What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your computer through the Internet browser, which only retain information related to your preferences and, therefore, do not include your personal data.
What are cookies for?
Cookies help to determine the usefulness, interest and number of uses of your websites, ensuring a faster and more efficient browsing experience and eliminating the need to repeatedly provide the same information.
What type of cookies do we use?
Two groups of cookies can be used:
– Permanent cookies: these cookies are stored in your equipment´s browser (PC, mobile phone and tablet) and are used whenever you visit one of our websites more than once. They are generally used to adapt browsing to the user’s interests, enabling us to provide a more personalised service.
– Session cookies: these are temporary cookies that remain in your browser’s cookie file until you leave the website. The information obtained by these cookies is used to analyse patterns of traffic on the website, enabling us to identify problems and providing a better browsing experience.
For what purposes do we use cookies?
– Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies allow you to browse on the website and use its applications, in addition to accessing secure areas of the website. The requested services cannot be provided without these cookies.
– Analytical cookies: These cookies are used anonymously for the purpose of creating and analysing statistics in order to improve the performance of the website.
– Functional cookies: These cookies store the user’s preferences on the website, meaning you do not need to reconfigure the website each time you visit it.
– Analytical cookies: Measure the success of applications and the effectiveness of third-party advertising. They can also be used to personalise a widget with user data.
– Advertising cookies: These cookies direct advertising in accordance with the interests of each user, taking their tastes into account, and also limit the number of times you see the advertisement, helping to measure advertising effectiveness and the success of the advertisement and the organisation of the website.
How do I manage cookies?
All browsers allow users to accept, reject or delete cookies, in particular by selecting the appropriate settings in the browser in the “options” or “preferences” menu. However, disabling cookies may also prevent certain services on the website from functioning properly, thereby partially or totally affecting the browsing experience.
Users can disable the use of cookies at any time by changing their browser settings, for example:
– Google Chrome
– Internet Explorer
– Mozilla Firefox
– Apple Safari
What happens when cookies are disabled?
Certain functions and services may stop working or behave in an unexpected manner, such as identifying the user on certain pages or receiving information that takes into account their location, among others. If you disable cookies on this website, you may not gain access to certain areas of the site or the quality of your browsing experience will be significantly poorer.
The cookies used on this website:
User cookies:
– Supplier: UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA
– Cookies: lang, allow_cookies, eucookie
– Duration: Per session
– Type: Per session
– Purpose: To identify whether or not the user has already accepted the user’s privacy policy and preferences.
Third-Party Cookies
– Supplier: google.pt
– Cookies: PREF, HSID, SAPISID, SID, 1P_JAR, SIDCC, NID, SSID, OGPC, CONSENT, 1P_JAR, S_adsense3-ui, JSESSIONID, LS_CSRF_TOKEN
– Duration: 2 years – Type: Permanente
– Purpose: When you create a Google Account or sign in, the PREF, NID, HSID, APISID, SID, SSID, SAPISID, GAPS, LSID, BEAT JSESSIONID, LS_CSRF_TOKEN and ULS cookies are stored on your computer and remain connected to your Google Account when you use the service again.
While you are authenticated and are using plug-ins from other websites, such as ours, Google uses these cookies to improve your user experience. Some of the cookies are also used to improve your browsing experience, for example, when using Google maps.
Additional guarantees and withdrawal of acceptance
UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA is not responsible for the content and veracity of any third-party privacy policies included on this website. As an additional guarantee, the registering of cookies on this website may be subject to users accepting cookies when visiting the website and installing or updating the browser in question.
Such acceptance may be revoked at any time under the content and privacy settings, as already explained in item 5 of this policy, or by using the link at the bottom of this page.
Updating of the cookies policy
UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA may change this cookies policy in accordance with legal or regulatory requirements or adapt this policy to any new instructions provided by law. Users of the website will always be notified whenever any significant changes are made to this cookies policy.