COOKIE POLICY

We use cookies to provide you with a better service and to provide you with a better browsing experience, as well as to be able to show you advertising based on your browsing habits. We are responsible for the installation of the cookies we use and for what we do with the data we obtain, whether they are our own or third-party cookies.

1. What are cookies and what else is stored in the browser?
2. Are they dangerous?
   • Technical and preference cookies have more benefits than risks.
   • Statistical cookies DO NOT present an appreciable risk.
   • First-party cookies do not usually represent an appreciable risk to you either.
3. We do not use technical cookies.
4. We do not use preference cookies.
5. What statistical cookies do we use and what do we use them for?
6. We do not use marketing cookies.
7. We do not use any other storage elements in your browser.
8. How can I manage or disable cookies?
9. Changes to this Cookie Policy.

1. What are cookies and what else is stored in the browser?

Cookies are small text files that are stored in your browser when you visit our website. These files contain information about your browsing and interaction with our website, in order to make your user experience more efficient and to be able to show you advertising based on your browsing habits. Some cookies are essential for the proper functioning of our website, such as technical cookies or user interface customisation cookies, and others, such as analysis cookies or behavioural advertising (or marketing) cookies, require that we inform you and that you give us your consent before we can use them.

LocalStorage and SessionStorage are two data storage spaces located in your device’s browser and, like cookies, can be either proprietary (when created by our own website) or third party (when created by our service providers or our partners). The difference between the two spaces is that LocalStorage stores information indefinitely or until you choose to clear the data from your browser, whereas SessionStorage stores information for as long as the tab you are using our website remains open and, once closed, the information is deleted. The difference with cookies is that SessionStorage and SessionStorage allow more information to be stored than cookies without impacting the performance of our website.

You can find more information here.

Finally, we inform you that although the purpose of the third-party cookies we use, for which we are responsible, is as indicated in the tables in the following sections, these third parties may use the data collected by their cookies for other purposes for which they are solely responsible. In the case of third party cookies, our responsibility for the purposes of third parties is limited to the downloading of cookies to your device (the one we use for the purpose indicated). You can find out about the purposes of these third parties, and whether or not they make transfers to third countries in their respective policies (see the links in the table).

2. Are they dangerous?

In general, the level of risk of cookies depends on the type of cookie, and whether they are first-party or third-party cookies. Most cookies are not dangerous. Specifically:

Technical and preference cookies have more benefits than risks:

The Article 29 Working Party (former WG29 and current European Data Protection Committee) in its Opinion 4/2012,“on the exemption from the cookie consent requirement“, considers that they do not pose a risk to you and exempts from the obligation to obtain prior consent to their use all cookies that:

• Are necessary because communications are transmitted over a network between the user and the servers that host the website, and to all those that
• Are necessary to provide a specific functionality explicitly requested by the user.

This exemption from the obligation to base the lawfulness of their use on your consent, as they do not represent a risk to you, is also reflected in the cookie guides published by most of the Data Protection Agencies of the EU countries (for example, in the case of Spain, it is included in section 4.1 of the guide on the use of cookies, dated July 2020).

The WG29 even defined the purposes that it explicitly considers to present more benefits than risks for you:

Cookie purposes explicitly excluded from informed consent.

With regard to their purpose, WG29 explicitly excludes the following cookies from the obligation to obtain the visitor’s informed consent:

• So-called user input cookies, which are typically used to track the user’s actions when filling in online forms in an http session, or to remember the shopping basket that the user has selected in an e-commerce),
• Session cookies that are used for user authentication or identification, which store a kind of token (witnessing that the user is who they say they are and have already been authenticated) to prevent this user from having to give their username or password on each page they request and have restricted access control:
• User security cookies, introduced specifically to reinforce the security of the service explicitly requested by the user. For example, to detect incorrect and repeated attempts to connect to a website, or abuse,
• Media player session cookies,
• Session cookies to balance the load on information systems,
• User interface personalisation cookies, for example, to remember your preferred language, and
• Certain plug-in cookies for sharing social content.

In general, in those cases where a website offers its visitors a service, in order to use cookies exclusively for the purposes for which consent is not required, listed above, whether they are our own or those of third parties, it will not be necessary for the website operator, us, to inform the visitor of their use or to obtain their consent.

Statistical cookies DO NOT pose an appreciable risk:

With regard to the processing of data collected through analytical cookies, the aforementioned opinion of the current European Data Protection Committee stated that, although they are not exempt from the duty to obtain consent for their use, they are unlikely to represent a risk to users‘ privacy provided that they are own cookies, that they process aggregated data for strictly statistical purposes, that information is provided on their uses and that the possibility for users to express their refusal on their use is included.

First-party cookies do not usually pose any appreciable risk to you either:

Our own cookies are generated by our website, whereas third-party cookies are generated by services or suppliers independent of us, and it is these independent suppliers who define the purposes and means of the processing they carry out.

Our only responsibility with respect to third-party cookies is the necessary collaboration of our website in the placement of these cookies on your computer, which we are normally obliged to do in order to be able to use the services provided to us by third parties (for example, to check that you are not one of those robots that abound on the Internet, and thus prevent the requests or comments that you might send us through the forms on our website from harming the attention of the real ones).

3. We do not use technical cookies

Technical cookies are those that allow the user to navigate through a website, platform or application as well as the use of the different options or services that exist on it, including the management and operation of the website and the enabling of its functions and services (for example, identifying your session, accessing parts of the website that have restricted access, remembering the elements that make up your order, carrying out the purchase process of your order, managing your payment, etc.). The website or app cannot function properly without these cookies, which is why they are considered necessary.

In our particular case, we do not use technical cookies.

4. We do not use preference cookies

Preference or personalisation cookies allow our website to remember information that changes the way our pages behave or look in order to differentiate your experience from other users. As an example, we often remember the language in which you want to view our website. If you voluntarily choose these features, for example, by marking the flag or letters that identify the language, it is considered a service expressly requested always for you, that cookies obey exclusively for the purpose of customization, for which in this case would not be required to ask for explicit authorization.

Our website also does not use preference cookies.

5. What statistical cookies do we use and what do we use them for?

Statistical or analysis cookies are those that allow us to understand how visitors interact with the pages of our website and thus perform statistical analysis of the services we provide. The information collected is used to measure activity on our site in order to make improvements to the products and services we offer you.

We will only use analytics cookies if you authorise us to do so by clicking on the relevant button in the cookie banner or via your settings menu.

Specifically, our website uses the following analytics cookies:

:

Cookie	Supplier	Purpose	Duration
_ga	adefi.org	Register a unique identity for the visitor.	13 months
_gat_gtag_UA#	adefi.org	Uniquely identify the visitor	1 minute
_git	adefi.org	Distinguish visitors.	1 day

6. We do not use marketing cookies

Marketing or behavioural advertising cookies store information on user behaviour obtained through continuous observation of your browsing habits, which allows us to develop a specific profile to display relevant and attractive ads for the individual user, and therefore more valuable to third-party advertisers.

We will only use marketing cookies if you authorise us to do so by clicking on the relevant button in the cookie banner or via your settings menu.

Specifically, our website does not use any marketing cookies.

7. We do not use any other storage elements in your browser.

This website does not create storage space in your browser.

8. How can I manage or disable cookies?

You can administer, manage and deactivate the cookies used by our website at any time from your browser, for example, to withdraw your consent, following the instructions provided by the manufacturer of your browser:

• Instrucciones para Microsoft Edge 
• Instrucciones para Google Chrome 
• Instrucciones para Google Android 
• Instrucciones para Internet Explorer 11 
• Instrucciones para Mozilla Firefox 
• Instrucciones para Opera
• Instrucciones para Safari

If you deactivate the installation of cookies in your browser, you will be able to continue accessing our website, but your browsing experience may not be optimal and some of the services offered may not work correctly.

9. Changes to this Cookie Policy

We will update this Cookie Policy whenever necessary to reflect changes to our products and services.

If there are material changes to this policy we will notify you before they take effect by prominently posting a notice in the cookie banner. In any event, we recommend that you periodically review this Cookie Policy to see which cookies we use and how we use them.

Last updated: 13 September 2022