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Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 2026 · Versão em português

This Privacy Policy explains how personal data collected through the website ruiloureiroadv.pt is processed, in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation — GDPR) and Portuguese Law no. 58/2019 of 8 August. In case of any discrepancy, the Portuguese version prevails.

1. Data controller

Rui Loureiro, Lawyer, holder of Portuguese Bar ID no. 72145P, with professional address at Esplanada do Castelo, 141, 4150-196 Porto, Portugal.
Contact for data protection matters: ruiloureiro-72145P@adv.oa.pt.

2. Data collected

The contact form collects your name, email address, phone number (optional) and the content of your message. Special categories of personal data are not requested, so please do not include them at this stage.

3. Purpose and legal basis

Your data is processed solely to respond to your enquiry and, where applicable, to take pre-contractual steps at your request. Processing is based on your consent and on the performance of pre-contractual steps (Article 6(1)(a) and (b) GDPR).

4. Retention

Data is kept for as long as necessary to respond to your enquiry and, if no professional relationship follows, for a maximum of 12 months, after which it is deleted. If a professional relationship is established, the data becomes subject to the rules governing the legal profession, including the duty of professional secrecy.

5. Recipients and processors

Your data is not shared with third parties for commercial purposes. The following service providers are used to run the website:

• Netlify, Inc. — website hosting and receipt of contact form messages;
• Google — display of the map (Google Maps) and fonts (Google Fonts), which involves transmitting the visitor’s IP address.

These providers may process data outside the European Economic Area, notably in the United States, on the basis of the transfer mechanisms provided for in the GDPR, such as the adequacy decision on the EU–US Data Privacy Framework or the standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission.

6. Your rights

You may at any time exercise your rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and objection, and withdraw your consent, without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal. To do so, simply send a request to the email address given in section 1.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Portuguese Data Protection Authority — Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (www.cnpd.pt).

7. Cookies

This website does not use its own analytics or advertising cookies. The embedded Google Maps map may use Google cookies, in accordance with that provider’s privacy policy.

8. Changes

This Privacy Policy may be updated at any time; the version in force is the one published on this page.