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Cookies policy

In compliance with the provisions of article 22.2 of the Law on Services of the Information Society and Electronic Commerce (LSSI-CE, according to its Spanish initials) and in accordance with the European Directive 2009/136 / CE, we inform you that this website makes use of cookies.

  1. Definition of Cookies

The website for schumanassociates.com (hereinafter, the Website) uses cookies (small files sent to a browser by means of a web server to record users’ activity in a specific site). The first objective of cookies is to provide faster access to the desired services to users. Moreover, cookies customize the services provided by the Website, providing and offering information of the user’s interest or that may be of interest, according to the use made of the services.

The Website uses cookies to customize and make the user’s browsing as easy as possible. Cookies are solely associated to an anonymous user and their corresponding computer, and they do not provide references that may give way to guessing the user’s personal data. A user may set their browser to send notifications and to prevent the installation of cookies sent by the Website, without affecting the user’s access to the site’s content. Nonetheless, it is worth mentioning that the operation quality of the Website might decrease.

Users that are already registered, in process of registry or opening a session shall be able to benefit from customized services, focused on their profile, thanks to the combination of stored data of the cookies and cookies with the personal data collected upon registration. Such users expressly authorize the use of that information for the aforementioned purpose, notwithstanding their right to decline or deactivate the use of cookies.

Moreover, the Website shall be able to know the services requested by the user, in aims to provide or offer the adequate information in line with the user’s likings or preferences.

  1. Types of Cookies

Cookies can be classified, according to their Permanence, as follows:

  • SessionCookies”: These expire as soon as the user closes the browser.
  • “Persistent Cookies”: These expire according the achieved purpose (for example, to keep the user identified while using Services) or when they are manually eliminated.
  1. Third party cookies used in this Website

In this website we use the following third-party cookies:

Name

Type

Expiration

Use

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Google Analytics

Persistent

Used to discriminate users and sessions

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Google Analytics

End of session

Used to discriminate new sessions or visits

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Google Analytics

30 minutes

To be used with Urchin (web statistics software)

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Google Analytics

6 months

It stores the source or campaign origin

More precisely, the third-party service providers with whom we have a contracted a service where cookies are necessary are:

Service provider

Aim of service and cookie

Link

GOOGLE Inc.

Statistical analysis of the website: visitors, pages visited, keywords used and others

https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

 

  1. Disabling Cookies

Acceptance of cookies in the browser or cookies specific to a service can be cancelled. Modern Internet browsers allow to modify cookies settings which are usually located under the “Options” or “Preferences” section. Additionally, there are add-ons provided free of charge that prevent downloading of Website cookies when an e-mail is opened.

The following links provide more information on how to disable cookies on the most popular browsers:

  1. Changes in the Cookies Policy

The Website may modify the present Cookies Policy based on legislation or regulation requirements, or in aims to adjust the policy to the guidelines provided by the Spanish Data Protection Agency. For this reason, users a recommended to re-visit such policy on a periodic basis.

When significant modifications to the Cookies Policy are made, users shall be notified through the Website or by means of an e-mail to registered users.