Expat Tax advice in Portugal

Privacy and cookie policy

Personal information
First of all, we do not collect any personally identifiable information from people entering the 'public' areas of our site. (That's the ones that you can surf and look around without need for a password). All we do is gather information on the numbers of visitors to certain areas of the site and about the places in the world that visitors access us from. Be assured that we will never attempt to use this information to identify specific individuals.

Cookies
Our public website and Internet service, along with most other major websites, use cookies. Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to the cookie file on your computer's hard disk. Cookies enable users to navigate around the website and (where appropriate) enable us to tailor the content to fit the needs of visitors who have accessed the site.

We use two types of cookie on our websites.
Session cookies which are temporary cookies which remain in the cookie file of your computer until you close your browser at which point they are deleted.

Persistent or stored cookies that remain permanently on the cookie file of your computer.
Cookies cannot look into your computer and obtain information about you or your family or read any material kept on your hard drive and unless you have logged onto secure access areas, cookies cannot be used to identify who you are.

Cookies cannot be used by anyone else who has access to the computer to find out anything about you, other than the fact that someone using the computer has visited a certain website. Cookies do not in any way compromise the security of secure access.

Cookies will not be used to contact you for marketing purposes.

Cookies may be used to record details of pages relating to particular products and services that you have visited on our websites. This is to provide us with generic usage statistics to allow us to improve our websites and to provide you with information about products and services that may interest you. Information on products and services may be provided via the website or by other means.

This does not affect your right to opt-out from receiving marketing material from us.

The web-browsers of most computers are initially set up to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can set your web-browser to disable cookies or to inform you when a website is attempting to add a cookie. You can also delete cookies that have previously been added to your computer's cookie file.

You can set your browser to disable persistent cookies and/or session cookies but if you disable session cookies, although you will be able to view our public unsecured website you will not be able to log onto the secure area.

If the computer that you are using is set to disable persistent cookies, you will be able to access secure areas; however, your navigation of the website may be less enjoyable.

How to manage cookies
Please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/ to discover how to disable and delete cookies.