Imprint (Legal Notice)
Disclosure intended to satisfy the EU e-commerce information duties (Directive 2000/31/EC, as transposed in Portugal) for services directed at readers in Portugal. Last updated: August 2026.
Site operator
How to Portugal (how-to-portugal.com) is operated by Jules de Bruin, the same real person who operates How to Austria, How to France, and How to Spain, trading as a sole proprietorship (Einzelunternehmen) established under Austrian law, not as a Portuguese legal entity.
Address:Czerningasse 8, 1020 Vienna (Wien), Austria (the same registered address used on the operator's other sites in this network)
Email: julesdbruin@gmail.com
NIF (Portugal): Not applicable. The operator is not a Portuguese tax resident or a business registered in Portugal, so no Portuguese NIF exists for this activity. The operator is established as an Austrian sole proprietorship, as stated above.
Applicable law and jurisdiction
The site is operated from Austria. Austrian law applies to the operator's underlying business, while this notice is drafted to meet EU e-commerce disclosure requirements for services directed at readers in Portugal. Consumers resident in Portugal retain the benefit of mandatory Portuguese and EU consumer protection provisions regardless of the operator's place of establishment.
Hosting provider
The site is hosted by Vercel Inc., 340 S Lemon Ave #4133, Walnut, CA 91789, United States. vercel.com
Personal data (Proteção de dados)
Personal data is processed in accordance with the GDPR and the guidance of the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (CNPD), Portugal's data protection authority. See our Privacy Policy for details, including how to lodge a complaint with the CNPD.
Consumer dispute resolution (ODR)
The European Commission provides an Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) platform for EU consumers: ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr. The operator is not affiliated with any specific Portuguese consumer arbitration centre (centro de arbitragem de conflitos de consumo); consumers may nonetheless address complaints to the operator directly using the email above.
Affiliate disclosure
This site contains affiliate links. When you sign up with a provider through one of our links, we may receive a commission at no additional cost to you. This does not influence our editorial content or recommendations.
Intellectual property
The text, layout, and graphic elements of this site are protected. Reproduction without authorisation is prohibited, except for short quotation with a link back to the source.