What are cookies?

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 in which they use their equipment, they can be used to recognize the user.

The user’s browser stores cookies on the hard drive only during the current session occupying a minimum memory space and not harming the computer. Cookies do not contain any specific personal information, and most of them are deleted from the hard drive at the end of the browser session (so-called session cookies).

Most browsers accept cookies as standard and, regardless of them, allow or prevent temporary or memorized cookies in the security settings.

Without your express consent – by activating cookies in your browser – the website will not link in cookies the data stored with your personal data provided at the time of registration or purchase.

 

What types of cookies does this website use?

 

Session cookies: these are temporary cookies that remain in your browser’s cookie file until you leave the website, so none are registered on the user’s hard drive. The information obtained through these cookies, serve to analyse traffic patterns on the web. In the long run, this allows us to provide a better experience to improve the content and facilitate its use.

Permanent cookies: they are stored on the hard drive and our website reads them every time you make a new visit. A permanent website has a certain expiration date. The cookie will stop working after that date. We generally use them to facilitate purchase and registration services.

Own cookies: These are cookies created by this website and that can only be read by the site itself. For example: technical cookies for image loading, web parameter customization cookies, traffic analysis cookies, etc.

Third-party cookies: These are cookies created by third parties that we use for different services (e.g. Website analysis or advertising, social networks,…)

Depending on its purpose:

Technical cookies: Technical cookies are those essential and strictly necessary for the proper functioning of a website and the use of the different options and services it offers. For example, those that serve for session maintenance, response time management, performance or option validation, use security elements, share content with social networks, and so on.

Personalization cookies: These cookies allow the user to specify or customize some features of the general options of the Website, for example, define the language, locale or type of browser.

Analytical cookies: Analytical cookies are those used by the Web, to create browsing profiles and to be able to know your preferences in order to improve the offer of products and services. For example, an analytical cookie would control the geographical areas of greatest interest of a user, which product is the most accepted, etc.

Advertising cookies: Advertising cookies allow the management of advertising spaces based on specific criteria. For example, access frequency, edited content, 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 you advertising related to the interests of your profile.

Cookies on this website help:

  • Make this website work properly.
  • Save you from having to log in every time you visit this site.
  • Remind you of your settings during and between visits.
  • Allowing you to view videos
  • Improve web speed/security
  • That you can share content on social media
  • Continuously improve this website
  • Show you ads based on your browsing habits.

We will never use cookies to:

Collect personal identifiable information (without your express consent)

Collect sensitive information (without your express permission)

Share personal identifiable data to third parties.

 

Third-party cookies used on this website

In particular, this website uses:

  • Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. headquartered in the United States at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043.  For the provision of these services, they use cookies that collect information, including the user’s IP address, which will be transmitted, processed and stored by Google on the terms set out on the website Google.com. Including the possible transmission of such information to third parties for reasons of legal requirement or when such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf.

 

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2 years from setup or upgrade

Google Analytics ,Allows you to analyse web traffic and obtain browsing statistics. Learn more.

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2 years from setup or upgrade

WordPress: Allows you to analyse web traffic and all its users inevitably installs a statistics cookie that tracks and stores your IP in an American company (Automaticc) through a third party (Quantcast) yours is a cookie usually associated with Quantcast, They provide the ranking of websites, and the data they collect is also used for audience segmentation.

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Expires at the end of the session.

It is used for the WordPress content manager to check if the browser has cookies enabled. It is a third-party cookie: WordPress. Learn more.

Disable cookies

You can allow, block or delete cookies installed on your computer by configuring the browser options installed on your computer.

Below you can access the settings of the most frequent web browsers to accept, install or disable cookies:

By disabling to delete cookies, part of the website will not work or the quality of the page may be affected.

If you have questions about this cookie policy, you can contact Marine & Industrial Valves S.L. at sales@marine-industrial-valves.com.