Your Privacy

Your privacy is important to us.

It is the policy of Independent Solutions lda to respect your privacy in relation to any information that we may collect on the Independent Solutions website, and other websites that we own and operate.

We request personal information only when we really need it to provide you with a service. We do this by fair and legal means, with your knowledge and consent. We also tell you why we are collecting your data and what it is for.

We only retain the information collected for as long as necessary to provide the requested service. When we store data, we protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. We do not share personally identifiable information publicly or with third parties, except as required by law. Our website may have links to external websites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and practices of these sites and we cannot accept responsibility for their respective privacy policies. Anyone used can refuse our request for personal information, understanding that we may not be able to provide some of the desired services. Your continued use of our website will be considered acceptance of our practices around privacy and personal information. If you have any questions about how we handle user data and personal information, please contact us.

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Cookies Policy

What are cookies?

As is common practice on almost all professional sites, this site uses cookies, which are small files downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information is collected, how we use it and why we store these cookies. Below you can see how to prevent these cookies from being stored, however, the functionality of the website as a whole may be compromised.

How do we use cookies?

We use cookies for a variety of reasons, detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features that they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave all cookies if you are unsure whether or not you need them, if they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disable cookies

You can prevent cookies from being set by adjusting your browser settings (see your browser's Help to find out how). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other sites you visit. Disabling cookies will generally result in disabling certain features and features on this site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

Cookies we set

Account-related cookies If you create an account with us, we will use cookies to manage the registration and general administration process. These cookies will generally be deleted when you leave the system, however, in some cases, they may remain later to remember your site's preferences when you leave.

Login related cookies

We use cookies when you have your log in active, so that we can remember the action, avoiding the constant in & out in login's whenever you visit a new page. These cookies are usually removed or cleared when you log out, to ensure that you can only access resources and restricted areas when logging in.

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Cookies related to email newsletters

This website offers newsletter or e-mail subscription services and cookies can be used to remember whether you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications valid only for registered / non-registered users.

Orders processing related cookies

This website offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages, so that we can process it properly.

Search-related cookies

We periodically offer surveys and questionnaires to provide interesting information, useful tools or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already participated in a survey or to provide accurate results after changing the pages.

Forms-related cookies

When you send data using a form such as that found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies can be set to remember the user's details for future correspondence.

Site preferences cookies

To provide a great experience on this site, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how the site runs when you use it. To find out what your preferences are, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called up whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third-party cookies you can find through this website.

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This site uses Google Analytics, which is one of the most widespread and reliable analytics solutions on the Web, to help us understand how you use the site and how we can improve your experience. These cookies can track items such as how much time you spend on the site and the pages you visit, so that we can continue to produce compelling content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

Third party analytics are used to map and measure the use of this site, so that we can continue to produce attractive content. These cookies can track items such as the time you spend on the site or the pages you visit, which helps us understand how we can improve the site for you. We periodically test new features and make subtle changes to the way the site looks. When we are still testing new features, these cookies can be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience while on the site, while understanding which optimizations our users appreciate most. As we sell products, it is important to understand the statistics on how many visitors to our website actually buy and, therefore, this is the type of data these cookies will track. It is important to you, as it means that we can make accurate business forecasts that allow us to analyze our advertising costs and products to ensure the best possible price

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The Google AdSense service we use to serve advertising uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and to limit the number of times a particular ad is shown to you.

For more information about AdSense, see the official AdSense privacy FAQs.

We use advertisements to offset the costs of running this site and provide financing for future developments. The behavioral advertising cookies used by this website are designed to ensure that you deliver the most relevant ads whenever possible, anonymously following your interests and presenting similar things that may be of interest to you.

We have several partners who advertise on our behalf and affiliate cookies allow us to see if our customers have accessed our site through one of our partner sites, so that we can credit them properly and, where applicable, allow our affiliate partners to offer any promotion that can provide you to make a purchase.

More information

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Hopefully it is clear and, as mentioned earlier, if there is any doubt or uncertainty as to whether you need it or not, it is generally safer to leave cookies enabled if you interact with one of the features you use on our website.

This policy is active and in force.

20 July 2020