Privacy Policy & Cookies of MEEVO

Privacy policy of MEEVO

Your privacy and your data protection is, and always will be, a commitment and priority for us.

MEEVO is committed to deal with all the information given by our partners, clients and stakeholders, in compliance with the general data protection regulation.

The property of the website focuses on the texts, images, sounds, and intellectual property of each of the contents present.

MEEVO is a registered trademark of MEEVO – Machinery Engineering, Lda. MEEVO’s website is property of MEEVO – Machinery Engineering, Lda, registered with NIPC 509371345, located in Rua Entre Carreiros 99, 4425-326 Folgosa, Maia.

MEEVO – Machinery Engineering, Lda., guarantees respect for the safety of all website visitors.

The Privacy Policy set forth in this document is intended to present the rules for collecting and processing data provided by users, as well as disclosing their rights to its access and alteration, in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation requirements.

 

The company

The collection and processing of all personal data is the responsibility of MEEVO – Machinery Engineering, Lda.

The personal data collected will be subsequently stored and processed by MEEVO – Machinery Engineering, Lda., for the sole purpose of making non-segmented promotional contacts with the database subscribers.

Method of data collection

MEEVO – Machinery Engineering, Lda., will only collect and compile personal data after user consent. This collection will occur through the submission by users of data and consent forms in our website.

MEEVO – Machinery Engineering, Lda., can collect your personal data in different ways: Google Analytics Inc, to understand the user’s behaviour inside the website; Newsletter forms application to retrieve the user’s personal information if they give their consent, Tawk.to chat to retrieve personal information to begin a commercial relationship, and the javascript of social media applications to display some ads that will be tailored to the preferences of our users.

Whenever you access a website with cookies, you must be notified by a pop-up with a message. Web Server Logs can additionally collect information about the address of web pages that have been forwarded to our site and the IP of your device.

If you don’t want to share your behaviour data you can turn off your cookies, your browser options, or make changes to the tools of Anti-Virus programs, such as Norton Internet Security.

You can choose not to be crawled by Google Analytics by installing the browser plug-in available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

What data is collected?

Depending on the purpose, we may collect the following types of content:

  • Contact information (such as email, phone or address),
  • Location data (such as IP address),
  • Identity information (name, job company, company)

Why do we collect your data?

Personal data collected by MEEVO – Machinery Engineering, Lda., is processed exclusively for the specific, explicit, consensual and legitimate purposes identified at the time of its collection. For example:

  • Sending commercial and promotional communications specially designed for each user, according to their preferences and interests,
  • To develop and improve our products, services, forms of communication and the functionality of our Web pages,
  • Maintain the relevance of website content
  • Maintain the relevance of content external to the website
  • Establishing commercial relationships.

How long do we keep your data?

MEEVO – Machinery Engineering, Lda., treats and stores your data for as long as necessary for the purpose for which it was collected and processed. Some examples:

  • If we collect your name and email for email marketing purposes we collect your data indefinitely. We eliminate your data when you share your will to have it deleted.
  • If we register your web behaviour in our website through cookies, we will then collect this data and analyze it in google analytics software. We can keep this behaviour data indefinitely.

Your rights

When we process your personal data, be aware that you have a set of rights that you can exercise at any time. You can through our contact address (meevo@meevo.pt) exercise your right to:

  • Right of access, update and rectification of personal data
  • Right to portability of your data
  • Right to eliminate your personal data

 

In this exercise of rights, you must specify the claim, which will be dealt with in a timely manner, within legal deadlines.

Sharing the data

MEEVO – Machinery Engineering, Lda., doesn’t share your personal data with third parties except, and according to law, in legal processes, dispute resolution and/or requests from public or governmental authorities, inside or outside the client’s country of residence.

GDPR: General Data Protection Regulation
MEEVO – Machinery Engineering, Lda., reserves the right of changing this privacy policy at any time to go along with the European Union law. This privacy policy was created on July 15, 2018.

Cookies policy of MEEVO

On our website, we use cookies to improve your user experience.

We have prepared this policy to inform you what a Cookie is, the type of Cookies we use on this website and to help you manage them according to your interests.

On your first visit to our website, you are informed of the existence of Cookies and Cookies policy. This policy can be updated, therefore we invite you to regularly review it. When visiting our website for the first time, we also offer you the possibility to configure which Cookies you want to install. You may object to the installation of any category of Cookies, except the technical ones, which are necessary for the correct functioning of the website.

You can configure the Cookies that you wish to install by category. Our cookie policy is available for consultation at any time at the bottom of the website under the link “Cookie Policy”.

By setting up Cookies or accepting the Cookies notice, you consent to their installation (unless you have modified your browser settings to refuse all or certain Cookies by default).

What are cookies?

Cookies are small files that are installed in the computer or device during visits to websites/applications to keep a record of your preferences and remember them when you visit us again. The aim is to facilitate the use and navigation by the users.

Cookies are used, for example, to manage the user’s session (reducing the number of times you have to enter your password) or to adapt the contents of a website and your preferences.

There can be “session” Cookies, which will be deleted whenever the user leaves the site that generated them, or they can be “persistent”, which remain on your computer until a certain date.

Cookies can also be “own” or “third party”. The first are those that are sent to the user’s computer from a device or domain managed by MEEVO, while “third party” cookies are those that are sent to the user’s computer from a device or domain managed by service providers contracted by MEEVO (for example, Google’s web analytics service).

By using this website with the browser functionality selected to accept Cookies, you will accept the use of cookies in the conditions established in this Cookies policy.

The following types of cookies can be installed

Technical Cookies
These are strictly necessary for the performance of any website. For example: those that allow registered users to authenticate themselves and keep an open session when browsing our site. Without them, a website cannot function correctly. Disabling these Cookies prevents the correct functioning of some of the functionalities of the website.

Analytical Cookies
Analytical Cookies are used to collect statistical information about the user’s activity on the website and general activity of the website. The information compiled allows to optimize the navigation on our website and guarantee the best service to the user. Analyzes, for example, the number of pages visited, the language used, the frequency and recurrence of visits, the time of visits, the browser used, among other information. The user can exclude his activity through the exclusion systems available in the analytical tools or through the settings of his own browser.

Advertising Cookies
Cookies are usually stored by third parties that manage the advertising spaces that users see when accessing this website. These Cookies allow measuring the efficiency of our online campaigns, and provide users with content of their choice and interest, as well as limit the number of advertising initiatives that are sent to each user.

Social Network Function Cookies
Some social networks, such as Facebook, or third-party websites and services, offer advertisers the opportunity to generate, on their own means, personalized target audiences for users of those social networks, websites or services that visit our website. This allows us to directly reach these users through third parties means, offering information, promotions or advertising content that are adapted to their interests.

On the other hand, our website contains spaces and content in which social media buttons have been included so that users can share our content on social media.

We do not control the cookies that each social network installs. All users are recommended to review their privacy parameters in each one of them, in order to limit the tracking purposes that, in each case, may be carried out.

How to manage cookies

At any time, the User has the possibility to accept or refuse the installation of Cookies, such as advertising and third-party cookies. In addition, after each session you can delete all or some of the stored Cookies. Even so, the user can activate:

  • Private browsing, whereby your browser stops saving your browsing history, website passwords, cookies and other information on the pages you visit,

or

  • The non-tracking function, whereby the browser requests that the websites you visit do not track your browsing habits (for example, to provide advertising of interest to you on the websites you visit).

 

We recommend that you consult your Browser’s Help for information on the different cookie management options. You should bear in mind that blocking Cookies may affect all or some of the features of our website.

For your convenience, you will find below the help or cookie setting links of the main browsers (these links can be updated by the companies that develop the respective browsers, so if any link becomes updated, you can access the Help menu of your browser).