1. Data controller
The website is operated by Cumeada Em Flor - Lda, tax number 519086031, carrying on business in Portugal through Terracotta Ceramic Cafe. For cookies and similar technologies, this company acts as controller whenever it determines how such technologies are used on the website.
- Company: Cumeada Em Flor - Lda
- Tax number: 519086031
- Website: https://terracotta-ceramic-cafe.pt
- Country: Portugal
- Contact email: terracottamadeira@gmail.com
- Phone: +351 912 863 223
2. What cookies are
Cookies are small text files stored on a user's device when they visit a website. They allow the browser to be recognised, preferences to be remembered, sessions to be maintained, performance to be measured, usage patterns to be analysed and integrations with third-party services to be supported.
In addition to cookies, similar technologies may also be used, such as pixels, local storage, online identifiers, scripts and tags, for technical, analytics, functional or external-integration purposes. In this policy, references to cookies also include those equivalent technologies where relevant.
3. Legal basis and applicable rules
Under the GDPR and the ePrivacy rules, strictly necessary cookies may be used on the basis of legitimate interest and the technical necessity of providing the service requested by the user. Analytics cookies, non-essential preference cookies, marketing cookies and certain third-party cookies generally require the user's prior consent before they are activated.
Where consent is required, the user must be able to give, refuse or withdraw that consent freely, specifically, informedly and unambiguously. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before the withdrawal.
4. Types of cookies that may be used
The website may use the following categories of cookies and similar technologies:
| Category | Examples / tools | Purpose | Consent | Indicative retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Necessary | Technical session cookies, admin authentication and security cookies | Ensure website operation, security, session handling and essential features | No | Session or up to 12 months depending on function |
| Preferences | Language, user preferences and consent choices | Remember user choices and improve functional experience | Yes, unless strictly necessary | Up to 12 months or until deleted by the user |
| Analytics | Google Analytics 4, aggregate measurement and browsing statistics | Understand website use, measure performance and improve content and journeys | Yes | Usually between 24 hours and 24 months depending on configuration |
| Marketing | Advertising tags, remarketing, social platforms or similar tools | Measure campaigns, personalise advertising or build audiences | Yes | Variable depending on the third-party provider |
| Third-party / embedded content | Google Maps and external platforms | Enable maps, embedded media or external content that may connect to their own servers | Yes, unless technically necessary | Variable depending on the third-party provider |
5. Necessary cookies
Necessary cookies are essential for the basic functioning of the website and for providing features expressly requested by the user. Without them, certain areas, flows or security measures may not work properly.
In the current codebase, an administrative cookie used for protected access to management areas has been identified. Technical session, load-balancing or security mechanisms may also exist at infrastructure, browser or hosting level even where they are not configured as marketing or analytics cookies.
| Name / reference | Provider | Purpose | Type | Indicative duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| tc_admin | Terracotta Ceramic Cafe | Administrative authentication and protection of restricted back-office areas | First-party / necessary | Session or according to the technical policy of the admin area |
| Technical session cookies | Website infrastructure / browser | Manage requests, stability, security and continuity of browsing | First-party / necessary | Session |
6. Preference cookies
Preference cookies allow the website to remember user choices such as language, browsing preferences or functional settings. On the Terracotta Ceramic Cafe website, multilingual browsing is mostly handled through the URL path itself, so not every preference necessarily requires a cookie.
If a cookie preference centre is implemented or enabled, that tool may store the user's decision to accept, reject or configure cookie categories. In that case, certain preference cookies may be treated as necessary for recording the user's choice and avoiding repeated prompts on every visit.
7. Analytics cookies, Google Analytics 4 and Google Tag Manager
The website code currently includes the loading of Google Analytics 4 through Google's infrastructure in order to measure visits, viewed pages, session duration, traffic source, interactions and other aggregate usage events. These technologies may process online identifiers and technical data such as approximate IP address, browser, device, language and browsing behaviour.
Google Tag Manager may be used as a technical tag-management tool. Google Tag Manager does not necessarily set cookies by itself, but it may enable the activation of other tags that collect data or install analytics, functionality or marketing cookies. Whenever these technologies are not strictly necessary, their activation should depend on the user's prior consent.
| Tool | Provider | What it does | Category | Indicative retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics 4 (_ga, _ga_*) | Google LLC / Google Ireland | Measures traffic, performance, sessions, visited pages and aggregate interactions | Analytics | Up to 24 months depending on configuration |
| Google Tag Manager | Google LLC / Google Ireland | Technically manages scripts and tags and may trigger other measurement or marketing tools | Technical tag management | Variable; GTM itself may not set cookies, but the tags it loads may do so |
8. Google Maps, third-party cookies and social networks
The website embeds Google Maps on public pages to display the venue location and provide directions. When an embedded map is loaded, the user's browser may connect to Google's servers and Google may set or read its own cookies and collect technical data under its own policies.
The website also contains links to social media platforms, namely Instagram, Facebook and TikTok. A simple external link does not necessarily install cookies from those platforms until the user interacts with them. However, once the user clicks those links or uses those third-party services, the relevant platform's own cookie and privacy policies apply.
As of the date of this policy, no dedicated behavioural advertising or remarketing tags have been identified in the shared code beyond the integrations described above. If additional advertising technologies are introduced, this policy should be updated and their use will be subject to prior consent where legally required.
| Service | Provider | Purpose | Category | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Maps | Google LLC / Google Ireland | Display venue location, map and directions | Third-party / embedded content | May involve connections to Google servers and Google-set cookies |
| Instagram, Facebook, TikTok | Meta / ByteDance and related entities | Access social profiles and external content | Marketing / third-party after interaction | Their own cookie policies apply once the user interacts with those platforms |
9. Consent management
Whenever the website uses non-necessary cookies, processing should rely on a consent-management mechanism allowing the user to accept, refuse or configure categories of cookies before activation. That mechanism should also allow later review of the choices made and their recording for consent-evidence purposes where applicable.
The user should be able to change preferences at any time through the cookie preferences centre made available on the website whenever that mechanism is active in the interface. Refusing non-necessary cookies should not prevent access to the website, except for limitations strictly linked to the specific function that depends on the relevant technology.
10. How to disable cookies
In addition to the website's consent-management mechanism, users may control cookies directly in their browser by deleting existing cookies, blocking third-party cookies or creating rules per website. Disabling necessary cookies may affect the proper operation of the website and certain functions.
- Google Chrome: Settings > Privacy and security > Cookies and other site data
- Safari: Settings > Privacy > Manage Website Data / Block cookies
- Mozilla Firefox: Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data
- Microsoft Edge: Settings > Cookies and site permissions
- Users may also use device settings or browser extensions to limit trackers and third-party content
11. User rights
Under the GDPR, users may exercise their rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, objection, portability and withdrawal of consent where applicable. These rights also cover personal data collected through cookies where such data allow the user to be identified directly or indirectly.
Users also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Portuguese Data Protection Authority (CNPD) or another competent supervisory authority if they believe that the use of cookies or associated personal data violates applicable law.
12. Contact details and changes to this policy
For any question regarding this Cookie Policy, the processing of personal data or the exercise of rights, users may contact Cumeada Em Flor - Lda at terracottamadeira@gmail.com or by phone at +351 912 863 223.
This Cookie Policy may be updated at any time to reflect legal, technical or operational changes. The most recent version will always be available on the website together with its update date.