Cookies and other Technology Policy
1. What are Cookies
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information that a user’s device (computer, tablet or cell phone) downloads when visiting a website. They allow the website to “remember” your computer, but not specifically who is using it, and improve the user experience. By associating the identification numbers in the cookies with other customer information when, for example, you log in to the website, we know that the information in the cookie relates to you.
2. What is the scope of Cookies
Cookies are generally used for different purposes, such as allowing the user to navigate between pages efficiently, implementing user preferences and generally improving your browsing experience by personalizing the website according to your navigation and user profile. They can also help ensure that the advertisements you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.
3. What Cookies do we use?
Our website uses several types of cookies for different purposes, as explained below in section 4 “Cookie categories on wevolved.com”.
In particular, we use:
- Session cookies, which only last for the duration of a browsing session. They are generally used to facilitate access to services on our website, to authenticate you when you are a registered member and to remember what a user has placed in their shopping basket;
- Persistent cookies, which last more than one visit. They are used to remember a user’s preferences and actions within the website. In this case, when a user returns to our website or visits websites that use the same cookies, the website reads the cookies and identifies the user’s browser.
Among these cookies it is possible to refer to:
Own cookies, which are provided by the website you are visiting, i.e. wevolved.com and can only be read on that website. For example, cookies that keep the product in a user’s shopping bag while the user is still browsing the website. First-party cookies can be session or permanent cookies.
Third-party cookies, designed to collect data anonymously, for example, analytical information, including browsing statistics. Other third-party cookies are intended to track our visitors’ response to our online promotional activities. This technology uses information about your visits to our website and third-party websites on which we advertise, to provide you with relevant advertisements. We also use this to know which banner ads bring users to our site.
Furthermore, third-party cookies can be session or permanent cookies.
4. Cookie Categories on the wevolved.com website
The type of cookie used on our website may fall into one of the categories below.
A – Technical Cookies
Based on the Guidelines of the Portuguese Data Protection Authority on simplifying the procedure for publishing the data protection notice and collecting consent for cookies, technical cookies include navigation or session cookies, analytical cookies and functionality cookies.
We do not need your consent to use these cookies.
A.1: Navigation or session cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary session cookies, essential to enable you to move around the website and use its essential features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. These cookies include session authentication cookies. Without these cookies, necessary services such as shopping baskets or electronic billing cannot be provided.
We can identify you as being logged in to wevolved.com and ensure that you can access the appropriate resources on our website.
If you choose to disable these cookies, you will not be able to use our website to order our products, but only to browse.
We also use a cookie to track who has been informed about our use of profiling cookies and has consented (if so).
A.2: Analysis
These cookies are also known as performance cookies and collect information about how you use our website so that we can improve the quality of our website and services. Some examples include which pages you visit most often, whether you receive error messages from web pages. Performance cookies allow us to implement these options and optimize the way our website works. All information that these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore does not collect personally identifiable information.
These types of cookies may be our own or third-party cookies.
These cookies include analytics that allow us to obtain statistics about access and navigation on the website, monitor which website our users arrive from, help us improve the website by measuring usage information and any errors that occur during our users’ browsing experience, as well as such as the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, using aggregated information.
A.3: Functionality Cookies
Functionality cookies allow the website to remember your online settings (such as your user name, language or location) and provide enhanced, more personalized features.
These cookies may also be used to remember changes you make to text size, fonts and other parts of the web page that you can customize. They may also be used to provide services that you have requested or to prevent you from receiving services that you have already declined.
These types of cookies may be our own or third-party cookies. We currently only use first-party cookies and they can be session or permanent.
By choosing features and services, you agree to our use of the related functionality cookie.
B – Profile Cookies
These cookies, which include advertising and targeting cookies, are used by WEVOLVED, our advertising providers and/or third parties to offer a personalized browsing experience by displaying advertisements relevant to you and your interests on third party websites. Cookies are used to identify your preferences and analyze your online interactions and transactions with us. This information is solely for the benefit of WEVOLVED and will not be shared with third parties, except with WEVOLVED service providers for the purposes of processing on our behalf.
In certain circumstances, especially if you are logged in to your account, we may combine the data collected through cookies with your personal data for the purposes set out above, unless you have expressly refused to be subject to such processing and have opted out of these types of processing. Cookies. We invite you to read our privacy policy for full details of how we may process your personal data in these circumstances.
Among many types of advertising or targeting cookies, we may use Flash Cookies and Pixel Tags:
- Flash Cookies: We may also use local shared objects, known as Flash cookies, to store your preferences. The amount and type of information collected through Flash cookies and how they work are different from browser cookies. Please be aware that browser tools for managing cookies will not remove Flash cookies.
- Pixel Tags: If you agree to be tracked and/or profiled, we may use other tracking technologies (e.g., web beacons, clear gifs) in the communications we send to you. Their objective may be to know whether you have already read or opened the email, whether you have interacted with any links, e.g. by clicking on it and, if so, which ones. This information may be combined with other information we collect about you to help us provide more interesting communications to you based on your browsing and shopping experience.
5. Information Sharing
We do not share information collected through the use of cookies and pixel tags with third parties, except with our advertising agencies/providers and our IT service providers (e.g. hosting providers), solely for the purposes described above.
6. How to manage your Cookie preferences
At any time, you have the option to accept or refuse the use of cookies/pixel tags by changing your browser application settings.
Most browser applications automatically accept cookies, but you can set your browser to receive an alert whenever an operator attempts to send cookies/pixel tags and/or prevent it from accepting them. On most browsers, the “Help” portion of the toolbar will tell you how to prevent the toolbar from accepting cookies, how to notify you when you receive cookies/pixel tags, or how to disable cookies/pixel tags completely.
Below are pages that describe these settings in more detail for each browser:
If you use multiple browsers (e.g. Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox, etc.), you must repeat this procedure with each one and, if you connect to the Web from multiple devices (e.g., work and home ), you will need to set your preferences in each browser on each device.
Please note that if you completely disable browser cookies, it is possible that some parts of our website will not function properly, such as normal website navigation, purchasing activity and finally
You may also lose any personalized activity, as the advertising you receive when you visit this site will not be tailored to your interests.
7. How to contact us
If you want to know more about cookies, have any questions or send us suggestions, please contact us at WEVOLVED, email geral@wevolved.com.
WEVOLVED
R. Sousa Aroso n.º 453 1º K, 4450-289 – Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal
geral@wevolved.com
(+351 ) 916 536 604