This website uses cookies. With the exception of necessary cookies, which allow our website to function, we need your consent for other categories of cookies, detailed in our Cookie Policy. You can manage your consent later by easily withdrawing or changing it through the access provided at the bottom of the website’s page or through your consent ID, which we provide in the Cookie Policy.

1 – INTRODUCTION

a) VNM is fully committed to ensuring your privacy and safeguarding your rights.

b) These goals are imperative to our activity, and we approach them with the utmost seriousness and rigor.

c) With this understanding ever-present in everything we do and seeking to provide you with the information you are entitled to, we have developed this Cookie Policy so that you can transparently learn about the cookies we use, how long we use them for, their purpose, and how you can manage them, with the aim of offering you an optimized, smooth, and tailored browsing experience to your needs.

d) This Cookie Policy, with autonomy, is part of our Privacy Policy, which you can consult here.

2 – WHAT ARE COOKIES AND WHAT ARE THEY USED FOR?

a) Cookies are small text files sent to your computer or mobile device, such as a phone or tablet, when you visit our website.

b) Cookies help determine the usefulness, interest, and number of visits to our website, allowing for faster and more efficient navigation, eliminating the need to repeatedly enter the same information, and facilitating and customizing navigation according to your preferences.

3 – WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES CAN BE USED?

a) There are two groups of cookies that can be used:

i) Permanent cookies – these are cookies that are stored at the browser level on accessing devices (PC, mobile, and tablet) and are used whenever you make a new visit to our site, allowing for a more personalized service.

ii) Session cookies – these are temporary cookies that remain in the browser’s cookie file until you close the browser and exit our website. The information obtained by these cookies is used to analyze traffic patterns on our website, allowing us to identify problems and provide a better browsing experience.

4 – WHAT ARE COOKIES USED FOR?

a) Cookies can be used to fulfill the following functions:

i) Strictly necessary or essential cookies – allow navigation on the website and the use of applications, as well as access to secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, the required services cannot be provided.

ii) Analytical cookies – are used anonymously for the purpose of creating and analyzing statistics to improve the functioning of the website.

iii) Functionality cookies – store user preferences regarding the use of the site so that it is not necessary to reconfigure the site each time you visit.

iv) Third-party cookies – measure the success of third-party applications and advertising effectiveness. They can also be used to personalize a widget with user data.

v) Advertising cookies – target advertising based on each user’s interests to direct advertising campaigns according to users’ preferences, limiting the number of times the ad is viewed, helping to measure advertising effectiveness and the success of our website.

5 – COOKIES USED ON OUR WEBSITE

At the end of this cookie policy, you can find updated information about the cookies we use, their name, provider, purpose, validity, type, and accessibility by third parties.

6 – ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT ANALYTICAL COOKIES

1- Google Analytics (collects user interactions on our website, such as the time of visit, whether the user has visited the website before, which site was recommended for the user to visit, IP address).

2- Google Analytics provides consistent statistical information about visits, such as average visit duration, number of page views, page/view, percentage of return and new visits, new and returning visitors, frequency and recent visits, interactions, visited pages), demographic data (language, country/territory, city), system (browser, operating system, internet service provider, device category).

3- Google Analytics is subject to Google’s terms, which you can consult by accessing https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/.

4- You can also consult Google’s privacy information, for which Google is solely responsible, by accessing https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

5- To provide visitors with greater choice about how their data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed the “Google Analytics Browser Opt-out” Add-on, which communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to indicate that information about the site visit should not be sent to Google Analytics.

6- The “Google Analytics Browser Opt-out” does not prevent information from being sent to the site itself or to other web analytics services.

7- The “Google Analytics Browser Opt-out” can be obtained by accessing https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

7 – HOW TO DISABLE COOKIES?

a) Most browsers are set to accept cookies.

b) If you wish, you can change the settings in your browser, although disabling cookies may impact your browsing experience, leading to limited and non-personalized navigation.

c) It is possible to allow, block, or delete cookies installed on your device through browser options.

d) If you use multiple devices (phone, tablet, or personal computer) to access our website, you should consider that each browser on each device is set according to your cookie preferences.

e) Below, we list some useful links for the most commonly used internet browsers, where you can obtain more information about disabling cookies through the provided links:

• Microsoft Edge
• Internet Explorer
• Mozilla Firefox
• Google Chrome
• Apple Safari
• Opera

f) For more information about cookies, please refer to allaboutcookies.org.

8 – QUESTIONS?

If you have any questions about the inclusion or management of cookies on our website or any other cookie-related information, please contact us at the email address info@vnm.pt, and we will respond to your inquiries within the legal deadline.

9 – REVIEW OF OUR COOKIE POLICY

a) VNM may review this Cookie Policy and make unilateral changes without the need for prior communication.

b) We advise all users of our website to periodically check our cookie policy.

c) If we make any changes, the version will be updated, and these changes will become an integral part of the aforementioned Policy.

10 – VERSIONS OF OUR COOKIE POLICY

Version 1 – March 2024