Last updated: 23 October 2026. This English version is provided for information; the French version is the reference text.
1. Data controller
António Martins, sole trader (SIRET 914 610 803 00019) — contact@genealogia-portugal.com — +33 7 68 45 75 36.
2. Data collected and purposes
- Contact and quotations (website form, email, phone): last name, first name, email, phone, service requested and the content of your message, in order to reply to your request. Messages sent through the form are forwarded to me by email and are not stored on the website. Legal basis: pre-contractual steps taken at your request.
- Carrying out research: the family information you provide (names, dates, places, civil records, photos of documents), in order to perform the service. Legal basis: performance of the contract.
- Invoicing: name, billing address, services. Legal basis: legal obligation.
Information about living members of your family is used only for your research and is never published.
3. Retention periods
- Contact requests not followed up: 3 years after the last exchange.
- Research file: for the duration of the service, then 3 years for follow-up; deleted earlier on simple request.
- Invoices and accounting records: 10 years (legal obligation).
4. Recipients
Your data is never sold or transferred. It is accessible only to António Martins and his technical providers: Infomaniak (website and email hosting, in Switzerland, a country recognised by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of protection). To obtain official records, some information (names, dates, places) may be passed on to the civil registry or archive services concerned.
5. Cookies
The website uses no advertising cookies and no audience measurement tools. It only sets the technical cookies needed for it to work: the language cookie (pll_language, 1 year), which remembers your choice between French, Portuguese and English, and, for the administrator only, the WordPress login cookies. The currency converter may remember the currency you choose in your browser. None of this requires your consent.
6. Your rights
You have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict, object to the processing of, and port your data. To exercise these rights, write to contact@genealogia-portugal.com. You will receive a reply within one month.
If you believe your rights have not been respected, you can lodge a complaint with the French data protection authority, the CNIL (www.cnil.fr), or with the authority of your country of residence.