COOKIES POLICY

WHAT ARE COOKIES AND HOW DO THEY WORK?

Cookies are a tool used by our web servers to store and recover information about visitors to our website. Cookies can be small text files that are sent to your computer, tablet or any other device that allows you to browse the Internet when you access certain web pages, or other similar technologies whose functionality is the same. Cookies allow, among other things, to keep track of your browsing habits or your computer, your preferences or your login information and remember them on your return.

Fundación Telefónica uses cookies to make browsing the website easier and to make the information it offers you more efficient and personalised.

TYPES OF COOKIES THAT EXIST

Below, you will find a classification of the cookies used, bearing in mind that the same cookie may be included in more than one category.

Depending on the entity that manages them

Cookies may be first or third party cookies:

a) Own cookies:

First-party cookies are those that are sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by Fundación Telefónica, as publisher of the web portal, in order to facilitate easy browsing and adapt your preferences, thanks to the statistical information collected through them.

b) Third-party cookies:

Third-party cookies are those created and belonging to entities other than Fundación Telefónica and which, after being installed on the device through which a user accesses this website, allow different data and information to be compiled for statistical purposes (for example, through Google Analytics), to manage their interaction on social networks (such as Facebook or Flickr), or to enable their geolocation (Google Maps). Third-party cookies and the information obtained by them are managed by entities outside Fundación Telefónica.

Depending on how long they remain active

Cookies may be session or persistent.

a) Session cookies:

These cookies are assigned to the device from which the user is browsing only for the duration of the visit to the web portal and disappear automatically when the user closes the browser. They are usually used to store information that is only relevant for one-time browsing and disappear at the end of the session. These cookies allow Fundación Telefónica to analyse traffic patterns on its website and provide a better browsing experience, improving its content and facilitating the use of the web portal.

b) Persistent cookies:

Persistent cookies imply that the data remain stored in the user’s device or terminal used to browse, and their temporary duration is the minimum necessary according to the purpose of their use. The temporary duration of persistent cookies and their expiry date can be consulted through your browser settings.

Depending on their purpose

On this page Fundación Telefónica uses necessary or technical cookies, analysis or measurement cookies and cookies for behavioural advertising.

a) Strictly necessary or technical cookies:

These cookies allow the user to browse this website and use the different options that exist on it, including those that Fundación Telefónica uses to enable the management and operation of the website and to enable its functions and developments, such as, for example: identifying the session, using security elements during browsing, storing content for the broadcast of videos or sound, enabling dynamic content (for example, animated loading of text or images, etc.).

Technical cookies are strictly necessary to provide the developments of the web portal and for its correct functioning, therefore it is not possible to refuse their use.

b) Analysis or measurement cookies:

Analytical cookies, whether processed by Fundación Telefónica or by third parties, are those that allow the aggregate behaviour of users of the website to be monitored and analysed. The information collected through this type of cookies is used to measure the activity of the web portal, in order to introduce improvements based on the analysis of the usage data of its users.

On this website, Fundación Telefónica uses its own and third-party analytical cookies, mainly Google Analytics.

c) Advertising cookies

Advertising cookies are cookies that store information about the users’ behaviour obtained through continuous observation of their browsing habits, this enables the development of a specific profile in order to display advertising based on this behaviour.

COOKIES AFFECTED AND EXEMPTED BY THE REGULATION

According to the EU directive (GRPD), the cookies that require the User’s informed consent are analytical cookies and advertising cookies, with the exception of technical cookies and those necessary for the operation of the website or the provision of services expressly requested by the User.

LAWFULNESS OF PROCESSING

The legal basis for the processing is your consent (free, specific, informed and unambiguous). You may revoke your consent by following the instructions in the following section.

HOW DO I SET OR DISABLE COOKIES?

You can allow, block or delete the use of cookies directly from the cookie banner or notice. By clicking the «Accept» button on the banner, you are consenting to the use of all cookies. If you do not want us to use any of the cookies, you can select them from the banner itself, which describes the different types and their functionality.

In addition to the personalisation and configuration options offered through the aforementioned banner, we also explain how to allow, block or delete these cookies through the configuration options of your Internet browser:

• Chrome

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• Microsoft Internet Explorer

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• Firefox

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• Opera

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• Safari for iOS (iPhone and iPad)

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• Chrome for Android

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INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS

You can find out about transfers to third countries that, where applicable, are made by the third parties identified in this document in their corresponding policies.

OTHER INFORMATION REQUIRED BY ART. 13 OF THE GPDR

As part of the duty of information required by art. 13 of the GPDR, we refer you to the Privacy Policy to inform you of:
a) the identity and contact details of the controller and, where applicable, his representative;
b) the contact details of the data protection officer, where applicable;
c) the existence of the right to request from the data controller access to personal data relating to the data subject, and their rectification or erasure, or the restriction of their processing, or to object to their processing, as well as the right to data portability;
d) the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.