Cookie Policy

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small files that are downloaded to the user’s device when accessing certain websites. These files allow for the storage and retrieval of information regarding browsing habits, the device used, usage preferences, or activity carried out on the website.

Cookies can serve very different purposes, such as ensuring the correct functioning of a page, remembering preferences, measuring site usage, improving the browsing experience, or displaying integrated third-party content.

2. Entity responsible for the website

The entity responsible for the website and the use of first-party cookies is:

• Owner: Fundació d’Estudis i Recerca Oncològica (FERO)
• Tax ID (NIF): G62663661
• Address: Avenida Diagonal 612, 4º 08021 Barcelona, Spain
• Telephone: +34 900 680 434
• Website: https://ferocancer.org
• Email: fero@fero.org

Hereinafter, FERO Foundation or FERO.

3. Types of cookies used

This website may use first-party and third-party cookies, including technical, personalization, and analytical cookies, as well as cookies related to external content or integrated services where applicable.

3.1 Technical or strictly necessary cookies

These are necessary for the website to function correctly and to allow navigation, access to secure areas, consent management, protection against attacks, session maintenance, or the use of services requested by the user.

These cookies do not require consent, as they are necessary to provide the requested service.

3.2 Preference or personalization cookies

These allow information to be remembered so that the user accesses the website with certain characteristics, such as language, appearance, regional configuration, or previously selected preferences.

When these cookies are not strictly necessary, they will only be used if the user provides their consent.

3.3 Analytical or measurement cookies

These allow us to understand how users interact with the website, which pages are visited, how long browsing lasts, where it is accessed from, or if technical errors occur.

The information obtained is used to measure website activity, prepare statistics, and improve its content, structure, and operation.

These cookies will only be installed when the user has provided their consent.

3.4 Third-party cookies and external content

The website may integrate third-party services, such as videos, maps, forms, donation tools, social networks, analysis systems, or external technological platforms.

These third parties may install cookies or other similar technologies when the user interacts with such content or has accepted the corresponding category in the settings panel.

The use of these services will also be subject to the cookie and privacy policies of each provider.

4. Cookies used on this website

This website uses a consent management system that allows for the identification and display of the cookies used at any given time, including their name, provider, purpose, category, and duration.

The updated list of cookies can be consulted in the cookie settings panel enabled on this page or in the consent notice shown when accessing the website.

This panel allows for the acceptance, rejection, or granular configuration of non-necessary cookies, according to the available categories.

FERO Foundation will periodically review the website configuration and the consent system to ensure that cookie information remains up to date.

5. Consent management

When accessing the website for the first time, the user may accept, reject, or configure the use of non-necessary cookies through the banner or settings panel provided.

The user may:

• Accept all cookies: allows the use of all cookie categories indicated in the panel.
• Reject non-necessary cookies: only technical or strictly necessary cookies will be used.
• Configure cookies: allows you to choose which categories of cookies you wish to authorize.

Consent may be modified or withdrawn at any time through the cookie settings link or button available on the website.

The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out prior to its withdrawal.

6. How to modify settings from the browser

In addition to the website’s cookie settings panel, the user can block, delete, or allow cookies from their browser settings.

The main browsers allow cookies to be managed from their privacy and security options. Disabling some cookies may affect the correct functioning of certain website features.

7. Processing of personal data

When cookies allow for the direct or indirect identification of a user, the data obtained will be processed in accordance with the FERO Foundation Privacy Policy.

The purposes, legal bases, recipients, retention periods, and rights of the data subjects are explained in said policy.

8. International transfers

Some external providers that provide technological, analytical, audiovisual, mapping, social network, or integrated platform services may process data outside the European Economic Area.

When international data transfers occur, they must be carried out in accordance with the guarantees provided for in the applicable data protection regulations.

9. Update of the cookie policy

FERO Foundation may update this Cookie Policy when regulatory, technical, or organizational changes occur, or when the cookies used on the website are modified.

The current version will be the one published on this page at any given time.

Last updated: June 9, 2026.