Cookies
DESCRIPTION OF COOKIES: Cookies are small text files stored by a website on the user’s browser to facilitate navigation on a web page and are essential for the Internet to function properly.
Cookies are used, for example, to remember users’ preferences on the website (language, browser used, etc.), to analyse user habits and behaviours to improve the services on offer, and to tailor the content of a web page to visitors’ preferences.
Cookies can be categorized as follows:
According to the entity which manages them:
Own cookies: These are sent to your computer from our own computers and domains from which we provide you with the service you request from us.
Third-party cookies: These are sent to your computer from a computer or domain which is not managed by us but by another partner entity. Such as those used by social media or external content like Google Maps.
Depending on the period of time they remain enabled:
Session cookies: These are temporary cookies which remain in your browser’s cookie file until you leave the web page, as a result of which none are recorded on your computer’s hard drive. The information obtained via these cookies is used to analyse traffic patterns on the website. In the long run, this enables us to provide a better experience to improve the content and facilitate its use.
Persistent cookies: these are stored on your hard drive and our website reads them every time you visit it. A permanent website has a specific expiry date. The cookie will cease to function after said date. We generally use these cookies to facilitate purchase and registration services.
Depending on their purpose:
Technical cookies: These are necessary for browsing and the proper functioning of our website. They enable us, for example, to control data traffic and communication, access parts with restricted access, perform order purchasing processes, use security elements, store content to broadcast videos and share content on social media.
Personalization cookies: These enable you to access the service with pre-defined features based on a set of criteria, such as the language, the type of browser via which the service is accessed, the settings for the region from which the service is accessed, etc.
Analytical cookies: These enable us to quantify the number of users and thus perform a measurement and statistical analysis of the usage of the services provided by their users. To do so, we analyse your browsing on our website in order to improve the range of products and services on offer.
Advertising cookies: These allow the management of any advertising spaces included on our website in the most efficient manner possible.
Behavioural advertising cookies: These cookies store information on the behaviour of users obtained by means of ongoing observation. As a result of the above, we can identify your internet browsing habits and display advertising related to your browsing profile.
WHICH COOKIES WE USE AND FOR WHAT PURPOSES: Our website uses the following kinds of cookies:
“Own” cookies: these are strictly necessary cookies. They allow user interaction on the website with the use of all its features. Such as language selection.
Analytical cookies: these are cookies used for analysis, research or statistical purposes in order to identify the sections most commonly visited, the connection points, etc. and thus improve the website.
Add-on cookies: these are cookies used by external add-ons installed on the website for its proper functioning, such as displaying information on the use of cookies and showing multimedia content such as videos.
Social media cookies: these are cookies used to identify yourself as a user on the social network and interact on your profile via the APIs which are installed.
WAYS OF BLOCKING AND LIMITING THE USE OF COOKIES: It is important to emphasize that these technologies are not intrusive, as all the information obtained via the cookies is completely anonymous and on no account can it be associated with a specific and identified user. This information enables Valencia City Council to adapt and improve its services for the benefit of its users. However, users have the option of preventing the generation of cookies, by selecting the corresponding option on their browser programmes. Valencia City Council hereby informs you that, in the event that the use of the cookies is disabled, your browsing may be slower than usual.
More specifically, all browsers allow changes to be made to disable the cookie settings. These settings are located in the “options” or “preferences” menu of your browser.
Below we show you, by means of links, how to disable cookies by following the instructions of the most commonly used browsers:
However, if you wish to block Google’s analytical cookies, you can install an add-on on your browser, by following the instructions indicated in the following link.
FURTHER INFORMATION: Any user who has any queries with regard to these technologies can send us said query via our contact form available on this website.
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