What are cookies?

A cookie is a file that is downloaded and stored on the User's computer when accessing certain web pages, to store and retrieve information about browsing that took place from that computer. Cookies are essential for the operation of the Internet, providing advantages for the provision of interactive services, facilitating browsing and usability of our website. Please note that cookies cannot harm your computer, on the contrary, they help us to identify and solve errors.

Depending on the entity that manages the domain from which the cookies are sent and treat the data obtained, two types can be distinguished: own cookies and third-party cookies.

Purpose for which cookies are installed

Analytical cookies: These cookies are used to analyze the behaviour of users in an aggregate and anonymous way including the number of visitors to the website and different product listings, the origin of the visits, day and time, platform, number of clicks on a banner, search words that a user uses to find their desired content. In this way, Alsa uses an advantageous means to introduce improvements to the website and to know what content or design is most relevant to the user.

Functional cookies: They are cookies that help the user to have a better experience of browsing the site. An example of the use of this type of cookies are those used to store the navigation data of a specific language.

Technical cookies: Technical cookies are necessary to correctly display the website and ensure the proper functioning of the site.

Analysis cookies: Analysis cookies allow the user to measure the activity and thus create navigation statistics.

Advertising cookies: They are cookies that help manage the frequency and content of the ads.

Cookies to access social networks: Allows user identification and sharing content on social networks.

Which cookies are used on this website?

Third-party cookies are used to analyse navigation, advertising and access to social networks. We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service developed by Google, which allows the measurement and analysis of navigation on web pages. This tool does not obtain data from the names of the users. The information collected is related, for example, to the number of pages visited, the language, the number of users who visit us, ...

We also use Google Remarketing, which allows us to show ads to users who have previously visited our website while browsing the web, and Google Adwords, to publish ads on Google. Both services developed by Google.

For more interaction with social networks, we have different widgets. So that the user can share the content on social networks, we use the AddThis widget, developed by AddThis.

To access our social networks, we use the corresponding widgets: Twitter Button developed by Twitter, Pinterest Widget developed by Pinterest, Facebook Connect and Facebook Social Plugins developed by Facebook, and Google + 1 developed by Google

Locking or disabling Cookies

The user can allow, block or delete the registration of the data provided by the cookies installed on their computer by configuring the browser options installed on their computer browser plug-in available through the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en 

We also provide the following links in relation to blocking or disabling cookies in different browsers:

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox 
Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442 
Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042
Opera: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/security-and-privacy/ 
Google: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en