Definition and function of cookies
What are cookies?
A cookie is a file that is downloaded to your computer when you access certain web pages. Cookies allow a website, among other things, to store and retrieve information about the browsing habits of a user or their computer and, depending on the information they contain and the way you use your computer, can be used to recognize the user.
This website uses cookies and/or similar technologies that store and retrieve information when you browse. In general, these technologies may serve a variety of purposes, such as, for example, recognizing you as a user, obtaining information about your browsing habits, or customizing the way content is displayed. The specific uses we make of these technologies are described below.
What types of cookies are there?
Depending on who manages them:
- Own cookies: those that are sent to the user’s computer from the domain managed by the visited website and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
- Third-party cookies: those that are sent to the user’s computer from a domain that is not managed by the visited website itself, but by another entity that treats the user’s computer.
Depending on the purpose:
- Technical Cookies: are those that allow the user to navigate through a web page and the use of the different options or services that exist in it, including those that allow us to manage and operate the website and enable its functions and services, such as, for example, control traffic and data communication, identify the session, access parts of restricted access, remember the elements that make up an order, make the purchase process of an order, manage payment, control fraud, make the application for registration or participation in an event, count visits, etc..
- Preference or personalization cookies: these are cookies that allow information to be remembered so that the user can access the service with certain characteristics that may differentiate his or her experience from that of other users, such as, for example, the language, the number of results to be displayed when the user performs a search, the appearance or content of the service depending on the type of browser through which the user accesses the service or the region from which he or she accesses the service, etc.
- Analysis Cookies: These are those that allow us to quantify the number of users and thus perform the measurement and statistical analysis of the use made by users of the service offered. To do this, your browsing on our website is analyzed in order to improve the supply of products or services we offer.
- Advertising Cookies: These are those that allow us to manage as effectively as possible the supply of advertising spaces on the website, adapting the content of the advertisement to the content of the requested service or the use you make of our website. To do this we can analyze your browsing habits on the Internet and we can show you advertising related to your browsing profile.
According to the term of permanence:
- Session Cookies: are those designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a web page. They are usually used to store information that is only of interest to keep for the provision of the service requested by the user on a single occasion (for example, a list of products purchased) and disappear at the end of the session.
- Persistent Cookies: are those in which the data remain stored in the terminal and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the person responsible for the cookie, which can range from a few minutes to several years.
- Information about the type of cookies and their purpose
What cookies do we use?
This website uses Google Analytics to collect anonymous information such as the number of visitors to the site, or the most popular pages.
The cookies used on our website, are session and third party cookies, and allow us to store and access information related to language, type of browser used, and other general characteristics predefined by the user, as well as to track and analyze the activity carried out, in order to make improvements and provide our services in a more efficient and personalized way.
Cookies, depending on their permanence, can be divided into session or permanent cookies. Those that expire when the user closes the browser. Those that expire depending on when the purpose for which they serve is fulfilled (for example, to keep the user identified in the services) or when they are manually deleted.
| Name |
Type |
Expiration |
Purpose |
Class |
| __utma |
Third Party (Google Analytics) |
2 years |
Used to distinguish users and sessions. |
Not Exempt |
| __utmb |
Third Party (Google Analytics) |
30 minutes |
Used to determine new sessions or visits |
Not Exempt |
| __utmc |
Third Party (Google Analytics) |
At the end of the session |
Configured for use with Urchin |
Not Exempt |
| __utmz |
Third Party (Google Analytics) |
6 months |
Stores the source or campaign that explains how the user arrived at the website. |
Not Exempt |
Identification of who uses cookies
Google Analytics Data Protection: http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html
How Google Analytics uses cookies: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage?hl=es#analyticsjs
Information on how to accept, refuse or revoke consent
You can check your cookie settings or reject them at the following link.
https://ascanioquimica.com/#gdpr_cookie_modal
Cookie settings for the most popular browsers (these steps may vary depending on the browser version)
Chrome:
Go to Settings by clicking on the customization icon at the top right with three vertical dots.
Go to Privacy and Security.
Select Cookies and other website data.
There you can choose how cookies are controlled.
Edge:
Go to Settings by clicking on the three horizontal bars at the top right of the browser.
Click on Settings and then on Cookies and site permissions.
There you can choose how cookies are controlled.
Firefox:
Go to Settings by clicking on the three horizontal bars at the top right of the browser.
Click on Privacy & Security.
In Cookies and site data you can manage everything related to cookies.
Opera:
Go to Easy Setup by clicking on the three horizontal bars at the top right of the browser.
Click on Privacy and Security.
In Cookies and other site data you can manage everything related to cookies.
Safari for OSX:
Go to Preferences, then Privacy.
In this place you will see the option Block cookies so that you can adjust the type of blocking you want to do.
Safari for iOS:
Go to Settings, then Safari.
Go to Privacy and Security, you will see the option Block cookies for you to adjust the type of blocking you want to do.
Android:
Launch the navigator and press the Menu key, then Settings.
Go to Security and Privacy, you will see the Accept cookies option to check or uncheck the box.
Other information about cookies
No data transfers are made to third parties and no automated profiling is performed with the information obtained by cookies.
You can access more information about your privacy in the Legal Notice of the Web.
In addition, you can always file complaints about your rights with the Control Authority(www.aepd.es), which also has several guides on cookies and privacy on the web.
