Cookies Policy
1. Who are we?
The Design Centre main location is Estrada da Pontinha Forte de Nossa Senhora da Conceição 9000-726 Funchal, contact: +351 291215500
2. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files of information created and stored on your computer or mobile device whenever you visit a website.
• First party cookies are cookies placed by the website you are visiting. Only this website may read them again. Websites may also use external services, which also create their own cookies: these are called third party cookies.
• Persistent cookies remain on your computer and are not automatically erased when you close the browser, unlike session cookies, that are erased when you close the browser.
Whenever you visit the Design Centrewebsite, you will be asked to accept or decline cookies installation. Consenting, will allow the website to remember your preferences for a given period of time. For example, whenever a user returns to a previous visited website, the cookie allows to go back to that page with the preferences the User had selected earlier. Some cookies contain personal data (for example whenever the user uses ‘remind’, this cookie storages the user’s name, which may be constituted of the data subject name).
Cookies may also be used for collecting statistical data about the browsing experience on our websites.
3. How are cookies used?
The Design Centrewebsites mainly use ‘first party cookies’, exclusively installed and monitored by the Design Centre, with no interference from external organisations. However, to visit our website pages which provide external content, you must accept external organizations’ cookies.
Both types of first party cookies used by us will allow us to:
• remind user’s preferences
• ensure our websites functionality
The Design Centreuses the following cookies on its websites:
i) Strictly necessary cookies: essential to keep the website usable, providing an improved navigation experience, the websites security and its performance, allowing access to the website’s main functionalities, and for this reason are always enabled. These are specifically technical cookies, mandatory for certain computer systems.
These cookies ensure the functionality, services and different tools provided on the website.
Only strictly necessary cookies may be installed without the user’s consent. Without these cookies, the website will not function correctly.
Strictly necessary Cookies list is constantly altered, so we recommend its frequent checking.
|
NAME |
Organic Unit / Service |
Description |
Duration |
|
Klaro |
|
Remembers your cookie preferences (in order not to repeat the same question). |
Two years |
|
Fe_typo_user |
|
This cookie is associated to the content management system Typo3. Usually used as a user session identifier, which allows your preferences to be stored. It contains a random identifier instead of any specific user data. |
Session |
ii) Authentication cookies: these cookies are stored whenever a user logs into a session on the Design Centrewebsite by our authentication service. Whenever a user logs into a session is accepting our Privacy Policy.
[The chart below must be adapted by each website manager]:
|
NAME |
Organic Unit/ Service |
Description |
Duration |
|
{name of the authentication cookie} |
{authentication service} |
{cookie purpose description} |
{duration} |
|
… |
… |
… |
… |
iii) Performance and analysis cookies: allowing the website’s performance and functionalities analytics, as well as monitoring user experiences, regarding the website’s use of aggregated data. Helping, for example, to identify most common geographical locations’ IP’s addresses, and the kind of devices used to access our website, most visited pages or links the user click on.
These cookies allow to evaluate the user interaction with our website and are installed after its consent.
Regarding Google Analytics cookies or other metrics supplier used aside Google, the website manager shall guarantee that:
• Each one of these cookies may only be enabled after the user’s consent.
• Enabling anonymization IP in the Google Analytics account and ensuring that pseudonymization identifiers are used.
[The chart below must be adapted by each website manager]
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NAME |
Organic Unit/Service |
Description |
Duration |
|
_ga |
|
Used for differentiating users’ visits |
Two years |
|
_gat |
|
Controls requests rate to Google Analytics |
One day |
|
_gid |
|
Used for differentiating users. |
One day |
Whenever analytics cookies used are another supplier’s aside Google, the text following paragraph 3, shall be adapted by the website manager.
These services (Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics) are supplied by Google Ireland Limited (henceforth referred to as Google). Google uses cookies to help us analyse on how the website is used.
Data collected by these cookies, on the use of the website and IP addresses, are transmitted by your browser to Google servers for processing. It’s possible that data processing may occur outside the European Union.
Google may process data to evaluate this website use, and to compile reports on your activity. These cookies have a two-year duration period.
For more information on Google’s data processing, consult here.
4. Third-Party cookies
Our page include external contents such as You Tube, Facebook or Meta.
To access third party contents, you shall accept its specific conditions, in particular its cookies policies, regarding which we do not control.
However, if you do not visualise this kind of content, there shall not be installed any third-party cookies on your device.
Services provided by third-party are not controlled by the Design Centre Nini Andrade Silva. The providers may, at any time, alter their service conditions, their use and their cookies purposes.
Services providers in our websites: Google [To be adapt by each website manager]
5. How can I unable cookies?
The user has the possibility to anytime set the browser to unable all cookies, to be notified whenever a cookie is issued or to reject any cookies. The procedure depends on the browser (web browser) used. In case you unenabled cookies recording, you may not be able to access all sections of the website.
To obtain more information about deleting, disabling, or blocking cookies, please visit here.
The links below explain how to manage cookies related to most common web browser:
Internet Explorer
Microsoft Edge
Google Chrome
Firefox
Safari
Google Analytics
Beyond the web browsers control, user may manage third party cookies, for example by the following resources: here and here
6. Consent and withdrawal of consent
For website functionality cookies, user’s consent is not necessary.
For further information related to your rights, please consult our Privacy Policy available here.
This Cookies Policy may be anytime reviewed by Design Centre Nini Andrade Silva. Whenever it is altered, we will update the revision date you see in the chart below. Altered Cookies Policy will enter into force on the revision date.
Version identification Last update date
Version 01 Jun 2025