Welcome to the COOKIES POLICY of theAssociació Hèlia website, which supports women who suffer from gender violence, with Spanish tax ID (CIF) G64813595, where we will explain in clear and simple language all the issues necessary for you to be in control of your personal decisions.
WHAT ARE COOKIES AND WHAT DO WE USE THEM FOR?
A cookie is a small file of information that is stored on your computer, smartphoneor tablet each time you visit our website.
In principle, a cookie is harmless: it does not contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, etc. that may damage your computer, but it does have a certain impact on your right to the protection of your personal data, as it collects certain personal information from you (browsing habits, identity, preferences, etc.).
That is why, in accordance with the applicable personal data protection regulations, we need your prior authorisation to enable certain types of cookies.
With a stepas quick and easy as ticking a box, in our COOKIE SETTINGSsection, you can give permission to enable the cookies that you want: take control and enjoy personalised browsing on our website.
Before that, we’ll give you some extra information to help you to make the best decisions:
- There may be different types of cookies based on their purpose:
- Technical cookies are necessary for our website to work. They do not require your authorisation and are the only ones we have activated by default.
- The other cookies can be used to improve our website, to personalise it according to your preferences or to show you advertising tailored to your searches, tastes and personal interests. We have them disabled by default and your prior authorisation is required to enable them. You can activate them through a step as quick and easy as ticking a box in our COOKIE SETTINGSsection.
- 2. Some cookies are ours (we call them first-party cookies) and others belong to external companies that provide services for our website (we will call them third-party cookies: an example might be cookies from external vendors such as Google). In this sense, it is important to know that some of these external suppliers may be located outside of Spain.
Not all countries in the world have the same level of data protection. In fact, some countries are more secure than others (for example, the European Union is a secure environment for your data). Our policy is to use trusted providers that have taken the appropriate safeguards to protect your personal information, whether or not they are located in the European Union. However, in the WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES ARE CURRENTLY USED ON OUR WEBSITE? section, you can read the different Privacy and Data Protection Policies of each of the aforementioned external providers to make an informed decision about whether or not to enable third-party cookies used by our website.
- Finally, depending on the length of time they remain enabled, cookies can be of two types:
- Session cookies: these automatically expire when you log out of your computer, smartphone, or tablet. They are usually used to store the necessary information while providing you with a one-time service.
- Persistent cookies: these stay stored on your computer, smartphone or tablet for a period of time, which can range from a few minutes to several years.
WHAT KIND OF COOKIES CAN WE USE ON OUR WEBSITE?
- Technical cookies:
Technical cookies are strictly necessary for our website to work and so you can browse it. For example, these types of cookies allow us to identify you, give you access to certain restricted parts of the website if necessary or remember different options or services that you have already selected, such as your privacy preferences. Technical cookies are strictly necessary for our website to work and so you can browse it. These are all enabled by default and your authorisation is not required.
Through the settings of your browser, you can block or alert the presence of this type of cookie, though this blockage will affect the proper functioning of the various features of our website.
- Analytics cookies:
Analytics cookies allow us to study how users browse our website in general (for example, they allow us to know which sections of the websites are the most frequently visited, which services are used the most and if they work properly, etc.).
Based on the statistical information about browsing our website, we can improve both the operation of the site itself and the different services it offers. Therefore, these cookies are not intended for advertising, but only to make our website work better and to suit our users in general. Enabling them will contribute to this continuous improvement.
You can enable or disable these cookies by checking the appropriate box, as they are disabled by default.
- Functionality and personalisation cookies
Functionality cookies allow us to remember your preferences for customising certain general features and options of our website each time you access it (for example, the language in which the information is presented to you, the sections marked as favourites, your browser type, etc.).
Therefore, these types of cookies are not intended for advertising purposes,but by enabling them, you will improve the functionality of the website (for example by adapting it to your browser type) and customising it according to your preferences, which will make browsing our website easier, more usable and more convenient.
You can enable or disable these cookies by checking the appropriate box, as they are disabled by default.
- Advertising cookies:
Advertising cookies allow us to manage the advertising space included on our website based on criteria such as the content displayed or how often the ads are displayed.
For example, if you’ve been shown the same advert on our website several times, and you haven’t shown a personal interest in clicking on it, it won’t show up again. In short, by enabling this type of cookie, the advertising displayed on our website will be more useful, more diverse and less repetitive.
You can enable or disable these cookies by checking the appropriate box, as they are disabled by default.
- Behavioural advertising cookies:
Behavioural advertising cookies allow us to obtain information based on observations of your browsing habits and behaviours so that we can show you advertising content that best suits your personal tastes and interests.
For example, if your recent Internet searches were related to suspense literature, we would show you advertising for suspense books.
Therefore, by activating this type of cookie, the advertising we show you on our website will not be generic, but will be targeted to your searches, tastes and interests, and therefore tailored exclusively to you.
You can enable or disable these cookies by checking the appropriate box, as they are disabled by default.
WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH COOKIES?
What you first access our website, you are shown a window informing you that the cookies may be of various types:
- Technical cookies are necessary for our website to work. They do not require your authorisation and are the only ones we have activated by default. Therefore, they are the only cookies that will be enabled just by pressing the ACCEPT button.
- The other cookies are used to improve our page, to personalise it according to your preferences or to show you advertising tailored to your searches, tastes and personal interests. We have them all disabled by default, but you can enable them from our COOKIE SETTINGSsection: take control and enjoy personalised browsing on our website with a step as simple and fast as checking the boxes you want.
Once you have enabled any type of cookie, you can disable it whenever you want just by unchecking the box corresponding to the COOKIE SETTINGSsection of our website. Enabling or disabling our first-party cookies will always be that simple.
Through your browser settings, you can block or alert the presence of cookies, although doing so may affect the proper functioning of the various functionalities of our website in the case of the necessary technical cookies.
To make it easier for you, here are some links for disabling cookies on the most common browsers: