The privacy policy below identifies the information collected, methods of collection, and its processing.
By using this website, you must be aware of and accept this privacy policy.
1. Data Owner and Controller
Company Name: Miguel Ângelo Rodrigues Mestre
Address: Rua da Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa 126
Postal Code: 8800-208 Tavira
Tax Number: 209 340 037
Email: quintamestre@gmail.com
2. Data Collected
This website collects the following data through registration or contact forms when filled out and submitted by the user:
(a) name, (b) phone number, (c) company name, (d) email
This website uses cookies to collect anonymous statistical information and/or to enhance the user experience when using this website.
3. Purpose of the Data Collected
The data collected on this website is intended for:
– Contacting the user to respond to submitted requests.
– Sending, upon user request, service proposals and/or other information about our own services and/or products.
– Future contacts, including sending communications about services and marketing campaigns.
– Compliance with legal obligations.
The data is therefore collected for the above-mentioned purposes, and the data subject must verify its accuracy and update so that the person responsible for this website can take appropriate measures in its processing.
Filling out the forms on this website is accompanied by a request for the user’s express consent for the sending and processing of data as described above. This consent, given by submitting any personal information, will represent the prior and express consent for the processing of personal data by the data subject for one or more of the purposes described above, and the owner of this website is authorized to process the personal data collected to the extent and for the duration necessary to pursue these purposes.
In compliance with applicable legal regulations and its policy, the owner of this website clarifies that it does not request or encourage, in any location or form, the submission and sending of personal data regarding philosophical or political beliefs, party or union membership, religious faith, private life, racial or ethnic origin, or data relating to sexual life.
Accordingly, the owner of this website reserves the right not to collect or accept information that may undermine fundamental rights or appear to be unlawful, and any responsibility for such processing is excluded.
Considering the purpose of processing the information collected, the owner of this website reserves the right to cancel or reject any request if all the data necessary for managing the process in question is not collected, with any responsibility excluded.
4. Retention of Personal Data
Accordingly, it is informed that the personal data collected in the context of any process to be handled by the owner of this website may be retained for the period necessary to fulfill the purpose, and may be kept on record for future processes or retained for the continued sending of promotions or disclosures of actions, services, or products, without prejudice to the data subject’s right 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 may vary depending on the purposes chosen by the individuals concerned, but always for a period equal to or less than the one stipulated by law. However:
The data subject may, at any time, request:
– Access/request for all information held by the controller of this website about them
– Deletion of all information held by the controller of this website 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 justifying its retention; or (iv) the personal data must be erased to comply with a legal obligation.
– Rectification of the information held by the controller of this website about them
– Portability, restriction and/or objection to processing – the data subject must make their request in writing to the owner of this website, identifying themselves with their full name and providing sufficient identification details to allow proper identification and processing of the request.
All requests must be made using the addresses and means identified in point 1 of this privacy policy.
Additionally, the data subject may always file any complaints they deem necessary with the competent authority.
6. Security in the Processing of Personal Data
The data collected 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 destruction, accidental or unlawful loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, and against any form of unlawful processing. Only authorized employees and subcontractors of the owner of this website have access to personal data, and they are bound by duties of confidentiality.
If, for any reason, a security breach occurs that results in the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, disclosure, or unauthorized access to personal data, the owner of this website commits, under applicable law, to notify the competent authorities without undue delay and, where possible, within 72 hours of becoming aware of such an occurrence.
In accordance with the above, the owner of this website also undertakes to inform the data subject of the data breach, as required by applicable law.
Without prejudice to the above, the user should adopt additional necessary and required security measures, namely maintaining an active firewall, updated antivirus and anti-spyware, and should act cautiously when accessing third-party platforms, verifying and confirming the existence of a digital certificate and the trustworthiness of the address. The owner of this website shall not be held responsible for any incidents beyond their control or for failure to follow these specified or required precautions.
7. Sharing of Personal Data with Third Parties
The information and personal data to which the owner of this website has access will not, under any circumstances, be sold or transferred to third parties.
As part of its activities, the owner of this website may use subcontractors to provide certain services, which may, in some situations, result in these entities accessing the users’ or clients’ personal data.
If this occurs, the data subject consents to such sharing, and the owner of this website undertakes to implement the necessary and appropriate measures to ensure that the entities with access to such personal data are reputable and offer high levels of assurance, as stipulated in a written contract 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 on behalf of and under the instruction of the website owner, committing to adopt the necessary technical and organizational measures to protect the personal data against destruction, accidental or unlawful loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, and any other form of unlawful processing, remaining liable for its proper use in accordance with legal requirements.
Without prejudice to the preceding paragraph, the owner of this website remains responsible for the processing of personal data in legal terms and within the respective usage limitations.
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 such cases, whenever you visit another website from this one, you should always read the applicable privacy policy and check whether you agree with its terms before providing your personal data.
The owner of this website is not responsible for the privacy policy or personal data processing practices applicable on third-party websites, nor for the content provided on such 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 phone.
The cookies used on this website may be installed by the website itself, originating from the servers operated by it, or from third-party servers providing services and installing cookies and/or web beacons (e.g., cookies used for statistics or certain external content). The user may search their device according to browser instructions and find and remove the cookies.
Cookies are necessary to identify that a browser (and presumably a person using that browser) accessing various pages of a website is the same browser (and presumably the same person) who accessed a particular page. This is usually easy to demonstrate with logins, where a website stores a cookie with a unique identifier in the browser to know that it was that login that requested a specific page, allowing the website to show information or provide specific functionalities for that user.
This website uses cookies to provide the best possible user experience, especially in the following situations:
– Sharing content on social media
– Displaying third-party content (e.g., videos)
– Collecting statistics
We do not use cookies to:
– Collect information that can identify you
– Collect sensitive information about you
– Share personally identifiable information with third parties
More details on how cookies are used in each of the above cases:
Social Media Cookies
To allow users of this website to easily share our content on their social media accounts like Facebook and Twitter, this website includes buttons for those functions.
The cookies for these functions are created and placed on our pages by Facebook (Facebook Privacy Policy) and Twitter (Twitter Privacy Policy).
The privacy implications of these features depend on the social networks used and the privacy settings the users define on each of them.
Cookies for anonymous visitor statistics
This website uses cookies to compile statistics about visits, to learn anonymous information about the number of visits received, the technologies used to access the site, which pages are viewed and for how long, among many other anonymous statistical indicators.
This information allows this website to continually improve the experience of its visitors.
The software used by this website to collect statistics is Google Analytics.
Thus, this website uses the following types of cookies:
– Google Analytics – Google Privacy Policy
If you do not want your visits to websites and blogs to be tracked by Google Analytics, go to: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
For more information about cookies, including which cookies have been installed and how they can be managed and deleted, visit: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
Last update: July 21, 2025