Cookies policy

The website https://www.balneariprats.com/ is the responsibility of BALNEARI PRATS, S.A. (in the future referred to as BALNEARI PRATS), with registered office at Plaça Sant Esteve, 7 – 17455 – Caldes de Malavella (Girona) with CIF: A17143413 and email address info@balneariprats.com. Consequently, this “Cookie Usage Policy” is applied when using cookies, which has been created to inform the user about the different uses carried out on these devices and to obtain their informed consent for their processing, following current legislation.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a file that is downloaded to your computer when the User accesses certain web pages. Cookies allow a website, among other things, to store and retrieve information about a user’s or their computer’s browsing habits, and depending on the information they contain and how you use your computer, they can be used to recognize the user.

What types of cookies are there?

There are several types of cookies based on different criteria:

Depending on the duration they remain active:

Session cookies: These are cookies designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a web page.
Persistent cookies: These are cookies in which the data remains stored on the device and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the cookie’s owner.

Based on ownership:

First-party cookies: These belong to BALNEARI PRATS.
Third-party cookies: These are owned by a third party, different from BALNEARI PRATS, who will process the collected information.

Based on their purpose:

Technical and/or personalization cookies: These are cookies that serve to improve the service, locate incidents, recognize the user, etc.
Analysis and/or advertising cookies: These are cookies that serve to analyze information about navigation and offer advertising, whether generic or personalized.

What types of cookies are most common?

TECHNICAL: These are FIRST-PARTY cookies, session cookies, identification cookies, configuration cookies, and registration cookies, strictly necessary for user identification and the provision of services requested by the user. The information obtained through them is treated solely by BALNEARI PRATS.

ANALYSIS: These are cookies that, whether processed by us or by third parties, allow us to quantify the number of users and thus carry out the measurement and statistical analysis of the use made by users of the offered service. To do this, their navigation on our website is analyzed to improve the range of products or services we offer.

ADVERTISING: These are cookies that, whether processed by us or by third parties, allow for the most effective management of advertising spaces that may be included on our website and – or store information about user behavior obtained through continuous observation. Thanks to them, we can understand internet browsing habits and display advertising related to the user’s browsing profile.

What is the purpose of a cookie?

Cookies are used to offer personalized services and/or advertising, to analyze the system’s operation, to recognize you as a user, to locate incidents and problems that may arise and resolve them as quickly as possible, and to analyze and measure the use and activity of the website.

Do I need my consent to implant a cookie?
Consent is not required for the installation of technical cookies or those strictly necessary for the provision of an information society service expressly requested by the recipient.
For all others, the interested party’s consent is required and can be requested through various means. In the case of BALNEARI PRATS, it will be deemed granted if you continue to use the website, without prejudice to the fact that you can revoke it and deactivate the cookies at any time.

What types of cookies does this website use?
Technical cookies: These are created and managed solely by us, and they allow the user to navigate through our website and use different options, such as identifying the session, personalizing information, or accessing restricted access areas.

The BALNEARI PRATS website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics tool developed by Google, which helps website owners measure how users interact with site content. To provide these services, Google Analytics uses cookies that collect information, including the user’s IP address, which will be transmitted, processed, and stored by Google as set forth on the Google.com website.

For more information, please see:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage

The website domain https://www.balneariprats.com/ uses the following types of cookies:”

Name of the cookie	Purpose	Expires
.balneariprats.com I _ga	Google Analytics cookie. It is used to differentiate between users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript book is loaded and there is no previous version of the _ga cookie. The cookie is used every time you send the data to Google Analytics.	2 years
.balneariprats.com I _gat	Google Analytics cookie. It is used to limit the percentage of requests. 24 hours. .balneariprats.com I _gid Used to distinguish users. Google Analytics cookie.	24 years
.bookings.balneariprats.com I _ga	Google Analytics cookie. It is used to differentiate between users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript book is loaded and there is no previous version of the _ga cookie. The cookie is used every time you send the data to Google Analytics.	2 years
.bookings.balneariprats.com I _gid	It is used to distinguish users. Google Analytics cookie.	24 years
.bookings.balneariprats.com I PHPSESSID	This cookie is used by the PHP encryption language to allow Session variables to be saved on the web server. This cookie is essential for the operation of the web. session	Session