Cookie policy
This Cookie Policy was last updated on 5 October 2026 and applies to citizens and permanent legal residents of the European Economic Area and Switzerland.
1. Introduction
Our website, https://aluseg.com (hereinafter: "the website") uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience, all technologies are referred to as "cookies"). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.
2. What are cookies?
A cookie is a small, simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive or another device. The information stored can be sent back to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.
3. What are scripts?
A script is a piece of program code used to make our website work properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.
4. What is a web beacon?
A web beacon (or pixel tag) is a small, invisible text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. To do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.
5. Cookies
5.1 Technical or functional cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website: you do not need to enter the same information repeatedly. We may place these cookies without your consent.
5.2 Analytical cookies (statistics)
We use analytical cookies to optimise the website experience for our users. With these cookies we obtain information about the use of our website and about the journey between the website and the Aluseg app. These cookies are active from the moment you arrive on the website; you can refuse them at any time (see section 7).
5.3 Advertising and campaign-measurement cookies (marketing)
On this website we use Google Ads cookies to measure the results of our advertising campaigns, for example to know whether a click on an ad led to a sign-up on Aluseg. These cookies are active from the moment you arrive on the website; you can refuse them at any time (see section 7).
5.4 Social networks and videos
Our website does not embed social network buttons or content: the links in the footer simply open the relevant network. YouTube videos are only loaded when you click play (through the youtube-nocookie.com domain); at that point YouTube, which belongs to Google and is based in the United States, may place its own cookies.
6. Cookies and local storage used
These are the cookies and data stored on your device by this website (aluseg.com):
| Name | Origin | Purpose | Duration | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| aluseg_consent | Aluseg (browser local storage) | Stores your cookie choice | 6 months | Essential |
| _ga, _ga_VC3JWVDL5T | Google Analytics 4 | Audience measurement and the journey to the Aluseg app: tells visitors and sessions apart | up to 2 years | Statistics |
| ph_phc_…_posthog (cookie and local storage) | PostHog (EU region), through our own domain (/ingest) | Analysis of website use and of the journey to sign-up; the anonymous identifier is shared with app.aluseg.com (cookie on .aluseg.com) | up to 1 year | Statistics |
| _gcl_au, _gcl_aw | Google Ads, loaded through Google Tag Manager | Measurement of campaign conversions (for example, a sign-up on Aluseg after an ad) | up to 90 days | Marketing |
Google LLC is based in the United States. PostHog is used in the European Union region and requests go through our own domain. We do not use PostHog session recordings.
7. Consent
The statistics and marketing cookies described above are active from your first visit. On your first visit we show a notice with the options "Accept", "Reject" and "Preferences". You can refuse all non-essential cookies or choose category by category, at any time.
Your choice is stored in your browser for 6 months; after that we ask again. When you refuse a category, we stop using it and delete the cookies it had created; when you refuse both, later pages make no request to third parties at all.
7.1 Manage your consent settings
Click "Cookie preferences" in the footer of any page to review or change your choice. You can also disable the use of cookies through your browser, but please note that our website may not work properly.
8. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies
You can use your browser to delete cookies automatically or manually. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change your browser settings so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, see the instructions in the Help section of your browser.
Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our website again.
9. Your rights regarding personal data
You have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it and how long it will be retained.
- Right of access: you have the right to access your personal data known to us.
- Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, delete or block your personal data whenever you wish.
- If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and have your personal data deleted.
- Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in full to another controller.
- Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for the processing.
To exercise these rights, please contact us. See the contact details at the end of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Data Protection Authority).
10. Contact details
For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact us using the following contact details:
Aluseg
Rua França Junior, n.º 472, 2.º Esquerdo
4450-133 Matosinhos
Portugal
Website: https://aluseg.com
E-mail: hello@aluseg.com
Phone: +351934674569