Cookies policy
The purpose of this policy is to define the use of cookies on the website, as well as to provide information to users and visitors to the website in relation to the use of cookies and the means of configuring their browsers.
The use of the services offered by https://www.accessiblemadrid.com/es/implies full and unreserved acceptance of this policy on the use of cookies.
https://www.accessiblemadrid.com/es/ may collect information through files such as cookies or log files about users' browsing on the website. These devices are associated exclusively with a single user and their own access device.
What are cookies?
Cookies are files containing small amounts of information that are downloaded to the user's device used when visiting a website.
Cookies are a tool used by web servers to store and retrieve information about their users. It is nothing more than a text file that some servers ask the browser to write to your hard drive, with information about what you have done on the website. They have an expiry date, which can range from the duration of the session to a specified future date, after which they cease to be operational.
Cookies are essential for the functioning of the Internet; they cannot damage the user's equipment/device and, if they are activated in the configuration of your browser, they help us to identify and resolve possible errors in the functioning of the website.
Types of cookies
Cookies are divided into several types of classifications: by the owner, by the purpose of their use and by the length of time they remain active.
- By the owner, they are classified into:
- First party cookies: Those that we send to your computer or terminal from our website.
- Third party cookies: Those that are sent to your computer or terminal from a domain or a website that is not managed by us, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through the cookies.
- By the purpose, they are classified into:
- Functional and technical cookies: they are strictly necessary for the provision of certain services expressly requested by the user, if these cookies are deactivated, the user will be unable to correctly receive our content or services.
- Performance cookies: These are those that allow the user to access the service with some general characteristics predefined according to a series of criteria in the user's terminal such as, for example, would be the language, the type of browser through which you access the service, the locale from which you access the service, etc.
- Analytics cookies: these are cookies that are either processed by us or by third parties, they allow us to quantify the number of users and to measure and statistically analyze how users use the website. To do this, your browsing on our website is analyzed in order to improve the range of products or services that we offer.
- Advertising cookies: these are those that, either processed by us or by third parties, allow us to manage the supply of advertising spaces on the website, adapting the content of the advertisement to the content of the service requested, to the use you make of our website, or to the information we have about your browsing habits on the Internet, such as which pages you usually visit, your interactions with the website or keywords, among others. These allow us to profile you in order to provide advertisements according to your interests.
- By its duration, they are classified into:
- Session Cookies: These are designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a web page. They disappear at the end of the user's session.
- Persistent Cookies: These are those in which the data continues to be stored in the terminal, and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the party responsible for the cookie, which can range from a few minutes to several years.
3.- Use of Cookies by the website.
https://www.accessiblemadrid.com/es/ uses functional cookies on its website, which are necessary to correctly display the website and ensure its correctness, and analytical cookies, which are used to analyze user behavior in aggregate and anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website and to different internal pages, the origin of the visit, day and time, platform, search terms used by a user to find the desired content.
The purposes for which we use cookies are as follows:
- To personalize the user's browsing experience, to recognize the user's language and to balance the load of the website.
- To be able to make improvements to the website and to know what content or design is most relevant to the user.
HTTPS: //WWW.ACCESSIBLEMADRID.COM/ES/ cannot read the cookies implemented on the hard disk of the user's computer/terminal from web servers other than its own.
In the following table you can consult the cookies used on the website, their purpose, whether they are our own or third party cookies and their duration.
Cookie |
Type |
Function |
First/third party |
Duration |
_gcl_au |
Analytics |
Conduct analysis on advertising |
First party |
3 months |
Test_cookie |
Funtional |
Check if the user´s computer supports cookies |
Third party |
15 minutes |
_ga_* |
Analytics |
Store and count page views |
First party |
1 year, 1 month and 4 |
_ga |
Analytics |
Calculate information on visits, campaigns and website usage through anonymous information |
First party |
1 year, 1 month and 4 days |
IDE |
Advertising |
Information on how the website is used to deliver personalised advertisements |
Third party |
1 year and 24 days |
_gid |
Analytics |
Store information on how many visitors come to the site and other information such as which pages they come from |
First party |
1 day |
_gat_UA-* |
Analytics |
Tracking user behaviour on the website |
First party |
1 minute |
_uetvid |
Performance |
Remember the preferences of a user who has already browsed the site |
First party |
1 year and 24 days |
_uetsid |
Performance |
Remember the preferences of a user who has already browsed the site |
First party |
1 day |
MUID |
Advertising |
Recognise website behaviour |
Third party |
1 year and 24 days |
CLID |
Analytics |
Collect information on how visitors interact with the site |
Third party |
1 year |
_clck |
Performance |
Remember user preferences |
First party |
1 year |
MR |
Analytics |
Collect information on how visitors interact with the site |
Third partys |
7 days |
SRM_B |
Performance |
Remember user preferences |
Third party |
1 year and 24 days |
SM |
Performance |
Synchronisation of different Microsoft domains |
Third party |
Session |
ANONCHK |
Advertising |
Advertising selected according to user profile |
Third party |
10 minutes |
_clsk |
Analytics |
Count the number of visits to the site |
First party |
1 day |
4.- Use of Google Analytics Cookies.
The website uses analytics cookies from Google Analytics (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View. California. CA 94043, United States). These cookies do not collect personal information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how the site works.
More information about Google Analytics cookies can be found at: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/cookie-usage
You can prevent the use of Google Analytics in connection with your use of the website by downloading and installing the browser add-on available through this link: Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on Download Page
5.- Settings of Cookies.
Users can block Cookies through the browser configuration tools, or they can configure their browser to warn them when a server wants to save a Cookie.
- If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer, you will find the option in the menu Tools > Internet Options > Privacy > Settings.
More information at http://windows.microsoft.com/en
- If you use Firefox, you will find the option in the menu Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies.
More information at http://support.mozilla.org/
- If you use Chrome, in the Options > Advanced > Privacy section.
More information at https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=es
- If you use Opera, in the Security and Privacy option, you can configure the browser.
More information at http://help.opera.com/Windows/11.50/es-ES/cookies.html
- If you use Safari, you will find the option in the Preferences/Privacy menu.
More information at: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677?viewlocale=