Terms and conditions

A quick summary if you are short of time

What is www.autoeventos.pt? It is a digital platform that lets people publish, promote and view automotive events throughout the national territory.

Who are we? Auto Events is a Portuguese business specialising in the automotive sector. It connects organisers, visitors and partners through events, specialist listings and exclusive services.

What services do we offer? The Platform provides digital services designed to facilitate and enrich the experience of automotive enthusiasts, including:

• Promotion of listings by users with an organiser account;
• Viewing listings for upcoming automotive events;
• Practical support for clubs and associations in the sector: collaboration, visibility tools and help publicising their initiatives;
• Promotion of automotive products and services through an online showcase aimed at a knowledgeable, enthusiastic audience.

What can and cannot you do? You may freely use the platform, post events, register, save favourites and contact other users. You may not publish unlawful content, harm third parties or Auto Events, automatically copy our content or use accounts fraudulently.

Who owns the website and application content? All Platform content, including text, photographs, logos, videos and databases, is protected by intellectual property law. It belongs to Auto Events or third parties that have given permission. By posting content, such as a listing or event, you authorise us to use it internally for archiving, reporting and statistics. If your content or account is deleted, only anonymised or aggregated data may be retained.

What next? Now come the full Terms and Conditions, where legal language takes the wheel.

1. Purpose and general information

These General Terms and Conditions of Use (the “T&Cs”) govern access to and use of www.autoeventos.pt (collectively, the “Platform”), published by Rafael Duarte De Salvi, whose registered address is Rua da República da Bolívia, 18, 1500-061 Lisboa, Portugal, registered under number 310797063 and contactable at contacto@autoeventos.pt.

These T&Cs govern:

• The conditions for accessing and using the Platform;
• The conditions for creating organiser and visitor accounts;
• The rules for publishing, consulting and managing automotive event listings;
• Users’ rights and obligations;
• Processing personal data collected when using the Platform and Application;
• Intellectual property, cookies, hyperlinks and the publisher’s liability.

Any use of the Platform constitutes unreserved acceptance of these T&Cs. They apply to all users, whether visitors, organisers or partners, regardless of the device or access channel used.

If any provision is declared invalid, unlawful or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain valid and fully applicable.

By accepting these T&Cs, the User acknowledges having read, understood and accepted their contractual provisions.

2. Access to and use of the Platform

2.1 Acceptance of the T&Cs

Access to the Platform and use of its services require prior, full and complete acceptance of and compliance with these T&Cs. The User declares having read and accepted them in full and without reservation. By accessing or using any offered service, the User agrees to be legally bound by this document. Users who disagree must refrain from using the Platform.

Acceptance is required when creating an account or first accessing the services, through a checkbox provided for this purpose. The User acknowledges that this acceptance constitutes an electronic signature within the meaning of Portuguese law.

Contracts concluded through the Platform therefore constitute an electronic contractual relationship under Article 26 of Decree-Law No. 7/2004 of 7 January and Article 3 of Decree-Law No. 290-D/99 of 2 August, and comply with the obligations under Decree-Law No. 24/2014 of 14 February concerning consumer protection in distance contracts. If you do not agree to conclude contracts electronically, you must not use the Platform.

2.2 Technical conditions of access

Access to the Auto Events Platform is free for all users, whether organisers or visitors, through www.autoeventos.pt.

Access requires a working internet connection and compatible equipment, such as a computer, smartphone or tablet. Users alone bear access costs, including connection and mobile data charges.

Auto Events makes every effort to provide continuous, secure access that meets technical standards, without guaranteeing permanent availability. The User acknowledges that:

• Access may be temporarily suspended without notice, particularly for maintenance, updates, performance improvements or force majeure, without entitlement to compensation;
• Auto Events is not liable for interruptions, breakdowns, bugs, slow operation or unavailability caused by third parties, such as hosting providers, access providers or mobile networks, or by events beyond its control;
• Users alone are responsible for their use of the Platform, the information they publish, consult or transmit, and the security of their computing environment, including systems, antivirus software, connections and passwords.

Auto Events cannot be held liable for unlawful, abusive or non-compliant use of the Platform, or for direct or indirect damage resulting from access or inability to access it.

3. Access to services

3.1 Creating an account

A personal account is required to access certain services, particularly:

• Publishing, editing and managing events as an organiser;
• Saving favourite events as an organiser;
• Saving favourite events as a visitor.

Organisers, whether clubs, organisations or individuals, need an account to create and manage their events. Visitors who want to save favourite events must also create an account.

3.2 Data requirements

The User undertakes to provide accurate, complete and up-to-date information. The following information is mandatory:

• First name (visitors only);
• Surname (visitors only);
• Email address;
• Telephone number;
• Username (organisers only);
• Website (organisers only);
• First name of the person responsible (organisers only);
• Surname of the person responsible (organisers only).

Organisers must choose a username as their public identifier. The username chosen at registration may be changed up to twice. Each change requires a minimum waiting period of 30 days before any further change.

As an alternative to conventional registration, the User may create an Auto Events account through their Google account. With the User’s explicit consent, certain information is automatically imported from their Google profile:

• First name;
• Surname;
• Email address;
• Telephone number, if associated with the Google account.

This method simplifies registration and helps ensure the reliability of the information provided. Users may subsequently access and edit imported information in their personal area. Auto Events undertakes to use it only to operate the platform, in accordance with applicable data protection legislation.

3.3 Users who are minors

Children under 16 must obtain permission from their legal guardians to create an account. Auto Events reserves the right to request proof of parental consent for users who are minors at any time.

3.4 Account suspension or deletion

When account deletion is requested, the account is initially deactivated for 90 days, during which the User may request reactivation. If no reactivation is requested, the account and associated personal data are permanently deleted after that period, unless the law provides otherwise. Some data may be retained temporarily beyond this period for strictly limited evidential or security purposes, or to meet legal or regulatory obligations.

3.5 Account security

When creating an account, the User chooses a personal, confidential password to access their secure user area. Auto Events requires a complex password of at least eight characters combining uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and special characters.

An activation email is sent to the address provided. Activation through that email is mandatory to verify the User’s identity and prevent impersonation and unauthorised access.

Users alone are responsible for activity carried out through their accounts using their credentials. If credentials are lost, forgotten or suspected of fraudulent use, the User must immediately inform Auto Events and reset the password. Auto Events is not liable for unauthorised account use resulting from the User’s failure to meet security obligations.

Auto Events may suspend, restrict or delete account access at any time and without notice for breach of these T&Cs, without prejudice to liability claims or legal proceedings.

4. Rules for publishing automotive events

4.1 Publication conditions

Registered organisers may publish automotive event listings. Publication requires acceptance of and compliance with these rules, which aim to ensure reliable information and quality content.

Only users with a valid organiser account may publish a listing. It must:

• Relate to a real automotive event with a date and location;
• Include accurate, current and complete information: event title; location, date and times; event description; registration or access conditions; and contact details;
• Comply with the Platform’s visual standards, including image formats, dimensions and quality.

The listing form requires certain mandatory information, for example make, model, price and year. Unlawful, inaccurate, misleading or defamatory content, or content infringing third-party rights, is strictly prohibited. The User alone is responsible for information supplied and content published.

To ensure content quality and compliance, Auto Events has implemented an approval system. Every listing is checked before being published. A non-compliant listing is not published, and a message explains the refusal. The organiser may correct the information and resubmit it for validation.

4.2 Prohibited content

Listings must not contain:

• False, exaggerated or deliberately misleading information, such as fictitious events, false dates or impersonation of a brand or name;
• Third-party personal data without prior consent, including names, numbers, recognisable faces and blurred vehicle registration plates;
• Unauthorised advertising or promotional content, including shopping links, competing listings or redirection to other platforms without Auto Events’ prior consent.

4.3 Advertisers’ responsibilities

Advertisers undertake to:

• Publish only content for which they hold the necessary rights or permissions, including text, images, logos and trademarks;
• Update, deactivate or delete listings when an event changes, is cancelled or postponed;
• Accept full responsibility for published content, with Auto Events checking listings after publication, except for prior moderation in certain reported cases;
• Accept full responsibility for content published on the Platform. Auto Events checks listings before publication, particularly for compliance with these terms and applicable legislation. This check does not relieve the User of responsibility for the accuracy, lawfulness and compliance of the information provided.

Auto Events reserves the right to:

• Refuse, suspend or remove advertising that breaches these rules or applicable legislation, without an obligation to provide reasons;
• Temporarily or permanently deactivate an advertiser’s account in cases of repeated breaches, fraud or obvious abuse.

5. Unlawful user activities

Users undertake to respect applicable legislation, third-party rights and rules of proper digital conduct. Contrary conduct breaches these T&Cs and may prompt immediate action by Auto Events.

Users must not introduce, publish, disclose or share content in any form, including text, images, videos or links, that:

• Is racist, xenophobic, sexist, obscene, abusive, defamatory or discriminatory, including on grounds of age, sex, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, political opinion or any legally protected personal characteristic;
• Incites violence, suicide, terrorism, criminal activity or hatred against a person or group;
• Infringes third parties’ fundamental rights, privacy, dignity or physical or moral integrity;
• Breaches personal data protection legislation, particularly by disclosing third-party identity, contact details or images without prior informed consent;
• Constitutes false or unfair advertising, including false information, fictitious prices or denigration of competitors or third parties;
• Is false, inaccurate, misleading or fraudulent and liable to mislead users about an event’s nature, conditions, organisers or content.

The Platform must not be used:

• For unlawful or inconsistent purposes, including circumventing commercial rules, distributing political or ideological content or promoting unlawful activities;
• To resell, sublicense or otherwise make services available to unauthorised third parties;
• To damage Auto Events’ or other users’ computing systems by introducing viruses, Trojan horses, spyware, malicious scripts or other code or devices intended to alter, interrupt or destroy systems or data;
• To impersonate another user or access a third-party account without lawful authorisation.

Users must refrain from:

• Using robots, crawlers, scrapers, spiders or equivalent automated processes to access, collect, extract or reproduce Platform data or content without Auto Events’ prior written permission;
• Any automated use or extraction of Platform content, particularly through crawlers, data-extraction scripts, web scraping or text and data mining (TDM), without Auto Events’ prior express written permission, in accordance with applicable database and digital content protection legislation;
• Circumventing, disabling or attempting to circumvent security measures or access restrictions;
• Imposing an excessive or unreasonable load on Auto Events’ technical infrastructure, including denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) or automated scans.

For breach of any of these commitments, Auto Events may:

• Immediately remove unlawful content or content contrary to the Terms of Use;
• Suspend or delete the relevant user account without notice;
• Initiate appropriate judicial or extrajudicial proceedings, including claims for damages.

Requests to reuse content or reports of rights infringements may be sent to contacto@autoeventos.pt.

6. Personal data protection

6.1 Collection and purposes

When the Platform is used, Auto Events collects and processes users’ personal data in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 (GDPR) and applicable Portuguese legislation, relying on:

• Performance of a contract (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR) to manage user accounts, services and event registrations;
• Legal obligations (Article 6(1)(c) GDPR) concerning security, fraud prevention or legally required retention;
• Consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR) to send promotional communications;
• Auto Events’ legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR) in ensuring proper technical operation.

Data is processed to create and manage user accounts, publish and consult automotive events, improve security and service, and prevent unlawful or abusive behaviour.

6.2 Users’ rights

Under Articles 12 to 22 of the GDPR, every user has the rights of access, rectification of inaccurate data, erasure (the right to be forgotten), restriction of processing, objection on legitimate grounds and data portability.

6.3 Exercising rights and remedies in disputes

These rights may be exercised at any time through the authenticated account management interface or by contacting privacidade@autoeventos.pt or epd@autoeventos.pt.

Users may complain to the competent supervisory authority, particularly the Portuguese Data Protection Authority (CNPD), through www.cnpd.pt.

6.4 Privacy Policy

For details of the data collected, retention periods, security measures and possible transfers outside the European Union or European Economic Area, particularly through technical providers, cloud services or analytics tools, consult the Privacy Policy, available at any time on the Platform.

7. Intellectual and industrial property

7.1 Auto Events’ property rights

All elements of the Auto Events Platform, including text, images, videos, logos, trademarks, sounds, databases, software, graphic design, technical structures and content accessible through the website or mobile application, are protected by applicable intellectual property, copyright and trademark law and international conventions.

Platform databases are protected both by copyright and by the database producer’s sui generis right under Directive 96/9/EC of 11 March 1996 and applicable Portuguese legislation.

Auto Events exclusively owns, or holds the necessary exploitation rights to, all published intellectual and industrial property elements, particularly:

• Published content, including text, images, illustrations, photographs, videos, sounds, graphical interfaces, databases and features;
• Distinctive signs: trade name, registered trademarks, logos, slogans, icons and domain names;
• Technical structure: software, source code, architecture, algorithms, interfaces, technical tools and databases.

Any reproduction, representation, dissemination, modification, publication, distribution or use of these elements, in whole or in part and by any means, without Auto Events’ prior express written permission constitutes an infringement that may incur civil and criminal liability under applicable intellectual property provisions.

Users may use Platform content only for strictly personal and private purposes. Unauthorised commercial, advertising, editorial or redistributive use is expressly prohibited.

7.2 Content shared by users

Users retain ownership of content they publish, such as event descriptions and images. By publishing it, however, they grant Auto Events a non-exclusive, free, worldwide and transferable licence for the entire statutory protection period to:

• Reproduce, represent, modify, distribute, archive or use the content to operate or promote the Platform;
• Retain it for historical, statistical or evidential purposes, including after account deletion, in compliance with the GDPR.

Users warrant that they hold all necessary rights, including copyright and image rights, to publish the content and that it does not infringe third-party rights.

7.3 Prohibited conduct

Without Auto Events’ written permission, users must not:

• Replicate, reproduce, copy, modify, publish, extract or reuse Platform content, in whole or in part, on any medium or for any unauthorised purpose;
• Create deep hyperlinks or integrate Platform content into another website or application without prior consent;
• Use trademarks, distinctive signs or protected elements for commercial, promotional or imitative purposes;
• Reproduce or distribute content without citing its author and source, in accordance with applicable intellectual property provisions.

8. Liability of Autoeventos.pt

8.1 Nature of the services

Auto Events provides a digital platform at www.autoeventos.pt enabling:

• Organisers to publish and promote automotive events;
• Visitors to view listings for upcoming automotive events;
• Creation of organiser accounts, whether for clubs, organisations or individuals, and visitor accounts, required for access to features according to the rights associated with each account type;
• Distribution of third-party content and advertising, particularly through hyperlinks.

The Platform acts as a technical intermediary and is not a party to contractual relationships between users, such as event registration or communication between organisers and visitors.

8.2 Limited liability

Auto Events endeavours to ensure secure, stable and compliant access. It is not liable for:

• The accuracy, reliability or lawfulness of user-published listings, events, images or text;
• Cancellations, changes, delays or disputes involving events posted by third parties;
• Interactions between users, whether on or off the Platform;
• Damage arising from non-compliant or fraudulent use of the Platform, application or accessible data;
• Damage resulting from temporary or permanent interruption for maintenance, updates or force majeure.

Auto Events does not guarantee that the Platform is free from errors, defects or interruptions, or compatible with every system or device.

Where liability is incurred, it is strictly limited to proven direct loss suffered by the User, excluding indirect, non-material or consequential losses, such as loss of data, opportunity or turnover.

9. Cookies and trackers

9.1 Use of cookies

Cookies and other trackers may be placed on the User’s device while browsing, subject to the choices expressed. A cookie is a text file stored in the browser that collects information about browsing or the device, such as a computer, smartphone or tablet.

Auto Events uses:

• Strictly necessary cookies: essential to technical operation, account management and browsing preferences; exempt from consent;
• Audience measurement cookies: used for anonymous statistics about visitors and Platform use; consent is required unless data is strictly anonymous;
• Third-party advertising cookies and trackers: used for personalised content, targeted advertising or interaction with social networks; subject to explicit consent.

9.2 Consent

In accordance with the ePrivacy Directive and Article 5(3) of the GDPR, setting and reading non-essential cookies requires prior consent, collected through a banner or preference management platform at first connection.

Users may modify or withdraw consent at any time through “Manage my cookies”, available in the Platform footer and the mobile side menu. Refusing non-essential cookies does not affect access to essential services.

Cookies are retained for a maximum of 13 months from placement. Consent is requested again after that period.

9.3 Cookie Policy

For information on cookie types, purposes, third parties that may set them and configuration methods, consult the Cookie Policy.

10. Hyperlinks

10.1 Origin of links

Links to third-party websites or services may be provided by Auto Events for informational or commercial purposes, incorporated into sponsored or advertising content, or published by partners or event organisers in listings or dedicated pages.

10.2 No liability

Auto Events has no control over content or services accessible through external links, which remain the sole responsibility of their publishers. Auto Events is not liable for:

• Third-party content, advertising, products, services or information accessible through these links;
• Direct or indirect damage arising from accessing or using third-party websites;
• Those publishers’ failure to comply with applicable regulations, particularly data protection, intellectual property or commercial practice rules.

Users should consult third-party legal notices and privacy policies before using, registering with or transacting on those websites. A hyperlink does not constitute Auto Events’ approval or validation of its content.

10.3 Links to Autoeventos.pt

Creating hyperlinks to all or part of www.autoeventos.pt requires Auto Events’ prior written permission.

11. Duration and termination

11.1 Entry into force

These T&Cs take effect when accepted and apply indefinitely while the User uses the Platform or maintains an active account.

Auto Events may modify the T&Cs at any time. Substantial changes will be notified by appropriate means, such as an information banner, email or account message. Continued use after modification constitutes acceptance of the new T&Cs.

11.2 Termination by the User

Users may terminate these T&Cs at any time by deleting their account through the dedicated interface in their personal area or requesting deletion at contacto@autoeventos.pt.

Deletion ends access to associated services and immediately deactivates the account for 90 days, during which reactivation may be requested. After that period, the account and personal data are deleted unless legal retention obligations apply.

11.3 Termination by Auto Events

Auto Events may unilaterally suspend or terminate access to the Platform or an account at any time and without notice for breach of these T&Cs or applicable legislation, or for fraudulent, abusive or unlawful behaviour. Such termination does not entitle the affected User to compensation.

12. Applicable law, jurisdiction and dispute resolution

12.1 Applicable law

These T&Cs are governed by Portuguese law to the exclusion of any other legislation.

12.2 Jurisdiction

Disputes concerning interpretation, validity or performance of these T&Cs or use of the Platform should first be resolved amicably. Otherwise, the Portuguese courts with jurisdiction over Auto Events’ registered office shall have exclusive jurisdiction, unless otherwise provided.

12.3 Consumer mediation

In accordance with Directive 2013/11/EU on alternative dispute resolution for consumer disputes, consumers are informed that they may use an alternative dispute resolution method, particularly:

• The territorially competent Consumer Dispute Arbitration Centre, listed at www.consumidor.gov.pt;
• The European Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) platform at https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/ord.