What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that sites visited by users send to their terminals, where they are stored, to be later retransmitted to the same sites during subsequent visits. Cookies are used for a number of different purposes, have different characteristics and can be used either by the owner of the site being visited or by third parties. All the necessary information on the cookies installed via this site is set out below, together with instructions on how to manage your preferences.
For further information on cookies and their general functions, visit an information Web site such as allaboutcookies.org.
Cookies used by this site
Technical Cookies that do not require consent:
Cookies relating to activities which are strictly necessary for the functioning of the site and the supply of the service:
PHPSESSID: it is a technical session cookie. The website uses this cookie to send data about session status, through a temporary cookie, called “session cookie”. This cookie is deleted when the user closes the terminal.
Cookies relating to the saving of preferences and optimisation:
- Wfvt_: is a session cookie. This cookie is used to prevent attacks to the website.
Statistic Cookies used directly by the site operator to collect information in aggregated form:
- __utma: is a cookie lasting 2 years. This is a Google Analytics Cookie used to collect anonymous stats about website usage.
- __utmz: : is a cookie lasting 6 months. This is a Google Analytics Cookie used to rcollect anonymous stats about website usage.
- _ga: is a third-party cookie lasting 2 years. This is a Google Analytics Cookie used to distinguish users.
- _gat: is a third-party cookie lasting 10 minutes. This is a Google Analytics Cookie used to obtain an overview of visitors to the mobile site
Technical Third-party Cookies – Google Analytics – Non-profiled user data at IP level.
Not all technical cookies require consent, and they are therefore installed automatically as soon as the site is accessed.
Cookies requiring consent
All cookies other than the above-mentioned technical cookies are only installed or activated once express consent has been given by the user the first time he or she visits the site. Consent can be given on a general basis, interacting with the brief information banner found on the site landing page, adopting the methods indicated in the banner (click on the OK key or the X key; or, if the user continues to navigate, also by scrolling the page or via a link); or it can be given or withheld selectively, adopting the methods indicated below. This type of consent is tracked during subsequent visits. However, the user can always withdraw consent already given, either wholly or partly.
Cookies operated by third parties:
Cookies operated by third parties are also installed through this site.
Remember that you can also manage your cookie preferences through the browser
If you don’t know the type and version of the browser you are using, click on “Help” at the top of the browser window, from which you can access all the information you require.
If, on the other hand, you know your browser, click on the one you are using to gain access to the cookie management page.
Internet Explorer
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/block-or-allow-cookies
Google Chrome
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=it
Mozilla Firefox
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Enabling%20and%20disabling%20cookies
Safari
http://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/
For further information, visit the page www.youronlinechoices.eu.
The Portuguese Engineering and Tooling Cluster, which incorporates the Moulding, Special Tools and Plastics industries (representing more than 500 Tooling Companies with 8.000 Jobs, and 1.250 Plastic Companies with 36.270 jobs), was officially recognised by the Portuguese Government in 2009, and is legally represented by the association Pool-Net – Portuguese Tooling Network (since 2008), whose comprises 85 members, being businesses (79%), Universities and R&D Centres (14%), Trade Associations (5%), Training Centres (1%), and Public Bodies (1%).