The present cookies policy aims to inform you clearly and precisely about the cookies used on the website of the University of Granada.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small fragment of text that the websites you visit send to the browser and that allows the website to remember information about your visit, such as your favorite language and other options, in order to facilitate your next visit and make the site more useful. Cookies play a very important role and contribute to having a better user navigation experience.
Types of cookies
According to who is the entity that manages the domain from where cookies are sent and the data that is obtained are treated, two types can be distinguished: own cookies and third -party cookies.
There is also a second classification depending on the period of time that remain stored in the client’s browser, being able to be session cookies or persistent cookies.
Finally, there is another classification with five types of cookies according to the purpose for which the data obtained: technical cookies, customization cookies, analysis cookies, advertising cookies and behavioral advertising cookies.
For more information in this regard you can consult the guide on the use of cookies of the Spanish Agency for Data Protection.
-Cookies used on the web
The cookies that are being used in this portal are identified below as well as their typology and function.
The website of the University of Granada uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service developed by Google, which allows the measurement and analysis of navigation on the web pages. In your browser you can see cookies of this service. According to the previous typology, it is its own cookies, session and analysis.
Through the web analytics, information related to the number of users accessing the website, the number of pages seen, the frequency and repetition of the visits, its duration, the browser used, the operator that provides the service, the language, the terminal it uses and the city to which its IP address is assigned. Information that allows a better and more appropriate service by this portal.
To guarantee anonymity, Google will turn your information anonymous by truncating the IP address before storing it, so that Google Analytics is not used to locate or collect identifiable personal information of the site visitors. Google can only send the information collected by Google Analytics to third parties as long as it is legally obliged to do so. In accordance with the conditions of provision of the Google Analytics service, Google will not associate its IP address to any other data preserved by Google.
Finally, a cookie called cookie_agreed is downloaded, proper, technical and session. Manage user consent for the use of cookies on the website. The objective is to remember those users who have accepted them and those who do not, so that the former are not shown information at the bottom of the page about it.
How to modify cookies configuration
You can restrict, block or delete cookies from the University of Granada or any other web page, using your browser. In each browser the operation is different, the ‘help “function will show you how to do it.
