The privacy policy below identifies the information collected, the methods of collection, and how it is processed.
By using this website you must be aware of and accept this privacy policy.
1. Owner and Data Controller
Company Name: Felipe Guimarães do Couto
Address: Rua do Fontão, 66
Postal Code: 4710-087 Braga
Tax Number: 305 378 139
Email: contacto@guimaraescoutoadvogados.pt
2. Data Collected
This website collects the following data through registration or contact forms when completed and submitted by the user:
(a) name, (b) phone number, (c) company name, (d) email
This website uses cookies to collect statistical information anonymously and/or to improve the user experience when using this website.
3. Purpose of the Collected Data
The data collected on this website is intended for:
– Contacting the user to respond to submitted requests.
– Sending, upon the user's request, service proposals and/or other information regarding our services and/or products.
– Future contact, namely sending communications about services and commercial campaigns.
– Compliance with legal obligations.
The data is collected for the purposes indicated above, therefore all data subjects should verify its accuracy and update it whenever necessary so that the website owner can adopt the appropriate measures for its processing.
Completing the forms available on this website includes a request for the user’s explicit consent for the sending and processing of data as described above. The consent given when submitting any personal information represents prior and explicit consent for the processing of the personal data provided by its holder for one or more of the purposes described above, and authorizes the owner of this website to process the collected personal data to the extent and for the time necessary to fulfill those purposes.
In compliance with the applicable legislation and its policy, the owner of this website clarifies that it does not request or encourage, in any place or form, the submission of personal data related to philosophical or political beliefs, political party or trade union membership, religious faith, private life, racial or ethnic origin, nor the processing of data related to sexual life.
Accordingly, the owner of this website reserves the right not to accept, collect, or receive information that compromises fundamental rights or that may be considered unlawful, excluding any responsibility regarding its processing.
Considering the purpose of the processing of the collected information, the owner of this website reserves the right to cancel or annul any request if all necessary data required to manage the respective process is not collected, excluding any responsibility.
4. Retention of Personal Data
Accordingly, it is informed that the personal data collected within the scope of any process handled by the owner of this website may be kept for the period necessary to fulfill its purpose and may be stored for future processes or maintained for the continued sending of promotions or information about actions, services, or products, without prejudice to the right of the data subject to request the deletion of their data (right to be forgotten) at any time, as indicated in the following point.
5. Rights of the Personal Data Subject
The period during which personal data is stored and retained will vary according to the purposes chosen by the data subjects, but always for a period equal to or less than the period established by law. However:
The holder of personal data may, at any time, request:
– Access to all information held by the website owner about them
– The deletion of all information held by the website owner about them whenever one of the following reasons applies:
(i) the data is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected or processed;
(ii) the data subject withdraws consent when consent is the legal basis;
(iii) the data subject objects to the processing and there are no overriding legitimate interests that justify its retention; or
(iv) the personal data must be erased in order to comply with a legal obligation.
– The rectification of information held by the website owner about them
– Portability, restriction, and/or objection to processing. The data subject must communicate their request in writing to the owner of this website, identifying themselves with their full name and sufficient identification elements to allow proper identification and subsequent processing of the request.
All requests must be made through the addresses and methods identified in point 1 of this privacy policy.
Additionally, the data subject may always submit complaints they deem necessary to the competent authority for this purpose.
6. Security in the Processing of Personal Data
The collected data is processed and stored electronically and in physical format (paper) when necessary.
The owner of this website has implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, and against any other form of unlawful processing. Only employees and subcontractors authorized by the owner of this website have access to personal data, and they are bound by confidentiality and secrecy obligations.
If, for any reason, a security breach occurs that results in the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to personal data, the owner of this website undertakes, under applicable legislation, to notify the competent authorities without undue delay and, whenever possible, within 72 hours after becoming aware of such occurrence.
Under the same terms, the owner of this website undertakes to communicate the breach of personal data to the respective data subject in accordance with applicable legislation.
Without prejudice to the above paragraphs, the user should adopt additional necessary and appropriate security measures, namely by maintaining an active firewall, updated antivirus and anti-spyware software, and by using caution when accessing third-party platforms, verifying and confirming the existence of a digital certificate and the reliability of the address. The owner of this website shall not be held responsible for events not attributable to it or for the failure to comply with specified or required precautionary rules.
7. Communication of Personal Data to Third Parties
The information and personal data to which the owner of this website has access will under no circumstances be sold or transferred to third parties.
Within the scope of its activity, the owner of this website may use subcontractors to provide certain services, which may, in some situations, imply that such entities have access to the personal data of users or clients.
If this occurs, the data subject consents to this sharing, and the owner of this website undertakes to adopt the necessary and appropriate measures to ensure that entities with access to such personal data are reputable and offer high guarantees in this regard. This will be duly established and safeguarded in a written contract concluded between the owner of this website and the subcontractor(s).
Any subcontractor with whom the owner of this website shares data will be responsible for processing the personal data of users on its behalf and for its account, undertaking to adopt the necessary technical and organizational measures to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, and against any other form of unlawful processing, being responsible for its appropriate use in accordance with legal terms.
Without prejudice to the above paragraph, the owner of this website remains responsible for the processing of personal data under the legal terms and within the respective limits of use.
8. Access to Third-Party Websites
This privacy policy does not apply to third-party websites or support platforms that the user may access through this website. In this case, whenever you visit another website through this one, you should always read the applicable privacy policy and verify whether you agree with its terms before providing your personal data.
The owner of this website is not responsible for the privacy policy or the processing of personal data applicable on third-party websites, nor for the content available on those websites.
9. Cookies
This website may use cookies and/or web beacons when a user accesses its pages. The cookies that may be used are associated (if applicable) only with the browser of a specific computer, tablet, or mobile phone.
The cookies used on this website may be installed by the website itself, originating from the various servers operated by it, or from servers of third parties that provide services and install cookies and/or web beacons (for example, cookies used for statistical services or certain external content). The user may search their computer according to the instructions of their browser and find and remove cookies.
Cookies are necessary to identify that a browser (and presumably a person using that browser) accessing several pages of a website is the same browser (and presumably the same person) that accessed a specific page. This can easily be exemplified with login processes: when a user logs into a website, that website stores a cookie in the browser with a unique identifier that later allows the system to know that it was that login that requested a specific page, enabling it to display information or provide specific functionalities for that user.
This website uses cookies in order to provide the best possible experience when using and browsing this website, namely in the following situations:
– Sharing content on social networks
– Displaying third-party content (e.g., videos)
– Collecting statistics
We do not use cookies to:
– collect information that identifies you
– collect sensitive information about you
– pass information that identifies you to third parties
More details on how cookies are used in each of the cases mentioned above:
Social Media Cookies
So that users of this website can easily share our content on their social media accounts such as Facebook and Twitter, this website includes buttons for those functionalities.
Cookies for these functionalities are therefore created and introduced on our pages by Facebook (Facebook Privacy Policy) and Twitter (Twitter Privacy Policy).
The privacy implications of these functionalities depend on the social networks used by the users of this website and on the privacy settings defined by them in each of those networks.
Cookies for anonymous statistics about visitors to this website
This website uses cookies to compile visit statistics in order to obtain anonymous information about the number of visits it receives, what technology is used to access the website, which pages are viewed and for how long, among many other anonymous statistical indicators.
This information allows this website to continuously improve the experience of its visitors.
The software used by this website to collect statistics is Google Analytics.
Thus, for this type of cookies this website uses:
– Google Analytics – Google Privacy Policy
If you do not want your visits to websites and blogs to be detected by Google Analytics, go to:
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
For more information about cookies, including how to find out which cookies have been installed and how they can be managed and deleted, visit:
http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
Last update: March 05, 2026