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AQUAPONICS Costa del Sol, is a Legal entity, organized under the laws of the Spain, Register code X3278163L, legal address at Calle Orfebres de Riviera 22, 33, 29649 Mijas Málaga Spain (hereinafter referred to as the “Company,” or “we”, or ”ACS”), shall undertake to ensure the security of personal information and the protection of rights of the visitors of the website (hereinafter referred to as the “Visitors”) while you use ACS website www.aquaponicscostadelsol.com (hereinafter referred to as the “Website”) and the content of it.

First and foremost, we DO NOT sell your personal information. However, when you visit or interact with our sites, services, applications, tools or messaging, we or our authorized service providers may use cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies to make your experience better, faster and safer, for advertising purposes and to allow us to continuously improve our sites, services, applications and tools.

1. GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT COOKIES

We use the cookies on our Website, to customize the functioning of our Website as much as possible, and can contribute to ease of use when navigating our Website.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small file placed onto your device that enables our Website features and functionality. For example, cookies enable us to identify your device, secure your access to the Website. They enable the Website to store the data, such as:

  • Login data (IP address of the logging-in device, login time, location from which the login is attempted);
  • Type of browser;
  • Demographic data (age group, sex);
  • Data about the fact how you browse the Website (which sections you visit, what products are you interested in).

Objectives, aims

We use the cookies to:

  • Ensure efficient and safe functioning of the Website; we use cookies to enable and support our security features, and to help us detect malicious activity on our Website;
  • Understand, improve, and research products, features, and services, including when you access our Website from other websites, applications, or devices such as your work computer or your mobile device;
  • Recognize the returning visitors of the Website; cookies help us show you the right information and personalize your experience; cookies also help avoiding re-registration or re-filling of the information by you each time you visit the Website;
  • Analyse your habits so that the functioning of the Website would be convenient, efficient and would conform to your needs and expectations, for example, by ensuring that the Visitors would, without difficulty, find everything they are looking for;
  • Measure the flows of the information and data being sent to our Website; we use the cookies for accumulation of statistical data about the number of users of the Website and their use of the Website;
  • Targeting and advertising; by using the cookies we may collect information so that only relevant content is displayed for the browser by creating different target groups; we may use cookies to show you relevant advertising both on and off our Website.

We may, to the extent allowed by applicable laws, link the data, received from the cookies, with other information obtained about you from other legal sources (i.e., information about the use of the services, online account, our Loyalty program, etc.).

2. COOKIES USED ON THE WEBSITE

Each time you visit our Website, the long-term (persistent) cookies may be created, which stay in your browser after you sign-up and will be read by us when you return to our Website or a partner site that uses our services, and not deleted after you finish browsing our Website, and the short-term (session) cookies, which expire or are deleted after you finish browsing our Website (i.e., they usually last during the current visit to our Website or browsing session).

Many web browsers allow you to manage your preferences. You can set your browser to refuse cookies or delete certain cookies. You may be able to manage other technologies in the same way that you manage cookies using your browser's preferences.

However, we note that the necessary cookies, as specified below, are necessary for functioning of our Website, and in case of your objections, we will not be sure about functioning of the Website or any of its portions or functionalities.

We recite below the main types of cookies used on the Website according to their types, collected data, and duration of storage.

2.1. Cookies used by the Company

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are required for the operation of our Website. They include, for example, cookies that enable storage of information filled by you during the browsing session, enable you to log into secure areas of our Website. Without these cookies operation of the Website would be impossible or its functioning may be severely affected.

Preferences / functional cookies

These improve the functional performance of our Website and make it easier for you to use. These cookies remember the settings selected by the Visitors (for example, the settings of language and time zone). With the use of these cookies, the Visitors may avoid the changes of settings during each visit of the Website. These cookies also remember changes made by you in the Website (for example, in case you leave comment on the Website). These cookies do not track your behavior in other websites.

Analytical / performance cookies

These cookies show us if the Visitor has visited our Website before. The analytic cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of users of our website and see how such users navigate through our Website. We also use cookies to understand, improve, and research products, features, and services. For instance, analytical cookies may show us, which websites are visited more frequently, help us to record dysfunctionalities of the Website, etc.

Marketing, targeting and advertising cookies

These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will then use this information to make advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. The advertising cookies let us know whether you have already seen the specific advertisement or a certain type of advertisement, and how much time has elapsed since you saw it. We may use the cookies set by another entity so that we could provide the advertisement oriented more specifically to you. They are also used so that we could see the certain advertisements only a certain number of times and that it would help to measure the efficiency of advertising.

2.2. Third-party cookies

Advertising cookies - some ads you can see on our Website have been provided by other legal entities. Some of these entities use their own cookies by analysing how many people have seen the specific advertisement or how many people have seen it more than once. The companies creating such cookies apply the policies prepared by themselves and we have no influence on the creation or storage of such cookies. We recommend you to take a separate interest in the Privacy Policy or the Cookie Policy of those companies, which will be placed on their websites.

Other third-party cookies - in some web pages of our Website, the other entities (for example, social networks) may also use their own anonymous cookies designed so that the programs or applications developed by them would suit your needs. Due to the specific features of the functioning of the cookies, our Website does not have access to the information transmitted by these cookies, likewise other entities do not have access to the information collected by the cookies set by us.

Such other type of third-party cookies used on our Website may include:

Necessary cookies:

  • Has offers_session (60 days)
  • intercom-id-* (90 days)
  • intercom-session-* (90 days)

Functional cookies:

  • "Google"
  • "Facebook"

Analytical cookies:

"Google Analytics":

  • utm_campaign (30 days)
  • utm_medium (30 days)
  • utm_source (30 days)
  • utm_data (ACS cookie for Google Analytics data – 30 days)

We use Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google, Inc (hereinafter referred to as "Google"). The information collected by Google Analytics is transmitted to and stored with Google. Google may transmit the information collected by Google Analytics to the third parties as required by the law or when those third parties process the information in the name of Google.

We recommend consulting the Google Privacy and Cookies Policy on a separate and regular basis.

Marketing, targeting and advertising cookies:

  • "Adwords retargeting"
  • "Facebook retargeting"

All information about the cookies used by us is recorded below:

Name of the cookie

Provider/ Description 

Moment of creation

Duration

Purpose/ Data collected

cart-* 

Our own system functional cookies

Entering the website

 30 days

Used to identify if user came from our free portal, what is added to the cart, check if user is logged in or not, saves coupon in order to apply at the checkout.

client_view 

30 days

progress_bar

7 days

coupon_cookie

30 days

000user_id 

1 day

cookie_consent

365 days

offer-popup-closed 

1 day

_cfduid

Claudflare

Entering the website

30 days

Used to identify trusted web traffic. The _cfduid cookie collects and anonymizes End User IP addresses using a one-way hash of certain values so they cannot be personally identified. 

SNC 

Sleeknote

Logging into hPanel

1 year

Contains data for us of conditions, how often a snapshot is displayed, references, queries to look for, etc.

SNS 

Sleeknote

Logging into hPanel

Until closing
the web page

Activation of Sleeknote session (Used for newsletter sign-up form)

__cflb

Cloudflare

Logging into hPanel

1 hour

We use Cloudflare cookies as part of our website security, and to distribute our incoming network traffic across our servers to optimise our website’s performance to our users. 

tokenSet

Session cookie

Logging into hPanel

Until closing
the web page

We use session token for authentication. Date of the time session token was set. 

1P_JAR

Google

Logging into hPanel

19 days

Set by Google. This group sets a unique ID to remember your preferences and other information such as website statistics and track conversion rates

language

Our own system cookie

Logging into hPanel

1 year

Sets panels language

_ga

Google

Logging into hPanel

2 years

This cookie is set by Google Analytics used to distinguish users (unique identifier)

special24

Our own system cookie

Upon login into hPanel when
promotion is active

5 years

Unique identifier

nps-panel

Net Promoter Score

When NPS popup
is closed

14 days

Marks that popup was closed

nps-limit

1 day

SNC 

Sleeknote

Logging into cPanel

1 year

Contains data for use of conditions, how often a snapshot is displayed, references, queries to look for, etc.

SNS 

Until closing
the web page

Activation of Sleeknote session (Used for newsletter sign-up form)

notifications_update

Our own
system cookie

Updates the last time notifications
were seen

notifications_unread

Amount of
unread notifications

hg_theme

2 Hours

Sets color theme

hg_lang

Contains language for the user 

PHPSESSID

Until closing
the web page

Unique identifier
Necessary & standard
cookie for upholding
the session

xyz-promo

Logging into cPanel
when promo is active

Until closing
the web page

Value indicating if promotional
popup was shown

skip-xyz-promo

upgrade-popup

email

Logging into cPanel

2 years

Client's login email

onboarding_start

Start of onboarding

1 day

Value indicating if user
has started onboarding process

delegate_access_hash

Access granted
via access manager 

2 days

Unique identifier

campaign

Our own system cookie

Logging into cPanel

30 days

Sets promotional campaign

setup_flow

Our own system cookie

After logging into cPanel
during order setup

2 hours

Value indicating if user
has started order setup process

askUserDescriptionForm

Our own system cookie

After logging into cPanel
and answering survey

3 days

Value indicating that user has seen survey

__cflb

Cloudflare

Logging into cPanel

1 day

We use Cloudflare cookies as part
of our website security, and to distribute our incoming network traffic across our servers to optimise our website’s performance to our users. 

Intercom

Intercom support software

Logging into members area

90 days

Used to identify user, log him into the intercom widget

Google DoubleClick

Google Marketing campaign cookie

Entering the website

30 days

Used to measure the effectiveness of its online marketing campaigns

Google Analytics

Google Web Analytics 

Entering the website

90 days

Google Analytics sets a cookie in order to evaluate use of our services and compile a report for us

Facebook

Cookies added by Facebook

Logging in with Facebook login

 

Used to identify user who logged in using Facebook login.

Google

Cookies added by google login

Logging in with Google

 

Used to identify user who used google auth to login / sign up.

Statistics or analytics cookies help us to understand how our visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously:

Name of the cookie

Provider/ Description 

Duration

Purpose/ Data collected

_vis_opt_s

WVO

100 days

Tracks sessions created for a user. The number of times the browser was closed and reopened. 

_vis_opt_test_cookie

WVO

Expires on browser close

Session cookie generated to detect if the cookies are enabled on the browser of the user or not. It also helps in tracking the number of browser sessions a visitor has gone through.

_vwo_uuid_v2

WVO

1 year

Calculates Unique Traffic On a website

_vwo_sn

WVO

30 mins and reset again to 30 mins on user activity.

Stores session-level information

_hjid

Hotjar

365 days

It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.

_hjTLDTest

Hotjar

Session

When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed.

_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress

Hotjar

30 Minutes

This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie.

_hjIncludedInSessionSample

Hotjar

30 Minutes

This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit.

JSESSIONID

New Relic Non-Essential Cookies

Session

New Relic cookie which is used to monitor session counts for an application 

_gid

Google Analytics

1 Day

This cookie is set by Google Analytics used to distinguish users 

_gat

Google Analytics

1 minute

Used to throttle request rate

_gaexp

Google Analytics

90 days (typically, depends on experiment length)

This cookie is set by Google Analytics used to determine a user's inclusion in an experiment and the expiry of experiments a user has been included in. 

Marketing or advertising cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and herby more valuable for publishers and advertisers

Name of the cookie

Provider/ Description 

Duration

Purpose/ Data collected

_gcl_au

Google Analytics

3 months

This cookie is set by Google Analytics to take information in advert clicks and store it in a 1st party cookie so that conversions can be attributed outside of the landing page.

test_cookie

Google

1 day

This cookie is set by Google used to check if the user's browser supports cookies.

pagead/1p-user-list/#

Google

Session

Used by DoubleClick to determine whether website advertisement has been properly displayed in order to make marketing more efficient.

_uetsit

Google Tag Manager

Persistent

Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor's preferences.

_uetsit

Google Tag Manager

1 day

Collects data on visitor behavior from multiple websites, in order to present more relevant advertisement. This also allows the website to limit the number of times that they are shown the same advertisement.

_uetsit_exp

Google Tag Manager

Persistent

Contains the expiry-date for the cookie with corresponding name.

ads/ga-audiences

Google

Session

Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor's online behaviour across websites.

_fbp

Facebook

3 moths

Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.

fr

Facebook

3 moths

Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.

tr

Facebook

Session

Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.

MUID (Microsoft User ID)

Microsoft

1 year

This cookie is set by Microsoft as a unique user ID. The cookie enables user tracking by synchronising the ID across many Microsoft domains.

_uetvid

Microsoft Bing Ads

16 days

This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website.

_uetvid_exp

Microsoft Bing Ads

Persistent

Unclassified

3. REFUSAL OR BLOCKING THE COOKIES

Many web browsers are set so that they would automatically accept cookies. The Visitors may, at their discretion, block or delete cookies and similar unique identifiers, if the settings of their browser or device enable them to do so. Nevertheless, if you refuse or block the cookies or other similar technologies, some functions of the Website may be inaccessible to you or they may operate not so efficiently.

Nevertheless, we draw your attention that necessary cookies are necessary for functioning of our Website, and in case of your objections, we will not be sure about functioning of the Website.

You may require that we delete all the data about you, as collected and processed with the help of the cookies, by contacting to the email address This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Such data will be deleted not later than within 28 days after contacting to the above-mentioned email address.

You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site. For more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit this Google page:  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

You may find more information about how to delete cookies, as well as the other useful information related to the use of the cookies, on the website https://www.allaboutcookies.org/.

4. GENERAL

This Cookie Policy may be updated by the Company.

The Company will inform the Visitors about the updates, by providing the new version of the Cookie Policy. For this reason, we recommend that you periodically visit our Website, where you will always find the latest version of this Cookie Policy.

This Cookie Policy shall be applied from the date of announcement of it on the Website.

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