Construnews.com uses its own and third-party cookies to remember the user’s browsing habits (hereinafter “User”) and collect visit statistics. Therefore, with the aim of ensuring your privacy, Construnews.com informs the User, as Data Controller, through this cookies policy (“Cookies Policy”) about the use of data storage and retrieval devices on Users’ terminal equipment.

1. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file that is downloaded to the User’s device when accessing certain web pages and applications to store and retrieve information about the browsing carried out from said equipment. Cookies allow, among other things, storing and retrieving information about the User’s habits and settings. They are also used to ensure the quality, usability, and proper functioning of websites.

Construnews.com uses cookies to personalize and improve the User’s experience by identifying and remembering the User’s preferences, including their registration, and facilitating navigation.

Cookies store information about Users and consequently can affect their privacy. This information is not only of a technical and statistical nature, as it refers to personal preferences and allows the personalization of content. Thus, the objective of cookies is to adapt the web content to the User’s profile and needs.

Likewise, Construnews.com may use technologies similar to cookies such as pixels, web beacons, or bugs that allow data to be stored and retrieved on the User’s computer/smartphone/tablet.

2. Can the use of cookies be rejected?

The User can refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on their browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain pages or services of the application.

3. Types of cookies

Cookies can be classified into different types, depending on different criteria. A cookie can be included in more than one category:

• Strictly necessary cookies: Used for the provision of certain services expressly requested by the User and that can serve for correct navigation or that serve to ensure that the content of the website (hereinafter, the “Website” or the “Web”) loads efficiently. If deactivated, the User will not be able to properly receive the established services and contents.

• First-party cookies (Own cookies): Those sent to the User’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by the Web to provide the service requested by the User.

• Third-party cookies: Those sent to the User’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain external to the Construnews.com Web, to process User data. First-party cookies are identified in this Policy by indicating that the owner is “Construnews.com”. The rest are owned by the third parties indicated in each case. In the “Cookies used on this website” section, the User can access the respective cookie policies owned by third parties by clicking on the third party’s name, including transfers to third countries that they may, where appropriate, carry out.

• Analysis or measurement cookies: Used for tracking and collecting statistical data of activity, such as quantifying the number of Users and their connection time, with the aim of performing measurement and statistical analysis of the use they make of the offered services.

• Technical cookies: Those that allow the User to navigate through the Web, to use the different options or services that exist in it, such as, for example, controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, accessing restricted access parts, remembering the elements that make up an order, carrying out the purchase process of an order, making the request for registration or participation in an event, using security elements during navigation, storing content for broadcasting videos or sound, or sharing content through social networks.

• Session cookies and persistent cookies: Designed to collect and store data while the User accesses a web page. These are destroyed at the end of the session. Persistent cookies, however, store User information for a longer period of time, which can be accessed and processed by the person responsible for each cookie during said period. This period varies for each cookie, and can range from a few minutes to several years.

• Geolocation cookies: These are used to find out what country or place you are in when a service is requested. This cookie is completely anonymous, and is only used to help target content to your location or for security reasons.

• Preference or customization cookies: Those that allow remembering information so that the User can access the Website with characteristics that can differentiate their experience from those of other Users, such as, for example, the appearance or content of the Website, which may vary depending on the type of browser you use.

• Advertising cookies: Those that allow the management, in the most efficient way possible, of the advertising spaces that, where appropriate, have been included on the Website.

• Behavioral advertising cookies: Those that allow the effective management of the advertising spaces that may have been included on the Website, through the storage of User behavioral information, obtained thanks to the continuous observation of your browsing habits, which allows developing a specific profile to display advertising based on it.