The Multidisciplinary Grouping Web in the field of Environmental Technologies, CRETUS (hereinafter the Web) uses Cookies. Cookies are files sent to a browser through a web server to record the activities of the User on a specific website. The first purpose of Cookies is to provide the user with faster access to the selected services. In addition, Cookies personalize the services offered by the Web, providing and offering each user information that is of interest or that may be of interest, based on the use made of the Services.

The Website uses Cookies to personalize and facilitate user navigation. Cookies are only associated with an anonymous user and his computer and do not provide references that allow the user’s personal data to be deduced. The user can configure their browser to notify and reject the installation of Cookies sent by the Web, without damaging the possibility of the user to access the contents of said website. However, we note that, in any case, the performance of the website may decrease.

Registered users, who register or who have logged in, can benefit from more personalized and profile-oriented services, thanks to the combination of data stored in cookies with personal data used at the time of registration. These users expressly authorize the use of this information for the indicated purpose, without prejudice to their right to refuse or disable the use of cookies.

Likewise, the Web may know all the services requested by users, so that they can provide or offer adequate information to the tastes and preferences of each user.

What types of cookies exist?

Cookies, depending on their permanence, can be divided into:

▪ “Session cookies”: The first ones expire when the user closes the browser

▪ “Persistent cookies”. The second ones expire depending on when the objective for which they serve is fulfilled (for example, so that the user remains identified in the Services) or when they are manually deleted.

Additionally, depending on their Objective, Cookies can be classified as follows:

▪ Performance cookies: This type of Cookie remembers your preferences for the tools found in the services, so you do not have to reconfigure the service every time you visit. As an example, this typology includes:

▪ Volume settings of video or sound players.

▪ The video transmission speeds that are compatible with your browser.

▪ Geo-location cookies: These Cookies are used to find out what country you are in when a service is requested. This Cookie is completely anonymous, and is only used to help orient the content to its location.

▪ Registration cookies: Registration cookies are generated once the user has registered or subsequently opened their session, and they are used to identify them in the services with the following objectives:

▪ Keep the user identified so that, if you close a service, the browser or the computer and at another time or another day re-enter that service, you will continue to be identified, thus facilitating your navigation without having to identify yourself again. This functionality can be suppressed if the user presses the “close session” functionality, so that this Cookie is deleted and the next time the user enters the service, the user will have to log in to be identified.

▪ Check if the user is authorized to access certain services, for example, to participate in a contest.

▪ Analytical cookies: Each time a user visits a service, a tool from an external provider generates an analytical cookie on the user’s computer. This Cookie that is only generated in the visit, will serve in future visits to the Web Services to identify the visitor anonymously. The main objectives pursued are:

– Allow the anonymous identification of navigating users through the “Cookie” (identifies browsers and devices, not people) and therefore the approximate counting of the number of visitors and their trend over time.

– Identify anonymously the most visited content and therefore more attractive to users.

– Know if the user who is accessing is new or repeats visit.

– Important: Unless the user decides to register for a Web service, the “Cookie” will never be associated with any personal data that can identify him. These Cookies will only be used for statistical purposes that help to optimize the experience of the Users on the site.

Behavioral advertising cookies: This type of “Cookies” allows you to expand the information of the advertisements shown to each anonymous user in the Web Services. Among others, the duration or frequency of display of advertising positions, the interaction with them, or the navigation patterns and / or user compartments are stored as they help to shape a profile of advertising interest. In this way, they allow to offer advertising related to the interests of the user.

▪ Third-party advertising cookies: In addition to the advertising managed by the Web in its Services, the Web offers its advertisers the option of serving advertisements through third parties (“AdServers”). In this way, these third parties can store Cookies sent from the Web Services from the Users’ browsers, as well as access the data stored in them.

What cookies do we use?

The cookies we use on our website are:

– Own: 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.

– Session cookies

– Technical cookies

– Personalization cookies

– From third parties: 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.

1.Google Analytics: URL: https://www.google.es/intl/es/policies/technologies/types/

2. ShareThis (advertising cookie): URL: https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/

3. Doubleclick (advertising cookie): URL: http://www.google.com/doubleclick/

How to disable cookies?

Normally it is possible to stop accepting the Cookies of the browser, or stop accepting the Cookies of a particular Service.

All modern browsers allow you to change the configuration of Cookies. These settings are usually found in the ̈options ̈ or ̈preferences ̈ of your browser menu. You can also configure your browser or email manager, as well as install free add-ons to prevent Web Bugs from downloading when opening an email.

The Web offers guidance to the User on the steps to access the cookie configuration menu and, where appropriate, private browsing in each of the main browsers:

Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Internet Explorer
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Chrome for Android Can modifications to the Cookies Policy occur?
The Website may modify this Cookies Policy according to legislative, regulatory requirements, or with the purpose of adapting said policy to the instructions issued by the Spanish Agency for Data Protection, therefore users are advised to visit it periodically.
When there are significant changes in this Cookies Policy, users will be notified either through the web or through email to registered users.