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– First-party cookies: These are those sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by the website’s publisher and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
– Third-party cookies: These are those 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.
– Technical cookies: These allow the user to navigate through a website, platform, or application and use the different options or services available, such as controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, accessing restricted access parts, remembering elements that make up an order, completing the purchase process of an order, completing the registration or participation request in an event, using security elements during navigation, storing content for video or sound broadcasting, or sharing content through social networks.
–Personalization cookies: These allow the user to access the service with some predefined general characteristics based on a series of criteria on the user’s terminal, such as language, type of browser through which the service is accessed, regional configuration from which the service is accessed, etc.
– Advertising cookies: These allow the most effective possible management of the advertising spaces that, if applicable, the publisher has included in a website, application, or platform from which the requested service is provided based on criteria such as the content published or the frequency with which ads are displayed.
– Analysis cookies: These allow the party responsible for them to track 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 navigation profiles of the users of said sites, applications, and platforms, in order to introduce improvements based on the analysis of usage data made by users of the service.
On our website, we use first-party cookies:
that correspond to the login in order to publish comments on the Blog. In this way, we ensure that behind a comment there is a person and not automated bots whose only intention is to create spam.
We also use third-party cookies:
– Google Analytics: Thanks to it, we create statistics on the traffic and number of visits we receive on the Web. By using this website, the user consents to the processing of this information by Google. Therefore, the exercise of any right in this regard must be done by communicating directly with Google.
– Social networks: At Spiral Áurea, we use social networks. Each one uses its own cookies. Below, you will find the links corresponding to the use of cookies on each of them.
Google Analytics enables the following cookies on the domain spiralaurea.com:
“__utma”: necessary for the functioning of Google Analytics and with a validity period of 2 years.
“__utmz”: specifies the location of the visit, i.e., from where and how the user has arrived at our website, and its validity is 6 months.
“_utmb”: records the time of arrival on the page, and its validity is 30 minutes from the last page view registration. It is automatically deleted when changing websites or closing the browser.
“_utmc”: The current JavaScript code used by Google Analytics does not require this cookie. Previously, this cookie was used together with the _utmb cookie to determine whether more than 30 minutes had elapsed on the same page, whether or not to establish a new session for the user. This cookie continues to be written to ensure compatibility with websites where the old tracking code urchin.js is installed.
“_ga”: used by Universal Analytics, it enables the function of controlling unique visits.
“_dc”: used by Universal Analytics, its advanced display functionality. It is used to associate Google Analytics and DoubleClick sessions, with a waiting time of 10 minutes. This cookie does not store any user information; it is only used to limit the number of requests that must be made to doubleclick.net
The social networks we use also have their own cookie policy. In the following links, you will find detailed information on each of them.