Last updated: July 29, 2026

1. Person responsible for treatment

The entity responsible for processing the personal data collected through this website is Jeremy West , with an office at Villa O, Estrada Nacional 261, Melides, Portugal. For any questions regarding data protection, you can contact us via email at melidesdesign@hotmail.com

2. Data we collect

This website collects personal information to power our site analytics, including:

Information about your browser, network, and device

Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

Clicks

Internal links

Pages visited

Scrolling

Searches

Timestamps

We provide this information to Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

3. Purposes and legal basis

The data is processed exclusively for:

Respond to requests for information, quotes, and business inquiries;
manage the contractual relationship with clients and suppliers;
to fulfill legal and tax obligations.

The legal basis for processing is the data subject's consent, the implementation of pre-contractual or contractual measures, and compliance with legal obligations, pursuant to Article 6 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR).

4. Storage period

The data is kept for the period strictly necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, or for the periods required by law (specifically, ten years for tax and accounting purposes, in accordance with the Commercial Code and the VAT Code).

5. Communication with third parties

Your data is not transmitted to third parties, except when there is a legal obligation or it is necessary for the provision of the requested service (for example, to licensing entities, municipal councils or technical partners of the project). No international data transfers are carried out.

6. Rights of the data subject

Under the terms of the GDPR and Law No. 58/2019, you may at any time exercise your rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, objection and data portability, as well as withdraw any previously given consent. To do so, simply contact us by email at melidesdesign@gmail.com

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority — the National Data Protection Commission (CNPD) .

7. Security

We have adopted appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal data against unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, disclosure or access.

8. Changes

This policy may be updated at any time, and any changes will be published on this page.