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Cookie Policy

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Table of Contents

  • Cookie Policy

  • What is a cookie and what is it for?

  • What type of cookies does the Diputació de Tarragona use?

  • Types of cookies according to their expiration

  • How can you delete or disable the use of cookies?

  • Who uses the cookies from the Diputació de Tarragona?

  • Google Analytics

  • Consent

  • Third-party website cookies

  • Change preferences

 

1. Cookie Policy

In compliance with Law 34/2002, of July 11, on information society services and electronic commerce, and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, we inform you about the use of cookies on the websites of the Diputació de Tarragona.

2. What is a cookie and what is it for?

A cookie is a file that is downloaded to your computer or mobile device when accessing certain web pages. Cookies allow a website, among other things, to store and retrieve information about the browsing habits of a user or their equipment and, depending on the information they contain and the way they use their equipment, they can be used to recognize the user. For this reason, they are essential for accessing services where the user must identify themselves, such as webmail or blog management.

 

 

3. What type of cookies does the Diputació de Tarragona use?

  • Technical cookies: These allow the user to navigate through our websites and use the different options or services contained therein, such as controlling traffic and data communication, responding to surveys, rating agenda events, identifying the session, accessing restricted areas, applying for registration or participation in an event, using security elements during navigation, storing content for broadcasting, or sharing content through social networks.

  • Personalization cookies: These allow the user to access the service with some predefined general characteristics based on a series of criteria on the user's terminal, such as language, the type of browser through which the service is accessed, the regional configuration from where the service is accessed, etc.

  • Analysis cookies: These, whether processed by us or by third parties, allow us to quantify the number of users and thus perform the measurement and statistical analysis of the use made by users of the service offered. For this purpose, your navigation on our website is analyzed in order to improve the range of products or services we offer. For this purpose, the Diputació de Tarragona uses Google Analytics, a web statistics service offered free of charge by Google.

4. Types of cookies according to their expiration

The cookies used by the Diputació de Tarragona may have the following types of expiration:

  • Session cookies: Expire when the user logs out or closes the session.

  • Service cookies: Related to a personalized service within the website, with an expiration of less than 24 hours.

  • Persistent cookies: They remain permanently installed in the user's browser and are activated every time the website is visited, provided that their use is not disabled.

5. How can you delete or disable the use of cookies?

To allow, block, or delete cookies installed on your computer, you must access the settings of the browser you use to access the web. You can find more information for each of the main browsers through the following links:

  • Google Chrome

  • Mozilla Firefox

  • Internet Explorer

  • Opera

  • Safari

  • Safari for iOS (iPhone and iPad)

  • Chrome for Android

If you wish to withdraw your consent related to this cookie policy at any time, you must delete those stored through the adjustments and configurations of your Internet browser. For more information on how to manage cookies, you can visit:

 

6. Who uses the cookies from the Diputació de Tarragona?

The information obtained by cookies is processed solely by the Diputació de Tarragona. However, please note that the Diputació de Tarragona uses third-party cookies, and the information collected through them is hosted on servers external to the Diputació de Tarragona. This is the case with data collected by Google Analytics.

7. Google Analytics

This web analysis service is provided by the American company Google, Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043). The information generated by the cookie regarding the use of the website (including your IP address) will be directly sent to and stored by Google on its servers in the United States. Google will use this information on our behalf to track the use of our website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services related to website activity and Internet use. Google may transfer this information to third parties when required by law, or when these third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data it holds. If you wish to prevent Google Analytics from collecting information during your navigation, you can disable the use of cookies (see the previous section) or install a browser add-on designed by the company itself to disable the collection of information.

8. Consent

Once you have been informed about our cookie policy, if you continue browsing, we will understand that you accept the use of cookies, both our own and those of third parties, on our websites and applications. If you refuse the installation of cookies, you may continue to use our websites, although the use of some services may be limited and, therefore, your experience on our website might be less satisfactory.

9. Third-party website cookies

The Diputació de Tarragona is present on various third-party web platforms, mostly social networks, and, in some cases, the Diputació de Tarragona inserts content from these onto its own website. In both cases, these third-party platforms may have their own cookies. The Diputació de Tarragona has no control over these cookies and, for this reason, recommends that users review the security policy of each of these platforms.

  • Diputació de Tarragona on Facebook: Facebook Cookie Page.

  • Diputació de Tarragona on Twitter: Twitter Privacy Page.

  • Diputació de Tarragona on Flickr: Yahoo! Privacy Center.

  • Diputació de Tarragona on Google+, YouTube, Google Maps, and local: Google Cookie Page.

In the event that a user of the Diputació de Tarragona website wishes to share any of our content via an external social network, they should be aware that the latter might also use a cookie at the time of registration. In this case, the Diputació de Tarragona also has no control over these cookies.