COOKIES POLICY

Our website www.neurocirugiabarcelona.com just like the majority of websites, uses cookies to collect information on the use made of the website and to improve browsing and make it easier.

You are hereby informed that we use cookies with the purpose of simplifying browsing through the website, to distinguish you from other users and identify problems. Furthermore, in the event that you give your consent, we use cookies that enable obtaining more information about your preferences and personalise our website in accordance with your individual interests.

In the event that you want more information about the cookies we use, please send an e-mail to info@neurocirugiabarcelona.com

1.- What are cookies?

A cookie is a file that is uploaded to your terminal (computer, tablet, cell phone or other device) with the purpose of storing information that may be up-dated and recovered by the body responsible for its installation.

The information collected through cookies may include the date and time of visits to the website, the pages viewed, the time spent on the pages and the sites visited immediately before and after.

2.-COOKIES AFFECTED BY REGULATIONS AND EXCEPTED COOKIES

According to the EU directive, cookies that require the informed consent of the user are analysis, advertising and affiliation cookies, with exceptions for those of technical character and those required for operation of the website or the rendering of services expressly requested by the user.

WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES ARE THERE?

Cookies can be classified into five large groups:

  • Analytical cookies: gather information on the use made of the website.
  • Social cookies: those required by external social networks.
  • Affiliate cookies: enable tracking of visits from other websites, with which the website establishes an affiliation contract (affiliation companies).
  • Advertising and behavioural cookies: collect information on the user’s preferences and choices (retargeting).
  • • Technical and functional cookies: those needed for the proper functioning of the website and to provide the service explicitly requested by the user.

3.- Types of cookies used on the website

Our website uses the cookies described below depending on their purpose:

Cookies for customising the user interface: The website contains cookies for “preferred language” used to remember the language selected. This type of cookies is used on websites with various languages. Technical cookies: those that enable the user to browse through the website or application and the use of the different options or services available. For example, control data traffic and disclosure, identify the session, access to the restricted areas of the website, remember the items on an order, make a request for enrolment or participation in an event, use security elements during browsing and store contents for diffusion of videos or sound or share contents through social networks. Analytical cookies: Those enabling website owners to track and analyse user behaviour on associated websites. The data collected by this type of cookies is used to measure the activity of websites, applications or platforms and for the elaboration of browsing profiles for the users of these sites, applications and platforms, with the purpose of providing improvements depending on data analysis of the use made of the service.

Our website uses the cookies described below depending on their ownership:

*Proprietary cookies.

  • 240plan: technical cookie. Eliminated on closing the browser. Expires 60 minutes after the last update.
  • 240planbak: technical cookie. Eliminated on closing the browser. Expires 30 minutes after the last update.
  • cc_cookie_accept: cstrictly necessary technical cookie containing the value of whether the installation of cookies has been accepted. Expires 1 year after the last update.

If cookies are accepted, all other cookies are installed:

*Third party cookies

Our website uses Google Analytics, a Google website analysis tool that enables determining how users interact with our website. At the same time, it enables cookies in the site domain of the user and uses a series of cookies called “__utma” and “__utmz” to gather anonymous information and develop reports on tendencies of the website without identifying individual users or the address from which they connect. The information obtained is related to the number of pages visited, the language, social network where our news is published, the town the user access IP address is assigned to, the number of users visiting us, the frequency and re-incidence of the visits, the length of the visit, the browser used, the operator or type of terminal since used for the visit. This enables us to obtain information that aids in improving the browsing experience and provide better service to users and customers.

If you interact with the content on our website third party cookies may also be used (for example, press “like” buttons or sharing on social networks). Third party cookies are those established by a domain other than our website. We cannot access the information stored in the cookies of other websites when browsing these websites.

The link below is to the Google website where you can read a description of the type of cookies used by Google Analytics and their expiry period:https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage?hl=es.

List of the cookies we use

Type

Key

Description (ES)

Server

Google Analytics

__utma

Cookie from Google Analytics that records the first and last time the user visited the website. It expires 2 years after the last update. More information about the treatment performed by Google Analytics at https://www.google.com/intl/es_ALL/analytics/learn/privacy.html

Google Analytics

__utmb

Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the JavaScript library is executed and there are no “__utmb” cookies. The cookie is updated each time information is sent to Google Analytics. It expires 30 minutes after the last update.

Google Analytics

__utmc

Not used in ga.js. Adjustment for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the “__utmb” cookie to determine whether the user opened a new session / visit. It is eliminated on closing the browser.

Google Analytics

_utmt:

Google Analytics Cookie. This cookie is used to process the type of request made by the user. It expires at the end of the session.

Google Analytics

__utmz

Stores the traffic source or a campaign explaining how the user reached the site. The cookie is created when the JavaScript library is executed and is updated each time the information is sent to Google Analytics. It expires 6 months after the last update.

google.com

List of third party cookies

Google

NID

These cookies are used by Google to store user preferences and information during the visualisation of pages on Google Maps. These cookies contain sufficient tracking information.

.google.com

Google Analytics

http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js

Google Analytics

http://www.google-analytics.com/…

3.- Consent

By the mere fact of browsing and continuing on our website www.neurocirugiabarcelona.com means implicit consent to the use of the above mentioned cookies for the indicated periods and under the conditions contained in this Cookies Policy.

4.- How to disable and/or block cookies

Cookies are not required for the use of our website and so they may be blocked or disabled by activating the settings in your browser that enables rejecting the installation of all cookies or only some of them. The majority of browsers enable indicating the presence of cookies or automatically rejecting them. Should they be rejected, you may continue using our website, although the use of some services may be limited and therefore your experience on our website less satisfying.

5.- Withdrawal of your consent

Should you wish to withdraw your consent to this cookies policy at any time, you must delete the cookies stored on your device (computer or cell phone) through the settings and configurations of your Internet browser.

Unless the configuration of your browser has been adjusted, our system will create cookies as soon as you visit our website. Bear in mind that all Internet browsers enable changing these settings. For more information about how to adjust the cookies settings in your browser, refer to the links included below.

Internet Explorer:

5 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/196955)6 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283185)7 (http://www.allaboutcookies.org/es/administrar-las-cookies/internet-explo…)8 (http://www.allaboutcookies.org/es/administrar-las-cookies/internet-explo…)9 (http://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/windows7/how-to-manage-cookies-in-int…)

Firefox

https://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/cookies-informacion-que-los-sitios-web-guardan-en-?esab=a&s=administrar+cookies&r=0&as=s#w_configurar-las-cookies

Chrome

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=es

Safari

http://www.allaboutcookies.org/es/administrar-las-cookies/safari.html (and for iOS –http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677?viewlocale=es_ES&locale=en_US)

6.- Additional guarantees – Managing cookies:

In addition to the guarantees described above, the cookie register may be subject to acceptance during installation or updating of the browser used, and this acceptance may be revoked at any time using the settings available for contents and privacy options.

You can configure your browser to reject or accept cookies, or configure the browser so that these cookies are deleted automatically whenever the browser, apparatus or device is shut down. Consult your browser’s help page.

Many browsers enable browsing in private and cookies are then always deleted after visiting a website. Depending on the browser this private mode may have different names. Here is a list of the most common browsers and the different names for this “private mode”:

Internet Explorer 8 and higher; InPrivate Safari 2 and higher; Private Browsing

Opera 10.5 and higher; Private Browsing FireFox 3.5 and higher; Private Browsing Google Chrome 10 and higher; Incognito

Important:
Please read your browser’s help page carefully to learn more about how to activate “private mode”. You can continue to visit our website if your browser is in “private mode”, even though the experience of browsing our website may not be ideal and some tools may not function correctly.