Cookies’ Policy

Last update on 1st of August of 2024

The MDS Group (hereinafter "MDS") aims to provide secure, personalised and efficient access to users of its websites. To find out which MDS Group entities this Policy applies to, please go to: https://www.mdsgroup.com/pt/empresas-do-grupo-mds/.

For such, we use small computer files called cookies that we store on your Device (computer, tablet, mobile phone or other mobile device) so that we can identify you on future accesses, remember your actions and preferences and improve your browsing experience.

By browsing in our website you agree to the use of cookies under the terms set out in this Cookies’ Policy.

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small computer files (software) which are stored on the user’s device, through their internet browser, upon accessing the website.

Each website and application have the ability to send its own cookies to the used internet browser, as well as access them, if the user's internet browser preferences allow it. For your privacy’s protection, your internet browser only allows a website to access cookies that it has already sent to you, and will not be able to access cookies that have been sent by other websites.

To find out more about what cookies are, as well as how you can manage them or prevent their use on your Device, visit www.allaboutcookies.org, where you can find information on how to modify the settings applicable to the internet browser you use.

2. What are cookies for?

Placing cookies makes the use of the website simpler and more efficient and will help the website recognise your Device the next time you visit it.

The cookies used by MDS retain, for example, information related to the Device identifying codes, and session information to ensure security and browsing experience. Thus, as you can see further below, cookies can ease your next visit and make the websites more useful to you.

As a rule, in order to install certain cookies on your Device we need your prior consent, which is collected through the cookies’ pop-up available on each website.

At any time, the user can manage these consents through their internet browser.

3. Why do we use cookies?

The use of cookies on the Internet is commonplace and does not harm users' devices. Cookies perform several functions, namely in helping those responsible for the website to understand how it is used, facilitating the respective browsing, storing your preferences and, in general, improving your user experience, while also ensuring that the website shows you relevant content.

4. What type of cookies we use?

MDS uses both proprietary and third-party cookies. Third-party cookies differ from the former insofar as they are sent to the user's device from a device or domain that is not under the direct control or management of MDS.

Regarding their functionalities and duration, the cookies used by MDS can be:

• Session cookies – are temporary cookies that remain on your internet browser until you exit the website. The information they keep allows to securely manage the various operations carried out by you during a session of access to the website, allowing to identify problems and provide a better browsing experience.
• Persistent cookies – are cookies that are stored in your Device's internet browser for a set period of time and that are accessed and used whenever you visit the website again.

Regarding the function, the cookies used by MDS can be:

• Necessary or essential cookies – some cookies are essential to access specific areas of our website. They allow the website browsing and the use of its applications, such as accessing secure areas of the website through login. Without these cookies, certain services cannot be provided. In general, the user's consent is not required to install essential cookies on their Device when they access the website.
• Analytical or statistics cookies – are used anonymously for the purpose of creating and analysing statistics, in order to improve the website's functioning.
• Preferential or functionality cookies – save the user's preferences regarding the use of the website, so that it is not necessary to reconfigure the website for each time the user visits it.
• Marketing cookies – allow advertising to be targeted according to the interests and usage habits of each user both on and off our website. These cookies are used to support the making of more targeted marketing and communication actions, also helping to measure the effectiveness of advertising.

Our websites may contain links to other websites or applications, including those of our partners. If you access one of these links or applications, please note that each will have its own cookies' policy and we are not responsible for that policy. Please read the cookie's policies of other websites or applications before using them.

In the table below, you can analyse the most common cookies we install on your Devices and the details of their use: For a more complete information, see the cookies' pop-up on the MDS website you are visiting, where you can even manage your consents.

 MDS undertakes not to use these cookies for purposes other than those set out above in the cookies' pop-up of the website in question.