COOKIES POLICY

AIM OF THIS COOKIES POLICY

In compliance with the provisions of article 22 of Law 34/2002, of July 11, on Information and Electronic Commerce Services, the intention of this document is to inform you of the policy for the use of data storage and retrieval devices in terminals (hereinafter cookies) by CONSUM, S. COOP. V. (hereinafter CONSUM) in its capacity as provider of information services through this website www.consum.es (hereinafter "the Site or Website") so that you can decide whether or not to authorise the use of cookies on the terminal equipment that you use to browse the site.

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies and/or data storage and retrieval devices on terminal equipment (hereinafter cookies) are files or text files that a web server downloads and stores on your computer / smartphone / tablet (hereinafter computer) when you access certain web pages to store and retrieve information about what you have browsed using said equipment. That is why cookies can store information about your computer or about your browsing history on the websites you have visited.

In short, cookies are a message sent by the CONSUM server, to the computer from which you are browsing the internet, consisting of text files that are stored in your computer’s memory and which collect information regarding the page you visit, the Internet connection time, and other data depending on the type of cookie.

Cookies are sent to our server every time you enter our website. However, in general, cookies can not read data stored on your computer or read cookie files created by other providers.

TYPES OF COOKIES:

● ACCORDING TO THE MANAGEMENT ENTITY
-Own cookies: These are those that are sent to your computer from our own computers or domains and from which we render the service you request.
-Third party cookies: These are sent to your computer from a computer or domain that is not managed by us, but by another collaborating entity. This includes, for example, those used by social networks, or external content such as Google Maps.

● ACCORDING TO THE AMOUNT OF TIME THE SESSION REMAINS ACTIVATED
-Session Cookies: These refer to temporary cookies that remain in your browser’s cookie file until you leave the web page, so none is recorded on your computer’s hard disk. The information obtained through these cookies serves to analyse traffic patterns on the web.  In the long run, this allows us to provide a better experience and to improve the content and facilitate its use.
-Persistent Cookies: These are stored on the hard drive and our website reads them every time you make a new visit.  A permanent website cookie has a specific expiration date, after which it will stop working.  These cookies are generally used to facilitate purchase and registration services.

● ACCORDING TO ITS PURPOSE
-Technical Cookies: This refers to those necessary for navigation and the proper functioning of our website.  They enable us, for example, to control the traffic and communication of data, to accede to restricted access parts, to carry out the process of buying an order, use security features, store contents in order to be able to broadcast videos, or share contents through social networks.
-Personalization Cookies: This refers to cookies that allow you to access the service with predefined characteristics based on a series of criteria, such as the language, the type of browser through which the service is accessed, the locale from which you access the service, etc.
-Analysis cookies: This refers to cookies that allow us to quantify the number of users and thus carry out the statistical measurement and analysis of the users' use of the services provided. For this, we analyse his/her browsing history on our website in order to improve the products and services that we offer.
-Advertising Cookies: These refer to those that allow the most effective management of the advertising spaces that may be included in our web page.
-Behavioral Advertising Cookies: These cookies store user behavior information obtained through continuous observation. Thanks to them, we are better informed about our Users’ internet browsing habits and can show advertising related to their browsing profile.

WHICH COOKIES DOES CONSUM USE ON THIS WEBSITE?

Below you can see the cookies used by the website, the provider, expiry date, as well as a description of the purpose.

The cookies that are installed on the CONSUM website do not collect personal data. The following are the "Cookies" used on this website:

Last updated: 12/11/2015

In any case, and in relation to the cookies listed and described above, the user can configure the browser options installed on his/her computer to enable or disable the storage of cookies, or configure their removal. To do this, you must visit or access the sites of each provider indicated in the previous table.

The user is hereby informed that the deactivation or elimination of the installation and use of cookies may lead to certain services and contents on our website becoming limited or inactive, which may prevent you from enjoying said services and contents.  CONSUM is not responsible for the content and veracity of the policies regarding terms & conditions of use and privacy of third parties, included in these conditions through the links and links published in this policy.

HOW THE USER AUTHORISES AND CONSENTS TO THE USE OF COOKIES

In relation to the use of cookies on this website that we have described in the previous section, the user is informed that he/she authorises and consents to its use through the following forms or modalities:

a) By ticking the "do not show this message again" box indicated in the information banner that appears at the bottom of the website in the first layer of information. You may also accept the use of cookies by browsing the site when you click or press a tab anywhere on the site. In these two ways, you will be expressing your consent so that CONSUM can host and use the types of cookies that have been described in the previous section, in the device from which the user browses.

However, the user is warned that, despite the initial acceptance of the use of cookies, you may revoke your consent to the use of cookies on this website at any time, removing cookies from your computer and configuring your browser to disable them. The revocation will not have retroactive effects and the user is also informed that, in such case, certain services and contents of this website could be inaccessible which may prevent you from enjoying such services and contents (such as correctly identifying yourself, accessing the member-client area and so on).

b) In addition, where technically possible and effective, the consent of the user to accept the treatment of cookies will be understood to have been facilitated by the configuration that the user has made of the browser or of  other applications to navigate through the site admitting the use of cookies .
 
The user must take into account that his/her authorisation for the use of cookies will be valid for any CONSUM site since the login on a CONSUM website is valid for navigation between all sections and associated websites.

HOW CAN THE USER DEACTIVATE OR DISABLE THE USE OF COOKIES?

The user has the option to stop accepting the use of cookies and data storage and retrieval devices at any time through his/her browser, or to stop accepting them every time he/she starts a browsing session on our website.
Most browsers allow you to change your cookie settings and data storage and retrieval devices. These settings are usually found in 'options' or 'Preferences' in the user's browser menu.

The user is then shown the steps to take to access the cookies configuration menu and, where appropriate, private browsing in each of the main browsers:

Google Chrome

In the configuration menu, select “show advanced settings” at the bottom of the page

Select the “content settings” key in the privacy section

The section at the top of the page that appears gives you information about cookies and allows you to set the cookies you want. It also allows you to delete any cookie you have stored at that time.

Mozilla Firefox

From the Tools menu, select “options”

Select the privacy label in the options box

From the drop-down menu choose “Use custom settings for history”. This will display the cookies options and you can choose to activate or deactivate them by checking the corresponding box.

Internet Explorer 6+

In the Tools menu, select “Internet Options”

Click the privacy tab

You will see a scrolling cursor to configure privacy that has six positions that allow you to control the amount of cookies that will be installed: Block all cookies, High, Medium High, Medium (default level), Low, and Accept all cookies.

Safari browser

EIn the configuration menu, select the “preferences” option

Open Privacy Tab

Select the option you want from the “block cookies” section.