This Website, like most websites on the Internet, uses Cookies to enhance and optimise the user experience.
Below, you will find detailed information about what Cookies are, what types of Cookies this Website uses, how you can disable them in your browser, and how to specifically block the installation of third-party Cookies.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are files that websites or applications install on the user’s browser or device (smartphone, tablet, or connected TV) during their journey through the pages of the site or the application, and they serve to store information about their visit.
Like most websites on the Internet, this Website uses Cookies to:
Ensure the website functions correctly.
Store preferences, such as selected language or font size.
Understand the User’s browsing experience.
Collect anonymous statistical information, such as which pages the user has visited or how long they have stayed on the Website.
Using Cookies allows navigation to be optimised, adapting the information and services offered to the user’s interests, in order to provide them with a better experience each time they visit the Website.
This Website uses Cookies to operate, adapt, and facilitate user navigation as much as possible.
Types, purpose and operation
Cookies can be divided according to their permanence into session cookies or persistent cookies. The former expire when the user closes the browser. The latter expire when the purpose for which they serve is fulfilled (e.g. so the user remains identified on the Website) or when they are manually deleted.
Additionally, according to their purpose, Cookies can be classified as follows:
Strictly necessary (technical): These are essential for the proper functioning of the page. They are usually generated when the user accesses the Website or logs in, and are used to identify them on the Website for the following purposes:
To keep the user identified so that, if they leave the Website, the browser, or the device, and later return to that Website, they will remain identified, thus facilitating navigation without having to log in again.
To check whether the User is authorised to access certain services or areas of the Website.
Performance: These are used to improve the browsing experience and optimise the operation of the Website, such as storing service configurations, or retaining items in a shopping cart.
Advertising: These collect information about the advertisements shown to users of the Website. They can be of two types:
Anonymous: They only collect information about the advertising spaces displayed on the Website, regardless of the user accessing the Website, i.e. without explicitly identifying them.
Personalised: They collect personal information from the User of the Website by a third party, to personalise such advertising spaces.
Geo-location: These Cookies are used to find out in which country or region the user is located when accessing a Website service, in order to offer appropriate content or services based on their location.
Analytics: These collect information about the User’s browsing experience on the Website, usually anonymously, although sometimes they may uniquely and unequivocally identify the user to obtain reports on user interests in the services provided by the Website.
Cookies used on this Website
Below is a table showing the Cookies used on this Website, incorporating a “level of intrusiveness” criterion based on a scale from 1 to 3, where:
Level 1: corresponds to strictly necessary Cookies for providing the service requested by the User.
Level 2: corresponds to anonymous performance Cookies necessary for content maintenance and navigation, for which only disclosure of their existence is required.
Level 3: corresponds to third-party managed Cookies that allow the User to be tracked through websites not owned by HOME SCHOOL INTERNACIONAL. These are usually advertising or analytics Cookies that identify the user in a unique and clear manner.
| Cookie | Duration | Type | Purpose | Intrusiveness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JSESSIONID | Session | Technical | Maintain the user session | Level 1 |
| _utma | 2 years | Analytics | Internal measurement with Google Analytics | Level 3 |
| _utmb | 30 minutes | Analytics | Internal measurement with Google Analytics | Level 3 |
| _utmc | Session | Analytics | Internal measurement with Google Analytics | Level 3 |
| _utmz | 6 months | Analytics | Internal measurement with Google Analytics & AdWords | Level 3 |
| wbc_cookie_accept | Persistent | Technical | Identify whether the user accepts the use of cookies | Level 2 |
Disabling the use of Cookies
If the user so wishes, it is possible to stop accepting Cookies in the browser, or stop accepting Cookies from a particular service.
All modern browsers allow changes to be made to Cookie settings. These settings are usually found in the “Options” or “Preferences” menu of your browser.
The User may, at any time, disable the use of Cookies on this Website by:
Configuring the browser, for example:
Google Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=es&answer=95647
Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/windows7/how-to-manage-cookies-in-internet-explorer-9
Mozilla Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/habilitar-y-deshabilitar-cookies-que-los-sitios-we
Apple Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042
Other third-party tools, available online, that allow users to detect Cookies on each website they visit and manage their deactivation (for example, Ghostery: http://www.ghostery.com/privacy-statement).
What happens when Cookies are disabled?
Some functionalities and services may be disabled or behave differently than expected, such as remaining logged in, keeping purchases in the shopping cart in an e-commerce service, or receiving information tailored to your location, among others.
If you disable the use of Cookies on this Website, it is likely you will no longer be able to access certain areas of it or that your browsing experience may be significantly affected.
Cookie Policy Updates
HOME SCHOOL INTERNACIONAL may modify this Cookie Policy in accordance with legal or regulatory requirements, or in order to adapt the policy to instructions issued by the Spanish Data Protection Agency. Therefore, users are advised to visit it periodically.
When significant changes are made to this Cookie Policy, users will be notified either via the Website or via email to registered users.
Legal Notice
Google Analytics
This Website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., a Delaware company with its principal office at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043, United States (“Google”).
Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information on our behalf for the purpose of tracking your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity, and providing other services related to website activity and Internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
You may refuse the processing of data or information by rejecting the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; however, please note that if you do so, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this Website. By using this Website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.