Cookies Policy

This website, like most websites, uses Cookies to improve and optimize the user experience.

Below you will find detailed information about what Cookies are, what type of Cookies this website uses, how you can disable them in your browser and how to specifically block the installation of third-party Cookies.

1. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small file that can be placed on your device that allows us to recognise and remember you. It is sent to your browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive or tablet or mobile device. When you visit our sites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology.

Like most websites, this one uses Cookies for:

• Ensure that web pages work properly.
• Store preferences, such as the language you have selected or the font size.
• Know the user’s browsing experience.
• Collect anonymous statistical information, such as what pages the user has visited or how long they have stayed on the website.

The use of Cookies allows you to optimize navigation, adapting the information and services offered to the interests of the user, to provide a better experience whenever you visit the website.

This website uses Cookies to operate, adapt and facilitate the user’s navigation as much as possible.

2. Typology, purpose and operation

Las Cookies, en función de su permanencia, pueden dividirse en cookies de sesión o permanentes. Las primeras expiran cuando el usuario cierra el navegador. Las segundas expiran cuando se cumple el objetivo para el que sirven (por ejemplo, para que el usuario se mantenga identificado en el sitio web) o bien cuando se borran manualmente.

Cookies, depending on their presence, can be divided into session or permanent cookies. The first ones expire when the user closes the browser. The second ones expire when the objective for which they serve is met (for example, so that the user remains identified in the website) or when they are manually deleted.

Additionally, depending on its purpose, Cookies can be classified as follows:

• Essential: cookies that are essential to provide you with services you have requested. For example, these include the cookies that make it possible for you to stay logged into your Guardian account and make comments. If you set your browser to block these cookies, then these functions and services will not work for you. In particular, we won’t be able to save your preferences about cookies.
• Performance: cookies which measure how often you visit our sites and how you use them. We use this information to get a better sense of how our users engage with our journalism and to improve our sites and apps, so that users have a better experience.
• Advertising: cookies that are used to collect information about your visit to our site, the content you have viewed, the links you have followed and information about your browser, device and your IP address. There are two types:
• Anonymous: They only collect information about the advertising spaces shown on the website, independently of the user who accesses the website, that is, without expressly identifying him.
• Personalized: They collect personal information of the user of the website by a third party, for the personalization of said advertising spaces.
• Geo-location: These Cookies are used to find out in which country or region the user is when they access a website service in order to offer content or services appropriate to their location.
• Analytics: They collect information about the user’s browsing experience on the website, usually anonymously, although at times they also allow the user to be uniquely and unequivocally identified in order to obtain reports on the interests of users in the services offered by the website.

3. Cookies used in this web page

We inform you through a table about the Cookies used on this website, incorporating a criterion of “level of intrusiveness” supported on a scale from 1 to 3, in which:

Level 1: corresponds to Cookies strictly necessary for the provision of the service requested by the user.

Level 2: corresponds to performance cookies (anonymous) necessary for content maintenance and navigation, of which it is only necessary to report their existence.

Level 3: corresponds to Cookies managed by third parties that allow user tracking through webs of which GOVERTIS is not a responsible. Normally they correspond to advertising or analytical cookies where the user is uniquely and clearly identified.

4. Disabling the use of Cookies

If the user wishes, it is possible to stop accepting browser cookies, or stop accepting cookies from a particular service.

All modern browsers allow you to change the Cookies settings. These settings are usually found in the “Options” or “Preferences” of the browser menu. The user may, at any time, disable the use of Cookies on this website by:

Google Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=es&answer=95647

• Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/windows7/how-to-manage-cookies-in-internet-explorer-9
• Mozilla Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/habilitar-y-deshabilitar-cookies-que-los-sitios-we
• Apple Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042

5. What happens when you disable your cookies?

Some functionalities and services may be disabled or have a different behaviour than expected, for example, remain identified, keep purchases in the “shopping cart” in an e-commerce service or receive information directed to your location, among others.

If you disable the use of Cookies on this website, it is likely that you will no longer be able to access certain areas of the website or that your browsing experience will be significantly degraded.

6. Cookie policy updates

GOVERTIS, can modify this Cookies Policy according to legislative or regulatory requirements, or with the purpose of adapting said policy to the instructions issued by the Spanish Data Protection Agency, therefore users are advised to visit it periodically .

When significant changes occur in this Cookie Policy, the entity will proceed to translate them on the web.

7. Legal Notice

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, an analytical web service provided by Google Inc., a company established at Delaware. Its main office is located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043, United States (“Google”).

Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files located on your computer, in order to help this website, analyse the use made by users of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be directly transferred and archived by Google on servers located in the United States. Google will use this information on our behalf in order to keep track of your use made out of the website, compiling reports on the activity of the website and providing other services related to the activity of the website and the use of the Internet. Google may transfer such information to third parties when required by law, or when such third parties process the information on behalf of Google. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

You can reject the processing of data or information by rejecting the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate configuration of your browser, however, you should know that if you do so, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website you give your consent to the processing of information about you by Google in the way and for the purposes indicated above.