Your privacy is important to us. It is SPI – Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect on the website SPI – Portuguese Innovation Society, and other sites we own and operate.

We only ask for personal information when we truly need it to provide a service to you. We do so by fair and lawful means, with your knowledge and consent. We also let you know why we are collecting it and how it will be used.

We only retain collected information for as long as necessary to provide your requested service. What data we store, we'll protect within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorised access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.

We do not share personally identifiable information publicly or with third parties, except when required by law.

Our site may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and practices of these sites and cannot accept responsibility for their respective privacy policies.

You are free to refuse our request for personal information, with the understanding that we may be unable to provide some of your desired services.

Your continued use of our website will be regarded as acceptance of our practices around privacy and personal information. If you have any questions about how we handle user data and personal information, please contact us.

SPI Cookie Policy – Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação

What are cookies?

As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored, however, this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the site's functionality.

How do we use cookies?

We use cookies for various reasons, detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry-standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave all cookies on if you are not sure whether you need them or not, in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disable cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting your browser settings (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will generally result in certain functionality and features of this site also being disabled. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

Cookies we set

• Account-related cookies
  
  If you create an account with us, we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out, however, in some cases, they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.
  
  
• Login-related cookies
  
  We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this action. This prevents you from having to log in every time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
  
  
• Cookies related to email newsletters
  
  This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications that are only valid for subscribed / unsubscribed users.
  
  
• Search-related cookies
  
  Periodically, we offer surveys and questionnaires to provide interesting insights, useful tools or to understand our user base more precisely. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide accurate results after page navigation.
  
  
• Form-related cookies
  
  When you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or application forms, cookies may be set to remember user details for future correspondence.
  
  
• Site preference cookies
  
  To provide a great experience on this site, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. To save your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page affected by your preferences.

Third-Party Cookies

In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third-party cookies you might encounter through this website.

• This site uses Google Analytics, which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web, to help us understand how you use the site and how we can improve your experience. These cookies may track items such as how long you spend on the site and the pages you visit, so that we can continue producing engaging content.

For more information on Google Analytics cookies, please see the official Google Analytics page.

• Third-party analytics are used to track and measure the use of this site, so that we can continue producing engaging content. These cookies may track items such as the time you spend on the site or the pages you visit, which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you.
• We periodically test new features and make subtle changes to the way the site looks. When we are still testing new features, these cookies may be used to ensure you receive a consistent experience while on the site, whilst we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.

User Commitment

The user undertakes to make appropriate use of the content and information that SPI – Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação offers on the website, including, but not limited to:

• A) Not to engage in activities that are illegal or contrary to good faith and public order;
• B) Not to spread propaganda or content of a racist or xenophobic nature, games of chance, any type of illegal pornography, apology for terrorism or against human rights;
• C) Not to cause damage to the physical (hardware) and logical (software) systems of SPI – Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação, its suppliers or third parties, nor to introduce or spread computer viruses or any other hardware or software systems that are capable of causing the aforementioned damage.

Further information

Hopefully this is clear and, as previously mentioned, if there is anything you are not sure whether you need or not, it is usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case you interact with one of the features you use on our site.

This policy is effective as from October/2021.