es&answer=95647
- Internet Explorer : http://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/windows7/how-to-manage-cookies-in-internet-explorer-9
- Mozilla Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/habilitar-y-deshabilitar-cookies-que-los-sitios-we
- Apple Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042
Other third party tools, available on-line, allow users to detect Cookies on each website they visit and manage their deactivation (e.g. Ghostery: http://www.ghostery.com/privacy-statement).
What happens if you disable cookies
Some functionalities and services may be disabled or behave differently than expected, such as, for example, remaining logged in, keeping purchases in the "shopping cart" in an e-commerce service, or receiving location-targeted information, among others.
If you disable the use of Cookies on this website it is likely that you will no longer be able to access certain areas of the website or that your browsing experience will be significantly degraded.
Cookie policy update
The data controller may modify this Cookies Policy according to legislative or regulatory requirements, or with the aim of adapting said policy to the instructions issued by the Spanish Data Protection Agency, for which reason users are advised to visit it periodically.
When significant changes are made to this Cookie Policy, the entity will proceed to post them on the website.