Cookie-Richtlinie

1. General

MEDAL – Gestão e Mediação de Seguros Lda (“MEDAL”) is a company that provides insurance management and brokerage services in the Life and Non-Life sectors. It is authorized and registered with the ASF under number 407154810/3.

The material/content available on our website is intended to provide general and informative information about MEDAL’s services and solutions and should not, under any circumstances, be understood as a service proposal.

MEDAL is not liable for any damages that may occur related to the information contained on this website. The purpose of this site is to communicate our solutions, and the permanent updating of its content is not guaranteed.

MEDAL authorizes the temporary download and storage of this website’s content for viewing purposes only. Any reproduction, storage, or retransmission of this website’s content is expressly prohibited without MEDAL’s prior written authorization.

We also inform you that all and any rights (including intellectual property rights) related to this website are the exclusive property of MEDAL.

By browsing the MEDAL website, you agree to the use of your information under the terms and conditions established in the Cookie-Richtlinie and the Datenschutzrichtlinie, thereby giving your consent to both.

By browsing our website, you agree to the use of cookies under the terms defined in this Cookie-Richtlinie. Any changes to this Policy will be published on this page, so we recommend that you visit it regularly.

2. Cookies and Their Purpose

Cookies are small text files that a website installs on your computer/device when you browse it (the “Cookies”). Cookies allow the website to remember your actions and browsing preferences for a certain period, which is why we use them to process and manage your requests more efficiently, as well as to develop and improve our services and the functioning of this website.

Please note that, in general, Cookies do not include details that can be used to identify you, only the computer/device you are using. If, for any reason, personal data is processed through Cookies, it will be handled in accordance with our Datenschutzrichtlinie, which you should consult.

To learn more about what cookies are, as well as how you can manage 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.

3. Cookies Used

This website installs cookies with the sole purpose of enabling or optimizing the features offered and improving the user’s browsing experience. In addition to these functionality and session cookies, analytical cookies are installed by third-party tools to monitor the quality of the user’s experience when consulting this website.

The cookies we typically use, as well as their main characteristics (such as their function) are:

3.1. Strictly Necessary and Functionality Cookies

These are cookies installed to enable or optimize the features offered by the website and to improve the user’s browsing experience.

3.2. Analytical Cookies

These are cookies installed by tools managed by third parties (Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, etc.) to monitor the quality of the user’s experience while browsing this website.

3.3. Third-party Cookies

YouTube, Google Maps, Google Analytics, and other third-party managed tools may install cookies for the purpose of sharing content on social networks or for compiling consultation statistics. The presence, number, and status of these cookies may depend on how the platforms in question are used before or during a visit to this website. It is useful to check the cookie management policy of these social networks on their respective websites. We sometimes use third-party web services to display content within our website, for example, to show images or videos or to conduct surveys. Similar to social media share buttons, we cannot prevent these external websites or domains from collecting information about the use of this embedded content.

4. Cookie Control

The user’s authorization for the use of Cookies can be deactivated at any time, partially or completely, although this may compromise some features of the visited websites (in particular, this website).

How you do this depends on the browser you use (the “Browser”), so we ask that you consult your Browser’s “Help” function. For example:

• If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer, go to the menu option tools > internet options > privacy > settings.
• If you use Firefox, go to the menu option tools > options > privacy > cookies.
• If you use Chrome, go to the section options > advanced options > privacy.

Thus, the Browser allows you to exercise some control over Cookies through the respective settings, as most Browsers allow you to block Cookies, block Cookies from specific websites, or browse in private mode.

We also note that if you authorize the use of Cookies, they may remain on your computer/device for a long period of time, so you can delete them at any time. For example, Browsers can help you delete Cookies when you close this website. However, if you delete them, you should consider that this means that any opt-outs or preferences set on the website may be lost.