Cookies Policy

The Consorci Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (hereinafter, “MACBA”) is the owner of the website www.macba.cat (hereinafter, the “website”). The website uses cookies that collect information related to the connection, browsers and devices used by the internet users who access and use the website (hereinafter the “users”). MACBA uses this information to manage and improve the functioning of the website.  This policy describes what information these cookies collect, how they are used and for what purpose. It also indicates how users can restrict or block the cookies from being automatically downloaded. However, this could affect or even hinder certain elements of the website’s functionality. Likewise, the user can choose the category of cookies that they want to enable in the cookies banner that appears when first accessing the website. 
1. Definition of cookies Cookies are small text files that are placed on the user’s computer, smartphone or other device when accessing the internet. This is done to improve the user experience as well as for other purposes, such as recognizing users when they access the site, ensuring the security of their account, and providing targeted advertising.  For more general information about cookies, see the following article
2. How we use cookies In short, MACBA uses the cookies listed in Annex I of this policy, to track how the website is used and thus be able to optimize its operation. 
3. The cookies we use This website uses both first-party and third-party cookies: 
  • 01
    First-party cookies: These cookies are sent by MACBA to the user’s device through the domain. 
  • 02
    Third-party cookies: These cookies are sent to the user’s device by domains that are not managed by MACBA, but rather by another entity that processes the data collected through the cookies. 
In accordance with the purpose of the cookies, the cookies that MACBA uses can be divided into the following categories: 
  • 01
    Essential (or technical) cookies: These cookies are for browsing and for the proper functioning of the website. Using these cookies enables basic functions, such as access or secure browsing. The legal basis for collecting this data through these cookies is MACBA’s legitimate interest in the management of its website. The information collected through these cookies is not shared with third parties. See the table of cookies below to learn the details about them. 
  • 02
    Performance (or analysis) cookies: These cookies make it possible to monitor and analyse user behaviour. The information collected through this type of cookie is used to measure website activity and to create user browsing profiles in order to improve the website and its services. The legal basis for collecting this data through these cookies is the user’s consent. Consult the table of cookies below to learn the details about them. 
  • 03
    Functionality (or preference) cookies: These cookies are installed in order to personalise the user experience (that is, whether or not certain windows will emerge on the user’s browser), in accordance with the consents and preferences that, where appropriate, the user expresses as they browse the website, such as monitoring the user’s acceptance of this cookies policy (which will determine whether or not the cookies notification banner, with its corresponding acceptance, will appear). As in the case of the analytics cookies, the legal basis for collecting this data through these preference cookies is the user’s consent. Consult the table of cookies below to learn the details about them. 
  • 04
    Targeted (or advertising) cookies: These cookies allow advertising spaces to be managed based on different criteria. These cookies track users’ browsing habits in order to obtain a profile that makes it possible to offer users the information that interests them most or to tailor the content to their tastes and preferences, identified from the user’s queries and browsing habits, even on websites that are not managed by MACBA. The legitimate basis for collecting this data through these cookies is the user’s consent. Consult the table of cookies below to learn the details about them. 
Users can find the detailed list of the cookies that we use, the type, purpose and duration of each one in the table of cookies below:

COOKIE

COOKIE TYPE

OWNERSHIP

DEFINITION

CONSERVATION PERIOD

Sp-tsp 

Functional 

spotify.com

Provides a series of tools to include on websites, allowing tracking of users and non-users across domains. 

364 Days 

Sp-landing 

Functional 

spotify.com

Provides a series of tools to include on websites, allowing tracking of users and non-users across domains. 

A few seconds

ARRAffinity 

Essential

hello.macba.cat

It is used for load balancing to ensure that visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. 

Session 

JSESSIONID 

Essential

tickets.macba.cat

Typically used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server. 

Session 

OptanonConsent 

Essential

macba.cat 

Stores information about the categories of cookies used by the website and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category is set in the users’ browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a lifespan of one year, so returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It does not contain any information that can identify the site visitor. 

364 Days 

OptanonAlertBoxClosed 

Essential

macba.cat 

Set after visitors have seen an advertisement   
of cookie information and in some cases only when the notice is actively closed. Allows the website to not display the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a shelf life of one year and does not contain personal information. 

364 Days 

ASP.NET_Sessionld 

Essential

hola.macba.cat 

General-purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Microsoft.NET-based technologies. Usually, it is used to maintain a user session anonymized by the server. 

Session 

_ga_QB5KEH763B 

Performance 

macba.cat 

Used to persist the Hotjar user ID, unique to this site, in the browser. This ensures that behavior on subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID.

729 Days 

_gid 

Performance 

repositori.macba.cat 

It appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 there is no information available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. 

A few seconds 

hjSessionUser_1619253 

Performance 

macba.cat 

Used to persist the Hotjar user ID, unique to this site, in the browser. This ensures that behavior on subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID. 

364 Days 

_gat_UA-3407172-1 

Performance 

macba.cat 

It appears to be a variation of the cookie used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high-traffic websites. 

A few seconds 

_gat_UA-3407172-3 

Performance 

macba.cat 

It appears to be a variation of the cookie used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high-traffic websites. 

A few seconds 

_hjSession_148970 

Performance 

macba.cat 

This ensures that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session. 

A few seconds 

_htTLDTest 

Performance 

macba.cat 

When the Hotjar script runs we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, rather than the name of the page host. This is done so that cookies can be shared between subdomains (if applicable). To determine this, we try to store the cookie_hjTLDTest for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is deleted. 

Session 

hjjlncludedlnSessionSample 

Performance 

rwm.macba.cat 

This cookie is set to let Hotjar know if this visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site’s daily session limit. 

A few seconds 

_hjSession_1619253 

Performance 

macba.cat 

Used to persist the Hotjar user ID, unique to this site, in the browser. This ensures that behavior on subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID. 

A few seconds 

HjAbsolutessessionInProgressAbol 

Performance 

macba.cat 

This cookie is used by Hotjar to detect a user’s first page viewing session. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. 

A few seconds 

clsk 

Performance 

macba.cat 

Used by Microsoft Clarity to connect various page visualizations on the part of a user and a single recording of the Clarity session. 

A few seconds 

hjlncludedInPageviewSample 

Performance 

rwm.macba.cat 

This cookie is configured to allow Hotjar to know if this visitor is included in the age range defined by the limit of viewing the page of his site. 

A few seconds 

hjlncludedInPageviewSample 

Performance 

macba.cat 

Identifies the first session of a new user on a website, indicating whether or not Hotjar sees this user for the first time. 

A few seconds 

ga 

Performance 

repositori.cat 

This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a customer identifier. It is included in every page request for a site and is used to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data for site analytics reports. By default, this setting expires after 2 years, however it is customizable for website owners. 

A few seconds 

jncluidedln.Pageview Sample  

Performance 

script.hotjar.com 

Applied in extremely rare situations to prevent serious performance problems 

A few seconds 

hjncludedlnSessioSaample 

Performance 

script.hotjar.com 

It is used when Hotjar has rejected the session to connect to our WebSocket due to server overload. It is applied in extremely rare situations to prevent serious performance problems. 

A few seconds 

fbp 

Performance 

youtube.com 

Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertising products, such as real-time offers from third-party advertisers. 

89 Days 

YSC 

Performance 

youtube.com 

YouTube collects user data through videos embedded on websites, which are aggregated with profile data from other Google services to display targeted advertising to web visitors on a wide range of its own and other websites. 

Session

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE 

Performance 

youtube.com 

This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track video viewing. 

179 Days 

VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA 

Performance 

youtube.com 

YouTube collects profile data from Google’s senior services to display targeted advertising to web visitors on a wide range of its own and other websites. 

179 Days 

CONSENT 

Performance 

youtube.com 

YouTube collects profile data from Google’s senior services to display targeted advertising to web visitors on a wide range of its own and other websites. 

729 Days

NID 

Performance 

youtube.com 

This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although its main source of income, however, is advertising. Google extensively tracks users both across its own products and sites, and through the numerous technologies embedded in many millions of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organizations based on interest profiles, as well as align ads with the content of the pages on which your client’s ads appear. 

18 Days 

4. International data transfers Users can learn about data transfers to third-party countries that, where applicable, are carried out by the third parties identified in this cookies policy in the corresponding policies of said third parties:  
5. Enabling and disabling cookies Users can change their cookie settings from the following button: 
Configuració de les galetes
Users can also restrict or limit the placement of cookies by adjusting their browser settings. However, if the user selects this option, they may not be able to access certain parts of the website or the contents may not be displayed optimally, resulting in less efficient browsing. The user also might not be able to take advantage of some of the services available. Therefore, we recommend users not to disable cookies.  If the user would like to disable cookies, they can go to the preferences menu or browser settings and find the privacy section. As an example, you can follow the instructions below: 
6. More information We hope that we have made it clear how and why we use cookies. If anything is still unclear, please feel free to contact us at: webmaster@macba.cat