Privacy policy

1. Scope of the Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to all visitors to this website. By accessing the website, the user expresses acceptance of the provisions of the Privacy Policy, while also being aware that it may be amended over time. Such changes will take effect immediately upon publication of the amended Privacy Policy.

The website may be accessed by all individuals of legal age for the consumption of alcoholic beverages in accordance with the rules of the country where navigation takes place.

This Privacy Policy describes how personal information is collected, used, and shared when users and customers browse or make a purchase on this website.

2. Personal data collected

The domain server for this website automatically registers and stores the information typically registered by the server by default, that is, the Internet Protocol Address through which the user accessed the Internet; the date and duration of their access to this website, the Internet address of the website that brought them directly to this website, and some of the cookies installed on your device.

Furthermore, while on the website, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that the user and/or customer views and how they interact with the website. This automatically collected information is referred to as “Device Information”.

3. Category of data collected

When you create an account on the site or use services through the website, you must provide us with personal data (i.e., any data regarding a person whose identity is apparent or can be reasonably determined from that data), such as name, date of birth, email address, and IP addresses. You may also complete your registration with the following data: address, district, mobile phone number, postal code, and locality.

We refer to this information as “Order Information”. The data requested on the website that are marked with an asterisk are mandatory. We will not be able to process your request, namely processing the order for delivery, if you do not provide us with this mandatory data. When we refer to “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking about both Device Information and Order Information.

4. Purposes of Personal Information

Order Information is generally used to fulfill any request made through the website (including processing payment information, arranging shipping, and providing invoices and/or order confirmations). Additionally, Order Information is used to:

Communicate with the user;
Marketing: to personalize the Site content and our offers;
Improve the website: This information will be used to help make this website more useful for users: performing analyses of website usage in order to improve our services; resolving issues related to the website;
Other effects: sharing data with organizations that may acquire or do acquire some or all of the rights in our entity; fulfilling legal obligations, such as those related to sales administration and preventing fraud and money laundering.

5. With whom we share your Personal Information

We share Personal Information with third parties to assist us in using your personal data, as described above. Our main partners are Woocommerce, software on which our online store was developed – you can read more about how Woocommerce uses your Personal Information here: https://www.woocommerce.com/legal/privacy. We also use the Moloni billing system, duly registered with the AT (Tax and Customs Authority), https://www.moloni.pt/rgpd/ and we have Shiptimize as a logistics intermediary partner; you can access their Privacy Policy here: https://www.shiptimize.pt/privacy-policy/ .

We also use Google Analytics, which is a web analysis service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the collected data to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt out of having your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visit activity. For more information on Google’s privacy practices, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

Finally, we may also share Personal Information:

  • in order to comply with applicable legal and regulatory terms,
  • to respond to a subpoena or other legal request for information
  • to protect our rights.


6. Cookies Policy

The Site www.syndicato.pt uses Cookies, understood as text files that identify the User's computer on the BEERSINESS, Lda. server. Thus, the Cookies used do not individually identify the Site User, and, to that extent, do not constitute a tool for collecting personal data.

Specifically, the Site uses the following Cookies:

  • Session cookies: These are temporary cookies that remain in the browser's cookie file until you leave the webpage, so there is no record on the User's hard drive. The information collected by these cookies serves to analyze site traffic patterns. Ultimately, this allows us to improve the content and usability of the site.
  • Analysis cookies: These are those that, processed by us or by third parties, allow us to quantify the number of Users on the site and perform statistical analysis of the use of the services made available on the site. Browsing on our site is analyzed, always with the objective of improving the provision of products or services that we make available to you.
  • Advertising cookies: These are those that, well processed by us or by third parties, allow us to manage the offer of advertising spaces existing on the site more effectively, being able to analyze your browsing habits and show you advertising related to your browsing profile.

The User may choose not to use and delete the above-mentioned Cookies, but, in that case, it may happen that the operation of the Site and your browsing may suffer changes or limitations.

7. Personal Information and Advertising

Your Personal Information is used to enable targeted ads and/or marketing communications that we believe may be of interest to you.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by using the links below:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
Google: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/

8. Your rights of access, rectification, erasure, and opposition

You also have the right to request access to, rectification of, modification of, or cancellation of personal information and other data, as well as to exercise the right to be forgotten and/or data portability concerning you, and/or to obtain information about issues related to the protection of your personal information.

If you wish to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information mentioned in point 9 of this document.

Additionally, note that we may process your personal data for the purpose of fulfilling contracts (for example, if you make an order through the website), and/or for the commercial interests listed above. Furthermore, please be aware that information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States of America.

9. Data Protection Officer

The Syndicato Data Protection Officer is, as communicated to the CNPD (National Data Protection Commission):

Bárbara Gouveia Pimenta, available via email: beersiness@beersiness.pt