Cookies
Date of entry into force of the data protection, cookies and social media policy: 25 May 2018.
A cookie is a file downloaded to your computer when accessing certain websites. Cookies enable a website, among other things, to store and retrieve information on a user’s browsing habits or the equipment used. Depending on the information it contains and the way you use your device, they may be used to recognise the user. The user’s browser stores the cookies on the hard disc only during the session, occupying minimal memory and causing no harm to the computer. Cookies do not contain specific personal information; most are deleted from the hard disc at the end of the browsing session (the so-called session cookies).
Most browsers accept cookies as standard, and regardless of whether they are temporary or permanent, they can be allowed or prohibited in the browser safety preferences.
Without your express consent –by enabling cookies on your browser–www.eightec.es will not link the data recorded on the cookies with your personal data submitted when registering or purchasing.
Types of cookies used on this website
The information we process comes from:
Data you have supplied directly
In these cases, the information you have submitted directly via your business card or the forms on our digital media, such as, for example, your username and password, your name, surname(s), email address, postal address, telephone number or bank data.
Data collected automatically by cookies
We also collect data automatically through cookies or data storage and retrieval devices, about your browsing habits and use of our platform or through our social media accounts and emails or SMS.
In these cases, the information refers to contextual data, such as the browser version, IP address used to connect, the time emails are opened, pages or sections of the platform you visit or the terminal you use to connect.
Social media data
We have access to the social media profiles of people or entities that decide to follow our social media accounts. Accessing the information available according to the level of privacy established by the user on the media, e.g., if your email is not made public for other contacts, we will not see it either.
We do not use your social media information; we just interact with you, publishing news about our activities for our followers, and when you send us a message directly or make a comment mentioning us.
Publicly-sourced data
In some cases, we also obtain data such as contact information from the representatives of public or private institutions from public sources.
– Technical cookies: Those that enable the user to browse a website, platform or application and use the different options or services it offers, such as traffic control and data communication, identify the session, access to restricted areas, remember the items in an order, the purchasing process for an order, request inscription or participation in an event, use security elements when browsing, store contents for dissemination of videos or sound, or share content on social media.
– Personalisation cookies: Those that enable the user to access a service with some predefined general characteristics according to a series of criteria in the user’s terminal, such as language, type of browser used to access the service, the regional configuration used to access the service, etc.
– Analytical cookies: Those that are either processed by us or third parties and enable us to quantify the number of users and statistically measure the use of the service offered. For this purpose, your browsing on our website is analysed to improve our offer of products or services.
– Advertising cookies: Those that, either processed by third parties or by us, enable us to manage the offer of publicity spaces on the website in the most effective manner possible, adapting the content of the advertisement to the content of the service requested or to your use of our website. For this purpose, we may study your Internet browsing habits and can show publicity related to your browsing profile.
– Behavioural advertising cookies: Those that enable the most effective management possible of the publicity spaces that the editor may have included on a website, application or platform from which the requested service is provided. These cookies store information about the behaviour of users, obtained by continuous observation of their browsing habits, enabling a specific profile to be created and to display publicity according to this profile.
Third-party cookies: Eightec’s website may use third-party services that will collect information on user usage of the site for statistical purposes and to provide Eightec with other services related to the website’s activities and other Internet services.
Specifically, this website uses Google Analytics, an analytics service provided by Google, Inc., domiciled in the United States at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, 94043. To provide these services, cookies are used to collect information, including the user’s IP address, which will be transmitted, processed and stored by Google in the terms established on Google.com. Including the possible transmission of this information to third parties by legal imperative or when these third-parties process the information for Google.
When using this website, the User expressly accepts the processing of the information collected, in the manner and for the purposes mentioned above. The user is also aware of the possibility of refusing the processing of this data or information by blocking the use of Cookies in their browser preferences. Although, if you choose to block Cookies on your browser, you may not be able to make full use of all the website’s functionality.
You may permit, block or delete cookies installed on your device by accessing the browser preference options on your computer:
For any queries about this cookies policy, please contact eightec at eightec@eightec.es
