1. Previous: What are Cookies?
Cookies are a tool used by Web servers to store and retrieve information about their visitors.
It is nothing more than a text file that some servers ask our browser to write to our hard disk, with information about what we have been doing on their pages.
They have an expiration date, which can range from the duration of the session to a specified future date, after which they are no longer operational.
2. Cookies used by this website
This website uses its own and third party cookies to provide you with a better browsing experience, to share content on social networks, to show you ads based on your interests and to obtain user statistics.
The cookies used on this website are only associated with an anonymous User and his or her computer, do not provide references that allow the name and surname of the User to be deduced and cannot read data from the User’s hard disk or include viruses in their texts.
Likewise, this website cannot read the cookies implanted in the User’s hard disk from other servers.
The user can freely decide about the implantation or not in his hard disk of the cookies used in this website.
In this sense, the user can configure his browser to accept or reject by default all cookies or to receive an on-screen warning of the reception of each cookie and then decide whether or not to install it on his hard drive.
We suggest you consult the help section of your browser to find out how to change the settings you are currently using.
Even if the User configures his/her browser to reject all cookies or expressly rejects the cookies of this website, he/she will be able to browse the Portal with the only inconvenience of not being able to enjoy the functionalities of the Portal that require the installation of any of them.
In any case, the User will be able to delete the cookies implanted in his hard disk at any time, following the procedure established in the help section of his browser and that we will detail later.
As a user, you can refuse the processing of data or information by blocking these cookies using the appropriate settings on your browser.
However, you should be aware that, if you do so, this site may not function properly.
3. Own cookies used on this website
According to the terms included in Article 22.2 of Law 34/2002 of Services of the Information Society and Electronic Commerce, if you continue browsing, you will be giving your consent to the use of cookies that I detail below.
WordPress
This website uses the open source content management system known as WordPress.
To such effects, the use of some cookies used by this system are not under the control or management of the person responsible for the web, and they can change their function at any time, adding new cookies or removing others.
These cookies also do not provide the person responsible for this website with any benefit beyond ensuring and improving the optimization of the site.
At the time of writing this legal notice, and until further notice (taking into account the above), these cookies only apply to registered users of this website.
Otherwise, they only serve to benefit the user in the following way:
- To make this website work properly.
- Save you having to log in every time you visit this site.
- Remind you of your settings and preferences during and between visits.
- Allow you to view videos and other third-party content (such as tweets).
- Improve site speed and security.
- You can share pages with social networks.
- Continually improve this website.
- Show you related content or advertisements based on your browsing habits.
I will never use cookies for:
- Collect personally identifiable information (without your express permission).
- Collect sensitive information (without your express permission).
- Sharing personally identifiable information to third parties.
By default and in the current version at the time of writing, WordPress cookies work as follows:
If you leave a comment on this site you can choose to save your name, email address and website in cookies.
This is for your convenience, so you don’t have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment.
These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain any personal data and is deleted when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set a number of cookies to store your login information and screen display options.
Login cookies last for two days, and display options cookies last for one year. By selecting ‘Remember me’, your login will last for two weeks. If you log out of your account, your login cookies will be deleted.
4. Third-party cookies that we use on this website and that you should be aware of
This website, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties.
New designs or third-party services are also regularly tested for recommendations and reports.
This may occasionally change the cookie settings and cookies not detailed in this policy may appear.
It is important for you to know that these are temporary cookies that cannot always be reported and that are only used for study and evaluation purposes.
Under no circumstances will cookies be used that compromise your privacy.
Among the most stable third-party cookies are:
Those generated by analytical services
Specifically, Google Analytics, which is used to help the website administrator to analyse the use made by users of the website and improve its usability, but in no case is it associated with data that could identify the user.
Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., a Delaware company with headquarters at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043, United States (‘Google’).
You can consult here the type of cookies used by Google, Google+ and Google Maps, as set out on their page on what type of cookies they use.
Social media cookies
Social media cookies may be stored in your browser while you browse this website.
For example, when you use the share button on a social network or when you view embedded content, such as youtube videos or Twitter tweets.
The companies that generate these cookies corresponding to the social networks used by this website have their own cookie policies:
- You can view Twitter’s cookie policy by clicking here →
- You can view Facebook’s cookie policy by clicking here→
- You can view Youtube’s cookie policy by clicking here →
- You can view Instagram’s cookie policy here → click here.
The privacy implications will depend on each social network and will depend on the privacy settings you have chosen in these networks. In no case, neither the manager of this website nor the advertisers can obtain personally identifiable information from these cookies.
Affiliation cookies
These cookies are set when you access third party websites that I recommend on this blog, not when you browse this blog.
Its function is to assign me a small commission if through this blog, you end up buying any product that I recommend in it.
This helps me to stay motivated and want to provide you with the best possible content, and it won’t cost you a single cent extra.
Embedded content from other websites
Pages and articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.).
Embedded content from other websites behaves in exactly the same way as if the visitor had visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
This type of content operates and is regulated in the manner previously described in the social media section.
Below, and as required by article 22.2 of the LSSI, are the cookies that may be installed while browsing this website: NAME, DURATION, PURPOSE.
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- _ga, _ga_, 2 years, Third-party cookies (Google Analytics) to anonymously analyse, among other data, visits to the blog.
- _gid, 1 day, Third-party cookies (Google Analytics) to anonymously analyse, among other data, visits to the blog.
- NID, 6 months and CONSENT, permanent: Third-party cookies (Google) are used to show ads on Google services to users who are not logged in.
- 1P_JAR, 30 days: Third-party cookies (Google) to personalise ads according to the user’s interests.
- cookie_notice_accepted, 30 days, Cookie of the plugin that we use to manage the notice of cookies and allow the display of the content once accepted.
- wordpress_logged_in_, session *, For registered users only. They are used to remember your settings and improve the user experience.
- PHPSESSID, session *, Only for registered users. This is the default name of the cookie responsible for managing sessions.
- G_ENABLED_IDPS, permanent, Used to allow the user to connect to their Google account.
- wordpress_sec_, 15 days, Used to remember the session data for a registered user.
- wfwaf-authcookie*, 1 day, For registered users only. Cookie that determines if the user is logged in.
- _lscache_vary, 2 days: Cookie of the LiteSpeed Cache plugin. It does not collect personal data but is used to know the status of the visitor (if new or returning), the user’s role (administrator, client, etc).
* The session cookie disappears when the browser is closed.
5. How can I manage and disable these cookies?
If you do not want the website not to place any cookies on your computer, you can adjust your browser to notify you before any cookies are downloaded.
You can also change your browser settings so that it rejects all cookies or only third-party cookies.
You can also delete any cookies already on your computer.
Please note that you will have to adapt the settings for each browser and device you use separately.
This website makes available to users who wish to prevent the installation of the aforementioned cookies, or delete those already installed, the links provided for this purpose by browsers whose use is considered to be the most widespread: