What are cookies?
Cookies are small files with information that are stored in your web browser when you access and use certain web pages. These files allow websites to retrieve information about your browsing habits and preferences or about the device from which you connect.
Although they are essential to provide a good service, depending on the type of information they contain, they can be dangerous to your privacy. For this reason, Spanish legislation has established that in order to install certain types of cookies in your browser it is necessary to inform you beforehand and obtain your consent. By means of this Cookie Policy we would like to inform you clearly and sufficiently about the type of cookies we use on this website.
What kind of cookies do we use?
We use cookies on this website in order to facilitate your navigation and provide you with a better browsing experience. The cookies we use can be divided into the following categories:
Depending on where they are sent from:
- Own cookies: they are sent to your device from our own equipment or from our domain.
- Third-party cookies: those cookies that are sent to your browser from a computer or domain that is not managed by us, but by another collaborating entity.
According to their purpose:
- Technical cookies: are those cookies that are essential for the operation of a website.
- Analytical Cookies: their purpose is to analyze the use made by the user of a Web. They make it possible to quantify the number of users visiting the Web Site and to identify which layers of the Web Site are most visited and, therefore, most popular.
- Session cookies: allow users to be recognized on a website so that any changes you make, items you select or data you enter are remembered from page to page.
Some of the cookies we use are persistent, which means that they remain stored on your device for a certain amount of time, which may vary from cookie to cookie. If you do not delete this type of cookie, they will stop working on their own when they reach their expiration date.
In the following table we indicate which cookies we use on this website along with the purpose of each one of them, their duration and information on whether it is our own or from a third party:
| Name | Server from which it is sent | Purpose | Duration |
| __utmc | blackboardsmg.com | is used in combination with the __utmb to identify new sessions/visits. | session |
| __utmb | blackboardsmg.com | The cookie is updated each time data is sent to Google Analytics. | session |
| __utma | blackboardsmg.com | It is used to calculate new and old visitor statistics. | persistent |
| __utmt_UA-41503034-50 | blackboardsmg.com | Used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high-traffic websites. | session |
| __utmz | blackboardsmg.com | This cookie identifies the source of traffic to the site, so Google Analytics can tell the owners where visitors have come from before arriving at the site. | persistent |
| Facebook Cookies | facebook.com | https://www.facebook.com/help/cookies/ | persistent |
| Twitter Cookies | twitter.com | https://twitter.com/privacy | persistent |
| Google+ Cookies | google.com | https://www.google.com/intl/es_es/policies/technologies/cookies/ | persistent |
The Website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”) a Delaware company whose principal office is at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043, United States. Google Analytics uses cookies to help the Website analyze how users use the Website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information to track your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage.
If you would like more information about the use of Google analytics cookies used on the Website, please see the following link:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage?hl=es.
How can you control cookies?
It is important for you to know that you can withdraw your consent to the Cookies Policy at any time by deleting the cookies stored in your web browser through your browser’s settings and configurations.
If you wish, you can easily modify your browser preferences to control yourself which cookies access your computer and which ones you prefer to limit. This option is usually found in the “options” or “preferences” menu in browsers. If you use any of the following, you only have to select the link and follow the instructions indicated on the linked page:
- Cookie preferences in Internet Explorer
- Cookie preferences in Chrome
- Firefox cookie preferences
- Cookie preferences in Safari
However, if you change your preferences and limit the access of cookies to your device, it is possible that some of the functionalities of the website may stop working and your navigation may be hindered.
Modifications to the Cookie Policy
We make this Cookie Policy available to you so that you can consult it, file it or print it whenever you deem it convenient. It is possible that it may undergo modifications as a result of changes in the web page or in the cookies used, legislative or jurisprudential developments or the establishment of new criteria of the Spanish Data Protection Agency. Therefore, we reserve the right to modify this Cookie Policy at any time.
Last update date: February 10, 2024
