Cookie Policy

Last updated: 20/04/2026

This Cookie Policy explains how the https://martinezechevarria.pt/ website uses cookies and similar technologies, for what purposes, for how long and how the user can manage them.

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that a website stores on the user’s browser or device when they visit it. These technologies make it possible to recognize the device, save preferences, improve the browsing experience, measure audiences, strengthen security and, in some cases, personalize content or communications.

2. Who uses cookies on this website?

This website can be used:

• Own cookies, managed directly by the Company;
• Third-party cookies, managed by external providers of technological services, measurement, embedded content or social networks.

3. Types of cookies used

This website may use the following categories of cookies:

3.1 Strictly necessary cookies

They are indispensable for the functioning of the website and for the provision of basic functionalities such as navigation, security, session management, load balancing, filling in forms or memorizing consent preferences.

This category includes the _GRECAPTCHA cookie, used by Google reCAPTCHA (a service provided by Google Ireland Limited) on the website forms to distinguish humans from automated programs and protect the website against spam. To do so, Google analyses technical data about the visit, such as the IP address, the browser and the interaction with the page. This use is based on the Company’s legitimate interest in protecting the website and its forms (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). For more information, please see Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

These cookies do not depend on consent, as they are strictly necessary.

3.2 Preference cookies

They allow you to remember user choices such as language, approximate location, display or other customization options.

As a rule, these cookies depend on the user’s consent, except when their use is strictly necessary for the service requested.

3.3 Analytical cookies

They make it possible to collect aggregated or pseudonymized statistical information on the use of the website, such as the number of visits, the most visited pages, the source of the traffic, the average browsing time and the general behaviour of the users.

This website may use Google Analytics for these purposes. Analytical cookies will only be activated after user consent, when legally required.

3.4 Marketing cookies

They can be used to measure campaigns, limit repetition, or present more relevant content and communications on different websites or platforms.

These cookies always depend on the user’s consent.

4. Legal basis

• Strictly necessary cookies: legitimate interest associated with the technical functioning of the website and/or technical necessity to provide the requested service;
• Analytical, non-necessary preference and marketing cookies: user consent, provided through the banner or preference management panel.

5. Google Analytics

If activated by the user, this website may use Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google, to collect statistical data on the use of the website.

The actual use of Google Analytics may involve the collection of information such as:

• Pages visited;
• Duration and sequence of navigation;
• Traffic source;
• Events and interactions with the website;
• Browser type, device and resolution;
• Online identifiers associated with analytical cookies.

The Company undertakes to try to configure the service in a way that complies with the principles of data minimization and privacy by default, including, where appropriate, the deactivation of unnecessary advertising functionalities, limitation of storage and prevention of the sending of personally identifiable data.

6. Consent management

When you access the website for the first time, you will be presented with a cookie management mechanism that will allow you to:

• Accept all non-necessary cookies;
• Reject cookies that are not necessary;
• Configure preferences by category.

The user may, at any time, change or withdraw their consent through the cookie preference manager available on the website.

Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out up to that point.

7. Cookie storage periods

Cookies can be:

• They are deleted when the browser is closed;
• Persistent, remaining on the device for a variable period until automatic expiry or manual deletion.

The specific deadlines depend on the purpose of the cookie and the technical configuration of the supplier.

8. International data transfers

The use of third-party cookies, including those associated with Google Analytics, may involve international data transfers. In such situations, the Company will seek to ensure that appropriate protection mechanisms are in place, in accordance with the GDPR.

Google reCAPTCHA may also involve the processing of data by Google in the United States, under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.

9. How to disable cookies in the browser

In addition to the website’s preference manager, the user can at any time configure their browser to block or delete cookies that have already been stored.

The limitation of cookies may, however, affect the correct functioning of some features of the website.

10. List of cookies used

An up-to-date list of the cookies actually used on the website should be kept here, indicating the name, entity responsible, purpose, category and duration.

* The actual duration must be confirmed in the actual technical implementation of the website.

11. Changes to the Cookie Policy

The Company may amend this Cookie Policy at any time to adapt it to legal, regulatory or technical changes. The updated version will always be available on the website.