COOKIE POLICY

Apptitudinal website uses both own and third party cookies in order to optimize the functioning of the website in the user’s accesses, account management, as well as to obtain relevant information about the traffic and use of the website. The user may accept or reject the installation of our cookies, and can also obtain further information on the cookies. If the user actively browses the Apptitudinal website, for example, by clicking and accessing second level content or sections beyond the home page, or requests the creation of a user account, he/she accepts by an active and affirmative behavior the installation of the website’s cookies. Additionally, the user has the option to prevent cookies being generated and to eliminate them by selecting the corresponding option in their browser. Apptitudinal cannot guarantee that in case of using cookie blockers in your browser some services or functionalities of the website will not be available or work properly.

WHAT IS A COOKIE?

A cookie is a file or small piece of text that websites that are visited send to your browser and that are stored on the user’s computer (whether it be a PC, laptop, mobile phone, etc.). Cookies allow our website to store information about your visit, language and preferences, which can facilitate your next visit and make the site more useful by personalizing its content. Cookies play a very important role in improving the experience of using the Web.

COOKIES EXEMPT FROM CONSENT

In Opinion 4/2012 the Article 29 Working Group excludes from the scope of the aforementioned article those cookies with the following purpose:

• “User input” cookies
• User authentication or identification cookies (session only)
• User security cookies
• Media player session cookies
• Session cookies to balance load
• User interface customization cookies
• Complement cookies (plug-in) to exchange social content

Technical cookies: These are cookies which are strictly necessary to allow the user to navigate through a web page, platform, or application and to use the different options or services present, such as, for example, controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, or the use of security elements during navigation. Personalization cookies: They are cookies that allow the user to access the service with certain predefined general characteristics based on a series of criteria related to the user’s terminal, such as the language or type of browser through which the service is accessed.

TYPES OF COOKIES USED ON OUR WEBSITE

This website uses both temporary session cookies and permanent cookies. Session cookies store data only while the user accesses the web page and are deleted once the user leaves the page. Permanent cookies store the data on the terminal, so that they are accessed and used for more than one session, and the web page remembers and retrieves them on the next access. Depending on the purpose for which the data obtained through cookies is processed, this website may use: