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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 30 October 2026

Portugal Home is made by Rui Matos, trading as Portugal Vivo Apps, in Portugal.

The short version

Portugal Home does not collect anything about you. It has no accounts, no sign-in, and no analytics.

It makes one network request, and it only ever downloads. Every so often the app fetches a file from our own website — the place information you came for, kept current — and that request carries nothing about you: no account, no identifier, no record of what you looked at. Nothing travels in the other direction, ever.

Everything the app remembers stays on your device.

What the app stores on your device

Everything below is kept in your device's own app storage, readable only by Portugal Home. None of it is sent anywhere.

Which places you saved. A list of identifiers, such as ericeira. Since October 2026 that list can hold a município as well as a neighborhood or town, which is still the name of a public administrative area. Not notes, not dates, not anything you typed.
Your answers to the questionnaire, if you take it, plus the date you finished it and whether you chose to skip it. See the section below for what those answers are.
Whether you own the full version. A list of purchased product identifiers, so the app still works when you open it offline.
Your theme choice, light or dark.
Your text size choice.
Whether the dyslexia-friendly font is switched on.
Your units and currency choice — metric or imperial, euros or dollars.

That is the complete list. There is no other storage, no database of your activity, and no log of what you looked at.

This data is not sent anywhere. The app's one request downloads a file and uploads nothing, so none of the above has any way to leave your device. Deleting the app deletes all of it.

The questionnaire, and what your answers are used for

The app can ask you sixteen questions about what you want from a place to live. One is which part of the country you are looking at. Two are yes-or-no: whether you need an international school within reach, and whether you need to be within reach of Lisboa or Porto. The other thirteen you weigh — the climate you want, whether you want a city, a town or suburb, or a rural setting, how international you would like the area to be, how busy with tourists, the age of the people around you, the property tax rate, whether the town grew around a medieval castle or is modern, how near a beach on the sea, how much the cost of renting should count, how much the cost of buying should count, and how much registered crime should count, how close a hospital, and how close an international airport. For each of those you say how much it matters to you, from doesn't matter to essential, and, for all but crime, the two costs, the hospital and the airport, which end of the range you would prefer, or on four of them the middle.

Those answers are used for one thing: putting Portugal's 308 councils in an order, on your device, at the moment you look at the result. No ranking is stored, no score is kept, and the calculation happens entirely inside the app. Your answers are not sent anywhere, not attached to any identifier, and never seen by us.

They are also not personal information in any ordinary sense. They say something about the kind of place you want, and nothing about who you are — no name, no age, no address, no email, no device identifier. They cannot be traced to you even by us, because they never leave your phone.

You can delete them at any time. Settings has a control that clears your answers, the completion date and the skip flag, and it takes effect immediately. Deleting the app removes them along with everything else.

What the app does not do

No account, no email address, no name, no password.
No advertising, no ad identifiers, no tracking across apps or websites.
No analytics, usage statistics, or crash reporting. There is no third-party SDK of any kind in the app.
No location access. The app knows where the places in its own dataset are; it does not know or ask where you are.
No camera, microphone, contacts, photos, or calendar access.
No cookies, and no web content.
No request that says anything about you. The content file is fetched from a fixed address with nothing added to it — no account, no device identifier, no search terms, no list of what you opened. Our web host records the ordinary things any web server records about a download, such as an IP address and a timestamp, which we do not use to build any profile and which are not connected to anything else in the app.

Content and where the numbers come from

The place information in the app — median rents and sale prices, population, average age, and the share of residents who are foreign nationals holding resident status — comes from public sources, principally Portugal's Instituto Nacional de Estatística, and each figure carries its source, the date it was last checked, and the area it describes.

A complete copy ships inside the app, so it works with no connection at all. Because some of those figures move every quarter, the app also downloads a refreshed copy of that same file from our website from time to time. Your device never contacts Instituto Nacional de Estatística or any property website — we gather the numbers, and the app downloads the result.

Quotes from residents are published with the consent of the person quoted.

Purchases

Portugal Home offers a one-time purchase to unlock the full set of places. The purchase is handled entirely by the app store you installed from — Apple's App Store on iPhone and iPad, or the Microsoft Store on Windows.

Payment details never reach us and never reach the app. The app asks the store whether this account owns the product, and the store answers yes or no. We do not see your card, your billing address, or your store account.

Apple and Microsoft handle that transaction under their own privacy policies:

Apple: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/
Microsoft: https://privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement

If you ask the app to restore a previous purchase, it asks the store the same yes-or-no question again.

Children

Portugal Home is not directed at children and collects nothing from anyone, including children.

Changes to this policy

If the app ever gains a feature that changes any of this, this policy will be updated before that version is released, and the date at the top will change. Collecting nothing about you is one of the reasons the app exists, so a change here would be a significant one rather than a quiet revision.

30 October 2026: a correction rather than a change. This policy listed asking rents among the figures the app shows. Those came from a property portal, were taken out of the app on 25 October, and will not come back without that portal's permission; what the app carries is Instituto Nacional de Estatística's median rent and median sale price per square metre. Nothing about what is collected has changed.

28 October 2026: the questionnaire grew from twelve questions to sixteen, adding how much the cost of renting should count, how much the cost of buying should count, how close a hospital is and how close an international airport is, and the question about the sea now asks how near a beach on the sea you want to be. Four questions also gained a middle answer, two more ask how close a hospital and an international airport should be, and the first three now say how many municípios your answers leave. Nothing about it leaves your device, and nothing new is collected about you.

19 October 2026: the questionnaire came down from sixteen questions to twelve. Four that mostly repeated others were removed: how large a place is, whether its population is growing, how high up it sits, and how near the large-format stores. Nothing about it leaves your device, and nothing new is collected about you.

13 October 2026: the questionnaire grew from twelve weighed questions to thirteen, adding whether you want a city, a town or suburb, or a rural setting, and the registered-crime question now asks only how much it should count. Nothing about it leaves your device, and nothing new is collected about you.

12 October 2026: the questionnaire grew from ten weighed questions to twelve, adding whether the population is growing or settled and what you would want registered crime to look like. Nothing about it leaves your device, and nothing new is collected about you.

8 October 2026: the app remembers two more choices on your device — whether you want metric or imperial units, and euros or dollars. The questionnaire also grew from eight weighed questions to ten, plus a question about which part of the country you are looking at and two yes-or-no requirements. Nothing about any of it leaves your device, and nothing new is collected about you.

25 September 2026: the app previously made no network requests at all. It now downloads its content file so that figures which move every quarter are not frozen at whatever they were when the version was built. Nothing is uploaded, and nothing about what is collected has changed.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about the app: support@portugalvivo.app

You can also ask for anything the app holds about you, though the honest answer is that we hold nothing — there is no account, and no copy of your data anywhere but your own device. The website the app downloads from serves the same file to everyone and knows nothing else about you.