Cookies policy
Cookies policy of Alacant Group websites
Our website uses cookies that will allow us to improve your user experience by analysing your browsing habits. In compliance with Law 34/2002 of 11 July on Information Society and Electronic Commerce Services (LSSICE), which was subsequently amended by Royal Decree-Law 13/2012 of 30 March and recently amended by Law 9/2014, of 9 May, on Telecommunications and European Directive 2002/58/EC amended by Directive 2009/136/EC of the European Parliament, we will inform you about what they are, which ones we use on our website, how to remove them and we will ask for your consent for their use.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small files with text and numbers that are downloaded and installed on your computer, mobile phone or tablet via your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari…) or through a Flash application.
Cookies allow websites to ‘remember’ you, either during a visit or over several visits. These cookies store information about your preferences to provide you with a customised, easier and faster experience. Only the server that installed the cookies will be able to read their contents, which will also be anonymous.
Even if they are installed on to your hard drive, since they are only text or numbers, they are not capable of accessing personal information on your computer, nor of transmitting viruses; they only track the browsing on a website.
Below we explain cookies according to their function:
| COOKIES ACCORDING TO TIME FRAME | |
| SESSION COOKIES | Cookies designed to collect and store data while the user is accessing a website. They are usually used to store information that is only relevant for the provision of the service requested by the user on a single occasion. |
| PERSISTENT COOKIES | Type of cookie in which the data remains stored on the device and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the person responsible for the cookie. This period of time can range from a few minutes to several years. |
| COOKIES ACCORDING TO THE ENTITY THAT MANAGES THEM | |
| OWN COOKIES | Cookies created by the entity responsible for the website. |
| THIRD-PARTY COOKIES | Cookies created and managed by other entities, such as advertising service, personalisation or analysis providers. These third parties may report anonymous data to us. |
| COOKIES ACCORDING TO PURPOSE | |
| TECHNICAL COOKIES | Cookies that allow the user to navigate through a web page, platform or application and use the different options or services that exist on it, for example, control traffic and data communication, identify the session, access parts with restricted access, remember the elements that make up an order, complete the purchase of an order, apply for registration or participation in an event, use of security elements during navigation, store content for the dissemination of videos or sound or share content through social networks. |
| CUSTOMISATION COOKIES | Cookies that allow the user to access the service with some general characteristics predefined according to a series of criteria on the user’s device, such as the language, the type of browser used to access the service, the regional configuration from which the service is accessed, etc. |
| ANALYTICAL COOKIES | Cookies that allow the person responsible for them to monitor and analyse the behaviour of the users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected through this type of cookies is used to measure the activity of the websites, application or platform, and to create navigation profiles of their users to make improvements based on the analysis of the data on the use that the users give to the service. |
Below we define the functions and the type of cookies that we use at grupoalacant.com and their purpose:
OWN COOKIES
We use a tool that installs a cookie when you accept our cookie policy in order to remember your acceptance if you visit the website again. If you wish to uninstall this cookie, we show you how to do this below in the section ‘Disabling cookies’. We use this cookie to remind us that you have accepted the Cookie Policy.
THIRD-PARTY COOKIES. GOOGLE TAG MANAGER
Google Tag Manager is a tag management system that allows third parties to add functionality to websites, video content, and mobile applications. Examples of such solutions include web analytics, campaign analytics, audience measurement, customisation. It allows them to quickly and easily update the tags and code snippets of a website or its mobile applications, such as those for traffic analysis and marketing campaign optimisation. Custom, third-party or AdWords, Google Analytics, FirebaseAnalytics and Floodlight, FacebookAds, Twitter Ads, Hotjar tags can be added and updated. It is used to manage the different conversion codes of the online marketing and retargeting tools. Retargeting is a digital marketing technique whose objective is to track users who have previously interacted with a particular brand to offer them products in which they have shown interest or are interested. You can read further information in this link
Consent
For us to install cookies on your computer we must have your consent. Your consent may be expressly requested. However, if you decide to continue with your visit to our website we will consider that you have given your consent.
Consent withdrawal:
If the user later decides to withdraw consent, they must configure their browser to reject cookies as indicated in the following section. The user will also need to delete the browser history to delete those cookies that are already installed.
If for any reason you decide that you do not want the cookies to be installed on your computer, we have an obligation to inform you how to uninstall them. To do so, you need to configure your browser. Below, we provide you with the links for the configuration of cookies in the main browsers.
DISABLING COOKIES ON MICROSOFT OR APPLE OPERATING SYSTEMS
Below, we provide you with links to the information you need to disable cookies from the most commonly used browsers:
| Internet Explorer | Further information |
| Firefox | Further information |
| Chrome | Further information |
| Opera | Further information |
| Safari | Further information |
Disabling cookies on Android or iOS operating systems
Below, we provide you with links to the information you need to disable cookies from the most commonly used browsers:
| ANDROID | IPHONE AND IPAD | |
| Firefox | Further information | Further information |
| Chrome | Further information | Further information |
| Opera | Further information | Further information |
| Safari | Further information |
DISABLING COOKIES FROM GOOGLE ANALYTICS
To give visitors to our website the ability to prevent Google Analytics from using their data, you can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. You can find more information on how to install and uninstall the add-on in the following link
There is also the option to use Private navigation. This mode allows you to browse through the pages anonymously. Below, we provide you with the links on how to activate private navigation in the main browsers.
| Browser | Mode | Link |
| Explorer | InPrivate | Further information |
| Firefox | Private Navigation | Further information |
| Chrome | Incognito Mode | Further information |
| Safari | Private Navigation | Further information |
| Opera | Private Navigation | Further information |
Links: When you access news or videos from outside our site, the linked site may contain other cookies. You should visit the site’s own cookie policy to adjust the settings, as they are completely unrelated to us.
If you want to remove advertising caused by third-party cookies, you also have the option to install a plugin such as Adblock on your browser to block ads.
You can also apply the ‘Ghostery’ extension to your browser and individually block cookies, plugins and widgets you are not interested in.
In any case, we recommend that you systematically clean your computer’s browsing history and cookies.
You can read further information on cookies in the following links: Link 1, Link 2
Third-party cookies may be modified, implemented or cancelled by the third parties themselves without notice to us, and we cannot be held responsible for ensuring that the information is up to date at all times in accordance with the law. However, in order to offer you a better information service, we have linked the cookie and privacy policies of these third parties so that you can check them at any time in their most up-to-date version. We will also review them periodically to update our texts.
The cookie policy may be modified by the domain owner, so we recommend that you read every time you access the Website.