Privacy and cookies policy

1. Data controller

The controller of your personal data is Francisco Gomes Pereira, Portuguese solicitor (solicitador), professional licence no. 9648, who practises under the name MGPS International, with professional address at Campo Grande, 28 - 7D, 1700-093 Lisbon, Portugal. For any question about your data, please write to info@mgps.pt.

2. What data we process

• Identification and contact details: name, email, phone, country of residence.
• Information you send us about your case: description of the situation, properties, family members and heirs, documents.
• Data needed to provide our services: identity documents, tax number and other data required by law.
• Technical data logged by the server when you visit the website, such as your IP address, for security reasons.

3. Purposes and legal bases

| Purpose | Legal basis | | Assessing and answering your request | Steps taken at your request before entering into a contract | | Providing the services agreed | Performance of a contract | | Meeting legal obligations, including tax and anti-money laundering rules | Legal obligation | | Running and securing the website | Legitimate interest |

4. Professional confidentiality

All information you share with us is protected by the professional confidentiality that binds solicitors in Portugal, which extends to the whole team.

5. Who we share data with

Only as far as your case requires: land registries, the Tax Office, notaries, courts, municipalities, the Directorate-General for the Territory and other public bodies; service providers that support us, such as website hosting and email, bound by contract; and accounting partners, only with your agreement.

6. Transfers outside the European Union

If you live outside the European Union, we communicate with you in your country of residence as needed to provide the service you asked for. If a service provider processes data outside the European Union, this only happens with the safeguards required by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

7. How long we keep data

Requests that do not lead to an engagement are kept for 12 months. Case data is kept for the periods required by the applicable legal and professional obligations.

8. Your rights

You may request access to, correction, erasure, restriction or portability of your data, object to its processing and withdraw your consent at any time, as provided by law. To do so, write to info@mgps.pt. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Portuguese data protection authority, the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (CNPD).

9. Cookies

This website does not use cookies or any analytics or advertising tools. Fonts and images are hosted on the website itself, without third-party services. If this changes, we will update this policy and ask for your consent before using any non-essential cookies.

10. Changes

We may update this policy. The current version is always available on this page, with the date of the last update.