Cookies Policy
With this Cookies Policy, we inform you of the cookies used on the website, www.midsid.com , owned by Midsid - Sociedade Portuguesa de Distribuição, S.A., (hereinafter, the "Website") and the reason for their use. Similarly, Midsid - Sociedade Portuguesa de Distribuição, S.A (hereinafter "MIDSID") informs you that by accepting them, you are giving your consent to use them.
1. What are cookies?
A cookie is a small file that is stored on the users' computer, mobile phone or tablet when accessing certain web pages, applications or platforms and which enables the latter to recognise its users.
Cookies are essencial to the functioning of the internet today, bringing numerous advantages to the provision of interactive services, facilitating navigation and its use.
Cookies help us to adapt our websites, applications or platforms to your personal needs.
Cookies cannot damage your equipment. However, when they are activated they can help to identify and resolve errors, as well as improve user navigability.
Cookies allow, among other things, to store and retrieve information about the browsing preferences of a user or his equipment.
This website, application or platform uses cookies and/or similar technologies that store and retrieve information when you browse. In general, these technologies may serve a variety of purposes, such as recognizing you as a user, obtaining information about your browsing habits, or customizing the way content is displayed.
The specific uses we make of these technologies are described below.
2. What cookies do we use?
The cookies used on the Website are our own and those of third parties and allow us to store and access information on the language, type of browser used and other general characteristics pre-defined by the user, as well as to monitor and analyse the activity carried out, with the aim of introducing improvements and providing our services in a more efficient and personalised manner.
The Website uses the following cookies:
Owner cookies:
We use our own cookies that we send to the user's terminal equipment from a device or domain managed by us and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
We use third-party cookies (e.g. cookies from Facebook, Google, Twitter...) used by external companies, social networks or by external content complements (e.g. Google Maps). They are sent to the user's terminal equipment from a third party entity's equipment or domain that processes the data obtained through the cookies.
Use of cookies:
We use technical cookies that are strictly necessary for the user to access and navigate the Website.
They are those that allow the user to navigate through a webpage, platform or application and use the different options or services that exist on it, including those that are used to allow the management and operation of the webpage and activate its functions and services, such as, for example, controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, accessing restricted access areas, remembering the elements that make up an order, carrying out the purchase process of an order manage payment, control fraud related to the security of the service, request registration or participation in an event, count visits for the purpose of invoicing software licences with which the service works (website, platform or application), use security elements during navigation, store content for the broadcasting of videos or sound, enable dynamic content (for example, animation of a text or image) or share content via social networks.
Also belonging to this category, due to their technical nature, are those cookies that allow the management, in the most effective manner possible, of the advertising spaces that, as an additional design or "layout" element of the service offered to the user, the publisher has included on a web page, application or platform based on criteria such as the edited content, without recompiling user information for different purposes, such as the personalisation of that advertising content or other content.
These cookies do not require the informed consent of the user.
We use analytical or measurement cookies which are those that, processed by us or third parties, allow us to monitor and analyse the behaviour of users of the websites to which they are linked, including the quantification of the impacts of ads.
These cookies require the informed consent of the user.
Time of conservation of cookies:
According to the period of time they remain activated on the terminal equipment, we use the following cookies on el Website:
Session cookies: these are those that are designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a website. They are normally used to store information that is only of interest to keep for the provision of the service requested by the user on a particular occasion (for example, a list of products purchased) and disappear at the end of the session.
Persistent cookies: these are those in which the data remains stored in the terminal and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the person responsible for the cookie, which can range from a few minutes to several years.
3. How can our users manage the cookies we use?
You can manage cookies, and therefore refuse them unitarily or in their entirety, in the Configuration Panel.
In case of deactivation or refusal of cookies, it may occur that some of the functions and/or services may not function properly.
The Website does not exercise any control over the websites displayed as a result of your search, links or access from our directory. These other websites may set their own cookies or ask you for personal information.
4. How can our users disable cookies in the main browsers?
It is usually possible to stop accepting cookies from the browser, or to stop accepting cookies from a particular service.
All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings.
These can usually be found under the 'options' or 'Preferences' menu of your browser
Although it may vary slightly from one browser version to another, the cookie policy setting for the most commonly used browsers is as follows:
It is usually possible to stop accepting cookies from the browser, or to stop accepting cookies from a particular service.
All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings.
These can usually be found under the 'options' or 'Preferences' menu of your browser
Although it may vary slightly from one browser version to another, the cookie policy setting for the most commonly used browsers is as follows:
Internet Explorer: Tools -> Internet Options -> Privacy -> Configuration.
Firefox: Preferences -> Privacy and Security.
Chrome: Preferences -> Configuration -> Show advanced options -> Privacy and Security
Safari: Preferences -> Privacy.
Opera: Configuration -> Privacy and Security.
Internet Explorer 8 and higher - Private Browsing
Safari 2 and above - Private Browsing
Opera 10.5 and higher - Private Browsing
FireFox 3.5 and higher - Private Browsing
Google Chrome 10 and up - Incognito
5. How can I disable the use of cookies from other companies?
If you wish to know the privacy conditions and use of third party cookies, you can access the cookie policies of:
Google: https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies
6. What happens if I do not accept web cookies?
If you do not allow cookies to be installed on your browser, you may not be able to access any of the sections of our website.
7. Are my data transferred internationally?
According to articles 44 et seq. of the European Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), transfers based on an adequacy decision of the European Commission or on the existence of adequate guarantees through a legally binding and enforceable instrument between public authorities and bodies, or on binding corporate rules, or standard clauses adopted or approved by the Commission, or on codes of conduct or certification mechanisms, will be legitimate. Otherwise, the authorisation of the competent Control Authority will be required or, failing this, the explicit consent of the interested party or another of the assumptions provided for in art. 49 RGPD.
Please note that this Website does not carry out international transfers of your data.
With regard to third-party cookies, you can find out about transfers to third countries that may be carried out by the third parties identified in this cookies policy in their corresponding policies (see the links provided above).
8. Is my web browsing profiled and are automated decisions made that could legally or significantly affect me?
We do not perform profiling of your browsing or make automated decisions that could legally or significantly affect you.
9. Is my personal data being processed?
Please be informed that we do not process personal data.
10. More information
We may update our Website Cookie Policy, so we recommend that you review this policy each time you access our Website in order to be properly informed about how and why we use cookies.
You can find more information about cookies on the Website at the following email address: midsidonline@midsid.com .
For more information about the processing of your personal data you can access our Privacy Politics.