This document explains your rights and obligations on the FindYourselfPortugal.com website. We have tried to make it as readable as possible, but please read it carefully because you are bound by its content when using this website.
Disclaimer
The FindYourselfPortugal.com website contains a lot of information. We created most of it ourselves, while our visitors have created other parts of it. Although we carefully draft the information we publish and we try to correct any mistakes as soon as possible, you should be aware that you use any of the information on this website at your own risk. You should be even more careful when using the visitor-contributed information like the comments of our posts. This means that – to the furthest extent permissible by law – we are not “contractually” or “extracontractually” responsible, in any way, for any harm this website (or any external website we link to) might cause you … unless, of course, we publish information that is intentionally fraudulent or harmful information – consider this unlikely!
Copyright
All materials on this site are protected by copyright and intellectual property laws and are the property of FindYourselfPortugal.com or their respected owners. Unless stated otherwise, you may access and download the materials located on FindYourselfPortugal.com only for personal, non-commercial use.If we discover that you have used our copyright materials in contravention of the license above, we may bring legal proceedings against you, seeking monetary damages and/or an injunction to stop you using those materials. You could also be ordered to pay legal costs.By sharing any contribution (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) with us you agree to grant us, free of charge, permission to use the material in any way we want (including modifying or deleting it). In order that we can use your contribution, you confirm that your contribution is your own original work, is not defamatory and does not infringe any Portuguese laws and that you have the right to give us permission to use it for the purposes specified above.If you become aware of any material on our website that you believe infringes your or any other person’s copyright, please report this by contacting us.
Participation
When you participate in comment discussions attached to blog posts and/or articles, you are responsible for what you post. Although we will not screen all contributed content, we reserve the right to remove anything we deem inappropriate, without any possibility of recourse or redress on your part.Be aware that some users will rely on the content of your posts. You – and not FindYourselfPortugal.com – are responsible for your posts, and you hereby fully indemnify us from any claim we might receive from third parties harmed by your content.
Privacy
We take privacy seriously. When you visit our website, our servers collect some technical information about you (web browser type, IP address)with GOOGLE Analytics and also track which pages you visit on our site, for a period of up to 24 months. As long as you are not logged in, this information is fairly anonymous and we will use it only to create anonymous statistics . We may also provide the information collected about you if, in cases of fraud or other criminal activities, we are subpoenaed to do so by competent legal authorities.If you post to our blogs, you need to leave some additional traces of your identity: name, e-mail address, etc. However, unless we are legally forced to do so, we will not combine our server logs to create detailed tracking of your behavior or sessions on our website.
Cookies
This website uses several cookies. They store technical information that allows us to better interact with your browser and to identify you on subsequent visits to our site. This website also uses Google Analytics to collect non-identifying and aggregate information to improve our website. You can read Google’s privacy policy here for further information http://www.google.com/privacy.html. FindYourselfPortugal.com does not use cookies to collect or store personal information about you.
Email Newsletter
This website operates an email newsletter program, used to inform subscribers about products and services supplied by this website. Users can subscribe through an online automated process should they wish to do so but do so at their own discretion. Some subscriptions may be manually processed through prior written agreement with the user. No personal details are passed on to third parties nor shared with companies / people outside of the company that operates this website.Email marketing campaigns published by this website or it’s owners may contain tracking facilities within the actual email. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation. Such tracked activity may include; the opening of emails, forwarding of emails, the clicking of links within the email content, times, dates and frequency of activity. This information is used to refine future email campaigns and supply the user with more relevant content based around their activity. Subscribers are given the opportunity to un-subscribe at any time through an automated system. This process is detailed at the footer of each email campaign. We use Mailchimp for sending our newsletter (Mailchimp Privacy Policy).
External Links & Affiliate Links
Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links users should always adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website.
The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and it’s owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
Adverts and Sponsored Links
This website may contain sponsored links and adverts. These will typically be served through our advertising partners, to whom may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the adverts they serve.
Clicking on any such adverts will send you to the advertisers website through a referral program which may use cookies and will tracks the number of referrals sent from this website. This may include the use of cookies which may in turn be saved on your computers hard drive. Users should therefore note they click on sponsored external links at their own risk and this website and it’s owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
Social Media Platforms
Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and it’s owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor it’s owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them by email.This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.
Legal jurisdiction
The laws of Portugal shall govern your use of the site and you hereby agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Portuguese courts.
