What are cookies and how do they work?
A cookie is a small piece of data (text files) that a website, when visited by a user, asks your browser to store on your device to ensure the page functions properly and to remember information about you, such as your language preference, login information, browsing experience, and to collect anonymous statistical information (the pages you have visited or how long you have stayed on the website).
We use cookies set by us called first-party cookies, and third-party cookies (which are cookies from a domain different from the domain of the website you are visiting). Cookies are used for website functionality purposes and for our analytics studies.
Cookies may collect personal data from users, such as your device’s IP address or a user/visitor identifier. To learn more about how we process this data, please consult our Privacy Policy.
The specific uses we make of these technologies are described below.
Types and functionality of cookies
Cookies, depending on their duration, can be divided into session cookies or persistent cookies. The former expire when the user closes the browser. The latter expire when the purpose they serve is fulfilled (for example, to keep the user logged in on the website) or when they are manually deleted.
Additionally, depending on their purpose, Cookies can be classified as follows:
- Strictly necessary (technical): These are essential for the correct functioning of the website. They are usually generated when the user accesses the website or logs in and are used to identify the user on the website for the following purposes:
- Keep the user logged in so that if they leave the website, browser, or device and later return to the website, they remain identified, facilitating navigation without having to log in again.
- Check if the user is authorized to access certain services or areas of the website.
- Performance: Used to improve the browsing experience and optimize the website’s performance, such as storing service settings or saving purchases made in a shopping cart.
- Advertising: These collect information about the ads shown to website users. They can be of two types:
- Anonymous: Only collect information about the ad spaces shown on the website, regardless of the user accessing the website, i.e., without explicitly identifying them.
- Personalized: Collect personal information from the website user by a third party, for the personalization of those advertising spaces.
- Geolocation: These cookies are used to determine the country or region the user is in when accessing a website service in order to offer content or services appropriate to their location.
- Analytics: Collect information about the user’s browsing experience on the website, usually anonymously, although sometimes they also allow uniquely identifying the user to generate reports on user interests in the services offered by the website.
Cookies used on this website
The following table shows the Cookies used on this website, incorporating a “level of intrusiveness” criterion based on a scale from 1 to 3, where:
Level 1: corresponds to Strictly necessary cookies for providing the service requested by the user.
Level 2: corresponds to Performance cookies (anonymous) necessary for content and navigation maintenance, of which only their existence needs to be reported.
Level 3: corresponds to Third-party cookies that allow tracking the user across websites not owned by UPV. These are usually advertising or analytics cookies where the user is uniquely and clearly identified.
| Table of cookies used | ||||
| Cookie | Duration | Type | Purpose | Intrusiveness |
| __ga | 2 years | Third-party | Google Analytics, distinguishes unique users | 3 |
| __ga_03LNVMF7V9 | 2 years | Third-party | Google Analytics, session maintenance and tracking | 3 |
| _koko_analytics_pages_viewed | Session | First-party | Anonymous record of pages viewed | 2 |
| cmplz_banner-status | 1 year | First-party | Stores whether the cookie banner has been dismissed | 1 |
| cmplz_consented_services | 1 year | First-party | Stores services the user consented to | 1 |
| cmplz_functional | 1 year | First-party | Stores acceptance of functional cookies | 1 |
| cmplz_marketing | 1 year | First-party | Stores acceptance of marketing cookies | 1 |
| cmplz_policy_id | 1 year | First-party | Stores accepted cookie policy version | 1 |
| cmplz_preferences | 1 year | First-party | Stores acceptance of preference cookies | 1 |
| cmplz_statistics | 1 year | First-party | Stores acceptance of statistics cookies | 1 |
| pll_language | Session | First-party | Necessary to remember language | 1 |
International data transfer
This website uses Google Analytics, so your data may be transferred outside the European Economic Area. More detailed information on this topic can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=es.
How to disable the use of cookies
If the user wishes, it is possible to stop accepting Cookies in the browser, or to stop accepting Cookies from a particular service.
All modern browsers allow changing cookie settings. These settings are usually found in the “Options” or “Preferences” menu of the browser.
The user can, at any time, disable the use of cookies on this website by:
- Browser settings, for example:
- Google Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=es&answer=95647
- Internet Explorer : http://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/windows7/how-to-manage-cookies-in-internet-explorer-9
- Mozilla Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/habilitar-y-deshabilitar-cookies-que-los-sitios-we
- Apple Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042
- Other third-party tools, available online, that allow users to detect cookies on each website they visit and manage their deactivation (for example, Ghostery: http://www.ghostery.com/privacy-statement).
What happens if you disable cookies
Some functionalities and services may be disabled or behave differently than expected, such as staying logged in, keeping purchases in the shopping cart on an e-commerce service, or receiving location-targeted information, among others.
If you disable the use of Cookies on this website, it is likely that you will lose access to certain areas of the site or that the browsing experience will be significantly degraded.
Cookie policy update
UPV may modify this Cookie Policy according to legislative or regulatory requirements, or to adapt it to the instructions issued by the Spanish Data Protection Agency. Therefore, users are advised to visit it periodically.
When significant changes occur in this Cookie Policy, the entity will publish them on the website.