This site, like the majority of Internet portals, uses cookies in order to improve the user experience.
Following is some information on what “cookies” are, the types of cookies used by this Web site, how to disable cookies on your browser and how to disable specifically the installation of third party cookies.
If you cannot find the specific information you are looking for, please send us a message on info@mecavi.com
With the publication on the Official Gazette of the Spanish Estate BOE of Royal Decree-Law 13/2012 of 30th of March , a number of modifications were made to the Information Society and Electronic Commerce Service Act (LSSICE) which affects the use of cookies and e-mailed commercial messages, amongst others. With this Royal Decree, which reflects several European directives, Spain, in the same way as all the member states of the European Union, adapt to the European Directive 2009/136/EC “amendment to the European Directive on the processing and retention of data and protection of privacy in electronic communications” Article 22.2 of Act 34/2002. Service providers may use devices to store and retrieve data on the users’ devices, provided that these have granted their consent after receiving clear and comprehensive information on their use, and in particular on the purposes of the handling of the data in accordance with the provisions of our Privacy Policy.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small files that some platforms, such as Web pages, may install in your computer, smartphone, tablet or Internet-connected TV. Their functions may vary; they may store your browsing preferences, collect statistical information, allow some technical functionalities, etc. On occasion cookies are used to store basic information on the user’s or the device’s browsing habits, to the extent, depending on the case, that they can recognise the user.
Why are they important?
Cookies are useful for several reasons. From a technical point of view, they allow Web pages to work more smoothly and adapt to your preferences, such as storing the language of choice, town or country. Additionally, they help the people responsible for the Web sites improve the services they offer, thanks to the statistical information they collect through them.
How do we use cookies?
Browsing Mecavi’s Web site implies that the following types of cookies may be installed:
– Functional cookies
Functional cookies are used to remember your preferences on specific tools or services so that you do not need to set them up again and again every time you visit our portal and, in some cases, they may be provided by third parties. In the case of electronic commerce Web sites, they allow to keep information about your shopping trolley.
We use cookies known as “session status cookies” in order to improve our services with the purpose of improving the browsing experience of users. If you block out or delete these cookies, the web site will continue to work.
– Essential or “strictly necessary” cookies
These cookies are necessary for the correct running of our web page and allow access to sections using safety filters. Without these cookies, many of the services available would not work.
– Behavioural Advertising Cookies
These may be placed on your device by us or by third parties, and they allow the efficient management of the advertising spaces on our Web site, adapting the contents of the advertising to the contents of the service requested or the use made of our Web page. These cookies allow us to understand your browsing habits and show you only the advertising that suits your browsing profile.
– Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a free tool of Google’s Web analysis which mainly allows Web site proprietors to understand how users interact with their Web sites. In the same way, it enables cookies on the domain of the site you are browsing and uses a set of cookies called “__utma” and “__utmz” to collect anonymous information in order to draft trend reports of Web sites without identification of the individual users. More information on cookies of Google Analytics and on privacy. Thanks to these we are able to study the browsing trends of our Web page and improve.
– Other third party cookies
Third party cookies may be installed to allow management and improvement of the services they offer. An example of this use is the links to social networks allowing us to share our contents.
How to set up my preferences?
You may allow, block or eliminate the cookies installed on your device by setting up the options on your Internet browser. Should you wish to block them, some services which need to use them may not be available to you.
Following we have listed a number of links where you can find information on how to enable your preferences on the main browsers:
And finally, you can visit Your Online Choices where you will find not only useful information, but you may also set up your preferences on third party advertising cookies by provider.