GRUPO PAGÈS BCN informs herein on the use of cookies on its website página web

What are cookies?
Cookies are files that can be downloaded to your IT equipment through websites. They are tools that play an essential role for the provision of many services in our information society. Among others, they enable websites to store and recover information on users’ or their equipment’s browsing habits. Depending on the information collected, they can be used to recognize the user and improve the service offered.

Cookie Type:
Depending on the organisation managing the domain from which the cookies are sent, and processes the data collected, two types can be discerned.

• First-party: cookies sent to the user’s equipment from a device or domain managed by the editor themselves, and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
• Third-party: cookies sent to the user’s equipment from a device or domain not managed by the editor, but another organisation that processes the data gathered through the cookies.

If the cookies are installed from a device or domain managed by the editor themselves, but the information they gather is managed by a third party, they cannot be considered first-party cookies.

There is also a secondary classification based on time they remain stored in the customer’s browser, according to which cookies may be:

• Session cookies: designed to gather and store data while the user is accessing a website. They are generally used to store information that is only to be conserved to provide the requested service on a single occasion (e.g. a list of products purchased).
• Persistent cookies: the data remain stored in the device, and may be accessed and processed over a period defined by the party responsible for the cookie, which may range from a few minutes to several years.

Last, there is another classification of five cookie types depending on the purpose for which the gathered data are processed:

• Technical cookies: those that enable users to browse through a website, platform or application, and the use of the different options or services that exist therein, for example, monitoring traffic and data communication, identifying the session, accessing restricted access areas, having record of the elements that make up an order, carrying out the order purchase process, request registration or participation in an event, use security elements while browsing, storing contents for transmission of video or audio media, or sharing content through social media.
• Personalisation cookies: enable the user to access the service with certain predefined general characteristics depending on a number of criteria in the user’s device, such as language, type of browser through which the service is accessed, the regional configuration from which the service is accessed, etc.
• Analytical cookies: enable the party responsible for them to monitor and analyse the behaviour of users on the websites to which they are associated. The information gathered through this kind of cookies is used to measure the activity of the websites, application or platform and to develop browsing profiles of users of those sites, applications and platforms, with the purpose of implementing improvements in the usage data analysis function of service users.
• Advertising cookies: enable the most effective possible management of advertising spaces.
• Targeting cookies: store user behaviour information collected through ongoing observation of their browsing habits, which enables the building of a specific profile on which to base the advertising shown to the user.
• External social media cookies: used so visitors can interact with the content of different social media platforms (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.). They are generated only for users of these social media. Conditions for use of these cookies and the information compiled are regulated by the privacy policy of the social media platform in question.

Disabling and deletion of cookies
You may allow, block or delete the cookies installed on your device by configuring the options in your device’s browser. If you disable cookies, some available services may no longer be operational. The way to disable cookies differs for each browser, but it is usually done through the Tools or Options menu. You can also check your browser’s Help menu for instructions Uses can choose the cookies they want to operate on this website at any time.

You may allow, block or delete the cookies installed on your device by configuring the options of your computer’s browser.

• Microsoft Internet Explorer o Microsoft Edge:
• Mozilla Firefox
• Chrome
• Safari
• Opera

You can also manage how cookies are stored in your browser using tools such as
• Ghostery
• Your online choices

Agreement with Cookies Policy
GRUPO PAGÈS BCN assumes you accept the use of cookies. Nonetheless, information on its Cookies Policy is displayed in the upper or lower part of any page of the website, with each session login, in order for users to be fully aware of it.
When this information is displayed, the following actions are possible:

• Accept Cookies This information will not be displayed again when accessing any page within this site during this session.
• Close. Hide the information on this page.
• Modify your configuration. You may obtain more information on what cookies do, The Cookies Policy of GRUPO PAGÈS BCN and modify your browser’s configuration.