Cookies Policy
In compliance with Law 34/2002, of July 11, on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce (LSSI), in relation to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of April 27, 2016, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and Organic Law 3/2018, of December 5, on Data Protection and Guarantee of Digital Rights (LOPDGDD), it is mandatory to obtain the explicit consent of the user for all websites that use non-essential cookies before the user navigates them.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies and 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 and to ensure the proper functioning of the website.
By using these tools, the web server can remember certain data about the user, such as their preferences for viewing pages on that server, username and password, favorite products, and more.
Cookies Affected by the Regulation and Exempt Cookies
According to the EU directive, cookies that require the informed consent of the user are analytics, advertising, and affiliate cookies. Exempt from this requirement are technical cookies and those necessary for the website’s operation or for providing services expressly requested by the user.
Types of Cookies
By Purpose
🔵 Technical and Functional Cookies: Enable the user to navigate a website, platform, or application and use the various options or services available.
🔵 Analytics Cookies: Allow the tracking and analysis of user behavior on websites they are linked to. The information collected by these cookies is used to measure website, application, or platform activity and create user navigation profiles to improve the service based on usage data.
🔵 Advertising Cookies: Manage, in the most efficient way possible, advertising spaces included by the publisher on a website, application, or platform, based on content or ad display frequency.
🔵 Behavioral Advertising Cookies: Gather information on user preferences and choices (retargeting) to efficiently manage advertising spaces included by the publisher on a website, application, or platform.
🔵 Social Cookies: Set by social media platforms to allow content sharing with friends and networks. Social media platforms can track your online activity outside the website, potentially influencing the content and messages you see on other sites.
🔵 Affiliate Cookies: Track visits from other websites with which the site has an affiliate agreement.
🔵 Security Cookies: Store encrypted information to protect data from being vulnerable to third-party malicious attacks.
By Ownership
🔵 First-Party Cookies: Sent to the user’s device from a domain managed by the website owner and used to provide the requested service.
🔵 Third-Party Cookies: Sent to the user’s device from a domain not managed by the website owner but by another entity that processes the data collected via the cookies.
By Duration
🔵 Session Cookies: Designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a website.
🔵 Persistent Cookies: Data remains stored on the device and can be accessed and processed for a defined period by the cookie owner, ranging from minutes to years.
Processing of Personal Data
SmartClouds.ai is the Data Controller responsible for processing users’ personal data, which will be managed in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR). The following details apply:
Processing Purposes: As specified in the section on cookies used on this website.
Legal Basis: User consent (Article 6.1 GDPR).
Data Retention Criteria: As specified in the section on cookies used on this website.
Data Communication: Data will not be shared with third parties unless using third-party cookies or required by law.
User Rights:
- The right to withdraw consent at any time.
- The right to access, rectify, transfer, or delete personal data and limit or oppose its processing.
- The right to file a complaint with a supervisory authority (www.aepd.es) if data processing does not comply with current regulations.
Cookies Used on This Website
Controlled by the Publisher:
▶️ No cookies controlled by the publisher are installed.
Third-Party Cookies:
▶️ Third-party services are beyond the publisher’s control. Providers can modify their service terms, purposes, and cookie usage at any time.
▶️ External providers for this website: No third-party cookies are installed.
Cookie Settings Panel
From this panel, you can configure the cookies that the website can install on your browser, except for technical or functional cookies necessary for navigation and service use.
Cookie Panel
Managing Cookies from the Browser
Deleting Cookies from Your Device:
Cookies already stored on a device can be removed by clearing the browser history, which deletes cookies from all visited websites. However, some stored information (e.g., login data or site preferences) may also be lost.
Managing Site-Specific Cookies:
Users can control specific cookies for each site by adjusting their browser’s privacy and cookie settings.
Blocking Cookies:
Modern browsers can be configured to block cookie installation. However, this may require manually adjusting preferences each time a site is visited, and some services or features may not function properly (e.g., profile logins).