On the WaterMellon Project website, we use cookies or other files with similar functionality (hereinafter, “cookies”) to provide you with a better service and a better browsing experience by analyzing the most viewed pages or sections of our website. INICIATIVAS INNOVADORAS, S.A.L. (hereinafter INICIATIVAS INNOVADORAS), as the website owner, is responsible for the cookies and the processing of data obtained through them, whether own or third-party cookies, deciding on the purpose, content, and use of the information collected.

The purpose of this policy is to inform you clearly and in detail about what a cookie is, its purpose, the types of cookies we use, and how to configure or, if applicable, disable them.

By accepting this Policy, the user acknowledges having been clearly and fully informed about the use of data storage and retrieval devices (cookies), and that INICIATIVAS INNOVADORAS has the user’s consent to use them under the terms of Article 22 of Law 34/2002, of July 11, on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce (LSSICE).

INICIATIVAS INNOVADORAS, as the editor and responsible party for this website, wishes to inform you that this website uses own and third-party analytical cookies for profiling based on user browsing habits. You should know that we share information about your use of our website with Google, who may combine it with other information you have provided or that Google has collected from your use of its services.

1. What is a cookie, and what is it for?

A cookie is a file downloaded to your computer, smartphone, tablet, etc., when you access certain web pages. Cookies allow a website, among other things, to store and retrieve information about a user’s or device’s browsing habits and, depending on the information they contain and how your device is used, they may be used to recognize the user.

The set of cookies from all our users helps us improve the quality of our website, allowing us to monitor which pages are useful, which are not, and which could be improved. Cookies can never damage your device. On the contrary, having them enabled helps us identify and resolve errors.

2. Classification of cookies

Cookies can be classified as:

1. According to the entity managing them:
   a) Own cookies: These are sent to your device from our own equipment or domains from which we provide the requested service.
   b) Third-party cookies: These are sent to your device from equipment or domains not managed by us, but by another collaborating entity, such as those used by social networks.
2. According to the duration they remain active:
   a) Session cookies: These are temporary cookies that remain in your browser’s cookie file until you leave the website, so none are stored on your device’s hard drive. The information obtained from these cookies is used to analyze traffic patterns on the website.
   b) Persistent cookies: These are stored on your hard drive and our website reads them each time you visit again. A persistent cookie has a set expiration date and will stop functioning after that date.
3. According to their purpose:
   a) Technical cookies: These are necessary for browsing and the proper functioning of our website. They allow, for example, controlling traffic and data communication, or sharing content via social networks.
   b) Personalization cookies: These allow you to access the service with predefined characteristics based on criteria such as language, the type of browser used to access the service, the regional configuration from which the service is accessed, etc.
   c) Analytical cookies: These, processed by us or by third parties, allow us to quantify the number of users and perform statistical measurement and analysis of how users use the offered service. For this purpose, your navigation on our website is analyzed to improve the products or services we offer you.
   d) Advertising cookies: These enable the management, in the most efficient way possible, of advertising spaces that may be included on our website.
   e) Behavioral advertising cookies: These cookies store information about users’ behavior obtained through continuous observation. Thanks to them, we can understand internet browsing habits and show you ads related to your browsing profile.
   f) Social cookies: These are set by social media platforms on the services to allow you to share content with your friends and networks. Social media platforms have the ability to track your online activity outside of the Services, which may affect the content and messages you see on other services you visit.
   g) Affiliate cookies: These allow tracking of visits coming from other websites with which the website has an affiliate contract (affiliate companies).
   h) Security cookies: These store encrypted information to prevent the data stored from being vulnerable to malicious third-party attacks.

3. Cookies we use on the website https://watermellon.eu/

In compliance with Article 22.2 of the Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce Law (LSSI) and in accordance with European Directive 2009/136/EC, INICIATIVAS INNOVADORAS informs you about the cookies and other storage devices we use so that you can freely choose whether to accept them or not.

For analytical and statistical cookies, we require your informed consent, which we can obtain if you click the “Accept” button in the information message displayed when accessing our website. To reject them, simply select “Deny,” and if you want to configure which cookies you want to be installed, you can do so by accessing “Settings.”

If you disable cookies, you can still access the website, but browsing may not be optimal, and some services offered may not work correctly.

If in the future we use cookie types different from those contemplated in this Cookie Policy to provide new services or to comply with new legislative requirements, we will notify you through our website.

For your information, we use the following categories of cookies:

A. Analytical Cookies

We inform you that we use analytical cookies. The main application we use to obtain and analyze browsing information is:

Google Analytics: www.google.com/analytics/ and https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage, a service provided by Google Inc., a Delaware company with its main office at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043, United States (“Google”).

Google Analytics uses “cookies,” which are text files located on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be directly transmitted to and stored by Google on its servers. Google will use this information on our behalf to track your use of the website, compile reports on website activity, and provide other services related to website activity and internet usage. Google may transmit this information to third parties when required by law or when such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

Google Analytics is a simple and easy-to-use tool that helps website owners measure how users interact with site content. When a user navigates the pages of a website, Google Analytics provides the site owner with JavaScript tags (libraries) to record information about the page a user viewed, such as the page URL. Google Analytics JavaScript libraries use HTTP cookies to “remember” what a user has done on previous pages or interactions with the website.

Google Analytics supports two JavaScript libraries (tags) for measuring website usage: analytics.js and ga.js.

The ga.js JavaScript library uses own cookies to:

• Determine the domain to be measured
• Distinguish unique users
• Limit the percentage of requests
• Remember the number and duration of previous visits
• Remember information about traffic sources
• Determine the start and end of a session
• Remember the value of custom visitor variables

By default, this library sets cookies on the domain specified in the browser’s document.host property and configures the cookie path at the root level (/).

The analytics.js JavaScript library is part of Universal Analytics and uses a single first-party cookie containing an anonymous identifier to differentiate users.

By default, this library sets cookies on the top-level domain, excluding the initial dot, and sets the cookie path at the root level (/).

This library configures the following cookies:

B. Cookies Used by Social Networks

Secondly, we use plug-in cookies to share content on social networks such as Facebook®, X®, Bluesky®, YouTube®, or LinkedIn®. If you click on content we publish on these social networks, you can access our profile and, if you have an account on that social network, share our information on your profile. These plug-ins store and access cookies on the user’s device that allow the social network to identify its members while they interact with the plug-ins. Therefore, you should know that if you browse our page while logged into the corresponding social network, you must consider that if you share content from this website with friends via the social network, or post content on our social network profile page, you will receive cookies from their website. We cannot control third-party cookie settings, so we suggest you check those third parties’ websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.

• Facebook Cookie Policy
• YouTube Cookie Policy
• X Cookie Policy
• LinkedIn Cookie Policy
• Bluesky Cookie Policy

C. Vimeo® Cookies

On our website, you can watch videos hosted by the streaming video provider Vimeo® from Vimeo Inc., located at 555 West 18th Street, New York, NY 10011. When you access our website, a video will play and Vimeo® cookies will be installed. Since these are third-party cookies, we do not control Vimeo’s cookies, which include a mix of information snippets to measure the number and behavior of Vimeo users. Information about your use on our site, including your IP address, may be transmitted to Vimeo and stored on their servers; however, this does not personally identify you unless you are logged into Vimeo, in which case it is linked to your Vimeo account.
If you do not want data about your session to be collected by this website, change your browser’s security and privacy settings as explained in section 4 of this cookie policy.

D. Technical Cookies

Finally, this website uses technical cookies aimed at identifying whether the user has accepted or declined cookie downloads, allowing content sharing from our website, identifying the browser language, and enhancing website security by protecting against hacks and malware. Disabling these cookies by blocking them may prevent some website functionalities from working correctly.

4. How can I configure or disable cookies?

To allow, view, block, or delete cookies installed on your device, you can do so through the settings of the browser installed on your computer. You can allow or block cookies and delete browsing data (including cookies) from the browser you use. Check your browser’s options and instructions for doing so. Keep in mind that if you accept third-party cookies, you will need to delete those from your browser settings as well. You can find information on how to do this for the following browsers:

• Firefox
• Chrome
• Explorer
• Safari
• Safari for iOS
• Chrome for Android

INICIATIVAS INNOVADORAS disclaims responsibility for the use and purposes that Google Inc. may carry out with data obtained through this process. You can consult Google’s privacy policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=es. Also, if you want to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

If you need more information about how cookies work and how to delete them, you can visit the following links:

• Wikipedia entry on cookies
• allaboutcookies.org

NOTE: It is the intention of INICIATIVAS INNOVADORAS to keep this list updated at all times. However, in the event of a cookie update by a third party outside of our control, it is possible that during the update process a cookie may not be included in the list. Nonetheless, it will always refer to cookies with purposes identical to those listed here.

Last updated on June 12, 2025.