ETHICAL GEMSTONES OF THE WORLD
COOKIES POLICY
1. What is a Cookie?
A Cookie is a file that is downloaded in your device when you access some websites. Amongst other things, cookies allow websites to store and to retrieve information about a user and its computer search habits. Depending on the information contained in the cookies and the way in which the computer is used, cookies can be used to recognise the user. The user search engine memorises the cookies in the hard disk only while searching the web, they occupy a minimal disk space and do not harm the computer. Cookies do not contain any type of specific personal information, and the mayority of them get deleted from the hard disc when the web search is concluded (these are the so-called ‘session cookies’).
The mayority of search engines accept cookies as standard, and independently of the cookies, they can either allow or reject the temporary or memorised cookies in the security adjustments.
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2. Why does this site use Cookies?
There are necessary cookies that make a webpage useable by activating basic functions such as web navigation and access to secured areas of the web. The web page cannot work adecuatedly without these cookies.
Cookies are used to improve your experience as a user, and therefore are an important part of how our website works. Amongst other purposes, cookies can be used to remember the language used during navigation and in future visits.
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3. What information is stored by a Cookie?
The information that a Cookie stores it is not considered sensible information, and as such it does not store any bank data, nor any personal ID information. The user is not identified as a person, only the web server associates that person to its web browser.
4. What types of Cookies are there?
- Technical Cookies: These allow the user to navigate through a web page, platform or application, and the use of the various options or services within the website such as traffic control, data communication, session identification, access to parts of restricted access areas, remember the elements that constitute an order, carry out the process of a purchase or an order, carry out the application to get signed up or to participate in an event, utilice security elements during the naviagation, store content to difuse videos or sound, or share content through social networks.
- Session Cookies: Collect and store data during the user sesión to, for example, make it easier to access the website services, these get eliminated when the browse session ends.
- Personalisation Cookies: These allow the user to access the service with some general pre-defined characteristics according to a listo f criterio in the user’s terminal, such as the language, the type of serach engine through which the user access the service, the regional configuration from which the user acess the service, etc.
- Analysis Cookies: These are either treated by us or by third parties, and allow us to quantify the number of users, so that we can measure and do statisitical analyses about how users utilise the service offered through our website. To do this, the way in which users browse our website is analysed to enable us to improve our products and the services we offer.
- Publicity Cookies: These are either treated by us or by third parties, and allow us to manage in the most efficient way the offer of advertising space within the website, adjusting the advert content to the content of the requested service to the use made on our website. In order to do this, we can analyse your internet browsing habits, and we can show you publicity related to your browsing profile.
- Comportamental Publicity Cookies: These allow management, in the most efficient way, of the publicity spaces that the editor has chosen to include in a webpage, aplication or platform from which the requested service is provided. These cookies store information about the behaviour of the users, and it is gathered by the continued observation of their browsing habits. This allows us to develop a specific profile so that publicity is shown depending on the profile.
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5. What are First-party & Third-Party Cookies?
- First-party Cookies: Those that are sent to the user from a computer or domain managed by us.
- Third-party Cookies: Those genetared by external services or providers such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.
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6. What Cookies are used in this Website?
This website uses first-party cookies, in particular, session cookies that collect and store data while the user has access to our website.
This website also uses third-party cookies, which collect information for statisitical purposes regarding the use of our website by users and for the provision of other services related to the user’s activity and other internet services.
Furthermore, this portal uses the third-party cookies that are strictly necessary for the correct functioning of our website by our host: www.wix.com
7. Can Cookies be de-activated or eliminated?
You can reject the data treatment or the information collected by the cookies at any time through the configuration of options in your web browser. You can allow, block (general blocking or particular blocking an specific domain) or eliminate the cookies installed in your device.
However, this can affect the optimal browsing in our website, because some functionalities will be deactivated and so the visalisation of some tolos can be affected.
For more information about Firefox click below:
For more information about Chrome click below:
http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=es&answer=95647
For more information about Explorer click below:
https://support.microsoft.com/es-es/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
For more information about Safari click below:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042
For more information about Opera click below:
http://help.opera.com/Windows/11.50/esES/cookies.html
8. The user expressly accepts the use of this Site, the treatment of the collected information in the form and with the objectives afore-mentioned. The user also recognises the possiblity to reject the data / information treatment, by rejecting the use of cookies through the selection of the appropriate configuration for tht purpose in the user’s browser. Please note thst this blocking action of cookies in your browser can stop you using in full all the functionalities permited by thisWebsite.
If you have any doubts about this Cookies policy, you can get in tough through this email: ethicalgemstonesoftheworld@gmail.com