COOKIES NOTIFICATION

1. APPLICABLE REGULATIONS

The second section of article 22 of Law 34/2002, 11 July, of information and electronic commerce services (LSSI-CE from now on) states that:

1. Service providers may use data devices for storing and retrieving data storage and retrieval devices in the recipients’ terminals on the condition that they have given their consent after they have been given clear and complete information on their use, especially on the purposes of the data processing, in accordance with Organic Law 15/1999, 13 December, on the protection of personal data.

When technically possible and effective, the recipient’s consent for accepting the processing of the data may be provided through the use of suitable parameters in the browser or other applications as long as this is configured during its installation or updating with a specific action for the purpose.

The above will not impede the possible technical storage or access for the sole purpose of transmitting a communication via an electronic communications network or, as far as is strictly necessary, to provide an information society service specifically requested by the recipient.

According to the “Guide to the use of cookies” published by the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD from now on) in 2013, the LSSI-CE is applicable to any type of file or device downloaded to a user’s terminal for the purpose of storing data that may be updated and retrieved by the organisation responsible for its installation. Cookies are one of these generally-used devices so that from now on we will call these devices generically cookies.

Cookie used for any of the following purposes are exempt from complying with the obligations set in article 22.2 of the LSSI-CE:

• Permitting only communication between the user’s equipment and the network.

• Strictly providing a service specifically requested by the user.

2. TYPES OF COOKIES ACCORDING TO THEIR PURPOSE

A cookie is a file downloaded to your computer when you access certain Web sites. Among other things, cookies allow a Web site to store and retrieve information on a user’s browsing habits or of his/her equipment and, depending on the information they contain and the way in which you use your equipment, may be used to recognise the user.

As stated in the AEPD’s “Guide to the use of cookies,” there are various types of cookies according to the use of the data obtained with them:

• Technical cookies: those that allow the user to browse a Web site, platform or application and to use various options or services in it such as, for example, controlling the traffic and communicating data, identifying the session, accessing restricted areas, saving the items in an order, processing the purchase of an order, requesting a subscription of participation in an event, using security elements during the browsing, storing contents for broadcasting videos or sound or sharing contents via social networks.

• Customisation cookies: those that allow the user to access the service with some general pre-defined properties according to series of criteria in the user’s terminal such as, for example, the language, type of browser used to access the service, the regional configuration from which the service is accessed, etc.

• Analysis cookies: those that allow those responsible for them to monitor and analyse the behaviour of the users of the Web sites to which they are linked. The information collected with this type of cookies is used to measure the activity of the Web sites, application or platform and for preparing browsing profiles of the users of those sites applications and platforms to be able to make improvements according to the analysis of the usage data of the service’s users.

• Advertising cookies: those that allow the most effective possible management of any advertisements that the publisher has included on a Web site, application or platform from which the requested service is provided based on criteria such as the contents published or the frequency at which the advertisements are shown.
• Behavioural advertising cookies: those that allow the most effective possible management of any advertisements that the publisher has included on a Web site, application or platform from which the requested service is provided. These cookies store information on the users’ behaviour obtained by the continuous observation of their browsing habits, allowing the development of a specific profile to show advertising according to it.

3. INFORMATION PRINCIPLE

In compliance with article 5 of Organic Law 15/1999, 13 December, on the protection of personal data (LOPD from now on), you ae specifically, precisely and unambiguously informed that cookies installed in your computer will be used for the following purposes.

The recipients of the information obtained with the cookies installed in your computer will be the following organisations:

• The publisher responsible for the Web site and responsible for the processing: HOTEL PARQUE TROPICAL.

• As relevant, the organisations directly related to the publisher responsible for the Web site.

4. PRINCIPLE OF CONSENT

Consent for the installation of cookies will be understood as given after selecting the Accept button on the pop-up panel at the bottom of the screen.

Where users do not specifically state whether or not they accept the installation of cookies but continue to use the Web site or application, it will be understood that they have given their consent, with our organisation specifically informing them of the possibility of blocking or deleting the cookies installed in their equipment using the configuration options in the browser installed in their computer.

5. COOKIES INSTALLATION OPTION

Although the acceptance of the installation of cookies in your computer is optional for you, refusing their installation could mean that the functionality of the Web site is limited or impossible, which will make the provision of services by our organisation through it impossible.

6. DISABLING OF COOKIES

At any time, users can change the cookies configuration, blocking or disabling them, for which we provide the way to do so with the main browsers:

CHROME: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=es

EXPLORER: http://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies

FIREFOX:    http://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/habilitar-y-deshabilitar-cookies-que-los-sitios-we

SAFARI:     http://www.apple.com/es/privacy/use-of-cookies/

And for Google AdWords third-party cookies:

http://www.google.es/intl/es/policies/technologies/cookies/

HOTEL PARQUE TROPICAL accepts no responsibility for the contents and truth of third-party cookies policies.

7. DATA SECURITY PRINCIPLE

HOTEL PARQUE TROPICAL undertakes to comply with its secrecy obligation regarding the personal data and its duty to keep them and take all technical and organisational measures necessary to guarantee the security of personal data and prevent their unauthorised alteration, loss, treatment or access, taking into account the state of the technology, the nature of the data stored and the risks to which they are exposed, whether through human action or from the physical or natural medium, described in Title VIII of Royal Decree 1720/2007, 21 December, approving the regulations arising from Organic Law 15/1999, 13 December, on the protection of personal data.
 

8. EXERCISING OF RIGHTS

In compliance with the LOPD and Royal Decree 1720/2007, 21 December, approving its regulations, recipients of the service may at any time exercise their rights of access, correction, cancellation and opposition with the organisation responsible for the file or processing, attaching a photocopy of his/her identity card.

9. ORGANISATION RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FILE OR PROCESSING

The organisation responsible for the file or for the processing is HOTEL PARQUE TROPICAL, with its address for the purposes of notifications in Avda. de Italia, 1, 35100 Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain.