Cookies policy

This website gathers and uses information as specified in our privacy policy. One of the ways in which we compile data involves the use of the technology referred to as “cookies”. SOC-E uses cookies for several purposes.


What are cookies?


SOC-E uses digital tracking technologies to collect information about the movement on our website and how visitors interact with us. We do this in order to measure the performance of our websites and to provide interesting content.

To identify a visitor throughout the visit and recognizing visitors at later visits, our websites leave a small file called a cookie in the visitor’s internet browser.

Cookies uniquely identify a browser or device. By using cookies, SOC-E can distinguish one visitor from another and treat them individually.



What does SOC-E use cookies for?


Visiting website generates anonymized data that SOC-E uses to improve its own website. When using cookies in this manner we do not collect or process personal data. Instead, we use anonymized aggregated statistics to make better decisions.

More specifically, the anonymized data describes the general activity and performance of SOC-E website. SOC-E measures how many of our visitors read each one of our webpages. If the statistics show that there are few readers, we will use this to decide whether to move the corresponding webpage elsewhere on the website to make it more visible.

Another example is that we use anonymized data to measure which parts of our pages that are popular among visitors by creating heat maps based on visitor activity. The analysis is used to organize content or to ensure more logical functionality on our website. We also use cookies to detect returning visitors on our website and expose them for what they seemed to like during their last visit.

The anonymized data we collect includes:

  • Information about types of browser and device.
  • Geographical information limited to the city.
  • User behavior on the website, i.e. the journey from reference site to landing page to exit page, if pages were scrolled and how far, if videos were played and for how long, which links were clicked.
  • Public company information.

From this anonymized data we can measure the popularity of our content and decide which direction we should further develop our websites, both in terms of technical evolution and content.

The anonymous data is not shared with any third party except our subcontractors when placing and managing cookies including Google Analytics. 

The anonymous data is subject to security and privacy standards according to applicable data protection legislation.



Personal data

Depending on whether visitors grant us their permission – opt in/opt out according to the preferences – the use of cookies could also include processing of visitor’s personal data. More specifically, with the permission of visitors, we could use visitors’ email addresses to tie their activities to their identity.

On this basis, SOC-E could use personal data to register what the individual visitor is pursuing. These preferences are used to ensure that visitors are subject to relevant content on our websites. In short, to let SOC-E personalize content.

The personal data we process in this regard includes:

  • Email address, name, and company
  • Employers key information
  • Likely interests based on registered movement on website and subscription preferences.

Personal data is not shared with any third party except our subcontractors when placing and managing cookies. All processing of personal data is subject to security and privacy standards according to applicable data protection legislation.



Which cookies does this website use?

This website uses its own first-party and third-party cookies, which are as follows:

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First-party cookies

  • Opening a session: The cookies for opening a session allow you to log into and out of your account at www.soc-e.com.
  • Customisation: Cookies help us to remember the people or websites you have interacted with so that we can show you related content.
  • Preferences: Cookies store your adjustments and preferences, as well as your chosen language and your privacy settings.
  • Security: We use cookies to protect you against security threats, mainly by detecting anyone trying to hack your account at www.soc-e.com.

Third-party cookies

Analysis cookies

This website uses analysis services, specifically Google Analytics, for helping the website to analyse users’ browsing experience and improve its performance, but under no circumstances do they involve data that can be used for personal identification. Google Analytics is a website analysis service provided by Google Inc. A user may verify the types of cookie Google uses here.

Social media cookies

Social media cookies may be stored on your browser when you visit our Website for example, when you use the link on www.soc-e.com for sharing content with any social media.

The following are the social media cookies that this website uses in its own policies on cookies: 


Advertising cookies

We take steps in remarketing through Google Ads, which uses cookies to help us provide specific advertisements that are consistent with prior visits made to our website. Google uses this information to post publicity on sundry third-party websites. These cookies have a short-term expiry and do not contain any information that can identify the user. Please visit How Google uses cookies in advertising for further information.

We carry out remarketing through Facebook ads, using their cookies to help us provide specific advertisements that are consistent with prior visits made to our website.

At SOC-E we manage our advertising campaigns via the DoubleClick tool that enables us to compile all the data on our target audience in a centralized manner. 

DoubleClick uses cookies to improve advertising. Cookies are normally used to direct advertisements based on relevant content for the user, improve the campaign’s performance reports, and avoid displaying advertisements that the user has already seen.

DoubleClick uses cookie ID to record the advertisements that have already been displayed on specific browsers. When an advertisement is posted on a browser, it uses that browser’s cookie ID to verify the advertisements it has already displayed on that browser in particular. It thus avoids displaying advertisements that the user has already seen. 

Likewise, cookie IDs enable DoubleClick to record conversions involving requests for advertisements, such as when a user sees a DoubleClick advertising and subsequently uses the same browser to visit the advertiser’s website and make a purchase.

As an internet user, you may at any time delete the information on your browsing habits, as well as the related profile informed by said habits, by accessing the following link directly and free of charge: Ad personalization. 

When a user disables this function, the unique DoubleClick cookie ID on the user’s browser is overwritten with the phrase “OPT_OUT”. As there is now no unique cookie ID, the disabled cookie can no longer be linked to a specific browser.



Can cookies be deleted?

Yes, and not only deleted, but also blocked, in a general or specific manner for a particular domain.

To delete the cookies on a website, open your browser settings where you can locate those associated with the domain in question and remove them.


Accepting cookies

If a user continues browsing after reading our policy on cookies, we understand that they accept the use of cookies.

When accessing this website or application for the first time, you will be presented with a message that will inform you about the use of cookies and where you can access this policy on cookies. 

If the user consents to the use of cookies, continues browsing or clicks on any link, they are understood to have agreed to our policy on cookies and, therefore, their installation on their equipment or device.

Besides the use of our own first-party cookies, we allow third parties to apply cookies and access them via their hardware. This consent to the use of cookies by these companies is linked to the browsing of this website.


I don’t want to be subject to cookies that process my personal data

In privacy matters, the most efficient way of managing these cookies is to reach out directly to SOC-E at info@soc-e.com.


Further information about cookies

You may consult the regulations on cookies issued by Spain’s Data Protection Agency in its “Guía sobre el uso de las cookies” [In Spanish], and obtain further information on cookies on the internet at http://www.aboutcookies.org/

If you would like to have more control over the installation of cookies, you can install programs or add-ons on your browser, with these tools being described as “Do Not Track”, which will enable you to choose those cookies that you wish to accept.

This policy on cookies was last reviewed on 1 July 2024.