Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that a website places on your computer or mobile device when you visit it. They are used to make the website work better and to provide you with a more personalized experience.

Cookies do not collect information that identifies you. They collect general information, such as how users arrive at and use websites or the region or country from which they access the website. Cookies only retain information related to your preferences. At any time, the user can, through their internet browser, decide to be notified about the receipt of cookies, as well as block their entry into their system. Refusing to use cookies on the website may result in the impossibility of accessing some of its areas or receiving personalized information.

What are cookies used for?

Our cookies have different functions:

Essential cookies: Some cookies are essential to access specific areas of our website. They allow you to browse the site and use its applications, such as accessing secure areas of the site through login. Without these cookies, the services that require them cannot be provided.
Analytical cookies: We use these cookies to analyze how users use the site and monitor its performance. This allows us to provide a high-quality experience by customizing our offer and quickly identifying and correcting any problems that arise. For example, we use performance cookies to know which pages are the most popular, which method of linking between pages is the most effective, or to determine the reason why some pages are receiving error messages. Based on the use of the site, we can also use these cookies to highlight articles or services on the site that we think are of interest to users. These cookies are only used for statistical creation and analysis purposes, without ever collecting personal information.
Functionality cookies: We use functionality cookies to allow us to remember the user's preferences. For example, cookies prevent the user's name from being entered each time they access the site. We also use functionality cookies to provide advanced services to the user, such as making comments on an article. In summary, functionality cookies save the user's preferences regarding the use of the site, so that it is not necessary to reconfigure the site each time they visit it.
Third-party cookies: They are used to measure the success of applications and the effectiveness of third-party advertising.
Advertising cookies: They are used to target advertising according to the interests of each user, allowing the number of times the ad is viewed to be limited. These cookies help measure the effectiveness of advertising. However, they do not identify the user.

The cookies used can be:

Permanent cookies: These are stored at the level of the internet browser on your access devices (PC, mobile, and tablet) and are used whenever the user makes a new visit to the website. They are generally used to direct navigation according to the user's interests, allowing us to provide a more personalized service.
Session cookies: These are temporary and remain in the cookies of your internet browser until you leave the website. The information obtained allows you to identify problems and provide a better browsing experience.

Cookies we use

The following list explains how cookies are used on this website.

a) Strictly Necessary Cookies

Origin: Own
Name: ci_session
Description: Cookie used to develop PHP-based platforms, to maintain the user's state during the session, for greater consistency of the user experience.
Duration: Session

b) Performance Cookies

Origin: Third party (.google.com)
Name: _gid
Description: Cookie generated by Google Analytics and used to distinguish users.
Duration: 24 hours
Origin: Third party (.google.com)
Name: _ga
Description: Cookie generated by Google Analytics and used to distinguish users.
Duration: 2 years
Origin: Third party (.google.com)
Name: _gat
Description: Cookie generated by Google Analytics and used to control the request rate
Duration: 10 minutes

How to block cookies

As we have explained, cookies help you get the most out of our websites. After authorizing the use of cookies, the user can always disable part or all of our cookies, following the instructions corresponding to the browser they are using. We remember that by disabling cookies, parts of our website may not function correctly.

How to disable cookies in your browser:

a) For Google Chrome users: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop

b) For Internet Explorer users: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/manage-cookies-in-microsoft-edge-view-allow-block-delete-and-use-168dab11-0753-043d-7c16-ede5947fc64d

c) For Microsoft Edge users: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/manage-cookies-in-microsoft-edge-view-allow-block-delete-and-use-168dab11-0753-043d-7c16-ede5947fc64d

d) For Mozilla Firefox users: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences

e) For Apple Safari users: http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042

More about cookies

To know more about cookies, please access: www.allaboutcookies.org