Privacy
What we collect
The email address, message and any file you send us by email.
When you visit the site: visit statistics (such as the pages viewed), collected with Ahrefs Web Analytics, which sets no cookies.
Why we hold it
To answer your enquiry and, if you proceed, to carry out the engagement.
Visit statistics are used for one purpose only: to see which pages are read and to fix what does not work.
Consent basis
Enquiries: to take steps at your request before a contract.
Visit statistics: our legitimate interest in running the site and knowing which pages are read. No cookies are set, so no cookie consent is asked.
Retention
Enquiry correspondence: 24 months from the last message, then deleted.
Visit statistics: to be supplied.
Withdrawal and your rights
Write to info@apta-advisory.com to withdraw consent, ask for a copy of your data, or ask for it to be deleted.
You can also object to the visit statistics by writing to the same address.
Sharing
We do not sell data and we do not share it with suppliers. Specialists brought into an engagement are named to you in advance. Visit statistics are processed by Ahrefs, our analytics provider.
Terms
Scope
We provide independent review and due diligence on commercial and technical decisions. The first analysis and the proposal are free. Any engagement that follows is covered by a fixed fee agreed in writing in advance.
Limitations
We do not give legal, tax or medical advice. Contract points are commercial risk findings, for confirmation by your counsel. Modelled figures are estimates, labelled modelled, and are not a guarantee of outcome.
Disclaimer
Our findings rest on the documents and data you provide. Where a figure has no source we say so. Decisions taken on our work remain yours.
Entity
Entity name and NIPC to be supplied. Registered office: Lisboa, Portugal. Governing law: Portugal.
Intellectual property
The content of this site belongs to APTA Advisory Lda. You may quote it with attribution.
Use of our reports
Reports are written for the organisation and the decision they were commissioned for. Any other use is agreed in writing.
Your data
Who is responsible
APTA Advisory Lda, Lisboa, Portugal, is responsible for the data described on this page.
For any question about it, write to info@apta-advisory.com.
Job applications
When you apply, we hold the CV, cover letter and contact details you send us, only to assess your application.
Basis: steps at your request before a contract. Kept for six months after the process closes, then deleted, unless you agree that we keep them longer.
Confidentiality and security
Documents you send are seen only by the people working on your enquiry or engagement.
A confidentiality agreement can come before the first document.
Tools
The tools run in your browser. Nothing you enter is sent to us or stored.
Transfers outside the EU
Where a provider processes data outside the European Economic Area, we rely on the safeguards in its data processing terms.
Complaints
You can complain to the Portuguese data protection authority, the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (CNPD), at www.cnpd.pt.
Privacy notice and terms of use
Privacy notice
01Controller
APTA Advisory Lda, Lisboa, Portugal (registered office and NIPC: to be supplied) is the controller of the personal data described in this notice. Contact: info@apta-advisory.com.
02Data we collect
What you send us: your name, email address, phone number if given, your message and any documents, which may contain personal data of other people. When you book a call: the details in the calendar invitation. When you apply for a role: your CV, cover letter and contact details. When you visit the site: visit statistics without cookies (such as pages viewed, referring page, device type and country), collected with Ahrefs Web Analytics.
03Purposes and legal bases
Answering enquiries and preparing a proposal: steps at your request before a contract (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR). Carrying out an engagement: performance of the contract (Article 6(1)(b)). Keeping accounting and tax records: legal obligation (Article 6(1)(c)). Visit statistics: our legitimate interest in running the site and knowing which pages are read (Article 6(1)(f)). Job applications: steps at your request before a contract (Article 6(1)(b)).
04Who receives it
The people working on your enquiry or engagement, including specialists from our network, who are named to you in advance and bound by confidentiality. Providers that process data for us under written terms: email and document hosting (to be supplied), Google for calendar bookings and Ahrefs for visit statistics. Our lawyers and accountants where needed, and public authorities where the law requires it. We never sell data and never share it with suppliers.
05Transfers outside the EEA
Where a provider processes data outside the European Economic Area, the transfer relies on an adequacy decision of the European Commission or on the Commission's standard contractual clauses.
06How long we keep it
Enquiry correspondence: 24 months from the last message. Engagement files and working papers: to be supplied. Accounting and tax records: for the period required by Portuguese law. Job applications: six months after the process closes. Visit statistics: to be supplied. After that, the data is deleted or anonymised.
07Your rights
You can ask for access to your data, its correction or erasure, the restriction of its processing or a copy in a portable format, and you can object to processing based on our legitimate interest. Where processing rests on consent, you can withdraw it at any time. Write to info@apta-advisory.com; we answer within one month.
08Complaints
You can complain to the Portuguese data protection authority, the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (CNPD), www.cnpd.pt, or to the authority where you live or work.
09Cookies and security
This site sets no cookies. The tools run in your browser and nothing you enter is sent to us. Pages are served over an encrypted connection (HTTPS), and access to your documents is limited to the people working on your matter. We do not take decisions about you by automated means alone.
10Changes
We update this notice when what we collect or how we use it changes. The date of the last update is shown at the bottom of every page.
Terms of use
01Who runs this site
This site is run by APTA Advisory Lda, Lisboa, Portugal (NIPC and share capital: to be supplied). Contact: info@apta-advisory.com.
02No offer, no engagement
Nothing on this site is an offer. No engagement exists until an engagement letter is signed by both parties; the fee, scope and liability of any engagement are set in that letter.
03No legal, tax or medical advice
The content is general information about our services. It is not legal, tax, financial or medical advice. Contract findings are commercial risk findings, for confirmation by your counsel.
04Figures and tools
Figures labelled modelled are estimates, not results. The tools give modelled illustrations on your own inputs; they are not advice and not a final assessment.
05Documents you send
Documents sent before an engagement are treated as confidential and used only to answer you. A confidentiality agreement can be signed before the first document.
06Intellectual property
The content of this site belongs to APTA Advisory Lda. You may quote it with attribution.
07Links
Links to other sites are given for reference. We are not responsible for their content.
08Liability
To the extent the law allows, APTA Advisory Lda is not liable for decisions taken on the basis of this site alone. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.
09Law and courts
These terms are governed by Portuguese law. Disputes go to the courts of Lisbon, without prejudice to mandatory consumer protection rules.
10Changes
We may update these terms; the version on this page applies from the date shown at the bottom of the page.