This Privacy Policy explains how Discover Portugal (discoverportugal.net) collects, uses, and protects information when you visit our site. We are a small, independently run travel and expat-life blog about Portugal. If you have questions about this policy, please get in touch via our Contact page.
Information we collect
We collect information in the following ways:
- Analytics data — we use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the site (pages viewed, time on site, approximate location, device and browser type). This data is aggregated and does not directly identify you.
- Comments — if you leave a comment, we collect the content of the comment along with your name, email address, and IP address, mainly for spam prevention.
- Contact forms — if you use a contact form on this site, we collect the information you submit (such as your name and email address) in order to respond to you.
Cookies and consent
This site uses cookies to operate correctly, to understand site traffic, and — where enabled — to support advertising. When you first visit, a cookie consent banner lets you choose which categories of cookies (necessary, analytics, advertisement, functional) you allow. You can change your preferences at any time using the cookie settings link in the site footer. Necessary cookies are always active, as they are required for the site to function.
Advertising
This site may display advertisements served by Google AdSense and other third-party advertising vendors. These vendors may use cookies or similar technologies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this or other websites. If you are in the European Economic Area or UK, ads and any related data use will only occur after you provide consent through our cookie banner. You can learn more about how Google uses data and manage your ad personalization settings at policies.google.com/technologies/ads and myadcenter.google.com.
Embedded content
Articles on this site may include embedded content (for example, videos or maps). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if you visited that website directly, and that website may collect data about you and set its own cookies.
How long we keep data
Comments and their metadata are kept indefinitely so we can recognize follow-up comments. Contact form submissions are kept only as long as needed to respond to your inquiry, unless a longer retention period is required for legal reasons. Analytics data is retained according to Google Analytics’ standard retention settings.
Your rights
If you are located in the European Economic Area or the UK, you have the right to access, correct, or request deletion of personal data we hold about you, to object to or restrict certain processing, and to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. To exercise these rights, contact us via our Contact page.
International data transfers
Some of the third-party services we use (such as Google Analytics and Google AdSense) may process data on servers located outside your country, including in the United States. These providers maintain appropriate safeguards for such transfers.
Children’s privacy
This site is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page.
Last updated: September 2026.