Who is responsible
Sassy Strawberry Unipessoal Lda., my company in Portugal, is responsible for the information you send through this site. It decides how that information is used, which makes it the data controller. I handle it day to day. For property transactions I work as a principal agent under eXp Portugal, which holds the AMI mediation license 18470. You can reach me about anything on this page at hollin@hollinstafford.com.
What I collect, and why
The enquiry form on Work with me asks for your name and email address, and optionally the areas you are considering, your expected timing and a message. I use it to answer you and to understand whether I am the right person to help. That is the whole purpose.
My newsletter, Portugal: Beyond the Brochure, is published on LinkedIn. Subscribing happens there, under LinkedIn's own privacy policy, and this site collects nothing for it.
I do not run advertising trackers on this site, and nothing it collects is used to advertise to you.
Counting visits
To see which pages are read and which links are used, the site counts visits with Amplitude, in its European Union data center. Unless you agree to click tracking, it uses no cookies and stores nothing on your device for analytics. It notes the pages you view under a random number that is discarded when you close the tab, and it never knows who you are. Everything passes through this site's own server on the way, so Amplitude never sees your IP address; it is told only which country you are connecting from.
When you first arrive, the site asks whether I may track the links you click to help improve navigation. If you say yes, Amplitude sets a cookie to recognize your browser on later visits. It notes the page you clicked from and the link's destination, without query strings or fragments. It does not capture form entries or make session replays. If you say no, only the anonymous page count above is kept.
Your answer is kept in your browser so the question is not asked on every page, and it is asked again after twelve months. You can change it at any time with Privacy choices at the foot of every page; saying no then deletes what Amplitude stored on your device. None of this is connected to what you send through the enquiry form. If your browser sends a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal, the site collects no analytics and does not ask.
The basis for holding it
For an enquiry, you have asked me to take steps that may lead to working together, and answering you properly requires keeping what you sent.
For the anonymous count of visits, my legitimate interest in knowing which pages help readers, which is why it identifies no one. For the cookie and click tracking, your consent, which you can withdraw at any time.
How long I keep it
Enquiries are kept for twenty-four months after we last spoke, then deleted. Buying a home abroad often takes longer than people expect, and a conversation that goes quiet for a year is not unusual, which is why the period is not shorter.
Who else touches it
This site runs on Cloudflare, which hosts it, stores form submissions and delivers the notification email that tells me you have written. The database sits in Cloudflare's Western Europe region, so your information stays in Europe. Cloudflare processes it only on the instructions of Sassy Strawberry Unipessoal Lda., and for no other purpose.
Amplitude receives the page counts and, if you said yes, link clicks described above, on the same terms: it processes them only on the instructions of Sassy Strawberry Unipessoal Lda., and keeps them in its European Union data center. They reach it through Cloudflare, which passes them on without your IP address.
I do not sell your information, and I do not pass it to other agents, developers or lead brokers. If a purchase reaches the point where a lawyer, mortgage adviser or inspector is involved, you instruct them yourself and decide what to share.
What you can ask for
You can ask to see what I hold about you, to correct it, to have it deleted, to object to how I am using it, or to receive a copy in a portable form. Email hollin@hollinstafford.com and I will deal with it myself. There is no form to fill in and no charge.
If you think I have handled your information badly and I have not put it right, you can complain to the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados, the Portuguese data protection authority, at cnpd.pt .
Changes
If this notice changes in a way that affects you, the date below changes with it. There is no version buried elsewhere that says something different.