Cookie Policy

1. WHAT ARE COOKIES?

A cookie is a text file that a web server can store on your computer’s hard drive to store some information about you as a user. Cookies are used for various purposes such as storing data for future visits, recognizing the user and avoiding the need for authentication again, tracking which pages you visit, or saving your preferences in customizable areas, etc. Normally, websites use cookies to obtain statistical information about their web pages and analyze the behavior of their customers/users.

The obligations established in Article 22.2 of the LSSI (Spanish law) do not apply to cookies used for any of the following purposes:

• Solely enabling communication between the user’s computer and the network.
• Strictly providing a service explicitly requested by the user.

Thus, among the exempted cookies would be those with the purpose of:

• User input cookies.
• Authentication or user identification cookies (session only).
• User security cookies.
• Multimedia player session cookies.
• Load balancing session cookies.
• User interface customization cookies.
• Certain plug-in cookies for social content sharing.

The specific uses we make of these technologies are described in the following sections.

2. TYPES OF COOKIES

Cookies can be classified according to the following criteria:

According to who installs the cookie, they can be:

First-party Cookies: These are sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a device or domain managed by the publisher itself and from which the requested service is provided.

Third-party Cookies: These are sent to the user’s terminal equipment either from a device or domain managed by us or by a third party, but the information collected by these cookies is managed by a third party other than the website owner.

According to their duration, cookies can be:

Session Cookies: These are cookies that last for the duration of the user’s browsing session on the website and are deleted when the session ends.

Persistent Cookies: These are stored on the user’s terminal for a longer period, making it easier to control the chosen preferences without having to repeat certain parameters every time the website is visited.

According to their purpose, cookies can be:

Technical Cookies: Technical cookies are essential and strictly necessary for the proper functioning of a website and the use of the various options and services it offers. For example, session maintenance cookies, those that allow the use of security elements, content sharing with social networks, etc.

Personalization Cookies: These allow the user to choose or customize features of the website, such as language, regional settings, or browser type.

Analytical Cookies: These are used by websites to create browsing profiles and to understand user preferences in order to improve the offering of products and services. They allow the monitoring of geographic areas of greatest user interest, the most popular website content, etc.

Advertising / Behavioral Advertising Cookies: These cookies store information about user behavior obtained through continuous observation of their browsing habits, allowing the development of specific profiles for displaying ads based on that behavior.

3. COOKIES USED ON OUR WEBSITE

https://allegramats.com/ uses the following types of cookies on the website: 

Technical Cookies

These allow the user to browse the Web, remember passwords, and use features such as the shopping cart.

Personalization Cookies

These allow us to know the user’s preferences: language, visited products, etc.

Analytics Cookies

We use Google Analytics cookies to quantify the number of users who visit the Web. These cookies allow us to measure and analyze how users navigate the Web. This information allows Allegra Mats to continuously improve its services and the user experience on the Web. For more information, you can consult the Google Analytics privacy page: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage.

Advertising and Behavioral Advertising Cookies

These cookies are used to display relevant ads to users based on their use of our website. They also limit the number of times each user sees an ad and help Allegra Mats measure the effectiveness of its advertising campaigns. By browsing the Web, the user agrees to allow us to install this type of cookie on their device and make inquiries when the user visits the Allegra Mats website in the future. 

Cookies installed on our website domain: 

This website, like most websites, includes functionalities provided by third parties.

Our website is a dynamic one, and new designs or third-party services may be included from time to time. This may occasionally change the cookie settings, and cookies that are not detailed in this policy may appear. 

The third-party cookies used on our website installed by third-party domains are as follows:

Our site does not control the cookies used by these third parties. For more information about cookies from social networks or other external websites, we recommend reviewing their own cookie policies.

4. INFORMATION AND CONSENT FOR INSTALLATION

https://allegramats.com/ will always seek to establish appropriate mechanisms to obtain the User’s consent for the installation of cookies that require it. When a user accesses our website, a pop-up appears informing them of the existence of cookies and that by accepting them, they give their consent for the installation of cookies. 

5. HOW CAN I PREVENT THE INSTALLATION OF COOKIES?

Users can refuse the installation of all cookies according to their preferences, except for those that they expressly authorize or those that are of a technical nature and must be installed to ensure the proper functioning of the website. Users can indicate which cookies they wish to install or reject in the pop-up or cookie acceptance window that appears when they enter the homepage. However, there are other ways to prevent cookies from being installed on your computer, as we indicate below.

Users can configure their browser to accept or reject the cookies they receive or to have the browser notify them when a server wants to save a cookie. Disabling some technical cookies may affect the proper functioning of certain website features. 

Users can prevent the storage of “analytical and advertising” cookies from Google Analytics on their terminal through the exclusion systems provided by Google Analytics.More information.

Below, we also provide some examples of how to disable cookies:

• Through browser settings:

• Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/windows-vista/block-or-allow-cookies
• Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/Deshabilitar%20cookies%20de%20terceros 
• Safari:  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677?viewlocale=es_ES. 
• Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=es.
• Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/11.50/es-ES/cookies.html

For more information, visit the Spanish Data Protection Agency’s page that helps configure privacy settings on social networks, browsers, and mobile operating systems.More information. 

• Through third-party tools:

There are third-party tools available online that allow users to detect cookies on each website they visit and manage their deactivation, for example:

http://www.ghostery.com

http://www.youronlinechoices.com/es/

In any case, users can allow or block cookies, as well as delete their browsing data (including cookies) from the browser they use. Check your browser’s options and instructions for this. Please note that if you accept third-party cookies, you will need to delete them from the browser’s settings.

6. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

If you choose to leave our website via links to other websites not belonging to our entity, we are not responsible for the privacy policies of those websites or for the cookies they may store on the user’s computer.

7. HOW DO WE COLLECT AND USE IP ADDRESSES?

The Web servers may automatically detect the IP address and domain name used by users.

An IP address is a number automatically assigned to a computer when it connects to the Internet. This information allows for the subsequent processing of data to determine whether the user has given their consent to the installation of cookies, to perform only statistical measurements that allow us to know the number of visits to the Web, the order of visits, the access point, etc.

8. INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFER

Cookies installed on our website domain are installed on our server, so the data collected in them is not subject to international data transfers.

Third-party cookies installed on our website by third-party domains may be subject to international data transfers. For more information on the possible international data transfers that these cookies may entail, we recommend clicking on the “More information” section of the cookie you wish to consult.

9. UPDATE OF OUR COOKIE POLICY

This policy is reviewed periodically to ensure its validity, so it may be modified. We recommend that you visit the page regularly where we will inform you of any updates.

10. CONTACT

If you have any questions about this Cookies Policy or wish to exercise your rights, please contact us by email at info@allegramats.com.

In accordance with the applicable regulations, you have the right to file a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

This Cookies Policy was last updated on August 28, 2023.