Cookies

PCM Cookie Policy

This is the Cookie Policy for PCM, accessible at www.pcm.pt

What are cookies?

As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies, which are small files that are downloaded to your computer, to enhance your experience. This page describes the information they collect, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We'll also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored, but this may degrade or "break" certain elements of the sites' functionality.

What kind of cookies are there?

There are two cookie groups that can be used

Permanent cookies are cookies that are stored at the browser level in your access devices (PC, mobile and tablet) and are used whenever you re-visit one of our websites. They are generally used to direct navigation to the user's interests, allowing us to provide a more personalized service.

Session cookies are temporary cookies that remain in your browser's cookie file until you leave the website. The information obtained by these cookies serves to analyze patterns of web traffic, allowing us to identify problems and provide a better browsing experience.

How we use cookies

We use cookies for several reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry-standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave all cookies if you are not sure whether or not they need them if they are used to provide a service you are using.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent cookies by setting the settings in your browser (see your browser's help for how to do this). Please be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other sites you access. Disabling cookies will typically result in the disabling of certain features and features of the site. Therefore, we recommend that you do not disable cookies.

The cookies we defined

This site offers client area access services and cookies can be used to remind you that you are already registered and want to display certain notifications that may only be valid for registered / non-subscribed users.

Cookies related to forms

When you send data to a form such as that found on contact pages or other feedback forms, cookies can be configured to remember the user's details for future correspondence.

Site Preferences Cookies

To provide a great experience on this site, we provide functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. To remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page and are affected by your preferences.

Third-party cookies

In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details what third-party cookies can be found through this site.

This site uses Google Analytics, which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web to help us understand how you use the site and how we can improve your experience. These cookies can track things like how much time is spent on the site and the pages visited so that we can continue to produce compelling content.

For more information about Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

From time to time, we test new features and make subtle changes in how the site is delivered. While we're still testing new features, these cookies can be used to ensure you get a consistent experience while on the site, while ensuring that we understand which optimizations our users enjoy most.

The AdSense service we use to serve advertising uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads on the web and limit the number of times a given ad is served.

For more information about AdSense, see the AdSense privacy FAQ.

Several partners advertise on our behalf and affiliate tracking cookies simply allow us to see if our customers have accessed the site through one of our partner sites so that we can properly accredit them and, where applicable, allow our affiliate partners to offer any bonuses that they can provide you to make a purchase.

We also use social media buttons and / or plugins on this site that allow you to connect to the social network in a variety of ways. In order for the following social media sites to work properly, we recommend accepting the cookies in your browser, which are used to enhance your profile on the sites or contribute the data they store for various purposes outlined for their respective privacy.

Links

For more information about cookies and their use, we suggest that you consult the following links:

Microsoft Cookies Guide ​
All About Cookies​​​​