A cookie is a file that is downloaded to your computer when accessing certain websites. Cookies allow a website, among other things, to store and retrieve information about the browsing habits of a user or their equipment and, depending on the information they contain and the way in which the equipment is used, they can be used to recognize the user.

Cookies are essential for the internet to function and provide countless advantages when providing interactive services, by facilitating the browsing and usability of our website.

The information that we provide below will help you to understand the different types of cookies.

Types of cookies

According to the entity who manages them

• Own cookies: They are ones collected by the editor itself to provide the service requested by the user.
• Third-party cookies: They are those collected and managed by a third party and cannot be considered as own.

According to time period that they remain activated

• Session cookies: They gather data while the user browses on line in order to provide the requested service.
• Persistent cookies: They are stored on the terminal and the information obtained will be used by the cookie manager in order to provide the requested service.

According to their purpose

• Technical cookies: They are necessary for the website to operate correctly.
• Preference cookies: They allow the user to select the characteristics (language) to browse the website.
• Analytics cookies: They allow the provider to analyse the browsing by the user, in order to track the use of the website, along with producing statistics on the most visited content, number of visitors, etc.
• Advertising cookies: They allow the editor to include advertising spaces in the website, according to the website’s content.
• Behavioural advertising cookies: They allow the editor to include advertising spaces in the website, according to the information obtained from the user’s browsing habits.

Pursuant to Article 22.2 of the Spanish E-Commerce and Information Society Services Act 34/2002, of 11 July, (LSSI-CE), FUNDACIÓN ATHLETIC CLUB hereby informs you about the cookies used on our website:

You can disable the use of cookies when you consider appropriate by using the settings options of your browser; that allows you to block, restrict, disable or delete the acceptance of cookies. However, we remind you that if you decide to change the settings of the cookies, the service provided by the website may be partially or completely affected.

Please note that you can configure your browser to inform you about the receipt of cookies and, if you so desire, you can stop them being installed on your hard disk.

Here are the links of different browsers where you can change the settings:

• Firefox from here.
• Chrome from here.
• Explorer from here.
• Safari from here.
• Opera from here.

We use Google Analytics cookies

We anonymously measure the use of the website to improve your user experience by means of the Google Analytics tool.

Google Analytics:  It stores cookies to be able to prepare statistics on the traffic and volume of visits to this website. By using this website, you are consenting to the information on you being processed by Google. Therefore, the exercising of any rights in this regard must be done by
directly notifying Google. The Google Analytics cookies are stored in servers located in the United States and Google undertakes not to shared them with third-parties, except when necessary for the operating of the system or when so required by law. According to Google, it does not save your IP address. You can consult detailed information in that regard here. If you so wish, you can use the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on and follow the instructions to reject the analytics cookies of that service in all browsers. You can find more information here.

Google privacy policy.