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The purpose of this cookie policy is to inform you clearly and accurately about the cookies used on the University of Granada website.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small piece of text that websites you visit send to your browser, which allows the website to remember information about your visit, such as your preferred language and other settings, to make your next visit easier and make the site more useful to you. Cookies play a very important role and help improve the user experience.

Types of cookies

Depending on who is the person managing the domain from which the cookies are sent and the data received is processed, two types can be distinguished: first-party cookies and third-party cookies.

There is also a second classification depending on the duration of storage of cookies in the client’s browser: these can be session cookies or persistent cookies.

Finally, there is another classification with five types of cookies depending on the purpose for which the data obtained is processed: technical cookies, personalization cookies, analysis cookies, advertising cookies and behavioral advertising cookies.

For more information on this matter, you can refer to the Spanish Data Protection Agency’s Cookie Guide.

Cookies used on the site

Below are the cookies used on this portal, their type and function.

The University of Granada website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service developed by Google that allows you to measure and analyze navigation on web pages. In your browser, you can see the cookies of this service. According to the previous typology, these are the main, session and analytical cookies.

Web analytics provides information about the number of users visiting the site, the number of pages viewed, the frequency and repetition of visits, their duration, the browser used, the operator providing the service, the language, the terminal you are using and the city to which your IP address is assigned. Information that provides a better and more appropriate service on this portal.

To ensure anonymity, Google anonymizes your information by shortening your IP address before storing it, so Google Analytics is not used to find or collect personal information from site visitors. Google may send information collected by Google Analytics to third parties only when required to do so by law. In accordance with the Google Analytics Terms of Service, Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

Finally, a cookie named cookie_agreed is loaded, which has its own technical and session type. It manages the user’s consent to the use of cookies on the website. The purpose is to remember those users who have accepted them and those who have not, so that the first one is not shown information about this at the bottom of the page.

How to change cookie settings

You can restrict, block or delete cookies from the University of Granada or any other website using your browser. Each browser does this differently, but the Help function will show you how.