We inform you that this website uses cookies. This Cookie Policy is complemented by the Privacy Policy of this website, which is located under the domain name Barcelopro.com, (hereinafter, the “Website”). The Website is property of the Barceló Hotel Group company and uses cookies to understand your browsing habits in order to be able to display advertisement related to your preferences.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a file that is downloaded and stored on your computer when accessing certain web pages. They are widely used to ensure that the Website is correctly and efficiently functioning as it provides information to the Website owners. The cookies permit, among other things, to store and recover information about the browsing habits of a user or its team, and, depending on the information they contain and the way in which their device uses their device, they may be used to recognize and identify the user, in order to improve their browsing and provide them with the services requested by you. If you do not wish to send cookies to our systems, you may “deactivate” them and control it from your browser by eliminating them from your navigation history – cache – when the visit ends.
What types of cookies are there?
Regarding their expiration:
- ‘Session’ cookies: remain in your browser during the visit (for example, until you close the browser and complete the visit).
- ‘Persistent’ cookies: remain in your browser after the session (unless you erase them).
Regarding their activity:
- ‘Performance’ cookies: collect website usage information; do not collect personal data and the data collected are stored anonymously. Performance cookies are used to improve the functioning of the website.
- ‘Functionality’ cookies: allow the website to store any option made on the page (e.g., changes in text size, website customization).
Regarding their purpose:
- Analytical cookies: Used to collect statistics about user activity. Among others, they analyze the number of users visiting the website, the number of pages visited, as well as user activity on the website and how often they are used. The information compiled is always anonymous so that it may not establish a link between it and the physical person concerned.
- Authentication cookies: Used by the website to maintain user session during each visit, prevailing in private areas of the website that require a user and password for access.
Regarding their origin:
- Own cookies: Activated by the website you navigate.
- Third-party cookies: Third-party cookies are those that are sent to the user’s system from a system or domain that is not managed by the editor, but rather by another entity that processes the data obtained through cookies.
What type of cookies does Barceló use on the Website?
Following the guidelines of the Spanish Data Protection Agency, we set out in detail the use of the cookies that make the Website. By using this Website, continuing browsing through it or accepting the cookie notification, you consent and agree that we are staying on these cookies on your computer for the purposes mentioned above.
The following are the cookies we use when a user enters our Website, serving their purpose:
Own cookies:
| Name of the cookie | Supplier | Purpose of the cookie | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARCELO.NET_SessionID | Internal | Browsing | This cookie is required to identify the user's browser session. |
| UserUserOptional | Internal | Analytics | This cookie is required to identify analytics cookies. |
| TAFSessionID | Internal | Browsing | This cookie provides the session ID for the distribution and uploading of content on the website. |
| TAFTrackIngiB | Internal | Browsing | Identify the user so that the web content manager can load the page correctly. |
| akacd_brand | Internal | Browsing | Session cookie used to maintain user browsing on each of the different brands on the website. |
| context | Internal | Browsing | Used to identify the context of the session and keep the user in the same session. |
| Initial_Location | Internal | Browsing | Allows identification of the user’s place of origin. |
| multi brand | Internal | Browsing | Allows identification of the brand that has landed on the website with the distinction of brands |
Third-party cookies:
| Name of the cookie | Supplier | Purpose of the cookie | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| AKA_A2 | Internal | Browsing | Cookie that enables faster browsing and improves user experience. |
| Preferences | Internal | Languages | Allows the user to load the language selected by the user. |
| SessionErrorCookie | Internal | Browsing | Cookie that has a URL to return in case of error on the website. |
| showroom | Internal | Browsing | Allows us to identify whether the user is not logged into my Barceló and displays an indicator over the icon. |
| _gat_crobarcelo | Google Analytics | Authentication | Cookie created from the GA watchtower. Identifies the property to which the data is sent. |
| to_Axid | Google Analytics | Authentication | Base cookie used to assign navigation flows to a user in Google Analytics |
| refid | Trip Advisor | Analytics | Sojern Cookie – identifies the user to assign the sale |
| __Qca | Quantcast | Analytics | Quantcast Cookie used to analyze audience performance |
| __Qsj | Hanger | Analytics | Sojern Cookie – identifies the user to assign the sale |
| _Ga | Google Analytics | Analytics | Cookie used to assign navigation flows to a user in Google Analytics |
| _gac_UA-40201294-10 | Google Analytics | Analytics | Base cookie used to assign navigation flows to a user in Google Analytics - New website |
| _gac_UA-77005056-1 | Google Analytics | Analytics | Base cookie used to assign navigation flows to a user in Google Analytics -Trial property |
| _gat_tealium | Google Analytics | Analytics | Cookie belonging to Google Analytics is used to limit the percentage of requests |
| _Gid | Google Analytics | Authentication | Cookie belonging to Google Analytics is used to distinguish users |
| channelcloser | Trivago/TriPadvisor/Criteo | Analytics | Used to identify the channel closer using different attribution rules to Google Analytics |
| Channelflow | Tealium | Analytics | Needed to analyze user flows or traffic acquisition channel attribution |
| Channeloriginator | Commission Junction | Analytics | Needed to analyze user flows or traffic acquisition channel attribution |
| Channelwinner | Google Analytics | Analytics | Cookie used to identify channel closer using different attribution rules to GA and Channel Closer. |
| Tradedoubler tduid | Tradedoubler | Authentication | User base cookie for Tradedoubler – identifies the user to assign the sale |
| Name of the cookie | Supplier | Purpose of the cookie | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| skyscanner | Skyscanner | Analytics | User base cookie for Skyscanner – identifies the user to assign the sale |
| Kayickclickid | Kayaking | Analytics | User base cookie for Kayak – identifies the user to assign the sale |
| utag_main | Google Analytics | Analytics | Contains various user and browsing variables, for example: sessionID |
| optizelyFormserId | Optimizely | User Experience | Cookie to identify the user in the CRO tool |
As previously indicated, by navigating this Website, the user accepts the creation of cookies for the aforementioned purposes.
Nevertheless, if you later wish to delete the cookies stored on your computer and that require your consent, you can do so using your browser’s tools provided to you. To this regard, you can find additional information in the following section.
How can you reject cookies?
Should you later wish to block or delete the cookies stored on your device and that require your consent, you can do so using the tools provided by each browser. If you do not allow cookies to be installed in your browser, you may not be able to access one of the sections of our Website.
To that end, you can withdraw your consent regarding the present Cookie Policy, and you can delete the cookies stored on your computer. Depending on the type of browser you use, the procedure for revoking and eliminating cookies may, as an example, be one of the following:
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/es/home#sthash.cEpCdreI.dpuf
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/ph/807/es-es#sthash.cEpCdreI.dpuf
Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677?viewlocale=es_ES#sthash.cEpCdreI.dpuf
Opera: https://help.opera.com/Windows/8.54/es-ES/index.html#sthash.cEpCdreI.dpuf
Additional notes:
Web browsers are the tools responsible for storing cookies and this must carry out their right to remove or disable them.
Barceló is not responsible for uniting or unsurpassed the proper functioning of the Website, nor can it guarantee the proper or improper use of cookies by the navigators mentioned.
In certain cases, it is necessary to install cookies so that the browser does not forget your decision not to accept them.
Updating the Cookies Policy and contact
This Cookie Policy may vary depending on the cookies that are used.
Barceló recommends that you review this policy every time you access our Website with the objective of being adequately informed about how and for what we use the cookies and you can gain knowledge of any change in the type of data being collected.
Finally, and in the event that you have an issue related with the use of cookies on this Website, you can contact us via the following email address dpo@barcelo.com.