Cookies Policy

COOKIES POLICY

General Information

What are cookies? A cookie is a file that is downloaded to your computer when you access certain web pages. Cookies allow a website, among other things, to store and retrieve information about the browsing habits of a user or their equipment and, depending on the information they contain and the way you use your device, can be used to recognize the user.

Cookies allow the website to recognize the user’s browser. Therefore, cookies are generally used to remember the choices that the user has made (for example, to remember the language used) or to recognize users who frequent the website. Any user can modify or refuse a cookie. In the latter case, GASMA warns that the speed and quality of service may be reduced.

What kind of cookies do we use?

The cookies used by THE WEBSITE can be distinguished according to the following criteria:

1. Types of cookies according to the entity that manages them:

Depending on who is the entity that manages the equipment or domain from which the cookies are sent and treats the data obtained, we can distinguish:

• Own Cookies: These 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: These are 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.

In the event that cookies are installed from a computer or domain managed by the editor itself, but the information collected through these is managed by a third party, they cannot be considered as own cookies.

2. Types of cookies according to the length of time they remain active:

Depending on the length of time they remain activated in the terminal equipment, we can distinguish:

• Session Cookies: These are a type of cookies designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a web page. 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.
• 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, and can range from a few minutes to several years.

3. Types of cookies according to their purpose:

Depending on the purpose for which the data obtained through cookies are processed, we can distinguish between:

• Technical Cookies: These are those that allow the user to navigate through a website, platform or application and the use of the different options or services it exist as, for example, control traffic and data communication, identify the session, access parts of restricted access, remember the elements that make up an order, make the buying process of an order, make the application for registration or participation in an event, use security features while browsing, store content for broadcast video or sound or share content via social networks.
• Personalization Cookies: These 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 the language, the type of browser through which you access the service, the locale from which you access the service, etc..
• Analysis cookies: These cookies allow the party responsible for them to monitor and analyze the behavior of the 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 publisher 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: These cookies 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 the requested service is provided. These cookies store information on user behavior obtained through the continuous observation of their browsing habits, allowing the development of a specific profile to display advertising based on this.

How to manage cookies on your computer: disabling and deleting cookies

All Internet browsers allow you to limit the behavior of a cookie or disable cookies within your browser settings or options. The steps to do this are different for each browser, instructions can be found in the help menu of your browser.

If you do not accept the use of cookies, since it is possible thanks to the preferences menus or settings of your browser, to reject them, THE WEBSITE will continue to function properly without the use of these.

You can allow, block or delete cookies installed on your computer by configuring the browser options installed on your computer:

For more information about Internet Explorer click here:

https://support.microsoft.com/es-us/help/17442

For more information about Chrome click here:

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

For more information about Safari click here:

https://support.apple.com/es-es/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac

For more information about Firefox click here:

 https://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/cookies-informacion-que-los-sitios-web-guardan-en-

For more information about Safari for iOS (iPhone and iPad) click here:

https://support.apple.com/es-es/105082

For more information about Chrome for Android click here:

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?co=GENIE.Platform=Android&hl=es

Through your browser, you can also view the cookies that are on your computer, and delete them as you see fit. Cookies are text files, you can open them and read the contents. The data inside them is almost always encrypted with a numeric key that corresponds to a session on the Internet so it is often meaningless beyond the web page that wrote it.

Informed consent

The use of THE WEBSITE by the USER implies that the USER gives its express and unequivocal consent to the use of cookies, under the terms and conditions set forth in this Cookies Policy, without prejudice to the measures of deactivation and elimination of cookies that the USER may adopt, and which are mentioned in the previous section.

Advantages of using cookies

The use of cookies offers numerous advantages in the provision of Information Society services, since, among others:

It facilitates the USER the navigation in THE WEBSITE and the access to the different services that it offers.

It prevents the USER from configuring the predefined general characteristics each time he/she accesses THE WEBSITE.

It favors the improvement of the operation and services provided through THE WEBSITE, after the corresponding analysis of the information obtained through the cookies installed.

What happens if I don’t use cookies?

If you do not use cookies during your visit, certain functions and pages will not work properly. If you want to delete a cookie that is already on your computer, please refer to the instructions for your file management software to find the file or directory in which the cookies are stored.

About this document:

This document has been produced in accordance with EU legislation on electronic communication. According to current regulations companies and organizations must provide visitors to their websites with clear and complete information on the use of cookies, in particular on the purposes of data processing, and must obtain the user’s consent to the activation of the cookie.

Cookie Review

These lists will be updated as quickly as possible as the WEBSITE services change or evolve. However, occasionally during this update it may be that the list does not include all cookies, although it will always refer to cookies with identical purposes to those already recorded in the following reference tables.

Analysis of THE WEB

The cookies used on THE WEBSITE are our own and those of third parties and allow us to store and access information related to language, the type of browser used and other general characteristics predefined by the USER, as well as to follow and analyze the activity carried out, in order to introduce improvements and provide our services in a more efficient and personalized way.