Cookie Policy

The website of the Petrolina Group uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. If you want to know more about our processing of your personal data, please check out our Privacy Policy Statement.

Glossary

Cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive each time you access our website.

Tracking pixel is comprised of small snippets of code that are integrated into our website which, in combination with a cookie, allows us to collect information about you and monitor your use of our website. The observed data can be then used in order, for example, to add you to a particular target audience.

First party cookies are cookies sent by us when you visit our website and have the same functions as normal cookies mentioned above.

Third party cookies are sent by our advertising and analytics partners, such as Facebook and Google, when you visit our website and they usually, but not always, have the same functions as a tracking pixel.

Session cookies are temporary which means they start working once you begin using our site and are deleted once your browser is closed.

Persistent cookies will remain on your device until the time set for the cookie to expire passes or the cookie is purposely deleted. These types of cookies are activated each time you return to our site.

What Cookies Do We Use

We use both first and third party cookies in our website, which are then divided into the following categories:

Essential cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, inter alia, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.
Performance/Analytics cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that you are finding what you are looking easily.
Targeting/Retargeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose so they can provide content and advertisements that you have shown interest in on our website, including, inter alia, content and advertisements about us when you visit their websites or digital platforms.

Below you can see how we utilise each cookie category on our website in more detail.

First Party Cookies

NAME	DESCRIPTION	FUNCTION	PURPOSE	EXPIRY
XSRF-TOKEN	This cookie enables us to protect you from cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.	Essential	This cookie is used to verify that the authenticated user is the one actually making the requests to the website (as the case may be) and to protect the website from cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.	2 hours
petrolina_session	This cookie enables us to provide personalised features to you.	Essential	This cookie allows the website to remember the choices you make (such as user name, language or the region in which you reside) and provide enhanced, more personalised features.	2 hours
BECookieControl	Storing cookies preferences of user	Essential	This cookie allows the users to make selections on cookies preferences	1 year

Third Party Cookies

Please note that third party cookies used by the Petrolina Group across our digital platforms and services (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also have cookies, over which we have no direct control, but need to use on our website to deliver our content to you.

We are not entirely responsible for third-party sites and their privacy practices as you have the choice to deactivate their tracking activities. The following third parties collect data for the visitors of our website via the use of cookies for which you can find more information below.

NAME	DESCRIPTION	FUNCTION	PURPOSE
Google Analytics	This cookie enables us to produce site analytics and performance measurement.	Performance/ Analytics	We use cookies from Google Analytics to track traffic on the website with the purpose of improving our website, as well as improving your experience when browsing the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.
Google Tracking Pixels	This cookie enables us to understand what browser and device (i.e. mobile or desktop) you are using and which website or social media platform you have used, alongside ours.	Targeting/ Retargeting	This cookie is placed by Google and it enables us to measure, optimise and build audiences for advertising campaigns served on Google. It’s a tracking pixel that collects information about you, which is then used to build and optimise target audiences for Google Ads. Ultimately, this lets us serve personalized ads to you when you are browsing other websites and social media platforms. We do not collect or store any personal data about you through the pixel but Google does.
Google Ads	This cookie is used for retargeting, optimisation, reporting and attribution of online ads.	Targeting/ Retargeting	This cookie is placed by Google to register and report your actions in the website after viewing or clicking one of our advertisements with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to you across the web. Targeted advertisements may be displayed to you based on previous visits to our website. For example, advertisements about a topic that you have expressed an interest in while browsing our site may be displayed to you across the web. In addition, this cookie measures the conversion rate of ads presented to you.
Facebook Ads	This cookie is used to serve targeted ads on Facebook.	Targeting/ Retargeting	This cookie is placed by Facebook and is created after you have been on Facebook and then visit our website. This allows Facebook to customize possible ads or posts based on your browser behavior which are then used to serve targeted ads to you on Facebook.
Facebook Tracking Pixels	This cookie will help deliver our advertising to users who have already visited our website when they are on Facebook or a digital platform powered by Facebook Ads.	Targeting/ Retargeting	This cookie is placed by Facebook and it enables us to measure, optimise and build audiences for advertising campaigns served on Facebook. It’s a tracking pixel that collects information about you, which is then used to build and optimise target audiences for Facebook Ads. For example, it collects and sends data, which are connected to an identifier, such as your name or IP-address, to Facebook about your visit to our website and what you clicked on. The pixel then sends the data to Facebook where they are matched with your user profile if you have one. Therefore, when we create an ad on Facebook, we can ask Facebook to target the ad to users who have visited our website. We do not collect or store any personal data about you through the pixel but Facebook does.

How Can You Control the Use of Our Cookies?

All types of cookies that we use, either first or third party, with the exception of essential cookies are subject to your consent. If you wish to deactivate any of the cookies mentioned above, you can do this at any time through your browser settings. However, please note that if you decide to deactivate all cookies, you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

Similarly, you can deactivate the use of third party cookies at any time via your browser settings.

Concluding Remarks

We will keep this Cookie Policy under review and make updates from time to time. Any changes to this Cookie Policy will be posted on our Website page and to the extent reasonably possible, will be communicated to you. You can consult this web page for the latest version.

If you have any further questions and/or comments, please contact us at 24848000.