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Effective date: [to be set at launch]

Maen Hand Investments, Lda. ("Maen Hand Investments", "we", "us"), a Portuguese company with registered office at Rua Tomás da Fonseca, Torre G, 1600-209 Lisboa, Portugal, and tax number (NIPC) 514134585, is the controller of personal data collected through this website, www.maenhandinvestments.com.

This policy explains how we process that data under Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and Portuguese Law 58/2019. It is not a client engagement, and it does not cover data we process under a separate mandate or non-disclosure agreement.

1. What we collect and why

Enquiries (Contact). If you write to us, we process the identity and contact details you give us, your message, and any other information you include, to receive and reply to your enquiry. Legal basis: steps at your request before a contract (GDPR art. 6(1)(b)) and, where no contract is in view, our legitimate interest in responding (art. 6(1)(f)). Please do not send confidential deal information through the website form.

Newsletter: The Maen Hand Investments Monthly Newsletter. If you subscribe, we process your email address, your first name (if you give it) and the record of your consent, to send you the newsletter. Sign-up is handled by our newsletter provider, MailerLite. To block spam, the sign-up form uses Google reCAPTCHA, which loads only when you start filling in the form and is subject to Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service; Google may process this technical data outside the European Economic Area. Legal basis: your consent (GDPR art. 6(1)(a) and Lei 41/2004 of 18 August, art. 13.º-A). You may withdraw consent at any time; this does not affect emails already sent. Withdrawing is as easy as subscribing: use the unsubscribe link included in every email or write to supporteam@maenhandinvestments.com.

Website operation. We process technical data that is necessary to host and secure the site (for example, security logs and strictly necessary cookies). Legal basis: our legitimate interest in operating a secure website (art. 6(1)(f)), and, for cookies that are strictly necessary, Lei 41/2004. See the Cookie Notice.

Legal duties. We may process data where we must do so by law (art. 6(1)(c)), including to keep evidence of consent or to respond to a competent authority.

We do not use your data for automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects. We do not sell your data.

2. How long we keep it

  • Newsletter: until you unsubscribe. We then keep a suppressed email address and the consent record for 3 years, so that we can respect the withdrawal and demonstrate compliance.
  • Enquiries: 2 years after our last correspondence, unless a mandate or legal duty requires a longer period.
  • Security logs: for a short period limited to what is needed to operate and secure the site, unless an incident requires longer retention.
  • Data we must keep by law is kept for the statutory period.

3. Who we share it with

We share data only with:

  • service providers acting as processors, under a written contract: the website host, Vercel Inc.; the newsletter provider, MailerLite (subscriber data stored in the EU); and any email or IT provider we use to receive enquiries;
  • professional advisers, courts or authorities, where required or permitted by law;
  • a third party only if you ask us to, or if we must do so to prepare or perform a mandate with you.

LinkedIn is linked from this site. If you follow those links, LinkedIn’s own terms and privacy policy apply. We do not operate a LinkedIn advertising or insight pixel on this site unless the Cookie Notice is updated to say so.

4. International transfers

Vercel Inc. may process data outside the European Economic Area, including in the United States. Where that happens, we rely on an adequacy decision (including the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, where the provider is certified) or on the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses, with supplementary measures where needed. You may ask us for more information at supporteam@maenhandinvestments.com.

5. Your rights

You may ask us to access, rectify or erase your data, to restrict or object to processing, and to receive your data in a portable format, under the GDPR and Law 58/2019. Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw it at any time. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (CNPD), Av. D. Carlos I, 134, 1.º, 1200-651 Lisboa, https://www.cnpd.pt.

To exercise your rights, write to supporteam@maenhandinvestments.com. We may need to verify your identity.

6. Contact

Controller: Maen Hand Investments, Lda., Rua Tomás da Fonseca, Torre G, 1600-209 Lisboa, Portugal, NIPC 514134585.

Privacy contact: supporteam@maenhandinvestments.com.

We may update this policy. The effective date above will change when we do. The current version is always on this page.