Cookie Policy

This cookie policy:

Its purpose is to inform you in a clear and precise manner about the cookies that are used on the Ministry of the Interior's Crime Statistics Portal.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small piece of text that the websites you visit send to your browser that allows the website to remember information about your visit, such as your preferred language and other choices, in order to make your next visit easier and more useful to you.

Cookies play a very important role and contribute to a better browsing experience for the user.

Types of cookies

Depending on who is the entity that manages the equipment or domain from which the cookies are sent and treats the data obtained, we can distinguish:

First-party cookies
Third-party cookies

Depending on the purpose for which the data obtained through the cookies are processed, some of the purposes may be:

Technical cookies
Preference or personalisation cookies
Analysis or measurement cookies
Behavioural advertising cookies

Depending on the length of time they remain activated in the terminal equipment, we can distinguish:

Session cookies
Persistent cookies

For more information on this subject, you can consult the Guide on the use of cookies of the Spanish Data Protection Agency.

Cookies used on the website

The cookies that are being used on this portal are identified below, as well as their type and function:

The website of the Ministry of the Interior's Crime Statistics Portal uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service developed by Google, which allows the measurement and analysis of browsing on websites. In your browser you can see cookies from this service, according to the above typologies it is a cookie: third party, session and analysis or measurement.

Through web analytics, information is obtained on the number of users accessing the website, the number of pages viewed, the frequency and repetition of visits, their duration, the browser used, the operator providing the service, the language, the terminal used and the city to which your IP address is assigned. This information enables this portal to provide a better and more appropriate service.

To ensure anonymity, Google will anonymise your information by truncating the IP address before storing it, so that Google Analytics is not used to locate or collect personally identifiable information about visitors to the site.

Google may only send the information collected by Google Analytics to third parties insofar as it is legally obliged to do so. In accordance with the Google Analytics terms of service, Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

Another of the cookies is JSESSIONID, this cookie is: own, technical and session type, it allows to store a unique identifier per session through which it is possible to link data necessary to enable the current navigation.

Finally, show_cookies, this cookie is: own, technical and session cookie. It manages the user's consent to the use of cookies on the website, with the aim of remembering users who have accepted them and those who have not, so that the former are not shown information about them at the bottom of the page.
Accepting or rejecting the use of cookies

In the cookie information pop-up window that appears when loading any page of the website, or at any time on this page, by clicking on the button of your choice:

Acceptance or rejection of the use of cookies.