Living Canedo

Cookies and Storage

This page describes, literally, what the Living Canedo site stores in your browser. In summary:

  • The site installs no cookies of its own.
  • It stores two technical pieces of information in the browser — the marker that avoids repeating the entrance animation and the record of your choice about the map — described in point 3.
  • Audience measurement is done without cookies and in aggregate, described in point 4.
  • The Contact section can show a Google map. That map is only loaded if you allow it, and it is the only thing on this site that can give rise to third-party cookies: point 5.
  • There is no advertising, no tracking networks, and no sharing of data for that purpose.

This page is an English translation of the Portuguese original, provided for convenience. In the event of any divergence between the two texts, the Portuguese version is the binding one and prevails. You can read it here: Cookies e Armazenamento.

1. What cookies and browser storage are

A cookie is a small file that a site asks the browser to store and that is returned to it on each visit, allowing it, for example, to recognise the same browser over time. There are other ways of storing information on the user's device, technically distinct from cookies but with the same legal framework, among them session storage ("sessionStorage"), which lasts only while the tab is open, and local storage ("localStorage"), which persists until it is deleted. These two are the forms this site uses, and neither of them is sent to any server.

2. This site installs no cookies of its own

As at the date this page was last updated, the site installs no cookie of its own in your browser: no session cookies, no advertising, ad-measurement or social network cookies. This statement was verified technically against the published site, with the audience measurement tool active, by inspecting the browser's complete cookie list after loading the page, moving through the site and interacting with it: that list was empty.

As for third-party cookies there is a single possibility, and it depends entirely on you: the Google map described in point 5. Until you allow it, your browser's cookie list stays empty, exactly as above — that is how we verified it.

It is because of that map that the site now shows a cookie notice. The applicable Portuguese law (Lei n.º 41/2004, de 18 de agosto, as currently in force, which transposes the directive on privacy in electronic communications) requires the user's prior consent for the storage of information on their device that is not strictly necessary for providing the service requested — and dispenses with it precisely for what is strictly necessary, which is the case of the two technical keys in point 3. The notice appears once, offers "Accept" and "Decline" with the same weight and with no additional steps to decline, does not prevent you from reading the site while you have not answered, and disappears as soon as you do. Until then, the map is not loaded.

3. Strictly necessary technical storage

There are two pieces of information the site stores of its own accord, both free of any personal data and neither of them an identifier:

3.1. The site's home page opens with a brief entrance animation. So that this animation is not repeated on every navigation within the same visit, the site stores a marker in the browser:

  • Name: lc:preloader-seen
  • Type: sessionStorage (it is not a cookie and is never sent to any server)
  • Content: the value "1", merely the indication that the animation has already run
  • Purpose: not to repeat the entrance animation during the same visit
  • Duration: deleted automatically by the browser when you close the tab or the window

3.2. When you answer the notice in point 2, the site has to remember what you answered — otherwise it would ask you again on every page, and a refusal would have no practical effect:

  • Name: lc:consent-mapa
  • Type: localStorage (it is not a cookie and is never sent to any server)
  • Content: the word "aceite" (accepted) or "recusado" (declined) and the date on which you answered
  • Purpose: to respect your choice about the Google map and not to ask again
  • Duration: it is kept until you delete it or withdraw the choice; after 180 days it stops being treated as current and the question is asked again

Storing the record of a choice about storage is itself strictly necessary: it is what makes it possible to comply with the decision you made. We chose to keep it in localStorage rather than in a cookie precisely so that the statement in point 2 — the site installs no cookies of its own — remains literally true.

4. Audience measurement without cookies

To know which pages are viewed and how often, the site uses Vercel Web Analytics, an audience measurement tool that does not use cookies and that produces aggregate statistics. On our side, this information is not used for advertising, to personalise the site's content or to identify you individually.

On the provider's side, Vercel Inc. publicly documents how this tool works (vercel.com/docs/analytics/privacy-policy): without resorting to cookies, the visitor is distinguished by a code ("hash") calculated from the request received, and that session is not stored permanently, being automatically discarded after 24 hours.

Each record may contain the date and time, the URL and the page's dynamic path, the origin of the visit, the filtered query parameters, the country, the region and the city, the operating system and the browser with their versions, the device type and the script version. None of this is stored in your browser, and the result is an aggregate statistic, which does not make it possible to reconstruct your path across sites or to identify you personally. The Privacy Policy, point 3.3, returns to this from the point of view of personal data processing.

5. The Google map in the Contact section

In the Contact section, next to the address, the site can show a Google map with the location of the development. That map is not stored on this site: it is third-party content, loaded from Google's servers at the moment it is shown.

Until you allow it, the map is not loaded. In its place there is a block with the address and a button, and the site makes not a single request to Google's servers. This was verified technically: with the browser's network log open, in a fresh profile and with no choice made, loading the home page and going through it from top to bottom produces no request to any Google domain, and the browser's cookie list stays empty. The same holds after declining.

If you allow it, and from that moment on:

  • your browser starts communicating directly with Google's servers to obtain the map, a communication in which Google receives, among other elements, your IP address, the address of the page the map is embedded in and information about your browser;
  • Google may set cookies in your browser and read cookies it already has there. Those cookies are Google's and not this site's: we have no access to them and do not control their names, their content or their duration, and for that reason we do not list them here. The one who describes them is Google itself, in its privacy policy (policies.google.com/privacy) and on its page about the use of cookies (policies.google.com/technologies/cookies).

Google's processing of that data is governed by its own policies, over which we have no control. The Privacy Policy, points 3.5, 6 and 7, returns to this from the point of view of personal data processing and international transfers.

How to accept, decline or change your mind. On your first visit, the notice described in point 2 offers you "Accept" and "Decline". In the map's place there is also a button that loads it, with the same effect as allowing it. At any moment, and without having to contact anyone, you can change your choice here:

Withdrawing the choice restores the initial situation: the notice appears again, the map stops being loaded and no request is made to Google again until you allow it once more. If you have JavaScript disabled in your browser, you do not see these buttons and the map is never loaded at all — loading the map depends on the same code that displays them.

6. Fonts and images

The site's fonts and images are served from the site itself — including the Lora and Poppins typefaces, which are of Google origin but are copied into this site when it is built, precisely so that using them does not involve any request to Google. Until you allow the map in point 5, viewing a page of this site therefore generates no request whatsoever to third-party servers.

7. Links to third-party services

The site's contact buttons open services that are not ours: the "Book a Viewing" button opens WhatsApp, the address opens Google Maps in a new page, and the telephone and email contacts open the applications on your own device. These links load nothing until you click them; from the moment you leave the site, the cookie and privacy policies of those entities apply, over which we have no control.

8. How to control or delete this storage

  • Your choice about the map can be changed or withdrawn at any time in point 5 of this page.
  • Close the tab or the window: the session key described in point 3.1 is deleted automatically.
  • In your browser's settings you can, at any time, review and delete the data stored by this and by any other site, normally in the privacy section, "site data" or "cookies and site data". That also deletes the record of your choice, and any Google cookies if you have allowed the map.
  • A private or incognito browsing window discards all of that storage when it is closed.

Deleting these keys has no consequence for you: at most, the entrance animation is played once again and the question about the map is asked afresh.

9. Changes to this page

If the site comes to use cookies of its own or any other non-essential storage, or if it comes to integrate another third-party service (for example, with the introduction of a contact form), this page is updated before that change takes effect and the consent mechanism is reviewed accordingly.

Date last updated: 17 August 2026.