(Last update August 2022)
This website, like most websites, uses Cookies to improve and optimize user’s experience.
Below, you will find detailed information on what Cookies are, which type of Cookies this website uses, how to disable them in your web browser and how to specifically prevent third party Cookies from being installed to your device.
1. What are Cookies?
Cookies are files that websites or applications install in the user’s browser or device (smartphone, tablet or smart TV) while browsing websites or applications, and they are used to store information about your visit.
Like most websites, this website uses Cookies to:
- ensure webpage functionality;
- store user preferences such as language and font;
- get to know the user’s browsing experience; and
- collect anonymous statistics such as webpages the user has visited or the time spent in the website.
Using Cookies allows for the improving of the browsing experience by adapting the information and services offered for the interest of the user in order to provide a better experience when visiting the website.
This website uses Cookies to better function, adapt and improve the user’s browsing experience.
2. Type, purpose and functionality
Cookies, depending on their lifespan, can be divided into session or permanent cookies. Session Cookies expire when the user closes his/her browser. Permanent Cookies expire once the objective of their use is achieved (e.g., for a user to remain identified in a website) or when they are manually deleted.
Additionally, depending on their purpose, Cookies can be classified as follows:
Analytics Cookies: These may be processed either by us or by third parties, and allow us to quantify the number of users and thus perform the measurement and statistical analysis of the use made of the service offered. To do this, how a user browses our website is analysed in order to improve the type of products or services that we offer.
Technical Cookies: These allow the user to navigate through the restricted area and to use the site’s different functions, such as, for example, carrying out the process to purchase an article.
Customisation Cookies: These allow the user to access the service with certain predefined general characteristics according to a series of criteria related to the user’s device, such as the language or the type of browser through which it connects to the service.
Advertising Cookies: These may be processed either by this website or by third parties, and allow us to manage as effectively as possible the offer of advertising spaces on the website, adapting the content of the ad to the content of the requested service or to the use made of our website. To do this we may analyse a user’s Internet browsing habits in order to show advertising related to the user’s browsing profile.
Behavioural advertising cookies: These allow the most effective management of the advertising spaces that, where appropriate, the editor has included on the website, application or platform from which the requested service is provided. This type of cookie stores information on the behaviour of visitors obtained through the ongoing observation of their browsing habits, which allows the development of a specific profile to display advertisements based on these habits.
3. Cookies used in this website
Below is a table showing the cookies used on this website, the entity that manages each cookie, the duration of the cookie and its purpose:
| Cookie name | Entity that manages it | Duration | Purpose |
| _ga | Maximum 2 years | Analyses the use made by users of the website. | |
| _gid | 24 hours | Used to identify the same user for a single day. | |
| _gat | 1 minute | Used to differentiate between the different tracking objects created in the session. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | |
| Pref | Youtube | Maximum 8 months | Stores information such as page settings or user’s playback preferences. |
| Ysc | Youtube | During the session. It is deleted when you close the browser. | Remembers what users enter and associate their actions. |
| Sid y HSid | Youtube | Maximum 8 months | These contain encrypted and digitally signed records of a user’s most recent sign-in time and Google Account ID. The combination of these cookies allows us to block many types of attacks, such as attempts to steal the contents of form submissions from Google services. |
| Visitor_Info1_Live | Youtube | Maximum 8 months | Cookie that measures the user’s bandwidth to provide the appropriate video resolution. |
Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/intl/es/about/policies/#community-guidelines
4. Disabling Cookies
The user can allow, block or delete cookies and other technologies installed on their computer by configuring the browser options installed on their device. Below are links to access the configuration of the main web browsers:
- Google Chrome
- Mozilla Firefox
- Microsoft Edge
- Safari
- Opera
- Android: Ajustes del navegador utilizado > Privacidad del navegador utilizado
- Other browsers not listed
It is also possible to stop accepting cookies from a particular service in the settings panel of the website itself.
5. What happens when Cookies are disabled?
Some functionalities and services may be disabled or offer a different experience than the expected. For example, remaining identified, keeping your purchases in a “shopping cart” in an e-commerce service, or receiving information according to your location, among others.
If you disable the use of Cookies for this website, it is possible that you will not be able to access certain pages or your browsing experience quality may be significantly reduced.
6. Cookies Policy Update
SOCIEDAD DE PROMOCIÓN EXTERIOR DE LANZAROTE, SA may modify its Cookies Policy as per laws or to comply with the Spanish Data Protection Law. Therefore, it is recommended that users periodically review this Policy.
If significant changes are made to the Cookies Policy, users will be notified at the website or by email, if registered users.