WHAT IS A COOKIE?

At Cambridge House S.L. we comply with the provisions of the Law on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce, a regulation that has included the transposition of Directive 2009/136/EC, known as the “Cookies Law”.

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your computer, tablet, mobile phone or, in short, on the device you use to browse the Internet, and which can store information relating to the frequency with which you visit websites, your browsing preferences, the information you are most interested in, user names, registering products, etc. Depending on the information they contain and the way you use your computer, they can be used to recognise the user.

TYPES OF COOKIES

Cookies can be classified according to the following criteria:

a) Depending on the length of time they remain activated:

• “Session Cookies” or “Persistent Cookies”: the former are deleted when you close your browser, while the latter remain on your computer..

b) Depending on the entity managing them:

• “First-party cookies”: These are cookies 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.
• “Third-party cookies”: These are cookies 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 the cookies..

c) Depending on the purpose for which the data obtained through the cookies are processed, we can distinguish between:

• “Technical cookies”: These cookies allow the user to browse a website, platform or application and use the different options or services that exist on it, such as controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, accessing restricted areas, remembering the elements that make up an order, carrying out the purchase process of an order, applying for registration or participation in an event, using security elements during browsing, storing content for the broadcasting of videos or sound or sharing content through social networks.
• “Personalisation cookies”: These cookies allow the user to access the service with some predefined general characteristics depending on a series of criteria in the user’s terminal, such as the language, the type of browser used to access the service, the regional configuration from which the service is accessed, etc.
• “Analysis cookies”: These cookies allow the party responsible for them to monitor and analyse the behaviour of the users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected through this type of cookies is used to measure the activity of the websites, application or platform and for the elaboration of browsing profiles of the users of these sites, applications and platforms, in order to introduce improvements based on the analysis of the usage data of the users of the service.
• “Advertising cookies”: These are cookies that allow the management, in the most efficient way possible, of the advertising spaces that, where appropriate, the publisher has included on a website, application or platform from which the requested service is provided, based on criteria such as the edited content or the frequency at which the advertisements are shown.
• “Behavioural advertising cookies”: These are cookies that allow the management, in the most effective way possible, of the advertising spaces that, where appropriate, the publisher has included on a website, application or platform from which the requested service is provided. These cookies store information on the behaviour of users obtained through the continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows a specific profile to be developed in order to display advertising based on the same.