In order to guarantee your privacy, we inform you that we use cookies and other similar mechanisms that allow us to facilitate your use and navigation through the respective pages, guarantee access to certain features and, in addition, help us improve the quality of the page according to the habits and styles of navigation of the users.
1. What are cookies?
A cookie is a file that is downloaded to your terminal (whether it is a computer, Smartphone or tablet) when you access a web page and that allows the holder of that page to store or retrieve certain information about various situations, such as: the number of times the page has been visited by the user, identify a registered user, secure the user's session while browsing the page, allow safe and stable operations, among others.
As noted, cookies provide information about users' browsing habits and may therefore affect their privacy. For this reason, we want to provide you with the necessary information on the type of cookies used, so that you have full information to make decisions regarding the use of cookies and the protection of your privacy.
In this sense, we inform that in order to be able to use all the services and functionalities of the web page it is necessary to authorize the cookies in the Internet browser.
2. Cookie typology
We inform about the type of cookies used and their purpose:
- Session cookies: These are a type of cookies designed and used to collect and store data while the user accesses a page. As the name implies, these cookies are stored in your terminal until the user finishes the browsing session.
- Analytic cookies: These are a type of cookies designed and used for tracking and analyzing user behavior. This type of cookies offers the holder of the page the measurement of the activity on the site, for this purpose through information to or statistical character. In the STEAM web pages, for this purpose, Google Analytics cookies are used, which have different expiry dates depending on the information they offer. For more information, you can consult the Google Analytics Privacy Policy.
- Social networking cookies: these are cookies designed and used to offer the user the ability to share or recommend content from our pages on social networks.
3. Who uses cookies?
The information that is collected through the cookies of a page can be used by both the owner of this web page and by a third party that provides a service to the indicated holder. In this sense, the information of the cookies used in the web pages of STEAM is treated by both STEAM and third parties for the indicated purposes.
4. Cookie Management
Taking into account the information provided through this Cookies Policy, we hereby provide information on how you can manage the cookies used in the web pages through the different options offered by the most common browsers (Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Safari).
If the installation of all cookies on the page is prevented, some of its functionality as well as some content may be affected.
4.1 How to view cookies
All browsers offer the user the possibility to search and view the cookies that he / she installs in a particular site, to obtain information regarding their duration and the possibility of eliminating them, as indicated in the following section (4.2). In the same sequence, a set of informative links on this issue are listed in the most commonly used browsers:
Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=es
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/cookies-informacion-que-los-sitios-web-guardan-en-
Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/windows7/how-to-manage-cookies-in-internet-explorer-9
Safari: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/es/cookies/
4.2 How to delete cookies
To restrict or block cookies, you must modify the browser configuration that you use on your terminal, whether your computer, smartphone, or tablet. In general, browsers offer the following configuration options regarding cookie installation:
- That the browser refuse all cookies and, therefore, that no cookie of any page is installed in your terminal.
- Let the browser warn you before the cookie is installed, so you can decide whether or not to accept the cookie.
- The browser only refuses the third party cookies of the web pages you visit, but not those used by the site where you are browsing.
- The private browsing option in which cookies are installed in the terminal, but are automatically deleted when browsing the page ends:
Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95464?hl=es
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/navegacion-privada-navega-en-la-web-sin-guardar-in?redirectlocale=en-US&as=u&redirectslug=Private+Browsing&utm_source=inproduct
Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/es-ES/windows-8/help-protect-yourself-ie-10?ocid=IE10_priv_browsing#firstTabControl=tab1
Safari: <>https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/es/
5. Cookie Policy Updates and Changes
STEAM may modify, in whole or in part, the Cookies Policy by posting any change in the same way as this policy is published or by any type of communication directed at users, taking into account legal and regulatory requirements as well as adaptation of this Policy in accordance with the binding instructions issued by the National Data Protection Commission (CNPD) in Portugal. For this purpose, we recommend regular consultation to the content of Cookies Policy published at any time.