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Learn about our Privacy Policy, Condition of Use of this website, Directory Rules, Forum Policy, Who we are and Copyright

Privacy Policy and Cookies

Albufeira.com does not automatically collect any type of personal information from its unregistered users allowing them to navigate the site anonymously. In case of some services, “cookies” may be used to count visitors without identifying them personally. This type of “cookies” does not keep any kind of personal information and its installation can always be controlled by the user’s own browser.

Personal information can be voluntarily introduced by the user by filling up various forms existing throughout this website and will only be recorded by Albufeira.com and/or its advertisers. Albufeira.com will not supply this information to third parties without prior authorization from the user. This information will strictly be used to customize some features on the website or to send information about Albufeira.com once in a while.

This privacy policy might be altered in the future without notice. To clear any doubts, please send us an email to geral@albufeira.com.

General conditions of use of this website

This Internet website (www.albufeira.com) is property of Garvemedia, Publicidade Unipessoal, Lda. headquartered in Albufeira since 2005. The content of this website, including all texts, pictures, photographs, multimedia applications and every other elements presented and available throughout the pages, are property of Garvemedia, Lda. except content supplied by advertisers or commercial partners identified as such.

Users are only granted the use of the available content of the site strictly for personal use, being expressly prohibited publishing it, reproducing it, broadcasting it or in turning it public in any way or for any means without written authorization from its owner unless cited in the Portuguese Author Rights Code. All information presented in Albufeira.com can be modified without prior notice at any time since its content obey the law and are in the interest of Albufeira.com owners or entities associated with, in order to guarantee accuracy and effectiveness of the features accessible through this website.

The inclusion of external links in Albufeira.com does not imply its approval or guarantee in any way the quality or accuracy of their contents. By using this portal, users recognize that Albufeira.com does not have any kind of control on the content and services supplied by the third party websites through links presented in the portal. Users specifically accept that Albufeira.com is not responsible for any defamatory, insulting or illegal conduct from other users and that the risks of use are entirely at the users’ responsibility.

No person or entity involved in the creation, production and broadcast of Albufeira.com website or in its software can be held accountable for any loss or damage, directly or indirectly, caused by the use of this website. Users accept these dispositions apply to all content included. Albufeira.com is not responsible for interruption or faults on the network that is not under its responsibility. However, service may be stopped for short periods of time in order to proceed with action of conservation, maintenance, updates or any type or alteration on the network. Albufeira.com reserves itself the rights to pursue legally any person or individual or institution that tries to obtain illegal access to the website.

The use and access to Albufeira.com implies the knowledge and acceptance of every point on these general conditions. Garvemedia, Lda. reserves itself the right to, at any point and under no obligation of notifying users, to alter the content of these general conditions, passing the responsibility to the users to review periodically this page.

Rules and conditions of use of the Business Directory

To the advertisers:

After recording the necessary data for the inclusion in the Albufeira.com directory of their business, users have the right to access the given information about their personal and business details, to rectify them, or even to delete them by logging in with their Username and Password or sending an email to pub@albufeira.com with their request.

For personal safety users may not and should never give or facilitate the access to their password to others. If done, they will be held responsible to Garvemedia, Lda. for possible damages caused by the improper use of their login details.

Albufeira.com reserves itself the right to exclude commercial record request. Data supplied by the registered users will be analyzed by Albufeira.com own criteria. The given information may be rectified or altered at any moment by Albufeira.com administration members in order to standardize the directory presentation. Any change occurring in the registered data will send an automatic email message to its user and to Albufeira.com administration.

For more information about of highlight options, consult this page or contact us here.

To the users:

All information presented by the advertisers on Albufeira.com Directory is the full responsibility of the people representing the company or business that they have registered. Any contact and/or commercial trade resulting from consulting Albufeira.com Directory is restricted between the user/buyer and the chosen advertiser/supplier. Albufeira.com and Garvemedia, Lda. cannot, in any case, be held responsible for any kind of dispute between the user and the advertiser. In case of doubt, send your questions to geral@albufeira.com.

Usage policy of Albufeira.com Forum

In order to facilitate the participation and exchange of ideas and experiences, users do not have to register to access to the forum. However, we encourage people to register in order to benefit from the available functionalities.

Albufeira’s Forum is an open area for debate which means the absence of preliminary censorship. Rules of this forum, presented in this document, have been set to provide to every participant a practical way to debate to available themes and to share related experiences. All messages will not be censored before they are posted by the forum administrators and moderators but they may be deleted if they fit in any of the following cases:

  • Messages containing commercial content or spam
  • Messages with pornographic content or using obscenity or are insulting in any way
  • Messages with aggressive or offensive content to people, religion, races, nationalities, ethnics, political or moral beliefs and every aspects mentioned in the Portuguese Constitution
  • Messages inciting public disorder, containing any political, ideological or religious propaganda
  • Messages that are not within the debated subject
  • Messages with pedophiliac content or inciting pedophilia
  • Any cases that may be analyzed and judged individually.

User who should not respect the above rules in a prolonged and repeated way will be banned from participating in the Forum.

Administrator and moderators will inspect the posted messages regularly and check if rules are respected. Anyone who should detect violation of these rules in any messages should immediately warn the forum administrator using the proper mechanism («Report» button) or by email to forum@albufeira.com.

Who we are and what we do

Albufeira.com belongs to Garvemedia, Publicidade Unipessoal, Lda., a local small-scale advertising agency headquartered in Albufeira that develops and operates the website since 2005.

We take pride in the work and effort we put in the completion of Albufeira.com current version. This portal, existing on the Internet since 1999, presents today a rich and diversified informative content and provides several services we consider of great quality and value to each visitor.

The nature of the new technologies that we use allows us to innovate and evolve while seeking to materialize new ideas constantly. The privilege of living and working in Albufeira concedes to us the advantage of following the evolution of every aspect of life in the region that we aspire on helping grow economically. Our business and mission aim to support companies existing in the region, providing them access to a new and effective way to promote their products and services presenting them within a pleasant and practical media.

Garvemedia is a local company dedicated to the conception and completion of advertisement projects over the many existing digital platforms. Our goal is to bring to our customers attractive, modern and functional solutions in the new media sector through the development of personalized websites, self-management systems, multimedia presentations, advertising campaigns, on press or over the Internet, as well as the creation of corporate identity and every type of graphic design and production.

The Albufeira.com project was idealized and wrapped up entirely by the fonder and collaborators of Garvemedia company. The members of this agency have acquired, through many years in the business, a vast experience in the most various publicity techniques. The technical knowledge together with a brilliant sense of design and exemplary professionalism practices transform their application into high value products in this branch. The company's primary objectives rely on the ambition to deliver absolute satisfaction to its clients by delivering them comprehensive and well adapted services.

We invite you to visit Albufeira.com website in order to corroborate the use of our know-how along the many sections that assemble our portal. Here you will find a variety of technological solutions and innovative ideas that we have put in practice, like: The 360º panoramic tour, interactive maps, the beach guide, the Algarve directory, the weather graphic charts, and so on. You will naturally be pleased to know that you also can take advantage of our capabilities for any purpose of your advertisement needs calling for our services.

Consult us!