What are Cookies?
“Cookies” are small text fragments sent by websites that you visit. These fragments are stored in the computer through your browser, retaining only information related to your preferences, not including, as such, your personal data.
What are Web Beacons or Pixel tag?
Web beacons or pixel tags are small graphic images that may be included on our sites, services, applications, messaging, and tools, that typically work in conjunction with cookies to identify our users and user behavior.
What are Cookies for?
Cookies help our website to store information about your visit, such as your preferred language and other settings, allowing a faster and efficient browsing, eliminating the need to repeatedly introduce the same information. This can ease your next visit and make our website more useful to you. Cookies play an important role.
What type of cookies exists?
There are two groups of cookies which may be used:
Permanent cookies – these are cookies that remain stored at browser level of your access equipment (pc, mobile and tablet) and are used whenever you make a new visit to our website. They are generally used, to direct browsing to user interests, allowing us to provide a more personalized service.
Session cookies – these are temporary cookies that remain in the cookies archive of your browser until you leave the website. The information obtained by these cookies, is used to analyze web traffic patterns, allowing us to identify problems and provide a better browsing experience.
Which cookies are used by SATA?
| Types of cookie | Function |
|---|---|
| Preferences Cookies | Their function is to save user preferences regarding the use of our Website, so it won’t be necessary to configure it each time you visit it. These cookies allow our Website to memorize information that changes his feature and behavior, such as your preferred language or the market you are placed. |
| Security Cookies | Their function is to secure user’s authentications, in order to prevent the use of fraudulent login credentials and protect data from non-authorized persons. |
| Session State Cookies | Their function is to help us improve our services, in order to optimize our users browsing experience. They allow browsing in our Website and to use its applications, as well as access to Website secure areas. |
| Analytics Cookies | Their function is to create and analyze statistics, anonymously, in order to improve our Website’s operation (eg: visits number, visited pages, among others). |
| Advertising Cookies | They are use to deliver content, including ads relevant to your interests, on our sites or on third party sites. We may use first-party or third-party cookies and/or web beacons. |
How to manage cookies?
All browsers allow user to accept, refuse or delete cookies, in particular by selecting the browser proper settings. You are able to manage cookies on your browser’s “options” or “Preferences” menu.
Be aware that disabling cookies, may prevent some services to operate correctly, affecting part or totally, of the website browsing.
The links below will take you directly to your browser’s user guide.
Use of these technologies by authorized third-party service providers
We may work with third-party companies, commonly known as service providers, who are authorized to place third-party cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies for storing information on our sites or in our services, applications, and tools with our permission. These service providers help us to provide you with a better, faster, and safer experience.
These service providers may use these technologies to help us deliver our own content and advertising, and compile anonymous site metrics and analytics.
We do not permit any of these service providers to collect any of your personal information on our sites or in our services, applications, or tools for their own purposes.
If you believe a listing or other type of content might be collecting personal information or using tracking technologies on one of our sites, please report it to data.protection@sata.pt.
For more information about cookies and its use, please visit the following link: All about cookies.