Cookies policy

What are cookies?

This website uses cookies and/or technologies similar to those in use that store and recover information when you use surf in Internet. A Cookie is a file that is downloaded in your computer when accessing certain webpages. In general, these technologies may serve very different purposes such as recognising you as a user, obtaining information on your surfing habits, or personalising the way in which content is shown. They enable the webpage to store and recover information on your visit in order to improve the services offered and contribute to a better experience. The specific uses of these technologies are described as follows.

What kind of cookies does this website use?

See the following classification of cookies depending on a series of categories. It is necessary however to take into account that a cookie itself may be included in more than one category.

Types of cookies depending on the entity that manages them:

Depending on the entity that manages the equipment or domain where the cookies are sent from, and that treats the data that is obtained, we can distinguish:

  1. Own Cookies: those that are sent to the user’s terminal from equipment or a domain managed by the editors themselves and from where the Service requested by the user is provided.
  2. Third Party Cookies: Those that are sent to the user’s terminal from equipment or a domain that is not managed by the editors themselves, but a different entity that treats the data obtained through the cookies.

In those cases where cookies are served from equipment or a domain managed by the editors themselves but where the collected information by these is managed by a third , these shall not be considered as own cookies if the third party uses them for their own purposes.

Types of cookies depending on their purpose.

The use of cookies has many purposes. Depending on these, we can distinguish the following:

  1. Technical Cookies: those that allow the user to surf through a webpage, platform or application as well as the use of different options and services existing therein, including those that the editor uses to allow the management and operation of the webpage and enable functions and services such as traffic control and data communication, session identification, restricted access, remembering purchase order elements, carry out purchase order processes, payment management, fraud control, process event inscription or participation requests, visit count for software licence invoicing (website, platform or application), use of security elements, storage of contents for the broadcast of video or sound, enable dynamic contents (text or image animation),or content sharing through social media.
  2. Preference or Personalisation Cookies: those that allow information recall so that the user can access the service with specific characteristics that may differentiate their experience from those of other users, such as language, number of results when a search is made, the look or content of the service depending on the browser used or the region it is accessed from.
  3. Measurement or analysis cookies: those that allow the follow-up and analysis of the behaviour of users in the websites they are bound to, including the quantification of advertising impact. The information gathered by means of this type of cookies is used in the measurement of website activity, application or platform with the aim to introduce improvements depending on the analysis of the use made by users.

Types of cookies depending on the timespan they remain active.

Depending on the timespan they remain active in the equipment/terminal, we can distinguish:

  1. Session Cookies: those that are designed to gather and store data while the user accesses a webpage.
  2. Persistent Cookies: those where data remains stored in the terminal and that can be accessed and treated during a defined period by the party responsible for the cookie, which may vary from a minute to several years.

What type of cookies does this webpage use?

The present webpage uses own cookies that allow us to store and Access information related to the language, browser type as well as other general characteristics defined by the user. This webpage also uses the following cookies:

See below a table with regard to the cookies used and with the aim to allow the user to understand the purposes and use these cookies have.

Cookie Holder Purpose Type (Own or Third Party) Expiry/Duration
lang Transmil Recall the language chosen by the visitor. Own Session
cb_enabled Transmil Detect whether the user has accepted the Cookie Policy of the website and therefore whether it is necessary to show the message again. Own Session
_gid Transmil Distinguish the users. Own 1 day
_ga Transmil Distinguish the users. Own 2 years
_gat Transmil Limit the percentage of requests. Own Session
PHPSESSID Transmil Manage the session of each user. Own Session

Who uses the information stored in the Cookies?

The information stores in the cookies in this webpage is exclusively used by the holder, with the exception of Google Analytics, which is used and managed by both Google and the holder for statistical purposes.

The configuration of these cookies is predetermined by the Service offered by Google, and the user should therefore consult the privacy policy at Google Analytics, http://www.google.es/intl/es_ALL/analytics/learn/privacy.html in order to obtain more information on the cookies used and how to disable these (in any case TRANSMIL will not be accountable for the content or veracity of third party websites).

Regarding the politics of Googles with respect to cookies, the user may also consult: