Cookie Policy
What are cookies?
The website http://www.vistamarina.pt/ uses cookies, which are small text files that are sent to the user’s computer, cellphone or any other device used to visit a web page and that provide the website owner with information about your navigation or a code that identifies the user (henceforth, “Cookies”).
When browsing this web page, there are session cookies and persistent cookies being used, that can belong to the website owner or to third parties.
Session cookies are cookies created to collect and store data while the user is accessing the webpage. These cookies are usually used to store information that is only important for the service provision for one single moment.
Persistent cookies are cookies where the data is stored in the terminal and can be processed and then accessed for a certain period of time, that is defined by the cookie responsible and can vary between a couple of minutes to several years.
Cookies from first party – website cookies
Cookies created or managed by the person responsible for the webpage. The webpage http://www.vistamarina.pt/ can use its own persistent cookies with the aim of customizing the navigation by recording the default language for repeated visits by a user.
Cookies from third parties
cookies placed on your device through our Website but by third parties such as Google.
We use the following cookies on our Website. We may combine information from these types of cookies and technologies with information about you from any other source.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around our website and use its features. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided. They are deleted when you close the browser. These are first-party cookies.
Performance cookies – These cookies collect information in an anonymous form about how visitors use our Website and related apps. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors, see how visitors move around the Website when they are using it and identify the regions that they are visiting from. These are first-party cookies.
Functionality cookies – These cookies allow our Website and related apps to remember choices you make (such as your username, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. The information these cookies collect will be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other Websites. These are first-party cookies.
Analytics cookies – We may use third party analytics services such as Google Analytics and other providers. These service providers help us analyse how users use our Website and to identify user patterns. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Website will be transmitted to and stored by third-party analytics service providers on servers, most likely outside the EEA. The information collected for this purpose will be disclosed to or collected directly by these service providers. On our behalf, third-party analytics service providers will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the Website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet activity in connection with the use of the Website. These service providers may retain and use anonymised, aggregated data collected from users of our Website in connection with their own businesses, including in order to improve their products and services. For information on how to prevent these cookies please click here. In addition, authentication and tracking logs will be used to compile user statistics.
Social Media cookies – These cookies together with social media plug-ins allow you to use functionalities of social media networks such as Meta/Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and others alike on our Website. These are persistent cookies which will be kept on your device until their expiration or earlier manual deletion. If you use these functionalities, the plug-in and its content are loaded directly from the social media provider’s servers and included on the Website by your browser. If you log into your respective social media account at the time you interact with the social media plug-ins on our Website, the social media provider will connect this information with your social media user profile.
We cannot influence which personal data the social media provider will collect about you. Please see their respective privacy notices for further information.
The following information provides a brief explanation about the cookies we use and why:
Google Analytics
These cookies are used to collect information about the way visitors use our website. We use this information to create reports and to help us improve the site. These cookies collect information anonymously, including the number of visitors, the sites when they come from, the pages they visited, and the number of times an item is shared and how many new visits are due to those shares.
Click here to find more about the privacy protection on Google.
If you don’t want Google Analytics to detect the websites you visit, go to https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. In this website address you can edit your cookies settings.
Cookies used to connect with Instagram – identification of the user, access browser, and the like and share options.
Click here to find more about the way Facebook uses your information
Cookies used to connect with Facebook – identification of the user, access browser, and the like and share options.
Click here to find more about the way Facebook uses your information
AddThis
Save statistical information about social interactions performed.
Cookie consent and opting out
We assume that you are happy for us to place cookies on your device. Most internet browsers automatically accept cookies. However, if you, or another user of your device, wish to withdraw your consent at any time, you have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying your browser setting. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of our website, our platforms and our services.
Whilst we assume you are happy for us to place cookies on your device, we nevertheless request your consent for doing so. When you arrive on our Website, a pop-up cookie banner will appear asking for your consent to place non-necessary cookies on your device. In order to provide your consent, you need to select Allow all cookies, Allow selection or Use necessary cookies only. Once your consent has been provided, this cookie banner will not appear again when you revisit our Website for 30 days unless you clear your cookies from the browser and/or this Cookie Statement has been updated. Furthermore, you may adjust your cookie settings at any time via the Cookie link, which is available through the cookie icon. If you, or another user of your device, wish to withdraw your consent at any time, you may also do so via the cookie link.
Desactivation or elimination of cookies
Through your settings, most browsers allow you to have a certain control over most cookies. To get more information about cookies, including which cookies were installed and how they can be managed or eliminated, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
If you don’t want your web visits to be detected by Google Analytics, go to http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Changes to this Statement
If there are any changes to this Cookie Statement, we will replace this page with an updated version. The cookie banner will re-appear with a link to the new terms being displayed on-screen, and you will also be required to re-submit your cookie preferences before you continue to use the Website.
Updates and modifications of the cookies policy
Vista Marina can modify this Cookies Policy according to new legal or regulatory demands, or in order to adapt the policy to instructions dictated by Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados or other law changes.
Whenever significant changes are made to the Cookie Policy, these will be communicated to the user, through an informative warning on the editor’s web page.
If you want to find more information about the way we use Cookies, you can e-mail us at [email protected].
Click here to change your cookie settings.
Cookies Policy last update on 1 August 2025.