Cookies Policy

• 1. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a file that is downloaded onto your computer, smartphone, tablet or any other electronic device when you access certain web pages. Cookies are necessary to facilitate your browsing experience and to improve your interaction with this website.

• 2. Why do we use cookies on this website?

The cookies we use make it easier for you to browse our website and help us improve its quality. They also allow us to store and retrieve information about your browsing (and that of any device) and to understand your browsing habits or those of other users.

For more information about cookies, please visit the “Guide on the Use of Cookies” published by the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD): https://www.aepd.es/guias/guia-cookies.pdf

• 3. How can I configure or disable the installation of cookies?

During the installation or update of your browser, you may accept or reject the installation of cookies, or even refuse certain types of cookies, being able to opt to be notified each time a cookie is received. Likewise, you can completely deactivate all cookies via the cookie manager enabled on the platform. Disabling some cookies may prevent you from enjoying certain website features, as indicated in the cookie table at the end of this document.

After each session, you can delete all or some of the stored cookies via your browser’s settings.

Although cookie configuration varies for each browser, it is usually done in the “Preferences” or “Tools” menu. You can find more detailed information by consulting your browser’s “Help” menu.

You can also activate private browsing, in which your browser stops saving browsing history, passwords and information about visited websites; or enable the “Do Not Track” function to prevent tracking of your browsing habits.

If you wish to receive more information about behavioural advertising and to exclude the installation of third-party cookies related to such advertising, visit: www.youronlinechoices.com/es/

• 4. What types of cookies exist and how do we use them on this website?

According to the “Guide on the Use of Cookies” published by the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD), cookies may be classified as follows:

• According to the entity managing them:

1. Own cookies: Sent to the user’s device from a domain managed by the website’s editor (in this case BE MATE) from which the requested service is provided.
2. Third-party cookies: Sent to the user’s device from a domain not managed by BE MATE, but by another entity that processes data obtained through cookies. For example, BE MATE may use third-party analytics services that analyse users’ browsing behaviour on the Platform to improve the service provided.
   

• According to the entity managing them (Should be ‘According to the purpose’):

• Technical cookies: Allow navigation through the website and the use of various options or services (e.g. traffic control, data communication, session identification).

• Personalisation cookies: Allow access to the service with certain predefined general features, such as language, browser type or regional configuration.

• Analytics cookies: Allow monitoring and analysis of user behaviour on the website. Information collected is used to measure activity and improve the service.

• Advertising cookies: Allow efficient management of advertising spaces on the website, adapting ad content to the user’s browsing profile.

• According to the duration of storage:

1. Session cookies: Designed to collect and store data while the user accesses the website.
2. Persistent cookies: Data remain stored for a defined period determined by the cookie owner (from minutes to several years).

Below you will find detailed information about all the cookies used on this website, their purpose, duration, and whether they are first-party or third-party:

• 5. Updates and changes to the Cookie Policy.

This Cookie Policy may be modified due to legislative or regulatory requirements, or to adapt it to the instructions issued by the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD). Users are therefore advised to review it periodically.