Privacy Policy

The Privacy Policy regulates the processing of the personal data of users, made available and collected during usage of the website www.msmadvogados.pt, by Manuela Silva Marques Advogados, as the entity responsible for the processing.

Access to and usage of the website do not imply the provision of personal data by users. However, recourse to certain functions of the website implies the provision of personal data by users.

Such data will be processed by Manuela Silva Marques Advogados for:

1. Contact requests: personal data will be processed, upon consent, to manage the established contact and provide the clarifications and information requested by the user;
2. Submission of applications: personal data will be processed for the purpose of pre-contractual diligences to manage your application;
3. Subscribing to updates: personal data will be processed, subject to your consent, for the purposes of sending relevant communications and information.

Under the terms of the applicable legislation, users may at any time request access to personal data concerning them, as well as their rectification, deletion, limitation of their processing, portability or express opposition to their processing.

Users may also obtain confirmation as to which personal data concerning them are processed and a copy of the data processed shall be made available to them upon request.

Under the terms of the law, users are guaranteed the right to withdraw their consent to the processing of data for the purposes indicated, without however invalidating the processing carried out until that date based on the consent previously given.

In order to exercise any of the aforementioned rights, users shall submit their requests in writing.

The personal data collected shall be processed in strict compliance with the applicable legislation. Personal data will be kept in accordance with the respective purposes and in compliance with the applicable legal timeframe restrictions. Thus, and whenever there is no specific legal requirement, the data shall be stored and kept only for the period appropriate and necessary for the purposes for which they were collected, unless the right to object, the right to deletion or the withdrawal of consent is exercised within the legal limits.

Manuela Silva Marques Advogados may transmit your personal data:

1. a) When resorting to other entities for the provision of certain services as such service provision may imply access by these entities to your personal data. Thus, any processor shall process your personal data, in the name and on behalf of Manuela Silva Marques Advogados under strict obligations to follow our instructions and under the terms of the processing agreement entered into with the said processor;
2. b) To third parties, when it deems such data communication necessary or appropriate: in the light of the applicable law, in compliance with legal obligations/judicial orders, deliberations or decisions of supervisory authorities or to respond to requests from public or government authorities.

In all these situations, all appropriate measures will be taken to ensure the effective protection of personal data.

All best efforts will be made to protect the personal data of users against unauthorised access, through the use of security systems, rules and other procedures in order to both guarantee the protection of personal data as well as to prevent unauthorised access to data, improper usage, disclosure, loss or destruction.

However, it remains the responsibility of users to guarantee and ensure that the devices and equipment used to access the website are adequately protected against harmful software, computer viruses and worms.

Cookies are small text files that identify the user’s computer to the server. Cookies themselves do not identify the individual user, only the computer used. Cookies are not used to collect personal data.

Our website deploys cookies to help determine the usefulness, interest in and number of visits to the website, allowing faster and more efficient browsing of the website by eliminating the need to repeatedly enter the same information.

All browsers allow users to accept, reject or delete cookies, namely by selecting the appropriate settings on the respective browser. Users can set cookies in the “options” or “preferences” menu of their browser. To learn more about cookies, including how to manage and delete cookies, users may visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Nevertheless, please note that disabling cookies may partially or totally affect the browsing experience of users of this website.

The links contained in this website may lead to other websites. Manuela Silva Marques Advogados is not responsible for, nor approves nor in any way supports or endorses the content of these websites nor of any websites they link or refer to.

Nor shall it be liable for damages resulting from viruses that may infect the computers or networks, or other property, of users as a result of access to our website or the transfer of content from it to the computers or networks of users.

This privacy statement applies only to information collected through our website.

According to the commitment to adopt the appropriate security measures to ensure confidentiality and protection of personal data, under the terms of the applicable legislation on personal data protection, Manuela Silva Marques Advogados may transfer personal data to third countries (outside the European Union or the European Economic Area), within the scope of the purposes set out in this Policy and for which there is no adequacy decision adopted by the European Commission.

Users may contact Manuela Silva Marques Advogados on all matters relating to the processing of their personal data and the exercise of the rights conferred on them under the applicable law.

Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, users hold the right to submit complaints to the competent control authority under the terms of the law should they believe that the processing of their data by Manuela Silva Marques Advogados violates the legal regime in force at each moment.

Manuela Silva Marques Advogados reserves the right to, at any time, alter the present terms for the processing of personal data. Such amendments shall be duly publicised on the website.

The provision of personal data implies knowledge and acceptance of the Terms and Conditions of Use