Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy was last updated on the date you see in the header and applies to citizens and permanent legal residents of the European Economic Area and Switzerland.

1. Introduction

Our website, https://surfingportugal.net (hereinafter: “the Website”) uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience, all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties that we have contracted. In the following document we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.

2. What are cookies?

A cookie is a small, simple file that is sent along with the pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or other device. The information stored in it may be returned to our servers or to the servers of relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.

3. What are scripts?

A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our Web site function properly and interactively. This code runs on our server or on your device.

4. What is a web beacon, web beacon or pixel tag?

A web beacon (or pixel tag) is a small invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. To do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.

5. Cookies

Information on the different types of cookies.

5.1 Technical or functional cookies

Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences are known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. In this way, you will not have to repeatedly enter the same information when you visit our website and, for example, items will remain in your shopping basket until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.

5.2 Statistical cookies

We use statistical cookies to optimize the website experience for our users. With these statistical cookies we obtain information about the use of our website. We request your permission to place statistical cookies.

5.3 Advertising cookies

On this website we use advertising cookies that allow us to obtain information about the results of campaigns. This happens on the basis of a profile that we create based on your behavior on https://surfingportugal.net. With these cookies you, as a website visitor, are linked to a unique ID, but these cookies do not profile your behavior and interests to provide you with personalized advertisements.

5.4 Marketing/Tracking Cookies

Marketing/tracking cookies are cookies, or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or on various websites for similar marketing purposes.

Since these cookies are marked as tracking cookies, we ask your permission to place them.

6. Cookies from our site

The cookies we use on our site are as follows.

Google Analytics

1. _ga
   1. Function: Page views
   2. Expires: 2 year(s)
2. _ga_*
   1. Function: Page views
   2. Expires: 1 year(s)

WPML

1. wp-wpml_current_language
   1. Function: Remember your selected language
   2. Expires: 1 day

Elementor

1. elementor
   1. Function: Navigation and error detection
   2. Expires: 1 day

Google Ads Optimization

1. google_experiment_mod*
   1. Function: Track visits between different sites
   2. Expires: 3 month(s)
2. 1p_jar
   1. Function: Retargeting ads between websites
   2. Expires: 1 month(s)

Google other services

1. __gpi
   1. Function: Necessary for maps operation
   2. Expires: session

Google Adsense

1. google_ama_settings
   1. Function: Track browsing
   2. Expires: never
2. google_adsense_settings
   1. Function: Ad Retargeting between websites
   2. Expires: never

7. Consent

When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up window with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click “Accept”, you are consenting to our use of the categories of cookies described in the pop-up window, and described in this Cookie Policy. You can disable the use of cookies through your browser, but please note that our website will no longer function properly.

8. Your rights with respect to personal data

You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

• Right to know what your personal data is needed for, what will happen to it and how long it will be kept.
• Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data known to us.
• Right of rectification: You have the right to supplement, correct, have your personal data erased or blocked whenever you wish to do so.
• If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke such consent and to have your personal data deleted.
• Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and to transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
• Right to object: you can object to the processing of your data. We comply with it, unless there are justified reasons for the processing.

To exercise these rights, please contact us. See the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have any complaints about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority (the Data Protection Authority).

9. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies

You can use your Internet browser to delete cookies automatically or manually. You can also specify that certain cookies will not be placed. Another option is to change your Internet browser settings so that you receive a message each time a cookie is set. For more information on these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.

Please note that our website may not function properly if all cookies are disabled. If you delete cookies from your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you revisit our websites.

10. Contact Details

For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact us using the contact details below:

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