1. What are cookies?

This website uses cookies. Cookies are files sent to a browser via a web server to record user activities on a specific website. The primary purpose of cookies is to provide the user with faster access to selected services. In addition, cookies personalize the services offered by the website, providing each user with information that is of interest or may be of interest based on their use of the services.

2. What are they used for?

The website uses cookies to personalize and facilitate user navigation as much as possible. Cookies are associated only with an anonymous user and their computer and do not provide references that allow personal data to be deduced. The user may configure their browser to notify and reject the installation of cookies sent by the website, without affecting the user’s ability to access the website’s content. However, please note that in any case, the quality of the website’s operation may decrease.

Registered users, who register or have logged in, may benefit from more personalized services tailored to their profile, thanks to the combination of the data stored in cookies with the personal data used at the time of registration. These users expressly authorize the use of this information for the indicated purpose, without prejudice to their right to reject or disable the use of cookies.

Likewise, the website may know all the services requested by users, so it may provide or offer information tailored to the tastes and preferences of each user.

3. What types of cookies exist?

Cookies, depending on their duration, can be divided into:

• Session cookies: these expire when the user closes the browser.
• Persistent cookies: these expire depending on when the purpose for which they are used is fulfilled (for example, to keep the user logged in) or when they are manually deleted.

Additionally, depending on their purpose, cookies can be classified as follows:

• Performance cookies: This type of cookie remembers your preferences for tools found in the services, so you do not have to reconfigure the service each time you visit. Examples include:
  • Volume settings for video or audio players.
  • Video streaming speeds compatible with your browser.
• Geo-location cookies: These cookies are used to determine which country you are in when a service is requested. This cookie is completely anonymous and is only used to help tailor content to your location.
• Registration cookies: Registration cookies are generated once the user has registered or subsequently logged in, and are used to identify them in the services with the following objectives:
  • To keep the user identified so that if they close a service, the browser or the computer, and later return to that service, they will remain identified, thus facilitating navigation without having to log in again. This functionality can be removed if the user clicks “log out”, so this cookie is deleted and the next time they enter the service, the user will have to log in again.
  • To check whether the user is authorized to access certain services, for example, to participate in a competition.
• Analytical cookies: Each time a user visits a service, a tool from an external provider generates an analytical cookie on the user’s computer. This cookie, which is only generated during the visit, will be used on future visits to identify the visitor anonymously. The main objectives are:
  • To allow anonymous identification of browsing users through the cookie (identifies browsers and devices, not individuals) and therefore approximate counting of the number of visitors and their trend over time.
  • To anonymously identify the most visited content and therefore the most attractive to users.
  • To determine whether the user accessing is new or a returning visitor.
  • Important: unless the user decides to register for a service, the cookie will never be associated with any personal data that can identify them. These cookies will only be used for statistical purposes to help optimize the user experience on the site.
• Behavioral advertising cookies: This type of cookie allows expanding the information of the advertisements shown to each anonymous user in the website services. Among other things, the duration or frequency of viewing advertising positions, interaction with them, or browsing patterns and/or user behavior are stored, as they help to form an advertising interest profile. In this way, they allow advertising to be tailored to the user’s interests.
• Third-party advertising cookies: In addition to the advertising managed by the website in its services, the website offers advertisers the option to serve ads through third parties (“AdServers”). Thus, these third parties may store cookies sent from the website services from users’ browsers, as well as access the data stored in them.

4. What cookies do we use?

The cookies we use on our website are:

• First-party cookies: These are sent to the user’s device from a computer or domain managed by the editor itself and from which the requested service is provided.
  • Session cookies.
  • Performance cookies.
  • Registration cookies.

5. How to disable cookies?

It is usually possible to stop accepting browser cookies or to stop accepting cookies from a particular service.

All modern browsers allow you to change cookie settings. These settings are usually found in the options or preferences menu of your browser.

The website provides guidance to the user on the steps to access the cookie settings menu and, where appropriate, private browsing in each of the main browsers.

• Edge: Tools / Internet Options / Privacy / Settings.
• Firefox: Tools / Options / Privacy / History / Custom Settings.
• Chrome: Settings / Show advanced settings / Privacy / Content settings.
• Safari: Preferences / Security.

5. Can changes be made to the Cookie Policy?

EIDE may modify this Cookie Policy in accordance with legislative or regulatory requirements, or in order to adapt said policy to instructions issued by the Spanish Data Protection Agency; therefore, users are advised to review it periodically.

When significant changes occur in this Cookie Policy, they will be communicated to users either through the website or via email to registered users.