This Privacy and Cookies Policy regulates the processing of personal data carried out by Ferreira Pinto & Associados - Sociedade de Advogados, SP, RL (“FPCLEGAL”), as the controller of the personal data collected when using FPCLEGAL’s Website (www.fpclegal.pt).
By providing your personal data, you acknowledge and accept this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy is complemented by the Terms & Conditions, available here.
1. Collection and Processing of Personal Data
1.1. Cookies
We use cookies on this Website. A cookie is a small text file that identifies your device on our server. Cookies themselves do not identify the individual user, only the device used. The cookies we use also collect information such as the browser or operating system you use.
1.1.1. The cookies we use
We use the following types of cookies on our Website:
(i) Essential cookies: these are cookies that allow our Website to respond to any action you perform on the Website. Certain functionalities will not work properly if these cookies are not used.
(ii) Analytical cookies: these cookies allow the use of statistical analysis software (analytics). FPCLEGAL uses Google cookies (Google Analytics) for this purpose. This software helps analyse our website visitors and provides anonymous information such as browsers used, visitors’ country, visitors’ origin (web search or referral links). This information helps us improve the Website and your online experience. For more information about data collection and processing through Google cookies, please refer to the respective privacy policy, available here.
1.1.2. Cookie control
You may configure your device at any time to accept all cookies, to notify you when a cookie is installed, or to refuse all cookies. How you do this depends on the browser you use.
Browsers allow some control over cookies through their settings. Most browsers allow you to block cookies or block cookies from specific websites. Browsers can also help you delete cookies when you close them.
Please note that disabling cookies may limit the use of websites.
To learn more about cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org, which includes information on managing settings for various browsers.
1.2. Newsletter subscription
If you wish to subscribe to our newsletters, we will collect your email address. We will use this information solely to send newsletters and only for as long as you choose to remain subscribed.
1.3. Submission of applications
You may also send us a spontaneous job application through our Website by emailing us your Curriculum Vitae. The data you provide will be used for ongoing or future recruitment processes carried out by FPCLEGAL.
2. Your rights
Under the applicable law, you may request, at any time, access to, rectification, deletion, restriction and/or portability of your personal data.
To exercise any of the above rights, you must submit a written request to the following email address: privacy@fpclegal.pt.
Any objection to data processing communicated to FPCLEGAL after processing has begun will take effect only from the date of receipt of such communication and will not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out up to that point.
Regarding the right to data portability, please note that, under applicable law, it only applies to data collected based on your consent.
3. Retention of personal data
FPCLEGAL has implemented the following personal data retention policy:
Cookies: cookies will remain on your devices until you delete them or until they expire. The data collected by FPCLEGAL through cookies does not allow your direct identification, and therefore the information obtained is kept indefinitely.
Newsletter delivery: we will keep your email address to send newsletters until you request its removal from the subscription list. You may do so by selecting the link included at the end of our newsletter emails, or, if you prefer, you may send us an email requesting removal to: privacy@fpclegal.pt.
Job applications: if you send us your Curriculum Vitae, we will keep the data you provide for 1 (one) year from the date of receipt.
4. Security
FPCLEGAL implements the necessary security measures to ensure the confidentiality of the personal data we collect and process, and to prevent unauthorised disclosure, unauthorised access, loss, or destruction of personal data.
It is, however, the users’ responsibility to ensure that the devices and equipment used to access the Website are adequately protected against malicious software, computer viruses, and worms.
5. Complaints
You may lodge a complaint with the Portuguese Data Protection Authority (Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados – CNPD) if you believe that our data processing breaches applicable law. More information available at www.cnpd.pt.
6. How to contact us
If you have any questions regarding the processing of your personal data, you may contact FPCLEGAL using the following details:
Phone: 215874140
Email: privacy@fpclegal.pt
Address: Av. José Malhoa, 16-B, 2nd Floor, 1070-159 Lisbon
7. Changes to the privacy and cookies policy
FPCLEGAL may amend this Privacy and Cookies Policy at any time. These changes will be published on the Website.
Last update: 13-03-2026