Cookie Policy

Last Updated: 15th March 2026

Effective Date: 15th March 2026

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile phone) when you visit our website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide information to website owners about user behaviour and preferences.

Why We Use Cookies

SummitAdvisor uses cookies for several important purposes:

  • Essential Functionality: To ensure our website works properly and securely
  • User Experience: To remember your preferences and settings
  • Analytics: To understand how visitors use our website and improve our services
  • Marketing: To deliver relevant advertisements and measure campaign effectiveness
  • Performance: To optimise website loading times and functionality

Types of Cookies We Use

Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for the website to function properly. They enable basic functions like page navigation, access to secure areas, and remembering your cookie preferences. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Analytics Cookies

We use Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our website. This helps us understand which pages are most popular, how long visitors spend on the site, and how they navigate through our content. This information is used to improve our website and services.

Functional Cookies

These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your language preference or cookie consent choices) and provide enhanced, more personalised features.

Marketing/Advertising Cookies

These cookies are used by Google Ads and other advertising services to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and your interests. They also help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns and limit the number of times you see an advertisement.

Specific Cookies We Use

Cookie Name Purpose Duration Type
cookie_consent Stores your cookie consent preferences 1 year Necessary
_ga Google Analytics - distinguishes unique users 2 years Analytics
_gid Google Analytics - distinguishes unique users 24 hours Analytics
_gcl_au Google Ads - conversion tracking 90 days Marketing
_gcl_aw Google Ads - attribution tracking 90 days Marketing
IDE Google DoubleClick - ad targeting and measurement 390 days Marketing

Third-Party Cookies

We use several third-party services that may set cookies on your device:

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to analyse how users interact with our website. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit the site, what pages they visit, and what other sites they used prior to visiting our site. This information helps us improve our website and services.

Google Ads

We use Google Ads for advertising and remarketing purposes. Google Ads may use cookies to show you relevant advertisements on other websites and to measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.

Google Fonts

We use Google Fonts to display fonts on our website. Google may set cookies to optimise font delivery and analyse font usage patterns.

Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You have several options for managing cookies on our website:

Cookie Consent Banner

When you first visit our website, you will see a cookie consent banner that allows you to:

  • Accept All: Allow all types of cookies
  • Reject All: Only allow necessary cookies
  • Customise: Choose which types of cookies to allow

Changing Your Preferences

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by:

  • Clicking the cookie preferences link in our website footer
  • Clearing your browser cookies and revisiting our site
  • Using your browser's cookie management settings

Browser Settings

You can also control cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to:

  • View and delete cookies
  • Block all cookies
  • Block third-party cookies
  • Clear all cookies when you close the browser
  • Open a "private" or "incognito" browsing session

Google Consent Mode v2

We implement Google Consent Mode v2, which allows us to respect your cookie preferences while still providing basic analytics and advertising functionality. When you reject marketing or analytics cookies, Google services adjust their behaviour to comply with your choices while maintaining essential functionality.

Impact of Disabling Cookies

If you choose to disable cookies, some features of our website may not function properly:

  • Your cookie preferences will not be remembered
  • Some website functionality may be limited
  • You may see less relevant content and advertisements
  • We will not be able to improve our website based on usage analytics

Updates to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, or legal requirements. We will post any updates on this page and update the "Last Updated" date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about our use of cookies.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us:

SummitAdvisor Lda.
Email: privacy@summitadvisor.pro
Phone: +351 264 699 552
Address: Rua de São Bento 150, 7076-562 Évora, Portugal

Need Help with Cookie Settings?

If you need assistance with managing your cookie preferences or have questions about how cookies affect your browsing experience, our support team is here to help.

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