What are Cookies?

SPM-Therapeutics webpage (The Web) utilizes Cookies. Cookies are files sent to the browser by a Web server to register the activity of the user on a particular website. The purpose of the Cookies is to provide the User a faster access to selected services. The Cookies personalizes the services offered by the Web facilitating and offering to each User information that is of their interest or that may be of interest in attention to the use that makes of the service.

The Web utilizes Cookies to personalize and facilitate navigation to the User. The Cookies are associated only to the User, they do not provide references that allow personal data to be leaked. The User can configurate the browser to reject the installation of Cookies sent by the Web without being denied access to the contents of that Webpage. However, please note that the quality of operation on the Webpage can be reduced.

The registered User, who register or those having logged on can benefit from more personalized and profile-oriented services. These Users expressly authorize the use of this information for the purpose indicated without prejudice to your right to refuse or disable the use of the Cookies.

Also, the Web can know all the services requested by each User so that they can provide information appropriate to the likes and preferences of each User.

What kind of Cookies exist?

Cookies in function of their performance can be divided into:

• Session Cookies: they expire when the User closes the browser
• Persistent Cookies: they expire when the target for which they serve is fulfilled (For example, to keep the User identified in the services or when they are manually deleted.)

In function of their Owner, they can be divided into:

• Own Cookies: those that are sent to the User’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by the editor itself and from which the service requested by the User is provided.
• Third party Cookies: those that are sent to the User’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain that is not managed by the publisher, but by an entity that processes the data obtained through Cookies.

Additionally, depending on your target. Cookies can be classified as follows:

• Performance Cookies: this type of Cookie remembers your preferences for the tools found in the services and re-configures the service every time you visit so you don’t have to re-configure, as an example, this type includes:

– Volume setting for voice and sound players.

– The velocity of video transmission that are compatible with your navigator.

• Geo- Location Cookies: these Cookies are utilized to locate what country you are in when you request a service. This Cookie is completely anonymous and is used to help orient the content to its location.
• Registration Cookies: registration Cookies are generated once the User has registered or has later opened their session, and are used to identify you in services with the following objective:

– Keep the User identified so that if you close a service on your browser or your computer and at another time or another day attempt to re-enter, that service will continue to be identified thus facilitating its navigation without having to re-identify itself. This functionality can be deleted if the User presses the “Close Session” functionality. So this Cookie is deleted and the next time you enter the service the User will have to log in to be identified.

– To prove the User is authorized to access certain services. For example, to participate in a course.

• Analytical Cookies: every time a User visits a service, a tool from an external provider generates an Analytic Cookie on the User’s computer. This Cookie that only generates during the visit will derive in future visits to the services of the Web to anonymously identify to the User’s. The main objectives pursued are:

– Allow the anonymous identification of the User’s navigation through the Cookie (identifies browsers and devices, not people and therefore the approximate posting of the number of visitors and their tendency in time.

– Identify anonymously the most visited content and therefore more attractive to Users.

– To know if the User accessing is new or if it is a repeat visit.

– IMPORTANT: Unless the User decides to register in a Web service, The Cookie will never be associated with any personal data that can identify you. Said Cookies will only be used for statistical purposes that help to optimize the experience of Users on the site.

• Behavioral Advertising Cookies: this type of Cookies allows you to expand in the Web services. Among others it stores the duration of frequency of visualization of advertising positions, the interaction with them, or the browsing patterns and/or User compartments that help to shape a profile of advertising interest. In this way they allow to offer publicity related to the interest of the User.
• Third Party Advertising Cookies: in addition to the advertising managed by the Web in its services, the Web offers its advertisers the option of serving ads through third-parties (ad-servers). In this way, the third-parties can store Cookies sent from the User’s browsers as well as access the lost data stored therein.

What Cookies do we utilize?

The Cookies we use on our website are:

Name: Google Analytics

Category: Website analytics

Type: Session cookies

Expiration: Up to 2 years

Purpose: We use Google Analytics to understand how our media campaigns work and how you interact with our website in order to improve the user experience.

How to disable the Cookies:

Normally it’s possible to stop accepting the Cookies from the navigator or stop accepting the Cookies from a service in particular.

All of the modern browsers allow you to change the settings of the Cookies. These settings can normally be found in the menu of the browser under “options” or “preferences”. Also, you can configure your browser or your email manager, as well as install free add-ons to avoid downloading Web bugs when opening an email.

The Web offers orientation to the User on the steps to access the menu of configuration from the Cookies and in this case of the private navigation in each one of the main navigators.

Internet Explorer: Tools- > Internet options- > Privacy- >Configuration

For more information you can consult the Microsoft support or the browser help.

• Microsoft Edge: Configuration and more – > Configuration – > Clear scan data.
• Firefox: Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> History-> Custom Settings
• Chrome: Configuration-> Advanced Configuration -> Privacy and security -> Clear scan data.
• Safari: Preferences -> Security.

For more information you can check Apple support or browser help.

Can changes to Cookie Policy occur?

The Web can modify this policy of Cookies in function of the legislative requirements, regulations or with the purpose of adapting this policy to the instructions dictated by the Spanish agency of data protection. Therefore, it is advised to the Users that visit periodically.

When significant changes are occurring in this Cookie Policy Users will be communicated either via the Web or via email to registered Users.

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