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Cookie Policy

This website uses cookies to track user interactions with the services that SYSTEMS MAINTENANCE SERVICES EUROPA S.A. (hereinafter SMS EUROPA) provides, and to enhance your user experience on the Website.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are downloaded to your computer when you access certain websites.
Cookies allow us to automatically recognize you each time you visit our website so that we can personalize your experience and better serve you.

The information collected by cookies is anonymous and does not contain any sensitive information (such as name, address, contact email address, etc.) as they do not collect data that can personally identify the user.

What types of cookies are there?

Cookies can be divided into the following categories:

  • Essential technical cookies: are those cookies necessary to manage navigation within the web or to keep the user connected.
    It is not necessary to have the user’s consent for their installation, because it is necessary to install them in order to browse the web without errors.
  • Personalization cookies: are those that allow to remember information for the user to access the service with certain characteristics that can differentiate their experience from that of other users, such as, for example, the language.
    It will be necessary to obtain the user’s consent in the event that these cookies are executed directly by the web editor.
  • Analytical Cookies: These are cookies that allow monitoring and analysis of users on a web page, in order to make improvements.
    It is necessary to obtain the user’s consent for their installation.
  • Advertising Cookies: These are cookies that store information on user behavior obtained through the observation of their browsing habits, allowing the development of a specific user profile to show advertising based on the same.
    It is necessary to obtain the user’s consent for their installation.

On the other hand, cookies can be own or third party:

  • Own Cookies: These are those that are sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by SMS EUROPA, and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
  • Third-party cookies: These are those that are sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain that is not managed by SMS EUROPA but by a third party entity.

Finally, cookies can be session or persistent:

  • Session Cookies: These are those designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a web page. They are usually used to store information that is only of interest to keep for the provision of the service requested by the user on a single occasion, and then disappear when you leave our website.

  • Persistent Cookies: These are those in which the data are still stored in the terminal and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the person responsible for the cookie, and that can range from minutes to several years.

What kind of cookies does this website use?

This website uses strictly technical cookies essential for the normal functioning of the website.

How can you configure cookies?

Strictly necessary cookies are installed on the user’s device when accessing the website, because they are cookies required for the proper functioning of the website. The user cannot deactivate this type of cookies.