Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

This website, lisbon-cruise-guide.com (“the Site”), is published by Better Skills (www.better-skills.com), a company based in Portugal, which acts as the data controller for any personal data processed through the Site. You can reach us regarding privacy matters at info@lisbon-cruise-guide.com.

2. What data we process

The Site is an informational guide. You can browse it without creating an account and without providing any personal details. The data processed is limited to:

• Technical data collected automatically when you visit any website: IP address, browser type, device type, pages visited and approximate location. Our hosting provider (Vercel) processes this data to deliver the Site and maintain its security.
• Email correspondence: if you contact us by email, we process your email address and the content of your message in order to reply. We do not add you to any mailing list.
• Advertising and analytics data processed via cookies, as described below.

3. Cookies and third-party advertising

The Site may display advertising served by Google AdSense and other third-party vendors. These vendors use cookies and similar technologies to serve and measure ads:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this Site and to other websites on the internet.
• Google’s use of advertising cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this Site and/or other sites.
• You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalised advertising at www.aboutads.info/choices.
• For more information on how Google uses data when you use our Site, see policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, personalised advertising is only served on the basis of your consent, which you can give or refuse via the consent banner and change at any time. If you refuse, you may still see non-personalised ads, which use cookies solely for frequency capping, fraud prevention and aggregate reporting.

You can also block or delete cookies at any time through your browser settings; the Site remains fully usable without them.

4. Legal bases

Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we rely on: legitimate interest for the technical operation and security of the Site and for replying to messages you send us; and consent for advertising and analytics cookies, where required.

5. Data sharing and retention

We do not sell personal data. Technical data is processed by our hosting and advertising providers as described above, under their own privacy policies. Email correspondence is retained only as long as needed to handle your enquiry and any follow-up.

6. Your rights

If you are in the EU/EEA, you have the right to access, rectify or erase your personal data, to restrict or object to its processing, and to data portability. You may also lodge a complaint with your supervisory authority; in Portugal this is the CNPD (Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados, www.cnpd.pt). To exercise any of these rights, email us at info@lisbon-cruise-guide.com.

7. Children

The Site is a general-audience travel guide and does not knowingly collect personal data from children.

8. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the Site evolves, for example when advertising or analytics services are added or changed. The date at the top of this page reflects the latest revision. Questions? Use the contact page.