Cookies Policy

1. What are Cookies?

A cookie is a text file that a web server can save on your device's hard drive to store some type of information about you as a user. Cookies are used for various purposes such as storing data for future visits, to recognize the user and avoid asking for authentication again, to know which pages you visit, or to save your preferences in customizable areas...). Normally websites use cookies to obtain statistical information about their web pages, and analyze the behavior of their clients/users.

The obligations established in article 22.2 of the LSSI are excepted for cookies used for any of the following purposes:

• Allow only the communication between the user's equipment and the network.
• Strictly provide a service expressly requested by the user.

Thus, the cookies that would be excepted would be those that have the purpose of:

• User input cookies.
• User authentication or identification cookies (session only).
• User security cookies
• Media player session cookies.
• Session cookies for load balancing.
• User interface customization cookies.
• Certain plug-in cookies to exchange social content.

The specific uses we make of these technologies are described in the following sections.

2. Types of cookies

Cookies can be classified according to the following criteria:

Depending on who installs the cookie, these can be:

Own cookies: 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: Those that are sent to the user's terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by us or by a third party, but the information collected by the cookies is managed by a third party other than the owner of the website.

According to their conservation period, cookies can be:

Session cookies: Those that last the time the user is browsing the Website and are deleted when browsing ends.

Persistent cookies: They remain stored in the user's terminal for a longer time, thus facilitating control of the chosen preferences without having to repeat certain parameters each time the website is visited.

According to their purpose, cookies can be:

Technical cookies: Technical cookies are those essential and strictly necessary for the proper functioning of a Website and the use of the various options and services it offers. For example, those for session maintenance, those that allow the use of security elements, share content with social networks, etc.

Personalization cookies: They allow the user to choose or personalize characteristics of the Website such as language, regional configuration or browser type.

Analytical cookies: They are those used by Web portals to create navigation profiles and to know the preferences of users in order to improve the offer of products and services. They allow controlling geographic areas of greatest interest to a user, the website's information with the most acceptance, etc.

Advertising / advertising cookies: are those that store information on the behavior of users obtained through the continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows developing a specific profile to display advertising based on it.

3. Cookies used on our website

www.spalopia.com uses the following types of cookies on the web:

Technical cookies

They allow the user to navigate the Web, remember their passwords and use functionalities such as the shopping cart.

Personalization cookies

They allow knowing the user's preferences: language, products visited..

Analysis cookies

We use analytical cookies to quantify the number of users who visit the Web. These cookies allow measuring and analyzing the way users navigate the Web. This information allows SPALOPIA, S.L. to continuously improve its services and the experience of the Web users.

Advertising and behavioral advertising cookies

These cookies are used to show relevant ads to users based on their use of our website. In addition, they limit the number of times each user views an ad and help SPALOPIA, S.L. measure the effectiveness of its advertising campaigns. By browsing the Web, the user accepts that we install this type of cookies on their device and make queries when the user visits the SPALOPIA, S.L. Web in the future.

Cookies installed in our web domain:

This website, like most websites, includes functionalities provided by third parties.

Our website is a live website and new designs or third-party services may be included. This may occasionally modify the cookie settings and cause cookies not detailed in detail in this policy to appear.

The third-party cookies used on our website installed by third-party domains are the following:

Our site does not control the cookies used by these third parties. For more information about social network cookies or other third-party Websites, we advise reviewing their own cookie policies.

4. Information and obtaining consent for installation

www.spalopia.com will at all times try to establish adequate mechanisms to obtain the user's consent for the installation of cookies that require it. When a user accesses our website a pop-up appears informing of the existence of cookies and that by accepting them you give your consent to the installation of cookies.

Upon accessing our website, a pop-up appears informing of all the details about cookies; offering a granular acceptance of these.

Users will not have to give their consent every time they visit the website. We will keep your cookie consent and preferences for a maximum period of 24 months. Before that period expires we will request the renewal of your consent regarding cookies.

5. How can I prevent the installation of cookies?

The user can reject the installation of all those cookies, according to their preferences, except those that they expressly authorize or those that are technical and must be installed to ensure the correct functioning of the website, indicating those they wish to install or reject in the pop-up or cookie acceptance window that appears when entering the home. However, there are other ways to prevent cookies from being installed on the equipment, as we indicate below.

The user can configure their browser to accept, or not, the cookies they receive or for the browser to notify them when a server wants to save a cookie. If some technical cookies are disabled, the correct functioning of some of the website's utilities is not guaranteed.

The user may exclude 'analytical and advertising' cookies from Google Analytics from being stored on their terminal through the exclusion systems provided by Google Analytics.

Below, we also provide some examples of how to disable cookies:

Through the browser configuration itself:

To expand this information go to the Spanish Data Protection Agency page that helps configure privacy in social networks, browsers and mobile operating systems. More information.

Through third-party tools:

There are third-party tools, available online, that allow users to detect cookies on each website they visit and manage their deactivation, for example:

• www.ghostery.com
• www.youronlinechoices.com

In any case, the user can allow or block cookies, as well as delete their browsing data (including cookies) from the browser they use. Consult the options and instructions offered by your browser for this. Keep in mind that if you accept third-party cookies, you must delete them from the browser options.

6. Links to other websites

If you choose to leave our website through links to websites not belonging to our entity, we will not be responsible for the privacy policies of those websites or the cookies they may store on the user's computer.

7. How do we collect and use IP addresses?

The website servers may automatically detect the IP address and domain name used by users.

An IP address is a number automatically assigned to a computer when it connects to the Internet. This information allows subsequent data processing to know if you have given consent for the installation of cookies, perform only statistical measurements that allow knowing the number of visits to the website, the order of visits, the access point, etc.

8. International Data Transfer

The cookies installed on our web domain are installed on our server, so the data collected in them is not subject to international data transfers.

Third-party cookies installed on our website by third-party domains may be subject to international data transfer. For more information on possible international data transfers that these cookies may involve, we recommend clicking on the “more information” section of the cookie you wish to consult.

You can learn about transfers to third countries (article 49 GDPR) that, where applicable, may be carried out by the third parties identified in this Cookies Policy in their corresponding policies.

9. Update of our cookie policy

This policy is periodically reviewed to ensure its validity, so it may be modified. We recommend that you visit the page regularly where we will inform you of any updates in this regard.