Cookie policy

1. Cookie Policy

In compliance with Law 34/2002, of 11 July, on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce, and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data, we inform you about the use of cookies on the websites of the Tarragona Provincial Council Tourism Board.

2. What is a cookie and what is it used for?

A cookie is a file that is downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you access certain web pages. Cookies allow a web page, among other things, to store and retrieve information about the browsing habits of a user or their computer and, depending on the information they contain and the way in which they use their computer, they can be used to recognize the user. For this reason, they are essential to access services in which the user must identify themselves, such as webmail or blog management.

3. What type of cookies does the Tarragona Provincial Tourism Board use?

• Technical cookies. These are those that allow the user to navigate through our websites and use the different options or services that are contained, such as controlling traffic and data communication, responding to surveys, evaluating agenda events, identifying the session, accessing restricted access areas, requesting registration or participation in an event, using security features during navigation, storing content for dissemination or sharing content through social networks.
• Personalization cookies. These are those that allow the user to access the service with some general characteristics predefined based on a series of criteria in the user's terminal, such as the language, the type of browser through which the service is accessed, the regional configuration from which the service is accessed, etc.
• Analysis cookies. These are those that, whether treated by us or by third parties, allow us to quantify the number of users and thus carry out the measurement and statistical analysis of the use made by users of the service offered. For this purpose, your browsing on our website is analyzed in order to improve the range of products or services that we offer. For this purpose, the Tarragona Provincial Tourism Board uses Google Analytics, a web statistics service offered free of charge by Google.

 

4. Types of cookies according to their expiration

The cookies used by the Tarragona Provincial Council Tourism Board may have the following expiration types:

• Session cookies. They expire when the user leaves the session.
• Service cookies. Related to a personalized service within the website, with an expiration of less than 24 hours.
• Persistent cookies. They remain permanently installed in the user's browser and are activated each time the user visits the website, unless their use is disabled.

5. How can cookies be deleted and disabled?

To allow, block, or delete the cookies installed on your device, you must access the configuration options of the browser you use to access the website.

Through the following links you can find more information for each of the main browsers:

• Google Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox
• Internet Explorer
• Opera
• Safari
• Safari for iOS (iPhone and iPad)
• Chrome for Android

If you wish to withdraw your consent related to this cookie policy at any time, you must delete the stored cookies through your Internet browser settings and configuration.

For more information on how to manage cookies, you can visit:

• http://www.aboutcookies.org [in English]
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LaTgXMhgtE

6. Who uses the cookies of the Tarragona Provincial Council Tourism Board?

The information obtained through cookies is processed solely by the Tarragona Provincial Council Tourism Board. However, it should be noted that the Tourism Board uses third-party cookies, and the information collected through them is stored on external servers of the Tarragona Provincial Council Tourism Board. This is the case for data collected by Google Analytics.

7. Google Analytics

This web analytics service is provided by the American company Google, Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043). The information generated by the cookie regarding the use of the website (including your IP address) will be directly transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information on our behalf for the purpose of tracking website usage, compiling reports on website activity, and providing other services related to website activity and Internet usage. Google may transfer this information to third parties when required to do so by law, or when such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

If you wish to prevent Google Analytics from collecting information during your browsing, you can disable the use of cookies (see the previous section) or install a browser add-on designed by the company itself to disable information collection.

8. Consent

Once you have been informed about our cookie policy, if you continue browsing, we will understand that you accept the use of cookies, both our own and third-party cookies, on our websites and applications.

If you reject the installation of cookies, you may continue using our websites; however, the use of some services may be limited and, therefore, your experience on our website may be less satisfactory.

9. Cookies from third-party websites

The Tarragona Provincial Council Tourism Board is present on various third-party web platforms, mainly social networks, and in some cases embeds content from them on its own website. In both cases, these third-party platforms may have their own cookies. The Tarragona Provincial Council Tourism Board has no control over these cookies and therefore recommends that users review the security policy of each of these platforms.

• Terres del Ebre on Facebook: Facebook Cookie Policy.
• Terres del Ebre on Twitter: Twitter Privacy Policy.
• Terres del Ebre on Instagram: Instagram Privacy Policy.
• Terres del Ebre on YouTube and Google Maps: Google Cookie Policy.

If any user of the Tarragona Provincial Council Tourism Board wishes to share any content from our website through an external social network, they should be aware that the latter may also use cookies at the time of registration. In this case, the Tourism Board has no control over these cookies either.