Cookies Policy

General Information

Due to the entry into force of the amendment to the “Ley de Servicios de la Sociedad de la Información” (LSSICE) established by Royal Decree 13/2012, it is mandatory to obtain the express consent of the user of all websites that use non-essential cookies before they browse through them.

What are Cookies

Cookies and other similar technologies such as local shared objects, flash cookies, or pixels are tools used by web servers to store and retrieve information about their visitors, as well as to ensure the proper functioning of the site.

By using these devices, the web server can remember certain data about the user, such as their preferences for viewing pages on that server, username and password, products of interest, etc.

Cookies Subject to Regulation and Exempt Cookies

According to the EU directive, cookies requiring informed consent from the user are analytics and advertising and affiliation cookies, with technical cookies and those necessary for the operation of the website or the provision of services expressly requested by the user being exempt.

Technical and Functional Cookies

These allow the user to navigate through a website, platform, or application and use the different options or services available, such as controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, accessing restricted access parts, remembering elements of an order, carrying out the purchase process of an order, registering or participating in an event, using security elements during navigation, storing content for the dissemination of videos or sound, or sharing content through social networks. This includes customization cookies, which allow the user to access the service with some predefined general characteristics based on certain criteria on the user’s device, such as language, type of browser, regional configuration from which the service is accessed, etc.

Analytical Cookies

These allow those responsible for them to track and analyze the behavior of users of the websites they are linked to. The information collected through this type of cookies is used to measure the activity of websites, applications, or platforms and to create browsing profiles of users of these sites, applications, and platforms, in order to introduce improvements based on the analysis of the usage data by users of the service.

Advertising Cookies

These allow the most effective management of the advertising spaces that, where appropriate, the publisher has included on a website, application, or platform from which the requested service is provided, based on criteria such as the content edited or the frequency with which the ads are displayed.

Behavioral Advertising Cookies

They collect information about the user’s personal preferences and choices (retargeting) to enable the most effective management of the advertising spaces that the publisher has included on a website, application, or platform from which the requested service is provided.

More information: LSSI Cookies Policy and Guide on the use of cookies by the AEPD.

Social Cookies

Established by social media platforms in services to allow you to share content with your friends and networks. Social media platforms have the ability to track your online activity outside the Services. This can affect the content and messages you see on other services you visit.

Affiliate Cookies

Allow tracking visits from other websites with which the website establishes an affiliation contract (affiliate companies).

Security Cookies

Store encrypted information to prevent data stored in them from being vulnerable to malicious attacks by third parties. They are only used in HTTPS connections.

Own Cookies

Those sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a machine or domain managed by the publisher itself and from which the requested service is provided.

Third-party Cookies

Those sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a machine or domain that is not managed by the publisher, but by another entity that processes data obtained through cookies.

Session Cookies

A type of cookies designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a website.z

Persistent Cookies

A type of cookies in which data is still stored on the terminal and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the cookie controller, which can range from a few minutes to several years.

Personal Data Processing

UNESID is the Data Controller for the Interested Party’s personal data and informs that these data will be processed in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of April 27, 2016 (GDPR). Therefore, the following information is provided regarding the processing:

Processing Purposes

As specified in the cookies section used on this website.

Legitimization of the Processing

By legitimate interest of the controller: technical cookies and by the consent of the interested party: analytical, behavioral advertising, and advertising cookies.

Data Retention Criteria

As specified in the cookies used on the website.

Communication of Data

Data will not be communicated to third parties, except for third-party-owned cookies or legal obligation.

Rights of the Interested Party

  • Right to withdraw consent at any time.
  • Right of access, rectification, portability, and deletion of their data and to the limitation or opposition to their processing.
  • Right to file a complaint with the Control Authority (www.aepd.es) if they consider that the processing does not comply with current regulations.

Contact Information to Exercise Rights

  • Address: C/Castelló 128, 28006 Madrid
  • Phone: +34 915 624 015
  • Email: unesid@unesid.org   

How to Delete Browser Cookies

Google Chrome

  • Select the Tools icon.
  • Click on Settings.
  • Click on Show Advanced Options.
  • In the “Privacy” section, click on Content Settings.
  • Delete cookies: Click on All cookies and site data…
  • Do not allow cookies to be stored.
  • Click on Clear browsing data (empty the cache).
  • Close and restart the browser.


For more information on Chrome, click here.


Mozilla Firefox

  • Select Firefox > History > Clear Recent History.
  • Next to “Details”, click on the down arrow.
  • Select the following checkboxes: Cookies, Cache, Active Logins
  • Using the “Time range to clear” dropdown menu, select Everything.
  • Click on Clear Now.
  • Close and restart the browser.
  • You can accept or reject cookies in Firefox Preferences under Tools > Options > Privacy.


For more information on Mozilla Firefox, click here.


Microsoft Internet Explorer

  • Select Tools > Internet Options.
  • Click on the General tab.
  • In the “Browsing history” section, click on Delete browsing history on exit.
  • Select Delete files.
  • Select Delete cookies.
  • Click on Delete.
  • Click on OK.
  • Close and restart the browser.


For more information on Internet Explorer, click here.


Safari

  • Select the Safari icon > Edit > Restore Safari.
  • Select the following checkboxes: Clear history, Remove all website data.
  • Click on Reset.
  • Close and restart the browser.


For more information on Safari, click here.


Opera

  • Options > Advanced > Cookies.
  • Cookie options control how Opera handles them and therefore their acceptance or rejection.


For more information on Opera, click here.