Cookie Policy 

General Information

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

Cookies allow the website to recognize the user’s browser. They are therefore generally used to remember the choices the user has made (for example, remembering the language they use) or to recognize users who visit the website frequently. Any user can modify or reject a cookie. In the latter case, GASMA warns that the speed and quality of the service may decrease.

What type of cookies do we use?

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

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

Depending on which entity manages the equipment or domain from which the cookies are sent and processes the resulting data, we can distinguish:

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

If cookies are installed from equipment or a domain managed by the publisher itself, but the information collected through them is managed by a third party, they cannot be considered first-party cookies.

2. Types of cookies according to how long they remain active:

Depending on how long they remain active on the terminal equipment, we can distinguish:

• Session cookies: These are a type of cookie designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a website. They are usually used to store information that is only needed for the one-time provision of the service requested by the user.
• Persistent cookies: These are a type of cookie in which the data remains stored on the terminal and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the party responsible for the cookie, ranging 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 is processed, we can distinguish between:

• Technical cookies: These allow the user to navigate through a website, platform, or application and use the different options or services available on it, such as controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, accessing restricted areas, remembering the items in an order, completing the purchase process for an order, submitting a registration or event-participation request, using security features while browsing, storing content for streaming video or audio, or sharing content through social networks.
• Personalization cookies: These allow the user to access the service with certain general, predefined characteristics based on a series of criteria on the user’s terminal, such as the language, the type of browser used to access the service, or the regional settings from which the service is accessed, among others.
• Analytics cookies: These allow the party responsible for them to track and analyze the behavior of users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected through this type of cookie is used to measure the activity of the websites, application, or platform, and to build browsing profiles of the users of those sites, applications, and platforms, in order to introduce improvements based on the analysis of the usage data generated by the service’s users.
• Advertising cookies: These allow the most efficient possible management of the advertising space that the publisher may have 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 with which ads are shown.
• Behavioral advertising cookies: These allow the most efficient possible management of the advertising space that the publisher may have included on a website, application, or platform from which it provides the requested service. These cookies store information about user behavior obtained through continuous observation of their browsing habits, which makes it possible to develop a specific profile to display advertising based on it.

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

All internet browsers let you limit a cookie’s behavior or disable cookies within the browser’s settings or options. The steps to do this differ for each browser; instructions can be found in your browser’s help menu.

If you do not accept the use of cookies, which you can reject through your browser’s preferences or settings menus, THE WEBSITE will continue to work properly without using them.

You can allow, block, or delete the cookies installed on your device by configuring the browser settings 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 stored on your computer and delete them as you see fit. Cookies are text files, so you can open and read their contents. The data inside them is almost always encrypted with a numeric key corresponding to an internet session, so it often has no meaning beyond the website that wrote it.

Informed consent

Your use of THE WEBSITE implies that the USER gives express and unambiguous consent to the use of cookies, under the terms and conditions set out in this Cookie Policy, without prejudice to the cookie disabling and deletion measures the USER may adopt, as mentioned in the previous section.

Advantages of using cookies

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

It makes it easier for the USER to navigate THE WEBSITE and access the various services it offers.

It saves the USER from having to configure the general, predefined settings every time they access THE WEBSITE.

It helps improve the operation and services provided through THE WEBSITE, following the corresponding analysis of the information obtained through the installed cookies.

What happens if I don’t use cookies? 

If you do not use cookies during your visit, certain features and pages will not work correctly. If you want to delete a cookie that is already on your computer, check your file management software’s instructions to find the file or directory where cookies are stored.

About this document:

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

Cookie Review

These lists will be updated as promptly as possible as THE WEBSITE’s services change or evolve. However, this list may occasionally not include every cookie during such updates, although it will always refer to cookies with purposes identical to those already listed in the reference tables below.

Analysis of THE WEBSITE

The cookies used on THE WEBSITE are both first-party and third-party, and they allow us to store and access information regarding language, browser type, and other general characteristics predefined by the USER, as well as to track and analyze the activity carried out, in order to introduce improvements and provide our services in a more efficient and personalized way.