INTRODUCTION

TOMÁS CARVALHO ADVOGADOS (“TC+”) cares about your privacy and is committed to respecting it. Therefore, we have prepared this policy (“Privacy Policy”) to clearly and transparently demonstrate how we may use your personal data and information (“Personal Data”) when you access our website (“Site”).

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Users” or “You” refers to all individuals who, in any way, interact with the TC+ Site.

Below, we highlight the information regarding how we may use your Personal Data. If you have any questions, requests, concerns, or comments, please contact us through one of the means indicated in the Contact Section. We will be available to clarify your questions in the best way possible.

This Privacy Policy comes into effect on January 1, 2024.

INFORMATION COLLECTED AND USE

To extract information about visits and navigation on our Site, that is, to analyze information such as the frequency of visits, interaction, accessed content, access methods, and other information regarding visits to our Site, we may collect necessary information for this purpose, such as IP number, approximate location, your browser version, the date and time of access, and the session duration.

In addition to essential cookies (see Cookies Section), we also use a tool called Google Analytics (“Tool”) to achieve this purpose. We extract the following information from the Tool:

• Number of Users who accessed the Site
• Number of Sessions (visits to the Site made by Users)
• Bounce rate (when Users enter and leave the Site immediately, without any interaction)
• Session duration
• Active Users
• Source (when Users enter by typing the TC+ Site and when they enter through third-party links)
• Referrals (origin site that brought the User to our Site)
• Pages of our Site accessed by Users
• Devices used for access (PC, mobile, tablet, etc.)
• User location (limited to the city of Users’ location)
• Time Users access the Site
• Visit frequency (if those Users have visited our Site before)

TC+ respects your privacy and does not use or disclose Personal Data that can identify any User without their consent or without adequate legal grounds under applicable law, including: (i) legal obligation or court order for processing Personal Data; (ii) exercise or defense of TC+ rights; and (iii) legitimate interest for processing Personal Data.

We commit to disclosing only the minimally necessary information to achieve the purposes required by the processing of your Personal Data. In any case of use or disclosure of your Personal Data described in this paragraph, your rights as the Personal Data subject are safeguarded, and the other legal dictates and principles involved in the processing of Personal Data described here are always observed.

THIRD-PARTY LINKS AND EXTERNAL TOOL

We may provide links to external third-party domains on our Site, such as links to our LinkedIn page (“Third-Party Links”). We do not determine the Personal Data processing activities carried out on Third-Party Links and, therefore, we are not responsible for the Personal Data processing performed there if you choose to access any of these Third-Party Links. Thus, we advise that whenever you decide to access a Third-Party Link, you consult the respective privacy policies they present.

Considering the use of the Google Analytics Tool on our site, we have chosen to facilitate Users’ possible consultations and leave here available links that may be useful for information about the use of your Personal Data by the Tool, emphasizing that it is the Tool’s responsibility to process any Personal Data differently from what is stated in the “Information Collected and Use” Section.

Information about the use of Personal Data by Google Analytics: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites?hl=en https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

COOKIES

Cookies are small text files that store basic information and are saved on Users’ computers who visit a site. Once installed and not expired, these cookies are sent back to the site every time Users visit the site again.

We use solely and exclusively on our Site:

• Essential cookies for Site navigation that may collect basic information such as IP, geolocation, date and time of access, access provider, device used, and Address.
• Analytical cookies related to the Tool that collects information, as stated in the “Information Collected and Use” Section.

SECURITY

Respecting your privacy and the security of your Personal Data, we adopt reasonable information security protection parameters to safeguard your Personal Data.

CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY

Whenever necessary, we may modify this Privacy Policy, and you will always be able to check the updated version on our Site.

It is important that, when using our Site, you are aware of the terms stated herein.