COOKIES POLICY

General information

The following provides the User with general information about what cookies are and the types of cookies that exist.

What are cookies?

Cookies and other similar technologies, such as pixels, web bugs, etc., are text or image files that are installed in the User’s browser when the User visits a Website.

Among other things, cookies can store and retrieve information about the Users, their browsers, their devices and their activity on the service to which they are connected.

What types of cookies are there?

There are many different types of cookies. Below, we provide the User with some classifications of cookies, without necessarily implying that this Service uses all of these types of cookies:

1. Depending on the company managing them:
• Own cookies: these are sent to the User’s device or terminal from the system or domain belonging to the owner of a service and managed by the latter.
• Third-party cookies: these are sent to the User’s device or terminal from a system or domain that is not managed by the owner of a service, but by a third party that will process the information obtained through the cookies.
2. Depending on the time they remain active:
• Session cookies: these are cookies that collect and store data when the User accesses a service and cease to exist once the User leaves the service.
• Persistent cookies: these are cookies that have a duration set by the service provider. The retention period can vary from a few minutes to several years. They are used to store and retrieve certain parameters each time the User visits a service.
3. Depending on their purpose:
• Technical cookies: these are essential and strictly necessary for the correct functioning and use of the various options or services offered by the parties responsible for them. For example, those for session maintenance, response time management, performance or validation of options, use of security elements, etc.
• Personalisation cookies: these are cookies that allow the User to specify or personalise some of the characteristics of a service. For example, setting the language, regional settings or browser type.
• Analytics cookies: these are cookies that allow us to count the number of unique visitors and to analyse the use of a service in order to measure the interests of these visitors or certain areas of the same. For example, analytics cookies would be used to monitor the geographical areas from which the highest percentage of users connect, which product or service is most popular, etc.
• Advertising cookies: these enable the management of advertising spaces in a service.
• Behavioural advertising cookies: these enable the management of advertising spaces in a service. The role of these cookies is to store information about the behaviour of users of a service in order to subsequently display personalised advertising.
4. Other technologies:
• Pixels, web bugs or trackers: tracking pixels, pixel tracking, pixel tags or conversion pixels, web beacons. These are tiny, transparent images of 1×1 pixels that are inserted into a service in order to measure the activity. When a particular page of the service is loaded in a browser, this image is loaded and this data can be measured. Tracking pixels are generally used to track how far a particular User’s IP address has travelled through an online service.
• HTML5 storage: this consists of using the capabilities of HTML5 technology to store in the User’s browser certain parameters that can be used to identify the User’s browser.
• Local Shared Object (LSO): also known as ‘flash cookies’, consists of information being stored on the User’s device without cookies, using Adobe Flash Player technology.
• ETag (or entity tag): this is the mechanism provided by the HTTP protocol for validating the web cache that the User stores in their browser on the web. This technology is mainly used to save bandwidth by avoiding having to download the same content twice. However, it can also be used to identify the User’s browser.
• Canvas fingerprinting: this provides a means of uniquely identifying the User’s devices through their browser using HTML5 web standard technology.
• Font recognition: this technology identifies the font settings of the User’s device to uniquely identify the device.
• Browser cache: as the name suggests, this technology consists of storing information in the browser cache.
• WebGL: this technology makes use of the capabilities of modern browsers to display three-dimensional images to uniquely identify the device, as each device is configured differently.

Specific information

Who is Responsible for this Service?

This Service is the responsibility of COSENTINO GLOBAL, S.L.U., with Spanish Tax Identification Number B01966597 and registered office at Ctra. A-334 Baza-Huércal-Overa, km 59 – 04850 Cantoria, Almería, a company registered at the Companies Registry Office of Almería, in Volume 2072, Page 187, Sheet AL-52182 (hereinafter referred to as ‘COSENTINO’).

What technologies do we use?

Specifically, this online service uses Cookies and other similar technologies for the following purposes:

(*) Providers located outside the European Union or countries with equivalent data protection laws

The information obtained through these Cookies is stored on the servers of the aforementioned providers, which are located in countries outside the European Union, generally in the United States, a country whose legislation does not ensure an adequate level of protection with regard to the processing of personal data, according to the European authorities. By consenting to the use of these Cookies, the User also consents to the international transfer of their personal data to the countries of the aforementioned providers.

How can the User disable or delete cookies?

The first time the User accesses the Service, a cookie notice will be displayed informing the User how to give or refuse consent.

In the event that the User has given their consent, they may disable or delete the aforementioned Cookies at any time by configuring the browser options used on their device or terminal.

However, the User should be aware that if they refuse or delete such Cookies, we will not be able to maintain their preferences and some features will not work, so we will not be able to provide them with personalised services, and each time they use the Service, they will appear as a new User and will be asked to authorise the use of Cookies.

Below are links to information on how to disable cookies and similar technologies in major browsers:

• Cookie settings for Google Chrome
• Cookie settings for Mozilla Firefox
• Cookie settings for Internet Explorer
• Cookie settings for Safari

How does the use of cookies affect the protection of the User’s personal data?

Most cookies collect anonymous information that does not reveal the User’s identity, although some of the codes they contain are used to distinguish or individualise the browser of the device being used, so personal data protection regulations may apply. Therefore, we inform them that the information obtained through Cookies will be processed for the purposes indicated in this Cookies Policy. Furthermore, this information will also be processed by the companies that provide cookies for the purposes indicated in their respective privacy policies.

However, since these codes do not allow the identification of the User, the rights of access, correction, deletion, objection, limitation of processing or transfer of data recognised by data protection legislation will not be applicable, unless the User is able to provide additional information allowing their identity to be linked to the identification codes of their Cookies.

Should the User deem that their right to the protection of their personal data has been violated, they may file a complaint with the Spanish Data Protection Agency (www.aepd.es) or with the Data Protection Officer (gdpr@cosentino.com).

More information

The User may raise any issue relating to the use of Cookies that is not covered under this Cookies Policy by sending an e-mail to gdpr@cosentino.com.