Cookies policy

What is a Cookie?

A Cookie is a small text file that a website, app, or other platform stores on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or any other similar device, with information about your browsing or use, like a tag that identifies your device. Cookies are necessary, for example, to facilitate navigation and to understand how users interact with platforms, so they can be improved. They are also very useful for offering advertising based on user preferences, as well as for other purposes detailed below. Cookies do not harm your computer or device.

When we refer to "Cookies," we also mean other similar technologies for installing and/or collecting information on or about your device (such as flash cookies, web beacons or bugs, pixels, HTML5 (local storage), and SDK technologies for app formats). Likewise, the term "Cookies" also applies to the use of fingerprinting techniques, meaning those information combination techniques that help us identify your device. Sometimes, these technologies work together with cookies to collect and store information, either to provide you with certain functionalities or services on our Platform, or to show you advertising on third-party platforms, taking into account your browsing. This explanation is a general overview of what is understood by Cookies for informational purposes only.

What are Cookies used for?

We use cookies for several reasons, the main one being to make the user's browsing experience more comfortable and efficient. For example, they are used to remember your preferences (language, country, etc.) during browsing and on future visits, to provide you with a better experience, and for this, we need to see which features are most popular, count visitors on a page, improve our users' experience, and keep our services secure, among others.

The information collected in Cookies also allows us to improve our website by estimating statistical data and usage patterns (number of visits, most visited sections, visit duration, etc.), to understand statistically how users interact with the website in order to improve our services, as well as to adapt the website to your individual interests, speed up searches, etc.

In any case, the Cookies we use never store sensitive information such as passwords, credit or debit card data, etc. The cookies we use generally fall into one of the categories in the following section.

What types of Cookies exist?

  • Please review this section, which provides an overview of the types of Cookies that can be used in an online environment.
  • Depending on the entity that manages the equipment or domain from which cookies are sent and processes the data obtained, they can be classified as:
  1. First-party cookies: these are those for which the editor itself is responsible and which are generally sent to the user's terminal equipment from equipment or a domain managed by the editor itself and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
  2. Third-party cookies: these are those for which an entity other than the editor is responsible and which are generally sent to the user's terminal equipment from equipment or a domain that is not managed by the editor, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through the cookies.
  • Depending on the purpose for which the data obtained through cookies is processed, some of the purposes may be, they can be classified as:
  1. Technical cookies (strictly necessary): these are those that allow the user to navigate through a website, platform, or application and use the different options or services that exist in it, such as controlling traffic, identifying data or the session, accessing restricted access sections or content, remembering the elements that make up an order, carrying out the purchase process of an order, managing payment, controlling fraud linked to the security of the service, using security elements during navigation, making a request for registration or participation in an event, storing content for the dissemination of videos or sound, enabling dynamic content (for example, animation of loading a text or image) or sharing content through social networks. Technical cookies, being strictly necessary, are downloaded by default when they allow the website to be displayed or the service requested by the user to be provided.
  2. Preference or personalization cookies: these cookies are those that allow information to be remembered so that the user accesses the service or platform with certain characteristics that can differentiate their experience from that of other users, such as, for example, the language, the number of results to show when the user performs a search, the appearance or content of the service depending on the type of browser used by the user or the region from which they access the service, etc. Not accepting these Cookies may lead to slow website performance or poorly adapted recommendations.
  3. Analytics or measurement cookies: these are those that allow the party responsible for them to monitor and analyze the behavior of users of the websites to which they are linked, including the quantification of ad impacts. The information collected through this type of cookie is used in the measurement of website, application, or platform activity, in order to introduce improvements based on the analysis of the usage data made by users of the service.
  4. Behavioral advertising cookies: these are those that store information on the behavior of users obtained through continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows a specific profile to be developed to show advertising based on it. These cookies allow the most efficient management possible of the advertising spaces that, where appropriate, the editor has included directly or in collaboration with third parties.

Depending on the period of time they remain active on the terminal equipment, they can be classified as:

  1. Session cookies: these are those designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a website. They are usually used to store information that is only interesting to keep for the provision of the service requested by the user on a single occasion (for example, a list of purchased products) and disappear when the session ends.
  2. Persistent cookies: these are those in which the data remains stored on the terminal and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the cookie owner, which can range from a few minutes to several years.

How can I manage the use of Cookies on this Platform?

In the Cookie settings panel, accessible at all times on our website, you can obtain all the information about the Cookies used by this website, along with information about the purpose, duration, and management (own or by third parties) of each of them, so that you can manage the activation and deactivation of the use of those Cookies that are not strictly necessary for the operation of this website.

Alternatively, if you are browsing the internet, you can disable the use of Cookies in your browser. We indicate how to do this in the most popular browsers:

This option to prevent the use of Cookies can be exercised at any time. Please note that both your management of the Cookie settings panel and your option to reject Cookies are specific to each browser you are using. Therefore, if you choose to configure Cookies in one way on one device and want your option to apply similarly to another device, you must activate the same option for that other device.

As an additional step, regarding third-party Cookies for the purpose of providing interest-based advertising, please note that certain third parties may be members of one of the following self-regulatory programs for online behavioral advertising, with the corresponding 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 on our Platform is used exclusively by us, with the exception of those identified in section 2 as "Third-party Cookies," which are used and managed by external entities to provide us with services aimed at improving our services and the user experience when browsing our Platform. More information can be found in the Cookie settings panel, accessible at all times on our Platform.

  • For more detailed information on the processing of your personal data in our collaboration with third parties and those subject to international data transfers, we recommend that you read our Privacy Policy, accessible on our Platform, and the privacy policies/privacy settings of these collaborating third parties, accessible through their platforms.