INTRODUCTION
Recital 30 of the General Data Protection Regulation refers to cookies and their impact on data protection, stressing that: ‘Natural persons may associate themselves with online identifiers provided by their devices, applications, tools and protocols, such as the addresses of Internet protocols, session identifiers in the form of «cookies» or other identifiers such as radio frequency identification tags. This can leave traces that, in particular, when combined with unique identifiers and other data received by servers, can be used to profile and identify natural persons». Therefore, and in accordance with the applicable legislation, a. AUGUSTO GONÇALVES MOREIRA & IRMÃO, S.A. (hereinafter «AGM») must have in force a data policy that complies with the above provisions and is in accordance with the applicable legislation
The legal obligations imposed by the legislation are twofold: (i) the obligation of transparency and (ii) the obligation to obtain consent.
ON THE OBLIGATION OF TRANSPARENCY
Decree-Law No 7/2004 on information society and e-commerce services states that clear and complete information on the use of data storage and retrieval devices must be provided to users, and in particular on the objectives of data processing. To ensure compliance with the above provisions it is necessary to answer the following questions:
- What are cookies?
A cookie is a set of data automatically stored by an Internet browser on a user’s computer when the user visits a website. The cookie is sent from the server to the website visitor. Subsequently, whenever the user visits that website or any other page on the same domain, the cookie will be read by the Internet browser, without being altered, and returned to the Web server. Therefore, a cookie consists only of data stored on the user’s computer.
This website uses cookies and/or similar technologies that store and retrieve information while browsing. In general, these technologies can have very diverse objectives such as, for example, recognizing you as a user, obtaining information about your browsing habits or personalizing the presentation mode of the contents.
- What types of cookies are used on this website?
Own cookies: those sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by the publisher itself and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
Third party cookies: those sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain not managed by the publisher, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through cookies.
technical cookies: those that allow the user to browse a website, platform or application and use the different options or services contained therein, including those used by the publisher to enable the management and operation of the website and to activate its functions and services.
Preferences or customization cookies: those that allow remembering information so that the user accesses the service with certain characteristics that can differentiate their experience from that of other users.
Analysis or measurement cookies: those that allow their responsible the monitoring and analysis of the behavior of the users of the websites to which they are associated, including the quantification of the impacts of the ads. The information collected through this type of cookies is used in the measurement of the activity of the website, application or platform, with the aim of introducing improvements based on the analysis of data related to the use by users of the service.
Behavioral advertising cookies: those that store information about the behavior of users obtained through the continuous observation of their browsing habits, which makes it possible to develop a specific profile for the presentation of advertising based on it.
Session cookies: those intended to collect and store data during access to a website by the user. These cookies are normally used to store information intended only for the provision of the service requested by the user only once (for example, a list of products purchased) and are deleted at the end of the session.
Permanent cookies: those in which the data remain stored on the terminal equipment and that can be accessed and processed during a period defined by the responsible for the cookie, which can vary between a few minutes and several years.
What specific cookies does AGM use?
Below is an informative table on the specific cookies currently used by AGM:
| Name of the Cookie | Expires | Description |
| PHPSESSID | End of session | Simple identifier that allows the application to manage unique sessions on the site.
It is usually used to maintain the integrity of navigation. |
| _utma | 2 years | Used to distinguish users and sessions. This cookie is created when the javascript library is running and there are no _utma cookies.
This cookie is updated each time information is sent to Google Analytics. |
| _utmb | 1 day | Used to determine new sessions/visits. This cookie is created when the javascript library is running and there are no _utma cookies.
This cookie is updated each time information is sent to Google Analytics. |
| _utmc | End of session | Not used by ga.js. Used for interoperability with Urchin.js.
Historically this cookie works together with the _utmb cookie to determine whether it is a new session or not. |
| _utmt | 1 day | It is used to limit the speed of requests to the server. |
| _utmz | 6 months | Saves the source of the traffic or campaign that informs how the user came to the site.
This cookie is updated each time information is sent to Google Analytics. |
| p.gif | End of session | It tracks the special sources used on the website for internal analysis. This cookie does not record any visitor data. |
| NID | 6 months | It records a unique ID that identifies the device of a recurring visitor. Used for targeted ads. |
| vuid | 2 years | Collect visitor data, such as which pages have been visited. |
Campaign Manager (Doubleclick)
Campaign Manager uses cookies to display ads that are relevant to users, improve campaign performance reports, or prevent a user from seeing the same ads more than once. Google uses a cookie ID to track which ads are displayed on which browser and prevent them from being displayed more than once. In addition, Campaign Manager may use cookie identifiers to collect conversions related to ad requests. This is the case, for example, when a user sees a Campaign Manager ad and then visits the advertiser’s website with the same browser and buys something there.
According to Google, Campaign Manager cookies do not contain any personal information. Your browser automatically establishes a direct connection to the Google server as soon as you visit our website. We do not influence the scope and subsequent use of the data collected by Google through the use of this tool and therefore inform you according to our level of knowledge: By integrating Campaign Manager, Google receives the information you have called to the appropriate part of our Internet presence or by clicking on an ad from us. If you are registered with a Google service, Google may associate your visit with your account. Even if you are not registered with Google or are not logged in, providers may be able to obtain and store your IP address.
In addition, Campaign Manager (DoubleClick Floodlight) cookies allow us to understand if you perform certain actions on our site after displaying one of our video/video ads on Google or other platforms through Campaign Manager or clicking one (conversion monitoring). Campaign Manager uses this cookie to understand the content with which you have interacted on our websites, in order to send you targeted advertising later.
You can avoid participating in this monitoring process in several ways:
- a) by configuring the browser software accordingly, in particular by deleting third-party cookies, you will not receive any advertisements from third parties;
- b) disable cookies for conversion tracking, set your browser so that cookies are blocked by the www.googleadservices.com domain, https://www.google.de/settings/ads, This setting is deleted when you delete your cookies;
- c) by deactivating the advertisements based on the interests of the providers that are part of the self-regulation campaign «About the advertisements», at the link http://www.aboutads.info/choices, this setting will be removed by deleting cookies;
- d) permanently disable Firefox, Internet Explorer or Google Chrome in browsers with the link http://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin
In addition, you can prevent Google from collecting data generated by cookies and related to the use of websites and the processing of this data by downloading the add-on available in «Show settings», «Extension to disable Campaign Manager» in https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/142293?hl=en.
More information on Google’s Campaign Manager can be found at https://www.google.de/doubleclick, as well as on data processing in general at Google: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy; Alternatively, you can also find more information on the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) website at http://www.networkadvertising.org. Google sent the EU- U.S. Privacy Shield, Http://www.privacyshield.Gov/EU-US-Framework
Google Tag Manager
Google Tag Manager is a label management system that allows you to quickly and easily update labels and snippets from the website or mobile app. Once the Tag Manager fragment has been added to the website or mobile app, you can configure the tags using a web-based user interface without the need to change and implement additional code. This reduces the number of errors and prevents the use of a developer or programmer to make changes. For more information, click here.
GA Audiences
They collect user behavior on the site and group them into remarketing audiences according to defined criteria. They are mainly used in Google AdWords remarketing campaigns on search and display networks. For more information, click here.
Google Adwords Conversion
This is the pixel that collects Google Adwords conversions. For more information, click here.
Google Adwords User List
Just like GA Audiencies, but it allows you to create remarketing lists directly from Adwords. For more information, click here.
Google Dynamic Remarketing
Tag that allows remarketing for visitors to our website on the Google Display Network with ads containing products they have already seen. For more information click here.
Facebook Custom Audience
They collect user behavior on the site and group them into remarketing audiences according to defined criteria. For more information click here.
Facebook Pixel
Facebook Pixel is an analytics tool that helps us measure the effectiveness of our advertising by preparing reports of the actions people take when they visit the site. For more information click here.
Facebook Impression
Track impressions in campaigns for CPM. For more information click here.
Facebook Connect
It allows you to browse the Internet with your user identity. Therefore, a user can comment and share content from other sites and all this activity will appear on their wall. On our website, this is done through the Share button on product lists and on other websites. For more information, click here.
If you share our content through social media, each platform will add its own cookies. You can find more information about them here:
Information collected through cookies sent through the website may be used by the website owner or by a third party who provides a service to the website owner in question.
OBLIGATION TO OBTAIN USER CONSENT AND COOKIES
In general, the use of cookies will require the user’s consent, provided that the installation and/or use of cookies involves the processing of personal data; In such cases, Maksu, as the data controller, will provide the necessary information in this field and will obtain the prior informed consent of the user for the installation and/or use of cookies. For this purpose, it may constitute consent if the user, after having been informed about the use of cookies and that continuing to browse the website will imply their acceptance of cookies, for example, (i) use the scroll bar, provided that the information on cookies is visible without the use of cookies, or (ii) click on any link on the page, other than the links to the second information block and the privacy policy.
- Cookie management and configuration.
Based on the information provided in this policy, we provide you with information on how you can manage the cookies used by AGM through the different options offered by the most common browsers.
The user can allow or block cookies, as well as delete browsing data (including cookies) from the browser used. See the options and instructions provided by your browser for this. Please note that if you accept third-party cookies, you must remove them from your browser options.
Also, please note that if cookies are disabled, we will not be able to maintain your preferences and some features of our website may stop working, so we will not be able to offer you personalized services.
We inform you that you can disable or delete cookies by setting the browser used on your device or terminal. Below are links to the information pages of the main Internet browsers for setting cookies:
- Cookie settings not Google Chrome
- Cookie settings no Mozilla Firefox
- Cookie settings no Internet Explorer
- Cookie settings no Safari
- For what objectives are used as minhas informações e quem utiliza as mesmas?
This website uses cookies provided by other entities to accept and use your information for the purposes indicated. If you don’t agree with any of the above objectives, you can customize your opções using this ecrã.
The companies that collaborate connosco as, for example, advertisers, advertising operators and intermediários will use your information obtained through two cookies.
- Compliance with this policy
A AGM pode altera a presente Política de cookies com base em exigências legislativas e regulamentares ou para efeitos de adaptação da política às instruções impostas pela agência nacional de proteção de dados.
- Setting cookies in Google Chrome
- Cookie settings in Mozilla Firefox
- Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
- Setting cookies in Safari
- For what purposes is my information used and who uses it?
This website uses our own and other entities’ cookies to access and use your information for the purposes set out below. If you do not agree with any of the stated objectives, you can customize your options using this screen.
We and the companies that collaborate with us, such as advertisers, advertising operators and intermediaries, will use your information obtained through cookies.
- Updates to this policy
AGM may modify this Cookie Policy based on legal and regulatory requirements or to adapt the policy to the instructions imposed by the national data protection agency.