Cookie Policy

This cookie policy:

Its purpose is to inform you in a clear and precise manner about the cookies used on the web pages of the Portal: Application of Precursors of Explosives (APEx ).

Accepting or rejecting the use of cookies

In the cookie information pop-up window that appears when loading any page of the web portal, or at any time from this page, by clicking on the button of your choice:

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small piece of text that the websites you visit send to your browser that allows the website to remember information about your visit, such as your preferred language and other options, in order to facilitate your next visit and make the site more useful to you.

Cookies play a very important role and contribute to a better browsing experience for the user.

Types of cookies

Depending on who is the entity that manages the equipment or domain from which cookies are sent and treat the data obtained, we can distinguish:

  • own cookies.
  • third party cookies.

Depending on the purpose for which the data obtained through cookies are processed, some of the purposes may be:

  • technical cookies.
  • preference or personalization cookies.
  • analysis or measurement cookies.
  • Behavioral advertising cookies.

Depending on the period of time they remain activated in the terminal equipment we can distinguish:

  • session cookies.
  • persistent cookies.

For more information in this regard you can consult the Guide on the use of cookies from the Spanish Data Protection Agency.

Cookies used on the web

The cookies that are being used on the web portal are identified below: Explosives Precursors Application (APEx), as well as their typology and function:

Matomo, this cookie is: Third-party, session and analysis or measurement. It is a web analytics service developed by Matomo, which allows the analysis or measurement of navigation on web pages.

  • Through web analytics, information is obtained on the number of users accessing the website, the number of pages viewed, the frequency and repetition of visits, their duration, the browser used, the operator providing the service, the language, the terminal used and the city to which your IP address is assigned. This information enables this portal to provide a better and more appropriate service.
  • Matomo only produces anonymous statistics and website traffic figures for the sole purpose indicated above, no individual information is produced, they are not shared with third parties.

JSESSIONID, this cookie is: Own, technical and session type. It allows to store a unique identifier per session through which it is possible to link data necessary to enable the current navigation.

show_cookies, this cookie is: Own, technical and session type. It manages the user's consent to the use of cookies on the website, in order to remember those users who have accepted them and those who have not, so that the former are not shown information at the top of the page in this regard.

How to modify cookie settings

Youcan restrict, block or delete the cookies of the Explosives Precursors Application (APEx) or those of any other web page through the configuration of your browser, the operation for this is different depending on each browser:

Mozilla Firefox
Microsoft Edge
Apple Safari