Privacy policy

TERMS OF USE

INTRODUCTION

By using this website, you agree to the terms and conditions of use described below.

Please read the following terms and conditions of use and, if you do not agree, you should not access and use this website.

The terminology “we,” “our,” “our” and “ours” refer to Miguel Alves dos Santos, who is the legal owner of this website.

The terminology “you” or “your”, “yours” and “yours” refer to the user or visitor of this website.

 

ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE

You agree to the terms and conditions expressed in this agreement with respect to this website.

This agreement is complete, the only agreement between Miguel Alves dos Santos and you, and supersedes all prior agreements, representations, warranties and understandings regarding: this website; its content; the products and services it provides; and the subject matter of this agreement.

This website is the means of dissemination of the literary works of its Author and owner.

This agreement may be amended by its owner at any time without notice. The most up-to-date agreement will always be made available on this website and the user should become aware of it before using this website.

COPYRIGHTS

The content, organization, graphic arts, design, compilation, magnetic translation, digital conversion and other matters related to this website are protected by applicable copyright, trademark and other proprietary rights (including but not limited to intellectual property).

The copying, redistribution, use or publication of any subject or part of this website by the user, except as permitted by the section below “Limited License and Authorized Use”, is strictly prohibited. You acquire no ownership rights in any content, document or other material on this website.

The publication of information or materials on this website does not constitute a waiver of any right to such information and materials. Some of the content on this website is the work of a third party copyright owner, namely the “News” module.

LIMITED LICENSE AND AUTHORIZED USES

The user is granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable license to:

a) access and use this website in strict accordance with this agreement;
b) use this website solely for internal, personal and non-commercial use;
c) print discontinuous information or download documents free of charge or payable from this website for internal, personal and non-commercial use, considering that the user complies with the reserved copyright and other policies contained in this agreement.

No print or electronic version of any part of this website or its contents may be used by the user in any dispute or arbitration under any circumstances.

The user’s license to access and use this website and any information, material or documents contained therein is subject to the following restrictions and prohibitions of use:

a) The user must not copy, print (except for the restricted purposes permitted in section 4 above), republish, display, distribute, transmit, sell, rent, lease, lend or, in any other way or means, make available all or part of this web site or any content or material obtained here from.
b) You shall not use this website or any material obtained from this website to develop any basis of information or similar resource (in any current or future media) that is offered for commercial distribution of any kind, including through sale, license, lease, rental, subscription or any other commercial distribution mechanism.
c) The user must not use this website to upload content, through the means of uploading files or forms, that are not in accordance with the purpose and ethical code of this website, such conduct being reason for blocking the user’s access to restricted parts of this website, such as login and registration areas.

 

PRIVACY POLICY

Privacy policy and terms of use

The owner of this website is committed to ensuring the privacy of personal data collected and/or transmitted online. The security and privacy of the data of the readers of the sites are aspects that assume a crucial importance.

If you have any questions about any of the following, please let us know by email to alves.dos.santos.escritor@gmail.com.

The new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in force since May 25, 2018, is applicable to all organizations of the European Union Member States that process personal data. Thus, the owner, through the company responsible for managing its contents and data, Site.pt, in the relationship with its readers is also bound to compliance with these new Regulations.

Currently, the only personal data it holds, which are limited to e-mail addresses and name, will in no way be transmitted to subscribers or third parties.

The following types of personal information may be collected, stored and used:

1. information about your computer, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;
2. information about your visits and use of this website, including reference source, duration of visit, page views, and website navigation paths;
3. information, such as your name and e-mail address, that you enter when you contact us;
4. information generated when you use our site, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it;
5. information contained in any communications you send to us by e-mail or through our site, including the content and metadata of the communication;
6. any other personal information you send to us.

Before you disclose another person’s personal information to us, you must obtain that person’s consent to the disclosure and processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.

Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following:

1. administer our website;
2. customize our website for you;
3. send you non-marketing commercial communications;
4. send email notifications specifically requested by you;
5. provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but these third parties
6. may not identify any individual user from this information);
7. deal with questions and complaints made by or about you in connection with our site;
8. keep our site secure and prevent fraud;
9. verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our site (including the monitoring of private messages sent through our site’s private messaging service); and
10. other uses.

If you submit personal information for publication on our site, we will publish and use that information in accordance with the license you have granted us.

Your privacy settings may be used to limit the posting of your information on our website and adjusted through the use of privacy controls on the website.

Without your express consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for their or their direct marketing purposes.

Disclosure of personal information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, agents, service providers or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set forth in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

1. to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
2. in connection with any ongoing or potential lawsuit;
3. to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction purposes);
4. to any person we reasonably believe may request a court or other competent authority to disclose such personal information when in our reasonable opinion such court or authority is likely to order the disclosure of such personal information.

Except as set forth in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

1. The information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
2. The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries that do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area, United States of America, Middle East countries, Russia, Japan, China and India.
3. You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this section.

1. This section sets out our data retention policies and procedures designed to help ensure compliance with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
2. Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes should not be kept longer than necessary for that purpose or purposes.
3. Without prejudice to the foregoing, we will generally delete personal data belonging to the categories defined below at the date/time defined below:
4. Personal data will be deleted within one year from the date you provide us with this information;
5. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) that contain personal data:
6. to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
7. if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or potential lawsuit; and
8. to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction purposes).

1. We will take appropriate technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
2. We will store all of your personal information provided on our secure servers (password and firewall protected).
3. You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is inherently insecure and that we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the Internet.

Changes

We may update this policy periodically by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by e-mail.

You may instruct us to provide any personal information we hold about you; the provision of such information will be subject to the following:

1. payment of a fee; and
2. providing appropriate evidence of your identity for this purpose; we will generally accept a certified copy of your identity card or passport plus an original copy of a service bill showing your current address.

We may retain personal information requested to the extent permitted by law.

You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

In practice, you will generally either expressly agree in advance to the use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will offer you the opportunity to opt-out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

Third party websites

The website may have links to other sites in the future. We are not responsible for the privacy policies of such sites. When accessing other sites, readers are recommended to consult the pages that refer to their privacy policies.

Information update

Please let us know if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

Cookies

Our site uses cookies. A cookie is a file that contains an identifier (a sequence of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a browser and stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server every time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a browser and will remain valid until the expiration date set, unless deleted by the user before the expiration date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user’s session when the browser is closed. Cookies do not normally contain any personally identifiable information about a user, but the personal information we store about you may be linked to information stored and obtained from cookies. We use only session cookies on our website.

1. The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which they are used are described below:
2. We use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to recognize a computer when a user accesses the site, track users as they browse the site, improve the usability of the site, analyze site usage, administer the site, prevent fraud and improve site security, customize the site for each user;

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies for example:

1. In Internet Explorer, you can block cookies using the available cookie handling cancellation settings by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options” “Privacy” and “Advanced”;
2. in Firefox, you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy”, selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu and unchecking “Accept cookies from sites” ; and
3. In Chrome, you can block all cookies by going to the “Customize and control” menu and clicking “Settings”, “Advanced”, and “Site settings” and then selecting “Block third-party cookies” in the “Cookies and site data” section.

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many sites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all features on our site.

You can delete cookies that are already stored on your computer, for example:

1. in Internet Explorer, you must delete cookie files manually(check instructions to do so at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835 );
2. in Firefox, you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy”, selecting “Use custom settings for history”, clicking “Show cookies” and then “Remove all cookies”; and
3. In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Customize and Control” menu and clicking “Settings”, “Advanced”, “Clear Browsing Data” and then selecting “Delete Cookies and other data from websites and plugins” before clicking “Clear Browsing Data”.

Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many sites.