What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file sent by a website to your computer, phone or device in order to gather information about your browsing activity on that site. Cookies are necessary to facilitate and improve your browsing experience, and they are harmless for your computer.

Even though the information shown uses the general term "cookies", since this is the main information gathering method used in this website, there is also a section called “local storage” in your browser, which is given a similar treatment, as it is used to the same end as the cookies. Thus, all the information in this document also applies to the “local storage”.

What are cookies on this website used for?

Cookies are essential for the operation of our website. The main aim of our cookies is to improve your browsing experience. Thus, for instance, cookies help us remember your preferences whilst browsing and for future visits, etc.

The information gathered with the cookies also helps us improve our website, providing us with estimates and use patterns, and to adapt our website to the specific interests of individual users, improve search speed, etc.

What aren’t cookies on this website used for?

Our cookies do not store sensitive information on personal data, namely, your address, password, credit card data.

We do not use cookies to send ads based on our users’ browsing habits or for publicity purposes (either for our benefit or for the benefit of third parties).

Who uses the information stored on our cookies?

The information stored on our cookies is exclusively used by us, with the exception of Google Maps information, which is used and managed by Google; and the information of Adthis, Facebook and Twitter, which is processed by these three platforms and used by them in order to offer their services.

Can cookies be disabled?

Yes, cookies can be disabled. Yet, if you disable cookies you may not be able to access certain parts of our website, your browsing experience may be less efficient and you may even be unable to use some of our services.

If you want to restrict, block or remove cookies for our website, you may do so by changing your computer settings. Although each browser has a different parameterization, cookie settings can usually be changed from the “Preferences” or “Tools” menu. We show you how to manage cookies next.

Managing Cookies

Notwithstanding the foregoing, users may adjust the browser settings to accept or block all the cookies by default, or to display a pop-up cookie notice in order to decide whether or not to allow cookie storage in their hard drive each time they visit the website. In order to change your current settings, go to the Help section on your browser.
You may revoke your cookie consent for the cookies used by Cursos Internacionales by simply adjusting your browser as explained before.

But bear in mind that disabling our cookies might affect the correct operation of certain sections in our website. Please, read your browser’s instructions and manuals in order to find out more about this:

If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer, go to Tools, then select Internet Options and click on Privacy Settings.

If you are using Firefox for Mac, go to Preferences, then click on Privacy and go to Show Cookies; if you are using Firefox for Windows, go to Tools, select Options, then click on Privacy  and then on Customize History Settings.

If you are using Safari, go to Preferences and then select Privacy.

If you are using Google Chrome, go to Tools, then select Options (if you are using a Mac, select Preferences), go to Advanced Options, then click on Privacy and next on Content Settings, and select Cookies on the Content Settings box.

What specific cookies do we use?

We use the following cookies with the following purposes:

a) User identification and authentication cookies: these cookies are used to identify users while they are browsing, so that they do not have to repeat the authentication processes and in order to speed up certain specific processes.

• User identification (WC_AUTHENTICATION_<userid>, WC_USERACTIVITY_<userid>): These cookies serve to identify and authenticate users. They also contain user-specific technical data about the session, such as timeout limits, session identifier, etc.

• HTTP Session (JSESSIONID, "Local storage"): These cookies serve to identify the user’s http session. They are common to all website applications and they serve to identify user queries during a session.

• They identify user sessions (symfony): These cookies are used to store user session data.

b) Third party cookies: we use third party services, such as Google Maps, Adthis, Facebook, Twitter; and some of them use cookies to operate. We cannot control these cookies. Check the websites of these third parties for further information.

•  Google (PREF, NID): Google trackers and secure cookies. Google’s NID and PREF are set by browsers to protect users against known intruders when they enter a site. If you enter any such site, these cookies will allow your browser to take action or display a notification. Users may block these cookies by disabling 'Secure Browsing'.

• Sharing contents with Adthis (_atuvc): This function allows visitors to share a page with Facebook or Twitter, via email or through other means. This function provides information to an external company, called AddThis, which uses a cookie to gather anonymous information when you enter these sites. Although our websites do not show ads, AddThis may use the non-identifying information gathered while you are visiting these sites in order to allow other sites target you with ads for goods and services you have expressed an interest in.

•  Facebook (_datr): This security system, called “Delta”, checks each login if the user account is being fraudulently used by a third party. Facebook uses the DATR cookie in order to carry out these checkups. This cookie is present in all computers having accessed Facebook at least once, and it has a permanence of two years (unless cookies are removed).

•Twitter (guest_id): This cookie is used to identify Twitter; if you do not have a Twitter account or you have never entered twitter.com, Twitter will assign you a specific tracking code in order to track your visits to Twitter. Twitter can also track the browsing habits of users who do not have a Twitter account and who have never visited Twitter. If you ever use the same browser to create a Twitter account, the data gathered in the past may be (in theory) linked to the recently created profile. This cookie has a permanence of two years after the profile creation.

c) Cookies used for browsing analysis: these cookies serve to gather generic information about users access to the website (in its contents) in order to provide aggregated information about such access for statistical purposes.

• Origin (WC_GASource): It is used to find out where users come from when they arrive to one of the pages of the website, e.g., whether they come from a product listing page, the search engine, or an external website.

Note:: This list is updated on a regular basis whenever the services offered through this website change. From time to time, a cookie may be removed from the list after the update, yet, the list will always include cookies used for exactly the same purposes as the ones mentioned before.