1. What are cookies?
The website owned and operated by Hostel Experiences Europe Overhead, S.L. (hereinafter "the website" or the "website") uses cookies and/or similar technologies that store and retrieve information when you browse. In general, these technologies can be used for a variety of purposes, such as recognising you as a user, obtaining information about your browsing habits, or personalising the way in which content is displayed.
The user may configure their browser to notify and reject the installation of cookies sent by the website, without this affecting the possibility of accessing the contents of said website, but the quality of the website's operation may be reduced.
The specific uses we make of these technologies are described below.
2. What types of cookies are there?
Cookies, depending on their permanence, can be divided into:
Session cookies: These are designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a web page. They are usually used to store information that is only of interest for the provision of the requested service. They expire when the user closes the browser.
Persistent cookies: These are those in which the data remains stored in the terminal and can be accessed and processed for a defined period of time depending on when the purpose for which it is used (e.g. to keep the user logged into the Services) is fulfilled or when it is manually deleted.
Depending on their Owner, they can be divided into:
Own cookies: These are those that are sent to the user's terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by the publisher itself and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
Third-party cookies These are cookies that are sent to the user's terminal equipment from a computer or domain that is not managed by the editor, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through the cookies.
Additionally, depending on their purpose, Cookies can be classified as follows:
Technical cookies: They are those that allow the user to browse through a website, platform or application and use the different options or services that exist on it, including those that the editor uses to allow the management and operation of the website and enable its functions and services such as, for example, identifying the session or controlling traffic and data communication.
Preference or personalisation cookies: This type of Cookie remembers your preferences for the tools found in the services, so you do not have to reconfigure the service each time you visit. By way of example, this typology includes: Volume settings of video or sound players. Video bitrates that are compatible with your browser.
Geo-location cookies: These Cookies are used to find out which country you are in when you request a service. This Cookie is completely anonymous, and is only used to help target content to your location.
Registration cookies: Registration Cookies are generated once the user has registered or subsequently logged in, and are used to identify you in the services for the following purposes: To keep the user identified so that, if he/she closes a service, the browser or the computer and at another time or on another day re-enters the service, he/she will continue to be identified, thus facilitating navigation without having to identify him/herself again. This functionality can be deleted if the user clicks on the "logout" functionality, so that this Cookie is deleted and the next time the user enters the service he/she will have to log in to be identified. Check whether the user is authorised to access certain services, e.g. to participate in a competition.
Analysis or measurement cookies: Each time a User visits a service, a third-party tool generates an analytical Cookie on the User's computer. This Cookie, which is only generated during the visit, will be used in future visits to the Web Services to anonymously identify the visitor. The main objectives to be pursued are: Allow anonymous identification of browsing users through the "Cookie" (identifies browsers and devices, not people) and therefore the approximate counting of the number of visitors and their trend over time. Identify anonymously the most visited and therefore most attractive content for users. Know whether the user accessing the site is new or a repeat visitor. Important: Unless the user decides to register for a Web service, the "Cookie" will never be associated with any personal data that can identify him/her. These Cookies will only be used for statistical purposes to help optimise the User's experience on the site.
Behavioural advertising cookies: This type of "Cookies" allows to extend the information of the advertisements shown to each anonymous user in the Web Services. Among others, the duration or frequency of viewing of advertising positions, the interaction with them, or the user's browsing and/or sharing patterns are stored as they help to form an advertising interest profile. In this way, they make it possible to offer advertising that is tailored to the user's interests.
Third-party advertising cookies: In addition to the advertising managed by the Site on its Services, the Site offers advertisers the option to serve ads through third party advertisers ("AdServers"). In this way, these third parties can store Cookies sent from the Web Services coming from the Users' browsers, as well as access the data stored in them.
3. What cookies do we use?
The cookies we use on our website are:
Own: Name / Typology / Domain / Expiry / Function
From third parties: Name / Type / Domain / Expiration / Function / Further information
4. How to disable cookies?
It is usually possible to stop accepting browser Cookies, or to stop accepting Cookies from a particular Service.
All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings are usually found in the "options" or "preferences" menu of your browser. You can also configure your browser or email manager, as well as install free plug-ins to prevent Web Bugs from being downloaded when you open an email.
The Website provides guidance to the User on how to access the menu for configuring cookies and, where appropriate, private browsing in each of the main browsers:
- Microsoft Edge / Internet Explorer: ttps://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/delete-and-manage-cookies-168dab11-0753-043d-7c16-
- Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=es&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop
- Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-websites-storing-cookies-site-data-firefox
Likewise, the user can modify, configure and, where appropriate, revoke the consent granted for the installation of cookies, using the form located in all the tabs of the website, and/or by clicking on the following link.
5. Transfers of data to third countries.
The installation of cookies described in section 3 of this cookie policy may involve the transfer of data to third countries. In this sense, international data transfers involve a flow of personal data from Spanish territory to recipients established in countries outside the European Economic Area (the countries of the European Union plus Liechtenstein, Iceland and Norway).
In view of the above, the international data transfers that we carry out on our website are:
International data transfers
Name: _gad, _gid, _ga
Typology: Analytics
Entity: Google Inc.
Country: USA. USA.
Article RGPD: Adequacy decision (Article 45(1) of the GDPR)
More information: Adequacy decision (Article 45(1) of the GDPR) Access to Google Inc.'s adherence to the Data Privacy Framework: here.
You can find out about the transfers to third countries made by the third parties identified in this cookie policy in their corresponding policies (links provided in the "Third-party cookies" section).
6. Rights of data subjects.
We remind you that data protection regulations, in articles 15 to 22 of the GDPR, allow data subjects to exercise their rights of access, rectification, erasure ("right to be forgotten"), objection, portability, restriction of processing, and the right to object to automated decisions (including profiling).
You can exercise them at our physical address located at Calle Orense 70, 6º Derecha, 28020, Madrid, as well as by e-mail to dpo@grouptch.com. You can find more information in our privacy policy.
7. Conservation periods.
In compliance with article 13.2.a) of the RGPD, we inform you that cookies will be installed for a specific period of time. In this regard, if the user wishes to consult the storage periods and obtain further information on this point, he/she should consult the "expiry" column in section "3. What cookies do we use?
8. Can changes be made to the cookie policy?
Hostel Experiences Europe Overhead, S.L. may modify this Cookies Policy according to legislative or regulatory requirements, or in order to adapt this policy to the instructions issued by the European and/or national control authorities (in our case, the Spanish Data Protection Agency), therefore users are advised to visit it periodically.
When significant changes are made to this Cookies Policy, they will be communicated to users either through the website or by e-mail to registered users.
Finally, you can consult our privacy policy for additional information (article 13 of the RGPD) on the processing of your personal data by Hostel Experiences Europe Overhead, S.L.
