EXCLUSIVE ALGARVE VILLAS · LEGAL

Cookie Policy

1.  Who we are

This website, www.exclusivealgarvevillas.com, is operated by:

Exclusive Living Mediação Imobiliária Lda (trading as Exclusive Algarve Villas)

Licensed real estate agency — AMI 7516

Offices: Lagos · Lagoa · Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal

Email: info@exclusivealgarvevillas.com

We are the data controller for personal data processed through cookies and similar technologies on this website. Questions about this policy or about data protection in general may be addressed to our Data Protection Officer at info@exclusivealgarvevillas.com.

2.  What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that a website places on your computer, tablet or smartphone when you visit. They allow the website to recognise your device, remember your preferences and, depending on the type of cookie, measure how the site is used or support advertising. Alongside cookies, we may use similar technologies such as local storage, pixels and tags; for readability, this policy refers to all of these collectively as “cookies”.

Cookies can be first-party (set by us) or third-party (set by services we use, such as analytics or video providers). They can be session cookies, deleted when you close your browser, or persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a defined period.

3.  Legal framework and consent

We use cookies in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Portuguese Law no. 58/2019 and the Portuguese ePrivacy rules (Law no. 41/2004). Cookies that are strictly necessary for the website to function are placed on the basis of our legitimate interest in providing a secure, working website. All other cookies — preferences, statistics and marketing — are placed only with your prior consent.

Consent is collected and managed through CookieFirst, a consent management platform operated by Digital Data Solutions BV (Amsterdam, the Netherlands). When you first visit our website, the CookieFirst banner lets you accept all cookies, reject non-essential cookies, or make a granular choice per category. No non-essential cookies are placed before you have made a choice. We also use Google Consent Mode v2, which ensures that Google services on this site respect the consent state you have chosen.

Your consent choice is recorded by CookieFirst under an anonymous unique ID in a secure, encrypted database, allowing us to demonstrate compliance. You can change or withdraw your consent at any time — see section 6.

4.  Cookie categories we use

Necessary

These cookies are essential for the website to work: they support core functions such as page navigation, security, load balancing, language selection and storing your cookie consent itself (for example the cookiefirst-consent cookie). They cannot be switched off through the banner.

Preferences

Preference cookies remember choices you make — such as your preferred language or region, saved searches or shortlisted properties — so we can offer you a more personal experience on your next visit.

Statistics

Statistics cookies help us understand how visitors use the website — which pages and properties are viewed, how visitors arrive on the site and where they encounter problems. We use services such as Google Analytics for this purpose. The information is aggregated and used to improve the website and our property presentation.

Marketing

Marketing cookies are used to show you relevant property advertising and to measure the effectiveness of our campaigns, including on platforms such as Google Ads and social networks. They may also be set by embedded content providers — for example YouTube or Vimeo when you play a property video, or map services when you view a property location. These third parties may combine the information with other data they hold about you; their own privacy policies apply to that processing.

Some third-party providers may process data outside the European Economic Area. Where this occurs, transfers are safeguarded by adequacy decisions or EU Standard Contractual Clauses.

5.  Cookie declaration

The cookie declaration on our website is generated and kept up to date automatically by CookieFirst, based on periodic scans of the website. It lists every cookie and local storage item in use, its provider, purpose and retention period, and always reflects the current state of the site.

Implementation note (remove before publishing): on the live cookie policy page, place the following embed where the declaration should appear. It is populated automatically by the CookieFirst banner script loaded in the site <head>:

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This cookie declaration is created and updated by CookieFirst.com.

6.  Managing and withdrawing your consent

You can review, change or withdraw your consent at any time by reopening the cookie preferences panel via the “Manage cookie preferences” button on our cookie policy page, or via the CookieFirst icon on the website.

Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before the withdrawal. Please note that cookies already placed may need to be deleted from your browser to stop them working immediately.

Browser settings

You can also block or delete cookies through your browser settings. Instructions for the most common browsers:

–    Google Chrome — support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647

–    Safari — support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac

–    Mozilla Firefox — support.mozilla.org

–    Microsoft Edge — support.microsoft.com

Blocking all cookies may affect the functionality of this and other websites.

7.  Your rights

Where cookies involve the processing of personal data, you have the rights granted by the GDPR: access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and the right to object to processing based on legitimate interest. You may also lodge a complaint with the Portuguese supervisory authority, the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (CNPD) — www.cnpd.pt.

To exercise your rights, contact us at info@exclusivealgarvevillas.com. Full details of how we process personal data are set out in our Privacy Policy at www.exclusivealgarvevillas.com.

8.  Changes to this policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time, for example when we adopt new services or when the law changes. The cookie declaration is updated automatically after each CookieFirst scan of the website. The date at the top of this document indicates when the policy text was last revised. We recommend reviewing the cookie policy page periodically.