Cookie Policy
Effective date: 27 October 2023
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are sent to your device when you visit certain websites and that seek to allow or improve your browsing experience. The www.sintagma.pt website (hereinafter the “Website”) uses cookies, whose functions and operation is governed by this Policy.
Cookies can be classified according to the following criteria:
Provenance
With regard to provenance, cookies can be first-party or third party, according to whether the party responsible for their provenance and sending them is, respectively, Sintagma or a third party.
Duration
With regard to duration, cookies may last for only the browsing session, in which case they are considered session cookies, expiring as soon as the browser is closed. On the other hand, cookies may stay in your device for longer, in which case they are considered permanent cookies.
Purpose
Cookies can be:
- Essential cookies, if they are added in order to ensure the Website's proper functioning, to provide functions requested by the user or to remember your preferences;
- Preference cookies, when they serve to keep and apply your choices in the Website, in a simplified and automatic manner, in order to improve your experience;
- Analytics cookies, collecting statistical information related to the use and behaviour of users in the Website; or
- Marketing cookies, allowing for the selection of visible advertising based on the user's interests.
Which cookies do we use?
- Google Analytics (third-party cookies)
Validity: 180 days
Category: Website performance and analytics
Functionality: Collection of information about how users use the website. Information that can be collected: page clicks, number of pages visited, duration of each visit and other information that allow us to improve the Website.
The use of these cookies may involve the transfer of your personal data (i.e. a unique identifier for your device) to countries outside the European Economic Area (e.g. the United States of America), which may not have an adequacy decision from the European Commission and, consequently, do not offer a level of protection for your data essentially equivalent to that of the European Union. In this case, Sintagma may be unable to configure the functioning of such cookies and/or prevent said transfer.
For more information about data transfer resulting from the use of these cookies, please consult our Privacy Policy here (insert link).
Amendments to this Policy
Sintagma may amend this Cookie Policy at all times without prior notice. Any relevant changes will be immediately published on the Website, allowing you to access the information and, depending on the type of cookie in question, consent or not to its use.
Date of last update: 06/11/2023