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COOKIES POLICY
1. What are cookies?
A cookie is a text file that a web server can save in the hard disk of your computer to store some type of information on you as user. Cookies are used with different purposes like storing data for future visits, recognising the user and avoiding asking again for identification, knowing which pages you visit or saving your preferences in personalised areas. Normally, websites use cookies to obtain statistical information on their websites and analyse the behaviour of their clients/users.
2. Types of cookies
Cookies can be classified in accordance with the following criteria:
In accordance with who installs the cookie, these can be:
Own cookies: These are the cookies that are sent to the computer of the user from a computer or domain managed by the editor and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
Third-party cookies: These are the cookies sent to the computer of the user either from a computer or domain managed by us or by a third party, but the information collected by the cookies is managed by a third party different from the owner of the website.
According to their time of storage, the cookies can be:
Session cookies: Those cookies that last for the time that the user is navigating through the Website and are deleted when the navigation finishes.
Lasting cookies: These cookies are stored in the computer of the user for a longer time, making easier the control of the selected preferences without having to repeat certain parameters each time that the Website is visited.
According to their purpose, the cookies can be:
Technical cookies: Technical cookies are those essential and strictly necessary for the correct functioning of a Website and the use of the many options and services that it offers. For instance, those used to maintain the session, those allowing the use of security elements, those used to share content in social networks, etc.
Personalisation cookies: These allow the user to choose or personalise characteristics of the Website, such as the language, regional configuration or type of browser.
Analytical cookies: These cookies are used by Web portals, to create navigation profiles and to know the preferences of the users with the aim of improving the offer of products and services. They allow control of geographical areas of higher interest of a user, the web information of highest acceptance, etc.
Publicity / Advertising cookies: These allow the management of the publicity spaces based on concrete criteria. For instance, the frequency of access, the edited content, etc. The publicity cookies allow, through the management of publicity, to store information of the behaviour through the observation of habits, studying accesses and creating a preference profile of the user, to offer him/her publicity according to the interests of his/her profile.
3. Cookies used in our website
www.hotelplayacalera.com uses the following types of cookies in the website:
Technical cookies
They allow the user to navigate through the Web and use functions like the shopping cart.
Personalisation cookies
These allow to know the user preferences: language, visited products…
Analytical cookies
We use Google Analytics cookies to quantify the number of users that visit the Web. These cookies allow to measure and analyse the way that the users navigate through the Web. This information allows GOMERA VERDE, S.A. to constantly improve its services and the experience of the Web users. For further information, you can visit the privacy page of Google Analytics:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage.
Advertising cookies and behavioural advertising cookies
These cookies are used to show advertisements relevant to the users according to their use of our website. Additionally, they limit the number of times that a user sees an advertisement and help GOMERA VERDE, S.A. to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns. When navigating through the Web, the user accepts the installation of this type of cookies in his/her device and allows us to keep track when the user visits the Web of GOMERA VERDE, S.A. in the future.
Cookies installed in our web domain:
| Name of the cookie | Purpose | Own/ third- party |
Duration | When is it installed? |
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| _ga_P3PF6DZY4V | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. | Own | 2 years | When cookies are accepted | |
| _ga |
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Own | 2 years | When cookies are accepted | |
| _gid | Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. | Own | 1 day | When cookies are accepted | |
| _gat_gtag_UA_49060049_1 | Set by Google to distinguish users. | Own | 1 minute | When cookies are accepted | |
| TAUnique | Tripadvisor sets this cookie to store a unique ID for users, to help them view embedded content from Tripadvisor. | Third | 2 years | When cookies are accepted | |
| TASession | This cookie is set by the provider Tripadvisor. This cookie is used for user tracking and viewing embedded contents from TripAdvisor like payment of referral commission fees etc. | Third | Session | When cookies are accepted | |
| ServerPool | This cookie is set by the provider Tripadvisor. This cookie is used for user tracking and viewing embedded contents from TripAdvisor like payment of referral commission fees etc. | Third | Session | When cookies are accepted | |
| _abck | This cookie is used to detect and defend when a client attempt to replay a cookie.This cookie manages the interaction with online bots and takes the appropriate actions. | Third | 1 year | When cookies are accepted | |
| bm_sz | This cookie is set by the provider Akamai Bot Manager. This cookie is used to manage the interaction with the online bots. It also helps in fraud preventions | Third | 4 hours | When cookies are accepted | |
| hcweb_branch | This cookie is set by the provider Holiday Check. | Third | 14 hours | When cookies are accepted | |
| internal_traffic | No description available. | Third | 16 years | When cookies are accepted | |
| mobile_detected | This cookie is set by the provider HolidayCheck. This is a session cookie used for enabling the HolidayCheck widget. | Third | Session | When cookies are accepted | |
| SRT | This cookie is set by the provider Tripadvisor. This is a Tripadvisor session cookie used for advertising purposes. | Third | 30 minutes | When cookies are accepted | |
| PMC | No description | Third | 2 years | When cookies are accepted | |
| TART | This cookie is set by the provider Tripadvisor. This cookie is used for viewing contents and ads from Tripadvisor, which in return helps to earn money from Tripadvisor if the visitor has clicked the ads. | Third | 5 days | When cookies are accepted | |
| TATravelInfo | This cookie is set by the provider Tripadvisor. This cookie is used for viewing contents and ads from Tripadvisor, which in return helps to earn money from Tripadvisor if the visitor has clicked the ads. | Third | 14 days | When cookies are accepted |
This website, like most websites, includes functions provided by third parties.
Our website is a dynamic website and new designs or services of third parties can be included. This can occasionally alter the cookie configuration and other cookies not described in detail in this policy may appear.
Our website does not control the cookies used by these third parties. For further information on the cookies of social networks or other external Webs, we recommend you to check your own policies on cookies.
4. Information and obtainment of the consent for installation
www.hotelplayacalera.com shall take at all times the adequate steps to obtain the consent of the User for the installation of cookies requiring it. When a user accesses our website, a pop-up appears and informs the user of the existence of cookies and that if he/she continues navigating through our website, he/she gives his/her consent to the installation of cookies.
5. How can I avoid the installation of cookies?
The user can configure his/her browser to accept or not the cookies or to be informed by the browser when a server wants to save a cookie. If some technical cookies are disabled, the proper functioning of some of the website functions is not guaranteed.
The user can exclude the storage in his/her computer of the “analytical and advertising” cookies of Google Analytics by means of the exclusion systems provided by Google Analytics.
We also give you some examples of how to disable cookies:
a) Through the browser configuration:
- Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/windows-vista/block-or-allow-cookies
- Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/habilitar-y-deshabilitar-cookies-que-los-sitios-web
- Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677?viewlocale=es_ES.
- Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=es.
- Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/11.50/es-ES/cookies.html
In order to receive more information, visit the website section of the Spanish Agency of Data Protection that helps to configure privacy in social networks, browsers and mobile operating systems. More information.
b) Through third-party tools:
There are third-party tools, available online, allowing the users to detect the cookies in each website that they visit and disable them, for instance:
http://www.youronlinechoices.com/es/
6. Links to other websites
If you choose to leave our website through links to other websites that do not belong to us, we assume no responsibility with regard to the privacy policies of said websites nor with regard to the cookies that these websites may store in the computer of the user.
7. How do we compile and use the IP addresses?
The Website servers can automatically detect the IP address and the domain name used by the users.
An IP address is a number automatically assigned to a computer when it connects to the Internet. This information allows the subsequent data processing in order to know if the user has given his/her consent to the installation of cookies, it also allows to carry out statistical measurements that allow to know the number of visits to the Website, the order of visits, the point of access, etc.
8. Update of our cookies policy
This policy is regularly revised to ensure its applicability, so it can be modified. We recommend you to regularly visit the website, where we will inform you of any update in this respect.
