The COMETAL S.A. Website (hereinafter the Website) uses Cookies. Cookies are files sent to a browser by a web server to record the user’s activities on a particular 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 Web, providing and offering each user information that is of interest to them or that may be of interest to them, according to their use of the Services.
The Web uses Cookies to personalize and facilitate the user’s browsing as much as possible. Cookies are only associated with an anonymous user and their computer and do not provide references that allow the user’s personal data to be deduced. The user may configure his browser to notify and reject the installation of Cookies sent by the Web, without affecting the user’s ability to access the contents of the website. However, we point out that, in any case, the quality of operation of the website may decrease.
Registered users, who register or are logged in, will be able to benefit from more personalized and profile-oriented services, thanks to the combination of the data stored in the cookies with the personal data used at the time of their registration. These users expressly authorize the use of this information for the purpose indicated, without prejudice to their right to refuse or disable the use of cookies.
Also, the Web may know all the services requested by users, so that they can provide or offer information tailored to the tastes and preferences of each user.
Cookies, depending on their permanence, can be divided into:
“Session cookies“: the first ones expire when the user closes the browser. “Persistent Cookies“. The latter expire depending on when the purpose for which they serve is fulfilled (for example, for the user to remain identified in the Services) 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 the tools found in the services, so you do not have to reconfigure the service each time you visit. By way of example, this typology includes: Volume settings of video or sound players.
Video bitrates that are compatible with your browser.
Geo-Location Cookies: These Cookies are used to find out what country you are in when you request a service. This Cookie is completely anonymous, and is only used to help target content to your location.
Registration Cookies: Registration Cookies are generated once the user has registered or subsequently logged in, and are used to identify you in the services for the following purposes:
Keep the user identified so that if you close a service, the browser or the computer and at another time or another day re-enters the service, it will continue to be identified, thus facilitating navigation without having to re-identify. This functionality can be deleted if the user clicks on the “close session” functionality, so that this Cookie is deleted and the next time the user enters the service he/she will have to log in to be identified.
Check whether the user is authorized to access certain services, for example, to participate in a contest.
Analytical Cookies: Each time a User visits a service, a tool of an external provider generates an analytical Cookie in the User’s computer. This Cookie, which is only generated during the visit, will be used in future visits to the Web Services to anonymously identify the visitor. The main objectives pursued are:
Allow anonymous identification of browsing users through the Cookie (identifies browsers and devices, not people) and therefore the approximate counting of the number of visitors and their trend over time.
Anonymously identify the most visited content and therefore the most attractive to users.
To know if the user accessing the site is new or a repeat visitor.
Important: Unless the user decides to register for a Web service, the “Cookie” will never be associated with any personal data that can identify him/her. These Cookies will only be used for statistical purposes to help optimize the user experience on the site.
Behavioral advertising Cookies: This type of Cookies allows to extend the information of the advertisements shown to each anonymous user in the Web Services. Among others, it stores the duration or frequency of display of advertising positions, interaction with them, or browsing patterns and / or user shares as they help to shape a profile of advertising interest. In this way, they make it possible to offer advertising related to the user’s interests.
Third-party advertising Cookies: In addition to the advertising managed by the Web in its Services, the Web offers its advertisers the option of serving ads through third parties (“AdServers”). In this way, these third parties can store Cookies sent from the Web Services from the browsers of the Users, as well as access the data stored in them.
The cookies we use on our website are:
Own: 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.
PHPSESSID session cookie, expires when the browser is closed.
Third-party: 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.
Google Analytics: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
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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 your Cookie settings. These settings are usually found in the “options” or “preferences” menu of your browser. You can also configure your browser or your email manager, as well as install free plug-ins to prevent Web Bugs from being downloaded when you open an email.
The Web offers guidance to the User on the steps to access the configuration menu of cookies and, where appropriate, private browsing in each of the major browsers:
Internet Explorer: Tools -> Internet Options -> Privacy -> Settings. (For more information, you can consult Microsoft support or the browser’s Help).
Firefox: Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> History -> Custom settings.
Chrome: Settings -> Show advanced options -> Privacy -> Content settings.
Safari: Preferences -> Security (For more information, please consult Apple support or browser Help).
The Web can modify this Cookies Policy according to legislative requirements, regulations, or in order to adapt this policy to the instructions issued by the Spanish Data Protection Agency, so users are advised to visit it periodically.
When significant changes are made to this Cookie Policy, they will be communicated to users either through the website or via email to registered users.
