This portal, like most portals on the Internet, uses cookies to enhance the user's browsing experience. Cookies personalize the services offered by the website, providing each user with information that may be of interest, based on how they use this portal. Below, you will find information about what cookies are, what types of cookies this portal uses, how you can disable cookies in your browser, or how to specifically disable the installation of third-party cookies and what happens if they are disabled.
1. Definition and function of cookies
Cookies are small data files that are downloaded to your computer when you access certain web pages. Cookies allow a website to, among other things, store and retrieve information about a user's browsing habits or those of their device and, depending on the information they contain and how the device is used, they may be used to recognize the user. Cookies play a very important role, as without them, using the web would be a much more frustrating experience.
If you do not want to receive cookies, please configure your Internet browser to delete them from your computer’s hard drive, block them, or alert you when they are being installed.
2. Types of cookies
There are several types of cookies. According to the entity that manages the domain from which the cookies are sent and processes the data obtained, we can distinguish two types: first-party cookies and third-party cookies. There is also a second classification based on the length of time they remain stored in the client’s browser, which may be session cookies or persistent cookies. Lastly, there is another classification with five types of cookies depending on the purpose for which the obtained data are processed: technical cookies, personalization cookies, analytics cookies, advertising cookies, and behavioral advertising cookies.
3. What types of cookies does this website use?
The types of cookies we use according to their purpose are:
Preferences / Personalization (functional)
These are cookies that allow the user to access the service with some general predefined features based on a series of criteria in the user’s device. These cookies allow information to be remembered (such as your username, language, or the region you are in) and more personal characteristics. For example, the possibility of offering personalized content based on the information and criteria you have voluntarily provided. These cookies also allow you to change the text size, font, and other parts of web pages that you can customize. They are also used to offer some requested services, such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymous and they cannot track your activity on other websites. By visiting our website, you accept the installation of these cookies on your device.
The loss of information stored in a preference cookie may make the website experience less functional, but it should not affect its operation.
Process / Technical (strictly necessary)
These cookies allow the user to browse a website, platform, or application and use the different options or services that exist within it such as, for example, controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, accessing restricted areas, remembering the items that make up an order, completing the purchase process, submitting a registration or participation request in an event, using security elements during browsing, storing content for video or audio distribution, or sharing content through social networks.
These cookies are necessary for the correct use of the website, allowing access to sections with security filters.
Without these cookies, the website cannot function properly.
By visiting our website, you accept the installation of these cookies on your device.
Session / Browsing status
These cookies collect information about how visitors use the website, for example pages visited, loading errors... This is generic and anonymous information, which does not include personal data or collect information that identifies visitors; the ultimate aim is to improve the functioning of the website. By visiting our website, you accept the installation of these cookies on your device.
Websites usually collect information about how users interact with a website. This information may include the pages users visit most often and whether users receive error messages from certain pages. We use so-called "session status cookies" to improve our services in order to enhance the user browsing experience. If these cookies are blocked or deleted, the website will still function.
Behavioral Advertising Cookies
These are cookies that allow the most effective management of the advertising spaces we have included on the website, application, or platform from which we provide the requested service. These cookies store information about users’ behavior obtained through continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows us to develop a specific profile to show advertising based on that profile. We store information about our users’ browsing activities on advertised websites in order to send advertisements and/or specific advertising based on the user’s interests.
Additionally, it is possible that when visiting a website or opening an email where an advertisement or promotion for our products or services is published, a cookie may be installed in your browser that helps us later show you advertising related to the search you have carried out, and to control our ads in relation to, for example, how many times they are viewed, where they appear, at what time they are viewed, etc.
Analytics
These cookies allow us to track and analyze the behavior of users of the websites they are linked to. The information collected through this type of cookie is used to measure the activity of websites, applications, or platforms and to create navigation profiles of the users of said sites, applications, and platforms, with the aim of introducing improvements based on the analysis of the usage data provided by the users of the service. These cookies, whether processed by us or by third parties, allow us to quantify the number of users and thus perform statistical measurement and analysis of how users use the offered service. For this, we analyze your navigation on our website in order to improve the products or services we offer.
The tools we use to collect browsing data, measure traffic, and analyze audience behavior are Google Analytics and Metricool.
DIGIS3 Own Cookies:
- _ga: Google Analytics cookie used to distinguish users. Expires in 1 year.
- _gid: Google Analytics cookie used to distinguish users. Expires in 24 hours.
- _gat: Google Analytics cookie used to limit request rate. Expires in 1 minute.
- cookiesAccepted: Cookie that records whether the user has accepted the cookie policy. Expires in 1 year.
- analyticsCookies: Cookie that records whether the user has accepted the analytics cookies. Expires in 1 year.
4. Use of Consent on Subdomains
When you accept the use of cookies on our main website (www.digis3.eu), your consent also allows us to collect information about your browsing when you access our subdomains (such as matchmaking.digis3.eu). This is because we use first-party or third-party cookies that operate throughout our entity’s web ecosystem.
If you do not accept the use of cookies from the main website, no data will be collected during your browsing of the subdomains.
5. Revocation and Deletion of Cookies. Managing Cookies on Devices. Procedure for Refusing Cookie Installation.
Most computers automatically accept the use of cookies. However, users have the option to decide whether or not to keep cookies enabled on their computer.
Therefore, you can allow, view, block, or delete the cookies installed on your device by configuring the settings of the browser installed on your computer.
If you do not allow the installation of cookies in your browser, you may not be able to access some sections of our website or some features or services may be disabled.
However, even if all cookies are disabled, the web browser collects certain essential information required for the basic operation of the platform. Users who wish to disable cookies can do so from the preferences section of their internet browser.
For more information on how to block cookies, you can do so through the following pages depending on your browser:
- Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/windows7/how-to-manage-cookies-in-internet-explorer-9
- Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/habilitar-y-deshabilitar-cookies-que-los-sitios-we
- Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=es&answer=95647
- Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042
6. More Information
If you would like more information about how we use cookies, please contact us at info@digis3.eu.
Please note that restricting cookies may affect the functionality of the websites you visit.
Updates and Changes to the Cookie Policy
DIGIS3 may modify and update this Cookie Policy based on legal or regulatory requirements, or in order to adapt it to the guidelines issued by the Spanish Data Protection Agency. Therefore, users are advised to visit it periodically.