What is a cookie?

Cookies are files containing small amounts of information downloaded to the user´s device and used when visiting a FYCMA website. The main purpose of cookies is to recognize the user (through identifiers that never recognize physical entities) each time he/she accesses the website, while enabling us to improve the quality and usability of our websites. Cookies are essential for the Internet to function; they cannot damage the user´s equipment/device and will help you to identify and deal with possible operational errors if they are activated in your browser´s settings.

Types of Cookies

Cookies can be classified (1) according to the entity that manages them, (2) according to the length of time they remain activated and (3) according to their purpose.

Depending on the responsible entity:

Own cookies: are those sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by our company and from which the service requested by the user is provided.

Third-party cookies: are those that are sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain that is not managed by our company, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through cookies. These include those used by social networks (such as Facebook) or external content plug-ins (such as Google Maps).

Depending on the time period they remain activated:

Session cookies: Session cookies last only for the duration of the visit and are deleted when the user logs out. Their main purpose is to identify the type of device, support website security or basic functionality. They do not contain personal information that can identify an individual.

Persistent or permanent cookies: those that are stored on the hard drive of the device and are read by the website each time the user visits the website again; they have an expiry date, after which the cookie no longer works. They allow the identification of the actions and preferences of the user; they analyse the visits and help to understand how the users arrive at the website and improve the services offered by it.

Depending on their purpose:

Technical cookies: those that allow the user to navigate through a website, platform or application and the use of the different options or services that exist in it, including those that the editor uses to allow the management and operation of the website and enable its functions and services, such as, for example, control traffic and data communication, identify the session, access restricted areas, remember the elements that make up an order, carry out the purchase process of an order, manage payment, control fraud linked to the security of the service, make the application for registration or participation in an event, count visits for the purpose of billing licenses for the software with which the service works (website, platform or application), use security elements during browsing, store content for the broadcasting of videos or sound, enable dynamic content (for example, text or image loading animation) or share content through social networks. Also belonging to this category, due to their technical nature, are those cookies that allow the management, in the most effective way possible, of the advertising spaces that, as another element of design or “layout” of the service offered to the user, the editor has included on a website, application or platform based on criteria such as the edited content, without collecting information from users for other purposes, such as personalising that advertising content or other content.

Functional cookies (preferences or personalization): those that allow information to be remembered so that the user accesses the service with certain characteristics that may differentiate their experience from that of other users, such as, for example, the language, the number of results to be displayed when the user performs a search, the appearance or content of the service depending on the type of browser through which the user accesses the service or the region from which the user accesses the service, etc. If the user chooses these features himself (e.g. if he selects the language of a website by clicking on the flag icon of the relevant country, the currency to be used in transactions, the font size or the colour contrast between the background and the content to improve readability), the user can also choose the language of a website by clicking on the flag icon of the relevant country, the currency to be used in transactions, the font size or the colour contrast between the background and the content to improve readability.

Analysis or measurement cookies: those that allow the party responsible for them to monitor and analyse the behaviour of users of the websites to which they are linked, including the quantification of the impact of advertisements. The information collected through this type of cookies is used to measure the activity of the websites, application or platform, in order to introduce improvements based on the analysis of the data on the use made by users of the service.

Advertising cookies: those that store information on the behaviour of users obtained through the continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows a specific profile to be developed in order to display advertising based on it.

Use of Cookies by FYCMA

On accessing any of the websites controlled by FYCMA, users specifically accept that we may use this type of cookie on their devices. However, if you deactivate cookies it will not affect your browsing on our websites.

User settings to avoid or reject Cookies

We inform you that you can block or disable unnecessary cookies at any time by clicking on the “Consent” tab that appears permanently at the bottom right of the screen, which allows you to refuse the installation of all or some cookies. If you reject cookies, you may continue to use our Website, although the use of some of its services may be limited and your experience on our Website may be less satisfactory.

Please note that if you accept third party cookies, you will need to delete them from your browser options or from the system offered by the third party itself and your acceptance may involve an international transfer of data without an appropriate level of adequacy or appropriate safeguards.

You can find out about the transfers to third countries that, where appropriate, are made by the third parties identified in the links provided. For more information on personal data protection, please consult our Privacy Policy.