At El Corte Inglés we use cookies in order to improve the service we provide as well as improve your browsing experience. We wish to explain clearly and precisely the following: what cookies are, what they are used for, what types of cookies we use, what purpose they serve and how you can configure or, if you wish, disable them.

What is a cookie and what is it for?

A cookie is a small removable data file that is stored by a user’s computer, tablet, smartphone or other device, and contains browsing information.
Overall, our users’ cookies help us provide a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages are useful and which are not, and which ones could be improved.

Cookies are fundamental to the smooth operation of the internet. They offer a host of benefits when providing interactive services and improve the navigability and usability of our website. There is no way cookies could cause damage to your equipment. The reverse is true; they help identify and fix errors.

What types of cookies do we use?

Depending on the entity using them

• Our own cookies
  These cookies are sent to your device by our own equipment or domains, from which we provide the requested service.
• Third-party cookies
  These cookies are sent to your device by a device or domain not managed by us, but by a partner organisation. Examples include cookies used by social networks or by external content such as Google Maps.

Depending on how long they remain active

• Session cookies
  These temporary cookies remain in your browser’s cookies file only while you are visiting the website, meaning that cookies are not registered on your computer’s hard drive. We use the information these cookies provide us to study web traffic patterns. Over time, this allows us to improve browsing through better, easier-to-use content.
• Persistent cookies
  These are stored on your hard drive. Our website reads these each time you return to our website. A permanent website has a specific expiry date. The cookie will no longer work once that date has passed. We generally use these cookies for purchase and registration services.

Depending on the purpose they serve

• Technical cookies
  These are needed for browsing and for the smooth operation of our website. Their uses include enabling the monitoring of traffic and communicating data, access to restricted access areas, placing of orders, use of security features and storage of content for posting videos or sharing content over social networks.
• Customisation cookies
  These allow access to the service with a number of predefined features that depend on a set of criteria. These include language, browser type used to access the service, settings for the region from which you are accessing the service, etc.
• Analysis cookies
  These enable us to calculate the number of users and thus create statistics measuring and analysing how users use our services. This entails analysing their browsing habits on our website in order to improve the products and services we offer.
• Advertising cookies
  These enable us to fully optimise management of any advertising spaces included on our website.
• Behavioural advertising cookies
  These store user behaviour observed on a continual basis. Cookies can tell us a lot about web browsing habits, which allows us to display advertising relevant to your browsing profile.

• Technical cookies
  These are needed for browsing and for the smooth operation of our website. Their uses include enabling the monitoring of traffic and communicating data, access to restricted access areas, placing of orders, use of security features and storage of content for posting videos or sharing content over social networks.
• Customisation cookies
  These allow access to the service with a number of predefined features that depend on a set of criteria. These include language, browser type used to access the service, settings for the region from which you are accessing the service, etc.
• Analysis cookies
  These enable us to calculate the number of users and thus create statistics measuring and analysing how users use our services. This entails analysing their browsing habits on our website in order to improve the products and services we offer.
• Advertising cookies
  These enable us to fully optimise management of any advertising spaces included on our website.
• Behavioural advertising cookies
  These store user behaviour observed on a continual basis. Cookies can tell us a lot about web browsing habits, which allows us to display advertising relevant to your browsing profile.

Purpose of the different cookies used

Below, you'll find the cookies used on our website and what they are used for.

Barilliance Cookies

Barilliance does not use 3rd party cookies.
None of the cookies store personally identifiable information.
The cookie information has no meaning outside of the Barilliance system.
When Barilliance collects personal data such as email address, the data is stored in the server linked to the user id stored in the cookie cbar_uid.

Webgains Cookies

A HTTP cookie (usually just called a cookie) is a small amount of data sent from us to your web browser. Each time you visit us, your web browser sends us back this text.

How Webgains uses cookies

• As a performance marketing network our job is to ensure that a website (called a publisher) that sends a customer to another website (called an advertiser) is rewarded for a successful referral. A publisher might be a voucher download site, a cashback reward site, a blog or any other website.
• This reward process is enabled by using cookies which recognise if you were referred to an advertiser by one of our publishers. Our cookies contain no personally identifiable information.
• A large part of the reason why so much is “free” on the internet is because websites can make money through advertising rather than charging you. Being rewarded for referrals is one of the great advances that internet commerce has enabled and we believe is far preferable to forcing people to pay for services.
• However, we fully respect your choice as an individual, if you prefer not to enjoy these benefits, we do not want to intrude on your privacy and provide full information on how to delete our cookies.
• As well as using cookies for reward purposes, our web site also uses cookies to remember your preferences, for example, your preferred language (full details below).

Cookies set by Webgains

Tracking cookies

How you can remove Webgains cookies

Please note that if you do decide to delete our cookies you may end up paying more for the goods & services you buy and/or not receive any cashback or discount due to you.

• You can remove all our tracking cookies by deleting all cookies set from track.webgains.com.
• You can remove all our non tracking cookies by deleting all cookies from any webgains domain eg, webgains.com, webgains.de, webgains.es etc.
• If you need instructions on how to delete cookies from your browser, please visit this page (How to delete cookies).
• To view and delete flash cookies, please visit this page

How do you set or disable cookies?

You can allow, block or delete cookies installed on your system in the browser settings. If you do not allow cookies to be added to your browser, you might find that you are unable to access some services and that your user experience of our website is less than optimal. The following links tell you everything you need to know about setting and disabling cookies for different browsers:

• Google Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox
• Internet Explorer
• Safari
• Safari for IOS (iPhone and iPad)
• Chrome for Android

Consent

At El Corte Inglés, we never save our users’ personal data except for their IP addresses, as stated above, unless you choose to register so you can shop for products and services that we sell, or receive details of promotions or content that may appeal to you.We assume that by visiting and browsing our website you agree to the use of the aforementioned cookies and the conditions in this Cookies Policy.