Article 22.2 of Law 34/2002: “Service providers may use data storage and retrieval devices on the terminal equipment of recipients, provided that the recipients have given their consent after having been given clear and complete information about their use, in particular about the purposes of the data processing.”
As the person responsible for this website, I have taken great care to comply with that article as rigorously as possible. However, given the way the Internet and websites work, it is not always possible to have up-to-date information on the cookies that third parties may use through this site. This applies especially to cases where the website contains embedded elements: texts, documents, images or videos that are stored elsewhere but displayed here. If you come across cookies of this kind that are not listed below, please let me know.
Preliminary note. What are cookies?
Cookies are a tool used by web servers to store and retrieve information about their visitors. They are nothing more than a text file that some servers ask our browser to write to the hard drive, containing information about what we have been doing on their pages. They have an expiry date, which can range from the length of the session to a specified future date, after which they stop working.
1. The cookies this website uses
This website uses first-party and third-party cookies to provide a better browsing experience, to make it possible to share content on social media, to show ads based on your interests and to obtain user statistics.
The cookies used are associated solely with an anonymous user and their computer. They do not provide references that would make it possible to work out the user's full name, and they cannot read data from the user's hard drive or include viruses in their text. Likewise, the website cannot read cookies installed on the user's hard drive by other servers.
The user can freely decide whether or not these cookies are installed: they can set their browser to accept or reject them by default, or to display an on-screen warning each time. Even if they reject all cookies, they will still be able to browse the site, the only drawback being that they will not be able to enjoy the features that require cookies to be installed. They can delete any cookies already installed at any time via their browser's help section.
The cookies on this website help to:
- Make this website work properly
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Let you watch videos
- Improve the speed and security of the site
- Let you share pages on social media
- Continually improve this website
- Show you ads based on your browsing habits
Cookies will never be used to:
- Collect personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Share personally identifiable information with third parties
2. Third-party cookies you should know about
Like most sites, this website includes features provided by third parties, and new designs or services are tested regularly. This may occasionally change the cookie configuration and cause cookies not detailed in this policy to appear: these are temporary cookies used for research and evaluation purposes. Under no circumstances will cookies that compromise your privacy be used.
- Analytics: Google Analytics, a service provided by Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California), which helps to analyse how users use the website and to improve its usability, without being associated with data that could identify the user. There are also Google Maps cookies, used to make the maps work.
- WordPress: the website uses the WordPress blog provision and hosting platform, owned by Automattic Inc. The use of such cookies is never under the control or management of the person responsible for the website; their function may change at any time and they bring no benefit whatsoever.
- Social media: these cookies may be stored in your browser while you browse, for example when you use the button to share content. The privacy implications will depend on each social network and on the privacy settings you have chosen on them.
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/323540651073243/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/privacy
- YouTube: https://policies.google.com/privacy
- Instagram: https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388
Cookies that may be installed while browsing
| NAME | DURATION | PURPOSE |
|---|
| _ga | 2 years | Analytics cookie from Google Analytics. It stores a unique client ID and is used to keep track of unique visits, user data and campaigns. |
| _gat | 10 minutes | Analytics cookie from Google Analytics. It is used to distinguish between the different tracking objects created in the session. |
| _gid | 24 hours | Analytics cookie from Google Analytics, used to distinguish users. |
| CONSENT | 20 years | Google Maps cookie. It is used to make the map work. |
| IDE, DSID | 2 years | Advertising cookie: it identifies the devices of returning users and is used for personalised ads. |
| viewed_cookie_policy | 1 year | Internal cookie needed to manage consent to the use of cookies. |
3. How can I manage and disable these cookies?
If you do not want the website to install any cookies on your device, you can adjust your browser so that you are notified before any cookie is downloaded. You can also change your browser settings so that it rejects all cookies or only third-party ones, and delete any that are already stored. Each browser has its own help section: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Microsoft Edge and Opera explain in their documentation how to block, delete and manage cookies step by step.
Please bear in mind that if you block or delete cookies, some of the website's features may stop being available or may not work properly.
