COOKIES POLICY

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

This website uses cookies and/or similar technologies that store and recover data when you browse online. Generally speaking, these technologies may be used for a range of purposes, such as identifying you as a user, obtaining details of your browsing habits or personalising the way contents are displayed. 

Some cookies are controlled and managed by the website owner (known as ‘own cookies’), whilst others are handled by third parties (known as ‘third party cookies’) as for instance, they offer a tool or function integrated into the website.  

The specific uses we make of these technologies are detailed below.  

WHAT TYPE OF COOKIES DO WE USE AND WHY?

We use the following types of cookies on this website:  

• Technical cookies or cookies that are essential for the provision of services: These cookies enable users to browse websites, platforms or applications and use the various options or services they offer, including those that are used to manage and operate the website, activate its functions and services such as traffic management and data transfer, identify sessions, access restricted zones, issue reminders of items included in an order, place orders, manage payment, prevent fraud related to service security, request registration or participation in an event, count visits for billing software licences relating to service operations (website, platform or application), use security elements whilst browsing, store content for the dissemination of videos or sound, activate dynamic content (e.g. text or image preloaders) and share content on social media.    This category also includes cookies used to manage our advertising space in accordance with technical criteria such as edited content, frequency caps or origin checks on potential customers when they have activated an advertising link from a website associated to affiliate marketing programs.   

These cookies are exempt from compliance with the obligations stipulated in article 22.2 of the Spanish Law of Information Society Service and Electronic Commerce.

• Preference or personalisation cookies: We use own cookies capable of retaining data so that users can access the service under specific conditions that will differentiate their experience from that of other users. Examples in this sense include the language used, the number of search results shown, and the appearance or content of a service based on the type of browser used to access the service, or the region from which it is accessed, etc.  

Users are hereby informed that when they access our website, personalisation cookies will be installed on their browser in order to guarantee that the virtual assistant (Velma) functions correctly; for instance, in order to determine the language of interaction with users depending on their regions. These cookies are controlled by Quicktext SAS, with registered business address at 64, Rue Jean Pierre Timbaud, Paris 75011, France. THB hotels shall not process the data stored by these cookies. You may disable the installation of these cookies on your browser settings by following the indications given in the section “HOW TO MANAGE COOKIES”. Further details of the supplier’s cookies policies are available at: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34437755/add-properties-to-tinymce-after-init or here. 

• Analytics or measurement cookies: We use third party cookies that enable us to compile user numbers and thereby conduct the statistical measurement and analysis of their use of the services offered. In order to do so, an analysis is conducted of your browsing habits on our website in order to improve the products or services we provide.   You can consult the list of third parties that process the data obtained from these cookies here.
• Behavioural advertising cookies: We also use third party cookies that enable us to analyse user browsing habits in order to create specific profiles and show advertisements that have been personalised in accordance with these profiles.  

In order to tailor our online advertising, making it pertinent and relevant, we use selective online advertising programs. Companies participating in selective advertising programs can show you advertising tailored to your tastes and interests, in line with the information generated by your browsing habits on our website or those of third party participants in the program. For this purpose, these companies may install cookies in your browser in order to identify you as part of the corresponding audience. Likewise, they can detect your previous visits to our website by installing a tracking cookie.  

Our commercial information, websites, mobile applications or other web assets may likewise contain tracking pixels or codes that, once activated, may generate, read or modify cookies on your browser cache. These pixels and cookies are used to return or modify unique identifiers and track the actions that the email user or recipient carries out on our websites for marketing and analysis purposes. 

More information about online behavioural advertising and how to manage your browser privacy and to opt out of this type of processing is available at  www.youronlinechoices.eu

Consult the list of third parties that process data obtained by using these cookies here.

TRANSFER OF DATA TO THIRD COUNTRIES

The processing of data obtained from own cookies (those controlled by the website owner) do not imply the international transfer of data.   

You can learn more about transfers to third countries that may be made by third parties identified in this cookies policy by consulting their corresponding policies (see the links provided under the section ‘Third party cookies’).

DATA CONSERVATION LENGTH

Certain cookies are cancelled once users have finished browsing that particular website (session cookies), whilst others may be stored in users’ hardware and accessed for longer periods (persistent cookies).

Expiration of own cookies:

• Preference or personalisation cookies: They remain in effect for a maximum of 182 days following installation or updating.  

Expiration of third party cookies: Details of the conservation length for third party cookies identified in this cookies policy in their corresponding policies (see the links given under the ‘Third party cookies’ section).

PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA AND RIGHTS OF INTERESTED PARTIES   

The installation of third party cookies may involve the compilation of personal browsing data such as IP addresses or online identifiers by companies for marketing or other actions under their responsibility. You may obtain information about any possible processing of personal data by third parties identified in this cookies policy, as well as how to exercise your rights in relation to the corresponding policies (see the links given under the ‘Third party cookies’ section).

As far as we are concerned, data obtained from cookies may only be associated to a specific user in the event that said user has been identified on the website. In this case, the aforementioned data shall be processes in accordance with the terms and conditions of our website privacy policy.

At any time, affected users may exercise their right to request access to, rectification or erasure, restricted processing and portability of their data, as well as to oppose their processing and to lodge a complaint before a control body. More information about data protection is available in our privacy policy.

HOW CAN I MANAGE COOKIES?

To accept or reject the use of cookies, you may use the cookies settings panel on the website.   

Likewise, you may allow or block cookies, erase your browsing data (including cookies) from the browser you use. In order to do so, consult the options and instructions provided by your browser. Remember that if you accept third party cookies, they must be erased from the browser options.   

For your convenience, below you will find the information on managing cookies provided by the principal browser developers: 

• Chrome, https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=es 
• Explorer, https://support.microsoft.com/es-es/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies 
• Firefox, https://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/cookies-informacion-que-los-sitios-web-guardan-en- 
• Safari,https://support.apple.com/kb/index?q=manage+cookies&src=globalnav_support&type=organic&page=search&locale=es_ES 

To disable the use of third party advertising cookies, users can also visit the opt out page of the Network Advertising Initiative  (NAI) at:   http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp).

In order to control the tracking pixels or codes included in emails, you may configure your customer email account so that it does not automatically download remote content or images.  

If you disable cookies, you may not be able to use all the website functions.  

THIRD PARTY COOKIES