Cookie Policy

1. Cookie Policy

In compliance with Act 34/2002, of July 11, governing services of the information society and electronic commerce, and (EU) Regulation 2016/679 relating to the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and the free circulation of said data, we inform you of the use of cookies on the Provincial Government of Tarragona Tourism Board websites.

2. What is a cookie and what is it for?

A cookie is a file that is downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you access certain websites. Cookies allow a website, among other things, to store and retrieve information about a user's or their computer's browsing habits and, depending on the information they contain and the way the computer is used, they may be used to recognise the user. For this reason, they are essential to access services where the user must identify themselves, such as web mail or blog management.

3. What type of cookies does the Tourism Board of the Province of Tarragona use?

Technical cookies. They are those that allow the user to navigate through our websites and use the different options or services contained therein, such as controlling traffic and data communication, answering surveys, evaluating acts of the agenda, identify the session, access restricted access parts, request registration or participation in an event, use security elements while browsing, store content for dissemination or share content through social networks .
Personalization cookies. They are those that allow the user to access the service with some predefined general characteristics based on a series of criteria on the user's terminal, such as the language, the type of browser through which 'access the service, the locale from which the service is accessed, etc.
Analysis cookies. They are those that, whether treated by us or by third parties, allow us to quantify the number of users and thus carry out the measurement and statistical analysis of the use made by users of the service offered. For this, your navigation on our website is analyzed in order to improve the range of products or services we offer you. For this purpose, the Tarragona County Tourism Board uses Google Analytics, a web statistics service offered free of charge by Google.

Tipus	Galeta	Durada	Ús	On s'envien les dades	Política
Analytic	_gcl_au	3 months	This cookie is used by Google Analytics to understand the user's interaction with the website.	United States	https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
Analytic	_ga	1 year 4 days	Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors.	United States	https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
Analytic	_gid	1 day	Google Analytics sets this cookie to store information about how visitors use a website while creating an analytical report of website performance. Some of the data collected includes the number of visitors, their source and the pages they visit anonymously.	United States	https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
Analytic	_ga_*	1 year1 month 4 days	Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views.	United States	https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
Analytic	_fbp	3 months	Facebook sets this cookie to display ads when you are on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after you visit the website.	United States	https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policies/cookies/
Technique	_gat	1 day	Google Universal Analytics sets this cookie to restrict the rate of requests and therefore limit data collection on high traffic sites.	United States	https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
Technique	cookie-agreed-version	3 months 8 days	Serves to display the cookie notice Content: Version	-	-
Technique	cookie-agreed	3 months 8 days	This cookie stores information about users' choices about the use of cookies. This cookie is set when the user has accepted or rejected the use of cookies.
Technique	cookie-agreed-categories	3 months 8 days	Cookie that is used to know whether the user has accepted a certain type of cookie or not.

4. Types of cookie according to their expiry

The cookies used by the Provincial Government of Tarragona Tourism Board can have the following types of expiry:

Session cookies. Expire when the user exits the session.
Service cookies. Related to a personalised service on the website. Expire in less than 24 hours.
Persistent cookies. Permanently installed in a user's browser and activated every time they visit the website, as long as their use is not deactivated.

5. How to delete and deactivate the use of cookies

To allow, block or delete cookies installed on your computer, you must access the configuration options of the browser with which you access the web.

AYou can find more information for each of the main browsers through the following links:

If, at any time, you wish to withdraw your consent related to this cookie policy, you must delete the stored cookies through the adjustments and settings of your Internet browser.

For more information on how to manage cookies, visit the website

6. Who uses the Tarragona Provincial Government Tourism Board cookies?

The information obtained by the cookies is processed only by the Tarragona Provincial Government Tourism Board. Despite this, you should bear in mind that the Tourism Board uses third-party cookies, and that the information obtained through them is stored on servers external to the Tarragona Provincial Government Tourism Board. This is the case of data collected by Google Analytics.

7. Google Analytics

This web analysis service is provided by the US company Google, Inc. (1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043). The information generated by the cookie relating to the use of the website (including your IP address) will be directly sent to and stored by Google on its servers in the United States. Google will use this information on our account for the purpose of keeping track of the users of our website, compiling reports on the website activity and providing other services related to the website activity and Internet use. Google may transmit this information to third parties when required by law, or when those third parties process the information on behalf of Google. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data it may have.

In you wish to prevent Google Analytics from collecting information during your browsing, you can disable the use of cookies (see the previous section) or install a browser plugin designed by the company to disable the collection of information.

8. Consent

Having been informed of our cookie policy, if you continue browsing, we will understand that you accept the use of cookies, both our own and those of third parties, on our websites and applications.

If you refuse the installation of cookies, you will be able to continue using our websites, although use of some of the services may be limited and, therefore, your experience on our website may be less satisfactory.

9. Third-party cookies

The Tarragona Provincial Government Tourism Board is present on several third-party web platforms, mainly social media, and, in some cases, the Tourism Board inserts content from these on its own website. In either case, these third-party platforms may have their own cookies. The Tarragona Provincial Government Tourism Board has no control over these cookies and, therefore, recommends users to review the security policy of each of those platforms.

Costa Daurada on Facebook: Facebook cookie page.
Costa Daurada on Twitter. Twitter privacy page.
Costa Daurada on Instagram: Instagram privacy page.
Costa Daurada on YouTube and Google Maps. Google cookie page.

In the event that any user of the Tarragona Provincial Government Tourism Board wishes to share some of the content of our website through an external social medium, they must bear in mind that it could also use a cookie at the time of registration. In this case, the Tourism Board also has no control over such cookies.