Private browsing, whereby your browser stops storing your browsing history, website passwords, cookies and other information on the pages you visit, or The “Do not track” feature, whereby the browser asks the websites you visit not to track your browsing habits. For example, to serve you advertising for your interest in the sites you visit.
Cookies policy
We utilize cookies at linkaffinity.io to to improve the interaction between our visitors and our content, so we can gather data about our visitors.
Complying with the 1009/136/CE policy, developed under our command in the second section of the 22nd article of the Social Information Services Law, following the Spanish Data Protection Agency guidelines, we shall inform you about the use given to our cookies in our site.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small files, recorded in the browser, used by each visitor to our website so that the server remembers the user and their visit later on, when accessing our content again. This information does not reveal your identity or any personal data, nor does it access the content stored in your computer, but it does allow our system to identify you as a specific user who has visited the website previously, viewed certain pages, etc. and also allows us to save your personal preferences and technical information such as the visits you make or specific pages you visit.
The purpose of the cookies is to provide the User with faster access to the selected Services.
You can set your browser options so it does not store cookies or, if you prefer, you can receive information about the cookie before it is installed. Most browsers allow cookies to be managed in 3 different ways:
- Cookies are always rejected; the browser asks if the user wants to install each cookie;
- Cookies are always accepted; your browser may also include the feature to select in detail the cookies you wish to have installed on your computer. In particular, the user can normally accept one of the following options:
– reject cookies from certain domains;
– reject third parties’ cookies; - Accept cookies as non-persistent (they are deleted once the browser is closed); allow the server to create cookies for a different domain
How do we use different types of cookies?
Based on its purpose:
Technical cookies: Those that facilitate the navigation of the user and the use of different options or services that the web offers like identifying the session, allowing the access to certain areas, facilitating orders, purchases, filling in forms…
Personalization cookies: They allow the user to access the services according to their preferences (language, configuration, browser…).
Analysis cookies:those that allow us to quantify the number of users and thus perform the measurement and statistical analysis of the use made by users of the services provided.
Advertising cookies: They allow the management of the different advertising spaces that our website may include.
Based on their status
Own cookies: those sent to the user’s computer from a computer or domain managed bythe editor himself and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
Third-party cookies: are those that are sent to the user’s terminal from a computer or domain managed by a third party that is not the publisher itself.
Based on the deadline
Session cookies: are those that last only as long as the user of the website is browsing the
site and will be deleted when the browser is closed.
Persistent cookies: They are stored at the end of the period from which the website is accessed and must be deleted manually or once the period of duration established for the cookie has expired.
Warranties and options on cookies
You have the possibility at all times to accept or reject the installation of cookies, or to refuse the installation of a certain type of cookie, (those of advertising, or those of third parties). In addition, after each session, you can delete all or some of the stored cookies.
You can also activate:
Please consult your browser’s help system for information on the different options for managing cookies. Please note that by blocking cookies, you may affect all or some of the functionality of our website.
Here are some help links from major web browsers regarding cookie management:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11
http://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-11
Microsoft Edge
http://windows.microsoft.com/es-xl/windows-10/edge-privacy-faq
Apple Safari 8 (Yosemite)
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH19214?locale=es_ES
Apple Safari 9 (El Capitán)
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411?locale=es_ES
Google Chrome
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=es
Mozilla Firefox
https://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/habilitar-y-deshabilitar-cookies-que-los-sitios-we
https://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/Borrar cookies
Regarding third-party cookies, those that are not part of our website, we cannot be responsible for the content and veracity of the privacy policies that they include, so the information that we offer you is always with reference to the source.
Next, we inform you in detail about the cookies that can be installed from our website. Depending on your navigation, all or only some of them may be installed.
| Cookie | Type | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | 2 years | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. | |
| _gat_gtag_UA_129789033_4 | 1 minute | Set by Google to distinguish users. | |
| _gcl_au | 3 months | Provided by Google Tag Manager to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. | |
| _gid | 1 day | Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. | |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-others | This cookie is set by the GDPR cookie consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user’s consent for cookies in the “Other” category. | ||
| CookieLawInfoConsent | 1 year | Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. | |
| elementor | never | This cookie is used by the website’s WordPress theme. It allows the website owner to implement or change the website’s content in real-time. | |
| test_cookie | 15 minutes | The test_cookie is set by doubleclick.net and is used to determine if the user’s browser supports cookies. | |
| wp-wpml_current_language | session | No description available. |
Add-on for opting out Google analytics browsers
To prevent Google Analytics from collecting and using your data, we provide the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Extension at the following link.
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/index.html?hl=es
This Cookie Policy may be modified in accordance with legislative and regulatory requirements, or in order to adapt this policy to the instructions given by the Spanish Data Protection Agency, which is why Users are advised to visit it periodically.
Users will be notified via website when significant changes are applied to this cookie policy
