Privacy & Cookies Policy

MEREFSA uses the following own cookies for notice management, user session, and service provision:

By using MEREFSA's website, the user accepts the use of Cookies and consents to the processing of information about themselves in the manner and for the purposes indicated below. However, MEREFSA displays information about its Cookie Policy at the top of the website's homepage each time a session is started, so that Users are aware of it.

Cookies are small files that some platforms, such as websites, may install on your computer, smartphone, tablet, or connected television. Their functions can be very diverse: storing your browsing preferences, collecting statistical information, enabling certain technical features, etc. Sometimes, cookies are used to store basic information about the user's browsing habits or those of their device, and depending on the case, they may be used to recognize the user.

Cookies are useful for several reasons. From a technical point of view, they allow websites to function more smoothly and adapt to your preferences, such as storing your language or your country's currency. In addition, they help website managers improve the services they offer, thanks to the statistical information they collect through them. Finally, they help make the advertising we show you more efficient, which allows us to offer services to you for free.

Browsing this portal means that the following types of cookies may be installed:

This type of cookie retains your preferences for certain tools or services so that you do not have to reconfigure them every time you visit our portal and, in some cases, they may be provided by third parties. Some examples include: volume settings of audiovisual players, article sorting preferences, or compatible video playback speeds. In the case of e-commerce, they allow information about your shopping cart to be maintained.

These are cookies that, whether processed by us or by third parties, allow us to quantify the number of visitors and statistically analyze how users make use of our services. Thanks to this, we can study navigation on our website and thus improve the offering of products or services we provide.

These cookies are used by programs that try to geographically locate the position of the computer, smartphone, tablet, or connected TV, in order to anonymously offer you more appropriate content and services.

When you register on our portal, cookies are generated that identify you as a registered user and indicate when you have logged in to the portal. These cookies are used to identify your user account and associated services. These cookies are maintained as long as you do not log out, close your browser, or turn off your device. These cookies may be used in combination with analytical data to individually identify your preferences on our portal.

These are cookies that, whether managed by us or by third parties, allow us to efficiently manage the advertising spaces on our website, adapting the content of the ad to the content of the requested service or to the use you make of our website. Thanks to them, we can understand your internet browsing habits and show you advertising related to your browsing profile.

As previously mentioned, MEREFSA's website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., which enables the measurement and analysis of website navigation. According to the above classification, these are analytical cookies.

Google Inc. is a Delaware company with its principal office at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043, United States ("Google").

MEREFSA uses Google Analytics cookies, which are text files placed on your computer as a user of this website, because they allow and help us analyze the use that users make of MEREFSA's website.

Through Google Analytics web analysis, MEREFSA obtains information regarding the number of users who access the website, the pages visited, the frequency and repetition of visits, the duration of visits, the browser used, the service provider, the language, the device used, or the city to which your IP address is assigned. This information allows for a better and more appropriate service from this website. The information generated by the cookie about the use of the website (including your IP address) will be directly transmitted to and stored by Google.

In your browser, you may observe the following Google Analytics service cookies used by MEREFSA, named:

• "_utma": Session cookie that allows tracking of user activity on MEREFSA’s website.
• "_utmb": Persistent cookie expiring in 2 years, which anonymously collects standard log information and data about users’ browsing habits on MEREFSA’s website.
• "_utmc": Session cookie that will disappear from the user's device as soon as the session on MEREFSA’s website ends.
• "_utmz": Persistent cookie expiring 6 months after accessing MEREFSA’s website.
• "_utmv"
• "_ga"
• "_utmt"
• "_gat"
• "CookieUser"

Google will use this information on behalf of MEREFSA for the purpose of tracking usage of MEREFSA’s website, compiling reports on website activity, and providing other services related to website activity and internet usage.

MEREFSA and Google may only transmit this information to third parties when legally required, or when such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Neither MEREFSA nor Google will associate your IP address with any other data they may have.

When accessing this website, cookies associated with the domain “google.com” (NID), “google.es” (NID and PREF), and “googleadservices.com” or “google.com/ads” may be downloaded. These cookies are downloaded because they are linked to some Google products and services used by this website.

Indeed, Google states on one of its pages that it uses these advertising cookies "to personalize ads shown on its services such as Google Search. (...) Google also uses several conversion cookies whose main purpose is to help advertisers determine how many people who click on their ads end up purchasing their products."

These cookies allow Google and the advertiser to determine that you have clicked on the ad and subsequently accessed the advertiser's website. However, conversion cookies only last for a limited period and Google does not use them for interest-based ad targeting. These cookies are typically enabled on the domains "googleadservices.com" or "google.com/ads" and are called "Conversion" and "TAID". Conversion cookie data can also be used together with your Google account to link conversion events across different devices you use. Only anonymous data collected through these cookies is shared with advertisers.

If you click the button to accept the cookie policy and then continue browsing the website, third-party advertising cookies under the youtube.com domain may also be downloaded.

On some of our pages, third-party cookies may be installed that allow them to manage and improve the services they offer. One example of this usage is social media links that enable users to share our content.

You can find more information about Google Analytics cookies here

On some of our pages, third-party cookies may be installed that allow them to manage and improve the services they offer. One example of this usage is social media links that enable users to share our content.

You can allow, block, or delete cookies installed on your device by configuring the settings of your internet browser. If you block them, it is possible that certain services which require their use may not be available to you.

Below we provide links where you can find information on how to enable your preferences in the main browsers:

Google Chrome

Mozilla Firefox

Microsoft (Internet Explorer, Win 10, Win 8.1, Win 7)

Safari for iOS (iPhone, iPad)

Finally, MEREFSA informs the USER about the existence of an online tool available to users that allows them to detect the cookies of each website they visit and manage their deactivation (for example, Ghostery).

If you wish to contact us regarding our cookie policy, you can do so at