Our website uses first-party and third-party cookies to improve our services and to compile statistics.

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies are small information files that are sent to and stored in the equipment from which you access the www.barcelonesa.com website (PC or personal computer, mobile phone, tablet or connected television) facilitating the use of the same, in order to offer a better service.
The www.barcelonesa.com website uses both its own and third-party cookies that help us to improve quality by allowing us to compare, remember, control and understand how our users browse the website, identifying what they find useful and what they do not, and thus improve the browsing process.

The cookies used by the Web do not damage your computer. They only serve to improve the services offered. Some are strictly necessary for the website to work properly (technical and personalisation) and others are used to improve performance and user experience (analysis, advertising and behavioural advertising).
The website uses both session cookies, temporary cookies, and permanent cookies. Session cookies store data while the user accesses the website, they expire when the browser is closed; while permanent cookies store data in the terminal so that they can be accessed and used in more than one session, they usually expire after a period of time that can range from two months to two years.

WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES DOES OUR WEBSITE USE?

Depending on who manages them:

First-party cookies: these are cookies sent to the user’s device from a device or domain managed by the host and used to provide the service requested by the user.

Third-party cookies: these are cookies sent to the user’s device from a device or domain that is not managed by the host but by another entity that processes the data obtained from the cookies. If the cookies are installed from a device or domain managed by the host, but the information gathered is managed by a third-party, they cannot be classed as first-party cookies. 

Depending on their duration: 

Session cookies: these are cookies designed to collect and store data only while you browse the website. 

Persistent cookies: these are cookies in which the data remains stored on the device and can be accessed and processed during a certain period of time, ranging from a few minutes to several years. 

Depending on their purpose 

• Technical/strictly necessary cookies: Technical cookies are those that allow the user to navigate through a website or application and use the different options or services it contains. For example: controlling data traffic and communication, identifying the session, accessing the website’s restricted areas, remembering the items that make up an order, making a registration or event participation request, using security elements while browsing and storing content for publishing audiovisual files. 
• Personalisation/preference cookies: Personalisation cookies are those that allow the user to access the service with certain general characteristics already predefined or defined by the user on the device. For example: language, the type of browser used to access the service, the design of the content selected, the device’s geolocation and the regional configuration from where the service is accessed. 
• Analytical cookies: Statistical analysis cookies make it possible to monitor and analyse the behaviour of website users. The information gathered by this type of cookie is used to measure activity on websites, applications and platforms, and to create browsing profiles for the users of these sites, for the purpose of introducing improvements to the service according to the user data. 
• Third-party cookies: Some websites use third-party cookies to manage and improve the services offered, e.g. statistical services from Google Analytics and Weborama. 
• Advertising cookies: these are those that allow the management, in the most efficient way possible, of advertising spaces.
• Behavioural advertising cookies: these cookies store information on user behaviour obtained through continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows a specific profile to be developed to display advertising based on the same. Users can unsubscribe from the use of their data for advertising by visiting IAB Spain. They will continue to receive other advertising but this will not be based on their specific interests.
• External social network cookies: these are used so that visitors can interact with the content of different social platforms (facebook, youtube, twitter, linkedIn, etc.) and are only generated for users of these social networks. The conditions of use of these cookies and the information collected is regulated by the privacy policy of the corresponding social platform.

Below, you will find details of the cookies used on our website and their purpose.

LIST OF COOKIES USED ON THE DOMAIN WWW.GRUPBARCELONESA.COM

Cookie’s name: NID

Description:
This cookie is used to store information on your preferences. 

Domain sending the cookie: google.com
First-party/third-party: Third-party
Purpose: Preferences
Expiry date: 6 months
Not exempt (from the informed user consent requirement)

Cookie’s name: PREF

Description:
The purpose of this cookie is to ensure secure browsing. This cookie remembers your preferences and other information, for example your preferred language. 

Domain sending the cookie: google.com
First-party/third-party: Third-party
Purpose: Preferences
Expiry date: 24 months
Not exempt (from the informed user consent requirement)

Cookie’s name: GbCookie

Description:
This cookie is necessary for browsing on our website and for the site to work properly. 

Domain sending the cookie: www.barcelonesa.com
First-party/third-party: First-party
Purpose: Strictly necessary
Expiry date: 3 months
Exempt (from the informed user consent requirement)

Cookie’s name: __utma

Description:
This cookie is used to count the number of times a user visits the website. It also records the first and last time the user visited the site. It expires 2 years after its last use. 

Domain sending the cookie: grupbarcelonesa.com
First-party/third-party: Third-party
Purpose: Analytical
Expiry date: 24 months
Not exempt (from the informed user consent requirement)

Cookie’s name: __utmb

Description:
This cookie is used to recognise the session time. It registers the time at which the users enters the site and expires 30 minutes after the last recorded page visit. 

Domain sending the cookie: grupbarcelonesa.com
First-party/third-party: Third-party
Purpose: Analytical
Expiry date: 30 minutes
Not exempt (from the informed user consent requirement)

Cookie’s name: __utmc

Description:
This cookie is used to recognise the session time. It checks whether the session should be left open or if a new session should be created. If is automatically deleted when the user closes the website or browser. 

Domain sending the cookie: grupbarcelonesa.com
First-party/third-party: Third-party
Purpose: Analytical
Expiry date: When the session is closed
Not exempt (from the informed user consent requirement)

Cookie’s name: __utmz

Description:
This cookie stores the visitor’s origin, i.e. the route they have taken to access the website. It is updated with each new visit to the website. 

Domain sending the cookie: grupbarcelonesa.com
First-party/third-party: Third-party
Purpose: Analytical
Expiry date: 6 months
Not exempt (from the informed user consent requirement)

Cookie’s name: _ga

Description:
Analytical cookie used to identify users. This cookie is installed the first time a user visits the website via a browser. When the user returns to the website using the same browser, the cookie will recognise them to be the same user. They will only be treated as a different user if they access the site via a different browser. 

Domain sending the cookie: grupbarcelonesa.com
First-party/third-party: Third-party
Purpose: Analytical
Expiry date: 24 months
Not exempt (from the informed user consent requirement)

Cookie’s name: ASP.NET_SessionId

Description:
This cookie is automatically activated when the user enters the website. Its purpose is to control the user session. It is necessary for browsing on our website and for the site to work properly. 

Domain sending the cookie: www.barcelonesa.com
First-party/third-party: First-party
Purpose: Strictly necessary
Expiry date: When the session is closed
Exempt (from the informed user consent requirement)

LIST OF THIRD-PARTY COOKIE PROVIDERS FOR THE DOMAIN WWW.GRUPBARCELONESA.COM

Provider’s name: Google Inc.

Description:
Google Analytics cookies. They generate an anonymous user ID, which is used to count how many times a user visits the website. They also record the first and last time the user visited the site. Furthermore, they calculate when a session has finished, the user’s origin and keywords. (Cookies:__utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmz, _ga) 

Purpose: Analytical
More information on the use of third-party cookies: 
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage

Provider’s name: Google Inc.Description:
The PREF and NID cookies can store your preferences and other information, specifically your preferred language (e.g. English), as well as the number of search results you wish to see per page (e.g. 10 or 20)  (Cookies: PREF, NID) 

Purpose: Preferencess
More information on the use of third-party cookies:https://www.google.com/int/es/policies/technologies/types/ 

Opt-out: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

External Social Networking Cookies:

Youtube: https://www.google.com/intl/es/policies/technologies/types/

          Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy?trk=hb_ft_cookie

The specific opt-out systems indicated in the table above for the cookie in question (these systems may require a “reject” cookie to be installed on your computer in order for your choice of deactivation to work); or other third-party tools, available online, which allow users to detect cookies on each website they visit and manage their deactivation.

Description:
Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor interacts with a Survey invitation modal popup. It is used to ensure that the same invite does not re-appear if it has already been shown.

Domain sending the cookie: www.hotjar.com
First-party/third-party: Third-party
Purpose: Analytical
Expiry date: 1 year
Not exempt (from the informed user consent requirement)

Cookie’s name: _hjClosedSurveyInvites

Description:
Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor completes a poll using the Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the same poll does not re-appear if it has already been filled in.

Domain sending the cookie: www.hotjar.com
First-party/third-party: Third-party
Purpose: Analytical
Expiry date: 1 year
Not exempt (from the informed user consent requirement)

Cookie’s name: _hjDonePolls

Description: 
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.

Domain sending the cookie: www.hotjar.com
First-party/third-party: Third-party
Purpose: Analytical
Expiry date: 1 year
Not exempt (from the informed user consent requirement)

Cookie’s name: _hjid

*This list will be updated as soon as possible whenever changes are made to the services offered on the website. However, when updating this information it is possible that the list may no longer contain a certain cookie, although cookies with identical purposes to those given in the list will always be referred to.

CONSENT

By clicking the “Accept” button you give GRUP BARCELONESA your consent for us to carry out all the processing described in this policy. Alternatively, you can reject all cookies by clicking on the “Reject” button or set the cookies to be used during your navigation on the “Settings” button.

It is not necessary to install cookies in order to use this website. The user may decide not to accept them by changing their browser settings to block or delete the cookies, as appropriate.

HOW TO ALLOW, BLOCK OR DELETE COOKIES

In accordance with the provisions of Royal Decree-Law 13/2012, we inform you that you can allow, block or delete the cookies installed on your device by changing your internet browser settings. However, if you block them, certain services that require their use may no longer be available. 

The following links will provide you with information on how to configure your preferences using the primary browsers and applications: 

Google Chrome 
Mozilla Firefox 
Internet Explorer 
Safari 
Safari for IOS (iPhone, iPad) 
Cookies Flash 
Opera 
Chrome for Android

Finally, you can also visit the website Your Online Choices where, as well as finding useful information, you will be able set your third-party advertising cookie preferences for each different provider.