Terms of Service#

Using the site#

The site is free to read. You may browse it, link to it and share our articles for personal, non-commercial purposes.

You may not:

• copy, republish or redistribute our articles or images in bulk, or present them as your own;
• scrape, crawl or harvest the site with automated tools, other than the normal indexing done by search engines and social platforms;
• use the site in any way that breaks the law, or that interferes with how the site works for other people;
• attempt to gain unauthorised access to the site, the server it runs on or any connected systems.

Our content#

Everything we publish on the site is ours unless we say otherwise: the text, photographs, maps, graphics and the way they are put together. It is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws.

You’re welcome to quote short extracts, with credit and a link back to the original article. For anything more than that, please ask us first.

Where we use photographs or other material that belongs to someone else, we credit the owner and use it under licence or with permission. If you believe something on the site infringes your rights, contact us and we’ll look into it promptly.

Travel information and accuracy#

We check our facts against official sources wherever we can, and we say which year prices and opening hours are from. But Portugal changes, and so do prices, timetables, opening hours, rules and the places themselves. Anything on this site may be out of date by the time you read it.

The site is provided for general information only. It isn’t professional advice of any kind, and you shouldn’t rely on it as your only source for decisions about your trip, your safety, your money or a move to Portugal. Always check the current details with the operator, venue or official body before you travel, book or pay.

Opinions on the site are our own, based on our own experience. Your experience of a place may differ.

Affiliate links and advertising#

Some links on the site are affiliate links. If you book or buy something through one of them, we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. This doesn’t change what we recommend, and we’ll always be honest about the downsides whether or not a link is involved.

Any purchase you make through an affiliate link is a contract between you and that third party, under their terms. We’re not party to it and aren’t responsible for their products, services, prices or customer service.

Links to other websites#

We link to other websites: official tourism bodies, transport operators, venues, booking platforms and more. We do this because we think the links are useful, not because we endorse everything on those sites. We don’t control them and aren’t responsible for their content, accuracy, availability or privacy practices. Their terms apply when you use them.

Social media and other platforms#

We share our articles on social media and other third-party platforms. Where a platform offers official tools or APIs, we may use them to publish and manage posts that link to our articles, and to view statistics for our own accounts. We only work with our own accounts and our own content. We don’t access, collect or store any other user’s account or personal data through those tools.

When you view, save or interact with our content on any third-party platform, that platform’s own terms and privacy policy apply to you, alongside these terms. These platforms are independent companies, and they are not affiliated with or responsible for this site.

If you save or share our posts, please keep the link back to the original article intact.

Things you send us#

If you email us with a tip, correction, photo or suggestion, you’re giving us permission to use it on the site, in whole or in part, with credit where appropriate. Only send us material that is yours, or that you have the right to share. We may edit, shorten or decide not to use anything you send.

Privacy#

We keep data collection to a minimum. The site has no user accounts and no comments section. We use privacy-friendly analytics that count visits without cookies and without identifying individual visitors. If you email us, we keep your message so we can reply and follow up, and we don’t share your details with anyone else unless the law requires it.

Third-party services we link to, including affiliate partners and social platforms, have their own privacy practices, which apply when you use them.

Our liability#

To the extent the law allows, we provide the site “as is”, without warranties of any kind, and we’re not liable for any loss or damage arising from your use of the site or your reliance on anything in it. That includes losses caused by inaccurate or outdated information, by third-party websites and services we link to, and by anything you book, buy or do as a result of reading the site.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under the law that applies to you, including consumer protection rights in the European Union.

Changes to the site and to these terms#

We may change, suspend or remove any part of the site at any time, without notice. We may also update these terms from time to time. When we do, we change the “last updated” date at the top of this page. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the updated terms.

Governing law#

These terms are governed by the laws of Portugal. Any dispute about them or about the site will be dealt with by the courts of Portugal, unless the consumer protection laws of the country where you live give you the right to bring it elsewhere.