Cookie Policy

We use cookies on our site, both our own and third-party, to ensure proper functioning, continuously offer the best browsing experience, perform usage analysis, recommend content based on your preferences, display ads on other sites that may interest you, and facilitate interaction on social media. You can choose the cookies you authorize in Manage preferences.

Who is responsible for data processing?

The entity responsible for data processing is Torres Distribuição SA (hereinafter referred to as Watchers), NIPC 502964332, located at Avenida Almirante Reis 39, with the email address geral@watchers.pt.

Watchers has appointed a Data Protection Officer who can be contacted via email at protecaodados@watchers.pt.

What are cookies?

When you visit a site, it may store or collect information in your browser in the form of cookies. This information can be about your preferences or the device you use to access the site and is primarily used to make the site function as expected. The information serves to provide you with a more personalized experience.

Cookies are small data or text files that a site installs on the user's device (computer, smartphone, tablet, etc.). Each cookie contains a unique code that allows the site to recognize your browser when you visit the site or improve your experience on subsequent visits. The content of a cookie generally consists of the name of the server that installed it, an expiration date, and a unique numerical code.

Cookies can have different purposes: for example, there are technical cookies (for language settings), session cookies (temporary), and tracking cookies (cookies that record user behavior on the site to provide a better experience). Cookies can be installed by the server of the visited site or by a partner with whom this site collaborates. The server of the site can only read the cookies it has installed. It does not have access to other information on the user's computer or mobile device.

Watchers uses the following cookies on its site

On this site, we use the following categories of cookies: strictly necessary cookies, which include anonymized analytical cookies, functional cookies, advertising cookies, and social media cookies. Access more information about the cookies used within each category in Manage preferences.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential to ensure the security of the site, for it to function correctly, and to allow the user to browse the site in a user-friendly manner. They are usually set in response to user actions and correspond to a request for services, such as the ability to set privacy preferences, log in, or fill out forms. You can configure your browser to block these cookies, but some areas of the site will no longer function.

Strictly necessary cookies can be installed without the user's consent, as they are essential for the normal functioning of the site. Disabling cookies may prevent the use of some features of the site.

Anonymized Analytical Cookies

These cookies allow us to count visitors and their origin, so we can analyze and improve the site's performance. They help identify the most and least visited pages and how visitors move around the site. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated and, therefore, anonymized.

The purpose of these cookies is to ensure the improvement and dynamic adaptation of the site. Statistical information about the number of visitors to a particular page of the site allows us to tailor it to the usage of its users, adapting functionalities and content.

Without these cookies, we would not know when the user visited the site and, over time, we would be unable to make the necessary improvements resulting from their browsing.

Some of the performance cookies we use:

Google (services: Google 360, Google Analytics, and Google Tag Manager)

Our site uses Google 360, Google Analytics, and Google Tag Manager services.

These services are provided by Google Ireland Limited (hereinafter referred to as Google). Google uses cookies to help us analyze how the site is used.

The information collected by these cookies about the use of the site and the IP address is transmitted by your browser to Google's servers for processing. It is possible that the data is processed outside the European Union.

We have taken care to configure Google's services with your privacy protection in mind, so that the data cannot be used by Google for its own benefit or by other companies that are not Watchers. Google will process the data to evaluate the use of this site, to compile reports on its activity.

These cookies have a duration of 24 months.

For more information about data processing, please consult https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Functional Cookies

These cookies allow us to personalize the content of the site according to your preferences, interests, and previous visits. They can be installed by Watchers or by a limited number of external providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, some functionalities of the site may not work correctly.

These cookies are only installed after the user's consent.

Advertising Cookies

These cookies record your online activity and can be used by our advertising partners to build a profile based on your interests and present relevant advertising to you on other sites or even limit the number of times an ad is shown to you. They do not directly store personal information, as they are based on the unique identification of your browser and internet device. They have a maximum lifespan of 24 months. By allowing these cookies, you will have access to more targeted advertising.

These cookies are only installed after user consent.

Some of the advertising cookies we use:

Facebook (Facebook Pixel)

Facebook uses cookies to collect information about people who use its products, as well as those who interact with the ads, websites, and applications of its advertisers and companies that use Facebook's products.

For more information, please refer to Facebook's cookie policy at https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/.

Google (services: DoubleClick, Google Ad Manager, GoogleAds, YouTube, DSID, Test_Cookie, IDE)

Google uses cookies to make advertising more appealing to users and more valuable for publishers and advertisers. These cookies are typically used to select advertising based on what is relevant to a user, improve reporting on campaign performance, and to prevent the same ads from being shown too frequently.

Google uses cookies like NID and SID to help personalize ads on Google services, such as Google Search. For example, Google uses these cookies to remember your recent searches, your previous interactions with ads or search results from an advertiser, and your visits to an advertiser's website. This helps Google show personalized ads.

Google also uses cookies for advertising on external websites. One of the main advertising cookies on non-Google sites is IDE, which is stored in browsers under the domain doubleclick.net. Another is stored on google.com and is called ANID. Google uses other cookies with names like DSID, FLC, AID, TAID, and exchange_uid. Other Google tools, such as YouTube, may also use these cookies to show you more relevant ads.

Sometimes, advertising cookies may be placed on the domain of the site the user is visiting (for example, cookies called gads or gac). Unlike cookies placed on Google's own domains, these cookies cannot be read by Google when the user is on a different site from where they were placed. These cookies aim to measure interactions with ads on that domain and prevent the same ads from being shown too frequently.

Google also uses conversion cookies (for example, cookies called _gcl), whose main purpose is to help advertisers determine how often people who click on their ads end up taking an action on their site (for example, making a purchase). These cookies allow Google and the advertiser to verify if the user clicked on the ad and then visited the advertiser's site. Conversion cookies are not used by Google for personalized advertising targeting and only persist for a limited time. Some cookies may be used to measure conversions. For example, cookies from the Google Marketing Platform and Google Analytics may also be used for this purpose.

Google also uses cookies called AID, DSID, and TAID to link user activity across multiple devices if the user has already logged into their Google account on another device. Google does this to coordinate the ads the user sees across all devices and measure conversions.

Google Ad Manager also uses the TEST_COOKIE under the DoubleClick domain, Google's platform for real-time advertising bidding. Google Ad Manager may also use the cookie ID for functional or advertising purposes, also under the DoubleClick domain.

The cookie "DSID" serves to identify users who log in to sites that do not belong to the Google network. It also alerts the need to accept or reject ad personalization. It has a validity of 2 weeks. Purpose: marketing/tracking. Function: to store user preferences.

The cookie "Test_Cookie" is implemented by doubleclick.net. It serves to determine if the user's browser allows the use of cookies. It has a validity of 15 minutes. Purpose: Advertising.

The cookie "IDE" is used to display Google ads on sites that do not belong to the Google network (as long as users have accepted ad personalization). It has a validity of 13 months in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the UK, and 24 months in other countries. It is used by Google DoubleClick to record and report user actions after they view or click on advertising. Its purpose is to measure the effectiveness of an ad and present personalized ads.

Social Media Cookies

To create an account on our site through a social media profile (Facebook or Twitter), access content from the site available on those networks, or like and share content from our site on social media, you need to expressly accept social media cookies.

These cookies are only installed after user consent.

Some of the social media cookies we use:

Facebook (Facebook Share button)

Facebook uses cookies to allow sharing or liking content from this site on users' personal pages.

For more information, please refer to Facebook's privacy policy at https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/.

Google (YouTube Services)

YouTube is a video service from Google. To view videos hosted on YouTube, the user needs to accept Google cookies.

For more information on data processing, please refer to https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Twitter

Twitter Inc. is a commercial company dedicated to providing content on the social media platforms Twitter and Periscope.

This company uses cookies to authenticate its users, create a user profile on its site, and allow content sharing on users' personal pages.

For more information, please refer to https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies.

Management of Authorized Cookies

During your visit to the Watchers site, you are asked to accept or refuse the cookies that the site uses.

The first time you enter the site, and periodically thereafter, a banner will be presented to you through which you can:

a) Accept all cookies and continue browsing (option Accept and continue); b) Manage preferences by selecting the types of cookies or individual cookies you authorize (option Manage preferences, and after selecting the cookies, the option Confirm my choices); c) Manage preferences by confirming only the acceptance of cookies strictly necessary for the operation of the site, which include anonymized analytical cookies (option Manage preferences and then Confirm my choices – you will be confirming the default saved settings).

Whenever you wish to change the cookies you authorize, you can do so in Manage preferences.

Additionally, browsers allow users to accept, refuse, or delete cookies at any time by configuring the appropriate settings in their respective browsing programs. You can configure cookies in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser.

Please note that by disabling cookies, you may lose the auto-fill of some data, such as login information. Additionally, it may prevent some online services from functioning correctly, affecting navigation on the site.

If you have any questions, please use our contact information for further clarification.