POLÍTICA DE COOKIES
Information about the use of cookies on its web pages.
Cookies are files that can be downloaded to your computer through web pages. They are tools that play an essential role in the provision of numerous information society services. Among others, they allow a website to store and retrieve information about the browsing habits of a user or their equipment, and, depending on the information obtained, they can be used to recognize the user and improve the service offered.
Types of cookies
Depending on who is the entity that manages the domain from which the cookies are sent and processes the data obtained, two types can be distinguished: own cookies and third-party cookies.
There is also a second classification according to the length of time they remain stored in the client’s browser, which may be session cookies or persistent cookies.
Finally, there is another classification with five types of cookies depending on the purpose for which the data obtained is processed: technical cookies, personalization cookies, analysis cookies, advertising cookies, and behavioral advertising cookies.
Guide on the use of cookies from the Spanish Data Protection Agency .
Cookies used on the website
The website uses Matomo, an analytics tool that helps websites understand how their visitors interact. A set of cookies are used to collect information and report website usage statistics without personally identifying visitors. More information about Matomo cookies and privacy information.
To promote social networks, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram cookies are being used so that our visitors can follow us on these networks, in addition to inserting content from Twitter and YouTube on the web portal.
We use WordPress for website development and Divi (Elegant Themes) for design, so their cookies are also used. Likewise, we use HAProxy for website performance optimization and session cookies such as SERVIRED for load-balancing functionality. Likewise, a technical cookie called cdp-cookies-plugin-wp is downloaded that manages the user’s consent for the use of cookies on the website, in order to remember those users who have accepted them and those who have not, so that the former are not shown information about it on the page.
Acceptance of the Cookies Policy
The State Agency for Higher Scientific Research Council (CSIC) assumes that you accept the use of cookies. However, at the top of any page of the portal information about its Cookies Policy will be displayed so that you are aware.
Given this information, it is possible to carry out the following actions:
- Accept cookies: if the user presses the acceptance button, this notice will not be displayed again when accessing any page of the portal.
- Review the cookie policy: The user will be able to access this page which details the use of cookies, as well as links to modify the browser settings
How to modify cookie settings
You can restrict, block or delete cookies from thiswebsite, using your browser. In each browser the operation is different, the ‘Help’ function will show you how to do it.