1. What are cookies and why do we use them in our Virtual Zone Nexus SL websites?

A cookie is a file that is downloaded into the user’s device when accessing certain websites to store and recover information about the aforementioned device browsing activities.

Cookies allow a website to – among other things – store and recover information about the user’s habits and decisions. Virtual Zone Nexus SL uses them to customize your experience when browsing through our websites, identify and remember registered users and make browsing easier.
We would like to remind our users that the use of cookies does not provide us with personal information whatsoever. Users remain anonimous to Virtual Zone Nexus SL.  
Users can configure their browsers to reject cookies. In that case, the customization of your experience would not apply, however, you would still be able to access our contents normally.
For further information you can visit Wikipedia.

2. What type of cookies are used at Virtual Zone Nexus SL websites?

The cookies Nexus uses, depending on their persistency, can be divided in: Session Cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies expire when the user closes the browser. Persistent cookies only expire when their purpose has been met, (example, to keep a user logged in when browsing through Virtual Zone Nexus SL websites and services) or when they are manually deleted. 

Additionally, depending on their goal, Cookies can be categorized in the following way:

• • Performance Cookies: These Cookies remembers your preferences for the tools present in our services, meaning, you don’t have to configure your preferences every time you visit our site. For example: Volume levels in video or sound players. Video streaming speeds compatible with your broswer. 
  • Geolocation Cookies:  These cookies are used to find out what country you are on when browsing or using our services. This cookie is 100% anonymous and it is only used to help match the contents with your location.
  • Log-in cookies: Log in cookies are generated once a user has completed register process or logs in afterwards and are used to identify users with the following purposes:
    • Keep the user logged in. If a user closes one of our webs or services, when the same user visits them again that user will remain logged in, making browsing easier. This feature can be deleted when users click on ‘exit’. Cookie will be deleted and users will have to log-in again when visiting our websites.
    • Check if the user is authorized to access determined services, for example, participating in a contest.

Additionally, some services can use third-party connectors such as Facebook, Twitter or Google. When a user signs up in some services by using credentials from a social network or a third party log-in system, the user is giving them permission to store a persistent cookie that remembers your identity and grants access to that web until it expires. Users can delete this cookie and revoke access to that website through a social network or third party login system by updating their preferences in that aforementioned social network.

• • Analytical cookies: Everytime a user visits a web or service, a tool from a third party provider (Google Analytics, comScore and similars) generates an analytics cookie in the user’s device. This cookie which is only generated in that visit, will help to anonymously identify the visitor when accessing Virtual Zone Nexus SL websites or services. The main goals of these cookies are:
    • To allow the anonymous identification of the users browsing through our sites through that cookie (it identifies browsers and devices, not people) and hence help calculate the approximate number of visitors and its tendency in time.
    • To Identify anonymously what are the most visited contents and then learn what are the contents that strike most attractive to our visitors. 
    • To find out if a user is visiting for the first time or not. 

Important:Unless users decide to sign up in some website property of Virtual Zone Nexus SL, the cookie will never be linked to any personal information that could give away your identity. Those cookies will only be used for statistical purposes that help optimize our users experiences. 
Furhter information about these analytics tools privacy policy: Google Analytics  https://www.google.com/analytics/

• Targeting cookies: These cookies allow us to adapt the information of the ads shown to every anonymous user in Virtual Zone Nexus SL websites. Among other things, they store information about the amount of time or frequency of visualization of ads, interaction with them or user’s browsing habits and/or behaviour towards these ads to help set an advertising profile that matches users preferences. 

To manage Virtual Zone Nexus SL advertising contents, we use some third-parties tools such as (Adservers – http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adserver") of third parties. These third-pary tools may store cookies sent from webs property of Virtual Zone Nexus SL coming from the user’s browsers, as well as accessing to the information stored in them. 

Companies that generate these Cookies have their own privacy policies.

3. How to disable the browser cookies?

Most browsers allow users to choose whether they wish to accept cookies and which of them. You can find these options under ‘settings’ or ‘preferences’ in your browser’s menu. Please find next some instructions on how to configure cookies in the main browsers.

Browsing through this website may install the following types of cookies: 

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• Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
• Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
• Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
• Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411?locale=es_ES&viewlocale=en_US