Cookie Policy

Updated 3 June 2020.

You are visiting our website at https://foundation.fcbarcelona.com/. This website is owned by the Fundación Privada Futbol Club Barcelona (hereinafter, BARÇA FOUNDATION or FFCB). Our website installs its own and third party cookies in accordance with this cookie policy. You may also set the cookies that you wish to install by types. 

By changing you cookie settings, or accepting this cookie policy, you are agreeing to the installation of the reported or agreed cookies (unless you have modified your browser settings to reject all types of certain cookies by default).

1.    WHAT ARE COOKIES?

A cookie is a text file that includes small amounts of data that are downloaded and installed on your device/terminal when you visit our website. Cookies are then returned to the home page on subsequent visits, or to another web page that recognizes the cookie. Cookies are useful because they can store and retrieve information about the number of visits, user browsing habits or their computer and, depending on the information they contain and the way they use a device, they can be used to recognize the user, as well as improve the experience of using the website.

You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org/es.

2.    TYPES OF COOKIES AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE INFORMATION:

On our website we use technical/session, analytical, advertising and social network cookies. 

You shall be kept duly informed on the types of Cookies, in the box for that purpose, as to whether the information they collect can be processed by third parties as co-responsible parties or data processors for the ownership of the information collected. 

a.    Technical or session cookies

This website uses technical or session cookies which are those that allow the user to browse the website and use the different options or services that it offers, for example, identify the session, check a user’s identity, remember an order, use security elements while browsing, store content for the dissemination of videos or audio, set the language, among others. Disabling these cookies prevents some of the web’s functions from working properly.

b.    Analytical Cookies

This website uses analytical cookies to collect statistics about user activity on the website and their general activity. The collected information allows us to optimize browsing of our website and guarantee the best service to the user, by knowing for example the number of pages visited, the language used, the frequency and repetition of visits, the time of visits or the browser used, among others. The user can disable their activity by using the disabling systems provided by the analytical tools or in the browser’s own settings.
 

c.    Social Network Cookies

This website uses social network cookies so that the user can, using so-called social buttons, share content from our website on social networks and can connect to them.

We do not control the cookies installed by each social network, although these are usually technical cookies to control the login or display the counter that shows how many times a certain item of content has been shared. 

We advise all users to review the privacy and cookie terms and conditions of each social network, and, where appropriate, modify the privacy parameters in each of them to limit the tracking purposes that, where appropriate, are allowed.

d.    Advertising Cookies

This website uses advertising cookies that are used for effective management of the advertising spaces that have been included in the website, normally by third parties that manage the advertising spaces and that enable advertising content to be adapted so that it is relevant for the user and to avoid displaying ads that the user has already seen, as well as limit the amount of advertising impacts that we direct at each user.

In accordance with their own policies, some advertising managers may use anonymous cookies to display advertisements of interest when visiting other websites. In any case, users can agree to accept these cookies or not by changing their browser settings.
 

3.    DISABLING OR DELETING COOKIES

At any time the user may accept or refuse the installation of cookies, or refuse the installation of a certain type of cookie, such as advertising and third-party cookies. In addition, after each session the user can delete all or some of the stored cookies. The user may access the cookie manager that appears on the website and modify their preferences at any time. 

You can use the cookie manager to change your preferences at any time. Note that if you accept third party cookies, you can delete them if you wish using the delete cookies options as described in section 4 of this Policy.

Additionally, if the user wishes to prevent the installation of cookies, they can enable:

•    Private browsing, whereby their browser stops saving browsing history, website passwords, cookies and other information on the pages they visit, or
•    The non-tracking function, whereby the browser tells any websites you visit not to track your browsing habits to, for example, to provide ads of interest to you on the sites you visit.

You are advised to consult your browser’s help section to find out about the different options on how to manage cookies. Bear in mind that blocking cookies may affect all or some of the features of our website.

Below, we provide information regarding the management or disabling of cookies on the main browsers:

The above links might be updated by the companies that develop these browsers. The BARÇA FOUNDATION will make every reasonable effort to keep the above list duly updated. However, if a link does not work or is not updated, you can always go to your browser’s Help menu.

If you wish to have greater control over the installation of cookies, you can install programs or add-ons to your browser, known as “Do Not Track” tools, which will allow you to choose which cookies you want to allow.

4.    OPTING OUT OF THE INSTALLATION OF SUPPLIER COOKIES 

When you visit our website for the first time we will offer you the possibility to set which cookies you wish to install. You may oppose the installation of any type of cookies, except technical ones, which are necessary in order for the website to function properly. 

Likewise, as indicated in the previous section, the user may, at any time, refuse the installation of a certain type of cookie via their browser’s settings. 

If, on the initial settings screen, you accepted the installation of a specific type of cookies and later decide to oppose the installation or maintenance of this type, you must delete the cookies that are already installed via the browser settings and re-set those that you do allow to be installed.

Also, some of our suppliers have a direct system to oppose the installation of their cookies. Below, you will find a list of suppliers and links (some of them may not be in English, but it is easy to find the “opt-out” button):
 

Note that, if at any time you delete the cookies from your browser, your opt-out preferences may be removed from the previous suppliers, so you must oppose their installation again.

5.    OTHER INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM THE USER

In addition to the information collected through cookies, we may use other similar technologies such as tracking pixels or web beacons. These Pixels are small graphic files that include a code managed through a third party URL and that allows the information collected on the use of the web to be used for analytical and advertising purposes.

Pixels can: collect information such as the browser used, the IP address, the visit frequency and the time of the visit, as well to track the actions performed by users on the website (purchases added to the cart, purchased products, or redirects to other web pages, opening of newsletters, actions that generate more visits and purchases, type of interested audience, etc.). 

In addition to the use of tracking pixels or web beacons, we may use other user identification and tracking techniques known as fingerprinting that can verify certain technical parameters of the user's system (such as the browser used, operating system, screen resolution, installed plug-ins, font, IP address, language, time zone, etc.) and that once combined can be used for personalisation. Said information will be used to monitor the user's activity and browsing and to create a user profile. 

6.    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Please see our General Privacy Policy for further information about the way we process your personal data, as well as to exercise your rights.