Beautiful Cascais is a company solely owned by Hothouse Innovation (HHI) LDA., Lisbon. HHI creates community based software solutions and has focused recent developments in the lifestyle, live/work space.

This privacy policy explains the processing of all data controller companies within the HHI Group (hereafter referred to as “the Group” or “we”) and has two main purposes.

1. To explain how we collect and use your personal information.
2. To describe your rights and how you can implement them.

The policy is aimed at those who come in contact with the Group in the course of its core business operations, either of their own initiative or because we sought them out.

You are always welcome to contact us with any questions about privacy and data protection!

Key concepts
Personal data is information that is directly or indirectly linked to a natural living person. Examples of personal data include your name, address, telephone number and email address. In some circumstances, even data such as IP addresses or other combined information may constitute personal data.

The processing of personal data includes all handling of personal data, such as collection, registration and storage.

The data controller is the person who determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data, either independently or in consultation with others.

The purpose of the processing of personal data
The Group is responsible for promoting and developing various locations in Portugal as a business and tourist destination under the brand “Beautiful Cascais”. The Group collaborates closely with the local business community, academic, and other institutions as well as with various organizations, municipalities, and federal agencies.

This means that personal data are collected and processed in order to achieve the objective for the Group.

What personal data do we collect, and when do we do so?
Information that you provide to us. Information that you provide to us. For example, when you participate in our events, sign up to our notification lists for events and newsletters, interact with us on social media, or apply for event support, we may collect:

• Personal and contact information — name, e-mail address, phone number, professional role, and online ID. If you participate in one of our focus groups, , we may also collect information including gender, place of residence and nationality.

Information we collect about you. For example, if you are a public person, a journalist, or work as a contact person for a company or visit any of our websites, we may actively collect the following information about you:

• Personal and contact information — name, e-mail address, mobile phone number, photo, and online ID.
• Information about how you interact with our websites – how you use our websites.
• Device information – such as IP address, language settings, browser settings, time zone, operating system, platform, and screen resolution.

Information from third parties. We may also collect personal data from someone other than you (a third party). The information we collect from third parties are as follows:

1. Address information from public records, in order to be sure that we have your correct address information.
2. If you belong to a certain target group to which we wish to reach out, we may also collect personal information about you from other marketing organizations.