Cookie Policy

 

What Are Cookies and What Do We Use Them For?

This website, like most websites on the Internet, uses cookies to improve the user experience. Below, you will find information about what cookies are, what types of cookies this portal uses, how you can disable cookies in your browser, and how to specifically disable third-party cookies.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small files that some platforms, such as websites, can install on your computer, smartphone, tablet, or connected TV. Their functions can vary greatly: storing your browsing preferences, collecting statistical information, enabling certain technical features, etc. Sometimes, cookies are used to store basic information about the user’s browsing habits or their device, to the extent that they may be recognized.

Why are they important?

Cookies are useful for several reasons. From a technical perspective, they allow websites to operate more efficiently and adapt to your preferences, such as remembering your language or your country’s currency. Additionally, they help website managers improve the services they offer, thanks to the statistical information collected.

Types, Purpose, and Functioning of Cookies

Depending on their duration, cookies can be divided into session cookies or persistent cookies. The first expire when the user closes the browser. The second expire when their purpose has been fulfilled (for example, to keep the user logged in on https://www.esgrimaalcobendas.org/) or when they are manually deleted.

Additionally, depending on their purpose, cookies can be classified as follows:

  • Performance Cookies: These remember your preferences for tools within the website so that you don’t need to configure them every time you visit. For example:
    • Volume settings for video or sound players.
    • Video playback speeds compatible with your browser.

  • Geolocation Cookies: These are used to determine in which country you are when browsing the website. This cookie is completely anonymous and is only used to help tailor content to your location.

  • Registration Cookies: These are created once the user has registered or subsequently logged in and are used to identify them on the website with the following purposes:
    • Keep the user logged in so that if they close the page, the browser, or the computer, and later return, they will remain logged in without having to log in again (unless the user selects “log out,” in which case the cookie is deleted).
    • Verify if the user is authorized to access certain pages, for example, to participate in a contest.


Additionally, some pages may use social network connectors such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, or Twitter. When the user logs in with social network credentials, they authorize the network to store a persistent cookie that remembers their identity and grants access until it expires. The user may delete this cookie and revoke access by updating their preferences in the corresponding social network.

  • Analytics Cookies: Each time a user visits a page, a tool from an external provider (in our case, Google Analytics) generates an analytical cookie on the user’s device. This cookie, generated only during the visit, will be used in future visits to anonymously identify the visitor. The main purposes are:
    • Allow the anonymous identification of browsing users (identifies browsers and devices, not people) and therefore provides an approximate count of visitors and their trends over time.
    • Identify anonymously the most visited content, and therefore most attractive to users.
    • Determine whether the user is new or a returning visitor.

Important: Unless the user registers on the website https://www.esgrimaalcobendas.org/, the cookie will never be associated with personal data that could identify them. These cookies are only used for statistical purposes to optimize the user experience.

Other Third-Party Cookies

On some of our pages, third-party cookies may be installed to manage and improve the services they offer. An example of this use is links to social networks that allow sharing our content.

How Can I Configure My Preferences?

You can allow, block, or delete cookies installed on your device through your internet browser settings. If you block them, certain services requiring cookies may not be available to you.

Using Cookies
Cookies are files sent to a browser by a web server to record the user’s activity on a specific website. The primary purpose of cookies is to provide the user with faster access to selected pages.

The website https://www.esgrimaalcobendas.org/ uses cookies to personalize and maximize the user’s browsing experience. Cookies are only associated with an anonymous user and their device, and do not provide references that could identify the user personally. The user may configure their browser to notify or reject the installation of cookies without affecting their access to content. However, please note that the quality of the website’s functioning may be reduced.

Additionally, the website may recognize all pages visited by users, enabling it to offer content tailored to their tastes and preferences.

How to Disable Cookies in Major Browsers

Normally, it is possible to stop accepting browser cookies or stop accepting cookies from a specific website. All modern browsers allow you to change cookie settings, usually found in the “Options” or “Preferences” menu.

  • Internet Explorer: Tools -> Internet Options -> Privacy -> Settings.
  • Firefox: Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> History -> Custom Settings.
  • Chrome: Settings -> Show advanced options -> Privacy -> Content settings.
  • Safari: Preferences -> Security.

For more information, consult the help section of your browser.

What Happens if Cookies Are Disabled?

Some features of the website will be disabled, such as staying logged in, receiving content tailored to your location, or viewing certain videos.

Updates and Changes to the Cookie Policy

The website https://www.esgrimaalcobendas.org/ may modify this Cookie Policy due to legislative or regulatory requirements or in order to adapt it to instructions from the Spanish Data Protection Agency. Users are advised to visit it periodically.

When significant changes occur, they will be communicated through the website.

Regarding third-party cookies (those not belonging to our website), we cannot be held responsible for the content or truthfulness of their privacy policies. The information provided here is always based on available sources.