Cookie Notice
(Last update: 21 December 2021)
This website’s editor is Avature Limited (“we” or “us”). The website uses cookies and/or similar technologies (hereinafter referred to, collectively, as “cookies”) that store and retrieve information when you browse. In general, these technologies may serve a variety of purposes, such as, for example, recognizing you as a user, obtaining information about your browsing habits, or personalizing the way in which content is displayed.
What are Cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that is sent to your web browser and stored in the memory of your device when you visit a website. Cookies are necessary to facilitate navigation and also useful because they enable, among others, the collection of user data and analysis of how the website is being used by visitors, to optimize and create the best possible experience.
Sometimes the use of cookies entails the processing of personal data. Please see our Privacy Policy if you want to obtain more information about how we process such personal data and how to exercise your data protection rights.
Which type of cookies are there?
This section provides an overview of the types of cookies that can be used in an online environment.
Depending on the owner of the cookie, they can be classified as:
- First-party cookies: cookies sent to users’ computers from a device or domain managed by the editor themselves and from which the service requested by users is provided.
- Third-party Cookies: cookies sent to the users’ computer from a device or domain not managed by the editor, but by another entity that processes any data obtained through cookies.
Depending on the purpose of the cookie, they can be classified as:
- Essential cookies: cookies that enable a user to browse a website, platform or application, and using the different options or services available on these, such as controlling traffic, identifying data or the session, accessing sections or content with restricted access, remembering the elements that make up an order, carrying out the purchase process for an order, using security elements during navigation, storing content for the dissemination of videos or sound, or sharing content through social networks.
- Functional cookies: cookies that allow to remember information, so that users may access the service under certain conditions that distinguish their experience from that of other users, such as the language, the number of search results to be displayed, the aspect or contents of the service depending on the browser though which or the region from which it is accessed, etc.
- Analytics cookies: cookies that allow us to perform follow-up and analyses of user behavior at the websites to which such cookies are linked (e. to measure activity and statistically analyze the use of any website, application or platform). These cookies are usually used to quantify the number of visitors, understand sections visited on the website and how they interact with them.
- Behavioral advertising cookies: cookies that allow the management, in the most efficient way, of the advertising spots that, if applicable, the publisher has included in a website. In particular, these cookies store information on the behavior of users, obtained through the continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows the development of a specific profile to display advertising based on it. It is also possible that when you visit a website or open an email or message where an ad or promotion is published, a cookie is installed in the user’s browser in order to subsequently display advertising related to searches performed and manage the ads in relation to the number of their views, the location in which they appear, the times at which they are displayed, etc.
Depending on the expiration time of the cookie:
- Session cookies: cookies designed to collect and store data while users access a website. They are regularly used to store information that is only relevant during the provision of the service requested by the user in a single situation (for example, a list of products purchased) and disappear once the session is closed; and
- Persistent cookies: cookies on which data stay stored and may be accessed and processed for a period of time defined by the entity responsible for the cookie, and that can range from a few minutes to several years.
What specific cookies does our website use and for what purposes?
| Cookie | Domain | Description | Expiration |
|---|---|---|---|
PHPSESSID | [PHP session cookie associated with embedded content from this domain.] | First party | Session |
[test-amp-coookie-tmp] | [Necessary for the consent cookie banner to appear] | First party | 1 year |
AMP – CONSENT | [Necessary for the consent cookie banner to appear] | First party | 1 year |
amp.onetrust.mgr.consesu.org | [Necessary for the consent cookie banner to appear] | First party | 1 year |
Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver our website, you cannot refuse them without impacting how the website functions. You can block or delete them by changing your browser settings, as described below.
| Cookies | Description | Domain | Expiration |
|---|---|---|---|
ScustomPortal-PerformanceManagement | [Allows functionalities of our performance management infographic to work properly] | First party | Session |
| Cookie | Description | Domain | Expiration |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga | This Cookie is a Google Analytics cookie used to identify unique visitors to the website and to keep a record of visitor statistics. For more information on Google Analytics Cookies, please refer here. | Third Party Cookie (Google Analytics) | 2 years |
_gat_UA-nnnnnnn-nn | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. | Third Party Cookie (Google Analytics) | Session |
_gid | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. | Third Party Cookie (Google Analytics) | Session |
_gclxxxx | Google conversion tracking cookie | Third Party Cookie (Google Analytics) | 89 days |
_hjFirstSeen | Identifies a new user's first session on a website, indicating whether or not Hotjar's seeing this user for the first time. | Third Party Cookie (Google Analytics) | Session |
_hjid | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | Third Party Cookie (Hotjar) | Session |
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit. | Third Party Cookie (Hotjar) | Session |
_hjTLDTest | When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. | Third Party Cookie (Hotjar) | Session |
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | This cookie is used by HotJar to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. | Third Party Cookie (Hotjar) | Session |
_hjSessionUser_1539315 | This cookie is used by HotJar to register session user to account. | Third Party Cookie (Hotjar) | Session |
_hjSession_1539315 | This cookie is used by HotJar to register session to account. | Third Party Cookie (Hotjar) | Session |
| Cookie | Description | Domain | Expiration |
|---|---|---|---|
_adroll | We use Adroll to provide targeted advertising services. Adroll identifies your device and detects where you move in our website, this way we can provide targeted advertising. For more information please click here. | Third Party Cookie (Adroll) | 90 days |
lang | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | Third Party Cookie (LinkedIn) | Session |
lidc | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | Third Party Cookie (LinkedIn) | Session |
UserMatchHistory | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | Third Party Cookie (LinkedIn) | 29 days |
li_gc | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | Third Party Cookie (LinkedIn) | 2 years |
AnalyticsSyncHistory | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | Third Party Cookie (LinkedIn) | 29 days |
_GRECAPTCHA | This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer’s adverts appear. | Third Party Cookie (Google) | 179 days |
CONSENT | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | Third Party Cookie (Youtube) | 2 years |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos. | Third Party Cookie (Youtube) | 179 days |
YSC | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | Third Party Cookie (Youtube) | Session |
bcookie | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | Third Party Cookie (LinkedIn) | 2 years |
personalization_id | This domain is owned by Twitter. The main business activity is: Social Networking Services. Where twitter acts as a third party host, it collects data through a range of plug-ins and integrations, which is primarily used for tracking and targeting. | Third Party Cookie (Twitter) | 2 years |
Our website also uses certain features that allow the sharing of information through third party social networking sites, such as the Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn share button or other similar widgets (“Social Networking Features“). Such Social Networking Features may collect information such as your IP address and the web pages you browse, as well as place a cookie on your device in order for such widgets to function properly. Any information you provide through such social networking applications may be collected and used by the relevant social networks and such interactions are governed by the privacy policies of the companies providing the application. We have no control over or responsibility for the privacy practices of such social networking sites, so we encourage you to review their privacy policies before using such service.
Who uses the information stored in cookies?
The information stored in the cookies on our website is used exclusively by us, with the exception of those identified above as “third party cookies”, which are used and managed by external entities to provide us with services requested by us that require the use of cookies. Please refer to the details provided in the tables above concerning the specific third party cookies we use and more information regarding the processing of your data that such third parties carry out.
Are there any international data transfers?
We do not carry out international transfers of data in connection with cookies. You can be informed of the transfers to third countries that, as the case may be, are carried out by the third parties identified in this Cookie Notice, in their corresponding policies (please see the relevant links in the tables above).
How do I disable cookies?
You may, at any time, revoke the consent granted for the use of cookies or, where appropriate, allow, block and delete cookies installed on your computer by configuring the options of your own web browser installed on your computer or device (smartphone or tablet). You can also carry out these activities through the settings panel.
In addition, the following links describe how to configure the main browsers to disable cookies. Please note that these are third party links that we have not edited and cannot modify and therefore we are not responsible for the content of these sites:
- Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-websites-storing-cookies-site-data-firefox
- Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
- Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/delete-and-manage-cookies-168dab11-0753-043d-7c16-ede5947fc64d
- Safari: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
- Opera: http://help.opera.com/Linux/10.60/es-ES/cookies.html
Please note that your option to reject cookies is specific to each browser you are using. Therefore, if you choose to exclude cookies on a device and want your choice to be applied in a similar way to another device, you will need to enable the same choice for that other device.
With respect to third-party cookies for the purpose of providing interest-based advertising, please note that certain third parties may be members of one of the following self-regulatory online behavioral advertising programs, with the following opt-out options:
- Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) – (http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/)
- Google Analytics – (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en)
Finally, please be advised that most mobile devices allow you to exercise control over tracking for advertising purposes through the “Limit Ad Tracking” option (on iOS devices) or the “Disable Interest-Based Ads” option (on Android).