The purpose of this Cookies Policy is to help you understand how the website of the REIAL CLUB DEPORTIU ESPANYOL DE BARCELONA, S.A.D. (hereinafter, ‘RCDE’) uses cookies (or similar technologies), their purpose, as well as the options that you, as a user, have at your disposal to manage them.
What you should know about cookies on our Website
A cookie is a file that is downloaded to your computer, tablet, mobile or other terminal (hereinafter, ‘device'“) when you access the website https://www.rcdespanyol.com/es/ and its respective official platforms (https://shop.rcdespanyol.com/es/, https://tickets.rcdespanyol.com/index.php/es/, https://espanyolmedia.rcdespanyol.com/, https://www.rcdestadium.com/) (hereinafter, the ’Website”').
In general, and depending on the type, cookies allow us to store and retrieve information about your visit to our Website, your browsing habits, the browser or device from which you access it, as well as to recognise you as a user or customer, which can facilitate your next visit and make the Website more useful by personalising its content. Cookies play a very important role, as in certain cases they are necessary to ensure the correct functioning of the Website.
According to Law 34/2002, of 11 July, on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce (LSSICE), we inform you that our website uses its own and third party cookies.
Below, we detail the different types of existing cookies:
1. Type of cookies according to their purpose
Technical cookies: These are necessary for the correct functioning of the Site and the different options or services that exist on it, such as, for example, controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, accessing restricted access areas or using security elements during browsing, among others.
Personalisation cookies: These are cookies that allow the user to access the service with some predefined general characteristics depending on a series of criteria in the user's terminal, such as, for example, the language or the choice of payment currency.
Analysis cookies: These cookies allow us to monitor and analyse the behaviour of users of the website (e.g. the number of pages you visit, the place from which you access the website, the frequency and recurrence of visits, the length of your visit, the browser or device from which you visit, etc.). The information obtained is used to measure the activity of our website and to create user browsing profiles, with the aim of introducing improvements based on the analysis of the data on the use made by users of the website.
Preference cookies: These are cookies that are used to identify visitors between different websites. For example: content partners, banner networks. Companies can use these cookies to create a profile of visitors' interests or to display relevant advertisements on other websites.
Behavioural Advertising Cookies: These allow the management of advertising on the Website, storing user behaviour as a result of the continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows the development of advertising with a specific profile.
Unclassified Cookies: These are those that do not belong to any other category or are in the process of being categorised.
2. Types of cookies according to their duration
Session cookies:
These are cookies designed to collect and store data while the user visits the Website. When the session ends, they are not stored on the user's device.
Persistent cookies:
These are cookies that remain installed on the user's device for a longer period of time after the end of the session, ranging from a few minutes to several years. The information provided may be processed when the user leaves the Website and when he/she logs on again. These cookies can be deleted at any time by the user.
3. Types of cookies depending on the entity that manages them
Own Cookies:
These are cookies that are sent to the user's device from the computer system owned by RCDE, from where the request has been made, the service provided or a purchase made.
Third Party Cookies:
These are cookies that are sent to the user's device from a domain or computer system that is not a priority of the RCDE, but by another third party entity authorized or contracted by the RCDE, from where the request has been made, the service provided or a purchase made.
You should know that, if you accept third-party cookies, you must delete them from the browser options or from the system offered by the third party itself.
4. Types of cookies used on the Website
You can view information about installed cookies from this link.
We recommend that you review our cookie policy each time you access our Website to be informed of any changes to the use of our cookies.
Please note that if you disable any of the cookies, the monitoring tool will no longer work effectively and this may have a negative effect on your overall browsing experience.
5. Profiling
As part of the duty to inform under Article 13(2)(f) of the GDPR, we inform you that, in the event of profiling of your person, we will ask for your prior consent. However, you should be aware that you can object to being the subject of an automated processing of your data, where personal aspects are evaluated, such as analysing or predicting aspects related to your job performance, financial situation, health, personal preferences or interests, reliability or behaviour, in a way that as a result has a legal effect on your person or affects you in a similar way.
RCDE will take appropriate safeguards to protect your rights and freedoms as well as your legitimate interests, such as the right to obtain human intervention on our part to express your views and challenge the decision.
In addition, when contacting us regarding your consent to the use of cookies on the Website, please indicate the identification number and date of your consent.
6. Reference to Google Analytics Cookies
Personal data may be transferred internationally as a result of the relationship of the controller with service providers, especially technological support services to fulfill the purposes (e.g. Google Analytics Cookies). In all cases, the international transfer will be carried out with the necessary safeguards.
7. Reference to other international transfers
As a result of the use of certain cookies, or similar technologies, a movement of data to the United States may occur on the Website, involving an international transfer of your personal data collected on our Website. Specifically, your data will be communicated to the providers of the cookies identified in this policy, these being Meta Platforms Ireland Limited and Google Ireland Limited. In any case, international transfers will be carried out by means of appropriate assurance mechanisms.
For more information about transfers of your personal data collected through the use of cookies of which you have been informed, you can consult our Privacy Policy.
8. Authorization, Revocation and Deletion
When browsing the Website for the first time, you have been informed of the use of cookies, of the possibility of accepting the installation of these, or of rejecting the installation of certain types of cookies such as, for example, analytical, advertising and third-party cookies.
Also, and at any time, you can allow, block or delete cookies installed on your computer by setting your browser options or from the privacy options of the computer from which you visit us. In the event that you block the installation of technical cookies in your browser, you may not be able to access certain sections of the Site and / or use some of the services offered.
If through the initial configuration you have accepted the installation of certain types of cookies and subsequently wish to oppose their installation or maintenance, you must delete the cookies already installed by configuring the browser options, and reconfigure those that allow their installation.
Below, you can find information about cookie setting options in the main browsers:
- Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/habilitar-y-deshabilitar-cookies-sitios-web-rastrear-preferencias
- Google Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=es&answer=95647
- Microsoft Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/es-es/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
- Microsoft Edge: https://privacy.microsoft.com/es-ES/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy
- Safari: https://support.apple.com/es-es/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
- Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/11.50/es-ES/cookies.html
Additionally, some of the services described above offer direct ''opt-out'' mechanisms to oppose the installation of their cookies. Example:
Service:https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/11397207?hl=es
Provider: Google Analytitcs
Also, if you need, you can watch the videos prepared by the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) in order to explain how to configure privacy options from different platforms and devices:
9. Processing of personal data through cookies
For additional information on the processing of your personal data that is carried out on this Website, and through the use of cookies of which you have been informed, you can consult our Privacy Policy.
Additionally, when contacting us regarding the granting of your behavior related to cookies on the Website, please indicate the identification number and date of your consent.
10. Updating
This Policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes in the use of cookies on the Website. We will post a prominent notice on the Website to notify you of any significant changes to our Policy and will indicate at the bottom of the Policy when it was last updated.
Last updated: January 21, 2025.
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