In compliance with what is laid down in Article 22.2 of Act 34/2002, on Services of the Information Society and Electronic Commerce (LSSI), and in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Organic Law 3/2018 of December 5, 2018, on the Protection of Personal Data and guarantee of digital rights and the Guidelines 03/2022 of the European Data Protection Committee.
CONSORCIO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED (CIBER) has drawn up the Cookie Policy detailed below. Our aim is to provide comprehensive, complete, and transparent information about the cookies we use on our website. This policy is designed to help you understand what cookies are, how we use them and the rights you have to control our use of them.
What are cookies?
This website uses cookies and/or similar technologies that store and retrieve information when you browse the website. In general, these technologies can serve a variety of purposes, such as recognizing you as a user, obtaining information about your browsing habits, or customizing the way content is displayed. The specific uses we make of these technologies are described below.
What type of cookies are there?
Depending on the institution managing the equipment or domain from which the cookies are sent, we can distinguish between:
- Own cookies: These are those generated by the website that is being visited and the ownership corresponds to the editor of the page.
- Third parties’ cookies: These are generated from a domain or system that is not managed by the publisher of the page, but by a third-party institution responsible for and owning these.
Depending on the period of time for which they remain activated on the user’s system, we can distinguish between:
- Session cookies: These cookies collect and store data while the user accesses a web page, and tend to be used for storing the information required for rendering a service requested by the user at a single session.
- Persistent cookies: in these cookies the data continues to be stored in the user’s terminal and can be processed for a set time by the party responsible for the cookie.
Depending on the purpose for which the data obtained through the cookies is processed, these could be:
- Technical cookies: These are the cookies required for the web page to run.
- Personalisation cookies: These cookies enable each user to be able to configure such aspects as the language in which they would like to see a web page.
- Analysis or performance cookies: These cookies allow the follow-up and analysis of the conduct of users of web sites on an anonymous basis.
- Advertising cookies: These enable implementing efficiency parameters in the advertising offered on a web page. They are those that, treated by us or by third parties, allow us to quantify the number of users. To do this, we analyse your browsing on our website in order to improve the service we offer.
- Behavioural advertising cookies: These cookies store information on users’ behaviour obtained through the continuous observation of their browsing habits, which enables the development of a specific profile to display advertising based on that profile.
What are the cookies used in this page?
This web page uses the following third-party cookies:
| Name of the cookie | Description |
| _ga | This is a Google analytics cookie which uses an anonymous identifier to distinguish anonymous users. This cookie analyses user interactions, in order to optimize the services provided. It has a lifetime of two years. |
For further information on the data that Google Analytics compiles through its cookies and how it uses them, you can visit the Google Analytics support page.
How can I uninstall cookies?
You can accept or reject the use of cookies on CIBER’s website. If you wish to reject or delete cookies, you can change your browser settings. Here are some links with instructions on how to do this in the most commonly used browsers:
Updating of the Cookies Policy
Our Cookie Policy may be updated periodically to adapt to changes in current laws and regulations. Therefore, we suggest that each time you visit our website, you read our Cookies Policy to keep you informed of any changes.