What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on the hard drive or in the memory of the computer that accesses or visits the pages of certain website, so that users’ preferences can be known when they reconnect. Cookies stored on user’s hard drive cannot read the data contained in it, access to personal information or read cookies created by other providers.

What kind of cookies are there?

• Technical cookies: They are the most essential ones and allow, among other things, to know when a human or an automated application is browsing, when an anonymous and registered user navigates, basic tasks for any dynamic web operation.
• Personalised cookies: Allow the user access to the service with some predefined general characteristics in their terminal or defined by the user. For instance, the language, the type of browser through which you access the service, the selected content design, terminal geolocation and regional configuration from where the service is accessed.
• Analysis cookies: Collect information about the kind of navigation they are doing, the most use sections, consulted products, time band of use, language, etc..
• Advertisement / advertising cookies: Shows advertising based on the user navigation, country of origin, language, etc.
• Behavioural advertising cookies: are those that allow the effective management of the advertising spaces that have been included in the website or application from which the service is provided. These cookies store information on user behaviour through observation, allowing a specific profile to be subsequently developed to show advertising based on it.
• Own cookies: They are created by the page you are visiting.
• Third party cookies: Those generated by external services or suppliers such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.
• Session cookies: Cookies designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a web page.
• Persistent cookies: The data is still stored in the terminal and can be accessed and processed during a period defined by the person responsible for the cookie.

What type of cookies do we use in www.athlon.eus?

Functioning and personalization cookies

• _icl_current_language: This cookie is used to save the language selection made by the user to be shown the contents of this website. This cookie has one-day duration.
• cookie_policy: This cookie is used to manage the acceptance of cookie policies so that, once accepted, the initial informative banner will not be shown again. These cookies last one year.

Google Analytics Cookies

Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., a Delaware company whose head office is at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043, United States (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies” which are text files located on your computer, to help the website analyse the use made by users of the website.

The information generated about the use of the website by the cookie (including the IP address), will be transmitted and stored on serves by Google in the United States. Google will use this information on our behalf in order to keep track of the use the user does on the website, compiling reports on the activity of the website and providing other services related to the website activity and Internet use. Google may transmit such information to third parties when it is require by law or when third parties process the information on behalf of Google. Google will not associate the IP address with other data held by them. The user can reject the data processing or information by rejecting the use of cookies selecting the appropriate configuration of the browser. However, if the user does that the user may not be able to use the full functionality of the website.

The cookies that are employed for this purpose in www.athlon.eus are the following (Purposes information provided by Google through its “Developers” page):

• __utma: Employ to distinguish users and sessions. Generates a unique user id, which is the one used to count how many times a specific user visits the site. Also, it records when the first and the last time the user visited the website was. It is created when the JavaScript library is run and there is no __utma cookie. It is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
  This cookie lasts two years from the configuration or update.
• __utmb: Employ to determine new sessions or visits. Calculates when a session gets to the end, recording the time of arrival to the page. It is created when JavaScript library is run and there is no __utmb cookie and it is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
  This cookie lasts 30 minutes from the configuration or update.

This cookie expires at the end of the browser session.

• __utmt: The cookie is utilized to process the request required by the user. As it is a session, it expires when leaving.
• __utmz: Records the origin of the user, as well as the keywords. The cookie is created when JavaScript library is run and it is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
  This cookie lasts six months from the configuration or the update.
• __ga: It is employed to distinguish users and sessions. It is a persistent cookie and it expires in two years’ time.

For further information about these types of cookies, you can consult the following links:

• https://www.google.es/intl/es/policies/technologies/types/
• https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage

AddThis service cookies

AddThis service allows users to share content through social networks such as Facebook or Twitter, email or other means. AddThis also uses cookies to collect anonymous information for advertising purposes.
Cookies employed: __ atuvc, atuvs, __utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmt, __utmz, bt2, uvc, um, vc, di2, dt, uid, loc
For further information about the types and characteristics of the cookies used by AddThis, follow this link: www.addthis.com/privacy

Cookies on social networks where ATHLON has profile

Users are informed about cookies employed in the profile the cooperative has in social networks that go beyond the company’s control. Then, ATHLON offers information about the cookies used in each of these social networks: - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/cookies - Twitter: https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170521 - YouTube: https://www.google.es/intl/es/policies/technologies/types/ - LinkedIn+: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy?trk=uno-reg-guest-home-cookie-policy - Flickr: https://policies.yahoo.com/us/en/yahoo/privacy/products/flickr/index.htm ​

How to disable cookies?

The way in which the user can disable cookies will depend on the browser or the browsers that the person uses. All browsers allow change the settings related to the cookies. Bellow, we indicate the steps to follow in order to reach the configuration in the main browsers employed nowadays. Although the steps described may vary depending on the browser version: ​

- Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/habilitar-y-deshabilitar-cookies-que-los-sitios-we To access the cookie settings of the Firefox browser follow these steps (may vary depending on the version of the browser):

1. Go to Options or Preferences according to your operating system.
2. Click on Privacy.
3. In History choose Use custom settings for history.
4. Now you will see the option Accept cookies, you can activate or deactivate it according to your preferences.

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- Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies To access the cookie settings of the Internet Explorer browser follow these steps (may vary depending on the browser version):

1. Go to Tools, Internet Options
2. Click on Privacy.
3. Move the slider to adjust the level of privacy you want.

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- Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=es To access the cookie settings of the Chrome browser follow these steps (may vary depending on the browser version):

1. Go to Settings or Preferences through the File menu or by clicking the personalization icon that appears at the top right.
2. You will see different sections, click the option Show advanced options.
3. Go to Privacy, Content Settings.
4. Select All cookies and site data.
5. A list with all the cookies ordered by domain will appear. To make it easier for you to find the cookies of a certain domain, enter the address partially or completely in the Search cookies field.
6. After completing this filter, one or several lines with the cookies of the requested web appear on the screen. Now you just have to select it and press the X to proceed with its elimination.

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- Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677?viewlocale=es_ES To access the cookies configuration of the Safari browser for OSX follow these steps (may vary depending on the browser version):

1. Go to Preferences, then Privacy.
2. In this place you will see the option Block cookies so that you can adjust the type of block you wish to make.

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To access the cookies configuration of the Safari browser for iOS follow these steps (may vary depending on the browser version):

1. Go to Settings, then Safari.
2. Go to Privacy and Security, you will see the option Block cookies so that you can adjust the type of block you want to make.

- Apple: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/es/cookies/ ​

- Android: Link to Google's privacy policies: http://www.google.es/intl/es/policies/privacy/ Link to help related to Android: https://support.google.com/android/?hl=es To access the browser cookie settings for Android devices follow these steps (may vary depending on the browser version):

1. Run the browser and press the Menu key, then Settings.
2. Go to Security and Privacy, you will see the option Accept cookies to activate or deactivate the box.

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- Windows Phone: http://www.windowsphone.com/es-ES/how-to/wp7/web/changing-privacy-and-other-browser-settings To access the browser cookie settings for Windows Phone devices follow these steps (may vary depending on the browser version):

1. Open Internet Explorer, then More, then Settings
2. You can now activate or deactivate the Allow cookies.a check box.

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-BlackBerry: http://docs.blackberry.com/en/smartphone_users/deliverables/18578/Turn_off_cookies_in_the_browser_60_1072866_11.jsp ​

What are the consequences of disabling cookies?

In the case the user prevents the activation of cookies or deactivates them because the user authorized it previously, then it may affect to the functionality of some website features. Information about the acceptance of the initial notice of cookies will not be saved, so it will be shown again in the next visit. Those are the the case of the cookies that are mentioned in “Operation and Customization” section. Similarly, we can not obtain information about user navigation through our website, which will prevent or hinder the improvement of the information and the content we publish as well as its presentation. This is the case of the cookies mentioned in the “Google Analytics Cookies” section..
Finally, the deactivation of cookies will also prevent the user from sharing content from our website in social networks. This is the case of the cookies mentioned in the sections “Cookies of the service AddThis” and “Cookies in social networks where ATHLON has a profile.

Changes or updates in our cookies policies

The structure and functionalities of www.athlon.eus can be modified in order to add new sections, services or contents which may mean that the use and, therefore, our cookies are modified. That is why we recommend users to check cookies policies that every time they access to www.athlon.eus in case there have been changes since the last visit.