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This policy outlines how cookies and similar technologies are used on the online store MeaQuasar, available at the address meaquasar.com, and how users can manage and configure their installation.

This version is effective from August 15, 2023.

  • WEBSITE OWNER AND CONTACTS

The website meaquasar.com is operated by the company Urano Balsâmico - Unipessoal, Lda., headquartered at Rua Barata Salgueiro, No. 37, 2nd Floor, 1250-042 Lisbon, registered with the Commercial Registry of Porto under the unique registration and tax number 517415925, trading under the brand MeaQuasar.

 

If you have any questions or need further information about the processing of personal data carried out through cookies, or if you wish to exercise your rights as a data subject, you can contact us via email at hello@meaquasar.com or by mail sent to the offices of MeaQuasar atRua Barata Salgueiro, No. 37, 2nd Floor, 1250-042 Lisbon.

  • WHAT ARE COOKIES

Cookies are small text files that can be stored on a user's device and later retrieved by a web server from the device. Cookies enable web servers to perform certain actions, such as remembering that a user has logged into the platform. Some cookies allow us and service providers to keep a record of users' site browsing activities and associate certain activities with a session.

Some cookies are temporary, meaning they are only active while the user's browser is open. Others, known as persistent cookies, remain on your computer for longer periods or until you delete them in your browser settings. Our site uses both temporary and persistent cookies.

A pixel or web beacon is a very small image that can be found within website pages and emails. It usually works in conjunction with cookies to identify users and their behavior.

  • WHAT COOKIES WE USE

On the meaquasar.com site, we use the following types of cookies:

    • NECESSARY COOKIES

These cookies are essential for you to navigate the site and use its features. You can configure your browser to block these cookies or to alert you about them, but some parts of the site may not function properly if you disable them.

Name

Description

Entity

Service life

_cmp_a

meaquasar.com

Used to manage customer privacy settings.

1 day

_secure_session_id

meaquasar.com

Used to track a user's session during the checkout process steps and maintain data related to the order, payment, and shipping.

1 day

cart

cart_ver

meaquasar.com

Employed in conjunction with the shopping cart.

2 weeks

cart_currency

meaquasar.com

Set after the completion of a checkout to ensure that new carts are in the same currency as the last checkout.

2 weeks

cart_sig

meaquasar.com

Utilized to verify cart integrity and ensure the performance of certain cart operations.

2 weeks

cart_ts

meaquasar.com

Employed in connection with checkout.

2 weeks

checkout_session_lookup

checkout_session_token__c__281d647d9289a816304e4ec7a89ed46b

meaquasar.com

Used in relation to the checkout process.

3 weeks

keep_alive

meaquasar.com

Emplyed in connection with the buyer's location.

2 weeks

localization

meaquasar.com

Utilized in connection with the checkout.

1 year

secure_customer_sig

meaquasar.com

Utilized to identify a user after logging into the store as a customer, eliminating the need for re-login.

1 year

 

 

    • ANALYTICAL COOKIES

These cookies help us understand how visitors navigate the site and what we can do to improve the content presented there. They allow us to count site visits and identify different sources of traffic, providing information about the most and least visited pages, clicked links, and how visitors navigate the site.

None of this information can be used to identify you. The collected information is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you visited our site.

 First-Party Cookies

Name

Entity

Description

Service life

_ga 

_ga_CZFL8X6KFK

meaquasar.com 

Utilized by Google Analytics to store the visitor's ID and distinguish them from other site visitors.

2 anos

_landing_page

_orig_referrer

meaquasar.com 

Employed to track landing pages.

2 semanas

_s

_shopify_s

_shopify_sa_p

_shopify_sa_t

meaquasar.com 

Used for Shopify analytics.

30 minutos

_shopify_y

_y

meaquasar.com 

Used for Shopify analytics.

1 ano

unique_interaction_id

meaquasar.com 

Used for Shopify analytics.

10min

 

Third-Party Cookies

Name

Entity

Description

Service life

_ga 

_ga_2Z2Q15Z1KY _ga_6YNBNTFYSD 

_gid

shopify.com

Employed by Google Analytics to compute visitor, session, and campaign data, as well as to monitor site usage for the website analytics report.

2 years

_s

_shopify_s

shopify.com

Used for Shopify analytics.

30 minutes

_shopify_y

_y

shopify.com

Used for Shopify analytics.

1 year

FPAU

shopify.com

Employed to gather information about suers and their activities on the site through embedded elements for analysis and reporting.

2 months

FPID

shopify.com

Utilized to collect information about users and their activities on the site through embedded elements for analysis and reporting.

2 weeks

 

FUNCTIONAL COOKIES

These cookies are necessary to provide certain functionalities when you access or use the website and its services. In order to save your cookie preferences and, in general, to provide you with a better user experience on the site, for example, to prevent your credit card data from being stored on our servers when you make purchases, these cookies may identify you when you log in and record the preferences you have chosen.

If you do not allow these cookies, these functionalities may not work correctly.

First-Party Cookies

Name

Entity

Description

Service life

cookieMessage

meaquasar.com

To store informative cookie banner.

3 days

cookieConsent

meaquasar.com

To store cookie consent preferences.

3 days

 

ADVERTISING COOKIES

These cookies are assigned by companies and advertising networks from our site, with the aim of presenting you with ads that are more relevant to you and your interests, limiting the number of times you see an ad, and measuring the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.

 

These cookies may be used by these companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant ads on other sites. This information is shared with other organizations, such as advertisers. If you do not allow these cookies, you will not see our personalized advertising on different sites.

 

First-Party Cookies

Name

Entity

Description

Service life

_fbp

meaquasar.com

Used by Facebook to identify and track unique website users, aiming to deliver personalized advertisements and enable real-time bidding from other advertisers.

3 months

 

Third-Party Cookies

Name

Entity

Description

Service life

_fbp

shopify.com

Used by Facebook to identify and track unique website users, aiming to deliver personalized advertisements and enable real-time bidding from other advertisers.

3 months

_uetmsclkid

shopify.com

Used by Bing Ads to identify and track unique website users, aiming to deliver personalized advertisements and enable real-time bidding from other advertisers.

session

 

  • WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT

 Through cookies and other similar systems, we collect information about the visitor, which may include data about the browser used, the operating system of the accessing device, the originating site of access, the date and time of access, the IP address, the internet provider used by the visitor, and other similar information.

 MeaQuasar does not have access to these data individually and only analyzes them in an aggregated manner as statistical and anonymous information.

 The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the functioning of the site. For all other types of cookies, we need your permission.

  • HOW TO DISABLE OR DELETE COOKIES

 In addition to the options presented in the preferences panel that you see when you first access the site to accept or reject non-essential cookies, you can also configure your browser to accept, refuse, or delete cookies.

 You can make this configuration in the "preferences" or "options" menu of the browser you use. However, in some cases, disabling cookies may affect site navigation, preventing some services, such as content display or the provision of external services, from functioning correctly. 

In the help section of your browser, you can also find information on how to activate "private mode" and how to block certain cookies. Learn how to disable cookies in different browsers from the links below:

 

Chrome

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Firefox

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Edge

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Safari

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