Law  34/2002 on information society services and electronic commerce  requires, in its article 22.2, all website owners to  warn  the user about the  use of cookies , inform them about  the specific cookies  used and obtain their  permission  to download and store them in the browser.

Pursuant to this legal obligation, on this page you can find all the information about what exactly the famous cookies are and how they are used on this website.

For a complete legal overview of the legal aspects related to the activity of this site, please also consult our legal notice and privacy policy pages.

What exactly is a cookie?

A  cookie  is a small file that is downloaded to your computer when you browse websites.

A simple example would be when you enter the page of a web-based email account such as Gmail, Outlook or Yahoo Mail.

Cookies  allow a website to recognize a device’s browser and  do not contain  or collect any personal information about the user . They simply have a unique fingerprint that allows the website that originated that cookie to detect it again in the previously used browser.

That is, if a site has left a cookie on your browser, if you return to that website, the site can detect that cookie and thus know that that device has already browsed that website before.

When the user performs certain actions, the website may generate cookies, which can be very useful, both for the website and for the user themselves.

Why and what are cookies used for?

We use both  our own cookies  (generated by this site) and  third-party cookies  (such as those generated by embedded YouTube videos).

Nowadays, the use of cookies is simply essential. Without them, the user experience would be very limited (such simple things as embedding YouTube videos would not be possible) and website owners would be severely limited.

If you choose to do so, you can block cookies by using the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that this site will not function properly if you do this.

According to the terms included in article 22.2 of Law 34/2002 on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce, if you continue browsing,  you will be giving your consent  to the use of the cookies detailed below.

The cookies on this website are essential for :

• Allow this website to function properly
• Improve user experience
• Allow you to view embedded videos
• Improve site speed and security
• Make it possible to share our pages with your social networks
• Obtain (anonymous) statistics on the use of this website, essential to offer you the best possible content and for the strategic vision of our business

We undertake not to use cookies to :

• Obtaining personal data (without your express permission)
• Obtaining sensitive information (without your express permission)
• Sharing personal data with third parties

Examples of use of cookies

There are a multitude of applications for cookies.

They are used, for example, to keep the user authenticated on a website without having to authenticate each time they access it, until they decide to close the session.

Another example is advertising, where based on ads that the user has previously visited, cookies make it possible to trace which ads the user has clicked on (without knowing who that user is) using that information to show more relevant ads to the user on the next visit.

At  pfg architecture  we use cookies, for example, in the server cache that allows us to speed up the loading speed of pages on users’ computers.

How to disable cookies?

All browsers allow you to make changes that allow you to disable the configuration of cookies. These settings are located in the “options” or “preferences” menu of your browser.

Below you will find links with instructions for different browsers where you will see how to disable cookies.

However, please note that disabling cookies means  losing functionality  on many websites.

• Instructions for  Internet Explorer
• Instructions for  Mozilla Firefox
• Instructions for  Google Chrome
• Instructions for  Safari

If you do not wish to be tracked by cookies, Google has developed a plug-in to install in your browser which you can access  at the following link .

You can find more information about cookies in the  AEPD guide on the use of cookies .

Third party cookies

This website also uses third-party cookies and contains links to other websites that, in turn, are the source of their own and third-party cookies.

The different types of third-party cookies and their characteristics are listed below.

Media players

The  pfg arquitectura website  frequently uses its own and third-party audio and video content through popular players such as YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, iVoox and similar ones.

These players may leave cookies on the embedding site for purposes such as online advertising displayed by the player or to store and retrieve user preferences for using these players.

Online advertising cookies

This site does not publish online advertisements in its contents, which usually use cookies to optimize the advertisements shown to the user.

However, as a result of using embedded media players such as the YouTube player, for example, cookies from the online advertising platforms used by these sites will also be installed when visiting  pfg arquitectura .

Social media cookies

Plugins for creating social media buttons and similar elements related to them may generate cookies from these third parties. On this website, these types of elements are implemented by us and do not generate cookies during their operation.

Affiliate Link Cookies

These types of cookies would not be legally required to be mentioned, but for the sake of 100% transparency we would like to inform you that by following our affiliate links, the website to which these links point will generate a cookie that allows it to detect that (in the event of a sale) you originally arrived at their site from ours in order to assign us the corresponding commission.

This is the technical basis that makes it possible to use affiliate links.