1. Introduction

This Cookie Policy contains information about our use of cookies and similar technologies that are placed on our users’ devices when they visit our website (hereinafter the “Website”), including the types of cookies we use and for what purpose, their duration, how you can authorise, reject or manage them.

This Policy should be read in conjunction with our Privacy and Data Protection Policy, which you can find here.

2. What are cookies and what do we use them for?

Like most websites, our Website uses cookies and other similar technologies that allow us to improve the performance and browsing experience on the Website, providing faster, more efficient and better-quality browsing and allowing us also to improve our Website.

Cookies

Cookies are text files that contain small amounts of information and are downloaded and placed on the user’s device when they visit a website. Cookies may then be sent back to the original website upon each subsequent visit or to another website that recognises that cookie.

Cookies allow the website to recognise the user’s device and “remember” your actions and preferences (such as login details, chosen language, font size and other display settings) for a certain period of time, without the need to reset the website each time you visit it and thus avoiding the need to repeatedly enter the same information.

Other similar technologies

In addition to cookies, we may use other similar technologies to store or access information stored on or about your device, such as web beacons (also known as web tags, pixel tags, and clear GIFs), which are generally clear graphic images placed on web pages or emails. They are used in combination with cookies to measure the actions of visitors on web pages when they open the page containing the beacon.

For the purposes of this policy, we refer to all such technologies as “cookies”.

3. How long do cookies last?

We use cookies that only remain on the user’s device for as long as you keep your browser active, and which are deleted when you close your browser (session cookies), and cookies that remain on the user’s device for a longer period, and which are used when you visit our Website again (persistent cookies).

4. What type of cookies do we use on our Website and for what purpose?

In addition to strictly necessary cookies, which are essential for our Website to operate properly, we use the following types of cookies on the Website:

– Strictly necessary and functional cookies, which are essential for our Website to operate properly and which save the user’s preferences regarding the use of the Website.
– Analytical cookies, which are used anonymously and aim to understand users’ behaviour, helping us improve the experience and optimisation of the Website (e.g., Google Analytics).
– Third party cookies, which are placed by external entities that provide services that appear on our Website (e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Google Maps). In this case, we recommend that you check the respective cookie policy.

5. How can you manage the use of cookies, including disabling them?

We ask for your consent to use certain types of cookies (except for strictly necessary cookies, which are essential for the operation of our Website).

Therefore, when you visit our Website for the first time, a “pop-up” notification about cookies will be displayed to you, which will allow you to accept or reject all or some types of cookies. If you accept all or some cookies, you agree to us placing those cookies on your device, in accordance with the terms of this Cookie Policy.

You may, at any time, change your preferences in terms of cookie management or withdraw your consent to the use of cookies by disabling them in the cookie setting bar, accessible at all times on the Website. However, please note that if you refuse or disable cookies, some of the features of our Website may no longer function.

Alternatively, most web browsers allow control over the cookies stored on the user’s device, as well as their immediate deletion, if the user wishes to cease allowing the local storage of cookies. Thus, you can change your web browser settings to reject new cookies, disable existing cookies or simply inform you when new cookies are sent to your device. To do so, please follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located under “Help”, “Tools”, “Edit”, “Settings” or “Preferences”).

6. Contact details

If you have any questions regarding this policy or how we use cookies, you can contact us at the following email address: lawfirm@malaw.pt

You can also contact us by post at the following address:

7. Review of and amendment to the Cookie Policy

We may review and amend this Cookie Policy whenever we deem it necessary or whenever amendments are required. Therefore, we advise all users to check it periodically.

Any amendments to this Policy, as well as its updated version, will be timely and duly disclosed in the cookies section of our Website.