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Privacy Policy

How we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you interact with our website and services.

1. Who We Are

DOGMAS & FUNDAMENTOS is a landscape design company based at R. Dom Marcelino Franco 9, 8800-347 Tavira, Portugal. We provide landscape design services for residential and commercial clients across the Algarve region and southern Portugal. You can reach us at info@dogmasfundamentos.com.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect the following categories of personal information:

  • Contact details — name, email address, phone number, and postal address when you contact us or request a quote.
  • Project information — details about your outdoor space, project requirements, and preferences that you share with us during consultations.
  • Technical data — IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, and time spent on our website, collected automatically via cookies and analytics tools.
  • Communications — records of correspondence you send us, including emails and contact form submissions.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the personal information we collect to:

  • Respond to your enquiries and provide the landscape design services you have requested.
  • Prepare proposals, quotations, and project documentation.
  • Communicate project updates and relevant service information.
  • Improve the functionality and content of our website.
  • Comply with our legal obligations under applicable Portuguese and EU law.

We do not use your information for unsolicited marketing purposes and we do not sell your data to third parties.

4. Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal data on the following legal grounds under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):

  • Contractual necessity — to fulfil or prepare a service agreement with you.
  • Legitimate interests — to operate and improve our website and services.
  • Consent — where you have explicitly agreed, for example when accepting cookies.
  • Legal obligation — where we are required to retain or disclose data by law.

5. Cookies

Our website uses cookies — small text files stored on your device — to ensure the website functions correctly and to gather anonymised usage statistics. When you first visit our site, we ask for your consent to use non-essential cookies. You may decline at any time using the cookie banner or by adjusting your browser settings.

We use the following types of cookies:

  • Essential cookies — required for the website to operate; these cannot be disabled.
  • Analytics cookies — help us understand how visitors interact with our site so we can improve the experience.

6. Data Sharing and Third Parties

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information. We may share data with trusted third-party service providers (such as email hosting or website analytics platforms) only to the extent necessary for them to deliver their service on our behalf. All such providers are required to process your data securely and in accordance with applicable data protection law.

7. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected, or as required by law. Contact and project records are typically retained for up to five years following the conclusion of a project or last interaction. Technical and analytics data is retained for a maximum of 26 months.

8. Your Rights

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

  • Access — you may request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
  • Rectification — you may ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
  • Erasure — you may request that we delete your data, subject to any legal obligations.
  • Restriction — you may ask us to limit how we use your data in certain circumstances.
  • Portability — you may request your data in a structured, machine-readable format.
  • Objection — you may object to processing based on legitimate interests.
  • Withdrawal of consent — where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw it at any time.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@dogmasfundamentos.com. We will respond within 30 days. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Portuguese data protection authority, the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (CNPD), at www.cnpd.pt.

9. Data Security

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorised access, loss, or disclosure. Our website uses HTTPS encryption for all data transmitted between your browser and our server. Despite these precautions, no method of transmission over the internet is entirely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

10. Links to Other Websites

Our website may contain links to external sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those sites and encourage you to review their privacy policies before providing any personal information.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or applicable law. Any updates will be posted on this page with a revised "Last updated" date. We encourage you to review this page periodically.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or about how we handle your personal data, please contact us: