Cookies Policy

Cookies Policy

We thank you for deciding to visit us. It is our wish that your experience on the website is the best possible, and for that reason we have written this Cookies Policy in the most transparent way possible.

Do you consent to the use of cookies on this website? We request your permission to gather anonymous statistical data during your navigation of this website, in conformity with the Royal Decree-Law 13/2012. The fact of navigating the website implies your consent to us making use of such data. For more information please consult the policy in respect of cookies that we set out in continuation.

What is a Cookie?

Firstly we should tell you that a cookie is not a computer virus nor anything similar that seeks to damage the device of the person that authorizes its use. There is nothing at all bad in cookies.

A cookie is a small file of letters and figures that is downloaded into your computer when you access certain websites. Cookies allow a website to recognise the navigator program of a user, and do not contain or compile personal information.

Their principal purpose is to recognise the user each time that the user accesses that website. It allows us also to improve the quality and usability of our website.

Cookies are essential for the functioning of the Internet; they cannot damage the equipment/device of the user and, if they are activated in the configuration of your navigator, they help us to identify and resolve possible errors of functioning of the website.

Types of Cookies

The website has different types of cookies. All of them work of the same way, but they have small differences:

• Session Cookies: Session cookies only last for the duration of your visit and are erased when you close the navigator. Their principal purposes are to identify the type of device, and to support the security of the website and its basic functioning. They do not contain personal information that would allow us toidentify a person.
• Persistent or Permanent Cookies: These are stored on the hard disk of the device and our website reads them each time that a new visit is made to the Website; this type has a specific expiry date, and when this is reached the cookie ceases to function. They allow us to identify your actions and preferences, and to analyse the visits. They help us to understand how users arrive at our websiteand to improve our services.
• Functionality Cookies:These cookies allow the website to record decisions taken by the user, such as their login or identifier. The information that is collected from these cookies is anonymized (that is, the information does not contain your name, address or other data).
• Third party Cookies: : Cookies of third parties are the cookies installed by a website that is not the actual website that you are visiting; for example, those used by social networks (like Facebook) or by external complements of content (like Google Maps). In addition, some publicity companies use files of this type in order to monitor your visits to each websiteon which they advertise.
• Analytical Cookies: The purpose of these cookies is periodic maintenance and to ensure the optimum functioning and service to the user; they compile data about your activity.

Use of Cookies by the Website

By your action in navigating the website, you expressly accept that we may use cookies of this type in your devices. If you de-activate the cookies, your navigation of the website may not be optimum, and some of the utilities that are provided may not function correctly.

In continuation we indicate for you the cookies that we use and their purpose:

Configuration of the user to prevent Cookies or how to de-activate the Cookies.

From the Website, and in compliance with the legal regulations in force, we put at your disposal the information that will allow you to configure your Internet navigator/navigators in order to maintain your privacy and security in relation to cookies. To this end, we provide you with the information and links to the official support websites of the principal navigators, so that you may decide whether or not you wish to accept the use of cookies.

Thus, you are able to block the cookies through the configuration tools of the navigator or alternatively, you can configure your navigator so that it warns you when a server wants to keep a cookie.

In continuation you will be able find the links of each navigator so that you can disable the cookiesfollowing the instructions:

• Internet Explorer: Click here for instructions
• Mozilla Firefox: Click here for instructions
• Google Chrome: Click here for instructions
• Safari: Click here for instructions
• Opera: Click here for instructions
• Otros: If you have another type of navigator that is not included in this list of the most-utilised navigators, you should the specific documentation of your navigator.

Finally, you can go to the website Your Online Choices www.youronlinechoices.com where, in addition to finding useful information, you will be able to configure, provider by provider, your preferences regarding third-party publicity-related cookies.

If you need more information on this topic you can send us an email: info.icman@csic.es