What are Cookies?

Cookies are files that are installed on the website of the user’s browser or devices (smartphones, tablet) during their journey through the pages of the website and serve to store information about their visit.

Cookies are used to:

• Ensure that web pages are able to function correctly.
• Store preferences, such as language or font size.
• To know the user’s browsing experience.
• Collect anonymous statistical information, such as how many pages the user has visited or how long the user has been on the website.
  

The use of Cookies makes it possible to optimize navigation, adapting the information and services offered to the interests of users, in order to provide a better experience whenever you visit the website.

Typology, purpose and operation

Cookies, depending on their permanence, can be divided into session or permanent cookies. The former expire when the user closes the browser. The latter expire when the purpose for which they serve is fulfilled or when they are manually deleted.

In addition, depending on their purpose, Cookies can be classified as follows:

• Strictly necessary (technical): are those essential for the proper functioning of the page. They are normally generated when the user accesses the website or logs in to it and are used to identify the website for the following purposes:
  • They keep the user identified so that if he/she leaves the website, browser or device and returns to the same page at another time, he/she will continue to be identified, thus facilitating navigation without having to identify him/herself again.
  • Check if the user is authorized to access certain Services or areas of the website.
• Performance: They are used to improve the browsing experience and optimize the operation of the website, such as, for example, storing service configurations, or storing the purchase made in a shopping cart.
• Advertising: They are those that collect information about the advertisements shown to users of the website. They can be of two types:
  • Anonymous: They only collect information about the advertising spaces displayed on the website, regardless of the user who accessed the website, i.e., without expressly identifying themselves.
  • Personalized: Collect personal information of the user of the website by a third party, for the personalization of these advertising spaces.

• Geolocation cookies: These cookies are used to find out in which country or region the user accessing a website service is located, in order to be able to offer content or services appropriate to their location.
• Analytics: Collect information about the user’s browsing experience on the website, usually anonymously, although sometimes they also allow to uniquely and unequivocally identify the user to obtain reports on the interests of users in the services offered by the website.

Cookies used

• Level 1: Cookies strictly necessary for the provision of the same service requested by the user.
• Level 2: Performance cookies (anonymous) necessary for the maintenance of content and navigation, of which it is only necessary to inform about their existence.
• Level 3: Cookies managed by third parties that allow the tracking of the user through other websites that are not the owner of this website. They usually correspond to advertising or analytical cookies where the user is identified in a unique and obvious way.

DISABLE THE USE OF COOKIES

The user may, at any time, disable the use of cookies by configuring the browser settings, for example:

Google Chrome	http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=es&answer=95647
Internet Explorer	http://support.microsoft.com/es-es/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Mozilla Firefox	http://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/habilitar-y-deshabilitar-cookies-que-los-sitios-we
Apple Safari	http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042

We inform you that BIOERA GROUP, in its domain bioera.es does not use any type of “cookie” for the processing of personal data, which allow the identification of specific individuals.

DOMAIN	Cookie Name	Expires	Information and intrusion	Intrusiveness
OWN COOKIES
bioera.es	see legal	Permanent	Version control of legal texts	Level 3
THIRD PARTY COOKIES
bioera.es	__utma	2 years	Internal measurement Google Analytics	Level 3
bioera.es	__utmb	30 minutes	Internal measurement Google Analytics	Level 3
bioera.es	__utmc	Session	Internal measurement Google Analytics	Level 3
bioera.es	__utmz	6 months	Internal measurement Google Analytics	Level 3
bioera.es	__utmz	2 years	To distinguish users	Level 3
bioera.es	__ga	2 years	To distinguish users	Level 3
bioera.es	__gib	24 hours	To distinguish users	Level 3
bioera.es	__gat	1 minute	To limit the percentage of requests	Level 3

After reading all the information provided, we advise the user that, if you continue to browse our website without having taken the appropriate measures to customize your browsers to prevent the installation of cookies used by the sameThe User, in the terms included in article 22.2 of Law 34/2002 on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce, according to the wording of the same given by RD 13/2012 of March 30, which transposes directives on internal electricity and gas markets and on electronic communications, will be consenting to the use of these mechanisms.