Cookie policy

Scope and legal framework

This cookie policy applies to the website of PremiWeb Design, hereinafter the agency, in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, which repealed Directive 95/46/EC, hereinafter the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, and with Portuguese Law 58/2019 of 8 August, which implements that regulation in Portugal.

Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2002 on privacy and electronic communications also applies, as amended by Directive 2009/136/EC of 25 November 2009, both transposed into Portuguese law by Law 41/2004 of 18 August, as amended by Law 46/2012 of 29 August.

What are cookies and how do they work?

Cookies are small text files made of alphanumeric characters that are transferred to and stored on your device, such as a computer, mobile phone or tablet, when you visit a website, so that the website can recognise your device on later visits. Cookies are not software or applications; they only hold information that makes browsing and interacting with the website easier.

Under Article 4(1) GDPR, personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. The identifiers assigned by cookies may, combined with other data, make it possible to identify a person (Recital 30 GDPR), in which case the general data protection rules apply to them.

On the PremiWeb Design website, no analytics cookie is set before you accept it. Once you accept, the cookie is stored on your device and, on later visits, the website may recognise the browser used, in line with the data minimisation principle in Article 5(1)(c) GDPR, under which personal data must be adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary for the purposes for which it is processed.

Why do we use cookies?

The analytics cookies used by PremiWeb Design help us improve the website by showing how many unique visitors it has, which pages they visit and how long they stay on each one, so that we can see which content interests our visitors and improve it. The legal basis for this processing is your consent, under Article 6(1)(a) GDPR, in line with the accountability principle in Article 5(2) of the same regulation.

For these purposes, PremiWeb Design uses Google Analytics, a statistics service provided by Google Ireland Limited and Google LLC, which uses cookies to collect information about how visitors use the website. The statistical reports are used to analyse how the website is used and to identify possible improvements. Google Analytics does not log or store visitors’ IP addresses. Google acts as a processor under Article 28 GDPR.

Where data is transferred to the United States, the transfer relies on the European Commission adequacy decision of 10 July 2023 on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, to which Google LLC has signed up, under Article 45 GDPR.

What types of cookies do we use?

By purpose, the cookies used on the PremiWeb Design website are essential cookies and performance and analytics cookies. By duration, they are session cookies, deleted when you close the browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your device for a set period.

Cookies strictly necessary for the website to work do not require prior consent, under Article 5(3) of Directive 2002/58/EC and Article 5(2) of Portuguese Law 41/2004. Performance and analytics cookies require your prior, informed, free and specific consent, under the same provisions and Articles 4(11) and 7 GDPR.

We ask for that consent in the cookie notice shown on your first visit, where you can accept, reject or choose by category with the same ease, and where you get clear information about what each cookie is for, under Article 13 GDPR.

Cookies used on this website

pw-consent (browser local storage). Essential. Remembers the choice you made in the cookie notice, so we do not ask again on every page. Kept for 12 months.

_ga and _ga_<identifier> (Google Analytics). Performance and analytics, only with consent. Tell visitors apart so we can count visits and page views in aggregate. Kept for 13 months.

How can you control cookies?

You can accept, reject or change your choice at any time through the "Manage cookies" link in the footer of every page. Withdrawing consent is as easy as giving it (Article 7(3) GDPR) and does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before.

Browsers such as Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari also let you change cookie permissions, block cookies and delete those already stored, in their privacy and security settings. Rejecting analytics cookies does not stop you from using the website or its forms.

How long do we keep cookies?

PremiWeb Design keeps cookies only for as long as needed for the purpose they were set for, in line with the storage limitation principle in Article 5(1)(e) GDPR. Session cookies are deleted when you close the browser and persistent cookies are kept for up to 13 months, after which they are deleted automatically, in line with the recommendations of the European data protection authorities.

The choice you make in the cookie notice is kept for 12 months. After that, we ask for your consent again.

Changes to this policy

PremiWeb Design may update this cookie policy following changes in the law or regulations, guidance from the authorities or technical developments. The current version is always available on this page. Whenever a change adds new cookies or new purposes that depend on consent, we ask for it again through the cookie notice.

Contact

For any question about this cookie policy or about exercising your rights under the GDPR, you can contact PremiWeb Design at [email protected], and the agency will reply within 10 days. Requests to exercise rights under the GDPR will be handled on the terms and within the periods set out in the Privacy Policy. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Portuguese data protection authority, CNPD (www.cnpd.pt).