This Cookie Policy is an integral part of the Privacy Policy of www.be-wide.com (hereinafter, “BE-WIDE”, “Site” or “Website”). Accessing and browsing the site, or using its services, implies acceptance of the terms and conditions contained in the Privacy Policy.
To facilitate and provide a better browsing experience through the website, www.be-wide.com (hereinafter, “BE-WIDE”, “Site” or “Website”) informs you that it uses Cookies or other files of similar functionality (hereinafter “Cookies”).
Due to the way Internet communication standards work, accessing websites may involve the use of cookies. In any case, we inform you that Be-Wide is responsible for Cookies and the processing of data obtained through its own and third-party cookies, deciding on the purpose, content and use of the processing of the information collected.
1. What is a Cookie?
Cookies are files that contain small amounts of information which are downloaded to the user's device when they visit a web page. The main purpose is to recognise the user whenever they access the site, also allowing us to improve quality and offer a better use of the site. In short: they aim to simplify your browsing on Be-Wide.
Cookies are essential for the functioning of the Internet; they do not damage the user's equipment/device and, if enabled in your browser settings, they help identify and resolve possible errors in the operation of the site.
2. Use of Cookies by BE-WIDE.
By accessing the site, the user expressly accepts the use of this type of Cookies on their devices. If you disable Cookies, your browsing on the site may not be optimised and some of the features available on the site may not work correctly.
Specifically, BE-WIDE uses Cookies for the purposes set out below. If, in the future, BE-WIDE uses others for the purpose of providing more and better services, the user will be duly informed of this.
3. Cookies Used
– Preference Cookies
These cookies allow websites to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks. These cookies may also help you change the text size, font and other customisable parts of web pages. The loss of information stored in a preference cookie may make the website experience less functional, but it should not prevent it from working.
– Security Cookies
Security cookies are used to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of login credentials and to protect data from unauthorised persons. For example, they help block many types of attack, such as attempts to steal the content of forms you fill in on web pages.
– Process Cookies
Process cookies help the website to function and deliver services that the website visitor expects, such as navigating web pages or accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, the website cannot function properly.
– Session State Cookies
Websites often collect information about how users interact with a particular web page. This may include the pages users visit most often and whether users receive error messages from certain pages. So-called “session state cookies” help improve companies' services, in order to improve the browsing experience of our users. Blocking or deleting these cookies does not make the website unusable.
– Analytics Cookies
These cookies help website and application owners understand how their visitors engage with their web pages. They may use a set of cookies to collect information and report website usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors.
– Advertising Cookies
These Cookies (for example from platforms such as Google or Facebook) help the website and/or application owner to capture “Leads” for the recruitment of new advisors/clients/users of the Website. The data collected is anonymous and it is not possible to identify the user. They are used to limit the number of times an advert is displayed and help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign.
– Social media cookies and plug-ins (social buttons)
These social cookies are intended to allow users to share pages and content via third-party social networks. They also allow the targeting of advertising offers on social networks.
Our site also uses social plug-ins or buttons.
Social plug-ins make it possible to facilitate the sharing of pages and content from the site www.be-wide.com on various social platforms. For example, they allow the user to like and share information from our site with their friends on social networks.
To do this, the plug-ins use cookies to track users' browsing, whether they are users of those platforms or not, and to verify whether or not they are logged into the social network during browsing. These cookies also allow targeting of advertising offers on these platforms.
For more information on the use of personal data in relation to social networks, the privacy policies of the relevant third-party social networks can be consulted.
All cookies are kept only for the time strictly necessary for their use.
4. User configuration to avoid cookies
In accordance with current legislation, we provide the information that allows the user to configure their browser to manage and maintain their privacy and security regarding Cookies. Therefore, we provide information and links to the official support sites of the main browsers so that the user can decide whether or not to accept the use of Cookies.
Cookie settings can be changed in the browser preferences, following the instructions in the links:
Chrome
Firefox
Internet Explorer
Safari
For more information about cookies, including to find out which cookies have been installed and how they can be managed and deleted, the user can visit www.allaboutcookies.org. If the user does not want their visits to websites to be detected by Google Analytics, they should go to http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
It should be understood that the user accepts the use of cookies if they continue to browse this page without first disabling them.
Last Updated: 25 May 2018