Cookies Policy

The Fundació Universitària del Bages (FUB) informs about the use of cookies on the web pages of its corporate portal.

Cookies are files that can be downloaded to your device through web pages. They are fundamental tools to offer certain information society services. Among other things, they allow a web page to store and retrieve information about a user’s browsing habits or actions performed from a specific device and, based on this data, recognize the user and improve the service.

Types of cookies

Depending on the entity that manages the domain from which the cookies are sent and processes the obtained data, we can find two types: own cookies and third-party cookies.

They can also be classified according to the period they remain in the user’s browser, they can be session cookies or persistent cookies.

Finally, cookies can be grouped into five categories, according to the purpose of the obtained data: technical, personalization, analysis, advertising, and behavioral advertising.

You can find more information in the Guide on the use of cookies by the Spanish Data Protection Agency.

Cookies used on the FUB corporate portal

The cookies used on this portal are identified below, along with their type and function:

The FUB website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service developed by Google, which allows quantifying and analyzing navigation through its pages. The client browser manages 4 cookies from this service. These are own cookies, session cookies, and analysis cookies.

You can find more information about these cookies and how to disable them at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

Web analytics allows knowing the number of users who access the website, the number of pages visited, the frequency and repetition of visits, the duration, the browser used, the operator providing the service, the language, the device used, or the city where the IP of the interactor is assigned. This information enables a better and more accurate service by this portal.

Within the intranet, cookies are also executed to validate the user and keep them identified while navigating within the intranet environment.

Acceptance of the Cookies Policy

The FUB assumes that every visitor to the corporate website of the Fundació Universitària del Bages accepts the use of cookies. However, it offers a link on the initial page of the website to inform about this cookies policy.

How to modify the cookie settings

The user can restrict, block, or delete the cookies from the FUB or any other web environment, using their browser. Each browser must be managed differently. You can find additional information on this matter within the “Help” function and in the following links:

Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/es-xl/internet-explorer/delete-managecookie…“ie-10”
FireFox: http://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/Borrar%20cookies
Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
Safari: http://www.apple.com/es/privacy/use-of-cookies/
Additionally, there are programs that can help manage cookies, such as Ghostery (http://www.ghostery.com/) or “Your online choices” (http://www.youronlinechoices.com/en/).