Policy on cookies

The Website, https://www.logista.pt (hereinafter, the ‘Website’) is the property of CDIL - Companhia de Distribuição Integral Logista Portugal, S.A., (hereinafter Logista Portugal). This Website uses cookie technology to collect information about your use of the Website.

The purpose of this Cookie Policy is to inform you clearly and precisely about the cookies used on our Website.

1. What are cookies?

A ‘cookie’ is a small file which is stored in a user’s computer, mobile telephone or tablet when certain websites, applications or platforms are consulted, and which enables the latter to recognize their users.

Currently, cookies are an indispensable part of the functioning of the internet, and bring countless advantages to the provision of interactive services, facilitating  browsing and improving ease of use.

Cookies help one to adapt websites, applications and platforms to one’s personal requirements.

Cookies cannot damage your equipment. On the contrary, when they are activated they can help to identify and correct errors, and to improve the quality of the user’s  browsing.

Among their other advantages, cookies enable users to store and recover information about the preferred kinds of browsing of each user or of their device.

This website, application or platform uses cookies and/or similar kinds of technology which store and recover information while you are browsing. This type of technology can be used for very diverse purposes, such as recognizing you as a user, obtaining information about your browsing habits, or personalising the form in which content is shown.

The specific uses to which we put this technology are described below.

2. Types of cookies and which cookies we use on this website

Types of cookies

Depending on the organisation that manages them, cookies can be:

First-party cookies: these are cookies for which the publisher itself is responsible and which are generally sent to the user's terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by the publisher itself and from which the service requested by the user is provided.

Third-party cookies: these are cookies for which an entity other than the publisher is responsible and which are generally sent to the user's terminal equipment from a computer or domain that is not managed by the publisher, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through the cookies.

Depending on their purpose, cookies can be:

Technical cookies: technical cookies are necessary for the proper functioning of the Website, to offer the user fluid and slow navigation (for example, to allow access to reserved areas to be maintained while the user remains on the Website) and to correctly provide all the services available on the Website. These are tools used to ensure, for example, efficient browsing, session stability, login permanence and country pre-selection. They are also used to memorise the choices made by the user regarding the display of certain elements of the page, such as information and communication banners. For these reasons, technical cookies cannot be deactivated.

Preference or personalisation cookies: these are cookies that allow information to be stored so that the user can access the service with certain characteristics that may differentiate their experience from that of other users, such as language, the number of results to be displayed when the user performs a search, the appearance or content of the service depending on the type of browser through which the user accesses the service or the region from which they access the service, etc.

Analysis or measurement cookies: these are cookies that allow the person responsible for them to track and analyse the behaviour of users of the websites to which they are linked, including quantifying the impact of advertisements. The information collected through this type of cookie is used to measure the activity of the websites, application or platform, in order to introduce improvements based on analysing the data on the use made by users of the service.

Behavioural advertising cookies: these are cookies that store information about the behaviour of users obtained through the continuous observation of their browsing habits, which makes it possible to develop a specific profile in order to display advertising based on it.

Depending on how long they remain active on your computer:

Session cookies: these are cookies designed to collect and store data while the user is accessing a web page. They are usually used to store information that only needs to be kept to provide the service requested by the user on a single occasion (for example, a list of products purchased) and disappear at the end of the session.

Persistent cookies: these are cookies in which the data remains stored in the terminal and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the person responsible for the cookie, which can vary from a few minutes to several years. 

3. Cookies used on this website

Our website uses technical cookies for which your consent is not required, since the applicable legal basis is in fact the execution of services requested directly by the interested party.

Our website also uses other cookies for which your consent is required. Below you will find our own and third-party cookies (including your contact details) that we use on this website, a description of their purpose and retention periods.