Use of Essential Cookies

Our website, like most websites on the Internet, uses cookies to enhance your user experience. Below, we explain what cookies are, what types of cookies we use, and how you can disable cookies in your browser.

1. What are cookies? What are they for? Why are they important?

A cookie is a small text file that is downloaded to the browser of your computer, mobile phone, tablet, or any other internet-accessing device when you visit a website.

Cookies are used to recognize the device when you revisit the site, facilitating its use by remembering your preferences and browsing settings (e.g., language, country, currency, access data, etc.). They also enable certain functionalities (e.g., displaying ads related to the content of the pages you visit, avoiding continuously showing ads you have already seen, etc.), and allow for the collection of anonymous statistical information about users’ navigation on the site.

There are other technologies such as pixel tags, web bugs, web storage, and other similar files and technologies that can also perform the same function as cookies. We use the term “cookie” to refer to all similar technologies that collect information in this regard.

Cookies do not store personal data or any information that could identify you, and they are useful and important because they allow the website to function efficiently and adapt to your preferences.

2. Why do we use them?

We use cookies necessary for the provision of certain services expressly requested by the user (registration management, login, data to distinguish between possible free services and paid services, etc.). If these cookies are disabled, some content and services may not be received correctly.

3. Types of cookies we use on esdapc.cat

• Preference cookies.
  • These cookies allow us to know if you have visited our website before. They retain your preferences for certain tools or services so that you do not have to configure them every time you visit our site. They store user browsing preferences, such as your language preferences or whether you have seen pop-up windows, to avoid showing them again for a period.
• Registration and session status cookies.
  • These cookies store the necessary information during the session and related changes, and determine whether you are registered on the website. They are used to identify your user account and its associated services. These cookies remain until you end the session, close the browser, or turn off the device.
• Cookies for external content plugins.
  • This website offers users content provided by third-party providers, such as videos hosted on YouTube or Google Maps applications. The cookies used by these providers are necessary for the user to access these types of services.
  • Third-party cookies of this type on our website: Google Maps, YouTube, or Vimeo.

4. Types of cookies we DO NOT use on esdapc.cat

• Geolocation cookies.
  • These third-party cookies are used by programs that attempt to geographically locate the device from which you are connected (computer, smartphone, tablet, etc.), to offer you, completely anonymously, content and services more appropriate to your location.
• Measurement cookies (statistical measurement).
  • These cookies allow us to quantify the number of visitors and statistically analyze user navigation on our website, always anonymously.
• Behavioral advertising cookies.
  • These allow for the most effective management possible of the advertising spaces that, where appropriate, the publisher may have included on a website, application, or platform from which the requested service is provided. These cookies store information on user behavior obtained through continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows for the development of a specific profile to display advertising based on it.
• External social network cookies.
  • These are used so that visitors can interact with the content of different social platforms (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc.) and are generated solely for users of these social networks. The conditions of use of these cookies and the information collected are regulated by the privacy policy of the corresponding social platform.

5. Essential cookies installed in your browser.

6. How to configure browsers to accept / block / delete cookies?

You can configure your Internet browser to accept or block cookies, delete already installed cookies, or set it to delete them automatically when you close the browser, computer, or device. If you block them, certain services that require their use may stop working.

These settings are usually found in the “Options” or “Preferences” menu of the main browsers (for more information, you can consult the support pages or the Help of each browser):

• Microsoft EDGE: Settings > Advanced Settings > Cookies. For more information, you can consult Microsoft Edge support or your browser’s help.
• Google Chrome: Settings > Show advanced options > Content settings > Cookies. For more information, you can consult Google support or your browser’s help.
• Mozilla Firefox: Tools > Options > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data. For more information, you can consult Mozilla support or your browser’s help.
• Apple Safari: Preferences > Privacy. For more information, you can consult Apple Safari support or your browser’s help.