COOKIES POLICY:

To make this Website work properly, TELEFÓNICA GLOBAL SOLUTIONS (hereinafter, “TELEFÓNICA”) sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most big websites do this too.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on the computer or mobile device of the User when visiting the site. It enables the website to remember the User actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so the User does not have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

How do we use cookies?

TELEFÓNICA uses cookies for remembering the Users´ actions, to identify Users and for online behavioural advertising. Some of these cookies are essential for the Website and some of the offered functionalities.

The type of cookies that are linked to the Website are: 

• session cookie which is erased when the user closes the browser or
• persistent cookie which remains on the User's computer/device for a pre-defined period of time.
• first-party cookies which are set by the web server of the visited page and share the same domain
• third-party cookies stored by a different domain to the visited page's domain.

TELEFÓNICA may use Google Analytics, a popular web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to help TELEFÓNICA analyze how users use the site. It counts the number of visitors and tells things about their behavior overall – such as the typical length of stay on the site or the average number of pages a user views. For more information about Google Analytics, please refer to Google ´s site.

How to control cookies:

The User can control and/or delete cookies at its discretion.

The User can delete all cookies that are already on the computer and can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed.

By doing this, however, the User may have to manually adjust some preferences every time the User visits the Website and some services and functionalities may not work. TELEFÓNICA shall not be liable or accountable in any way for loss of functionalities due to cookies set up restrictions.

The following sites offer valuable information for the User to learn how to manage cookies:

-        General information: www.aboutcookies.org

-        Browsers: the User is kindly invited to refer to the privacy policies published by the browser provider, as available from time to time (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari…).

-        Mobiles devices: managing cookies through mobile devices can be done through the settings available in the device and by consulting the device´s manual or handbook.

Change of device:

When using a different device, browser or profile, the User may probably have to reset the cookies preferences to the ones of his/her choice.

Types of cookies used

This website uses both session, temporary and permanent ‘cookies’. Session cookies store data while the user accesses the web and expire when the browser is closed; while permanent cookies store data in the terminal to be accessed and used in more than one session. They usually expire after a period of time which can range from two months to two years.

Particularly, this website uses the following types of cookies:

(a)   Analytics cookies

The website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., a Delaware company whose main office is at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043, USA ("Google"). Google Analytics uses ‘cookies, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address), will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

Google will use this information in order to keep track of your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and Internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties when required bylaw, or where such third parties process the information on behalf of Google. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. 

(b)   Social Networking cookies

Web pages may integrate content modules on social networks in their platform. These modules store and may access cookies from the user terminal allowing the identification of its members while they are on the website. 

(c) Session cookies

These cookies allow the user to identify and confirm the acceptance of the use of the cookies during the session. 

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