1. Introduction and Scope
These Terms of Use ("Terms") govern your use of the website manueltgomes.com (the "Website"), operated by Skillful Sardine - Unipessoal Lda. ("we," "us," "our," or "Company").
By using the Website you accept these Terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the Website.
These Terms cover the relationship between you and us. They do not describe what we do with your personal data, which is set out separately in our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.
Governing Law: These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Portugal, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.
2. Who May Use the Website
You may read the Website without an account. To create an account you must be at least 16 years old. The Website is not directed at anyone under that age, and we do not knowingly collect data from them.
3. What the Website Offers Today
The Website publishes articles, tutorials and reference material, all of which are free to read. There is no paywall and no subscription is required to read anything.
We do not currently sell anything through the Website. No payment is taken, and no goods, downloads or paid services are offered. If that changes, these Terms will be updated before the first sale to cover pricing, delivery, invoicing and your rights as a consumer, and you will be asked to accept the updated Terms.
An account is optional. It exists so that you can keep track of your own activity, and nothing on the Website is withheld from you because you do not have one.
4. Your Account
An account lets you:
- save articles and find them again later
- see the comments you have written in one place
- see the enquiries and estimation requests you have sent, and their status
- manage your newsletter preferences
You are responsible for keeping your sign-in details secure and for activity that happens through your account. Please tell us promptly if you believe someone else has gained access to it.
Accounts are for individual people. Please do not share one, and please do not create an account for someone else without their knowledge.
You may close your account at any time from your account settings. When you do, your login is removed, you are unsubscribed from the newsletter, and the account and the data held against it are deleted. Comments you have written remain published, but are detached from your account and no longer identify you. We keep them because removing them would break the conversations other people took part in.
5. Acceptable Use
When using the Website, please do not:
- break the law, or use the Website to help anyone else do so
- post content that is unlawful, abusive, harassing, hateful, defamatory or deliberately misleading
- post content that infringes someone else's copyright, trade mark or other rights
- impersonate another person, or misrepresent your connection to any person or organisation
- attempt to gain access to any account, system or data that is not yours
- probe, scan or test the security of the Website, except as permitted by our Security Policy
- interfere with the normal running of the Website, including by placing an unreasonable load on it
- collect other people's personal data from the Website, including by automated means
- use automated tools to copy the Website's content at scale
6. Comments and Other Content You Post
You keep ownership of everything you post. We do not claim your words as ours.
So that we can actually run the Website, you give us permission to store, display and distribute what you post, as part of the page it belongs to, for as long as that page exists. This permission is free of charge and worldwide, and it covers nothing beyond running and presenting the Website.
You confirm that what you post is yours to post, and that it does not infringe anyone else's rights.
Comments are moderated. We may edit, hide or remove anything that breaks section 5, and we may do so without notice where the content is unlawful or harmful. We are not obliged to publish or to keep publishing any comment.
If you believe something on the Website infringes your rights, please contact us using the details in section 17 and tell us what and where it is. We will look at it promptly.
7. Our Content and Code Samples
The articles, tutorials, reference material, images and design of the Website belong to us or are used with permission. You may read them, link to them, and quote short extracts with attribution and a link back. You may not republish them in full, or present them as your own work.
Code samples are different, and deliberately so. The tutorials exist to be used. You may copy, adapt and use the code shown in them, including in commercial work, with no attribution required. They are provided as they are, with no warranty, and section 10 applies to them in full.
8. Newsletter and Email
The newsletter is opt-in. You choose the topics you receive, and you can change them or unsubscribe at any time, either from the link in any email or from your account.
Having an account does not subscribe you to anything. Subscribing and registering are separate choices.
Separately from the newsletter, we may need to send you service messages about your account, such as confirming an email address or resetting a password. These are not marketing and cannot be unsubscribed from while the account exists.
9. Enquiries and Estimation Requests
The contact and estimation request forms let you get in touch. Sending one starts a conversation. It does not create a contract, oblige us to take on work, and any figures discussed are indicative until agreed in writing.
10. No Professional Advice
The Website publishes technical material for general information. It is not professional advice, and it is not tailored to your systems, your data or your circumstances.
Test anything you take from the Website before you rely on it. Technology changes, vendor products change, and an approach that was correct when it was written may not be correct when you read it. You remain responsible for what you deploy.
11. Availability and Changes
We try to keep the Website available and its content accurate, but we do not guarantee either. The Website is provided as it is. It may be unavailable at times, whether for maintenance or for reasons outside our control.
We may add, change or remove content and features at any time. Where a change materially affects accounts, we will give notice on the Website or by email.
12. Liability
Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or any statutory rights you have as a consumer under Portuguese and EU law. Those rights are unaffected by anything written here.
Subject to that, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, for loss of profit, revenue or data, or for damage arising from your use of, or inability to use, the Website or anything you took from it.
13. Links to Other Websites
The Website links to sites we do not run, including vendor documentation and tools referenced in articles. We are not responsible for their content, their availability or their privacy practices. A link is not an endorsement.
14. Suspension and Closure
You may stop using the Website at any time, and you may close your account as described in section 4.
We may suspend or close an account that breaks these Terms, that is being used to harm other people or the Website, or where we are required to by law. Except where the breach is serious or unlawful, we will tell you why and give you an opportunity to respond.
15. Changes to These Terms
These Terms describe how the Website works now. We may update them as the Website changes. The date at the top shows when they were last updated.
Where a change materially affects your rights, and in particular before the Website begins selling anything, we will give notice and ask you to accept the updated Terms.
16. Governing Law and Disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of Portugal. If you are a consumer, you also keep the protection of any mandatory provisions of the law of the country you live in, and you may bring proceedings in the courts there.
If you are a consumer in the European Union and we cannot resolve a complaint between us, you may use the European Commission's Online Dispute Resolution platform at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr.
17. Contact Information
Questions about these Terms, or notices under them, can be sent to:
Skillful Sardine - Unipessoal Lda.
Email: legal@skillfulsardine.com
18. Severability
If any provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable, the rest remain in force, and the unenforceable provision applies to the fullest extent the law allows.