Privacy Policy
How contact details and fragrance ratings are processed and kept secure.
1. Who is responsible for this website?
NOTAS DE HOMEM is an independent editorial website about men’s fragrances. Questions concerning personal data can be submitted through the contact page. This information describes the website’s general practices; it does not replace any legal rights that apply under Portuguese or European data-protection legislation.
2. What information do we receive?
If you use the contact form, we receive the information you voluntarily provide, such as your name, email address and message. Basic technical information may also be processed by the hosting provider as part of operating, securing and delivering the website.
3. Why is the information used?
Contact data is used to respond to your message and, where relevant, to follow up on the subject of your enquiry. We do not claim that sending a message automatically subscribes you to a marketing list. You should not submit sensitive personal information through a general website contact form.
4. Hosting and technical services
The website is hosted on Netlify, which may process technical data necessary to deliver pages, protect the service and handle form submissions. Third-party services linked from the website are governed by their own terms and privacy notices. The site may use external images under applicable licences.
5. Security and retention
Reasonable care should be taken with access to contact data and website administration. Information should not be kept longer than necessary for legitimate contact and record-keeping purposes, subject to applicable legal obligations. No public website can promise absolute security.
6. Your rights
Depending on the applicable legal basis and circumstances, data subjects may have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction or objection, as well as the right to complain to the relevant supervisory authority. Contact us if you have a specific request relating to information you submitted.
7. Cookies and external links
A third-party website reached by clicking an external source may apply its own cookies. Optional Google Analytics 4 usage is described in section 9 and requires prior consent. Any future advertising or other tracking services require separate information and appropriate consent before activation. An external link is not an endorsement of that provider’s data practices.
8. Updates
This is the English-language version of the site’s privacy information, reflecting the information available in the Portuguese edition as of 5 November 2026. Review it whenever services, forms or data-handling practices change. For any conflict or unresolved detail, consult the current Portuguese notice and contact the website operator.
9. Fragrance ratings — privacy and moderation
On fragrance profiles, we collect five scores (scent, longevity, projection and sillage, value for money, and bottle), submission date, and acknowledgement of this notice. No name, email address or user account is requested.
To reduce duplicate submissions we calculate a pseudonymous daily identifier from the connecting IP address and a private server secret. We do not store the plain IP address in the ratings table. Approved contributions retain their scores but the identifier is removed after 30 days. Rejected submissions are deleted after 30 days; pending submissions after 90 days.
Reader ratings are moderated before appearing in reader averages. NOTAS DE HOMEM editorial ratings are kept separate. The purpose is to gather genuine opinions and prevent abuse. The applicable legal basis and conditions must be checked by the website operator before public collection starts.
Submissions are processed by Netlify Functions and stored on Supabase. Cloudflare Turnstile verification is mandatory for reader submissions, and Cloudflare may process technical interaction data under its own privacy policy. To exercise data rights, visit our contact page.
10. Tool usage statistics (Google Analytics 4)
If visitors explicitly accept analytics, we may use Google Analytics 4 to measure internal searches, fragrance profile generations and personal collection actions: view, add, change, remove, export and clear. Only the action type, context and aggregate counts or bands are recorded. Free-text searches, questionnaire answers, selected collection fragrances, names and email addresses are not sent as event parameters. Search terms are included only if they exactly match known fragrance or brand names in our catalogue.
Google Analytics is not loaded without consent. Your choice is saved in this browser and can be changed using «Privacy settings» when the service is configured. Your personal fragrance collection remains stored only in your browser, regardless of this choice. Analytics depends on configuring the correct NOTAS DE HOMEM GA4 property and must be verified before publication.