Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Costa Blanca Spain uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website.

It explains:

  • What cookies are.
  • Which types of cookies may be used.
  • Why they are used.
  • Which cookies require your consent.
  • How long cookies may remain on your device.
  • How you can accept, reject or change your preferences.

This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy.

Who We Are

Costa Blanca Spain is an English-language property information and discovery website operated by:

Data controller: Janis Lopez
Trading name: Costa Blanca Spain
Legal status: Natural person
Postal address: MENDI ALDE 15, 48980, Santurce, Basque Country, SPAIN
Email: contact@costa-blanca-spain.co.uk
Website: costa-blanca-spain.co.uk
Country of establishment: Spain

For questions about cookies, privacy or your personal data, contact:

contact@costa-blanca-spain.co.uk

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites may store on your computer, mobile phone, tablet or other internet-enabled device.

Cookies allow a website to recognise a browser or device and may help the website:

  • Operate correctly.
  • Remember user preferences.
  • Maintain security.
  • Remember cookie choices.
  • Understand how visitors use the website.
  • Display embedded third-party content.
  • Measure the effectiveness of content or advertising.

Cookies do not always identify you directly by name. However, some cookies, device identifiers and similar technologies may process information that can identify or distinguish a browser, device or user.

Similar Technologies

This policy also applies to technologies that operate in a similar way to cookies, including:

  • Tracking pixels.
  • Web beacons.
  • Tags.
  • Local storage.
  • Session storage.
  • Scripts.
  • Software development kits.
  • Device identifiers.
  • Embedded third-party content.
  • Technologies that access or store information on a device.

In this policy, references to “cookies” also include these similar technologies where appropriate.

First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

First-party cookies

First-party cookies are placed directly by Costa Blanca Spain or through the costa-blanca-spain.co.uk domain.

They may be used to:

  • Operate the website.
  • Maintain security.
  • Remember cookie preferences.
  • Support form functionality.
  • Provide requested website features.

Third-party cookies

Third-party cookies are placed or accessed by an external organisation whose technology is used on the website.

Third-party providers may include services used for:

  • Website analytics.
  • Videos.
  • Maps.
  • Social media.
  • Advertising.
  • Security.
  • Email marketing.
  • Embedded tools.
  • Website performance.

Third-party providers may process information according to their own privacy and cookie policies.

Costa Blanca Spain does not control the lifespan or operation of every third-party cookie.

Session and Persistent Cookies

Session cookies

Session cookies normally remain active only while your browser is open.

They are usually deleted when you close the browser.

They may be used to:

  • Maintain temporary website functionality.
  • Support navigation.
  • Remember information during a single visit.
  • Protect forms or website sessions.

Persistent cookies

Persistent cookies remain on your device after the browser has been closed.

They remain until:

  • Their stated expiry date.
  • You delete them.
  • Your browser removes them.
  • The provider withdraws or replaces them.

Persistent cookies may be used to remember preferences or recognise a returning browser.

Types of Cookies We May Use

The exact categories shown in the cookie banner may depend on the technologies currently active on the website.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies are required for the website to operate or to provide a service you have specifically requested.

They may be used for:

  • Website security.
  • Network communication.
  • Cookie-consent preferences.
  • Spam prevention.
  • Form functionality.
  • Load balancing.
  • Basic WordPress functionality.
  • Maintaining an active session.
  • Protecting website administration.
  • Remembering whether you accepted or rejected cookies.

These cookies cannot normally be disabled through the cookie banner because the website may not function correctly without them.

Strictly necessary cookies are not used for optional advertising or behavioural tracking.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies allow the website to provide additional functionality or remember choices.

They may be used to remember:

  • Language preferences.
  • Display preferences.
  • Previously selected settings.
  • Optional embedded features.
  • Communication preferences.

If you reject functional cookies, some optional website features may not operate correctly.

Functional cookies will be activated only where the applicable consent requirements have been met.

Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use the website.

They may collect information such as:

  • Pages visited.
  • Time spent on a page.
  • Links selected.
  • General navigation patterns.
  • Referring websites.
  • Device category.
  • Browser category.
  • Approximate geographic region.
  • Website errors.
  • General website performance.

This information may be aggregated or pseudonymised, but identifiers such as an IP address, cookie identifier or device information may still be processed.

Analytics cookies will not be activated before consent where consent is legally required.

At the date of this policy, confirm whether an analytics service is installed: INSERT GOOGLE ANALYTICS, MATOMO, OTHER SERVICE OR “NO ANALYTICS SERVICE IS CURRENTLY ACTIVE”.

Performance Cookies

Performance cookies may collect information about:

  • Page loading times.
  • Website errors.
  • Server response.
  • Caching.
  • Browser performance.
  • Technical stability.

These cookies help identify technical problems and improve website performance.

Where a performance technology is not strictly necessary, it will only be activated after the required consent has been obtained.

Advertisement and Targeting Cookies

Advertising or targeting cookies may be used to:

  • Measure advertising campaigns.
  • Limit how often an advertisement is shown.
  • Create or associate advertising audiences.
  • Understand actions taken after viewing an advertisement.
  • Display advertising based on interests or browsing activity.
  • Support remarketing campaigns.

These cookies may track activity across multiple websites and may be placed by advertising platforms.

Advertising and targeting cookies will not be activated without the required consent.

At the date of this policy, confirm whether advertising technologies are installed: INSERT META PIXEL, GOOGLE ADS, OTHER SERVICE OR “NO ADVERTISING OR TARGETING COOKIES ARE CURRENTLY ACTIVE”.

Embedded Content Cookies

The website may include content provided by external platforms, such as:

  • Videos.
  • Maps.
  • Social media posts.
  • Interactive widgets.
  • Property-search tools.
  • External booking or contact tools.

External platforms may place cookies or collect information when their content is loaded.

Where necessary, embedded content will remain blocked until you consent to the relevant cookie category.

CURRENT EMBEDDED SERVICES: INSERT YOUTUBE, GOOGLE MAPS, SOCIAL MEDIA EMBEDS, OTHER SERVICE OR “NO COOKIE-SETTING EMBEDDED CONTENT IS CURRENTLY ACTIVE”.

Unclassified Cookies

Some cookies may initially appear as unclassified while their purpose, provider or category is being reviewed.

Unclassified cookies will be investigated and assigned to the appropriate category.

Where their purpose is not strictly necessary, they should remain blocked until consent has been obtained.

Legal Basis for Using Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies

Strictly necessary cookies may be used without consent where they are essential:

  • To transmit communications over a network.
  • To provide a website feature explicitly requested by the user.
  • To maintain security.
  • To remember cookie-consent choices.
  • To provide essential form or session functionality.

Where these cookies process personal data, the legal basis may include our legitimate interest in providing a secure and functional website or compliance with a legal obligation.

Non-essential cookies

Functional, analytics, performance, advertising and targeting cookies are used only where valid consent is required and has been provided.

Consent must be:

  • Freely given.
  • Specific.
  • Informed.
  • Unambiguous.
  • Provided through a clear affirmative action.

Continuing to browse the website without making a choice is not treated as consent to non-essential cookies.

You may withdraw or change your consent at any time.

Cookies Currently Used

The table below should display the cookies detected on Costa Blanca Spain.

It may include:

  • Cookie name.
  • Provider.
  • Purpose.
  • Category.
  • Duration.
  • Whether the cookie is first-party or third-party.

Paste this CookieYes shortcode directly below this paragraph:

[cookie_audit]

The resulting table should appear here after CookieYes has completed a website scan.

DO NOT MANUALLY INVENT COOKIE NAMES. THE TABLE MUST BE GENERATED OR VERIFIED THROUGH A CURRENT COOKIE SCAN.

CookieYes provides the [cookie_audit] shortcode specifically to display a table of cookies and their details on a WordPress page.

Cookie Duration

The duration of a cookie depends on its purpose and configuration.

Cookies may last:

  • Until the browser is closed.
  • For a few minutes or hours.
  • For several days.
  • For several months.
  • For the period stated by a third-party provider.

Cookies should not remain active for longer than is reasonably necessary for their stated purpose.

The specific duration of each detected cookie should appear in the cookie table above.

Third-party providers may change cookie durations independently. The cookie table will therefore be reviewed and updated periodically.

How We Obtain Your Consent

When you first visit the website, you should see a cookie banner that allows you to:

  • Accept non-essential cookies.
  • Reject non-essential cookies.
  • Review cookie categories.
  • Select which optional categories you accept.
  • Access this Cookie Policy.

Non-essential cookies should remain disabled until you provide consent.

Rejecting non-essential cookies should not prevent you from accessing the general content of the website.

Your consent choice may be stored in a strictly necessary cookie so that the website remembers your preferences.

How to Change or Withdraw Your Consent

You can change or withdraw your cookie consent at any time.

Use the cookie settings control below:

[cookie_settings]

You may also use the following control to remove non-essential cookies managed by the CookieYes plugin:

[delete_cookies]

After changing your preferences, you may need to:

  • Refresh the website.
  • Close and reopen your browser.
  • Delete existing cookies through your browser.
  • Revisit pages containing embedded third-party content.

Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of cookie processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.

CookieYes documents these shortcodes as controls for opening cookie settings and deleting configured non-essential cookies.

Managing Cookies Through Your Browser

Most browsers allow you to review, block or delete cookies through their settings.

Depending on your browser, you may be able to:

  • View stored cookies.
  • Delete individual cookies.
  • Delete all cookies.
  • Block third-party cookies.
  • Block all cookies.
  • Remove cookies when closing the browser.
  • Prevent websites from storing information.
  • Send privacy preference signals.

Browser settings vary depending on the provider, device and software version.

Blocking all cookies may cause parts of the website to stop working correctly.

Deleting cookies may also remove previously saved consent choices, meaning the cookie banner may appear again.

Consult the help or privacy section of your browser for current instructions.

Global Privacy Control and Browser Signals

Some browsers or extensions may transmit privacy preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track.

The legal effect and technical operation of these signals may vary depending on:

  • Your location.
  • Applicable law.
  • Browser configuration.
  • The technology used by the website.
  • The receiving third-party platform.

Where technically supported and legally required, we will seek to respect recognised privacy preference signals.

A Do Not Track signal may not automatically prevent every third-party technology from operating.

The most reliable way to manage cookies on this website is through the cookie settings tool and your browser controls.

Google Analytics

SELECT AND KEEP ONLY THE CORRECT VERSION BELOW.

Version A — Google Analytics is not installed

Costa Blanca Spain does not currently use Google Analytics.

If Google Analytics or another analytics platform is introduced, this Cookie Policy and the cookie banner will be updated before non-essential analytics cookies are activated.

Version B — Google Analytics is installed

Costa Blanca Spain uses Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with the website.

Google Analytics may process information such as:

  • IP address.
  • Device and browser information.
  • Approximate location.
  • Pages visited.
  • Time and duration of visits.
  • Referring source.
  • Website interactions.
  • Analytics identifiers.

Google Analytics will remain blocked until you accept analytics cookies where consent is required.

Further information about individual Google Analytics cookies should appear in the cookie table.

INSERT THE GOOGLE ANALYTICS PROPERTY OR CONFIGURATION DETAILS IF REQUIRED.

Google Tag Manager

SELECT AND KEEP ONLY THE CORRECT VERSION BELOW.

Version A — Google Tag Manager is not installed

Costa Blanca Spain does not currently use Google Tag Manager.

Version B — Google Tag Manager is installed

Costa Blanca Spain uses Google Tag Manager to manage certain website tags and scripts.

Google Tag Manager is primarily a tag-management system. The tags deployed through it may collect personal data or place cookies.

Any non-essential analytics, advertising or tracking tags managed through Google Tag Manager should remain blocked until the user provides the required consent.

INSERT A DESCRIPTION OF THE TAGS CURRENTLY DEPLOYED THROUGH GOOGLE TAG MANAGER.

Advertising Technologies

SELECT AND KEEP ONLY THE CORRECT VERSION BELOW.

Version A — No advertising technologies are installed

Costa Blanca Spain does not currently use advertising pixels, remarketing cookies or behavioural advertising technologies.

If these technologies are introduced, the Cookie Policy and consent banner will be updated before they are activated.

Version B — Advertising technologies are installed

Costa Blanca Spain may use advertising technologies provided by:

INSERT GOOGLE ADS, META, MICROSOFT ADVERTISING OR OTHER PROVIDERS.

These services may process information to:

  • Measure advertising conversions.
  • Create advertising audiences.
  • Display relevant advertisements.
  • Limit advertising frequency.
  • Understand how users interact with advertising.
  • Support remarketing.

Advertising technologies will remain blocked until you accept the relevant category.

Videos, Maps and External Embeds

SELECT AND KEEP ONLY THE CORRECT VERSION BELOW.

Version A — No cookie-setting embeds are currently used

Costa Blanca Spain does not currently embed videos, interactive maps or similar third-party content that places optional cookies.

Version B — Embedded services are used

Costa Blanca Spain may embed content provided by:

INSERT YOUTUBE, VIMEO, GOOGLE MAPS OR OTHER PROVIDERS.

When external content is loaded, the provider may receive information such as:

  • IP address.
  • Browser and device information.
  • Page visited.
  • Referring website.
  • Cookie or account identifiers.
  • Interaction with the embedded content.

Where consent is required, this content should remain blocked until you accept the corresponding cookie category.

Contact Forms

The website may contain forms used to submit:

  • General enquiries.
  • Property requirements.
  • Requests for area information.
  • Professional partnership enquiries.
  • Requests to receive relevant property information.

Submitting a form does not automatically mean that optional analytics or advertising cookies have been accepted.

Form information is processed according to the Privacy Policy.

Strictly necessary cookies or security technologies may be used to:

  • Submit the form.
  • Prevent duplicate submissions.
  • Protect against spam.
  • Maintain security.
  • Remember temporary form information.

Where an optional anti-spam or third-party service is introduced, it will be included in this policy and the consent configuration where required.

Email and WhatsApp Links

Selecting an email link may open the email application configured on your device.

Selecting a WhatsApp link may open the WhatsApp application or website.

The external communication provider may process information according to its own privacy and cookie policies.

Costa Blanca Spain does not control the cookies or storage technologies used directly within:

  • WhatsApp.
  • Your email provider.
  • Your device.
  • Your browser after leaving this website.

You may contact us by email at:

contact@costa-blanca-spain.co.uk

External Links

The website may contain links to:

  • Estate agents.
  • Property developers.
  • Lawyers.
  • Financial advisers.
  • Government websites.
  • Local services.
  • Transport providers.
  • Other third-party websites.

Cookies placed after you follow an external link are controlled by the external website.

This Cookie Policy only covers cookies and similar technologies used on costa-blanca-spain.co.uk.

You should review the cookie and privacy information of any external website you visit.

Changes to the Cookies We Use

The cookies and technologies used by the website may change when:

  • A plugin is added, removed or updated.
  • Analytics is introduced.
  • Advertising is introduced.
  • Videos or maps are embedded.
  • A newsletter service is introduced.
  • A form provider changes.
  • A security service changes.
  • Website functionality changes.
  • A service provider changes its cookies.
  • Legal or technical requirements change.

We will periodically review the website and update:

  • The cookie scan.
  • Cookie categories.
  • Cookie descriptions.
  • Cookie durations.
  • The consent banner.
  • This Cookie Policy.

Where a new non-essential purpose is introduced, consent will be requested before the relevant technology is activated.

Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy to reflect:

  • Changes to the website.
  • Changes to the cookies used.
  • Changes to service providers.
  • Changes to applicable law.
  • Changes to regulatory guidance.
  • Changes to consent-management technology.

The latest version will be published on this page.

The “Last updated” date at the top of the page identifies the most recent revision.

Material changes may also be communicated through the cookie banner or another appropriate notice.

Contact Us

For questions about cookies, consent or this Cookie Policy, contact:

Janis Lopez
Costa Blanca Spain
ADDRESS: MENDI ALDE 15, 48980, Santurce, Basque Country, Spain
Email: contact@costa-blanca-spain.co.uk
Website: costa-blanca-spain.co.uk

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