This Cookies Policy is an integral part of the Privacy Policy of https://www.symetrix.pt (hereinafter referred to as "SYMETRIX", "Site" or "Website"). Accessing and browsing the Website, or using its services, implies acceptance of the terms and conditions contained in the Privacy Policy.
To facilitate and provide a better browsing experience throughout the Website, SYMETRIX, informs you that it uses Cookies or other files of similar functionality (henceforth "Cookies")
Due to the way Internet communication standards work, access to the websites may involve the use of Cookies. In any case, we inform you that SYMETRIX, is responsible for Cookies and the processing of data obtained through its own and third-party Cookies, deciding on the purpose, content and use of the processing of the information collected.
1. What is a Cookie?
Cookies are files containing small amounts of information that are downloaded to the user's device when visiting a web page. Their main purpose is to recognise the user each time he or she accesses the site, making it possible to improve the quality and offer a better use of the site. In short: they aim to simplify your navigation on https://www.symetrix.pt.
Cookies are essential for the functioning of the Internet; they do not damage the user's equipment / device and, if they are activated in the configuration of your browser, they help to identify and resolve possible errors in the operation of the site.
2. Use of Cookies by SYMETRIX.
By accessing the Website, the User expressly accepts the use of this type of Cookies on their devices. If you disable Cookies, your browsing on the Website may not be optimised and some of the functionalities available on the Website may not work properly.
Specifically, SYMETRIX uses Cookies for the purposes set out below. If, in the future, SYMETRIX uses others for the purpose of granting more and better services, you will be duly informed of this.
3. Cookies Used
- Preference Cookies
These cookies allow websites to store information that changes the behaviour and look of the website. These cookies can also help you to change text size, font and other customisable parts of web pages. The loss of information stored in a preference cookie may make the Website experience less functional, but should not prevent it from working.
- Security Cookies
Security cookies are used to authenticate users and prevent the fraudulent use of login credentials and protect data from unauthorised persons. For example, it allows blocking many types of attack, such as attempts to steal the content submited iin online forms.
- Process cookies
Process cookies help the Website to function and provide services that the Website visitor expects, such as browsing web pages or accessing secure areas of the Website. Without these cookies, the Website cannot function properly.
- Session Status Cookies
Websites often collect information about how users interact with a particular web page. This can include which pages users visit most frequently and whether users receive error messages from certain pages. Session status cookies help to improve the services of businesses in order to enhance the browsing experience of our users. Blocking or deleting these cookies does not render the Website unusable.
- Analytics Cookies
These cookies help website and application owners understand how their visitors engage with their web pages. They may use a number of cookies to collect information and report website usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors.
- Advertising Cookies
These Cookies (e.g. from platforms such as Google or Facebook) help the owner of the website and/or application to capture leads in order to attract new website visitors/customers/users. The data collected is anonymous and it is not possible to identify the user. They are used to limit the number of times an advert is viewed and help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign.
- Social cookies and plug-ins (social buttons)
These social cookies are intended to allow users to share pages and content via third-party social networks. They also allow targeting of advertising offers on social networks.
Our website also uses social plug-ins or buttons.
Social plug-ins make it possible to facilitate the sharing of pages and content on the https://www.symetrix.pt website on various social platforms. For example, they allow users to "like" and share information from our website with their friends on social networks.
To do this, the plug-ins use cookies to track the browsing of users, whether they are users of these platforms or not, and to check whether or not they are connected to the social network during browsing. These cookies also make it possible to target advertising offers on these platforms.
For more information on the use of personal data in relation to social networks, the privacy policies of the third-party social networks concerned can be consulted.
All cookies are only kept for the time strictly necessary for their use.
4. User configuration to avoid cookies
In compliance with current legislation, we provide information enabling the user to configure their browser to manage and maintain their privacy and security in relation to Cookies. Therefore, we provide information and links to the official support sites of the main browsers so that the user can decide whether or not to accept the use of Cookies.
The cookie settings can be changed in the browser preferences by following the indications in the links:
Chrome
Firefox
Internet Explorer
Safari
o obtain more information about cookies, including what cookies have been installed and how they can be managed and deleted, the user can access www.allaboutcookies.org. If the user does not want their visits to websites to be detected by Google Analytics, they should access https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
It should be understood that by browsing this page, the user accepts the use of cookies, under the terms referred to above, without first deactivating them.
Last Update: 02 January 2021
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