For the proper functioning of Manuel Almeida’s website, the use of a mechanism called “Cookies” is necessary. Cookies are small text files stored on your computer that allow us to identify you as you navigate our website, enabling the use of features such as personal accounts, shopping carts, payments, etc.

How do we use cookies?

We use cookies for various purposes, namely to ensure the proper operation of our website, to collect statistical information about your usage, to personalize website content according to your preferences, and to control access to your personal account.

What types of cookies are used?

We use two types of cookies:

1. Session cookies: temporary cookies that remain active during a single session on our website. A session consists of the period from when you open your internet browser and access our website until you close the browser. When the browser is closed, all session cookies are deleted.
2. Persistent cookies: cookies that remain on your computer for the duration specified in the cookie. They are activated each time you visit our website.

For what purposes are cookies used?

The cookies we use serve the following purposes:

1. Strictly necessary: cookies that enable our website to function correctly, ensuring user session management for purposes such as user and password validation, access to personal areas, shopping cart functionality, and order processing. These are session cookies, meaning they are deleted when the browser is closed, as explained above.
2. Analytical: cookies that allow us to store statistical data about the usage of our website to analyze its performance and consider improvements.
3. Third-party cookies: such as those used by social networks, advertising networks, or external services that provide statistical analysis and performance solutions, including Google Analytics and Intercom.

Disabling or deleting cookies

You can at any time allow, view, block, or partially or completely delete cookies installed on your device by configuring the options in your browser. Please note that disabling cookies may make some sections of our website impossible to use.