Cookie Policy

AMEC has developed this policy to inform you about what a cookie is, which ones we use on this website and to help you manage them as you wish.

By visiting our website you are being informed of the existence of cookies and of the present cookie policy. By accepting the cookie policy, you are consenting to the installation of the informed cookies (unless you have modified your browser settings to reject cookies).

A “Cookie” is a small text file that a website stores in the user’s browser. Cookies facilitate the use and navigation of a web page and are essential for the functioning of the Internet, providing countless advantages in the provision of interactive services.

Cookies are used for example to manage the user’s session (reducing the number of times you have to enter your password) or to tailor the contents of a web page to your preferences. Cookies can be “session” cookies, which are deleted once the user leaves the web page that generated them, or “persistent” cookies, which remain on your computer until a certain date.

This “Use of Cookies” document has been prepared on the basis of an external technical audit and is therefore subject to regular updates. Its purpose is to help you understand how this website uses cookies, the purpose of the cookies used, as well as the options available to the user to manage them.

The acceptance of this cookie policy and with the functionality of your browser enabled to accept them, implies acceptance by the user of the cookie technology used by this website.


Examples of types of cookies:

  • Technical or internal use cookies

They are technical or internal use cookies, those essential for the operation of a website, such as, for example, those that allow authentication or maintenance of the registered user’s session when browsing the page. The deactivation of these cookies prevents the correct functioning of some of the functionalities of the web.

  • Analytical Cookies

They are analytical cookies, those that serve to collect statistics on user activity on the website and the general activity of the same. The information collected is anonymous and allows to optimize the navigation of a website and ensure the best service to the user. The user can exclude his activity by means of the exclusion systems provided by the analytical tools.

  • Third-party cookies for the management of advertising space.

These are cookies stored by third parties that manage the advertising spaces that users view when accessing this website. These cookies allow us to measure the effectiveness of online campaigns, provide the user with information of interest and offer advertising content of your preference. In accordance with their own policies, some advertising managers may use anonymous cookies to display ads of interest to you when you visit other websites. However, users can manage the acceptance or not of such cookies through their browser settings.


Cookie Safeguards and Cookie Choices

Through the browser settings, the user has the possibility to accept or reject the installation of cookies, or to reject the installation of a certain type of cookies, such as advertising and third-party cookies. In addition, after each session you can delete all or some of the stored cookies.

The user can also activate:

– Private browsing, whereby your browser stops saving browsing history, website passwords, cookies and other information from the pages you visit, or

– the do-not-track function, whereby the browser asks the websites you visit not to track your browsing habits in order, for example, to serve you advertising of interest to you on the sites you visit.

We recommend that you consult the help of your browser to learn about the different options on how to manage cookies. Please note that blocking cookies may affect all or some of the functionality of our website. It may even happen that by NOT ACCEPTING technical/internal cookies, you will not be able to access our website.


Cookies used on this website:

 

Cookie Name

Type of cookie

Shelf life

Description

_ga

Analytical Cookie (third party)

2 years since last update

Google Analytics cookie that enables the unique visits control function. 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 that it is the same user. Only in the event that the user changes browser, it will be considered another user.

_gid

Analytical Cookie (third party)

24h since last update

This cookie is associated with Google Analytics. It is used to distinguish users

_gat

Analytical Cookie (third party)

10 minutes from creation or modification

This cookie is associated with Google Analytics. It is used to limit the request rate – limiting data collection on high traffic sites.

PHPSESSID

Technical Cookie (Internal)

At the end of the session

This cookie is used to store user session data. It is essential for the functioning of the website

lang

Technical Cookie (Internal)

At the end of the session

Cookie used to maintain and remember the current language in which the user navigates.

ac_cookies

Technical Cookie (Internal)

1 year since last update

Technical and strictly necessary cookie that contains the value of whether the installation of cookies has been accepted.

__utma

Analytical Cookie (third party)

2 years from creation or modification

It is used to differentiate between users and sessions. The cookie is created when loading the javascript library and there is no previous version of the __utma cookie. The cookie is updated each time you send data to Google Analytics.

__utmb

Analytical Cookie (third party)

30 mins from creation or modification

It is used to know if there is a new session or visit. The cookie is created when loading the javascript library and there is no previous version of the __utmb cookie. The cookie is updated each time you send data to Google Analytics.

__utmc

Session Cookie (third party)

At the end of the session

It is not used in the ga.js library. This cookie is used to facilitate functionality with the urchin.js library. Historically, this cookie works in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to know if the user is a new session or visit.

__utmli

Analytical Cookie (third party)

30 seconds from creation or modification

The utility is to be able to differentiate in the page analytics report, different links pointing to the same destination.

__utmv

Analytical Cookie (third party)

2 years from creation or modification

Used to store visitor level custom variable data. The cookie is updated each time you send data to Google Analytics.

__utmz

Analytical Cookie (third party)

6 months from creation or modification

It stores the origin of the traffic or the campaign that explains from where the user arrives to the website. The cookie is created when the javascript library is loaded and is updated each time it sends data to Google Analytics.

__utmt

Analytical Cookie (third party)

10 minutes

Google Analytics. It is used to limit the percentage of requests.

wpml_referer_url

Technical Cookie (Internal)

1 day

Stores the last page visited, in order to change the language to the same section.

-icl-current-language

Technical Cookie (Internal)

At the end of the session

It allows to know the language used by the user.

AdSense

Third-party cookie

Undetermined

Advertising statistics. Google AdSense

DAI

Third-party cookie

3 months since last update

Google advertising services cookie

GAPS

Third-party cookie

Session

When you create or sign in to a Google Account, PREF, NID, HSID, APISID, SID, SSID, SAPISID, GAPS, LSID, BEAT, ULS cookies are stored on your computer in order to stay logged in to your Google Account when you visit their services again. As long as you remain logged in and use plugins on other websites such as ours, Google will use these cookies to improve your user experience.

HSID

Third Party Cookie

2 years

When you create or sign in to a Google Account, PREF, NID, HSID, APISID, SID, SSID, SAPISID, GAPS, LSID, BEAT, ULS cookies are stored on your computer in order to stay logged in to your Google Account when you visit their services again. As long as you remain logged in and use plugins on other websites such as ours, Google will use these cookies to improve your user experience.

APISID

Third Party Cookie

2 years

When you create or sign in to a Google Account, PREF, NID, HSID, APISID, SID, SSID, SAPISID, GAPS, LSID, BEAT, ULS cookies are stored on your computer in order to stay logged in to your Google Account when you visit their services again. As long as you remain logged in and use plugins on other websites such as ours, Google will use these cookies to improve your user experience.

NID

Third Party Cookie

6 months

When you create or sign in to a Google Account, PREF, NID, HSID, APISID, SID, SSID, SAPISID, GAPS, LSID, BEAT, ULS cookies are stored on your computer in order to stay logged in to your Google Account when you visit their services again. As long as you remain logged in and use plugins on other websites such as ours, Google will use these cookies to improve your user experience.

OTZ

Third Party Cookie

1 month

Google cookies that store information from the user’s Google accounts.

PAIDCONTENT

Third Party Cookie

2 years

They connect with Google Analytics and are used to know, anonymously, how you have used this website.

SAPISID

Third Party Cookie

2 years

When you create or sign in to a Google Account, PREF, NID, HSID, APISID, SID, SSID, SAPISID, GAPS, LSID, BEAT, ULS cookies are stored on your computer in order to stay logged in to your Google Account when you visit their services again. As long as you remain logged in and use plugins on other websites such as ours, Google will use these cookies to improve your user experience.

SIDCC

Third Party Cookie

4 months

Facilitates service customization

of Google

SID

Third Party Cookie

2 years

When you create or sign in to a Google Account, PREF, NID, HSID, APISID, SID, SSID, SAPISID, GAPS, LSID, BEAT, ULS cookies are stored on your computer in order to stay logged in to your Google Account when you visit their services again. As long as you remain logged in and use plugins on other websites such as ours, Google will use these cookies to improve your user experience.

SSID

Third Party Cookie

2 years

When you create or sign in to a Google Account, PREF, NID, HSID, APISID, SID, SSID, SAPISID, GAPS, LSID, BEAT, ULS cookies are stored on your computer in order to stay logged in to your Google Account when you visit their services again. As long as you remain logged in and use plugins on other websites such as ours, Google will use these cookies to improve your user experience.

viewed_cookie_policy

Technical Cookie (Internal)

1 year

Cookies for internal use necessary for the functioning of the display of the cookies policy of the website.

 

Social Networking:

Cookies from external content plugins and Cookies used by social networks:

In other sites that do not belong to AMEC , third-party cookies are installed on all visitors, even if they are not registered users of the corresponding platforms:

 

We use this information to improve our site, detect new needs and evaluate the improvements to be made in order to provide a better service to users who visit us.

To allow, know, block or delete cookies installed on your computer you can do so by configuring the browser options installed on your computer.

For example, you can find information on how to do this if you use one of these browsers:

Firefox from here:

http://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/habilitar-y-deshabilitar-cookies-que-los-sitios-we

Chrome from here: 

http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=es&answer=95647

Explorer from here: 

https://support.microsoft.com/es-es/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies

Safari from here: 

http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042

Operates from here: 

http://help.opera.com/Windows/11.50/es-ES/cookies.html