Data

Published 30 October 2026

In short: you can simply read the site without leaving any data about yourself. Data comes into play only when you take an action yourself: asking a question, or signing in so that we can let you know when the answer is ready.

While you are just reading

The server keeps a standard log of requests: the page address, the time and the browser. Once an hour, the log is used to count visits, and readers’ addresses are anonymised in the report. Two analytics tools also run on the pages: Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity. Their code always loads, but until you press ‘Accept’ they work without cookies: visits are counted anonymously, and the tools cannot tell whether you are a returning visitor or here for the first time. Once you press ‘Accept’, they are allowed to set cookies. You can change your mind at any time using the ‘Change your cookie choice’ link at the bottom of every page. There is more about this on the ‘What we count’ page.

If you asked a question

We store the question itself and the time it was asked. The question and its answer become a page in the ‘Questions and answers’ section, without your name or anything else that could identify you. If a question contains personal data, we remove that data or don’t publish the question at all.

If you signed in

Signing in serves only one purpose: letting you close the page and still get a message when the answer is ready. From Google, we receive your name and email address; from Telegram, your name and account ID. Nothing else: no contact list, no messages and no access to your email.

This data is kept on our server and used only to send you a single message: ‘your answer is ready’. No mailing lists, no advertising and no passing it on to third parties.

The Telegram button

The Telegram sign-in button on the questions page is generated by a script from telegram.org (there is no other way to offer Telegram sign-in), and the script loads only on that page. The only other third-party code on the site is the two analytics tools mentioned above. The site’s fonts are hosted on our own server, so your browser doesn’t need to fetch them from anywhere else.

Who receives it

Google, when you sign in with it. Telegram, when the bot sends you a message. The email delivery service, when a message is sent to your email address. Answers to questions are found by a language model, so the text of your question goes to the model’s provider. Google and Microsoft receive visit data from the analytics tools: anonymised, and, once you have pressed ‘Accept’, with cookies too. Nobody else, ever: we don’t sell data, don’t show advertising and have no advertising pixels or social media trackers on the site.

How long we keep it and how to remove it

Questions and answers stay on the site for as long as the site exists: they are part of its content, and other people search through them for answers. Your name and email address are kept until you ask us to remove them. You can ask at any time: write to our bot @twoPortugalLoginBot or get in touch via the questions page. We will remove them and confirm that we have done so.

Who we are

2Portugal is a private project about life in Portugal, not a company or a government service. You can contact us via the questions page or our Telegram channel @ru_2portugal_app.