fbpx

Cookies Policy


FAB LAB BCN website (henceforth the ‘Website’) uses a technology called ‘cookies’, the purpose of which is to gather information on the use of the Website.

INSTITUT D’ARQUITECTURA AVANÇADA DE CATALUNYA FUNDACIÓ PRIVADA may use cookies in order to facilitate your browsing on the Website, to distinguish you from other users, provide you with a better user experience, and identify problems to improve our website. Provided that you give your consent, we will therefore use cookies to enable us to obtain more information on your preferences and to personalize our website to suit your personal interests.

The aim of this cookies policy is to provide clear and precise information on the cookies used on our Website (the ‘Cookies Policy’). If you would like more information on the cookies used on the Website, please send an email to this address: [email protected]

COOKIES INFORMATION

Due to the entry into force of the relevant amendment to the “Law on Information Society Services” (LSSICE) established by Royal Decree 13/2012, it is mandatory to obtain the express consent of the user of all web pages that use cookies dispensable, before he browses them.

WHAT ARE THE COOKIES?

Cookies and other similar technologies such as local shared objects, flash cookies or pixels, are tools used by Web servers to store and retrieve information about their visitors, as well as to provide a proper functioning of the site.

Through the use of these devices, the Web server is allowed to remember some data concerning the user, such as his or her preferences for viewing the pages of this server, name and password, products that interest him or her most, etc.

COOKIES AFFECTED BY THE REGULATION

According to the EU directive, the cookies that require the user’s informed consent are the analytical cookies and the advertising and affiliation cookies, with the exception of those of a technical nature and those necessary for the operation of the website or the provision of services expressly requested by the user.

WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES ARE THERE?

On the types of cookies, there are five main groups:

Analytical Cookies: collect information about your use of the website.

Social Cookies: are those necessary for external social networks.

Affiliate Cookies: allow you to track visits from other websites, with which the website establishes an affiliation contract (affiliate companies).

Advertising and Behavioral Cookies: collect information about your personal preferences and choices (retargeting).

Technical and Functional Cookies: these are those strictly necessary for the use of the website and for the provision of the contracted service.

TYPES OF COOKIES USED ON THIS WEBSITE

IAAC uses the following cookies on this Website:

PHPSESSID: technically and strictly necessary cookie containing the session identifier. It is deleted when your browser is closed.
_lang: technical and strictly necessary cookie containing the language of the session. It is deleted when your browser is closed.
ac_cookies: technical and strictly necessary cookie that contains the value of whether the installation of cookies has been accepted. Expires in 1 year from the last update.
_ga: Google Analytics cookie that enables the unique visitor tracking feature. The first time a user enters the website through a browser this cookie will be installed. When this user re-enters the website with the same browser, the cookie will consider him/her to be the same user. Only in the event that the user changes browser, it will be considered another user. Expires 2 years after the last update.
_gat: This cookie is associated with Google Analytics Universal. It is used to limit the speed of request – limiting the collection of data at high traffic sites. Expires in 10 minutes.
_uTma: Google Analytics cookie that records the date of the first and last time the user visited the website. Expires 2 years after the last update.
_uTmb: Google Analytics cookie that records the time of arrival at the website. Expires 30 minutes after the last update.
_uTmc: Google Analytics cookie used for interoperability with the urchin tracking code.js. It is deleted when your browser is closed.
_utmt: Google Analytics cookie. This cookie is used to process the type of request requested by the user. Expires at the end of the session.
_uTmv: Google Analytics cookie. This cookie is used to segment demographic data. Expires at the end of the session.
_uTmz: Google Analytics cookie that stores the source of traffic or a campaign to explain how the user arrived at the website. Expires 6 months after the last update.

WITHDRAWING MY CONSENT

If at any time you wish to withdraw your consent regarding this Cookies Policy, you will need to delete the cookies stored on your equipment (computer or mobile device) by changing the settings of your Internet browser.

Unless you change your browser settings, our system will create cookies whenever you visit our Website. Remember that all Internet browsers allow this setting to be changed. For more information on how to change your cookies settings on the following browsers, please click on the relevant link:

Internet Explorerhttp://windows.microsoft.com/es-419/windows7/how-to-manage-cookies-in-internet-explorer-9

Firefoxhttps://www.mozilla.org/es-ES/privacy/websites/#cookies

Chromehttp://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=es

Safari & for iOShttps://support.apple.com/es-es/HT201265

Operahttp://help.opera.com/Linux/10.60/es-ES/cookies.html

The Cookies Policy was last updated on June 2018.

CONTACT

If you have any queries, comments or suggestions about the Cookies Policy, please write to [email protected].