A cookie is a file that is downloaded to the user’s computer/smartphone/tablet when accessing certain websites to store and retrieve information about the navigation carried out from that device. However, they do not provide us with information about your name or any other personal data, only being used for operational, security, and statistical purposes. The cookies we use cannot read data from your computer or other cookies. You can configure your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie. If the user decides not to accept cookies, this will not prevent them from accessing the information on https://www.oftalis.com.
“OFTALIS” uses its own cookies to manage the different services it offers to users. Based on their purpose, we can distinguish between:
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Session Cookies: These are cookies designed to collect and store data when the user logs into the private area of https://www.oftalis.com. This cookie expires once the session ends and is deleted from your computer.
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Persistent Cookies: These cookies store data on the device and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the cookie’s administrator, which can range from minutes to several years.
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Technical Cookies: These allow the user to navigate through a website, platform, or application and use the various options or services available, such as controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, accessing restricted areas, remembering items in a shopping cart, completing an order, signing up for an event, using security elements during navigation, storing content for video or audio distribution, or sharing content on social media.
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Personalization Cookies: These allow the user to access a service with certain predefined general characteristics based on criteria set on the user’s device, such as language, browser type, or regional configuration.
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Analytics Cookies: These allow the administrator to monitor and analyze user behavior on linked websites. The information collected through these cookies is used to measure the activity on websites, applications, or platforms and create user browsing profiles to introduce improvements based on user usage data.
According to the Article 29 Working Group, in its Opinion 4/2012, it has interpreted that cookies that solely enable communication between the user’s device and the network and those strictly necessary to provide a service explicitly requested by the user are exempt from complying with the obligations set forth in Article 22.2 of the LSSI.
These cookies include:
- User Input Cookies
- Authentication or User Identification Cookies (session only)
- User Security Cookies (for example, to detect repeated failed login attempts)
- Multimedia Player Session Cookies
- Session Cookies for Load Balancing
- User Interface Customization Cookies
- Plug-in Cookies for Social Content Sharing
Session and user input cookies are typically used to track user actions when filling out online forms across multiple pages, or for shopping carts to track the items the user has selected by pressing a button.
If you disable cookies that are strictly necessary for providing certain user-requested services, you will not be able to access and/or correctly receive the content and services on https://www.oftalis.com.
Below is a list of the cookies used on https://www.oftalis.com:
Own Cookies:
- Strictly Necessary
- Purpose: To provide services or remember settings that improve your browsing experience on our website, such as language preferences.
Third-Party Analytical Cookies:
Google Analytics
- Purpose: Statistical reports on website traffic, overall audience, and audience for specific advertising campaigns.
- Data: Number of visits, pages or sections visited, browsing time, country of consultation, browser details used.
Social Cookies:
- Youtube
- Purpose: Measure audience for audiovisual content hosted on this channel.
- Data: Number of views.
- Facebook
- Purpose: Keep followers informed of news on this network.
- Data: Number of visits, comments, and interactions.
- Linkedin
- Purpose: Measure audience and followers.
- Data: New contacts (if any) and views by users.
- Google Maps Cookie, according to its privacy and cookie use policy.
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“INSTITUT D’OFTALMOLOGIA S.L.P.” also uses Google Analytics cookies for website analysis. These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website, which helps to improve navigation. Disabling these cookies will not affect the functionality of https://www.oftalis.com.
Google Analytics is Google’s analytics tool that helps website owners understand how their visitors interact with their site. It may use a set of cookies to collect information and report website usage statistics without personally identifying visitors to Google. For more information about Google Analytics cookies and privacy information.
Some sections of the website may link to various social networks, such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, etc., so you should consult the cookie policy provided by these services before using them.
Cookie Settings Panel
From this panel, you can configure the cookies that the website can install on your browser, except for the technical or functional cookies necessary for navigation and the use of various options or services offered.
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You can allow, block, or delete cookies installed on your device by adjusting the settings of your internet browser. Below are links for the main browsers explaining how to manage cookies:
- Internet Explorer
- Google Chrome
- Google Chrome for Android
- Mozilla Firefox
- Safari
- Safari for iOS (iPhone – iPad)
These browsers are constantly updated and modified, so we cannot guarantee that the instructions will be completely accurate for your current version. You may also use a different browser not covered in these links, in which case you should consult your browser’s help section for configuring cookie usage.
If you wish to withdraw your consent at any time related to this Cookie Policy, you must delete the cookies stored through your internet browser’s settings and configurations.
This Cookie Policy is intended to provide you with clear and precise information about the cookies used on https://www.oftalis.com. If you would like more information about cookie usage, you can request it via email at info@oftalis.com.