PRIVACY AND COOKIES POLICY

Privacy Policy

General considerations

Mar de Fora is the company that owns the website www.mardefora.pt, designed to present its brand, communicate its services, portfolio and contact details.

Your privacy is very important to Mar de Fora. We respect it and are committed to protecting it.

Mar de Fora undertakes at all times to respect and comply with the provisions of national and European legislation governing the processing of personal data and, consequently, the defence and protection of privacy, namely:

These terms and conditions and privacy policy relate to the aforementioned website and inform data subjects of the way in which their data is processed.

Use of this site implies acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you disagree with it, please discontinue your visit at this time.

Data confidentiality

We do not ask for any personal information, nor do we collect personal data when you use our site, except for automatic technical data from cookies, as described below. However, on your own initiative, when you contact us by email, telephone or in person in the ways described on our website contact page, we may ask you for information regarding email, telephone and other data that may be important for monitoring the (potential) customer. The information will only be used by Mar de Fora for the purposes in question.

Every time you visit our website, a cookie is installed on your computer or other device that accesses it. A cookie is a text file that a website sends to your browser software. Cookies allow a website to personalise the information it displays to you based on your browsing preferences. You can opt out of receiving cookies in your browser by accessing your browser settings.

Mar de Fora also uses cookies to track visits to our website.

The information collected helps us to optimise the content, navigation, layout and performance of the site so that we can provide a better service.

Under no circumstances do we provide your personal information to third parties without first informing you, and always in accordance with current legislation on the protection of personal information.

Your personal information may be passed on to external subcontractors for certain services, who we require to keep it confidential as well.

Responsible for data processing

Mar de Fora is the entity responsible for receiving and processing personal data, selecting which data is collected (via cookies), the ways in which it is processed and the purpose for which it is used.

Control over your data and forgetting

Mar de Fora offers all customers the possibility of reviewing, changing, cancelling or deleting their personal data. To do so, simply contact us by email at management@mardefora.com and suggest the desired change.

Mar de Fora will respond to all requests as quickly as possible.

Storage time

Mar de Fora keeps data for a maximum of two years. After this period, they will be deleted, except for those that have to be kept to fulfil Mar de Fora’s legal obligations, and only for as long as necessary, after which they will be deleted.

Links to third-party sites

We do not include hyperlinks to third-party sites.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

Any changes made to Mar de Fora’s Privacy Policy will be described on this page.

Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (CNPD)

The CNPD is the National Authority for the Control of Personal Data, whose ‘[…] general remit is to control and supervise the processing of personal data, in strict compliance with human rights and the freedoms and guarantees enshrined in the Constitution and the law.’ Source: https://www.cnpd.pt/bin/cnpd/acnpd.html

Please be aware that you should contact the CNPD with any complaints regarding the use of your personal data.

Cookie Policy

Mar de Fora uses cookies on its website. Find out more below.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files containing a set of information (see below) that are saved in the browser of the device used to access a particular website when you visit it.

What are cookies for?

The details stored relate to your browsing preferences and do not include personal data that would allow you to be identified. Among the information that can be analysed through cookies is the Internet protocol (IP) address, the operating system and browser version, the pages of our website that you have viewed, the date, time and duration of that visit, among others.

The details recorded by cookies are sent back to the server hosting the website every time the browser accesses it.

Cookies allow a website to personalise the information presented to you based on your browsing preferences. Mar de Fora also uses cookies to track and analyse visits to our website. To this end, it has installed the Google® Analytics service, a third-party service that processes non-personal browsing data (https://policies.google.com/technologies/types?hl=pt-PT).

The information collected helps us to optimise the content, navigation, layout and performance of the site so that we can provide a better service.

What types of cookies are there?

Cookies belong to two groups: session and permanent. The former, as the name suggests, being session cookies, are temporary, have no expiry date and remain in the browser only until you leave the site, being deleted when you close the browser. The second, permanent, are stored on the device until they are deleted or their expiry date expires.

As stated above, under no circumstances will we store personally identifiable information in cookies. Likewise, we do not use cookies to show you advertising.

How do I manage cookies?

You can opt out of receiving cookies, or manage them, by accessing your browser settings, usually in the ‘Options’, ‘Preferences’, “Advanced” or ‘Help’ tabs, for example. However, this may result in a loss of site functionality.

Contacts

For any questions regarding this Privacy and Cookie Policy or related matters, or to make a complaint, please contact:

c/o Privacy Department
Mar de Fora
Tel: (+351) 936 555 030
Email: management@mardefora.com