This Cookies Policy is part of the INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DE CANARIAS, S.A. (ITC) Legal Disclaimer and Privacy Policy. Access to or browsing this site or using any services herein mean acceptance of the General Conditions established in our Legal Disclaimer (and as such the Privacy and Cookies Policies). Please read them carefully.
We are delighted you have visited us, and would like you to have the best possible experience of the same, which is why we have drafted this Cookies Policy as transparently as possible.
What is a Cookie?
Cookies are files with tiny amounts of information downloaded to the user’s device used when visiting a web site. The main purpose is to recognise the user every time he/she visits ITC, furthermore they enable us to improve the quality and usability of our web.
Cookies are essential for Internet functioning; they cannot damage the user’s equipment/device; and if activated in your browser configuration they help us identify the user and resolve any possible malfunctioning of http://www.ITCcanarias.org
Types of Cookies
There are different types of cookies, which all work in the same way but with minor differences:
- Session Cookies. Session cookies only last as long as your session and are deleted on closwing your browser. Their main purposes is to identify the device being used, backup the web site security or basic functioning. They contain no personal information enabling us to identify a user.
- Persistent or Permanent Cookies: They are stored on the device hard disc and our web reads them with every new visit to http://www.ITCcanarias.org; they have an expiry data or specific expiry, which on compliance the cookie stops functioning. They allow us to identify your actions and preferences, besides helping us understand how users reach our page and improve our services.
- Functional Cookies: They enable http://www.ITCcanarias.org to remember the decisions adopted by the user, such as their login or identifier. The cookies make the information collected anonymous (i.e. they do not contain your name, address or other data).
- Third Party Cookies: Third party cookies are what a web site installs but which you are not visiting; e.g. those used by social networks (like Facebook) or complements of external contents (like Google Maps). Furthermore, some advertising companies use these files to follow your visits to every site where they advertise.
- Analytical Cookies: Their purpose is periodical maintenance and ensuring the best functioning and service for the user; collecting data of their activity.
ITC use of Cookies
Via access to http://www.ITCcanarias.org, you expressly accept we can use these kinds of cookies on your devices. If you deactive the cookies you may be unable to browse http://www.ITCcanarias.org in optimum conditions or some of the http://www.ITCcanarias.org uses may not function correctly.
Own Cookies
To recognise and render you a better service this site uses its own cookies (small text files which your browser stores pequeños archivos de texto que tu navegador almacena). The advantages of accepting our cookies translates into time saving. Likewise they can be used to recognise you among successive visits and adapt the content it shows you, to obtain information about the date and time of your last visit, measure some traffic parameters within the site itself and estimate the number of visits made, so we can more effectively adjust and focus our promotions and services.
No cookie allows you to be contacted by telephone, your Email or any other contact means. No cookie can extract information from your hard disc or steal personal information.
Cookies | Supplier | Expiry date | Function | Installation |
JSESSIONID | itccanarias.org | Session | Preserve user status in all page requests | When accessing the site |
_utma | itccanarias.org | 2 years | Collect data about the number of times a user has visited the web site, likewise the dates of the first and most recent visits. Used by Google Analytics | When using or visiting the site |
_utmb | itccanarias.org | Session | Records a temporary accurate time stamp of when the user visits the web site. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a visit to the web site | When using or visiting the site |
_utmc | itccanarias.org | Session | Records a temporary accurate time stamp of when the user leaves the web site. Used by Google Analytics to calculate duration of the web site visit. | When using or visiting the site |
_utmt | itccanarias.org | Session | Used to speed up the server requests | When using or visiting the site |
_utmz | itccanarias.org | 6 months | Collects data about user comes from, search engine used, which link was clicked and which search term was used. Used by Google Analytics | When using or visiting the site |
Third Party & Google Analytics Cookies
This site uses the Google Analytics service rendered by Google, Inc., whose head office is at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043, USA (Google).
Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyse the use made of our site by users. The information the cookie generates about site use (including your IP address) will be directly conveyed and filed by Google on their US servers. Google will use this information on our behalf to track your use of the site, collecting site activity reports and rendering other services related to site activity and Internet use. Google can convey said information to third parties when legally required to do so, or when said third parties process information on behalf of Google. Google will not associate your IP address to any other data they might have.
Should you so wish, you can refuse data or information processing by rejecting the use of cookies via the appropriate configuration selection of your browser. However, should you do so, you may be unable to fully use the functions of this site. On using this site you consent to Google processing your information as described above.
User configuration to avoid Cookies.
http://www.ITCcanarias.org in compliance with current legislation places at your disposal the information enabling you to configure your Internet browser(s) to maintain your privacy and security regarding cookies. To this effect, we facilitate the information and links to official support sites of the main browsers so you can decide whether to accept the use of cookies.
Thus, you can block cookies via the browser configuration tools or configure your browser so it warns you when a server wish to save a cookie:
a) If using Microsoft Internet Explorer, in the Tool menu option >Internet options >Privacy >Configuration. For further information visit http://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/windows-vista/block-or-allow-cookies and http://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/windows7/how-to-manage-cookies-in-internet-explorer-9.
b) If using Firefox, in the Tool menu option >Internet options >Privacy >Cookies. For further information visit http://support.mozilla.org/es/products/firefox/cookies.
c) If using Chrome, in the Options section >Advanced options >Privacy. For further information visit http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=es&answer=95647
d) If using Opera, in the Privacy and Security option, you can configure the browser. For further information visit http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/