Cookie policy
General information
What are cookies? A cookie is a file that is downloaded to your computer when you access certain websites. Cookies allow a website, among other things, to store and retrieve information about the browsing habits of a user or their equipment and, depending on the information they contain and the way you use your device, they can be used to recognise the user. Cookies allow the website to recognise the user’s browser. Therefore, cookies are generally used to remember the options that the user has chosen (for example, to remember the language they use) or to recognise users who frequent the website. Any user can modify or refuse a cookie. In the latter case, Mercury warns that the speed and quality of the service may be reduced.
What types of cookies we use
The cookies used by THE WEBSITE can be distinguished according to the following criteria:
1. Types of cookies according to the entity that manages them:
Depending on the entity that manages the equipment or domain from which the cookies are sent and processes the data obtained, we can distinguish:
- First-party 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 from a computer or domain that is not managed by the editor, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through the cookies.
In the event that the cookies are installed from a computer or domain managed by the editor itself, but the information collected through these is managed by a third party, they cannot be considered as own cookies.
2. Types of cookies according to the length of time they remain activated:
Depending on the length of time they remain activated in the terminal equipment we can distinguish:
- Session cookies: These are a type of cookie designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a website. They are usually used to store information that only needs to be kept for the provision of the service requested by the user on a single occasion.Persistent cookies: These are a type of cookie in which the data continues to be stored in the terminal and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the party responsible for the cookie, which can range from a few minutes to several years.
3. Types of cookies according to their purpose:
Depending on the purpose for which the data obtained through cookies are processed, we can distinguish between:
- Technical Cookies: These are those that allow the user to navigate through a website, platform or application and the use of the different options or services that exist in it, for example, control traffic and data communication, identify the session, access parts of restricted access, remember the elements that make up an order, make the buying process of an order, make the application for registration or participation in an event, use security features while browsing, store content for broadcasting videos or sound or share content through social networks.
- Personalisation cookies: These are cookies that allow the user to access the service with some predefined general characteristics depending on a series of criteria in the user’s terminal, such as the language, the type of browser used to access the service, the regional configuration from which the service is accessed, etc.
- Analysis cookies: These cookies allow the party responsible for them to monitor and analyse the behaviour of the users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected through this type of cookies is used to measure the activity of the websites, application or platform and for the elaboration of browsing profiles of the users of these sites, applications and platforms, in order to introduce improvements based on the analysis of the usage data of the users of the service.
- Advertising Cookies: These are those that allow the management, in the most effective way possible, of the advertising spaces that, where appropriate, the editor has included on a website, application or platform from which the requested service is provided based on criteria such as the edited content or the frequency at which the advertisements are shown.
- Behavioural advertising cookies: These cookies allow the management, in the most effective way possible, of the advertising spaces that, where appropriate, the publisher has included on a website, application or platform from which the requested service is provided. These cookies store information on user behaviour obtained through continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows a specific profile to be developed to display advertising based on this.
How to manage cookies on your computer: disabling and deleting cookies
All Internet browsers allow you to limit the behaviour of a cookie or disable cookies within your browser settings or options. The steps to do this are different for each browser, instructions can be found in the help menu of your browser.
If you do not accept the use of cookies, as it is possible thanks to the preferences menus or settings of your browser, to reject them, THE WEBSITE will continue to function properly without the use of cookies.
You can allow, block or delete the cookies installed on your computer by configuring the options of the browser installed on your computer:
For more information about Internet Explorer click here:
https://support.microsoft.com/es-us/help/17442
For more information on Chrome click here:
http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=es&answer=95647
For more information on Safari click here:
https://support.apple.com/es-es/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
For more information on Firefox click here:
https://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/cookies-informacion-que-los-sitios-web-guardan-en-
Through your browser, you can also view the cookies that are on your computer, and delete them as you see fit. Cookies are text files, you can open them and read the contents. The data inside them is almost always encrypted with a numeric key that corresponds to a session on the Internet so it is often meaningless beyond the website that wrote it.
Informed consent
Your use of THE WEBSITE implies that as a USER of the same, you give your express and unequivocal consent to the use of cookies, under the terms and conditions set out in this Cookies Policy, without prejudice to the measures for deactivating and deleting cookies that you may adopt, and which are mentioned in the previous section.
Advantages in the use of cookies
The use of cookies offers numerous advantages in the provision of Information Society services, since, among others: It makes it easier for the USER to browse THE WEBSITE and access the different services it offers. It prevents the USER from configuring the predefined general characteristics each time he/she accesses THE WEBSITE. It favours the improvement of the functioning and the services provided through THE WEBSITE, after the corresponding analysis of the information obtained through the cookies installed
What happens if I do not use cookies?
If you do not use cookies during your visit, certain functions and pages will not work correctly. If you want to delete a cookie that is already on your computer, consult the instructions of your file management software to find the file or directory in which the cookies are stored.
About this document:
This document has been produced in accordance with EU legislation on electronic communication. Under current regulations, companies and organisations must provide visitors to their websites with clear and comprehensive information about the use of cookies, in particular about the purposes of data processing, and must obtain the user’s consent to the activation of the cookie.
Review of Cookies
These lists will be updated as quickly as possible as the WEBSITE services change or evolve. However, occasionally during this update the list may not include all cookies, although it will always refer to cookies with identical purposes to those already recorded in the following reference tables.
Analysis of the website
The cookies used on THE WEBSITE are our own and those of third parties and allow us to store and access information relating to language, the type of browser used and other general characteristics predefined by the USER, as well as to monitor and analyse the activity that you carry out, with the aim of introducing improvements and providing our services in a more efficient and personalised manner.
