What are cookies?
A cookie is a file that is downloaded to your computer when you access certain web pages. Cookies allow a web page, among other things, to store and retrieve information about the browsing habits of a user or their device and, depending on the information they contain and how the device is used, can be used to recognise the user.
Types of cookies used on this website
Analytics cookies: these are cookies that, whether processed by us or by third parties, allow us to quantify the number of users and thereby measure and statistically analyse how users make use of the service offered. To do this, we analyse browsing on our website in order to improve it.
The application we use to obtain and analyse this information is Google Analytics.
The cookies used for this (_utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmt and _utmz) are third-party cookies.
These cookies are used to collect information about users’ browsing on the site in order to determine the source of visits and other similar statistical data.
Through the following links you can see the details of the cookies used by Google Analytics and their purpose: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage and Google’s Privacy Centre.
Deleting or blocking cookies
You can allow, block or delete the cookies installed on your device by configuring the browser settings on your computer.
You can find more information about your browser and cookies at the following links:
Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/en/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647
Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/how-to-manage-cookies-in-internet-explorer-9
Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042
Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/11.50/en/cookies.html
Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on
If you wish to opt out of Google Analytics tracking cookies across all browsers so that no information about you is sent to Google Analytics, you can download an add-on that does this from the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
