Privacy notice

What we do with what you send us.

This site uses one advertising cookie, and only if you agree to it. Nothing is stored on your device and nothing is sent to anyone else unless you press Accept. Everything else we hold is what you type into one of the two forms.

Last updated 16 September 2026

Who is responsible

This notice is given under the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and Portuguese Law no. 58/2019 of 8 August, which puts the GDPR into effect in Portugal.

We are the data controller for everything described here. We have not appointed a Data Protection Officer, as we are not required to. Write to the address above with any question or request and a person will answer.

What we collect, and why

What	Why	Legal basis
Your email address or phone number	To answer your request for a conversation or a workshop place	Steps taken at your request before entering a contract (GDPR Art. 6(1)(b))
Whether you asked for news and updates	To send you occasional updates about the school, if you asked for them	Your consent (Art. 6(1)(a)) — never assumed, and withdrawable at any time
That you visited the site, and which pages — through Meta’s advertising cookie	To see whether our advertising is reaching the right families, and to show our advertising again to people who have already read the site	Your consent (Art. 6(1)(a)) — off by default, and you can withdraw it at any time

We ask for nothing else. No name is required, no address, no information about your child. If you volunteer more in a later email, that becomes part of the same conversation and is kept on the same terms.

Who else sees it

Two suppliers process this data on our instructions, and neither may use it for their own purposes:

• Netlify — hosts this website and stores form submissions. Netlify is based in the United States; transfers are covered by the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.
• Google Workspace — carries our email once a submission reaches us.
• Meta Platforms Ireland — only if you accepted the advertising cookie, and only for what is described below.

We do not sell your data and we do not share it with other schools. Apart from the advertising cookie described below — which is off unless you switch it on — there is no third-party script on this site.

Cookies and the Meta advertising pixel

When you first arrive, we ask one question: whether we may use Meta’s advertising cookie. Until you answer Accept, no cookie is set, no script from Meta is loaded, and no third party is told that you were here. If you answer Reject, that stays true for good.

If you accept, a script from Meta (Facebook and Instagram) loads and tells Meta that a browser visited this site. If you happen to be signed in to Facebook or Instagram, Meta can connect that visit to your account. We use it to measure whether our advertising reaches the right families, and to show our advertising again to people who have read the site. We cannot see who you are from it; we see totals.

For this collection, we and Meta Platforms Ireland Limited act as joint controllers, and Meta also uses the data for its own purposes under its own terms. Meta is part of a group based in the United States; those transfers rely on the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses. How long Meta keeps it is governed by Meta’s own policy, not ours.

Changing your mind takes one click. The word Cookies at the bottom of every page reopens the question, and choosing Reject stops it. Everything on this site works identically either way — nothing is withheld from people who say no.

There is no Google Analytics, no session recording, and no other tracker of any kind. Our fonts are served from this domain rather than from Google, so the page itself tells no one that you visited.

How long we keep it

Twenty-four months from our last contact with you, then deleted. A family often enquires in one year and applies in the next, and we would rather remember the earlier conversation than ask you to repeat it. If you ask us to delete it sooner, we do so and confirm.

If you asked for updates, we keep you on that list until you unsubscribe. Every message carries an unsubscribe link.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you may ask us to:

• show you what we hold about you
• correct anything wrong
• delete it
• restrict or object to how we use it
• send it to you, or to someone else, in a portable form
• withdraw your consent to updates, at any time, without giving a reason
• withdraw your consent to the advertising cookie — the Cookies link at the foot of any page

Write to info@unicornschool.pt. We answer within one month, and it costs you nothing.

If you think we have handled your data badly, you may complain to the Portuguese supervisory authority, the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (CNPD). We would rather you told us first, and we will take it seriously.

Children

These forms are for parents and guardians. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children through this website, and we do not ask for information about your child before you have met us. If you believe a child has sent us something through this site, write to us and we will delete it.

Changes

If we change how any of this works, we change this page and update the date at the top. If the change is significant and we hold your address, we will tell you directly rather than leaving you to notice.