It is a file that is downloaded to your computer or other device when you access certain web pages that collect information about your browsing on that website. In some cases cookies are necessary to facilitate navigation and allow storing and retrieving information about the browsing habits of a user or their equipment, among other things and, depending on the information they contain and the way you use your computer, can be used to recognize the user.

Depending on the entity that manages them:

• Own Cookies: are those that are sent to the User's terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by the editor 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 editor, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through cookies.

Types of third-party cookies:

• Load-balancing cookies: they are used to collect data that help regulate, divide and manage server congestion. They are considered necessary for communication over the network. They only identify a server, therefore, they do not contain personal data.
• Cookies to customize the user interface: they are used, among others, to indicate the preferred language or content format. They do not require any particular identifier, therefore, they will not constitute personal information.

Depending on how long the cookie remains active on the computer:

• Session cookies: these are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the website, so none is recorded on the user's hard drive. The information obtained through these cookies is used to analyze web traffic patterns. Ultimately, this allows us to provide a better experience to improve the content and facilitate its use.
• Persistent cookies: these are stored on the hard drive and our website reads them each time the user makes a new visit. A permanent cookie can be accessed and treated for a period defined by the person responsible for the cookie, after that date it will stop working.

According to its purpose:

• Technical cookies: allow the user to navigate through a website, platform or application and the use of the different options or services that exist in it.
• Personalization Cookies: These allow the user to access the service with some general characteristics predefined according to a series of criteria in the user's terminal such as, for example, the language, the type of browser through which the user accesses the service, the regional configuration from where the user accesses the service, etc.
• Analysis cookies: These cookies allow the party responsible for them to monitor and analyze the behavior of the users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected through this type of cookies is used in the measurement of the activity of the websites, application or platform and for the elaboration of browsing profiles of the users of such sites, applications and platforms, in order to introduce improvements based on the analysis of the data of use made by the users of the service.
• Advertising Cookies: These allow the management, in the most effective way possible, of the advertising spaces that, where appropriate, the publisher has included on a website, application or platform from which it provides the requested service based on criteria such as the edited content or the frequency at which the ads are displayed.
• Behavioraladvertising cookies: These cookies store information on user behavior obtained through the continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows the development of a specific profile to display advertising based on the same.

HOSPITEN makes use of its own and third party cookies, specifically, external Google plug-ins. Their use implies the sending of cookies. For more information, please consult: How Google uses cookies

The information collected by Google's external plug-ins on our Website, including the user's IP address, may be transmitted to Google and stored on its servers. This information is managed entirely by Google. These cookies do not identify the user personally unless you are logged in to Google, in which case you will be linked to that Google account.

For more information see: Types of cookies used by Google and Google's Privacy Policy: Privacy Policy.

If you wish to modify your cookie settings you can do so at the bottom of the web page or by clicking here.

In the following table we explain the cookies that are used on this website and why.

You can learn more about the use of Google Analytics cookies by clicking here.

Google Analytics services are provided by Google LLC. The interaction with users through the use of this tool involves the international transfer of analytical and technical data relating to the Site to the United States, which does not offer a level of protection equivalent to that of the European Union. The transfer of data will only take place if you have accepted the installation of analytical cookies.

More information on this can be found in the Google Analytics Privacy Policy.

The information obtained through the Cookies will be incorporated into HOSPITEN's processing for the purposes and within the periods indicated in this Policy.

Likewise, this information will also be incorporated into the files of the companies supplying the Third-Party Cookies indicated in this document, and will be processed for the purposes indicated in their respective privacy policies.

If you accept third-party cookies, you must delete them from the browser options or from the system offered by the third party itself.

The legal basis that legitimizes these treatments is the consent of the user, provided through the cookie configuration options; however, the user may refuse the use of cookies through the mechanisms indicated below.

Puede revisar su configuración de cookies a través del Panel de configuración. También puede usted permitir, bloquear o eliminar las cookies instaladas en su equipo mediante la configuración de las opciones del navegador instalado en su ordenador. Por favor, lea atentamente la sección de ayuda de su navegador para conocer más acerca de cómo activar el “modo privado” o desbloquear determinadas cookies.

• Internet Explorer: Puede consultar el soporte de Microsoft o la Ayuda del navegador.
• Firefox: Puede consultar el soporte de Mozilla o la Ayuda del navegador.
• Chrome: Puede consultar el soporte de Google o la Ayuda del navegador.
• Safari: Puede consultar el soporte de Apple o la Ayuda del navegador.

La variación de las cookies que aparezcan en esta web puede no estar relacionada con la gestión y el mantenimiento de esta, por lo que se llevan a cabo revisiones periódicas para adecuar la política de cookies.

El titular de la web no asume ninguna responsabilidad por problemas legales o técnicos causados por el incumplimiento por parte del USUARIO de las recomendaciones incluidas y no se hace responsable del contenido y veracidad de las políticas de privacidad de terceros.

Esta Política de Cookies podrá ser modificada en función de exigencias legislativas, reglamentarias, o con la finalidad de adaptar dicha política a las instrucciones dictadas por la Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, por ello se aconseja a los Usuarios que la visiten periódicamente.

Última actualización: 08 de octubre de 2020.