Cookie Policy

USE OF COOKIES

The recent regulatory change regarding advertising and consent management for the use of cookies, pixels, or other information storage elements requires websites to adapt to the new cookie regulations of Law 34/2002, on information society services and electronic commerce.

Downloading these types of elements allows for the collection of information about user activity and has implications for their privacy.

Therefore, the new regulations impose the obligation to obtain informed consent from users to accept the use of cookies on websites.

What is a cookie?

1. Cookies are small files that are downloaded to your computer when you browse websites. A simple example would be when you visit the page of a web-based email account such as Gmail, Outlook, or Yahoo Mail.
2. Cookies allow a website to recognize a user's browser and do not contain or collect information. They are used, for example, to keep a user authenticated in an account like the ones mentioned above without having to authenticate each time they access their account. Another example is  advertising where, based on ads the user has previously visited, an attempt is made to offer more relevant ads.

On this website, we use the following types of cookies:

• First-party cookies: These are strictly necessary cookies. They allow the user to interact with the website using all its functions. (Duration between 23 days and three months).
• Performance and analytics cookies: These are cookies used for analysis and statistics that improve the website experience. By using these cookies, visitors can be shown more relevant information. (Duration between 100 days and 1 year).
• Affiliate cookies: As a website with affiliate links, this type of cookie allows the affiliate company to detect that a customer of yours came from this site.
• Advertising cookies: These are cookies used by the advertising elements on the blog (Google AdSense).

Likewise, Google Analytics enables the following cookies on the website's domain:

• “__utma”: This is necessary for Google Analytics to function and has an expiration period of 2 years.
• “__utmz”: This is used to determine the location of the visit, that is, from where and how the user reached our website and expires after 6 months.

The purpose is to collect statistics: the number of visits, the consultation period, the search engine used to access the website, the keywords used, the visitor's global location, the content visited on the website, as well as other website traffic parameters, always anonymously.

Google stores this information collected by the cookies This means that no user is identified. Nor is your IP address associated with any other information held by it. Furthermore, Google Inc. is a company that adheres to the Safe Harbor Agreement. This agreement guarantees that the transferred data will be treated in accordance with the levels of protection required by European regulations. To obtain more information about Google Analytics, you can visit the following link.

Based on your choice regarding the use of cookies on this website, you will be sent an additional cookie to safeguard your choice and so that you do not have to accept the use of cookies each time you access the Website.

How do I disable cookies?

All browsers allow changes that allow you to disable the cookie settings. These settings are located in the "options" or "preferences" menu of your browser.
Below are links with instructions for different browsers on how to disable cookies.

However, please remember that disabling cookies means losing functionality on many websites.

• Instructions for Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox
• Instructions for Google Chrome Google Chrome
• Instructions for Safari Safari

If you do not wish to be tracked by cookies, Google has developed a browser add-on that you can access at the following link.