Cookies (First Layer)

1. What are cookies?

   The website owned and operated by Aidien Limited. (hereinafter “the website” or the “website”) uses cookies and/or similar technologies that store and retrieve information when you browse. In general, these technologies can serve very diverse purposes, such as, for example, recognizing you as a user, obtaining information about your browsing habits, or personalizing the way in which the content is displayed.

   The user can configure their browser to notify and reject the installation of cookies sent by the website, without affecting the possibility of accessing the content of said website, but the quality of operation of the website may decrease.

   The specific uses we make of these technologies are described below.

2. What types of cookies exist?

   Cookies, depending on their permanence, can be divided into:

   • Session cookies
     These are designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a web page. They are usually used to store information that is only of interest to keep for the provision of the requested service. They expire when the user closes the browser.
   • Persistent cookies
     These are those in which the data remains stored in the terminal and can be accessed and processed during a defined period depending on when the purpose for which they serve is fulfilled (for example, so that the user remains identified in the Services) or when they are manually deleted.

   According to the Owner, they can be divided into:

   • Own cookies
     These are sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by the publisher itself and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
   • Third-party cookies
     These are sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain that is not managed by the publisher, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through the cookies.

   Additionally, depending on their purpose, Cookies can be classified as follows:

   • Technical Cookies
     These are those that allow the user to navigate through a website, 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 or controlling traffic and data communication.
   • Preference or personalization cookies
     This type of Cookie remembers your preferences for the tools found in the services, so you do not have to reconfigure the service each time you visit. As an example, this type includes:
     • Volume settings for video or sound players.
     • The video transmission speeds that are compatible with your browser.
   • Cookies of Geolocalization
     These Cookies are used to find out which country you are in when you request a service. This Cookie is completely anonymous and is only used to help target content to your location.
   • Registration cookies
     Registration Cookies are generated once the user has registered or subsequently opened their session, and are used to identify them in the services for the following purposes:
     • To keep the user identified if he or she closes a service, the browser or the computer and at another time or day re-enters said service, he or she will continue to be identified, thus facilitating navigation without having to identify himself or herself again. This functionality can be suppressed if the user clicks on the “close session” function, so that this Cookie is deleted and the next time he or she enters the service the user will have to log in to be identified.
     • To check whether the user is authorized to access certain services, for example, to participate in a contest.
   • Analysis or measurement cookies
     Each time a User visits a service, a tool from an external provider generates an analytical Cookie on the user’s computer. This Cookie, which is only generated during the visit, will be used in future visits to the Web Services to anonymously identify the visitor.
     • Allow anonymous identification of browsing users through the “Cookie” (identifies browsers and devices, not people) and therefore the approximate counting of the number of visitors and their trend over time.
     • Anonymously identify the most visited content and therefore the most attractive for users.
     • Know if the user who is accessing is new or a repeat visitor.

     Important: Unless the user decides to register for a Web service, the “Cookie” will never be associated with any personal data that can identify him/her. These Cookies will only be used for statistical purposes that help to optimize the Users’ experience on the site.

   • Behavioural advertising cookies
     This type of “Cookies” allows for the expansion of information about advertisements shown to each anonymous user on the Web Services. Among other things, the duration or frequency of display of advertising positions, interaction with them, or the browsing patterns and/or user behavior are stored, as they help to create an advertising interest profile. In this way, they allow advertising to be offered that is in line with the user’s interests.
   • Third-party advertising cookies
     In addition to the advertising managed by the Website in its Services, the Website offers its advertisers the option of serving advertisements through third parties (“AdServers”). In this way, these third parties can store Cookies sent from the Website Services from the Users’ browsers, as well as access the data stored in them.
3. What cookies do we use?

   The cookies used in our website are the following:

   Own

   
   

   Name	Type	Domain	Expiration	Function

   Third-party

   Name	Type	Domain	Expiration	Function	More information
   AEC	Functional	.google.com	6 months	Ensures that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, not other sites. Helps prevent malicious sites from acting on behalf of the user.	Google Privacy & Terms
   NID	Preference	.google.com	6 months	Stores user preferences and other information, such as preferred language, number of search results per page, and whether or not to enable SafeSearch.	Google Privacy & Terms
   SOCS	Functional	.google.com	13 months	Stores a user’s state regarding their cookie choices.	Google Privacy & Terms

4. How to disable cookies?

   It is usually possible to stop your browser from accepting Cookies, or to stop accepting Cookies from a particular Service.
   All modern browsers allow you to change your Cookie settings. These settings are usually found in the “options” or “preferences” menu of your browser. You can also configure your browser or email manager, as well as install free add-ons to prevent Web Bugs from being downloaded when you open an email.

   The Website provides guidance to the User on the steps to access the cookie configuration menu and, where appropriate, private browsing in each of the main browsers:

   • Microsoft Edge / Internet Explorer: link
   • Google Chrome: link
   • Mozilla Firefox: link

   Likewise, the user can modify, configure, and where appropriate revoke the consent given for the installation of cookies, using the modal located in all the tabs of the website, and/or by clicking on the following link.

5. Data transfer to third countries.

   The installation of cookies described in section 3 of this cookie policy may involve the transfer of data to third countries. In this sense, international data transfers involve a flow of personal data from UK territory. For all the above, the international data transfers that we carry out on our website are:

   Name	Typology	Entity	Country	UK GDPR Article	More information
   AEC	Functional	Google LLC	United States	Article 45 (Decisions on adequacy)	Google Ads UK-US Data Bridge
   NID	Functional	Google LLC	United States	Article 45 (Decisions on adequacy)	Google Ads UK-US Data Bridge
   SOCS	Functional	Google LLC	United States	Article 45 (Decisions on adequacy)	Google Ads UK-US Data Bridge

   You can find out about transfers to third countries that, where applicable, are carried out by third parties identified in this cookie policy in their corresponding policies (links provided in the “Third-party cookies” section).

6. Elaboration of profiles.

   In compliance with Articles 13(2)(f) and 22 of UK GDPR, we inform you that automated decision-making is carried out for profiling purposes, producing legal effects concerning the user or similarly significantly affecting them.

   In this regard, and based on this profiling:

   • The logic applied in said profiling is: [describe].
   • For Aidien Limited. the proper use of [describe] is important and essential.
   • Finally, and in the interest of having maximum transparency with you, the consequences foreseen by the use of this profiling for you as a user are [describe].
7. Rights of interested parties.

   We remind you that the data protection regulations, in articles 15 to 22 of the UK GDPR, allow interested parties to exercise the rights of access, rectification, deletion (“right to be forgotten”), opposition, portability, limitation of processing, and the right to object to automated decisions (including profiling).

   You can exercise these rights at our physical address located at International House, 1 St Katharine’s Way, London E1W 1UN, as well as by email at privacy@aidien.uk. You can obtain more information in our privacy policy.

8. Storage periods.

   In compliance with article 13.2.a) of the UK GDPR, we inform you that cookies will be installed for a specific period of time. In this regard, if the user wishes to consult the storage periods and obtain more information on this point, they should consult the “expiry” column in section “3. What cookies do we use?”.

9. Can changes be made to the Cookies Policy?

   Aidien Limited. may modify this Cookies Policy based on legislative or regulatory requirements, or in order to adapt said policy to the instructions issued by European and/or national control authorities (in our case, the Spanish Data Protection Agency), therefore users are advised to visit it periodically.

   When significant changes occur in this Cookies Policy, users will be notified either through the website or by email to registered users.

   Finally, you can consult our privacy policy to obtain additional information (article 13 of the UK GDPR) on the processing of your personal data carried out by Aidien Limited.