Cookies are small text files generated by the websites you visit, which contain session data that may be of use later on that site. These data allow the site to maintain your information between pages and also to analyse your way of interacting with the site.

Cookies are small text files generated by the websites you visit, which contain session data that may be of use later on that site. These data allow the site to maintain your information between pages and also to analyse your way of interacting with the site.

Cookies are essential for the functioning of the Internet and bring many benefits for the provision of interactive services, facilitating navigation and improving web usability. Cookies may not damage your equipment and the fact that they are enabled helps identify and solve errors.

Below you will find more information to help you understand the different types of cookies that may be used:

• Session cookies: These are transient cookies that are stored in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the website, so that none of them is written on the user’s hard drive. The information obtained by means of these cookies serves to analyse users’ surfing behaviour within the website. In the long run, this makes the browsing experience more efficient by improving contents and facilitating the use of the website.
• Permanent cookies: These cookies are stored in the hard drive and the website reads them each time a user revisits it. In spite of its name, a permanent cookie is configured with a specified date of expiry, after which it will cease to operate. This type of cookies is generally used to facilitate the various services offered by websites.

The main cookies used in our websites are listed below, with a distinction being drawn between:

• Cookies that are strictly necessary, such as, for instance, those which serve for a proper browsing or which allow paying for goods or services ordered by the user or which ensure that the website content is loaded properly.
• Third-party cookies, such as, for instance, those used by social media or by external content supplements.
• Analytical cookies used for regular maintenance purposes and for ensuring that users get the best possible service, with which websites gather statistical performance data.

Additional safeguards – Cookie management:

All Internet browsers allow to limit cookie functions or disable them using the browser’s settings or options. The steps to do so are different for each browser, but usually you can find instructions in your browser help menu.

Many browsers allow activating a private browsing mode pursuant to which cookies are deleted when the user leaves a website. Depending on each browser, this private mode may receive different names. Below you will find a list of the more usual browsers with a link to the cookie settings and the different names given to this “private mode”:

• Internet Explorer 8 and higher; InPrivate: http://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/windows-vista/block-or-allow-cookies
• Safari 2 and higher; Private Browsing: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1677?viewlocale=es_es&locale=es_es
• Opera 10.5 and higher; Private Browsing: http://help.opera.com/Windows/11.50/es-ES/cookies.html
• FireFox 3.5 and higher; Private Browsing: http://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/habilitar-y-deshabilitar-cookies-que-los-sitios-we
• Google Chrome 10 and higher; Incognito Mode: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=es