Privacy and Cookies
by Martin Schenk

Privacy and Cookies

This Cookies Policy is an integral part of the Legal Notice and the Privacy Policy of the www.bdsky.com website (hereinafter, the “Website”). Access to and browsing on the Website, or the use of its services, imply acceptance of the terms and conditions set out in the Legal Notice and in the Privacy Policy.

In order to facilitate browsing on the Website, TRIBIDIS INTERNATIONAL, S.L., hereinafter BD SKY, as owner thereof (hereinafter, the “Owner”) with registered office at Calle Velázquez, 15, 1-plta., 28001, Madrid, with Tax Identification Number B-88229695, informs you that it uses cookies or other similar data storage and recovery devices (hereinafter, “Cookies”).

In this regard, and for the purpose of ensuring that the user has all the necessary information for correct browsing, we provide the user with the following informative text indicating what cookies are, what type of cookies are used on our Website and how to configure or disable them.

1. What is a Cookie?

Cookies are files that contain small quantities of information that are downloaded on the user’s device when he/she visits a website. Their main purpose is to recognize the user each time he/she accesses the Website, and also allow make it possible to improve quality and offer a better use of the Website.

Cookies are essential for the functioning of Internet, as they help, among other functions, to identify and resolve possible operational errors of the Website.

2. Type of cookies

This Website uses own and third-party cookies. The cookies used are stored on your computer for a certain time. These may be considered to be session cookies (if they expire when you leave our Website) or persistent (if the cookies have a longer expiration period). The cookies used on this Website are:

  • “Strictly necessary” cookies

These are the cookies that are considered essential for browsing the Website, as they facilitate the use of features or tools of the website for the user, such as, for example, log-in identification, access to restricted access areas of the website, remembering elements that make up an order, carrying out the purchase process of an order, among others. Without these cookies, the functions mentioned above would be disabled.

  • Behaviour tracking cookies

These are the cookies that have the purpose of gathering information on the user’s browsing uses, such as the most visited websites, error messages, among others, for the purpose, on the controller’s part, of making improvements to the website based on the information compiled by these cookies.

The information gathered by these cookies is anonymous and does not allow the user to be identified personally and, therefore, is used exclusively for the correct operation of the website.

  • Functional cookies

These are cookies that allow the website to remember the decisions that the user makes, for example: the user’s geographical location will be stored to ensure that the appropriate website for his/her region is displayed, the username, language, type of browser used to access the website, among others. The purpose is to provide a more personalized service.

The information gathered by these cookies is anonymous and does not allow the user to be identified personally and, therefore, is used exclusively for the correct operation of the website.

  • Personalization and advertising cookies

These are cookies used by advertisers with the permission of the website owner, which gather information on the user’s preferences and choices in his/her browsing on websites. They are directed to advertising networks that use them subsequently to show the user personalized ads on other websites.

3. Summary of cookies used on the Website

The Owner uses cookies to personalize the user’s browsing on the Websites under its ownership, user log-in cookies and session cookies to balance the load, which are excluded from the scope of application of article 22.2 of the Information Society Services Act (LSSI).

Furthermore, the Owner uses web analytics cookies to measure and analyse browsing by users on the Websites. The Owner uses the data obtained for the purpose of making improvements in the analysis of the data on use by users. Web analytics does not allow information to be obtained on the user’s given name, surname or e-mail or postal address. The information obtained concerns the number of users that access the web, the number of sites visited, the frequency and repetition of visits, their duration, the browser used, the operator that provides the service, the language, the terminal used or the city to which the IP address is assigned.

Likewise, the Owner uses behavioural advertising cookies for the management of the advertising spaces based on certain criteria and plug-in cookies to exchange social contents. These cookies store information on users’ behaviour obtained through continued observation of their browsing habits, which allows advertising to be shown based on such behaviour.

Name

Provider

Purpose

Duration

1P_JAR

Google

Transfer data to Google

1 week

NID

Google

Viewing maps through Google Maps

6 months

OGPC

Google

This cookie is used by Google to provide services and extract anonymous information about navigation.

1 month

PHPSESSID

PHP Session

Technical cookie that contains the identifier of the session

It’s deleted when the browser is closed

_ga

Google Analitycs

It is used to distinguish users

2 years

_gat

Google Analitycs

It is used to differentiate between the different tracking objects created in the session.

The cookie is created when the javascript library is loaded and there is no previous version of the _gat cookie. The cookie is updated every time it send the data to Google Analytics

_gid

Google Analitycs

Google Analytics uses this cookie to store and update a unique value for each page visited.

The cookie is updated every time it send the data to Google Analytics.

descarga_app

BD SKY

Identify if a user has downloaded the BD SKY APP

1 week

idioma_portal

BD SKY

Identify the language that is being used in the portal

10 days

mostrar_popup

BD SKY

It is used to display advertising banners

It is deleted when the browser is closed

politica-cookies

BD SKY

Identify if a user has accepted the privacy policy

1 week

4. User configuration to avoid Cookies

In compliance with ruling legal provisions, the Owner provides users of the Website with information that will allow them to configure their Internet browser/browsers to maintain their privacy and security in relation to Cookies. Accordingly, information and links to official support sites of the main browsers are provided so that each user may decide whether or not he/she wishes to accept the use of Cookies.

Thus, it is possible to block Cookies through the browser configuration tools, or each user may configure his/her browser so that it notifies the user whenever a server wishes to store a Cookie:

Last updated: 23rd of January 2019