Privacy notice

No account, no profiling

Buying in Portugal does not require you to register or create an account to read guides, use the calculator, build a Personal Buying Plan, or ask the AI assistant a question.

We do not build marketing profiles, sell data, or share your activity with advertisers. There is no cross-site advertising tracking on this site.

What is stored in your browser

Several tools save your choices directly in your browser's local storage, on your own device, so that you can leave a page and come back without starting again. This data is not automatically sent to us.

It includes your Personal Buying Plan answers, your Compare Locations selections and priorities, your off-plan checklist progress, your Resort Purchase Checker answers, your buyer-country preference, your cookie preference, and the state of your AI assistant conversation.

• Personal Buying Plan: budget range, intended use, timing and similar coded answers
• Compare Locations: the areas and priorities you selected
• Off-plan checklist and Resort Purchase Checker: which items you have ticked
• Buyer-country preference: the country you told us you are buying from
• Cookie preference: whether you accepted or declined optional analytics
• AI assistant conversation: kept in your browser so you can continue a chat; it can be cleared at any time

Analytics

Where analytics is configured, it only runs after you give consent through the cookie preference control, and it is limited to aggregate, non-identifying measurements such as which pages and tools are used.

Analytics events do not contain the text of your questions, your documents, or any other personal data. If you decline, no analytics runs and your use of the guides and tools is unaffected.

The AI assistant

When you ask the AI assistant a question, it is sent to a server endpoint operated for this site, which forwards it to an AI model provider to generate an answer grounded in this site's content.

This exchange is used solely to produce a reply and is not used to build a profile of you or to identify you. The conversation itself remains in your browser rather than being tied to a persistent account.

The "Found a Property" flow and document upload

If you use the Found a Property flow, the details you enter about your situation and, if you choose to attach them, supporting documents are uploaded to a private storage location in the project's backend rather than to your browser.

Uploaded files are stored under an unguessable path with no public link, and they are not read by the AI assistant. They exist only to support a request you have chosen to make.

This information is shared with VVA only when you explicitly submit your request for legal support. Nothing is passed to VVA before that step, and you can remove uploaded documents before submitting.

Your rights

Because most tools on this site keep data on your own device, you can clear it yourself at any time by clearing that tool's progress, clearing your browser storage, or declining analytics.

For information you have submitted through the Found a Property flow, you can contact VVA to ask about, correct, or request deletion of that information.

Contact

Questions about this notice, or requests relating to information submitted to VVA, can be directed to Valente Veiga & Associados through the Legal Support section of this site.