Cookies Policy

What are Cookies?

Cookies are archives that contain small amounts of information that are downloaded on to a user’s device when they visit a webpage.

In general, this technology can be used for very different objectives – for example, to recognise the user when they open a webpage, to obtain information about their browsing habits, or to personalise the way in which the contents of the website http://act.gencat.cat/ are shown.

Use of Cookies by the Catalan Tourist Board (CTB) website

If you click ‘Accept’ in our banner, you expressly accept the use of these Cookies on your devices.

If you disable the Cookies, it’s possible that your browsing of our website isn’t optimised and that some of the website’s functions won’t work correctly.

The CTB specifically uses Cookies for the objectives set out below. In the future, if the CTB starts using other Cookies with the aim of providing additional and improved services, users will be informed of this change.

What types of Cookies are used on this webpage?

FIRST-PARTY COOKIES

We send these Cookies to your device and we exclusively manage them ourselves, with the aim of improving the functionality of our website. These Cookies remain in your browser, so that we can: identify you as a returning user of the website, improve the browsing experience, and personalise content so that it’s adapted to your preferences.

The following are our first-party Cookies:

Technical Cookies

These Cookies allow a user to navigate a website, platform or application and make use of its different options or services, including those that make it possible to manage and operate the website and enable its functions and services.

These include, for example: controlling traffic and data communication, identifying a session, accessing restricted access sections, managing payments, managing any fraud connected to the security of the service, processing applications to register for or participate in an event, counting visits for the purposes of billing software licences with which the service (website, platform or application) functions, using security elements during browsing, storing content for displaying videos and audio, enabling dynamic content (for example, upload text or image animation), or sharing content through social media.

Personalisation Cookies

These Cookies make it possible to remember the user’s choices and characteristics.

These include, for example: their language, the type of browser used to access the webpage, the number of results shown when the user does a search, the appearance or contents of the service based on the browser used to access the service, and the region where the user is. The objective of these Cookies is to provide a more personalised service.

These Cookies are necessary because you have expressly requested the provision of a particular service from this website.

THIRD-PARTY COOKIES

These Cookies are sent to the user’s device from a site or domain that is not managed by the CTB, but rather by another entity that uses the data gathered through these Cookies.

We use the following third-party Cookies:

Advertising Cookies

These Cookies store information about the behaviour of users obtained through the continuous observation of their browsing habits, which makes it possible to develop a specific profile for them and advertising is displayed to them based on this profile.

If you click on ‘Accept’ in our banner, you expressly accept the use of these Cookies on your devices. You can reject these Cookies or configure your Cookies settings by clicking on the link that takes you to the ‘Configure/Disable’ option of the Cookies provider.

Analytics Cookies

These Cookies make it possible to track and analyse the behaviour of users on the website, including quantifying the impact of advertisements. The information collected through these Cookies is used to measure website activity, with the aim of introducing improvements based on analysis of the data regarding how users use the service. In terms of analytics Cookies, this website uses PIWIK PRO.

Regarding analytical cookies, this website specifically uses PIWIK PRO cookies. It is a service provided by PIWIK PRO SA, with its main office at ul. św. Antoniego 2/4, 50-073 Wrocław, Poland.

PIWIK PRO uses cookies for the purpose of analyzing users’ use of the website. PIWIK PRO will directly transmit and store the information generated by the cookie (including your IP address) on its servers. PIWIK PRO will use this information on behalf of Agència Catalana de Turisme for the purpose of tracking your use of the website, collecting site activity, and providing other services related to website activity and internet usage. PIWIK PRO may transmit this information to third parties when required by law, or when these third parties process the information on behalf of PIWIK PRO. PIWIK PRO will not associate your IP address with any other data it holds.

If you want more information on this subject, please visit this link: https://piwik.pro/.

If you click on ‘Accept’ in our banner, you expressly accept the use of these Cookies on your devices. You can reject these Cookies or configure your Cookies settings by clicking on the link that takes you to the ‘Configure/Deactivate’