The Provincial Council of Valencia does not use cookies to collect information from users on the internet portal or website www.dival.es or, where applicable, on other electronic addresses of organisations linked to the Provincial Council. Only first-party and third-party cookies with a technical purpose are used, to enable navigation through the website and the use of the different options and services available on it.
The set of first-party cookies helps us improve the quality of our website, as it allows us to monitor which pages our users find useful and which they do not.
The portal also contains links to third-party websites, whose privacy or cookie policies are separate from that of the Provincial Council. When accessing such websites, you may decide whether to accept their privacy and cookie policies. In general, when browsing the internet you may accept or reject third-party cookies through your browser’s configuration options.
What are cookies?
Cookies and other similar technologies (such as local shared objects, flash cookies or pixels) are small text files that websites install on the computer or mobile device of users, in order to record their browsing activity.
Types of cookies
Based on the following criteria, we can distinguish the following types of cookies, without prejudice to other similar categorisations or classifications:
According to ownership
- First-party cookies: these are sent to the User’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by the publisher itself and from which the service requested by the User is provided.
- Third-party cookies: these are sent to the User’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain that is not managed by the publisher, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through the cookies.
According to purpose
- Technical and functional cookies (Necessary): these allow the User to navigate a web page, platform or application and to use the different options or services available on it.
- Analytical cookies (Statistics): these allow those responsible for them to monitor and analyse the behaviour of the Users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected through this type of cookie is used to measure the activity of the websites, application or platform, and to build browsing profiles of the users of such sites, applications and platforms, in order to introduce improvements based on the analysis of the usage data of the service’s users.
- Advertising cookies (Marketing): these allow the management, in the most efficient way possible, of the advertising spaces that the publisher may have included on a web page, application or platform from which it provides the requested service, based on criteria such as the content edited or the frequency with which the advertisements are displayed.
- Behavioural advertising cookies: these collect information about the User’s preferences and personal choices (retargeting) in order to enable the management, in the most efficient way possible, of the advertising spaces that the publisher may have included on a web page, application or platform from which it provides the requested service.
- Social media cookies: these are set by social media platforms within the services to allow you to share content with your friends and networks. Social media platforms are able to track your online activity outside the Services. This may affect the content and messages you see on other services you visit.
- Affiliate cookies: these make it possible to track visits coming from other websites with which the website has an affiliation agreement (affiliate companies).
- Security cookies: these store encrypted information to prevent the data stored in them from being vulnerable to malicious attacks by third parties.
According to retention period
- Session cookies: a type of cookie designed to collect and store data while the User accesses a web page.
- Persistent cookies: a type of cookie in which the data remains stored on the terminal and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the party responsible for the cookie, which may range from a few minutes to several years.
Which cookies do we use on this Internet Portal?
In accordance with the above classification, please be informed that the following cookies are used on the website www.dival.es:
Social media cookies
The social networks we interact with on our website use cookies in their sharing buttons. These cookies do not belong to the Provincial Council, but to each of the social networks with which we interact, respectively. We have no involvement in, control over or reporting of their results; they are the responsibility of each social network. When a user registers for a service using social network credentials, they authorise the social network to store a persistent cookie that remembers their identity and guarantees them access to the services until it expires.
The user can delete this cookie and revoke access to the services via social networks by updating their preferences on the specific social network.
Analytical cookies (statistics)
For the analysis or statistical assessment of the use of the website, in this case the service offered by Google Analytics is used: www.google.com/analytics/ and developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage by Google Inc, whose main office is at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043, United States (“Google”).
The “Google Analytics” service, without identifying Users, collects various information regarding the number of users who access the website, the number of page views, the frequency and repetition of visits, their duration, the browser used, the operator providing the service, the language, the terminal used, or the city to which their IP address is assigned. This information makes it possible for this Portal to provide a better and more appropriate service.
How to manage cookies from your browser?
The registration of cookies may be subject to your acceptance during the installation or updating of the browser, and this acceptance may be revoked at any time through the available content and privacy configuration options.
Many browsers allow you to activate a private browsing option whereby cookies are always deleted after your visit. Depending on each browser, this private browsing may go by different names.
Cookies that are already on a device can be removed by clearing the browser history, which deletes the cookies of all the websites visited. However, this may also result in the loss of some of the saved information (for example, login details or website preferences).
Below is a list of the most common browsers and a link to information on enabling or disabling cookies while browsing:
| Browser | Link |
|---|---|
| Chrome | support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647 |
| Internet Explorer (version 11) | support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/278835 |
| Firefox | mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/websites |
| Safari | support.apple.com/en-us/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac |
| Opera | help.opera.com/en/latest/security-and-privacy |
In addition, you have the option of blocking analytical cookies in your browser using this add-on provided by Google Analytics itself.