Cookies Policy
Our website https://www.varma.com uses cookies and similar technologies (“cookies”) subject to your consent and if required by the applicable law.
This Cookies Policy (the “Policy”) describes how IMPORTACIONES Y EXPORTACIONES VARMA S.A. (“Varma”, “we”, “us” or “our”) uses these cookies on our website (our “website” or “services”) and our commitment to respect your privacy.
IMPORTACIONES Y EXPORTACIONES VARMA S.A. is a company incorporated under the Spanish laws, with registered address in C/ La Granja, 15, Pol. Alcobendas – 28108 Alcobendas (Madrid).
What is a cookie? Cookies are tiny text files that are stored in users’ computer or mobile phone (smartphone or tablet) when they visit our website. Cookies usually store the name of the website it belongs to, the cookie lifespan (that is, how long shall it remain in your device) and a unique identifier, usually a randomly generated number.
Why do we use cookies?
Cookies make our websites users-friendly and help us to adapt our services and products to our users’ needs.
Cookies do it by letting our website recognize users so it can then retrieve important information that makes our service more convenient and personalized (for example, by remembering users’ preferences). Cookies may also be used to improve users’ experience. So, we use cookies to compile anonymous aggregated statistics that help us to understand how our services are used and how to improve our content.
What are the different types of cookies we use? The sort of cookies that we use can either be session or persistent ones, or origin or third parties cookies.
- Persistent cookies are used to safely save users’ login information and remember their settings for future visits to our website. A persistent cookie is a cookie stored as a file on users’ computers where it remains, even when they close their web browser. These cookies can only be read by the website that created them when users visit that website for the next time.
- Session ID cookies are used to enable certain features on our website, to better understand how users interact with our service and to monitor aggregate usage and web traffic. Unlike persistent cookies, session cookies are deleted from your computer when you close your browser. They usually store an anonymous session identifier on your computer which means, for example, that users can browse a website without logging in every page.
- Origin cookies correspond to the cookies we use to improve users’ experience. They are associated with an individual’s personal information. No third party can access to the information we collect in our own origin cookies.
- Third party cookies are cookies used by third parties to provide their services on our website; this includes cookies used for advertising purposes. They place these cookies on your device on our behalf when you visit our website, and this helps them to deliver the services they provide. You can find more information about these cookies in their privacy policies.
You may find below a list of the different types of cookies that we may use on our websites. When cookies are used to collect personal information, the provisions explained in our [Privacy Policy] shall apply (https://www.varma.com/en/politica-de-privacidad/), as well as this Cookie Policy.
- Essential cookies. Essential cookies are essential for our website to work and for users to plainly use its services and features. The lack of these cookies provokes a malfunctioning of some features and services from our website and users’ experience could be thus altered.
We also use technical cookies to save the selections carried out in our website (such as users’ language or location settings) for customization purposes. These cookies do not collect any users’ information to be used for advertising purposes or tracking their visits in Internet. Some examples are included in the following chart:
Who does install a cookie? Type Description / purpose
Essential cookies are crucial for a correct running of our website; so, you cannot disable them.
- Social media add-in cookies
We use buttons that let users share our websites in social networks. Theses buttons may install third party cookies in your device, these cookies might collect information about how you use our website.
Some examples are included in the following chart:
Who does install a cookie? Type Description / purpose Persistent YouTube cookie Social networks button in YouTube: Cookies are used to ease our content exchange in YouTube.
Persistent Facebook cookie Social networks button in Facebook: Cookies are used to ease our content exchange in Facebook.
Persistent Twitter cookie Social networks button in Twitter: Cookies are used to ease our content exchange in Twitter.
Users must access to the general settings in their Facebook, Twitter and YouTube accounts and click on the corresponding link to disable the Facebook, Twitter and YouTube tracking button of every website that they visit.
- Google Analytics cookies
Our website can also use Google Analytics cookies. Theses cookies collect information about the way users interact with our website. For example, they track the most visited websites, IP (Internet Protocol) addresses, types of browsers, Internet Services Providers (ISP), source/output pages and operative systems, date/time and visit data.
We use this information, for example, to analyze usage trends, to manage our service, to track how users navigate our website and to collect demographic information about who uses our website.
Some examples are included in the following chart:
Visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout to stop being tracked by Google Analytics cookies in every website you visit.
- Marketing and profiling cookies. We work with third party advertising companies to display advertisements while users visit our website. We let these companies store and introduce their own cookies in users’ computers and mobile devices when those advertisements are being displayed.
These companies use cookies to collect information about visits to our website and to others (this does not include personal information such as users’ name, address, email address or telephone number). This information, combined with non-personally identifiable information about users’ purchases and interests obtained from other websites, may be used to display products and services advertisements what may interest users.
Some examples are included in the following chart:
Visit http://www.bluekai.com/consumers.php#optout to stop being tracked by BlueKai in every website you visit.
Visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout to stop being tracked by Google advertising cookies in every website you visit.
- Flash cookies
We also use Flash cookies (also known as Local stored objects) and similar technologies to customize and improve users’ online experience. You can learn to manage Flash cookies by visiting the following website: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager06.html
Please, note that rejecting Flash cookies provokes a malfunctioning of our website; thus, you won’t be able to take advantage of every service of us.
How long are cookies stored?
According to the applicable law, cookies have a maximum retention period after having being stored for the first time at users’ computers.
How to control cookies in our website?
Excluding essential cookies, the cookies described above shall be installed in users’ computer just in case they continue browsing our website after having clicked on our age confirmation page.
Users can also control the way they interact with cookies at their browser priorities. This is explained in the Help section of your browser.
Users should note that disabling cookies may suppose them not to be able to log in their accounts, view content or use other features of our website. Some parts of our website may not properly work or do it unexpectedly.
Users who, apart from their computer, use different devices to view and access our services, such as a smartphone or tablet, shall need to ensure that every browser on each device is set according to your cookie preferences.
Contact
If you have any question, comment or concern about our cookie policy, please contact [email protected]