Explaining a cookie

A cookie is a small data file placed onto your device and saved by your browser that enables us to identify your device and secure your access. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain any viruses. They can be used for a range of different purposes, such as customising a website for a particular user, helping a user navigate a website, improving that user’s website experience, and storing that user’s preferences and login information. For further details on cookies, please visit the website All About Cookies where you can find comprehensive information on Cookies.

There are two main types of cookie: persistent cookies and session cookies.

A persistent cookie will recognise you as an existing user, which can also remove the need to sign in each time you visit the site.

Session cookies will only apply for as long as your current website visit or browser session.

Cookies can also be classified as either ‘essential’ or ‘non-essential’.

Essential cookies: these are cookies that are either:

• Used solely to carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network; or
• Strictly necessary to provide an online service (e.g. a service) which you have requested.

Non-essential cookies: these are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyse your behaviour on a website (‘analytical’ cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements to you (‘advertising’ cookies).

The privacy use of a Cookie is compliant with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). Please see our privacy policy.

The use of Cookies

Cookies and advertising

Cookies, pixels, and tags help to serve relevant ads to visitors by identifying your device your usage, your browsing behaviour, log data (your IP address).

The General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) governs the use of personal information and information collected cannot be shared with any 3^rd party advertisers without your consent.

The use of third-party cookies

The cookie table below provides details of the third party cookies that may be used on our site.

Our site includes links to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and so on. The privacy implications for this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.

Your use of third party web sites and platforms such as Facebook, and the privacy practices of these platforms, are governed by separate terms, conditions and policies for which Club Las Calas is not responsible. You should review their terms, conditions and policies where you will find more details on how information about you is used on their platforms and how you can set your privacy preferences.

YouTube:

Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited.

If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behaviour directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

YouTube is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest.

Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to compile visitor statistics. Google Analytics cookies are classified as first party cookies as they are set by our website domain, although Google collects and processes information from our use of Google Analytics.

To find out more about how Google handles information collected from Google Analytics, see Google Analytics’ privacy policy, which is available here.

For information on how Google uses data from cookies it uses, click here.

For Google’s general privacy policy (including, in relation to YouTube), click here.

Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on: You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the browser add-on which is available here.

We use Google Analytics to find out:

• How many people visit our website
• Different technologies visitors use which tells us when our site isn’t working as it should
• How long visitors browse our site

Analysing website statistics helps us continuously improve our website standards. Data is retained for 26 months and all IP addresses have been anonymised (IP masking).

The information generated by the cookies about your use of this website will be disclosed to third parties. You can prevent these cookies being stored by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. However, we wish to point out that doing so may mean you will not be able to enjoy the full functionality of this website.

If you do not agree with the storage and use of your data, you can disable this feature. In this case, an opt-out cookie will be stored in your browser to prevent Google Analytics from storing your usage data. If you delete your cookies, this will mean that the opt-out cookie will also be deleted. You will then need to reactivate it when you return to our site if you wish your activity not to be tracked.

Facebook Pixel

We also use cookies provided by Facebook. These cookies are used in connection with Club Las Calas advertising served to a user of the Club Las Calas website on Facebook, the recognition of such users and the devices used by the user to access Facebook and the Club Las Calas website. Further information on each cookie is set out in the table below.

Controlling cookies

You can control cookies through your browser settings preferences. You can configure your browser to inform you about the use of cookies so that you can decide on a case-by-case basis whether to accept or reject a cookie.

Alternatively, your browser can be configured to automatically accept cookies under certain conditions or to always reject them, or to automatically delete cookies when closing your browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

If you choose to withhold consent to Club Las Calas’ use of cookies, or subsequently block cookies that you previously consented to, some aspects of the website may not work properly and you may not be able to access all or part of our website.

How to decline or remove cookies

To decline to receive cookies, simply change your browser settings on your computer or other device. Most browsers also provide functionality that lets you review and erase cookies.

To learn more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org, or www.aboutcookies.org.

Resources

• European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EU)
• Internet Advertising Bureau (EU)

Browser manufacturers provide help pages relating to cookie management in their products. Please see below for more information. For other browsers, please consult the documentation that your browser manufacturer provides.

• Google Chrome
• Internet Explorer
• Mozilla Firefox
• Safari (Desktop)
• Safari (Mobile)
• Android Browser
• Opera
• Opera Mobile

Cookies used on this site

Cookies used on this site

ADMINDYNSRV

DYNSRV

Both of these are used to help the performance of the website and are deleted when you close your browser.

cookies_accepted

Checks whether the cookie notice has been dismissed.

PHPSESSID

This is known as a session cookie. It is used to allow users to be recognized within a website so any page changes or item selection you do is remembered from page to page. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser.

wordfence_verifiedHuman

wfvt_

Cookies set by the Wordfence Security WordPress plugin to help protect the site against malicious attacks.

wordpress_test_cookie

WordPress sets this cookie when you navigate to the login page. The cookie is used to check whether your web browser is set to allow, or reject cookies.

YouTube

PREF

This cookie stores your preferences and other information, in particular preferred language, how many search results you wish to be shown on your page, and whether or not you wish to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on.

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

A cookie that YouTube sets that measures your bandwidth to determine whether you get the new player interface or the old.

YSC

This cookie is set by the YouTube video service on pages with embedded YouTube video

Google

_ga

_gat

_gid

Set by Google Analytics, these cookies allow us to anonymously track visits and user behaviour on our website.

IDE

Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report user actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.

NID

The NID cookie contains a unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language (e.g. English), how many search results you wish to have shown per page (e.g. 10 or 20), and whether or not you wish to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on.

Facebook Pixel

FR

_FBP

fbevents.js

This Cookie is placed by Facebook. It enables Club Las Calas to measure, optimise and build audiences for advertising campaigns served on Facebook. In particular it enables Club Las Calas to see how our users move between devices when accessing our web site and Facebook, to ensure that Club Las Calas’ Facebook advertising is seen by our users most likely to be interested in such advertising by analysing which content a user has viewed and interacted with on the Club Las Calas web site.

To opt-out please see https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences