What are Cookies?

Cookies are small files that some platforms, such as web pages, can install on your computer, smartphone, tablet or connected television. Its functions can be very varied: store your browsing preferences, collect statistical information, allow certain technical features. The cookies used by the website are only associated with an anonymous user and his computer, and do not in themselves provide the user's personal data. To learn more about cookies: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie_You can reject the treatment of data or information by rejecting the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however, you should know that if you do so, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

Because they are important?

Cookies are useful for various reasons. From a technical point of view, they allow web pages to work more quickly and adapted to your preferences, such as storing your language or the currency of your country. In addition, they help those responsible for websites to improve the services they offer, thanks to the statistical information they collect through them. Finally, they serve to make the advertising we show you more efficient, thanks to which we can offer you services for free. Through the use of cookies, it is possible that the server where the web is located, recognizes the web browser used by the user in order that the Navigation is easier, allowing, for example, access to users who have previously registered, access areas, services, promotions or contests reserved exclusively.  

How do we use Cookies?

Below, we provide more information so that the different types of cookies that can be used are better understood: Session cookies: these are temporary cookies that remain in the browser's cookie file until the web page is abandoned, so none is recorded on the user's hard drive. The information obtained through these cookies is used to analyze traffic patterns on the web. Ultimately, this allows for a better experience to improve content and make it easier to use. Permanent cookies: they are stored on the hard disk and the web page reads them each time a new visit is made. Despite its name, a permanent website has a specific expiration date. The cookie will stop working after that date. They are generally used to facilitate different services offered by web pages.

Typology, purpose and operation of Cookies:

Additionally, depending on their objective, Cookies can be classified as follows:

PERFORMANCE COOKIES: This type of Cookie remembers your preferences for the tools found in the Services, so you do not have to reconfigure the service every time you visit. As an example, this typology includes:

• Video or sound player volume settings. The video transmission speeds that are compatible with your browser.

• Objects stored in the "shopping cart" in E-commerce Services such as stores.

 GEO-LOCATION COOKIES: These Cookies are used to find out which country you are in when requesting a Service. This Cookie is completely anonymous, and is only used to help target content to your location.

REGISTRATION COOKIES: Registration Cookies are generated once the User has registered or subsequently opened his session, and are used to identify him in the Services with the following objectives:

• Keep the User identified so that, if he closes a Service, the browser or the computer and at another time or another day re-enters said Service, he will continue to be identified, thus facilitating his navigation without having to identify himself again. This functionality can be suppressed if the User clicks on the “close session” functionality, so that this Cookie is deleted and the next time the User enters the Service, the User will have to log in to be identified.

• Check if the User is authorized to access certain Services, for example, to participate in a contest.

• Additionally, some Services may use connectors with social networks such as Facebook or Twitter. When the User registers in a Service with credentials of a social network, he authorizes the social network to save a persistent Cookie that remembers his identity and guarantees access to the Services until it expires. The User can delete this Cookie and revoke access to the Services through social networks updating their preferences in the specific social network.

• ANALYTICAL COOKIES: Every time a User visits a Service, a tool from an external provider (Omniture, Comscore and the like that can be added to this list in case they vary in relation to the current ones) generates an analytical Cookie on the computer of the User. This Cookie, which is only generated during the visit, will serve in future visits to identify the visitor anonymously. The main objectives pursued are:

• Allow the anonymous identification of the Navigating Users through the "Cookie" (identifies browsers and devices, not people) and therefore the approximate accounting of the number of visitors and their trend over time.

• Anonymously identify the most visited content and therefore the most attractive for Users
  Know if the User you are accessing is new or repeat visit.

 ADVERTISING COOKIES: This type of "Cookies" allow to expand the information of the advertisements shown to each anonymous User. Among others, the duration or frequency of display of advertising positions, the interaction with them, or the browsing patterns and / or User behaviors are stored as they help to form a profile of advertising interest. In this way, they allow advertising related to the interests of the User.

THIRD PARTY ADVERTISING COOKIES: The Amchamspain page does not use this type of cookies.

How can I configure my preferences? - Cookies management.

All Internet browsers allow you to limit the behavior of a cookie or disable cookies within the browser options settings. The steps to do it are different for each browser, and instructions can be found in the help menu of your browser. Many browsers allow you to activate a private mode by which cookies are always deleted after the visit. Depending on each browser, this private mode can have different names. Below you can find a list of the most common browsers with a link to the cookie settings and the different names of this "private mode":

– Internet Explorer 8 y superior; InPrivate https://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/windows- vista/block-or- allow-cookies
– Safari 2 y superior; Navegación Privada https://support.apple.com/kb/ht1677?viewlocale=es_es&locale=es_es
– Opera 10.5 y superior; Navegación Privada https://help.opera.com/Windows/11.50/es-ES/cookies.html
– Firefox 3.5 y superior; Navegación Privada https://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/habilitar-y- deshabilitar-cookies- que-los- sitios-we
– Google Chrome 10 y superior; Incógnito https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=es