Cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies can be classified in different categories depending on the entity managing them, the period of time in which they remain active or according to their purpose. Nevertheless, sometimes it is possible that a same cookie can be included in more than one category.
Nowadays we can distinguish the following types of cookies:

  • Analytical cookies: they are a type of cookies that serve to collect statistics on the users’ activity when entering the webpage and the general activity therein. The stored information is anonymous and allows organising the browsing on our webpage and guaranteeing the best service to the user. Users can exclude their activity through exclusion systems provided by the analytics tools.
  • Technical and customisation cookies: it involves cookies of internal use for the operating of the web.
  • Session cookies:  they are a type of cookies designed to collect and store data while users are entering the web.
  • Persistent cookies: they are a type of cookies in where data are stored in the terminal and can be acceded and dealt during a period of time defined by the person responsible for the cookie.
  • UV cookies:are those sent to a terminal equipment of the user from a computer or domain managed by the UVEG and from the solicited service is provided.
  • Third parties cookies: are those that are sent to the terminal user’s computer from a machine or domain that is not managed by the UV but by another entity that processes data obtained from cookies.

Cookies categories.

Cookies can be classified in different categories depending on the entity managing them, the period of time in which they remain active or according to their purpose. Nevertheless, sometimes it is possible that a same cookie can be included in more than one category.
Nowadays we can distinguish the following types of cookies:

  • Analytical cookies: they are a type of cookies that serve to collect statistics on the users’ activity when entering the webpage and the general activity therein. The stored information is anonymous and allows organising the browsing on our webpage and guaranteeing the best service to the user. Users can exclude their activity through exclusion systems provided by the analytics tools.
  • Technical and customisation cookies: it involves cookies of internal use for the operating of the web.
  • Session cookies:  they are a type of cookies designed to collect and store data while users are entering the web.
  • Persistent cookies: they are a type of cookies in where data are stored in the terminal and can be acceded and dealt during a period of time defined by the person responsible for the cookie.
  • UV cookies:are those sent to a terminal equipment of the user from a computer or domain managed by the UVEG and from the solicited service is provided.
  • Third parties cookies: are those that are sent to the terminal user’s computer from a machine or domain that is not managed by the UV but by another entity that processes data obtained from cookies.

Cookies from UV

The UV uses its own cookies and third-party cookies, with a technical and analytical purpose.

Specific, technical and customisation cookies.

The UV uses cookies of internal usage for the operation of the web. Concretely, this web uses cookies for the session maintenance when browsing the webpage or for setting the language preferences selected by the user.

Third party analytical cookies

The analytical cookies described on the table incorporated to this policy allow us to count the number of users and carry out the measurement and the statistical analysis of the use of the service made by users. The browsing in our website is analysed in order to improve the offer of services that we offer. The information is exclusively used for internal purposes with the objective of increasing our understanding about users’ behaviour on the web. This information is an important tool for us and helps us improve the contents quality and the offered services. We are working non-stop to improve the browsing of our webpage in accordance with our users, their needs or interests and to determine how often and in what way our users make use of our services. For the development of this activity we use software provided by third parties
In the UV we respect our users’ privacy. The obtained information is, in any case, linked to identify users nor employed for the elaboration of profiles or individualised patterns.