Cookies

Barrabes.com uses "cookies" with the sole purpose of offering a better & more personalized service to its customers and to make navigating on our web-site easier.

A "cookie" is a very small text file placed on your hard drive by a Web Page server. A "cookie" is unable to identify a person by itself, as it makes no reference to any data of a personal nature and cannot be executed as code or deliver a virus.

Barrabes.com uses two types of cookies; its own or technical cookies which are required for the correct function of the web-site and the services offered by Barrabes.com; and third-party cookies such as analytical cookies, required for following or analysing statistics of users who access Barrabes.com or those required for social networks.

• Our own cookies: these cookies help us, for example, to save the user's configuration (language and Barrabes.com version the user is navigating from) so that the user accesses the same version on the next visit to the web-site. It also allows us to process your shopping cart and keep all the products in the cart as they are added while shopping on the web-site.

  Cookies also mean, that after logging in with your user name and password the first time, you won't have to re-introduce this data the next time you visit certain sections of Barrabes.com, which would otherwise require identification (blogs, forums, contests,...). At the head of the Barrabes.com page you will view "Hello" followed by your user name. This makes browsing our web-site much easier. Use the "Close Session" option if you access our web-site from a public computer.

  Bear in mind however, that in order to guarantee the privacy of personal data you will have to log in again, in order to place an order and access Your Account, regardless of having logged in to other sections previously.

• Third-party cookies: Barrabes.com ses analytical cookies. We use the Google Analytics tool to follow and analyse the statistics of users who access our web pages. These cookies do not identify the user or save users' private data, but only collect data on anonymous user navigation at Barrabes.com in order to complete a statistical report.

  Barrabes.com also uses Helpscout Beacon in order to offer an on-line chat service to our users. This application collects information about visits from our users, such as their browsing history on our website, the geographical location (the region, but never the address), the device or operating system used for connection. With the sole purpose of carrying out a statistical analysis of this information. Only when the user makes use of the service to voluntarily contact Barrabes.com, will the data for identifying the user be collected, in order to offer a personalised service for future queries.

  Barrabes.com uses external social network cookies, such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, You Tube & Google+. Social network cookies are required for controlling the interaction of users with widgets and the content of the different social platforms in our own web-site. The conditions for the use of these cookies and the information collected is regulated by the personal data protection policy of the corresponding social platform.

  Publicity Cookies used to show our publicity on other web sites, depending on the products seen by the user when browsing previously. These cookies are introduced by Google via remarketing for display publicity, although they do not allow said company to collect personal details about the users. This means that confidentiality is guaranteed and personal details will not be used by other web sites or marketing databases.

Purposes for which we use this type of cookie:

• Technical: Strictly necessary for navigation, ensuring the security and proper operation of our various services, such as the purchase process or access to your personal area.

• Necessary: They enable the proper functioning of our various services, such as the search engine or our customer service assistance.

• Analytics and optimization: Allow us to study the behavior of visitors on our website in order to optimize, add new functionalities, and improve navigation performance.

• Customization: They allow us to optimize your browsing experience on our website and show you personalized content, such as suggestions based on your favorite or visited products.

• Behavioral advertising: We store information about your interests and browsing history to show you tailored advertising based on your browsing profile, interests, and demographic aspects.

You can manage or disable these cookies at any time through the Cookie Settings panel.

List of cookies used on Barrabes.com:

Most browsers automatically accept cookies but it is also possible to configure your browser not to accept them. In this case, you would be able to search the web, but in order to place an order with Barrabes.com you would have to accept the "session cookies", which only exist while you are visiting the Barrabes.com site and which disappear once the browser is closed.

In the "Help" section of most browsers you can find an explanation on how to modify the configuration of the cookies in your browser:

• Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
• Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
• Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
• Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042

Barrabes.com reserves the right to modify their Cookies Policy according to legal demands and regulations or in order to adapt it to the instructions dictated by the Spanish Agency of Data Protection, and it is therefore recommended that users should visit the policy periodically.