1. What cookies are
Cookies are small text files a website stores in your browser. They allow you to stay signed in as you move between pages, or let the site remember the country and language you selected.
Similar technologies, such as browser local storage, follow the same rules described here.
2. Essential cookies
These are required for the site to work. Without them you cannot sign in or publish a listing, so they cannot be turned off and do not depend on consent.
- login session, to keep you signed in while you browse;
- a record of your cookie choice, so we do not ask again on every visit;
- form security token (CSRF), which prevents someone else from submitting data on your behalf.
3. Functional cookies
These store preferences that improve your experience. If you refuse them the site still works, but it may forget your choices between visits.
- selected country or market;
- chosen language, Portuguese or English;
- filters and sorting applied when browsing listings.
4. Analytics cookies
These help us understand how the site is used and where to improve it, always in aggregate form.
BRDeals uses Google Analytics to measure audience. It is only loaded after you accept: until you do, no Google script is downloaded and no data leaves your browser.
The cookies in this category are _ga and _ga_*, kept for up to two years.
5. Marketing cookies
These would serve targeted advertising or measure campaigns.
BRDeals does not use marketing cookies and does not share your browsing data with advertising networks.
6. Third-party cookies
Some features rely on external services, which set their own cookies when you use them:
- Google Analytics, to measure audience — only after you accept;
- Google account sign-in, when you choose to use it;
- Stripe, at the moment of a payment, for fraud prevention.
- These services only come into play when you use the corresponding feature, and each follows its own privacy policy.
7. How to control your choice
On your first visit you choose between accepting and declining measurement cookies. Until you accept, Google Analytics is not loaded — neither the script nor any contact with Google.
You can change your choice at any time through the "Cookie preferences" button in the footer of any page. We keep your decision, with its date and the version of this policy, in a cookie on your own device — not on a server of ours.
Declining limits nothing: the site works the same, and you can still post listings, chat and use your account normally.
You can delete cookies at any time in your browser settings. The essential ones will be recreated on your next visit, because the site cannot work without them — and deleting them signs you out. Deleting the choice cookie brings the question back.
8. Changes to this policy
If we start using new cookie categories, this page will be updated and we will ask for your consent again before any collection that depends on it.
