Cookie Policy

Last updated: 15/10/2020

This cookie policy provides additional detail about how SMS Spanish Experience S.L. processes information collected via our website at sms-spanish.com (the “Website”). It also provides additional detail about the choices and rights that our visitors, prospects, or customers (“users“, “you“, “your“) have regarding how we collect, store or process information about them.

If you’d like to learn more about how SMS Spanish Experience S.L. company processes information collected on our Website, please see our Privacy Policy.

1. What are Cookies?

A cookie is a text file that a web server can save on your computer’s hard drive to store some type of information about you as a user. Cookies are used for various purposes such as storing data for future visits, to recognize the user and avoid asking for authentication again, to know which pages you visit, or to save your preferences in customizable areas …). Normally, websites use cookies to obtain statistical information about their web pages, and analyze the behavior of their clients/users.

If you require further information about cookies in general, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org

2. Types of cookies

Cookies can be classified according to the following criteria:
Depending on who installs the cookie, these can be:

• Own cookies: These are those that are sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by the editor itself and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
• Third-party cookies: These are those that are sent to the user’s terminal equipment either from a computer or domain managed by us or by a third party, but the information collected by the cookies is managed by a third party other than the owner of the website.

According to their conservation period, cookies can be:

• Session cookies: These are those that last as long as the user is browsing the Web page and are deleted when browsing ends.
• Persistent cookies: They are stored in the user’s terminal, for a longer time, thus facilitating the control of the chosen preferences without having to repeat certain parameters each time the website is visited.

Depending on their purpose, cookies can be:

• Technical cookies: Technical cookies are those essential and strictly necessary for the proper functioning of a website and the use of the various options and services it offers. For example, session maintenance, those that allow the use of security elements, share content with social networks, etc.
• Personalization cookies: They allow the user to choose or personalize characteristics of the Web page such as language, regional configuration or browser type.
• Analytical cookies: They are those used by the Web portals, to develop navigation profiles and to be able to know the preferences of the users in order to improve the offer of products and services. They allow controlling geographic areas of greatest interest to a user, the information of the most accepted website, etc.
• Advertising/advertising cookies: They allow the management of advertising spaces based on specific criteria. For example, the frequency of access, the content edited, etc. Advertising cookies allow, through the management of advertising, to store behavioural information through the observation of habits, studying the accesses and forming a profile of user preferences, to offer to advertise related to the interests of your profile.

3. Cookies used on our website

sms-spanish.com uses the following types of cookies on the web:

• Technical cookies
  They allow the user to browse the Web and use features such as the shopping cart.
• Personalization cookies
  They allow knowing the user’s preferences: language, products visited …
• Analysis cookies
  We use Google Analytics and Smartlook cookies to quantify the number of users who visit the Web. These cookies allow us to measure and analyze the way users browse the Web. This information allows SMS SPANISH EXPERIENCE, S.L. continually improves its services and the experience of users of the Web. For more information, you can consult the Google Analytics privacy page: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage.
• Advertising and behavioural advertising cookies
  These cookies are used to display relevant advertisements for users based on their use of our website. In addition, they limit the number of times each user views an ad and help SMS SPANISH EXPERIENCE, S.L. to measure the effectiveness of your advertising campaigns. When browsing the Web, the user accepts that we install this type of cookies on her device and make inquiries when the user visits the Web of SMS SPANISH EXPERIENCE, S.L. in the future.

Cookies installed on our web domain:

This website, like most websites, includes functionalities provided by third parties.

Our website is a living website and new designs or third-party services can be included. This may occasionally modify the cookie settings and that cookies not detailed in detail appear in this policy.

The third-party cookies used on our website installed by third-party domains are the following:

Our site does not control the cookies used by these third parties. For more information on cookies from social networks or other third-party websites, we advise you to review your own cookie policies.

4. Information and obtaining consent for the installation

sms-spanish.com will try at all times to establish adequate mechanisms to obtain the consent of the User for the installation of cookies that require it. When a user accesses our website, a pop-up appears informing them of the existence of cookies and that if they continue browsing our page they consent to the installation of cookies.

5. How can I prevent the installation of cookies?

The user can configure her browser to accept, or not, the cookies she receives or for the browser to notify her when a server wants to save a cookie. If some technical cookies are disabled, the correct functioning of some of the web utilities is not guaranteed.

The user may exclude the storage of Google Analytics “analytical and advertising” cookies on her terminal using the exclusion systems provided by Google Analytics.

Here are some examples of how to disable cookies:

• By configuring the browser itself:
  • Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/windows-vista/block-or-allow-cookies
  • Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/habilitar-y-deshabilitar-cookies-que-los-sitios-web
  • Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677?viewlocale=es_ES.
  • Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=es.
  • Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/11.50/es-ES/cookies.html

To expand this information, go to the page of the Spanish Agency for Data Protection that helps to configure privacy in social networks, browsers and mobile operating systems. More information.

• Using third-party tools:
  There are third-party tools, available online, that allow users to detect cookies on each website they visit and manage their deactivation, for example:
  http://www.ghostery.com
  http://www.youronlinechoices.com/es/

6. Links to other websites

If you choose to leave our website through links to other websites that do not belong to our entity, we will not be responsible for the privacy policies of those websites or the cookies that they may store on the user’s computer.

7. How do we collect and use IP addresses?

The web servers will be able to automatically detect the IP address and domain name used by users.
An IP address is a number automatically assigned to a computer when it connects to the Internet. This information allows the subsequent processing of the data in order to know if you have given your consent for the installation of cookies, perform only statistical measurements that allow knowing the number of visits made to the Web, the order of visits, the access point, etc.

8. Update of our cookie policy

This policy is periodically reviewed to ensure its validity, so it may be modified. We recommend that you visit the page regularly where we will inform you of any updates in this regard.

Date: 05/24/18
Version: V.1.0