Cookie Policy - Mário Sousa.

Updated Date: 3 June, 2018


What is a cookie

A cookie is a small text that is stored in your browser when you visit a web page. They are tools that have a key role in the rendering of digital services. Among others, they allow a web page to store and recuperate information on the browsing habits of a user or their equipment, and depending on the information obtained, they may be used to recognize the user and improve the service offered. Without cookies, many pages would not work correctly or the services offered would be reduced.

In compliance with Spanish Act 34/2002, on information Society Services and E-commerce, Mário Sousa informs its users about the use of its own cookies and those of third parties and those persistent (when they have a long duration or timeless) and temporary (when they have a short duration) in order to improve the service rendered.

Type of cookies

Depending on the entity managing the domain from which the cookies are sent and processing the data obtained, two types may be distinguished:

Own cookies: these are sent to the device of the user from a unit or domain managed by the proprietor of the web, from where the service requested by the user is rendered.

Third-party cookies: these are sent to the device of the user from a unit or domain that is not managed by the proprietor of the web but rather by another entity that processes the data obtained via the cookies.

Depending on the storage period:

Session cookies: a session cookie, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

Persistent cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date.

Depending on its purpose:

Technical cookies: are those strictly necessary for the proper operation of the website and for the use of the different options we offer, such as maintenance of user’s session, manage the response time, performance of the website, security, share contents in social networks, etc.

Personalization cookies: are those that allows the user to personalize certain characteristics of the website. For instance, define the language, regional configuration or the kind of web browser.

Analysis cookies: these cookies allow to perform tracking and analysis of users’ behavior in the website and elaborate profiles based on its navigation data. This helps to know the preferences of the website users’. For example, with these cookies it can be determined the region of the user or what is the product with better user acceptance.

Advertising cookies: are those cookies to allow us to manage advertising spaces on the web.

Behavioral advertising cookies: these cookies store the users’ information about their behavior to show personalized advertising.

What cookies do we use?

We use both session and persistent cookies on our website.

We also employ cookies and other technologies to determine if you have read email messages that we sent in our email notifications and/or newsletters, such as web beacons, if you have clicked or sent any of our emails, so that we can make more useful and personalized communications. If you do not want us to keep track of your email actions to determine if you have read our email notifications and/or newsletters, if you have clicked or sent any of our emails, you need to inform us of such intent, since we cannot send this emails with this feature inactive. You can contact us at any time: cookies@mariosousa.com and inform us of such intent.

The names of the cookies that we use on our website, and the purposes for which they are used, are set out below:

We use:

“gdpr_bar_shown”: To recognize when GDPR Cookie Settings has been shown and accepted by a user when visiting our website.
“gdpr_cookie”: To store GDPR Cookie Settings for a user visiting our website.

Third party cookies

Analytics cookies

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website.
Our analytics service provider generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies.
The analytics cookies used by our website have the following names: _ga, _gat, _gid.
The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website.
You can learn more about Google Analytics cookies here: https://developers.google.
com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage?hl=en#analyticsjs.

YouTube cookies

We use YouTube cookies to show you embedded videos from YouTube. We do this using privacy enhanced mode. If you reproduce a YouTube video, the following cookies will be installed in your browser, PREF, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE and YSC.

PayPal Cookies

"PYPF": This cookie is set by PayPal to display PayPal objects.

"AKA_MVT_BUTTONS": This cookie is set by PayPal to display PayPal objects.

GoDaddy Cookies

"JSESSIONID": This cookie is used by GoDaddy to display our Signed and Verified Goddady Sealed & Secured Web Browsing Badge.
Akamai Cookies

"01AI": This cookie is set by abmr.net domain to enable streaming data such as videos.

Blocking and/or deleting cookies

You may restrict, block or erase the cookies from any web page, using your browser. As the configuration is different in each browser, the “help” function will show you how to do this. We provide you here below some links where you can learn more about how to restrict, block or erase the cookies:

Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Internet Explorer
Safari

In some browsers it is possible to set specific rules to manage cookies for each website, this gives a major control on privacy.

It means that cookies from all websites can be blocked whereas cookies from trusted websites are allowed into the system.

More information

If you have any question about how we use cookies, please, contact us to the following email address: cookies@mariosousa.com.

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