After an audit of the cookies used on this website, here is what you should know:
Our cookie policy #
Spain's LSSI-CE (Law on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce) requires everyone who runs a blog or website to warn users that cookies exist, inform them about those cookies and ask for their permission to download them.
Article 22.2 of Law 34/2002: "Service providers may use data storage and retrieval devices on recipients' terminal equipment, provided that they have given their consent after being given clear and complete information about their use, in particular about the purposes of the data processing, in accordance with Organic Law 15/1999 of December 13 on the Protection of Personal Data."
As the person responsible for this website, I have made every effort to comply as strictly as possible with article 22.2 of Law 34/2002 on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce regarding cookies. However, given how the internet and websites work, it is not always possible to have up-to-date information on the cookies that third parties may use through this website.
This applies especially when this website contains embedded elements: text, documents, images or short videos that are stored elsewhere but shown on our website.
So if you come across this kind of cookie on this website and it is not listed below, please let me know. You can also contact the third party directly to ask about the cookies it sets, their purpose and duration, and how it protects your privacy.
First: what are cookies?
Cookies are a tool web servers use to store and retrieve information about their visitors. A cookie is simply a text file that some servers ask your browser to write to your hard drive, with information about what you have been doing on their pages. Cookies have an expiration date, which can range from the length of the session to a specified future date, after which they stop working.
1. The cookies this website uses #
This website uses its own and third-party cookies to give you a better browsing experience, let you share content on social networks, show you ads based on your interests and collect user statistics.
The cookies used on www.snellrojas.com are associated only with an anonymous User and their computer. They provide no references that would reveal the User's first and last name, and they cannot read data from the hard drive or carry viruses. Also, www.snellrojas.com cannot read cookies placed on the User's hard drive by other servers.
Users can freely decide whether or not to allow the cookies used on www.snellrojas.com on their hard drive. To do so, users can set their browser to accept or reject all cookies by default, or to show an on-screen notice each time a cookie arrives and decide then whether to allow it. We suggest checking your browser's help section to learn how to change your current settings.
Even if the User sets their browser to reject all cookies, or expressly rejects the cookies of www.snellrojas.com, they can still browse the Portal; the only drawback is not being able to use the Portal's features that require some of those cookies. In any case, the User can delete the cookies on their hard drive at any time by following the procedure in their browser's help section, which we explain below.
As a user, you can refuse the processing of data or information by blocking these cookies through the appropriate browser settings. However, if you do, this site may not work properly.
Under article 22.2 of Law 34/2002 on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce, if you keep browsing, you are giving your consent to the use of the cookies described below.
The cookies on this website help to:
- Make this website work properly
- Save you from having to log in every time you visit this site
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Let you watch videos
- Improve the site's speed and security
- Let you share pages on social networks
- Keep improving this website
- Show you ads based on your browsing habits
I will never use cookies to:
- Collect personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Share personally identifiable data with third parties
2. Third-party cookies we use on this website and you should know about #
Like most websites, this website includes features provided by third parties.
New designs and third-party services for recommendations and reports are also tested regularly.
This can occasionally change the cookie settings and cause cookies that are not described in this policy to appear. It's important to know that these are temporary cookies that can't always be reported, and that they are used only for study and evaluation. Cookies that compromise your privacy will never be used.
Among the most stable third-party cookies are:
- Cookies set by analytics services, specifically Google Analytics, which helps the website analyze how Users use it and improve its usability. They are never associated with data that could identify the user.
Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., a Delaware company whose main office is at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043, United States ("Google").
Users can see the types of cookies Google uses here. Google+ and Google Maps cookies, as described on its page about the types of cookies it uses.
- WordPress: this site uses the WordPress blog hosting and delivery platform, owned by the US company Automattic, Inc. The cookies used by these systems are never under the control or management of the website owner; they can change their function at any time, and new cookies can appear.
These cookies do not bring the owner of this website any benefit either. Automattic, Inc. also uses other cookies to help identify and track visitors to WordPress sites, and to learn how they use the Automattic website and their access preferences, as described in the "Cookies" section of its privacy policy.
- Affiliate service platforms (they install browser cookies to track sales that started on this website).
- Social network cookies: social network cookies may be stored in your browser while you browse this website, for example when you use the button to share its content on a social network.
The companies that set these social network cookies have their own cookie policies:
- Twitter cookie, as described in its privacy and cookie policy.
- Google Plus cookie, as described in its Cookie Policy
- Facebook cookie, as described in its Cookie Policy
- YouTube cookie, as described in its Cookie Policy
The privacy implications depend on each social network and on the privacy settings you have chosen there. Neither the owner of this website nor advertisers can obtain personally identifiable information from these cookies.
As required by article 22.2 of the LSSI, these are the cookies that may usually be installed while you browse this website:
| Name | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| tve_leads_unique (own, session) | Expires at the end of the session | Stores information about the user and their sessions to improve the user experience. |
| _ga (third-party, persistent) | 2 years from setup | Used to tell users apart. It belongs to Google Analytics. More information |
| _gat (third-party, persistent) | 10 minutes | Used to throttle the request rate. It belongs to Google Analytics. More information |
| __utma (third-party, persistent) | 2 years from each update | Usually set on the first visit. If it is deleted manually, it is set again on the next visit with a new ID. In most cases it is used to count unique visitors to our site and is updated with every page view. It also has a unique Google Analytics ID that guarantees its validity and accessibility as an extra security measure. More information |
| __utmb (third-party, persistent) | 2 years from each update | Used to start and continue a user session on our site. When a user visits a page on our site, the Google Analytics code tries to update this cookie. If it can't find it, it creates a new one. Each time the user visits a different page, the cookie is updated to expire after 30 minutes, so it keeps tracking a single session in 30-minute intervals. It expires when a user stops visiting our site for 30 minutes. More information |
| APISID, HSID, NID, SAPISID, SID, SSID (third-party, persistent) | 2 years from installation | Stores user preferences and other information from the Google services the user has. More information |
| __utmt (third-party, persistent) | Session | Historically, this cookie worked with the __utmb cookie to decide whether to start a new session for the user. It is no longer used but remains for backward compatibility with the urchin.js and ga.js code. More information |
| __utmz (third-party, persistent) | 6 months from each update | Stores referral information the visitor used to reach our site, whether directly, through a referring link, a web search, or an advertising or email campaign. Used to measure traffic from search engines, marketing campaigns and navigation within our site. Updated with every page view. More information |
| __cfduid (own, persistent) | 5 years | Used to override security restrictions based on the IP address the visitor is coming from. More information |
| __smToken (third-party, persistent) | Expires at the end of the session | Used to tell apart users who have been shown a SumoMe feature. More information |
| __smVID (own) | Expires at the end of the session | Stores information about the user and their sessions to improve the user experience. |
| _remember_checked_on | Expires at the end of the session | Cookies for Twitter features. |
| __stripe_mid (third-party) | Expires at the end of the session | Stripe cookie. More information |
| pl (third-party, persistent) | 90 days | Records that a device or browser logged in through the Facebook platform. More information |
| fr (third-party, persistent) | 90 days | Facebook's main advertising cookie. Used to deliver, measure and improve the relevance of ads. More information |
| sb (third-party, persistent) | 2 years from installation | Facebook cookie that identifies the browser to authenticate logins. More information |
| c_user (third-party, persistent) | 20 days from installation | Used with the xs cookie to authenticate your identity on Facebook. More information |
| xs (third-party, persistent) | 90 days from installation | Used with the c_user cookie to authenticate your identity on Facebook. More information |
| datr (third-party, persistent) | 2 years from installation | Facebook cookie that identifies browsers for security and site integrity, including account recovery and spotting accounts that may be at risk. More information |
| driftt_aid (third-party, persistent) | Expires at the end of the session | Chat cookie. More information |
| sib_cuid (third-party, persistent) | 5 years from installation | Cookie from the email marketing platform Sendinblue. More information |
3. How can I manage and turn off these cookies? #
If you don't want the website to install any cookies on your device, you can set your browser to notify you before any cookie is downloaded.
You can also change your browser settings so it rejects all cookies, or only third-party cookies. You can also delete any cookies already on your device. Keep in mind that you will need to change the settings separately on each browser and device you use.
For users who want to prevent these cookies from being installed, www.snellrojas.com provides the links that the most widely used browsers offer for this purpose:
Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari
You can also change your choice for this site at any time with the "Cookie settings" link at the bottom of every page.
Cookie policy as of October 12, 2020.