Cookies Policy

By visiting the Silicon Valley Hispanic Chamber of Commerce website, you agree to the use of cookies. Therefore, you should carefully read this Cookie Notice and our Personal Data Protection Policy.


1. What are cookies ?


A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is downloaded to your computer when you access certain websites.



Cookies do not contain information, but when stored on devices and read by a browser, they can help a website improve the service it provides. For example, they can open "virtual" doors to various content or services, such as remembering users and logins, theme selection, preferences, or other personalization features.


2. What are cookies used for?


When you visit the Silicon Valley Hispanic Chamber of Commerce website, it asks your browser to store cookies on your device to remember information about you, such as your language preference, login information, country, user notice interactions, or confirmations.


3. Cookie categories


Strictly necessary: ​​this means the cookies are essential for the provision of the site and any requested service, but do not perform any additional or secondary function.


Performance cookies: these provide statistical information about site usage—that is, web analytics. They are used to gather information on how you use the website, such as which pages you access most frequently and whether you encounter error messages. However, these cookies do not collect information that identifies you. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated and, therefore, anonymous. It is used solely to improve the website's performance.


Functionality cookies: these cookies allow a website to remember choices you make—such as your language or region—and provide enhanced, more personalized features. They can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other customizable parts of the website. Additionally, they may be used to provide requested services, such as watching a video or participating in a live chat. The information collected by these cookies may be anonymous, and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, some or all of these functions may not work properly.


Targeting/advertising cookies: these cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an ad and to help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. They are usually placed by advertising networks with our permission. They remember that you have visited a website, and this information is shared with other organizations, such as advertisers.


Social media cookies: these are set by a range of social media services we have added to the website to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. They can track your browser across other sites and build a profile of your interests. This may affect the content and messages you see on other websites you visit.



4. Basis for the use of cookies


Since the website would not function without strictly necessary cookies, this category of cookies is always active when you visit our website. The legal basis for using strictly necessary cookies is our legitimate interest in providing you with a properly functioning website.


However, we rely on your consent to use functional, performance, advertising, and social media cookies. Upon visiting the website for the first time, you will see a banner providing information about our use of cookies and will be asked to consent to such use. You are not required to accept functional, performance, advertising, or social media cookies to access the website; however, some services and features rely on cookies and may be limited or inaccessible without your consent.