Centres Científics i Tecnològics UB

Cookies Policy

The CCiTUB website uses cookies that allow the operation and provision of the services offered therein and to improve and optimize user experience. This site also uses cookies statistical finalities.

Other technologies are used such as Session Storage and PHPSESSID in several online forms with the purpose only allowing communication between the user's computer and the network or to strictly provide a service expressly requested by the user. These cookies are considered “input of the user” or user authentication. In these cases, the information is not shared with third parties, and it is deleted when session ends.

In this page you may find detailed information about the cookies used in this site, their type and how to delete them. This information may be updated from time to time so we highly recommend you to review this cookie policy when you visit our site.

Keep in mind that you can modify at any time the cookies you have allowed to be installed by clicking here: Change cookie configuration [+]

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file that is saved in your Desktop when you visit a website. Cookies may store several user information and navigation habits that under certain circumstances could identify a user.

For this reason, if a site uses cookies that are not strictly necessary for their proper functioning and that may be shared with third party, your consent must be requested.


Cookie list used in this site


Some of these cookies have been installed by third parties and not by the University of Barcelona, concretely, by Google LLC, a company located in the United States of America with whom contractual clauses have been formalized (Decisión de Ejecución (UE) 2021/914 de la Comisión de 4 de junio de 2021 relativa a las cláusulas contractuales tipo para la transferencia de datos personales a terceros países de conformidad con el Reglamento (UE) 2016/679 del Parlamento Europeo y del Consejo) approved by the European Comission.

Needed Cookies

Needed cookies are those that only exist while user is navigating through a website and that disappear when they leave it. These cookies are used to maintaining basic information about user navigation in order to offer the user a better experience

Name Finality Description Provider Duration
cookieconsent Needed This cookie allows cookie management in this site. It allows user to accept or reject them by typology. This site 1 year


Analytics cookies

Analytic cookies are stored to be able to generate statistics related to the traffic and visits in a web site.

In the case of Google Analytics, CCiTUB configure the tool specifically to:

  • Anonymize the visitants IP [+]
  • Do not share data with other Products and services of Google, sharings or marketing specialists following the indications in this article [+]
  • Disallow User-ID to avoid user identification. [+]
  • Disallow advertising functions and advertisement personalization [+]
  • Configure an expiration date to the data compiled [+]
  • Disallow demographic reports [+]

Name Finality Description Provider Duration
_ga Analytic This cookie is a Google Analytics persistent cookie which is used to distinguish unique users. Google Analytics 2 years
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Analytic Used to persist session state. Google Analytics 2 years
_gat Analytic Used to throttle request rate. These are third party cookies that are placed on your device to allow us to use the Google Analytics service. These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use this information to compile reports and to help us improve the website Google Analytics 1 minute
_gid Analytic Used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. Google Analytics 1 day


Marketing cookies

Marketing cookies may help to show customized advertisement. The only marketing cookie used in this site is due to the use of a Twitter widget in the home page.

Name Finality Description Provider Duration
NID Preferences Used to save user preferences in Google service for user not identified. It is used as well to show Google advertisement to users without an initiated session. Google 6 months

How to modify your cookie selection or delete them?

As user you have the right to block, delete or reject the use of cookies at any moment.

You may modify the cookies you allowed to be installed by clicking here:
Change cookie configuration [+]

Otherwise you also may delete definitively the installed cookies by following the corresponding instructions of the navigation you use::

Keep in mind that blocking by default all cookies may provoke problems in the functioning of a website. You may prefer to use the option of private navigation in your browser that will delete for you all cookies installed in the session.

Google Analytics

You may also disallow Google Analytics cookies in a permanent manner by using browser extensions.[+]

If you still want us to remove Google Analytics associated to your navigation, send us the Client ID associated to the Google Analytics cookies through the contact mailbox.