A cookie is a file that is downloaded to your computer when you access certain websites. Cookies allow a website, among other things, to store and retrieve information about the browsing habits of a user or their computer, and depending on the information they contain and how you use your computer, they can be used to recognize the user. The user’s browser memorizes cookies on the hard drive only during the current session, occupying a minimal memory space and not harming the computer. Cookies do not contain any specific personal information, and most of them are deleted from the hard drive at the end of the browser session (so-called session cookies).
Most browsers accept cookies as standard and, regardless of them, allow or block temporary or stored cookies in security settings.
Without your express consent – by activating cookies in your browser – the Tushita Meditation Center (Community for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition) will not link the data stored in cookies with your personal data provided at the time of registration or purchase of services.
What types of cookies does this website use?
- Technical Cookies: These allow the user to navigate through a website, platform, or application and use the different options or services available on it, such as controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, accessing restricted access parts, remembering the elements that make up an order, carrying out the process of purchasing an order, requesting registration or participation in an event, using security elements during navigation, storing contents for the dissemination of videos or sound, or sharing contents through social networks.
- Personalization Cookies: These allow the user to access the service with some general predefined features based on a series of criteria on the user’s terminal, such as language, type of browser used to access the service, regional configuration from which the service is accessed, etc.
- Analysis Cookies: These, whether processed by us or by third parties, allow us to quantify the number of users and perform statistical analysis of the use made by users of the service offered. To do this, we analyze your browsing on our website in order to improve the range of products or services we offer you.
- Advertising Cookies: These, whether processed by us or by third parties, allow us to manage the advertising spaces on the website as effectively as possible, adapting the content of the ad to the content of the requested service or the way you use our website. To do this, we can analyze your browsing habits on the Internet and show you advertising related to your browsing profile.
- Behavioral Advertising Cookies: These allow the management, as effectively as possible, of the advertising spaces that, where appropriate, the publisher has included on a website, application, or platform from which the requested service is provided. These cookies store information on the behavior of users obtained through continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows the development of a specific profile to display advertising based on it.
Third-party Cookies: The Tushita Meditation Center website (Community for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition) may use third-party services that, on behalf of the Tushita Meditation Center (Community for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition), collect information for statistical purposes, on the use of the Site by the user, and for the provision of other services related to the activity of the Website and other Internet services.
In particular, this Website uses the following cookies:
- SESS …, variable-named cookie used to remember if the user has started a session.
- has_js, user’s JavaScript preference, used to improve the user experience.
- cookie-agreed, stores preferences about the cookie notice.
In particular, this website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., headquartered in the United States at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043. For the provision of these services, cookies are used to collect information, including the user’s IP address, which will be transmitted, processed, and stored by Google as set out on the Google.com website. This includes the possible transmission of such information to third parties for legal reasons or when such third parties process the information on behalf of Google. These are the cookies associated with this service:
- _ga, cookie with a duration of 2 years and which allows to distinguish users.
- _gid, cookie with a duration of 24 hours and which allows to distinguish users.
- _gat, cookie with a duration of 10 minutes and which allows to regulate the rate of requests.
By using this Site, the User expressly accepts the processing of the information collected in the manner and for the purposes mentioned above. The User also acknowledges that he/she may refuse the processing of such data or information by rejecting the use of Cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in his/her browser. However, this option to block Cookies in your browser may not allow you to use all the functionalities of the Website.
How can the use of cookies be disabled and deleted?
You can allow, block, or delete the cookies installed on your computer by configuring the options of the browser installed on your computer:
