What are cookies?

Cookies and other similar technologies such as local shared objects, flash cookies or pixels, are tools used by Web servers to store and retrieve information about visitors, as well as to provide proper operation of the site.

The use of these devices allows the Web server to remember some data concerning the user, such as your preferences for viewing the pages of that server, name and password, products that most interest you, etc..

 

Cookies affected by the regulation and exempted cookies

According to the EU directive, the cookies that require the informed consent of the user are analytical cookies and advertising and affiliation cookies, with the exception of those of a technical nature and those necessary for the operation of the website or the provision of services expressly requested by the user.

 

What types of cookies exist?

 

ACCORDING TO THE PURPOSE

• Technical and functional cookies: are those that allow the user to navigate through a web page, platform or application and the use of the different options or services that exist in it as, for example, control traffic and data communication, identify the session, access restricted access parts, remember the elements of an order, make the buying process of an order, make the registration or participation in an event, use security features while browsing, store content for broadcasting videos or sound or share content through social networks. They include personalization cookies, which are those that allow the user to access the service with some general characteristics predefined according to a series of criteria in the user’s terminal such as, for example, the language, the type of browser, the regional configuration from where the service is accessed, etc.
• Analytical Cookies: are those that allow the person responsible for them, monitoring and analyzing the behavior of users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected through this type of cookies is used to measure the activity of the websites, application or platform and for the elaboration of browsing profiles of the users of these sites, applications and platforms, in order to introduce improvements based on the analysis of the usage data of the users of the service.
• Advertising Cookies: these are those that allow the management, in the most effective way possible, of the advertising spaces that, where appropriate, the editor has included on a website, application or platform from which it provides the requested service based on criteria such as the edited content or the frequency at which the ads are displayed.
• Behavioral advertising cookies: rthey collect information about the user’s preferences and personal choices (retargeting) to allow the management, in the most effective way possible, of the advertising spaces that, where appropriate, the publisher has included on a web page, application or platform from which it provides the requested service. More info at::
  http://www.lssi.gob.es/Paginas/politica-cookies.aspx and Guide on the use of cookies from the AEPD.
• Social Cookies: these are set by social media platforms on services to allow you to share content with your friends and networks. Social media platforms have the ability to track your online activity outside of the Services. This may affect the content and messages you see on other services you visit.
• Affiliate cookies: allow tracking of visits coming from other websites, with which the website establishes an affiliation contract (affiliate companies).
• Security cookies: they store encrypted information to prevent the data stored in them from being vulnerable to malicious attacks by third parties. They are used only in HTTPS connections.

 

ACCORDING TO OWNERSHIP

• Own Cookies: are those that are sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by the editor itself and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
• Third-party cookies: those that are sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain that is not managed by the editor, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through the cookies

ACCORDING TO THE CONSERVATION PERIOD

• Session cookies: these are a type of cookie designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a web page.
• Persistent cookies: these are a type of cookie in which the data remains stored in the terminal and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the party responsible for the cookie, which can range from a few minutes to several years.

 

Processing of personal data

Institut Sarró is the Data Controller of the personal data of the Data Subject and informs you that these data will be processed in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 (GDPR) and , for which you are provided with the following processing information:

Purposes of processing: as specified in the section on cookies used on this website.

Legitimation of the treatment: for legitimate interest of the responsible: technical cookies and by consent of the data subject: behavioral analytical and advertising cookies.

Data retention criteria: as specified in the section on cookies used on the website.

Communication of data: data will not be communicated to third parties, except in cookies owned by third parties or by legal obligation.

Rights of the data subject:

• Right to withdraw consent at any time.
• Right of access, rectification, portability and deletion of their data and to limit or oppose its processing.
• Right to file a complaint with the Supervisory Authority (www.aepd.es) if he/she considers that the processing does not comply with the regulations in force.

Contact details to exercise your rights:

You can exercise your rights of access, rectification, deletion, limitation, portability and opposition to the processing of data before the Data Controller, Institut Sarró, SL, B10650430, and address at C/ Muntaner, 200 Entl. 3ª, by post or by e-mail dpd@insitutsarro.com

In any case, you must prove that you are a data subject. You can also file a complaint with the Spanish Data Protection Agency.

Cookies used on this website

• Technical and functional cookies:

NAME	TYPE	PROP ERTY	PURPOSE	DEADLINE	REMARKS
PHPSESSID	Technique	Own	Contains the session identifier	When closing the browser	Session
_lang	Technique	Own	Contains the language of the session	When closing the browser	Session
ac_cookies	Technique	Own	Contains the value of whether the installation of cookies has been accepted.	1 year	Persistent
counter	Technique	Own	Used to count the number of page accesses per session.	1 year	Persistent
viewed_cookie_policy	Technique	Own	It is used to remember your preferences in terms of the Cookie Policy set.	1 year	Persistent
_icl_current_language	Technique	Own	It is used to remember the language selected by the user and to show them the contents in that language throughout their browsing.	1 hour	Session

• Analytical cookies:

NAME	TYPE	PROPERTY	PURPOSE	DEADLINE	REMARKS
_ga	Analytics	Google Analytics	Enables the unique visitor tracking function. The first time a user enters the website through a browser, this cookie will be installed. When this user enters the website again with the same browser, the cookie will consider that it is the same user. Only in the event that the user changes browser, it will be considered another user.	2 years	Persistent
_gat	Analytics	Google Analytics	Used for request rate limiting – limiting data collection at high traffic sites.	10 minutes	Session
_gid	Analytics	Google Analytics	Used to distinguish users	24 hours	Session
_utma	Analytics	Google Analytics	Records the date of the first and last time the user visited the website	2 years	Persistent
_utmb	Analytics	Google Analytics	Register your arrival time on the website	30 minutes	Session
_utmc	Analytics	Google	Used for interoper ability with the urchin.js tracking code	1 year	Session
_utmt	Analytics	Google Analytics	Processes the type of request requested by the user	At the end of the session	Session
_utmv	Analytics	Google Analytics	Segment demographic data	At the end of the session	Session
_utmz	Analytics	Google Analytics	Stores the source of traffic or a campaign to explain how the user arrived at the site	6 months	Persistent

To opt out of analytics cookies you can use the following opt-out addresses: Google Privacy Policy and Google Analytics Opt-Out

 

• Behavioural advertising cookies:

NAME	TYPE	PROPERTY	PURPOSE	DEADLINE	REMARKS
_gads	Advertising	Google	Cookie associate d with Google’s Doubleclick.net service to allow the owner to earn credit.	1 year	Persistent
_sonar	Advertising	Dobleclick.net	It is used to improve advertising and target advertising based on the content that is relevant to a user, improve campaign performance reporting and avoid showing ads that the user has already seen Doubleclick.net	1 year	Persistent
_ncuid	Advertising	Google	Used to measure ad performance and provide product recommendations based on statistical data	6 months	Persistent
IDE	Advertising	Dobleclick.net	It is used for online ad targeting, optimisati on, reporting and attribution	1 year	Persistent
_conv_v bt2 di2 dt loc ssc ssh ssshs uid um uvc vc	Advertising	AddThis	They are used to enable content to be shared. AddThis is also used to collect information about how website content is shared	2 years, except: _conv_v: 1 year, bt2: 8 months, dt: 30 days,	Persistent

You can also control advertisements and tracking technologies with the Ghostery application: http://www.ghostery.com/

 

• Social cookies:

NAME	TYPE	PROPERTY	PURPOSE	DEADLINE	OBSERVATIONS
c_user, fr	Advertising	Facebook	Required for Facebook’s social plug-in. Allows you to measure ad performance and provide recommendations	30 days	Persistent
datr, sb	Technical	Facebook	Required for the Facebook social plug-in	2 years	Persistent
dpr	Technical	Facebook	Required for the Facebook social plug-in	30 minutes	Persistent
xs	Technical	Facebook	Required for the Facebook social plug-in	90 days	Persistent
wd	Technical	Facebook	Required for the Facebook social plug-in	48 hours	Persistent
XSRF-TOKEN	Technical	Facebook	Necessary to control that all form submissions are made by the currently logged-in user, avoiding CSRF (Cross- Site Request Forgery) attacks	1 hour	Persistent
_fbp	Advertising	Facebook	Necessary to provide a range of advertising products such as real-time bidding from third party advertisers	3 months	Persistent
guest_id	Advertising	Twitter	Twitter ID	2 years	Persistent

More info: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/

 

• Affiliate cookies:

NAME	TYPE	PROPERTY	PURPOSE	DEADLINE	OBSERVATIONS
prli_click	Affiliates	Pretty Links	Necessary to store statistical information on clicks on affiliate links	30 days	Persistent
prli_visitor	Affiliates	Pretty Links	Necessary to store statistical information on clicks on affiliate links	1 year	Persistent

• Other third party cookies (Google, Youtube, Cloudflare, Bizible):

NAME	TYPE	PROPERTY	PURPOSE	DEADLINE	OBSERVATIONS
1P_JAR	Advertising	Google	Transfer data to Google to make advertising more engaging	Expires 1 week after activation	Persistent
ANID	Advertising	Google	It contains a unique randomly generated value that allows the Platform to distinguish browsers and devices. This informati on is used to measure ad performance and provide product recommendations based on statistical data	1 year	Persistent
APISID	Technical	Google	Stores user preferences and information while viewing pages with Google maps on them	2 years	Persistent
CONSENT	Advertising	Google	It contains a unique randomly generated value that allows the Platform to distinguish browsers and devices. This informati on is used to measure ad performance and provide product recommendations based on statistical data	1 year	Persistent
HSID	Technical	Google	This cookie is stored when you create or sign in to a Google Account	2 years	Persistent
SID	Advertising	Google	Collect information for the Google search engine included in the website (Google CSE)	2 years	Persistent
NID	Advertising	Google	The “Google +1” button used on our website is hosted by Google. Your browser sends informati on about the cookies that Google requires if you are logged in to your account, these data are used by Google in order to associate them with your account	6 months	Persistent
SAPISID	Technical	Youtube	Used to play content	1 year	Persistent
SIDCC	Advertising	Google	It is used to provide services and extract anonymous browsing information	3 months	Persistent
SSID	Advertising	Google	Collect information for the Google search engine included in the website (Google CSE)	3 months	Persistent
PREF	Behavioural	Google	Stores configur ation preferen ces, such as preferre d language, number of search results displayed per page, or activation of Google SafeSearch filtering	10 years	Persistent
DV	Technical	Google	Used to provide services and extract anonymous browsing information	10 minutes	Session
UULE	Technical	Google Maps	Allows geolocation of the device	24 hours	Persistent
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	Behavioural	Youtube	Keeps track of visited videos that are embedded in the website	240 days	Persistent
use_hitbox	Technical	Youtube	Increase the ‘views’ counter on the YouTube video	At the end of the session	Session
SID, SSID, HSID, APISID, LOGIN_INFO, PREF, SAPISID, SIDCC	Technical	Youtube	Technic al cookies used by youtube	1 year, except: PREF: 7 months SIDCC: 3 months	Persistent
YSC	Technical	Youtube	Measures video views made by the user and records “Like” or “Share” events	At the end of the session	Session
_cfduid	Technical	Cloudflare	Used to override security restrictions based on the IP address of the visitor who is coming	1 year	Persistent
_biz_flagsA	Technical	Bizible	It tracks the user’s status. For example, whether the user has submitted a form, performed across domain migration or not	1 year	Persistent
_biz_nA	Technical	Bizible	Sequence number that is incremented and appended to each request to the Bizible server for diagnostic purposes	1 year	Persistent
_biz_pendingA	Technical	Bizible	Tempor ary cookie containing all pending requests to be sent to the Bizible server	1 year	Persistent
_biz_sid	Technical	Bizible	Unique ID that identifies each user’s session	30’ minutes	Session
_biz_uid	Technical	Bizible	Unique ID that identifies each user	1 year	Persistent
_BUID	Technical	Bizible	Universal user ID that identifie s the same user across multiple customer domains	1 year	Persistent

More info: http://www.google.es/intl/es/policies/privacy/
More info: https://www.bizible.com/privacy-policy

How to delete browser cookies

Chrome

1. Select the Tools icon
2. Click on Settings
3. Click Show Advanced Options
4. In the “Privacy” section click on Content Settings
   1. Delete cookies: Click on All cookies and site data…
   2. Do not allow cookies to be stored
5. Click on Delete browsing data (empty the Cache).
6. Close and restart the brow

For more information about Chrome click here: http://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=es

 

Internet Explorer. Version 11

1. Select Tools | Internet Options.
2. Click on the General tab
3. In the “Browsing History” section, click Delete Browsing History on Exit.
4. Select Delete files.
5. Select Delete cookies.
6. Click on Delete.
7. Click OK.
8. Close and restart the browser.

For more information about Internet Explorer click here: https://support.microsoft.com/es-es/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer

 

Firefox. Version 65.0.1

1. Select Firefox | History | Clear Recent History.
2. Next to “Details”, click on the down arrow.
3. Select the following checkboxes: Cookies, Cache, Active Logins.
4. Using the “Time interval to clear” drop-down menu, select All.
5. Click Delete Now.
6. Close and restart the browser.

You can accept or reject cookies individually in Firefox Preferences, in the History section available under Tools > Options > Privacy.

For more information about Mozilla Firefox click here: https://www.mozilla.org/es-ES/privacy/websites/#cookies

 

Safari Version 5.1

1. Select the Safari icon / Edit | Reset Safari.
2. Select the following checkboxes: Clear History, Delete all website data, Delete all website data.
3. Click Reset.
4. Close and restart the browser.

For more information about Safari click here: https://support.apple.com/es-es/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac

 

Opera

Options – Advanced – Cookies.

The cookie options control how Opera handles cookies and therefore their acceptance or rejection.

For more information about Opera click here: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/security-and-privacy/#clearBrowsingData

 

Other browsers

Consult the documentation of the browser you have installed.