What are cookies?
A “Cookie” is a small file stored on the user's computer, tablet, smartphone or any other device with information about browsing activity. The set of “cookies” helps us improve the quality of our website and allows us to know which pages our users find useful and which they do not.
Cookies are essential for the functioning of the internet, as they provide numerous advantages in the delivery of interactive services and make browsing and usability of our website easier. Please note that cookies cannot damage your equipment and, on the contrary, having them enabled helps us identify and resolve errors.
Types of cookies
The information provided below will help you understand the different types of cookies:
- First-party cookies: these are sent to your device from our own equipment or domains and from which we provide the service you request.
- Third-party cookies: these are sent to your device from equipment or a domain that is not managed by us, but by another collaborating entity, such as those used by social networks or by external content such as Google Maps.
- Session cookies: these are temporary cookies that remain in your browser's cookie file until you leave the website, so none are recorded on your computer's hard drive. The information obtained through these cookies is used to analyse traffic patterns on the website. In the long run, this allows us to provide a better experience by improving content and making it easier to use.
- Persistent cookies: these are stored on the hard drive and our website reads them each time you make a new visit. A permanent cookie has a specific expiration date. The cookie will stop working after that date. We generally use them to facilitate registration services.
- Technical cookies: these are necessary for browsing and the proper functioning of our website. They allow, for example, control of traffic and data communication, access to restricted areas, use of security elements, storage of content to be able to broadcast videos or share content through social networks.
- Customisation cookies: these allow you to access the service with certain predefined characteristics depending on a series of criteria, such as language, the type of browser through which the service is accessed, the regional configuration from which the service is accessed, etc.
- Analytics cookies: these allow us to quantify the number of users and thus perform statistical measurement and analysis of how users make use of the services provided.
To do this, your browsing on our website is analysed in order to improve the range of products and services we offer.
- Advertising cookies: these allow the management, in the most effective way possible, of advertising spaces that may be included on our website.
- Behavioural advertising cookies: these cookies store information about users' behaviour obtained through continuous observation. Thanks to them, we can learn browsing habits on the internet and show you advertising related to your browsing profile.
Specifically, www.gruphelco.es uses the following cookies:
We inform you that GRUPHELCO, on its gruphelco.es domain, does not use any type of “cookies” for the processing of personal data that allow the identification of specific natural persons.
| Domain |
Cookie Name |
Expires |
Information |
| gruphelco.es |
utma |
2 years from setup or update. |
Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the Javascript library is executed and there is no utma cookie. The cookie is updated each time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
| gruphelco.es |
utmb |
30 minutes from setup or update. |
Used to determine new sessions or visits. The cookie is created when the Javascript library is executed and there is no utmb cookie. The cookie is updated each time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
| gruphelco.es |
umtc |
End of browser session. |
It is not used in ga.js. It is set to interact with urchin.js. Previously, this cookie acted together with the utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session or visit. |
| gruphelco.es |
utmz |
Six months from setup or update. |
Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached the site. The cookie is created when the Javascript library is executed and is updated each time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
| gruphelco.es |
umtv |
Two years from setup or update. |
Used to store data from visitor custom variables. This cookie is created when a programmer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor custom variable. It was also used for the obsolete _setVar method. The cookie is updated each time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
| gruphelco.es |
politicas |
Permanent |
Version control of legal texts |
| gruphelco.es |
laravel_session |
1 session |
First-party cookie used to manage each user's session. |
In addition, some services may use connectors with social networks such as Facebook or Twitter. When a user registers for a service with the credentials of a social network, the user authorises that social network to store a persistent cookie that remembers their identity and guarantees access to the services until it expires.
The user may delete this cookie and revoke access to the services through social networks by updating their preferences on the corresponding social network.
On the GRUPHELCO website we use Google Analytics, a web analytics service developed by Google that provides measurement and analysis of browsing activity. You can find more information about it and disable the use of these cookies at:
http://www.google.es/intl/es/analytics/privacyoverview.html
Configure or disable.
The user has the option to prevent the generation of cookies by selecting the corresponding option in their internet browser. If the installation of cookies is not allowed, you may not be able to access some services or the website may not function properly.
You can find information on how to do this for the most common browsers at the following links.
- Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/windows7/how-to-manage-cookies-in-internet-explorer-9
- Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/es/products/firefox/cookies
- Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=es/&answer=95647
- Safari: http://suport.apple.com/kb/ph5042
Consent.
By browsing and continuing to use our website, you indicate that you consent to the use of the aforementioned cookies and under the conditions contained in this Cookie Policy.
These conditions shall be governed by current Spanish legislation.