Privacy and cookies policy
Your data will be included in a computer file owned by the Maria-Mercè Marçal Foundation for the purpose of keeping you informed of the Foundation’s activities and responding to your queries. This file is confidential and is used only by the Foundation. You have the right to access, rectify or erase your data, and may exercise it by writing to info@fmmm.cat or the Foundation’s headquarters, at Biblioteca de Catalunya, Carrer de l’Hospital, 56, 08001 Barcelona. By submitting the form, you are accepting these terms and conditions and those that appear in the legal notice.
Cookies policy
Cookies are files that can be downloaded onto your device via websites. They are tools that play an essential role in providing a host of information society services. Their functions include allowing a website to store and recover information about a user’s or a device’s browsing habits and, depending on the information obtained, they can be used to recognise the user and improve the service on offer.
Types of cookies
There are two types of cookies, depending on who manages the domain from which they are sent and processes the data obtained from them: first-party cookies and third-party cookies.
There is a second classification focusing on the period for which the cookies are stored on the user’s browser: session cookies or persistent cookies.
Finally, there is a third classification with five types of cookie, according to the purpose for which the data obtained from them is processed: technical cookies, personalisation cookies, analysis cookies, advertising cookies and behavioural advertising cookies.
For more information, consult the Spanish Data Protection Agency’s Cookies Guide.
Cookies used on the website
The cookies used on this website, their type and their function are detailed below.
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service developed by Google, which measures and analyses browsing habits on websites. On your browser, you will find 4 cookies from this service. According to the categories above, these are first-party, session, analysis cookies. For more information or to disable the use of these cookies, please visit the following page: https://policies.google.com/technologies/types?hl=en.
Through web analytics, information is obtained regarding the number of users who visit the website; the number of pages they visit; the frequency, repetition and duration of their visits; the browser, internet service provider, language and device they use; and the city to which their IP address is assigned. This information is used to improve the service offered on this website.
Finally, a first-party, session, technical cookie will also be downloaded. This manages cookie consent on the website by remembering whether the user has accepted the use of cookies or otherwise, so that those who have already accepted do not continue to be shown a cookie notification at the bottom of the page.
Acceptance of cookies policy
The Maria-Mercè Marçal Foundation assumes that you accept the use of cookies. However, information on the cookies policy is still shown at the bottom of every page on the website every time the user begins a new session, so that the user is aware of it.
When faced with this information, the following options are possible:
- Accept cookies: you will not see this warning again on any page of the website during this session.
- Close: hides the warning on the current page.
- Adjust your settings: you will find more information on what cookies are and on the website’s cookies policy and will be able to adjust your browser settings.
How to adjust your cookies settings
You may restrict, block or delete cookies from any website via your browser. The procedure is different on every browser; the Help function will show you how to do so.
You can also manage cookie storage on your device using tools such as the following:
Ghostery: www.ghostery.com/
Your online choices: www.youronlinechoices.com/