1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that a website stores in the user's browser when they visit a page. Depending on the type of cookie, they enable the site's technical operation, remember preferences, analyse browsing or personalise content and advertising.
2. What types of cookies may this website use?
This website may use the following categories of cookies:
a) Technical or necessary cookies
These are essential for the basic operation of the website and to enable browsing, access to secure areas, consent management or use of forms and services requested by the user.
These cookies do not require consent when they are limited to strictly technical or necessary purposes.
b) Preference or personalisation cookies
They remember information so that users can access the service with certain settings, such as language, browser type or the region they are accessing it from.
c) Analytics or measurement cookies
They allow the number of users to be counted and the use they make of the website to be measured and statistically analysed, in order to improve content, services and performance.
d) Behavioural advertising cookies
These cookies store information about users' behaviour obtained by continuously observing their browsing habits, allowing a specific profile to be developed to display personalised advertising.
3. Which cookies are used on this website?
SolarTenerife.com may use its own and third-party cookies.
| Cookie / tool | Owner | Purpose | Duration | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cookieyes-consent / similar | Owned | Storing cookie consent preferences | 1 year | Technical |
| wordpress_test_cookie / similar | Owned | Checking that cookies and sessions work correctly | Session | Technical |
| wp-settings-* / similar | Owned | Remember WordPress environment preferences | 1 year | Technical |
| _ga / Google Analytics | Visit measurement and analysis | 2 years | Analytics | |
| ga* / Google Analytics | Maintain session state and measure usage | Up to 2 years | Analytics | |
| _gid / Google Analytics | Distinguish users | 24 hours | Analytics | |
| yt-* / YouTube | Google/YouTube | Display embedded videos and measure interaction | Variable | Preferences / Analytics |
| _fbp / Meta | Meta | Advertising measurement and remarketing | 3 months | Advertising |
4. Legal basis and consent
Under the applicable regulations, non-essential cookies may only be installed if the user has previously given informed consent.
The Spanish Data Protection Agency notes that technical cookies may be used without consent, but analytics, personalisation or advertising cookies, when not strictly necessary, require a valid action of acceptance by the user. The AEPD has also been updating its cookie guidance to reflect the European Data Protection Board’s criteria. (aepd.es)
5. How to manage or reject cookies
Users can accept, reject or configure cookie use through the settings panel or banner provided on the website.
You can also allow, block or delete cookies through your browser settings. As a guide, the main browsers offer management options in their privacy, security or site settings menus.
The AEPD also states that, as a general rule, third-party cookies can be accepted or rejected through the browser settings or the website's consent management system. (aepd.es)
6. Third-party cookies
This website may use third-party services that independently collect information for statistical, technical or advertising purposes, such as Google, YouTube, Meta or other providers of tools embedded in the website.
These cookies can be accepted, rejected or configured through the consent management system implemented on the website. Users may also obtain further information from the privacy and cookie policies of those third parties.
7. International transfers
The use of third-party cookies may involve international data transfers outside the European Economic Area, depending on the provider used. In such cases, these transfers must be covered by the appropriate safeguards provided for in the applicable regulations.
8. Cookie policy updates
This Cookie Policy may change when the cookies used change, regulations change or regulatory criteria are updated.
The AEPD publishes its own cookie policy and has revised its guidance on this subject several times, so both the tools installed on the website and the information provided to users should be reviewed periodically. (aepd.es)
9. Applicable law
In Spain, the use of cookies and devices for storing and retrieving data on terminal equipment is governed, among other regulations, by Law 34/2002 on information society services and electronic commerce, particularly Article 22.2, as well as Regulation (EU) 2016/679 where the use of cookies involves processing personal data. (aepd.es)
10. Contact
For any questions about the use of cookies on this website, you can write to:
info@solartenerife.com
