- Automatically obtaining only the minimum amount of technical information required to offer you a good service. When you log in, we exclusively analyse the type of browser that you are using (Internet Explorer, Netscape, etc.) and its version, with the objective of selecting the most adequate style sheet to ensure that portal display is correct, in addition to the language and character set of your browser for the same purpose (for example, so that accents are correctly displayed).

- Using visitor "cookies" with an exclusively statistical object (specifically, to know the number of "unique visitors" to our website), and which store a maximum of 128 bits of randomly generated information.

If the www.uam.es user does not wish to accept storage of the cookie on his/her computer, he/she may browse the portal without any type of restriction.

These guidelines are only applicable to the content contained in the new format of www.uam.es, which you will recognise by the presence of our Universidad Autónoma de Madrid logo on the upper left-hand corner.