Privacy Policy

General Security and Privacy Policy

The General Security and Privacy Policy concerns privacy practices within the scope of the activity carried out by the Commission for the Protection of Victims of Crime (hereinafter referred to as CPVC). The personal data provided will be treated with the guarantees of security and confidentiality required by the legal framework for the protection of personal data.

CPVC's privacy policy applies exclusively to this website under its responsibility. The CPVC website contains links to other third-party websites and these organisations are responsible for the privacy policy applied on their websites. When accessing the websites of different organizations, even from the CPVC website, you should consult their privacy policies.

Data controller

 CPVC is the data controller:

• Ensures that the processing of your personal data is carried out within the scope of the purposes for which they were collected or for purposes compatible with those purposes;
• Collects, uses and stores only the personal data necessary for the purpose in question;
• It does not transfer personal data for commercial or advertising purposes;
• It processes personal data exclusively for the purposes provided for by law or to provide services at your request.

Types of Personal Data collected

The personal data processed by CPVC is exclusively within the scope of requests for advance compensation made by victims of violent crimes and/or domestic violence, under the terms of Law no. 104/09, of 14 September, Ministerial Order no. 403/2012, of 7 December, Council Directive 2004/80/EC, of 29 April 2004, and other applicable legislation.

Storage of Personal Data

The personal data collected by the CPVC will be kept for as long as determined by the Specialised Support Services, Documentary Resources and Public Relations Department of the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Justice, or another entity to which this responsibility is legally assigned.

The retention periods may change when the associated public interest, historical, scientific or statistical reasons justify it, and CPVC undertakes to adopt the appropriate conservation and security measures.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

The website does not use cookies or other similar technologies.

Copyright protection

The information provided on the site may be copied, imported or used free of charge, for personal use or for educational purposes, and the user must always refer to the source of the information. Any use of the information must not be for profit or offensive.

Any attempts to alter the information, or any other action that could cause damage and jeopardize the integrity of the system, are strictly prohibited following the current legislation. The user undertakes to scrupulously comply with the applicable legislation, particularly concerning computer crime and intellectual property rights and is solely responsible for any infringement of these regulations.

Disclaimer of Liability

CPVC cannot be held liable for any losses or damages in civil liability (including, but not limited to, consequential damages, loss of profits and moral damages, caused directly or indirectly), arising as a result of the correct or incorrect use of this website and its contents by the user, including improper access to the user's computer and computer system by third parties.

The CPVC website contains content provided by third parties as well as links to other third-party websites, which are updated by these third parties. CPVC cannot therefore be held responsible for the complete accuracy and up-to-dateness of any information contained on the respective third-party websites.

Viewing legal provisions on this site does not dispense with consulting the legal rules in force, officially approved, and published in the original editions and media (namely the Diário da República or the Official Journal of the European Union).

Data Protection Officer

The data subject has the right to request access to personal data concerning him/her, as well as the right to rectify it, directly from CPVC, or from the Data Protection Officer, who can be contacted at the following e-mail address: .

encarregado.protecao.dados@sg.mj.pt

The data subject has the right to complain about the processing of their data with the National Data Protection Commission.

Changes to the use, privacy and security policy

These Terms and Conditions should be read carefully and may be amended. Amendments are deemed to take effect from the date they are published on this website, with express reference to the date of the update.

Applicable law and jurisdiction

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed following Portuguese law. The courts of the Lisbon area, to the exclusion of any other, shall have jurisdiction to settle any disputes arising from the interpretation and application of these Terms and Conditions.

Data transfer

Responsibility for the processing of data transmitted within the framework of the cooperation provided for in Council Directive 2004/80/EC of 29 April 2004 rests with the entity to which they are transmitted following the procedure of the respective request.