COOKIES POLICY / POLÍTICA DE COOKIES
Website: https://buggyboat.pt/
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer, smartphone, or other device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, improve your browsing experience, and provide analytical information to the owners of the site.
Cookies can be “persistent” (remaining on your device after you close your browser until they expire or are deleted) or “session-based” (deleted automatically when you close your browser).
2. How We Use Cookies
At BuggyBoat, we use cookies to ensure our online booking system functions properly, to remember your preferences, to analyze our website traffic, and to show you relevant advertisements.
Cookies do not typically contain information that personally identifies a user, but the personal data we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
3. Categories of Cookies We Use
We group the cookies used on https://buggyboat.pt/ into the following categories:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies (Essential): These cookies are required for the website to function properly and cannot be disabled in our systems. They are usually set in response to actions made by you, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or adding a tour/rental to your booking cart. You can set your browser to block these cookies, but parts of the site will not work.
- Functional Cookies (Preferences): These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your preferred language, currency, or region) and provide enhanced, more personal features.
- Performance & Analytical Cookies: These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously (e.g., Google Analytics). They tell us which pages are visited most often and help us improve the website’s performance.
- Marketing & Targeting Cookies: These cookies are placed by third-party advertising networks (such as Meta/Facebook Pixel or Google Ads). They track your browsing habits across different websites to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other platforms. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.
4. Third-Party Cookies
In some cases, we use cookies provided by trusted third parties. For example:
- Google Analytics: To help us analyze how users navigate the site, allowing us to improve user experience.
- Payment Gateways: Standard security and processing cookies placed by our payment processors (e.g., Stripe, PayPal, or local Portuguese integrations) to guarantee safe transactions.
- Social Media Plugins: If you interact with our social media links, these networks may set cookies to track your profile.
5. Managing Your Cookie Preferences (Consent)
When you visit our website for the first time, a Cookie Consent Banner will appear asking for your permission to accept non-essential cookies.
- Accept All: You consent to the placement of all categories of cookies.
- Reject All / Essential Only: Only cookies strictly necessary for the operation of the booking system and website will be activated.
- Customize Settings: You can manually toggle Performance or Marketing cookies on or off.
6. Disabling Cookies via Your Web Browser
In addition to our website’s consent banner, most web browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. You can block or delete cookies by modifying your browser configurations:
- Google Chrome: Settings > Privacy and Security > Cookies and other site data
- Mozilla Firefox: Options > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data
- Safari: Preferences > Privacy > Block all cookies
- Microsoft Edge: Settings > Privacy and services > Cookies and site permissions
Please note that disabling cookies globally via your browser may negatively impact the functionality of our online booking engine.
7. Changes to This Cookies Policy
We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please revisit this policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies.
8. More Information
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other tracking technologies, please email us at geral@buggyboat.pt or consult our main Privacy Policy available on this website.
Last Updated: May 2026