Who is responsible for data processing? The website data controller www.dirtrideacademy.pt is Websystems, with the contact email info@dirtrideacademy.pt. What are cookies? Cookies are small information files that are placed on your electronic device and can perform various functions, such as saving user preferences for certain types of information or storing information related to your visit to each website, with the main purpose of detecting the user during their visits to the website and their respective configuration parameters. The use of cookies on the internet is common and in no way harms users’ computers and other electronic web access equipment. What are the functions of cookies? Cookies perform several functions, including helping the website’s content management and update department understand how the website is used in greater depth, facilitating navigation, saving your preferences, and generally improving your user experience. Cookies also serve to ensure that websites present relevant content to each user. Therefore, they are tools for continuously improving the user experience. What types of cookies do we use? There are several types of cookies that operate in different ways and have different purposes when browsing the internet. 
Here are the existing categories we use:

• Strictly necessary cookies: : These are essential cookies because they ensure navigation on the website and the use of its features, including recording whether or not the user has authorized the use of cookies on the website. These cookies cannot be rejected when using a website. Retention period for data collected in this context: one year after collection.
• Functional cookies: These are cookies that allow websites to remember information about choices made by the user, such as username, language, region from which they access the website, and personalize the users browsing experience. These cookies expire at the end of the user session (for example, when the user closes the browser window) or may remain for longer to remember the users preferences and choices on the website. Retention period for data collected in this context: one year after collection.
• Advertising Cookies: These are cookies that collect information about a users browser usage habits, recording website usage. They are used to support more targeted marketing and communication initiatives, allowing the distinction and identification of individual usage preferences or storing a code that translates a set of usage habits or preferences. The advertising cookies we may use belong to Facebook and Google. Click here to consult the Facebook Cookie Policy and here to consult Googles Cookie Policy. Retention period for data collected in this context: eighteen months after collection.
• Analytical cookies: These cookies are used to analyze how users use the website and to monitor its performance, for example, which pages receive the most visits or whether any error messages are returned to the user. This allows you to provide a high-quality experience by personalizing the offer and quickly identifying and correcting any issues that arise. These cookies are used for continuous improvement and statistical analysis purposes. To do so, we use the Google Analytics analysis tool, Facebook and respective cookies. Click here to review the Google Analytics Privacy Policy and here to review the Facebook Privacy Policy. Retention period for data collected in this context: two years after collection.

List of cookies we use: How can you manage cookies? Different browsers offer different ways to manage cookies implemented by the websites you browse. There is no standard way to remove cookies, and depending on the browser you use, there are several advanced ways to manage them. However, all browsers allow you to generally remove cookies from your computer. Please note that disabling cookies may disable all or some of the available features, negatively impacting your browsing experience. To manage the use of cookies in your internet browser, follow these steps:

•   Google Chrome – Select the “Settings” menu; – Select the option “Show advanced settings”; – Under “Privacy,” select “Content Settings.” More information here.
• Mozilla Firefox – Select the “Tools” menu; – Select the “Preferences” option; – At the top, select the “Privacy” icon. More information here.
• Internet Explorer – Select the “Tools” menu; – Select the “Internet Options” option; – Select the “Privacy” tab. More information here.
• Safari – Select the “Edit” menu; – Select the “Preferences” option; – At the top, select the “Privacy” icon. More information here.

If you use more than one browser, you must manage cookies independently for each of them.

More information about Cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org

Cookie policy update We reserve the right to make changes to this Cookie Policy at any time, and these will be duly announced. Última atualização: 20 de Junho de 2025