INNOVANDUM HEALTH website uses one single technical session cookie to allow personalization of the language of our contents. Its only aim is to identify and keep, during your navigation through our website, the proper default language to show you our contents, Spanish or English, as well as, if applicable, the language you choose to continue your visit. It is, therefore, a necessary cookie for the correct functioning of our web portal. We do not use any other cookie for any other purpose and we do not use cookies managed by or for third parties.
The following table summarizes the characteristics of the only cookie used on our portal, as well as its purpose:
Cookie: idioma.
Type: session (temporary).
Owner: Own cookie.
Category: technical-preference.
But, what is a cookie?
A cookie is a small piece of text that websites you visit send to your browser that allows the website to remember information about your visit, such as your preferred language and other options, in order to facilitate your next visit and make the site more useful to you. Cookies play a very important role and contribute to a better browsing experience for the user.
Types of cookies.
In general, cookies are classified based on a different questions. However, it is necessary to keep in mind that the same cookie may be included in more than one category.
Depending on the entity that manages the cookie.
Depending on who is the entity that manages the domain from which the cookies are sent and the data obtained is processed, two types can be distinguished: own cookies and third-party cookies.
a) Own cookies: these are those for which the editor itself is responsible and which are generally 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.
b) Third-party cookies: these are those for which an entity other than the editor is responsible and which are generally 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. data obtained through cookies.
In case that cookies are served from a computer or domain managed by the editor itself, but the information collected through them is managed by a third party, they cannot be considered as its own cookies if the third party uses them for its own purposes. (for example, the improvement of the services provided or advertising services in favor of other entities).
According to its purpose.
Depending on the purpose for which data obtained through cookies are processed, some of the purposes may be:
a) Technical cookies: these are those that allow the user to navigate through a web page, platform or application and use the different options or services that exist therein, including those that the editor uses to allow the management and operation of the website and enable its functions and services, such as, for example, identifying the session, accessing restricted access parts, remembering the elements included in an order, carrying out the purchase process of an order, manage payment, control fraud linked to the security of the service, count visits for the purposes of billing licenses for the software with which the service works (website, platform or application), use security elements during navigation, store content for the dissemination of videos or sound, enable dynamic content (for example, animation of loading a text or image) or share content through social networks.
b) Preference or personalization cookies: these are those that allow the user to remember information so that the user can access the service with certain characteristics that can differentiate their experience from that of other users, such as, for example, the language, the number of results to be shown when the user performs a search, the appearance or content of the service depending on the type of browser through which the user accesses the service or the region from which the user accesses the service, etc.
If the user himself chooses these characteristics (for example, if he selects the language of a website by clicking on the flag icon of the corresponding country, the currency he wants to use in transactions, the font size or the color contrast between the background and the content to improve readability), cookies will be exempt from the obligations of article 22.2 of the LSSI as they are considered a service expressly requested by the user, and this as long as the cookies serve exclusively the selected purpose.
c) Analysis or measurement cookies: these are those that allow the person responsible for them to monitor and analyze the behavior of the users of the websites to which they are linked, including the quantification of the impacts of the advertisements. The information collected through this type of cookies is used to measure the activity of the websites, application or platform, in order to introduce improvements based on the analysis of the usage data made by users of the service.
d) Behavioral advertising cookies: these are those that store information on user behavior obtained through continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows the development of a specific profile to display advertising based on it.
In any case, it should be taken into account that these typologies are offered as a guide as they are the most common. Editors and third parties may make the categorizations that they consider best fit the purposes of the cookies they use, so that the principle of transparency towards users is respected.
Depending on the period of time they remain activated.
Depending on the period of time that they remain activated in the terminal equipment, we can distinguish:
a) Session cookies: these are those 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 (for example, a list of products purchased) and disappear when the session ends.
b) Persistent cookies: these are those in which the data continues to be 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.
Further information.
For further related information, you can consult the "Guide on the use of cookies" from the Spanish Data Protection Agency.
