Cookies Policy

What are cookies?

Cookies are a set of data that a server deposits in the user’s browser to collect standard Internet log information and information on the behaviour of visitors to a website. In other words, they are small text files that are stored on the computer’s hard drive and are used to identify the user when he/she connects to the website again. Their purpose is to record the user’s visit and to store certain information. Their use is common and frequent on the web as they allow pages to function more efficiently and achieve greater personalisation and analysis of user behaviour.

What types of cookies are there?

The cookies used on our website are session and third-party cookies, and allow us to store and access information relating to language, the type of browser used, and other general characteristics predefined by the user, as well as to monitor and analyse the activity carried out, in order to introduce improvements and provide our services in a more efficient and personalised manner.

Cookies, depending on their permanence, can be divided into session or permanent cookies. Those that expire when the user closes the browser. Those that expire depending on when the purpose for which they serve is fulfilled (for example, for the user to remain identified in the services of Raquetas de Mijas) or when they are manually deleted.

Additionally, depending on their purpose, cookies can be classified as follows:

Performance cookies

This type of Cookie remembers your preferences for the tools found in the services, so you do not have to reconfigure the service each time you visit. As an example, in this typology are included: Volume settings for video or sound players. Video streaming speeds that are compatible with your browser. Items saved in the “shopping cart” in e-commerce services such as stores.

Geo-location cookies

These cookies are used to find out what country you are in when you request a service. This cookie is completely anonymous, and is only used to help target content to your location.

Registration Cookies

Registration cookies are generated once the user has registered or subsequently logged in, and are used to identify you in the services with the following objectives:

To keep the user identified so that, if you close a service, the browser or the computer and at another time or another day re-enter that service, you will continue to be identified, thus facilitating your navigation without having to identify yourself again. This functionality can be deleted if the user clicks on the [log out] functionality, so that this cookie is deleted and the next time the user enters the service he/she will have to log in to be identified.

Check if the user is authorized to access certain services, for example, to participate in a contest.

Additionally, some services may use connectors with social networks such as Facebook or Twitter. When the user registers for a service with credentials from a social network, he authorizes the social network to store a persistent Cookie that remembers his identity and grants him access to the services until it expires. The user can delete this Cookie and revoke access to services through social networks by updating your preferences in the specific social network.

Analytics Cookies

Each time a user visits a service, a tool of an external provider generates an analytical cookie on the user’s computer. This cookie, which is only generated during the visit, will be used in future visits to the services of Raquetas de Mijas to anonymously identify the visitor. The main objectives pursued are:

Allow anonymous identification of users browsers through the cookie (identifies browsers and devices, not people) and therefore the approximate accounting of the number of visitors and their trend over time.
Identify anonymously the most visited content and therefore more attractive to users Know if the user who is accessing is new or repeat visit.

Important: Unless the user decides to register in a service of Raquetas de Mijas, the cookie will never be associated with any personal data that can identify you. These cookies will only be used for statistical purposes to help optimize the user experience on the site.

Advertising Cookies

This type of cookies allow to extend the information of the advertisements shown to each anonymous user in the services of Raquetas de Mijas. Among others, it stores the duration or frequency of display of advertising positions, interaction with them, or navigation patterns and / or user behaviors as they help to shape a profile of advertising interest. In this way, they allow to offer advertising related to the user’s interests.

Third-party advertising cookies

In addition to the advertising managed by Raquetas de Mijas webs. in its services, Raquetas de Mijas webs. offer its advertisers the option to serve ads through third parties (“Ad-Servers”). In this way, these third parties can store cookies sent from the services of Raquetas de Mijas. from the users’ browsers, as well as access the data stored in them.

The companies that generate these cookies have their own privacy policies. Currently, Raquetas de Mijas. websites use the Doubleclick platform (Google) to manage these services. For more information, go to

http://www.google.es/policies/privacy/ads/#toc-doubleclick and to http://www.google.es/policies/privacy/ads/.

How can I disable cookies in my browser?

Different browsers can be configured to warn the user of the reception of cookies and, if desired, prevent their installation on the computer. Likewise, the user can check in his browser which cookies he has installed and what is the expiration date of the same, being able to delete them.

For more information, please consult the instructions and manuals of your browser:

For more information on the management of cookies on Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=es

For more information on how to manage cookies in Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/windows-vista/cookies-frequently-asked-questions

For more information about managing cookies in Mozilla Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/habilitar-y-deshabilitar-cookies-que-los-sitios-we

For more information about managing cookies in Safari: http://www.apple.com/es/privacy/use-of-cookies/

For more information on how to manage cookies in Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/11.50/es-ES/cookies.html

If you wish to stop being tracked by Google Analytics visit: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

To learn more about cookies

You can learn more about online behavioral advertising and online privacy at the following link: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/es/

Google Analytics Data Protection: http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html

How Google Analytics uses cookies: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage?hl=es#analyticsjs

Updates and changes to privacy/cookie policy

The websites of Raquetas de Mijas may modify this Cookies Policy according to legislative or regulatory requirements, or in order to adapt this policy to the instructions issued by the Spanish Agency for Data Protection, so users are advised to visit it periodically.

When significant changes are made to this Cookies Policy, these will be communicated to users either through the web or via email to registered users.