1. What are cookies?

ADIRA uses cookies on its website to improve performance and user experience.

Cookies are small text files with relevant information that your access device (computer, mobile phone/smartphone or tablet) loads, via the internet browser, when a website is visited by the user.

These files allow the site to "remember" your actions and preferences for a certain period of time.

The cookies used do not collect information that identifies the user, they collect generic information, such as how users arrive and use the sites or the area of the country/countries through which they access the site, etc.

This is why when you go through the pages of a site or return to a site you have already visited you do not, in principle, have to re-enter your preferences or enter the same information repeatedly.

2. What type of cookies we use

Essential or session cookies: Some cookies are essential to access specific areas of our site. These are necessary for some areas of the site to function, but are not used in any way to identify you personally. Session cookies are temporary and are automatically deleted once you leave the site.

Functionality cookies: We use these cookies to allow us to remember user preferences. For example, cookies avoid typing your name each time you access the site. They are not necessary for the site to function, but may enhance the customer experience. We do not store any personal data in these cookies.

Analytical/performance cookies: We use these cookies to analyse how users use the site and monitor its performance. For example, they allow us to know which pages are most popular, which method of linking pages is most effective, or to determine why some pages are receiving error messages. These cookies are only used for the purposes of creation and statistical analysis and never collect personal information.

Cookies that send information to other companies: These are cookies set on our website by a partner company (e.g. Facebook or advertisers). These companies may use the data collected from these cookies to anonymously target advertising to you on another website, taking into account your visit to our website. For example, if you use a tool of a social network (e.g. Facebook "Like" or "Share") on this website, this cookie will record your use of that tool and the social network (Facebook in this case) may collect this information.

3. How to control cookies

O utilizador pode, a qualquer momento e através do seu navegador de internet (browser), decidir ser notificado sobre a receção de cookies, bem como bloquear a respetiva entrada no seu sistema. Salienta-se, no entanto, que com a recusa de uso de cookies corre o risco de desativar determinados serviços e funcionalidades do site.