Terms

Published 30 October 2026

In short: we read chats, the press and official websites and report what we find. This is not advice and not a service: it is an account of how things work and what people are saying.

We don’t give advice

We are not lawyers, accountants or doctors, and we are not responsible for the consequences of your decisions. Laws and rules in Portugal change, and people in chats get things wrong. Before you act, check the original source. We link to it wherever there is one.

Quotes from conversations

We quote messages from open Russian-language Telegram chats and from Reddit forums about Portugal (the latter in our translation), and we always link to the original message. A quote is someone else’s opinion, not our statement and not a verified fact. If your message has appeared on the site and you object, write to us and we will remove it.

Readers’ questions

You can ask a question without signing in. We look for the answer on our own site first, then in our archive of conversations, then on forums and official websites. If we find nothing, we say so rather than make something up.

If a question is unclear, we may rephrase it and will check with you that we have understood it correctly. We don’t take questions that contain abuse or advertising, involve other people’s personal data or have nothing to do with life in Portugal. We don’t settle borderline cases on our own: a person reviews those questions.

What happens to the answer

The answer appears on its own page in the ‘Questions and answers’ section and stays there, because other people look for the same thing. The name of the person who asked never appears on the page.

What you may do with our texts

You are welcome to read them, summarise them and link to them; we appreciate a link to the page. Please don’t republish them in full or pass them off as your own.

If the terms change

We will update them on this page and add the date. We won’t notify everyone individually: the site is free and we have no contract with you.

What we do with data is explained on a separate page, ‘Data’.