Privacy and Cookies Policy
Last updated: 31 August 2026
This Privacy and Cookies Policy explains how Fcruz Strategy & Consulting, Unipessoal Lda collects, uses, retains and protects the personal data of users of the www.fabianocruz.work website.
FCruz and Fabiano Cruz are commercial and professional brands of Fcruz Strategy & Consulting, Unipessoal Lda.
We respect your privacy and are committed to processing personal data lawfully, fairly, transparently and securely, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/679, hereafter referred to as the GDPR, and other applicable Portuguese and European data protection legislation.
1. Data Controller
The controller responsible for the processing of personal data collected through this website is:
Fcruz Strategy & Consulting, Unipessoal Lda
Portuguese company registration and tax number: 517 973 910
Registered office: Rua A Gazeta d’Oeiras, n.º 2, 1.º C, 2780-171 Oeiras, Portugal
Email: hello@fabianocruz.work
For any questions concerning privacy, cookies, personal data protection or the exercise of your rights, please contact us at hello@fabianocruz.work.
2. Personal data we may collect
Depending on how you use the website and the contact methods made available, we may collect:
- Name
- Email address
- Telephone number, where voluntarily provided
- Company, job title, industry, country or other professional information voluntarily provided
- Content of messages, contact requests, meeting requests, proposal requests, briefs or other information submitted by the user
- Technical browsing data, including IP address, browser type, device, operating system, pages visited, date, time and traffic source
- Communication preferences and cookie choices, where applicable
We do not request biometric data, health data, financial data, login credentials, passwords or other special categories of personal data through this website.
Please do not send confidential information, sensitive data or third-party personal data through public forms without an appropriate legal basis, authorisation or prior agreement.
3. How we collect data
Personal data may be collected when you:
- Browse the website
- Send a message by email
- Complete the contact form available on the website
- Request a meeting, proposal, demonstration, partnership or clarification
- Interact with content, integrations or features available on the website
- Accept non-essential cookies, where applicable
4. Web3Forms contact form
The contact form available on this website uses Web3Forms, a service for processing and forwarding form submissions.
When you submit a form, the information entered, such as your name, email address, company, telephone number, subject and message content, may be transmitted to Web3Forms for processing and forwarding to the email address configured by Fcruz Strategy & Consulting, Unipessoal Lda.
According to information made available by Web3Forms, form submissions are processed and forwarded to the configured email address or endpoint and are not retained by the platform as permanent submission records. The provider may retain temporary technical logs, including personal data, for operational purposes, security, abuse prevention and diagnostics, which are deleted periodically.
Submitting a form is an action initiated by the user to request contact, information, a meeting, a proposal or other clarification. This processing is carried out on the basis of pre-contractual steps, consent where applicable, or our legitimate interest in responding to professional enquiries received.
We recommend that you do not submit sensitive information, bank details, passwords, credentials, health data, critical trade secrets or third-party personal data through the form without appropriate authorisation.
For further information, please consult the Web3Forms Privacy Policy.
5. Purposes of processing
Personal data may be processed for the following purposes:
- Responding to requests for contact, meetings, proposals, partnerships or clarification
- Assessing opportunities involving consultancy, strategy, marketing, branding, artificial intelligence, automation, technology or digital transformation
- Preparing proposals, presentations, assessments, contracts and commercial materials
- Managing professional, commercial and institutional relationships
- Communicating about requests initiated by the user
- Improving the experience, performance, security, content and functionality of the website
- Analysing website use in an aggregated manner, where the user accepts analytical cookies
- Preventing fraud, abuse, unauthorised access or security incidents
- Complying with legal, tax, accounting, contractual or regulatory obligations
- Establishing, exercising or defending the rights, legitimate interests and legal positions of Fcruz Strategy & Consulting, Unipessoal Lda
6. Lawful bases for processing
We process your personal data on one or more of the following lawful bases, depending on the circumstances:
- Your consent, where required, including for non-essential cookies and marketing communications
- Pre-contractual steps, where you request contact, a meeting, a proposal, a quotation or information about services
- Performance of a contract, where data is necessary to provide contracted services
- Compliance with legal, tax, accounting or regulatory obligations
- Legitimate interests pursued by Fcruz Strategy & Consulting, Unipessoal Lda, including website security, service improvement, management of professional relationships, fraud prevention and the defence of legal rights, provided that your rights and freedoms do not override those interests
Where processing relies on your consent, you may withdraw it at any time. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before it was withdrawn.
7. Professional and marketing communications
We may use contact details to respond to an enquiry submitted by you or to follow up on an existing professional relationship.
Newsletters, promotional content, invitations, updates or other marketing communications will only be sent where there is consent or another valid legal basis.
You may stop receiving marketing communications at any time by using the unsubscribe mechanism included in the communication, where available, or by sending a request to hello@fabianocruz.work.
Withdrawing consent for marketing communications does not prevent us from sending communications necessary to respond to a request, perform a contract, comply with a legal obligation or ensure service security.
8. Sharing of personal data
Your personal data may be shared only where necessary and legally permitted with:
- Web3Forms, to process and forward submissions sent through the contact form
- Website hosting, maintenance and security providers
- Email, storage, CRM, automation or productivity service providers, where applicable
- Google, through Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics and YouTube, according to your cookie preferences and the technical configurations used
- Video conferencing, scheduling and professional communication service providers, where applicable
- Accounting, invoicing, legal support or professional consultancy providers
- Public authorities, regulators, courts or other competent bodies, where required by law
These providers may process personal data only in accordance with applicable instructions, confidentiality measures and legal security requirements.
We do not sell, rent or trade personal data.
9. International data transfers
Some technology providers used by the website may be located outside the European Economic Area or use international data processing infrastructure.
This may include, depending on the services and configurations in use, Web3Forms, Google services, YouTube, hosting providers or other technology tools.
Where an international transfer of personal data takes place, appropriate safeguards will be used under the GDPR, such as adequacy decisions issued by the European Commission, standard contractual clauses or other legally valid transfer mechanisms.
You may request further information about any applicable international transfers by contacting hello@fabianocruz.work.
10. Data retention
Personal data is retained only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, without prejudice to longer statutory retention periods.
As a general guide:
- Contact, meeting, proposal or partnership requests may be retained for up to 24 months after the last relevant interaction
- Data used for marketing communications is retained until consent is withdrawn or a valid objection to processing is made
- Client, contract, invoicing and commercial documentation is retained for the periods required by law
- Technical and security data is retained for the period necessary to protect, diagnose and improve the website
- Data collected through cookies is retained according to its purpose and the duration indicated in the cookie management mechanism, where applicable
- Web3Forms states that it does not permanently store form submissions, although it may retain temporary technical logs for a limited period for operational, security and abuse-prevention purposes
At the end of the applicable retention period, data will be deleted, anonymised or retained in a restricted form where necessary to comply with legal obligations or defend legal rights.
11. Data security
We adopt appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against unauthorised access, loss, destruction, alteration, disclosure or misuse.
Such measures may include access controls, security updates, authentication, backups, permission restrictions, confidentiality measures and incident management procedures.
Despite the measures adopted, no digital system is entirely immune from risk. Where a personal data breach is likely to result in a risk to the rights and freedoms of individuals, we will act in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
12. Your data protection rights
Under applicable law, you may exercise the following rights:
- Right of access to your personal data
- Right to rectification of inaccurate or incomplete data
- Right to erasure, where legally applicable
- Right to restriction of processing
- Right to object to processing, where applicable
- Right to withdraw consent at any time
- Right to data portability, where applicable
- Right not to be subject to solely automated decision-making, where applicable
- Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority
To exercise your rights, please send a request to hello@fabianocruz.work.
We may request additional information strictly necessary to confirm your identity and protect your data against fraudulent requests or unauthorised access.
We will respond within the applicable statutory timeframe. In general, this is one month, although it may be extended where the complexity or number of requests justifies it.
In Portugal, you may lodge a complaint with the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados, CNPD.
13. Cookies and similar technologies
Cookies are small text files that may be stored on your computer, mobile phone or other device when you visit a website.
The website may use strictly necessary cookies and, subject to your consent, analytical, functional or third-party embedded-content cookies.
The website may currently use the following services and technologies:
| Service | Purpose | Category | Consent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Tag Manager | Technical management of tags and scripts used on the website | Technical and consent management | Depends on the tags actually enabled |
| Google Analytics | Statistical measurement of website use, including pages visited, interactions and performance | Analytical | Required before activation |
| YouTube | Display of video content embedded on the website | Third-party content | Required before loading non-essential embedded videos |
| Web3Forms | Processing and forwarding of contact form submissions | Functional | Necessary to send the form requested by the user |
| Cloudflare, where active | Security, performance, content delivery and protection against automated or malicious traffic | Strictly necessary, where applicable | Not required where strictly necessary for security and operation |
Google Tag Manager
Google Tag Manager is used to manage website tags and scripts.
Google Tag Manager must not activate non-essential services, including Google Analytics, before valid user consent has been obtained.
Where applicable, the website may use consent management mechanisms compatible with Google tools to communicate user preferences to configured tags.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics may be used to analyse, in an aggregated manner, how visitors use the website, including pages visited, traffic sources, interactions and performance.
Google Analytics cookies should only be activated after the user accepts the analytical cookie category through the consent mechanism available on the website.
YouTube
The website may embed YouTube videos.
Embedded videos may use cookies, local storage or other identifiers associated with Google and YouTube. Where technically possible, embedded videos should use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode through the youtube-nocookie.com domain.
Non-essential YouTube content should only be loaded after the user accepts the applicable cookie category or external content. Refusal may prevent the embedded video from being displayed or played.
Web3Forms
Web3Forms is used to process and forward contact form submissions to the email address configured by Fcruz Strategy & Consulting, Unipessoal Lda.
Use of the form is initiated by the user. Technical processing of the request is necessary to send the message and enable a response to the requested contact.
Cloudflare
Where the website uses Cloudflare, it may install strictly necessary cookies for security, fraud prevention, bot mitigation, security challenge validation or session preservation.
Depending on the technical configuration in use, cookies such as __cf_bm or cf_clearance may be used. These cookies are not used by Fcruz Strategy & Consulting, Unipessoal Lda for advertising or commercial profiling.
Analytical, marketing or other non-essential cookies are not activated without your prior consent where that consent is legally required.
14. Cookie management and consent
When you visit the website, you may be presented with a cookie notice or management panel allowing you to:
- Accept analytical cookies and external content
- Reject non-essential cookies
- Manage your preferences by category
- Change or withdraw your consent at any time
Strictly necessary cookies required for the operation, security and protection of the website may remain active because they do not require consent where they are indispensable for those purposes.
Google Analytics and other non-essential services should remain blocked until the user makes an affirmative choice in the relevant consent category.
You may also block, limit or delete cookies through your browser settings. Instructions vary according to the browser you use.
Refusing non-essential cookies should not prevent use of the website’s essential features. However, embedded YouTube videos or certain third-party features may not be displayed until you accept the relevant content or cookie categories.
15. Third-party services and embedded content
The website may use third-party services, including Web3Forms, Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, YouTube and, where active, Cloudflare.
Use of these services may involve the processing of technical data, online identifiers, IP address, device information, browsing data, form-submitted data and consent preferences.
We recommend that you consult the relevant provider policies:
- Web3Forms Privacy Policy
- Google Privacy Policy
- How Google uses information from sites and apps
- YouTube Privacy Policy
- Cloudflare Privacy Policy, where applicable
16. External websites and links
The website may include links, integrations or references to third-party websites, platforms and services.
We do not control the privacy practices, security, cookies, content or terms of those third parties. We recommend that you consult their respective policies before providing personal data or accepting cookies outside the www.fabianocruz.work domain.
17. Children
This website is intended for professionals, businesses, partners and adult users.
We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you believe that a child has provided personal data through the website without appropriate authorisation, please contact us so that we can review the matter.
18. Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy and Cookies Policy whenever necessary to reflect legal, technical, operational or service-related changes.
The most current version will always be available on this page, together with the date of the latest update.
19. Contact details
For any question concerning this Privacy and Cookies Policy, the processing of personal data or the exercise of your rights, please contact:
Fcruz Strategy & Consulting, Unipessoal Lda
Rua A Gazeta d’Oeiras, n.º 2, 1.º C
2780-171 Oeiras
Portugal
hello@fabianocruz.work