What are Cookies?
Cookies are a text-only string containing small quantities of information which are transferred to your computer when you visit a Website. After the browser session theses are transferred back to the originating Website on every subsequent visit (First-party cookies) or to other Website which recognizes it (Third-party cookies). Cookies are useful to allow the Web Site to recognizing a User’s device. Cookies have many purposes, like allowing the user to surf between Websites efficiently, remember your preferences and, in general, improving your experience as user. They can also help you to guaranteeing that the banners you see online are the most important for you and according to your interests.
On the basis of their function and the purpose for which they are used, there are 4 types of cookies: strictly necessary cookies, performance cookies, functionality cookies and Targeting/advertising cookies.
Strictly necessary cookies
Are essential to enable you to navigate around the website and use its functions. Without these cookies we could not provide the service that you request for, e.g. remind previous actions (like the entered text) when you visit again a Website without logging out.
Performance cookies
These cookies collect information about how a website is used, e.g. which websites are most visited by the users and if these websites display error messages. These cookies do not collect information identifying the user: all the information collected by such cookies is aggregated information, and therefore anonymous. These are only used to improve the functioning of a website.
Functioning cookies
These cookies enable a Website to remember your preferences (like the user name, the language or your location) and offer you improved and personal functions; e.g. a website could offer you tax information concerning the local prices by using a cookie to registering the province where you are located. The functionality cookies may also be used to providing services needed by the user, like watching a video. The information collected by these cookies may be anonymous and won’t follow your visits through other websites.
Targeting/advertising cookies
These are used to show the most relevant banners for you according to your interests. These are also used to restrict the number of times you see a banner, as well as to help you to measuring the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. These remember if you already visited a website or not and such information is shared with other organizations, like the advertisers. The advertising cookies will be often linked to the website’s functionality of other organizations.
Use of Cookies by SANLUCAR
Like most websites, when visiting SANLUCAR’s website, it will use cookies to improve the user’s experience, enabling the website to remember you, because of the duration of your visit or because the repeated visits, which will allow you to navigate through the websites efficiently, by saving your preferences and allowing you to interact with social networks like Facebook or Google + and offering Google Maps services.
The cookies will be established by our website (first party cookies) and other websites, which execute their content in our website (third party cookies): e.g. our sites include embedded buttons “Share” which allow the users of the website to share their content with friends through the social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
These other websites can establish a cookie once you logged in their service.
SANLUCAR does not control the cookies of such websites. It consults the websites of third parties in order to obtain further information about their cookies and how to manage them.
You will find below a list of the examples of all the cookies used in the website, organized by type:
You may enable or disable some or all cookies or eliminate the cookies which are already established, by changing the cookies settings, to which reference is made in the help menu of your browser. But you should take into account, that after this you won’t be able to use all the interactive functions of our webpage.
First-party Cookies |
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Name |
Provider |
Purpose |
Expiry date |
Type* |
_icl_current_language |
sanlucar.com |
Saves the language chosen |
Session |
Setting |
__utma |
sanlucar.com |
It is used to identify the individual users. |
2 Years |
Analytics |
__utmb |
sanlucar.com |
It is used for the creation and restoration of a user session. |
Session |
Analytics |
__utmc |
sanlucar.com |
It is used to determine if a new session must be created for the User. |
Session |
Analytics |
__utmz |
sanlucar.com |
Saves the type of reference and engine used by the User to reach the Website. |
6 Months |
Analytics |
Cookie Disclaimer |
sanlucar.com |
Saves the settings regarding the Cookie-Policy |
Persistent |
Setting |
Third-party Cookies |
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Name |
Provider |
Purpose |
Expiry date |
Type * |
NID |
google.com |
Tracking Cookie used by Google to protect the User against known intrusive sites. |
6 Months |
Analytics |
PREF |
google.com |
Saves the user settings for Google’s services |
2 Years |
Setting |
khcookie |
google.com |
It is used by Google Maps to save the displaying information. |
Session |
Setting |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
youtube.com |
Attempts to estimate the bandwidth used for the Youtube’s embedded video. |
8 Months |
Setting |
YSC |
youtube.com |
It is used by Youtube to allow the embedded Youtube video to work. |
Session |
Analytics |
PREF |
youtube.com |
Saves the user settings for Youtube’s services |
2 Years |
Setting |
Share in social networks
SANLUCAR’s websites contain buttons “I like” or “Share”, so that the users may share the content through the social networks like Facebook or Twitter.
These websites may establish a cookie when you log in their service. SANLUCAR does not have control over the cookie settings of these websites. Please, consult the Websites of third parties to obtain more information about their cookies and how to manage them.