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The website may also contain links to websites other than our company, where you can freely accept the Privacy Policy and Cookies of those websites. Normally, if you browse the Internet, you can accept or reject third-party cookies in your browsers. The company is not concerned with the content and veracity of the privacy policies that may be maintained by third parties referred to in this cookie policy.

Below you will find more detailed information about what cookies are, what types of cookies this website uses, how it can disable cookies in your browser, or how to specifically disable the installation of third-party cookies and what happens if cookies are disabled.

1.- What are cookies?

Cookies are small files that some platforms, like websites, can install on their computer, smartphone, tablet or connected TV when accessing them.
Its functions may be varied: storing its navigation preferences, collecting statistical information, allowing certain technical functionalities, storing and retrieving information about the browsing habits or preferences of a user or his computer, sometimes depending on the information they contain and the way their equipment is handled. A cookie is stored on a computer to customize and facilitate user navigation as much as possible. Cookies are only associated with a user and his or her computer, and do not provide references that allow the personal data of the user to be deduced. The user may configure their browser to notify or reject the installation of cookies sent by the website.

2.- Why are they important?

Cookies are useful for various reasons. From a technical point of view, websites make it possible to operate more smoothly and in accordance with the preferences of the user, such as the storage of his language or the country's currency. In addition, they help website managers improve their services through the statistical information they receive through them. Finally, they serve to make our publicity more effective.

3.- What types of cookies exist?

Depending on the time they are active, cookies may be:

-Session cookies: they are designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a website. They are used to store only once the information that the user wants to store to provide the requested service (e.g. a list of purchased products).

- Persistent cookies: This type of cookies allows data to remain stored at the terminal and can be accessed and processed within a specified period of time. They have an elimination date. For example, they are used in the purchase or registration process so that we don't have to constantly enter our data.

Depending on the time they are active, cookies may be:

Depending on the organization that manages the equipment or domain in which the cookies are sent, and how it processes the data obtained, we can distinguish:

-Own cookies: They are those that are sent to the device of users that we manage alone for the better functioning of the site. These are cookies created by the website you're visiting.

- Third-party cookies: These are those that are sent to the user's device from a computer or domain that we do not manage, managed by another entity that will process the data obtained. They're created by external services or providers like Facebook, Google, etc.

According to the purpose, these may be:

- Technical cookies: Allow the user to navigate through a website, platform or application and use existing options or services, including those used by the publisher to enable the management and operation of the website and to enable its functions and services. Also belonging to this category are those cookies which, by their technical nature, allow to manage as effectively as possible the advertising spaces that the publisher has incorporated into a website, application or platform, as an element for the design or "layout" of the service offered to the user, based on criteria such as edited content, without collecting information from users, such as customizing this or other advertising content.

- Priority or personalization cookiesThey allow the user to remember the information of access to the service, with certain features that can differentiate their experience from that of other users, such as language, the number of results to be displayed by the user when performing a search, the appearance or content of the service, depending on the type of browser with which the user accesses the service, or the region where he accesses it, etc.

- Analysis or measurement cookies: They allow the person responsible for these cookies to monitor and analyze the behavior of the users of the associated websites, including the quantification of the impacts of advertisements. The information collected through this type of cookie is used to measure the activity of websites, applications, or platforms to introduce improvements based on the analysis of usage data by users of the service.

- Behavioral advertising cookies: they store information about the behavior of users, constantly observing navigation habits. This allows you to develop a specific profile to show advertising according to it.

4.- What types of cookies do we use?

We inform you of the cookies used on this website:

Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Its headquarters are at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, 94043. To provide these services, they use cookies that collect information, including the user's IP address. It will be transmitted, processed and stored by Google under the conditions set out on the Google.com website. Including the possibility of transmitting that information to third parties, as required by law or when they process the information on behalf of Google.

The user expressly consents to the processing of the information collected by the use of this site, in the manner and for the purposes indicated above. It is also aware of the possibility of denying the processing of such data or information by excluding the use of Cookies by selecting the appropriate configuration for this purpose in its browser. However, this possibility of blocking cookies in your browser may not allow the full use of all the functionalities of the website.