a) Use Cookies on PIERBURG’s website

b) Types, purpose and operation of Cookies 

c) How to disable Cookies on major browsers

d) What happens if cookies are disabled 

a) Use of Cookies by PIERBURG Websites:

The PIERBURG website only uses ANALYTICAL COOKIES to compile statistics on the most viewed pages. 

Cookies are files sent to a browser by a web server to record user activities for a particular website or all websites, apps and/or web services of PIERBURG (hereinafter the Service). 

After reading all the information provided, please note that if you continue to navigate our website without taking appropriate measures to customize your browsers to refuse the use of cookies employed, in the terms stated in Article 22.2 of Law 34/2002 of Services of the Information Society and Electronic Commerce, according to the wording of it given by the RD 13/2012 of 30 March, you will be giving their consent for the use of the aforementioned mechanisms.

b) Types, purpose and operation of Cookies: 

Cookies, in terms of their permanence, may be divided into permanent or session cookies. The former expire when the user closes their browser, while the latter expire when their objective function has been served or when manually deleted.

Additionally, depending on their purpose, Cookies can be classified as follows:

PERFORMANCE COOKIES: This type of cookie remembers your preferences within the tools found in the Services so that you do not have to reconfigure the service every time you visit. As an example, this types includes:

GEOLOCATION COOKIES: These cookies are used to find out from which country the user is requesting a Service. This cookie is completely anonymous and is only used to help guide the content to its location.

REGISTRATION COOKIES: The registration Cookies are generated once the user is registered or subsequently has opened a session, and are used to identify you on the Services with the following objectives: 

Additionally, some services may use connectors with social networks such as Facebook or Twitter. When the user is logged into a service with social network credentials, it authorizes the social network to keep a persistent cookie to remember your identity and ensures access to the Services until it expires. The user can delete this Cookie and revoke access to social networking services by updating your preferences in the specific social network.

ANALYTIC COOKIES: Each time a user visits a service, a tool from an external provider (Google, Omniture, NetScope, Comscore and the like that may be added to this list in the event of changes in relation to current list) generates an analytic Cookie in the User's computer. This Cookie is generated only in the visit and will work in future visits to PIERBURG’s Services to identify anonymous visitors. The main objectives to be achieved are: 

• Allow the anonymous identification of website visitors through the "Cookie" (identifies browsers and devices, not people) and thus the approximate counting of the number of visitors and their trend over time.
• Anonymously identify the most visited content and as a result identify the most attractive features to users
• Identify whether the user is a first time or repeat visitor. 

Important: The "Cookie" on the PIERBURG website will never be linked to any personal data that can identify you. These Cookies will only be used for statistical purposes to help optimize the experience of users on the site

ADVERTISING COOKIES: This type of "Cookies" allows an increase of advertising information displayed to each anonymous user. Among others, the duration or frequency of advertising display positions, interaction with them, or browsing patterns and/or User behavior that help shape a profile of advertising interest is stored, thus allowing us to offer advertising related to the interests of the user.

THIRD PARTY ADVERTISING COOKIES: Besides the managed advertising, this type of "Cookies" offers advertisers the option to offer advertisements through third parties ("Ad Servers"). By doing this these Cookies can be stored by the third parties from the browsers of users and access the data saved in them.

c) How to disable the Cookies and Web Bugs for the major browsers: 

You can usually stop accepting browser cookies or stop accepting cookies from a particular Service.

All modern browsers allow you to change the Cookies settings. These settings are usually found in the 'Options' or 'Preferences' menu of your browser. You can also set your browser or email provider by installing free add-ons to prevent Web Bugs being downloaded when you open an email.

• Internet Explorer: Tools > Internet Options > Privacy > Settings
  For more information, please refer to the Microsoft support or browser Help menu.
• Firefox: Tools > Options > Privacy > History > Custom Configuration.
  For more information, please refer to the Mozilla support or browser Help menu.
   
• Chrome: Settings > Show Advanced Options > Privacy > Content Settings.
  For more information, please refer to Google support or browser Help menu.
   
• Safari: Preferences > Security.
  For more information, please refer to the Apple support or browser Help menu.

d) What happens if cookies are disabled: 

Some features of the Services will be disabled, such as, the ability to remain logged in, the ability to keep purchases in the "shopping cart" in an e-commerce service, the ability to receive information aimed at your specific location or the ability to view some videos. 

UPDATES AND CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY / COOKIES: 

The PIERBURG website may modify this Policy Cookies based on laws, regulations, or in order to adapt the policy to instructions given by the Spanish Agency for Data Protection, so the users who visit regularly are advised to visit and inform themselves periodically. When significant changes are made to theCookies Policy, updates to the users can be found in this section.