COOKIE POLICY
ASOCIACIÓN DESARROLLO TECNOLÓGICO RURAL
Website: https://movimientotecnologicorural.org/
Scope: Corporate website and virtual tours managed by the Association using 3DVista Virtual Tour Pro.
Last updated: 10 November 2026
1. INTRODUCTION AND SCOPE
This Cookie Policy provides information about the use of cookies and similar technologies on the website of ASOCIACIÓN DESARROLLO TECNOLÓGICO RURAL (hereinafter referred to as “the Association”), as well as in virtual tours developed, managed or published by the Association using 3DVista Virtual Tour Pro.
This policy applies to:
- The Association’s corporate website.
- Virtual tours embedded or integrated into the corporate website.
- Virtual tours published by the Association on independent domains or subdomains, where they are under its responsibility.
- Third-party content and features incorporated into these services, insofar as their use involves cookies or equivalent technologies.
The Association distinguishes between technologies strictly necessary to provide services requested by users and those used for additional purposes, such as statistical measurement.
Non-essential cookies and technologies requiring consent must remain disabled until the user has given valid authorisation.
The processing of personal data and the use of these technologies are governed by:
- Regulation (EU) 2016/679, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
- Spanish Organic Law 3/2018 on Personal Data Protection and the Guarantee of Digital Rights (LOPDGDD).
- Spanish Law 34/2002 on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce (LSSI-CE).
- The applicable guidelines and criteria issued by the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD).
This Cookie Policy supplements the Association’s Privacy Policy and Legal Notice.
2. WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are small files or information storage and retrieval mechanisms that websites and digital services may use on users’ devices.
They may be used on computers, mobile phones, tablets and other devices capable of accessing web content, including certain virtual reality devices.
Cookies can perform various functions, including:
- Enabling the operation of a website.
- Remembering certain preferences.
- Maintaining necessary settings during browsing.
- Protecting the security of services.
- Statistically analysing the use of digital content.
- Facilitating the integration of certain external services.
Other technologies can also store or access information on a device without necessarily using traditional cookies, such as certain local storage mechanisms.
Where these technologies fall within the scope of Article 22(2) of the LSSI-CE, the corresponding legal requirements will apply.
2.1. According to their ownership
First-party cookies: cookies sent to the user’s device from a domain managed by the website publisher.
Third-party cookies: cookies sent from a domain managed by an entity other than the website publisher.
The classification of cookies as first-party or third-party depends on their technical characteristics and the domain from which they are set. This classification does not, by itself, determine who is responsible for processing personal data.
2.2. According to their duration
Session cookies: cookies used during a browsing session that normally disappear when the session ends.
Persistent cookies: cookies that remain stored for a specified period or until they are deleted.
2.3. According to their purpose
Technical or strictly necessary cookies: cookies that enable the provision of services expressly requested by the user or perform operations essential to their functioning.
Preference or personalisation cookies: cookies that remember certain settings, such as language or browsing preferences.
Analytics or measurement cookies: cookies used to obtain statistical information about the use of digital services.
Third-party and embedded content cookies: cookies that may be associated with video players, maps, social networks or other external features.
The requirement to obtain consent depends on the purpose of each technology and the applicable legal exemptions.
3. COOKIES USED ON THE WEBSITE
The Association uses technologies necessary for the operation of its website and has Google Analytics 4 as a statistical measurement tool.
3.1. Technical cookies
Technical cookies may be necessary to:
- Enable navigation and the basic operation of the website.
- Maintain essential settings.
- Ensure the security of services.
- Manage consent preferences.
- Enable certain features expressly requested by users.
- Temporarily retain information essential for providing the service.
Strictly necessary cookies that meet the conditions of Article 22(2) of the LSSI-CE may be used without prior consent.
However, where they involve the processing of personal data, an appropriate legal basis under the GDPR must also exist.
3.2. Analytics cookies: Google Analytics 4
The Association uses Google Analytics 4 (GA4), a statistical analysis service provided by Google, to understand how its digital services are used and to improve their performance.
Depending on the configuration, the statistics may include:
- Number of users and visits.
- Pages and content viewed.
- Duration and characteristics of sessions.
- Navigation between different sections.
- Device and browser types.
- Approximate geographical location.
- Configured interactions and browsing events.
Google Analytics 4 may use identifiers associated with browsers or devices that constitute personal data.
Although Google states that it does not log or store IP addresses in its Analytics records, IP addresses may be technically processed during the provision of the service.
The absence of stored IP addresses does not automatically mean that all information collected is anonymous.
The use of analytics cookies requires prior user consent where applicable legislation so provides.
The Association must configure these tools to ensure that processing requiring consent does not take place before valid consent has been obtained.
Rejecting analytics must not prevent users from accessing the website’s essential content and features.
4. COOKIES AND TECHNOLOGIES USED IN 3DVISTA VIRTUAL TOURS
The Association develops, manages and publishes interactive virtual tours using 3DVista Virtual Tour Pro.
These tours allow users to explore spaces through 360-degree panoramic photographs, images, videos, maps, interactive hotspots, menus and other multimedia elements.
Virtual tours may be embedded in the corporate website or published on independent domains or subdomains.
4.1. Technical operation of virtual tours
Virtual tours use technical resources to enable:
- Loading and displaying panoramic images.
- Operation of the interactive viewer.
- Navigation between scenes.
- Playback of multimedia content.
- Use of menus and interactive hotspots.
- Display of maps where incorporated.
- Adaptation to different devices.
- Operation of virtual reality-compatible elements.
These features may require information storage or retrieval mechanisms.
Not all technical resources used by a virtual tour necessarily install cookies.
Where a technology is strictly necessary to provide a feature expressly requested by the user and meets the legal requirements, it may be used without prior consent.
Technologies used for additional purposes that require authorisation must remain disabled until the corresponding consent has been obtained.
4.2. Google Analytics 4 in virtual tours
The Association’s virtual tours may incorporate Google Analytics 4 to obtain statistical information about their use.
Depending on each tour’s configuration, metrics may include:
- Number of visits to the virtual tour.
- Panoramas or scenes viewed.
- Time spent in the tour.
- Device and browser types.
- Approximate geographical origin.
- Navigation between scenes.
- Interactions with buttons and information hotspots.
- Use of certain multimedia elements.
This information helps evaluate the performance of virtual tours, identify improvements and understand general interest in their content.
The use of cookies and analytics technologies requiring consent must be conditional upon the visitor’s prior acceptance.
The Association must ensure that refusing these technologies does not prevent visitors from using the essential features of the virtual tour.
4.3. Statistical reports on virtual tours
The Association may prepare statistical reports on the use of its virtual tours.
These reports may be provided to:
- The Association itself.
- Clients and project promoters.
- Public administrations.
- Partner organisations.
- Organisations participating in digitalisation, heritage, tourism, cultural and rural development initiatives.
Shared reports may include aggregated statistics concerning visits, scenes viewed, interactions and other indicators relating to the use of the virtual tour.
Their purpose is not to identify individual visitors.
Non-identifying reports may be used to evaluate projects, document activities, assess the impact of initiatives and improve the services provided.
4.4. Virtual tours published on independent domains
Virtual tours published on domains other than the corporate website must comply with the information and consent requirements applicable to their specific configuration.
Consent granted on the corporate website will not automatically be considered valid for an independent domain unless a technically appropriate solution exists to manage and demonstrate that consent.
Each virtual tour must provide a valid consent management mechanism where it uses technologies requiring consent.
This Cookie Policy may be used as a common information document for those virtual tours, provided that it accurately describes the technologies used and is accessible from them.
Where a virtual tour uses additional technologies not described in this policy, supplementary information specific to that tour must be provided.
5. EXTERNAL SERVICES AND THIRD-PARTY CONTENT
The Association’s website and virtual tours may incorporate third-party content or features.
These may include:
- Videos hosted on YouTube.
- Videos hosted on Vimeo.
- Interactive Google Maps.
- Links and content from social networks.
- Multimedia viewers and tools.
- Other digital resources related to the Association’s projects.
The integration of these services may involve connections to external servers and the processing of technical information, such as IP addresses, device identifiers or browsing data.
Some providers may use cookies or other technologies to provide features, produce statistics or pursue additional purposes.
Where these technologies require consent, the corresponding content must remain blocked or be configured so that processing requiring consent does not take place before the user grants authorisation.
Where visitors access an external platform directly, the privacy and cookie policies of that provider will also apply.
The Association cannot control all activities carried out by third parties on their own platforms, without prejudice to any legal responsibilities arising from the integrations it chooses to incorporate.
6. LIST OF COOKIES AND TECHNOLOGIES
The following information identifies common Google Analytics 4 cookies and the categories of technologies that may be used in the Association’s digital services.
The specific cookies installed will depend on the configuration of each website, virtual tour, consent management tool and external integration.
6.1. Google Analytics 4 cookies
Cookie: _ga
- Provider: Google Analytics 4.
- Type: Analytics.
- Purpose: To distinguish users using statistical identifiers.
- Default duration: 2 years.
- Consent: Required under the rules applicable to the analytics used by the Association.
Cookie: _ga_<identifier>
- Provider: Google Analytics 4.
- Type: Analytics.
- Purpose: To maintain session state and facilitate statistical measurement.
- Default duration: 2 years.
- Consent: Required under the rules applicable to the analytics used by the Association.
The expression <identifier> represents the specific identifier associated with the Google Analytics configuration.
The durations indicated are default values established by Google. They may be changed through service settings or restricted by the browser.
The presence of these cookies on a particular domain must be verified through a technical review.
6.2. Technical and consent management cookies
The website and virtual tours may use technical cookies or technologies intended to:
- Remember consent preferences.
- Maintain essential settings.
- Ensure the operation of the website and virtual tour viewer.
- Protect certain functions against misuse.
- Enable services expressly requested by the user.
The name, provider and duration of these technologies will depend on the solutions actually implemented.
Strictly necessary cookies that meet the legal requirements will be exempt from prior consent.
6.3. Third-party technologies
Embedded content from YouTube, Vimeo, Google Maps and other platforms may use cookies or equivalent technologies.
Their use will depend on the services actually loaded and the configurations established.
Where these technologies require consent, their activation must be conditional upon the corresponding authorisation.
6.4. Cookie inventory
The Association must maintain an up-to-date inventory of the cookies and technologies actually used on its website and virtual tours.
Where applicable, this inventory must identify:
- Name of the cookie or technology.
- Provider responsible for setting it.
- Domain from which it is used.
- Purpose.
- Type or category.
- Duration.
- Whether consent is required.
This information must be made available to users through this policy, the configuration panel or supplementary information accessible from the relevant services.
The installation of new tools or modification of existing ones will require the published information to be reviewed and updated.
7. PURPOSES OF USING COOKIES
Cookies and similar technologies used by the Association may serve the following purposes:
Technical operation
To enable navigation and the operation of the website and virtual tours.
Security
To maintain the security of services and protect their features.
Preference management
To remember users’ decisions regarding cookies and other settings.
Content display
To facilitate the use of interactive elements, images, videos and maps.
Statistical analysis
Where the necessary consent has been obtained, to analyse visits, content viewed and interactions.
Service improvement
To identify potential issues, evaluate the browsing experience and improve digital content.
Project reporting
To prepare aggregated statistics for evaluating virtual tour usage and monitoring projects.
The Association does not intend to use analytics in its virtual tours for personalised advertising, remarketing or the creation of individual commercial profiles.
The future introduction of technologies intended for different purposes will require this policy to be reviewed and the corresponding legal requirements to be applied.
8. CONSENT AND COOKIE SETTINGS
The Association must provide mechanisms that allow user consent to be obtained and managed before using non-essential cookies and technologies requiring authorisation.
The consent management system must allow users to:
Accept: authorise the selected or indicated categories of non-essential cookies.
Reject: prevent the use of non-essential cookies requiring consent.
Configure: select separately the categories of technologies the user wishes to allow.
The options to accept and reject cookies must be presented at the same level and with equal visibility.
Consent must be given through a freely given, specific, informed and affirmative action.
Simply browsing, scrolling, remaining inactive or accessing a virtual tour does not, by itself, constitute valid consent.
Consent options must not use pre-ticked boxes.
Users must be able to withdraw or modify their consent subsequently through a simple and accessible procedure.
Withdrawal of consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before such withdrawal.
Strictly necessary cookies may remain active where they meet the legal conditions for use without consent.
Virtual tours published on independent domains must implement consent mechanisms appropriate to the technologies used in each environment.
If an operational consent management system is not yet available, non-essential technologies requiring authorisation must remain disabled until such a system has been implemented and correctly configured.
9. MANAGING AND DELETING COOKIES THROUGH THE BROWSER
Users may view, block or delete cookies using their browser settings.
The main browsers provide information about these options:
Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Apple Safari
Microsoft Edge
Google also provides a Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on for certain compatible browsers:
Deleting or disabling certain technical cookies may affect the operation of some features.
Rejecting analytics cookies must not prevent access to the essential content and services of the website or basic navigation through virtual tours.
Managing cookies through browser settings is an additional option and does not replace the consent mechanisms that the Association is required to provide.
10. DATA CONTROLLER
The organisation responsible for processing personal data arising from the use of cookies and similar technologies in the digital services covered by this policy is:
Legal name: ASOCIACIÓN DESARROLLO TECNOLÓGICO RURAL
Tax Identification Number (NIF): G02705176
Registered office: Calle Globo 28, Staircase 3, Ground Floor, Unit B, 50015 Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.
Tax address and workplace: Calle Santa Bárbara 4, Staircase 1, 2nd Floor, Unit 1, 22728 Ansó, Huesca, Spain.
Telephone: +34 604 861 679
Email: fundacion@movimientotecnologicorural.org
Website: https://movimientotecnologicorural.org/
Users may contact the Association to request information about the use of cookies, the processing of their personal data or the exercise of their rights.
General information about personal data processing is available in the Privacy Policy:
11. LEGAL BASIS
The use of strictly necessary cookies is exempt from the consent requirement where the conditions established in Article 22(2) of the LSSI-CE are met.
Where their use involves the processing of personal data, an appropriate legal basis must also exist under Article 6 GDPR, taking into account the purposes and circumstances of the processing.
For Google Analytics 4 cookies used by the Association, the legal basis for processing personal data is the data subject’s consent, pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) GDPR, and the consent requirement under Article 22(2) of the LSSI-CE also applies.
Non-essential technologies incorporated through external services will likewise require consent where applicable legislation so provides.
The anonymisation of certain data or the absence of stored IP addresses does not, by itself, eliminate the obligation to obtain consent where legally required.
12. RECIPIENTS AND INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS
The Association uses technology providers that may be involved in the operation, hosting, maintenance and statistical analysis of its digital services.
These may include:
- Web hosting providers.
- Statistical analytics service providers.
- Audiovisual content providers.
- Mapping services.
- Technology providers associated with virtual tour operation.
In particular, the Association uses Google Analytics 4, a service provided by Google, in whose European operations Google Ireland Limited may be involved, in accordance with the applicable agreements and terms.
The use of Google Analytics and other external platforms may involve processing activities or international transfers of personal data outside the European Economic Area.
Where such transfers occur, Articles 44 and following of the GDPR and the applicable safeguards must be respected.
These safeguards may include:
- Adequacy decisions adopted by the European Commission.
- Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission.
- Other legally recognised mechanisms.
The specific safeguards will depend on the provider, the service used and the destination country.
Data subjects may request information about applicable transfers and safeguards by contacting the Association via email.
The Association does not use statistical reports from its virtual tours to enable clients or collaborators to identify individual visitors.
13. COOKIE DURATION AND DATA RETENTION
The duration of cookies depends on their purpose, provider and configuration.
Session cookies are normally deleted when the browsing session ends.
Persistent cookies may remain for the specified period or until deleted, without prejudice to technical restrictions imposed by browsers.
For Google Analytics 4, the _ga and _ga_<identifier> cookies have a default duration of two years, which may vary depending on the configuration.
The duration of cookies stored in a browser differs from the retention period of data processed through Google Analytics.
Certain GA4 user and event data are subject to configurable retention periods, which may be 2 or 14 months for standard properties, depending on the configuration and type of data.
The Association must apply a retention period appropriate to its needs and ensure that it is correctly configured.
Aggregated statistical reports that do not allow individuals to be identified may be retained for the period necessary to evaluate activities, monitor projects and comply with obligations related to their implementation or reporting.
Once the applicable retention periods have expired, personal data must be deleted, anonymised or restricted from further processing in accordance with applicable legislation.
14. USER RIGHTS
Where the use of cookies or similar technologies involves the processing of personal data, users may exercise the rights recognised under applicable data protection legislation.
These include:
- Right of access.
- Right to rectification.
- Right to erasure.
- Right to object.
- Right to restriction of processing.
- Right to data portability, where applicable.
- Right to withdraw consent.
- Right not to be subject to certain automated individual decisions, under the conditions established by law.
To exercise these rights or request additional information, users may contact:
ASOCIACIÓN DESARROLLO TECNOLÓGICO RURAL
Email: fundacion@movimientotecnologicorural.org
The Association will respond to requests within the time limits established by data protection legislation.
Data subjects may also lodge a complaint with the Spanish Data Protection Agency (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos — AEPD):
The exercise of these rights is generally free of charge.
15. UPDATES TO THE COOKIE POLICY
Asociación Desarrollo Tecnológico Rural may update this Cookie Policy to reflect:
- Legislative changes.
- New guidance from competent authorities.
- Changes to technological tools.
- New features on the website.
- Modifications to virtual tours.
- The introduction or removal of external providers.
- Changes to the purposes or duration of cookies used.
Where new technologies requiring consent are introduced or significant changes are made to their purposes, updated information will be provided and consent will be requested again where legally required.
The current version will be available on the corporate website and may be accessed from the virtual tours to which it applies.
Where a virtual tour uses additional technologies not described in this policy, supplementary information specific to that tour must be provided.
ASOCIACIÓN DESARROLLO TECNOLÓGICO RURAL
Last updated: 10 November 2026.