WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies and other similar technologies such as Local Shared Objects, Flash cookies or pixels are tools used by web servers to store and retrieve information about their visitors and to ensure the proper functioning of the website.

By using these devices, the web server can memorise some data about the user, such as their preferences for viewing the pages of that server, name and password, products that interest them the most, etc.

REGULATORY COOKIES AND EXEMPTED COOKIES

According to the EU Directive, the cookies that require the user’s informed consent are analytical, advertising and affiliation cookies, with the exception of those of a technical nature, which are necessary for the operation of the website or the provision of services expressly requested by the user.

COOKIE TYPES

ACCORDING TO THE PURPOSE

• Technical and functional cookies: are those that allow the user to navigate through a website, platform or application and use the different options or services that exist therein.
• Analytical cookies: are those that allow the controller to monitor and analyse the behaviour of users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected through this type of cookie is used to measure the activity of the websites, application or platform and to create navigation profiles of the users of these websites, applications and platforms in order to introduce improvements based on the analysis of the information provided by the users of the service.
• Advertising cookies: These allow the most efficient possible management of the advertising spaces that the publisher may have included in a website, application or platform from which it provides the requested service, based on criteria such as the content edited or the frequency with which the advertisement is displayed.
• Behavioural advertising cookies: they collect information about the user’s personal preferences and choices (retargeting) to enable the most efficient management of the advertising spaces that the publisher may have included in a web page, application or platform from which it provides the requested service.
• Social cookies: These are set by the social media platforms on the Services so that you can share content with your friends and networks. Social media platforms have the ability to track your online activity outside of the Services. This may affect the content and messages you see on other services you visit.
• Partner cookies: These make it possible to track visits from other websites with which the website has a partnership agreement (partner companies).
• Security cookies: They store information in encrypted form to prevent the data stored in them from being jeopardised by malicious attacks from third parties.

ACCORDING TO THE PROPERTY

• Own cookies: are those that are sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by the publisher itself and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
• Third-party cookies: are those that are sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain that is not managed by the publisher, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through cookies.

DEPENDING ON THE STORAGE PERIOD

• Session cookies: are a type of cookie used to collect and store data while the user is accessing a website.
• Persistent cookies: These are a type of cookie in which the data continues to be stored in the terminal and can be accessed and processed for a period of time defined by the person responsible for the cookie, which can range from a few minutes to several years.

PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA

MIQUEL Y COSTAS & MIQUEL, S.A. is responsible for the treatment of the interested party’s personal data and informs you that these data will be treated in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 (GDPR), therefore the following information on the treatment is provided:

Purposes of the processing: as indicated in the section on cookies used on this website.

Lawfulness of the processing: by consent of the data subject (art. 6.1 GDPR).

Data retention criteria: as indicated in the section on cookies used on the website

Transfer of the data: The data will not be communicated to third parties, except in the case of cookies held by third parties or legal obligation.

Rights of the interested party:

• – Right to withdraw consent at any time.
• – Right of access, rectification, portability and erasure of your data, as well as the right to restrict or object to its processing.
• – The right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority (www.aepd.es) if you believe that the processing does not comply with the applicable regulations.

Contact information for exercising your rights:

MIQUEL Y COSTAS & MIQUEL, S.A. Tuset, 10 floor 7 – 08006 Barcelona. E-mail: sistemas@miquelycostas.com

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