COOKIE POLICY
This Cookie Policy aims to help you understand how we use cookies on our website, their types, purpose and term, and to inform you about your choices to set, manage or disable cookies.
PLEASE, SPEND A FEW MINUTES READING OUR COOKIE POLICY. IT WON’T TAKE LONG. THIS IS OUR WAY TO EXPLAIN TO YOU IN A SIMPLE, CLEAR AND TRANSPARENT MANNER HOW WE PROCESS AND PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA AND YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PERSONAL SECURITY AND THAT OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS ESSENTIAL TO US. WE TAKE YOUR PROTECTION VERY SERIOUSLY.
WE ALSO RECOMMEND YOU READ CAREFULLY OUR PRIVACY POLICY.
1. WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are small files downloaded and stored into the user’s terminal equipment (i.e. the device you use to access the Platform: personal computer, smartphone, tablet, or any other connected device, etc.). Cookies allow the Platform or website to remember information about the user’s visit.
On a general basis, as laid down in the Cookies Guide published by the Spanish Data Protection Agency (known in Spanish as AEPD), available here, there are several types of cookies.
- Depending on the entity managing the device or the domain from which cookies are sent and the data obtained are processed, cookies may be classified into the following categories:
- Own cookies: These are sent to the users’ device from a terminal or domain managed by the Platform’s editor — EDFABOGADOS in this case — from which the service requested by the user is provided.
- Third-party cookies:These are sent to the users’ device from a terminal or domain which is not managed by the Platform’s editor, but by another entity that processes the data gathered using the cookies. If cookies are obtained from a terminal or a domain managed by EDFABOGADOS, but the information gathered by the cookies is processed by a third party, they cannot be classified as EDFABOGADOS’s own cookies. In this regard, EDFABOGADOS may engage analysis or measurement companies to measure and/or analyze the user’s browsing behavior on the platform. Therefore, these act in CMA’s name and on its behalf, by analyzing the data obtained via third-party cookies. All with the sole purpose of improving EDFABOGADOS’s provision of services.
- Depending on the purpose for which data are processed, cookies may be classified into the following categories:
- Technical cookies: These allow the user to browse the platform and to access the different options and services offered, such as monitoring Internet traffic and transmitting data, identifying the session, accessing restricted-access information, remembering options of an inquiry, requesting to be registered to participate in an event, using security components while browsing, storing contents for videos or sound clips to be broadcast or sharing contents on social media.
- Preference Cookies: These allow the user to access the service with some preset general features based on a number of criteria of the user’s local terminal, including but not limited to the language, the type of browser or regional settings used to access the service.
- Analytical cookies: These allow the cookie’s controller to track and analyze users’ behavior on the websites connected to the cookies. Information collected by this type of cookies is used to measure the activity on the platform and to create navigation profiles on those websites, applications and platforms in order to enhance them in accordance to the usage data analysis.
- Advertising cookies: These allow to manage as effectively as possible advertising spaces that the editor included on a website, application or platform from which the service requested is provided based on certain criteria such as the edited content or the frequency ads are displayed.
- Behavioral-advertising cookies: These allow to manage as effectively as possible advertising spaces that, where relevant, the editor included on a website, application or platform from which the service requested is provided. These cookies collect users’ behavioral information obtained by continuously observing their browsing habits. This is used to develop specific profiles to display customized advertising contents.
- Depending on the time they remain activated in the local terminal (term), cookies may be classified into the following categories:
- Session cookies: These are designed to gather and store data while the user accesses the platform. Session cookies allow the website to recognize users.
- Persistent cookies: With these cookies, data remain in the local terminal and can be accessed and processed by the controller for a given period, ranging from minutes to years.
2. WHICH COOKIES ARE USED BY THIS PLATFORM?
This Platform uses cookies to optimize and improve the user’s browsing experience, as well as to ascertain their browsing habits.
Some cookies used are essential to browse the Platform. The user cannot decline them. Other cookies do not affect the Platform’s functions and the user may accept or reject them as per section “3. Managing and setting cookies”. Below you will find this platform’s cookies and their features:
| Cookie | Type of cookie | Purpose | Holder | Term | Does disabling cookies affect the Platform’s functions? |
| wp-settings-
| Technical cookie | This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly the main site interface as well. | EDFABOGADOS | 1 year | Yes. If you disable this cookie, you may not see some items of this interface correctly. |
| wp-settings-time-
| Technical cookie | This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly the main site interface as well. | EDFABOGADOS | 1 year | Yes. If you disable this cookie, you may not see some items of this interface correctly. |
| viewed_cookie_policy | Technical cookie | Cookie for internal use only required for the appropriate running of the web site’s Cookie Policy. | EDFABOGADOS | 1 year | Yes. If you disable this cookie, you may not see our Cookie Policy correctly. |
| Google Analytics (_ga) | Analytic cookie | Used to identify and differentiate users. It calculates the users’ interactions. | Third party: Google | 2 years | No. |
| Google Analytics (_gat) | Analytic cookies | Used to throttle request rate. | Third party: Google | 1 minute | No. |
| Google Analytics (_gid) | Analytic cookies | Used to distinguish users. | Third party: Google | 24 hours | No. |
| __utmz | Analytic cookies | This tracks the traffic source, which search engine was used, what link was clicked, what keyword was used and what part of the world the visitor was in when a website was accessed. Google Analytics uses this cookie to assign the credit to a conversion goal or of an e-commerce transaction. | Third party: Google | 6 months | No. |
| __utmc | Analytic cookies | __utmb is a Google Analytics cookie. This takes a time stamp of the exact moment a visitor exits a site. | Third party: Google | 30 minutes | No. |
| __utmb | Analytic cookies | __utmb is a Google Analytics cookie. Used to identify new sessions or visits. This takes a time stamp of the exact moment a visitor accesses a site. | Third party: Google | 30 minutes | No. |
| __utma | Analytic cookies | This cookie keeps a record of the number of times the user has visited the relevant site, when it was first visited and when it was last visited. | Third party: Google | 2 years | No. |
| _icl_current_language | Customization | Used to remember the language chosen by the user and to show the contents in that language during the browsing experience. | EDFABOGADOS | 24 hours | Yes. If you disable this cookie, your language preferences will not be saved. |
If you want to prevent Google Analytics from gathering and using your data (cookies and IP address), you need to download and install Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/181881?hl=en
As you can see, third-party cookies are used. Yet, appropriate safeguards are taken regarding potential third parties in terms of international transfers of personal data according to the provisions of current regulations. Third parties are entities either Privacy Shield-certified (with a valid certificate) or based in the European Economic Area (EEA). You can access Third-party data privacy by clicking the following links:
3. HOLDING AND CUSTOMIZING COOKIES.
You can accept, disable or change the use of cookies, according to your preferences, the first time you access this Platform, or, after the first visit, if you access the website with a different device or browser or if you delete the cookies stored in your local terminal.
Do not forget technical cookies are essential to allow the user to browse the Platform. Therefore, not activating or disabling them will block such browsing.
Below you may read information on how to manage and disable cookies used on the platform with options from the most common browsers:
Also, you can manage cookies stored in your browser using the following tools:
- Ghostery: ghostery.com/
- Your online choices: youronlinechoices.com/es/
4. UPDATES AND CHANGES TO THE COOKIE POLICY.
This Cookie Policy may be changed as per the most current legislative or regulatory requirements, as well as in order to adapt such policy to the guidelines issued by the Spanish Data Protection Agency (known in Spanish as AEPD). Thus, users are advised to visit the Cookie Policy regularly.