Information about cookies

In accordance with Law 34/2002 of July 11, 2002, on Information Society Services and E-Commerce (LSSICE, using its Spanish acronym), in relation to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and Organic Law 3/2018, of December 5, 2018, on the Protection of Personal Data and Guarantee of Digital Rights (LOPDGDD, using its Spanish acronym), express consent must be obtained from the users of all websites that use essential cookies before the user browses them.

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 its visitors, as well as to ensure a website operates correctly.

The use of these devices allows the web server to remember some data concerning the user, such as their preferences when viewing the pages on that server, username and password, products that most interest them, etc.

Cookies affected by the regulation and exempt cookies

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

Types of cookies

According to purposeĀ 

  • Technical and functionality cookies: These allow the user to browse through a website, platform or application and use the different options or services that exist on it.
  • Analytical cookies: These allow the entity responsible for them to track and analyse the behaviour of the users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected by these cookies is used to measure the activity of websites, applications or platforms and to create browsing profiles for the users of such sites, applications and platforms, in order to introduce improvements based on the analysis of data explaining how users make use of the service.
  • Advertising cookies: These allow efficient management of the advertising spaces that, where applicable, the publisher has included on a website, application or platform from which they provide the requested service, based on criteria such as edited content or the frequency at which ads are displayed.
  • Behavioural advertising cookies: These collect information on the user’s preferences and personal choices (retargeting) to allow efficient management of the advertising spaces that, where applicable, the publisher has included on a website, application or platform from which they provide the requested service.
  • Social cookies: These are set by social media platforms on the services to allow users to share content with their friends and networks. Social media platforms have the ability to track a user’s online activity outside the services. This may affect the content and messages a user sees on other services they visit.
  • Affiliate cookies: These allow visits from other websites, with which the website establishes an affiliation agreement (affiliate companies), to be tracked.
  • Security cookies: These store encrypted information to prevent data stored on them from being vulnerable to malicious third-party attacks.

According to ownership

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

According to storage periodĀ 

  • Session cookies: These are designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a website.
  • Persistent cookies: With these cookies, the data remains stored on the user’s device and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the entity responsible for the cookie, which can range from a few minutes to several years.

Personal data processing

QUINORGAN, S.L. is the Data Controller and hereby informs you that these data will be processed in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 (GDPR), for which reason the following processing information is provided:

Processing purpose: as specified in the cookies section used on this website.

Legal basis of processing: the Data Controller’s legitimate interest: technical cookies and consent of the data subject: behavioural and advertising analytical cookies.

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

Communication of data: data will not be communicated to third parties, except in cookies owned by third parties or where required to do so by law.

Data subject rights:

Right to withdraw consent at any time. Right of access, rectification, portability and erasure, and to limit or oppose processing. The right to file a complaint with the supervisory authority (www.aepd.es) if they believe processing does not comply with current regulations.

Contact details for exercising your rights: quinorgan@gammaqds.com