LEGAL NOTICES

» Who we are

The name of this website is Smartstep and the address is https://www.smartstep.pt/. This website may have published a page or area about the person, company or entity that owns it, as well as a page or area of ​​contacts. In these areas, the name, address, telephone, email, or form can be included in order to contact the owner of this website.

»Cookies and similar technologies

This website may use “cookies”, which are small text files stored on your device to help the sites work and collect information about online activities. For example, we may use cookies to store your preferences and settings, assist with sign-in, provide personalized advertising, fight fraud and analyze website operations.

If you leave a comment on our website, you can choose to save your name, email address and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so you don’t have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and log in to this site, a temporary cookie will be set to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain any personal data and will be deleted when you close your browser.

When you log in, some cookies will be set up to store your session information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for one year. If you select “Remember me”, your session will persist for two weeks. Upon logging out, login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie does not include personal data, it only indicates the content ID of the article you just edited. Expires after 1 day.

»Information collected

This website can collect information in order to operate efficiently and provide users with the best products, services, modes of use or other relevant information.

We collect information when you register, when you log in and when you use the website and services. We collect this information through web forms, technologies such as cookies or web logs.

Visitor comments can be verified using an automatic spam detection service.

When uploading images to the site, you should avoid uploading images with embedded geolocation data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can download and extract geolocation data from the website’s images.

Comments: When visitors leave comments on the website, the data present in the comments form, as well as the IP address and the user agent of the browser, are saved to help with spam detection.

An anonymous string created from your email address (also called a hash) can be sent to the Gravatar service to verify that you are using it. The Gravatar service’s privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, the profile photo is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

How long your data is retained: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are saved indefinitely. This is so that it is possible to automatically recognize and approve any subsequent comments, instead of placing them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our site (if any), we store the personal information provided in your user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (with the exception that they cannot change their username). Site administrators can also view and edit this information.

Embedded content from other sites: Articles on this site may include embedded content (for example, videos, images, articles, etc.). The embedded content of other sites behaves as if the user visits those sites. This site may collect data about you, use cookies, incorporate tracking by third parties, monitor your interactions with it, including recording interactions with embedded content if you have an account and are logged on to that site.

»How we use your personal information

We may use the information we collect to operate, improve and personalize the products and services we offer. We may also use the information to communicate with you, for example, to inform you about your account and updates.

We may use the information to help make ads that appear on our services with advertising support more relevant.

»Confidentiality

With regard to the information recorded on this website about users, we are committed to respecting the confidentiality of that data.

»Access to personal information

The website may have areas where you are provided with access to your personal information through a login protected by a personal password. You can also access your information by contacting us.

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can ask to receive an export file with the personal data saved about you, including any personal data you have specified.

You can also request that the saved data be deleted. This does not include any personal data that is required to be kept for administrative, legal or security purposes.

»Communication preferences

You can stop the delivery of promotional email from this website by following the specific instructions in the email you received.

»Payment instrument information 

Payment data is the information you provide when you shop online. These may include your payment instrument number (for example, credit card, PayPal), your name and billing address and the security code associated with your payment instrument (for example, CSV or CVV). Payment data is used to complete your transaction, as well as for fraud detection and prevention. By supporting these uses, we may share your payment details with banks and other entities that process payment transactions or other financial services, and for the prevention of fraud and credit risk reduction.

When you provide payment data while connected with your account, we can store that data to help you complete future transactions.

You can update or remove the payment instrument information associated with your account by logging in or contacting us.