What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small piece of information sent by a website and stored in the user’s browser, allowing the user’s previous activity to be consulted. The main objective is to control the users who access the portal as well as to identify what their browsing preferences have been, allowing it to be stored for later consultation. This information is stored on the user’s computer, tablet, or smartphone, and can be updated and retrieved by the web space owner.
The content of a cookie may include the date and time of the visit to the website and the identification of the areas visited by the user while browsing.

Utilisation

www.tictap.me makes use of its own and/or third-party cookies in order to provide you with better service and attention through our website, as well as to attend to the services requested via the website efficiently, and to obtain more information about your preferences, personalising the website according to your interests, facilitating efficient and personalised browsing.

Cookies store and retrieve information about the browsing habits of the user or their equipment and, depending on the information they contain and the way in which the user uses their equipment, they can be used to recognise the user, achieving greater personalisation and analysis of the user’s behaviour.

In compliance with Art. 22.2 of the Law on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce (LSSICE) and in accordance with the transposition of European Directive 2009/136/EC, www.tictap.me uses its own and third-party cookies, and the mere browsing of the website implies acceptance of their use.
Likewise, the use of cookies by TicTAP on its website will be complemented by the information notices that TicTAP makes available to users on its home pages, in relation to the type of cookies that require user information and consent.

Type:

Own cookies: sent and managed solely by www.tictap.me for efficient user navigation through the web space, and which are summarised in the following:

Google Analytics

• Preparation of statistics on the traffic and volume of visits to this website.
• Domain www.tictap.me
• Size 1Kb
• Duration 2 years

Google Business

• Elaboration of statistics on visualisations, searches, and visitor activity of this website
• Domain www.tictap.me
• Size 1Kb
• Duration 2 years

PHPSESSID

• Set an identifier to maintain user session variables between web pages.
• Domain www.tictap.me
• Size 1Kb
• Duration 30 days

Metricol

• Elaboration of statistics on the traffic and volume of visits to this website.
• Domain www.tictap.me
• Size 1Kb
• Duration 2 years

These apps are updated as quickly as possible as the services offered on this website change. However, occasionally during this update, it may happen that an application will cease to include a cookie, tag or other similar systems that allow the traceability of a user or their device, although these will always be systems with identical purposes to those included in this table.

Third-party cookies:

Those sent by another collaborating entity, mainly from search engines such as Google. Google Analytics also uses cookies, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information on our behalf for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage, the information and description of which can be found at the following link:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage

By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. We inform you that in order to request the cancellation of any data processing carried out by Google, you should contact the said company.

This website does not have the technical or legal capacity to proceed to the cessation of the processing of data outside the scope delimited by the files and technical means of its ownership, being exempt from any liability arising from the use of third-party cookies.

In certain social network profiles of TicTAP, third-party cookies are installed on all its visitors, despite not being registered users on the corresponding platforms:

TicTAP, on Facebook: plugins installed from this platform can recognise your IP address and the page visited on TicTAP, and possibly store cookies so that the services offered by TicTAP work correctly. These plugins and tools from other social networks are stored by third parties. Therefore, user interactions with those plugins are subject to their privacy policies. TicTAP IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE USE OF PERSONAL DATA THAT THESE THIRD PARTIES MAKE. For more information on how these plugins work: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/

Configure or disable cookies

The configuration of cookies in browsers is done in the privacy options of each browser. To do this you can follow the instructions specified by each browser: Chrome, Firefox, Explorer, and Safari. TicTAP is not responsible if the deactivation of cookies by the user prevents the proper functioning of the website.

In the event that the user wishes to restrict or block cookies, they may do so by accessing the configuration of the browser they use and modifying them from their own computer. The different browsers provide the following configuration options with respect to cookies:

• Internet Explorer:
  http://windows.microsoft.com/is-IS/windows7/How-to-manage-cookies-in-Internet-Explorer-9
• Firefox:
  http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Cookies
• Chrome:
  http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647
• Safari:
  http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042 (and for iOS: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677)

Likewise, the user should be aware that disabling or restricting the use of cookies may affect browsing and access to the different contents of the website, as well as the enabling of some functionalities.