Cookies policy
This website uses our own and third-party cookies to collect anonymous and confidential data about your browsing, to improve our services by analyzing your browsing habits and providing certain services.
Below you will find information on the nature of cookies, what type of cookies are used on the website, how the user can disable cookies, or how to specifically disable the installation of third-party cookies.
If you do not find the specific information you are looking for, or should you need further information, you can contact dpd@fundaciomonclinicbarcelona.cat
1. General information: What are cookies and what are they used for?
Cookies are small text files which are generated by the web pages that you visit. They contain session data that can be useful later on the web page. The data allows the website to maintain your information between pages, and also to analyze how you interact with the site.
Cookies store the information used by the browser, the information that the user has entered in the browser or that which is included in the page request.
Cookies cannot run code and cannot be used to access content on a user's computer.
Some cookies are strictly necessary for the proper functioning of a website and cannot contain viruses or damage the device. Others serve various purposes, such as facilitating navigation between pages, storing the user's preferred language, allowing a website to remember user preferences, or detecting if you have previously visited it.
Cookies are essential for internet operation, and they offer advantages when providing interactive services, since they facilitate navigation and usability of websites. Activated cookies help identify and resolve errors.
2. What types of cookies are used on this website?
In particular, browsing this website may lead to the installation of the following types of cookies on user devices, classified according to (A) the entity that manages them, (B) the period of time they remain stored in the user's browser client and (C) according to the purpose for which the data obtained is processed:
There is a first classification between two types of cookies: own cookies and third-party cookies. This distinction is made according to the entity that manages the domain from which the cookies are sent and processes the data obtained:
A1. Own cookies: They are sent to the user's terminal from a computer or domain managed by the publisher itself and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
A2. Third-party cookies: They are sent to the user's terminal from a computer or domain that is not managed by the publisher, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through cookies.
Likewise, there is a second classification according to the period of time they remain stored in the client's browser, which may be session cookies or persistent cookies:
B1. Session cookies: They are a type of cookies designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a web page. They are usually used to store information that is only interesting to keep for the provision of the service requested by the user on a single occasion (e.g., a list of purchased products).
B2. Persistent cookies: They are a type of cookie in which the data is still stored in the terminal and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the person responsible for the cookie, which can range from a few minutes to several years.
In the third and last place, another classification can be made with five types of cookies according to the purpose for which the data obtained is processed: technical cookies, personalization cookies, analysis cookies, advertising cookies and behavioral advertising cookies:
C1. Technical cookies: They allow the user to navigate through a web page, platform or application and use the different options or services that exist in it, such as, for example, control traffic and data communication, identify the session, access to restricted access areas, remember the elements that make up an order, carry out the purchase process of an order, make the request for registration or participation in an event, use security elements during navigation, store content for the dissemination of videos or sound or share content through social networks.
C2. Personalization cookies: They allow the user to access the service with some predefined general characteristics based on a series of criteria in the user's terminal, such as the language, the type of browser through which the service is accessed, the regional configuration from where you access the service, etc.
C3. Analysis cookies: They allow the person responsible for them to monitor and analyze the behavior of the users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected through this type of cookie is used to measure the activity of the websites, applications or platforms and to create browsing profiles of the users of said sites, applications and platforms, in order to improve them in function of the analysis of the usage data made by the users of the service.
Regarding the processing of data collected through analysis cookies, the Article 29 Working Group stated that, despite the fact that they are not exempt from the duty to obtain informed consent for their use, it is unlikely that they represent a risk to the privacy of users as long as they are first-party cookies, that treat aggregated data with a strictly statistical purpose, that information is provided on their use and the possibility for users to express their refusal about their use is included. .
C4. Advertising cookies: They allow the management, in the most efficient way possible, of the advertising spaces that, where appropriate, the editor has included in a web page, application or platform from which the requested service is provided based on criteria such as the edited content or the frequency in which ads are shown.
C5. Behavioral advertising cookies: They allow the management, in the most efficient way possible, of the advertising spaces that, where appropriate, the editor has included in a web page, application or platform from which the requested service is provided. These cookies store information on the behavior of users obtained through the continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows the development of a specific profile to display advertising based on it.
3. How can the user block or delete the cookies?
The user can allow, block or delete the cookies installed on his computer by configuring the options of his internet browser. In the event that you block them, certain activities available on the Intranet that require their use may not be available to the user.
Below we offer links where users will find information on how they can activate their preferences in the main browsers:
- Firefox
- Safari
- Opera