Cookies policy in this site web pages

In accordance with the Spanish Law 34/2002 of 11 July on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce (LSSI), in relation to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 (GDPR), and Organic Law 3/2018 of 5 December on the Protection of Personal Data and the Guarantee of Digital Rights (LOPDGDD), all websites that use non-essential cookies must obtain the user’s express consent before browsing begins.

Cookies and similar technologies such as local shared objects, flash cookies or pixels, are tools used by web servers to store and retrieve information about visitors, as well as to ensure the proper functioning of a website.

These technologies allow the web server to remember certain data about the user, such as their display preferences, login credentials, or the products they are most interested in.

According to EU law, cookies that require informed user consent are analytics, advertising, and affiliate cookies. Exempt from this requirement are technical cookies and those strictly necessary for the operation of the website or the provision of services expressly requested by the user.

By purpose

• Technical and functional cookies: Allow the user to browse a website, platform, or application and use the different options or services available.

• Analytics cookies: Enable monitoring and analysis of user behaviour on websites. The information collected is used to measure website activity and to build browsing profiles, helping to improve the services offered.

• Advertising cookies: Allow for the most efficient management of advertising spaces included by the publisher based on criteria such as content or ad frequency.

• Behavioural advertising cookies: Collect information about users’ preferences and choices (retargeting) to provide more relevant ads.

• Social cookies: Installed by social media platforms to enable users to share content with friends and networks. These platforms can track online activity outside of this website, which may affect the content and messages seen elsewhere.

• Affiliate cookies: Track visits from other websites with which the site has an affiliate agreement.

• Security cookies: Store encrypted information to protect data from malicious third-party attacks.

By ownership

• First-party cookies: Sent to the user’s device from a domain managed by the website publisher.

• Third-party cookies: Sent from a domain not managed by the publisher, but by another entity that processes the data obtained.

By storage duration

• Session cookies: Collect and store data while the user is browsing a website.

• Persistent cookies: Data remains stored on the device for a period defined by the cookie owner, from minutes to several years.

The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) is the Data Controller for the processing of personal data collected through cookies. Data will be processed in compliance with the GDPR.

• Purposes: As specified in the cookies used on this website.

• Legal basis: Except where strictly necessary for browsing, processing is based on user consent (Art. 6.1.a GDPR).

• Data retention: As specified in the cookies section of this website.

• Data sharing: No data will be shared with third parties except for third-party owned cookies or legal obligations.

User rights

• Right to withdraw consent at any time.

• Right of access, rectification, portability, and erasure of personal data, as well as the right to restrict or object to processing.

• Right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority (www.aepd.es) if you believe processing does not comply with the law.

Contact details for exercising rights:
International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE)
C/ Gran Capitán, s/n Edificio C1 – Campus Norte – UPC
08034 Barcelona, Spain
Email: rgpd@cimne.upc.edu
Data Protection Officer: dpo@cimne.upc.edu

Cookies controlled by the publisher

Technical and functional cookies

Analytics cookies

Third-party cookies

Third-party services are beyond the control of the publisher. Providers may change their terms, purposes, and cookie use at any time.

External providers on this website:

• Google Analytics – Privacy policy: https://privacy.google.com/take-control.html

From this panel, you can configure which cookies the website may install in your browser, except for technical or functional cookies necessary for browsing and the use of available options or services.

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How to delete cookies in common browsers

• Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=es

• Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/es-es/microsoft-edge/eliminar-las-cookies-en-microsoft-edge-63947406-40ac-c3b8-57b9-2a946a29ae09

• Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/es-es/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer

• Firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/es-ES/privacy/websites/#cookies

• Safari: https://support.apple.com/es-es/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac

• Opera: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/security-and-privacy/#clearBrowsingData