Cookies

We use cookies to provide you with a better service and an enhanced browsing experience, as well as to show you advertising based on your browsing habits.

We are responsible for the installation of the cookies we use and for what we do with the data we collect, whether the cookies are first-party or third-party.

While we recommend that you read this policy in its entirety, you will find links in the following table for accessing the points that are of interest to you:

What are cookies and what else is stored on the browser?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your browser when you visit our website.

These files contain information about your browsing and interaction with our website, for the purpose of making your user experience more efficient and showing you advertising based on your browsing habits.

Some cookies are essential to the proper functioning of our website, such as technical cookies and interface customisation cookies.

Others, such as analytics cookies and behavioural advertising (or marketing) cookies, require us to inform you and ask for your consent before using them.

localStorage and sessionStorage are two data storage spaces located in the browser on your device and, like cookies, can be first-party (when created by our own website) or third-party (when created by our service providers or our partners).

The difference between the two spaces is that localStorage stores the information indefinitely or until you decide to clear your browser data, while sessionStorage stores information for as long as the tab where our website is being used remains open.

Once closed, the information is deleted.

The difference between cookies and these two spaces is that they can store more information than cookies without impacting the performance of our website.

Finally, we wish to inform you that although the purpose of the third-party cookies we use, for which we are responsible, is that indicated in the tables in the following sections, such third parties may assign the data collected by their cookies to other purposes for which they are solely responsible.

In the case of third-party cookies, our responsibility for the purposes is limited to the downloading of the cookies onto your device (which we do for the stated purpose).

You can find more information about the purposes of these third parties, and whether or not they make transfers to third countries, in their corresponding privacy policies (see the links in the tables below).

Specifically:

Technical and preference cookies have more benefits than risks

The article 29 working party (formerly WP29 and currently the European Data Protection Board) in its Opinion 4/2012, «on the exemption from the consent requirement for cookies», considers that the following cookies do not pose a risk to you and are exempt from the requirement to obtain informed consent prior to their use:

https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/documentation/opinion-recommendation/files/2012/wp194_es.pdf

Cookies which are necessary for communications to be transmitted over a network between the user and the servers hosting the website; and

all those cookies which are necessary to provide a specific functionality that is explicitly requested by the user.

This exemption from the obligation to base the lawfulness of their use on your consent, since they do not to represent a risk to you, is also reflected in the cookie guides published by most Data Protection Agencies of EU countries (for example, in the case of Spain, it is included in Section 4.1 of the Guide on the Use of Cookies, July 2020).

The WP29 even defined the purposes which it explicitly considers to present more benefits than risks for you:

Purposes of cookies explicitly excluded from informed consent

With regard to their purpose, the WP29 explicitly excludes the following cookies from the obligation to obtain the informed consent of the visitor:

• Cookies called «user input», which are typically used to keep track of the user’s actions when completing online forms in an HTTP session, or to remember the shopping basket that the user has selected on an e-commerce site.
• Session cookies that are used for user authentication or identification, which store a type of token (proof that the user is who they claim to be and has already been authenticated) to prevent said user from having to provide their username or password on each page that requests them and has restricted access control.
• User security cookies, introduced specifically to strengthen the security of the service explicitly requested by the user.
• For example, to detect erroneous and repeated attempts to connect to a website, among other forms of misuse.
• Media player session cookies.
• Session cookies to balance the load on information systems.
• User interface personalization cookies, for example to remember the preferred language.
• Certain plug-in cookies for exchanging social content.
• In general, in cases in which a website offers its visitors a service, when the website uses cookies exclusively for the purposes listed above, for which it is not necessary to obtain consent, whether they are first-party or third-party cookies, it will not be necessary for the website controller to inform the visitor of their use or to obtain consent.

Statistical cookies ALSO do not pose an appreciable risk

With regard to the processing of data collected through analytics cookies, the above-mentioned opinion of the current European Data Protection Board stated that, although such cookies are not exempt from the duty to obtain consent for their use, they are unlikely to represent a risk to the privacy of users provided that they are first-party cookies; they process aggregated data for a strictly statistical purpose; information about their uses is provided; and  an option is provided so users can reject their use.

First-party cookies do not typically pose an appreciable risk to you

Frist-party cookies are generated by our website, while third-party cookies are generated by services or providers that are independent of us.

These independent providers define the purposes and means of the processing they carry out.

Our only responsibility with regard to third-party cookies is the collaboration required from our website for the placement of these cookies on your device, placement to which we will typically be obliged since it is necessary in order to use the services provided to us by such third parties (for example, to check that you are not a robot of the kind that are so abundant on the internet, thereby avoiding a situation in which the requests or comments that may be sent to us through the forms on our website detract from the attention given to authentic ones).

What technical cookies do we use and for what purpose?

Technical cookies allow the user to navigate a website, platform or app and use the different options or services that exist therein, including managing and operating the website and enabling its functions and services (for example, identifying a session, accessing parts of the website that are restricted, remembering the items in your order, carrying out the purchase process of your order, managing your payment, etc.).

The website or app cannot function properly without these cookies, and they are therefore considered necessary.

In our specific case, we use the following:

Cookie            Supplier                     Purpose                     Duration

What preference cookies do we use and for what purpose?

Preference or personalisation cookies allow our website to remember information that changes the way our pages behave or the way they look in order to differentiate your experience from that of other users.

For example, the language in which you want to view our website is usually remembered.

If you voluntarily choose these features, for example, by selecting the flag or letters that identify the language, it is considered a service that you have specifically requested provided that the cookies are exclusively for the purpose of customisation. Therefore, in this case we would not be required to request your explicit authorisation.

In our specific case, we use the following:

Cookie            Supplier                     Purpose                     Duration

What statistical cookies do we use and for what purpose?

Statistical cookies, or analytics cookies, allow us to understand how visitors interact with the pages of our website and therefore perform statistical analysis of the services we provide.

The information collected is used to measure activity on our website for the purpose of making improvements to the products and services we offer you.

We will only use analytics cookies if you authorise us to do so by clicking on the corresponding button in the cookie banner or through the settings menu.

Specifically, our website uses the following analytics cookies:

Cookie            Supplier                     Purpose                     Duration

What marketing cookies do we use and what for?

Marketing or behavioural advertising cookies store information about user behaviour which is obtained by continuously observing browsing habits. This enables the development of a specific profile which allows us to show ads that are relevant and attractive to the individual user, and therefore more valuable to third-party advertisers.

We will only use marketing cookies if you authorise us to do so by clicking on the corresponding button in the cookie banner or through the settings menu.

In our specific case, we use the following:

Cookie            Supplier                     Purpose                     Duration

What other items are stored on the browser and what for?

This website creates storage space on the browser of the user’s device by means of the localStorage object which is intended for use by the following domains:

www.STOICAND.com, which uses this space for ……………..

Specifically, the following variables are stored:

…………….

www.google.com,which uses this space for ……………..

Specifically, the following variables are stored:

http://www.google.com

This website also creates storage space on the browser of the user’s device by means of the sessionStorage object which is intended for use by the following domains:

www.google.com,which uses this space for ……………..

Specifically, the following variables are stored:

http://www.google.com

How do I manage or disable cookies?

You can administrate, manage and deactivate the cookies used by our website at any time from your browser, for example, to withdraw your consent, by following the instructions provided by the manufacturer of your browser:

Instructions for Microsoft Edge

http://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/windows-10/edge-privacy-faq

Instructions for Google Chrome

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

Instructions for Google Android

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2392971?hl=en

Instructions for Internet Explorer 11

http://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies

Instructions for Mozilla Firefox

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox

Instructions for Opera

https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies

Instructions for Safari

https://support.apple.com/en-us/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac

If you disable the installation of cookies on your browser, you will be able to continue accessing our website with it, but your navigation may not be optimal and some of the services offered may not work properly.

Amendments to this Cookie Policy

We will update this Cookie Policy whenever necessary to reflect changes to our products and services.

If there are substantial changes to this policy, we will notify you before they take effect by posting a prominent notice in the cookie banner.

In any case, we recommend that you regularly review this Cookie Policy to stay aware of which cookies we use and how we use them.