1.What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that a website, application or other platform stores browsing or usage information on your computer, tablet, smartphone or other similar device, acting like a tag that identifies your device. Cookies are necessary for purposes such as facilitating navigation, learning and improving how users interact with platforms. It is also used to serve advertisements to the user according to their preferences, as well as for other purposes detailed below. Cookies do not harm your computer or device.
When we talk about “cookies” we also mean other similar technologies (flash cookies, web beacons or bugs, pixels, HTML5-local storage) and SDK technologies for application formats that collect or build information on and through your device. Likewise, the term “Cookie” is also applied to fingerprinting, that is, the use of information gathering techniques that will help us identify your device. In some cases, these technologies work with cookies to collect and store information in order to provide you with certain functions or services on our Platform or to serve you advertising on third-party platforms based on your browsing data.
This description is a general summary of Cookies for informational purposes only. Cookies used for specific purposes are detailed in the cookie configuration panel accessible from our Platform.
2.What Types of Cookies are there?
Please review this section for general information about the types of Cookies that can be used online.
According to their owners, Cookies can be divided into the following categories:
A) First party cookies: These are cookies sent to the user’s computer or device from an equipment or domain managed by the publisher and where the platform or the service requested by the user is provided.
B)Third party cookies: These are cookies sent to the user’s computer or device by another organization that processes data through equipment or domain names not managed by the publisher and through cookies.
Cookies can be classified according to their purposes as follows:
A)Strictly necessary cookies (technical): Allowing the user to navigate a web page, platform or application and control the traffic on them, identify data or session, access restricted sections or contents, remember the elements that make up an order, make a purchase for an order, such as managing payment, checking fraud related to the security of the service, using security elements while browsing, requesting registration or participation in an event, storing content for video or audio broadcast, enabling dynamic content (for example, text or image loading animation), or sharing content on social networks These are cookies that allow you to use different options. Strictly necessary technical cookies are used to enable the display of the platform or to be used by the user.
is downloaded by default when the requested service is allowed to be provided.
B) Functional or personalization cookies: These cookies provide information such as language, the number of results to be shown when the user makes a search, the appearance or content of the service depending on the type of browser the user uses or the region from which the service is accessed, so that the user can access the service or platform with certain features that may differentiate their experience from the experiences of other users. These are cookies that allow you to remember your information. Failure to accept these Cookies may result in slow website operation or insufficiently personalized recommendations.
C)Analysis cookies: These are cookies that allow calculating the number of users, the sections that users visit on the platform and the way they interact with them, in order to make usage measurements and statistical analysis of users, in order to provide improvements through the analysis of usage data arising from the users’ use of our platform or service.
D)Behavioral advertising cookies: These are cookies that enable creating a specific profile to display advertisements based on the user’s browsing habits and store user behavior information obtained by continuous observation of these habits. These cookies enable the easiest possible management of advertising spaces added by the editor directly or in collaboration with third parties.
3.Why Are Cookies Used on Our Platform?
Cookies are an integral part of the functioning of our Platform. The main purpose of our cookies is to make your browsing experience more convenient and efficient. It is used, for example, to remember your preferences (language, country, etc.) during navigation and for future visits. Cookies are used to continually improve our services and our Platform, as well as to provide personalized advertising based on your browsing habits.
The information collected in cookies also enables us to improve our Platform by making predictions based on statistical data and usage patterns (number of visits, most visited sections, visit duration, etc.), to know statistically how users interact with the website in order to improve our services, and in this way to use the Platform individually. us to tailor it to your interests, speed up searches, etc. provides.
In some cases, cookies may be used to obtain information (products visited, sections browsed, etc.) that enable us to display advertising on our Platform, on third-party platforms or in any other media based on analysis of your browsing behavior.
However, sensitive information such as passwords, debit card or credit card information are never recorded in the cookies we use.
4.How Can I Manage the Use of Cookies on This Platform?
In the cookie configuration dashboard, which you can always access from our Platform, you will find all information about the cookies used by this Platform, together with information about the purpose, duration and management (first or third party) of each of them, so that you can manage the activation and deactivation of the use of Cookies that are not essential for the operation of the Platform.
Alternatively, if you are browsing the internet, you can disable the use of cookies in your browser. The steps for the most used browsers are as follows:
Google Chrome
Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox
Safari
You can disable the use of cookies at any time.
Please note that cookie configuration dashboard management and the option to reject cookies are specific to each browser you use. This means that if you choose to configure cookies in a certain way on one device and want to apply similar settings on another browser, you will need to enable the same option on this second device.
As an additional step, with respect to third-party cookies that aim to serve advertising based on your interests, please note that certain third parties may subscribe to some of the following self-regulating programs for online behavioral advertising, each of which have their own voluntary opt-out options:
Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) – http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/
Google Analytics –https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Who Uses the Information Stored in Cookies?
The information stored in the cookies of our Platform is used solely by us, except for those described in section 2 as “Third party cookies”, which are used and managed by external organizations to provide services aimed at improving our services and the experience of the user browsing our Platform. More information about the cookie configuration dashboard can always be found on our Platform.
To obtain more detailed information about the processing of your personal information and those subject to international data transfer in our collaboration with third parties, we recommend that you read our Privacy Policy, which you can access from our Platform, and the privacy policies / privacy configurations of our third-party business partners, which can be accessed through their own platforms.