1. What are Cookies?
A cookie is a text file that a web server can save on your computer’s hard drive to store some type of information about you as user. Cookies are used for various purposes such as storing data for future visits, to recognize the user and avoid asking for authentication again, to know which pages you visit, or to save your preferences in customizable areas …). Normally websites use cookies to obtain statistical information about their web pages, and analyze the behavior of their customers/users.
2. Types of cookies
Cookies can be classified according to the following criteria:
According to who installs the cookies, these can be:
Own cookies: these are those that are sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by the editor itself and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
Third party cookies: these are those that are sent to the user’s terminal equipment 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 other than the owner of the website.
Depending on storage period, the cookies can be:
Session Cookies: these are those that last as long as the user is browsing the web page and are deleted when the navigation ends.
Persistent cookies: they are stored in the user’s terminal, for a longer time, thus facilitating the control of the preferences chosen without having to repeat certain parameters each time the website is visited.
According to their purpose the cookies can be:
Technical cookies: technical cookies are those essential and strictly necessary for the proper functioning of a website and the use of the various options and services offered. For example, session maintenance, those that allow the use of security elements, share content with social networks, etc.
Personalization cookies: they allow the user to choose or customize features of the web page such as language, regional configuration or browser type.
Analytical cookies: these are the ones used by the web portals, to elaborate navigation profiles and to be able to know the preferences of the users in order to improve the offer of products and services. They allow to control geographic areas of greater interest of a user, the information of the web of more acceptance, etc.
Advertising cookies: they allow the management of advertising spaces based on specific criteria. For example, the frequency of access, the edited content, etc. Advertising cookies allow, through the management of advertising, to store behavioral information through the observation of habits, studying access and forming a profile of user preferences, to offer advertising related to the interests of their profile.
Cookies used on our website
www.dzamlinggar.net uses the following types of cookies on the web:
Technical cookies
They allow the user to browse the web and use features.
Personalization cookies
They allow to know the preferences of the user: language, products visited…
Analysis cookies
We use Google Analytics cookies to quantify the number of users who visit the website. These cookies allow to measure and analyze the way in which users browse the Web. This information allows the INTERNATIONAL DZOGCHEN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF DZAMLING GAR to continuously improve its services and the experience of the users of the web. For more information, you can consult the Google Analytics privacy page: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage.
Advertising and behavioral advertising cookies
These cookies are used to display relevant ads for users based on their use of our website. In addition, they limit the number of times each user views an advertisement and help the INTERNATIONAL DZOGCHEN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF DZAMLING GAR to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns. When surfing the web, the user agrees the installan of this type of cookies on his device and we make queries when the user visits the INTERNATIONAL DZOGCHEN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF DZAMLING GAR webpage in the future.
Cookies installed in our web domain:
Name of the cookie | Purpose | Own / third-party | Duration | When is it installed? |
Session cookie | Technique | Own | Session | When the website is accessed |
policy_confirm | Technique | Own | 365 days | When confirming cookie policy |
last_foto_passport | Technique | Own | 365 days | When to use donation form |
This website, like most websites, includes features provided by third parties. Our website is a live web page and new designs or third-party services can be included. This may occasionally modify the configuration of cookies and the appearance of cookies not detailed in this policy.
Third-party cookies used on our website installed by third-party domains are the following:
Owner | Name | When is it installed? | Description | Duration | More information |
google.com | NID | When browsing the web | Map service provided by Google. Google Maps cookies register the origin of the user and allows to count how many times a user visits the site. They are technical and customization cookies. | It depends on google policies | Click here |
Our site does not control the cookies used by these third parties. For more information about cookies from social networks or other third-party websites, we advise you to review their own cookie policies.
4. Information and obtaining consent for installation
www.dzamlinggar.net will seek at all times to establish adequate mechanisms to obtain the consent of the User for the installation of cookies that require it. When a user accesses our website, a pop-up appears informing you of the existence of cookies and that if you continue browsing our website, you consent to the installation of cookies.
5. How can I prevent the installation of cookies?
The user can configure his browser to accept, or not, the cookies he receives or for the browser to notify him/her when a server wants to save a cookie. If some technical cookies are disabled, the correct functioning of some of the web’s utilities is not guaranteed.
The user may exclude that Google Analytics “analytical and advertising” cookies are stored on his/her terminal using the exclusion systems provided by Google Analytics.
Below, we also give you some examples of how to disable cookies:
1. By configuring the browser itself:
• 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=en_US.
• Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=en
• Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/11.50/es-ES/cookies.html
To expand this information, you can go to the page of the Spanish Agency for Data Protection that helps to configure privacy in social networks, browsers and mobile operating systems. More information.
2. Using third-party tools:
There are third-party tools, available online, that allow users to detect cookies on each website they visit and manage their deactivation, for example:
http://www.ghostery.com
http://www.youronlinechoices.com/es/
3. Links to other websites
If you choose to leave our website through links to other websites not belonging to our entity, we will not be responsible for the privacy policies of such websites or the cookies they may store on the user’s computer.
4. How do we collect and use IP addresses?
Web servers can automatically detect the IP address and domain name used by users.
An IP address is a number automatically assigned to a computer when it connects to the Internet. This information allows the subsequent processing of the data in order to know if you have given your consent for the installation of cookies, to make only statistical measurements that allow knowing the number of visits made to the web, the order of visits, the access point, etc.
5. Update of our cookies policy
This policy is reviewed periodically to ensure its validity, so it can be modified. We recommend that you visit the page regularly where we will inform you of any update about it.
Date: 09/12/18
Version: V.1.0