The arsamandi.com domain uses automated collection procedures (cookies) to gather personal information such as browser or operating system type, reference page, route, ISP (Internet Service Provider) domain, etc., all for the purpose of improving the services provided. Cookies help us to tailor this website to individual needs.
A cookie is a small file that is stored in the user’s computer and which allows us to recognise them. The whole set of cookies helps us improve the quality of our website, thereby allowing us to some extent to personalise each user’s browsing on our website. Cookies are in fact essential to how internet works, contributing countless advantages in the provision of interactive services while facilitating browsing and usability on our website.
Bear in mind that cookies cannot harm your computer and that on the other hand the fact that they are activated helps us pick up on and resolve errors and enhance the browsability of our website.
Type of cookies:
For further information for users on the type and use of cookies you are advised that:
- From the cookie ‘lifespan’ standpoint(the time that the cookie remains active on our computer) we can draw a distinction among cookies thus:
- Session cookies: these are temporary cookies that stay in the cookies file of your browser until you leave the website, meaning that none of them remain stored on the user’s hard disk. The information gleaned via such cookies is used to analyse traffic patterns on the website. In the long run this allows us to offer a better experience so we can enhance the content and facilitate use of it.
- Persistent cookies:these are stored on the hard disk and our website reads them every time you visit us again. A persistent cookie has a certain expiry date. The cookie will cease to function after this date. We generally use them to provide purchasing and registration services.
- From the point of view ofusing each cookie, we can distinguish between:
- Required cookies: these are cookies that are strictly necessary, such as, for example, those that are used for proper browsing or those that enable payment for goods and services requested by users or cookies that are used to ensure that the content on the website loads efficiently.
Within the Required Cookies category we can also find cookies used for the following purposes:
- Only allowing communication between the user’s computer and the network.
- Strictly providing a service expressly requested by the user.
In both of these cases you are advised that there is no requirement for information and consent from the user to install the cookies mentioned. Specifically, according to the EU’s working group of experts, Article 29 of their opinion 4/20123 has interpreted that excepted cookies should feature those with the following purposes:
- “User input” cookies
- Cookies to authenticate or identify the user (only the session kind)
- User security cookies
- Multimedia player session cookies
- Session cookies for load balancing
- User interface personalisation cookies
- Plug-in cookies to exchange social content
For all the rest of required cookies not included in the cases listed above, they will require prior information and consent from the user.
- Functional cookies:These are cookies that help users to enjoy a better browsing experience on the website. One example of how these cookies are used is those for storing browsing data for a certain language.
- Analytical cookies: these are cookies that allow us to analyse usage of the website so that we can measure and enhance how it functions.
- Advertising and third party cookies: these are the cookies used by social networks or external content add-ins such as google maps as well as cookies from advertising companies to publish ads relevant to your interests.
CENTURY XXI WBLUED SL stores all the information collected via cookies in a non-personalised format (IP address). This kind of information obtained using cookies shall not be disclosed outside CENTURY XXI WBLUED SL or used for unheralded communications.
Adequate privacy – cookies management:
Should the user so desire, the cookie log can be made subject to acceptance by them during the installation or updating of the browser used. The user can at any time revoke acceptance using the settings options for content and privacy that come with every browser. Notwithstanding this, should the user not allow cookies to be installed on their browser, they may not be able to access certain sections on our website.
For further information on the right settings for cookies and the options concerning activation, restriction and/or disabling for them, users should consult the help section on their browser to learn more about:
- Information on how to block cookies on Google Chrome
- Information on how to block cookies on Firefox
- Information on how to block cookies on Internet Explorer
- Information on how to block cookies on Safari
- Information on how to block cookies on Blackberry
- Information on how to block cookies on WindowsPhone
Several browsers can enable activation of a private mode whereby cookies are always deleted after visiting. Depending on each browser, this mode can go by different names. Below we provide a list of the most commonly used browsers and the different names for such a “private mode”:
- Internet Explorer 8 and above; InPrivate
- Safari 2 and above; Private Browsing
- Opera 10.5 and above; Private Browsing
- Firefox 3.5 and above; Private Browsing
- Google Chrome 10 and above; Incognito
List and description of cookies:
The tables given below offer a schematised description of the above-mentioned cookies used on the CENTURY XXI WBLUED SL website:
Cookie name | Cookie Domain | Expires (session, persistent) | Cookie Use (Required-Functional-Analytic-Third-Party/Ad) |
- To learn more about the cookies in Google Analytics you can visit the following web page: https://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html?hl=es. You can disable the cookies from Google Analytics via this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
- On this website you can find information on how advertising works that is based on behaviour patterns, information relating to cookiesand the measures that you can take to protect your privacy on Internet: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/es/
- For further information on cookies and your rights as a user you can consult the User Guide on the Use of Cookies written by the Spanish Data Protection Agency:
https://www.agpd.es/portalwebAGPD/canaldocumentacion/publicaciones/common/Guias/Guia_Cookies.pdf