Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 23, 2026

Minor Explorer (“Minor Explorer”, “we”, “us” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store and protect personal data when you visit the Minor Explorer website, interact with its content, contact us, subscribe to our newsletter, or use services and features made available through the Website.

The Website is operated by:

Bruno Silva, trading as Minor Explorer

For the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”) and applicable Portuguese data protection legislation, Bruno Silva is the data controller responsible for the processing of personal data described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Who We Are

Minor Explorer is a travel, exploration, overlanding, automotive, photography and outdoor content project.

The Website may contain articles, photographs, videos, travel stories, routes, recommendations, product references, affiliate links and other editorial content.

For privacy-related questions or requests, you can contact:

Bruno Silva
Minor Explorer
Email: [email protected]

2. What Personal Data We Collect

The personal data we collect depends on how you interact with the Website.

2.1 Information You Provide Directly

When you contact Minor Explorer, subscribe to our newsletter, submit information through a form or otherwise communicate with us, you may provide:

  • name;

  • email address;

  • message or enquiry;

  • newsletter preferences;

  • information contained in correspondence with us; and

  • any other information you voluntarily choose to provide.

You should not provide sensitive personal information through the Website unless it is specifically requested and necessary for a particular purpose.

2.2 Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the Website, certain information may be collected automatically by the Website, Squarespace, analytics services, security technologies or other third-party services.

Depending on the services enabled on the Website, this may include:

  • IP address;

  • browser type and version;

  • device type;

  • operating system;

  • language and general location information;

  • pages visited;

  • referring website;

  • date and time of visits;

  • approximate time spent on pages;

  • interactions with Website content;

  • technical identifiers; and

  • information relating to cookies and similar technologies.

The exact information collected depends on the services and settings active on the Website at the time of your visit.

3. How We Use Personal Data

We may use personal data for the following purposes:

Website operation

To:

  • operate and maintain the Website;

  • provide Website functionality;

  • maintain Website security;

  • prevent abuse, fraud and malicious activity;

  • diagnose technical problems; and

  • improve Website performance.

Communications

To:

  • respond to enquiries;

  • communicate with you when you contact Minor Explorer;

  • provide information you have requested; and

  • manage ongoing correspondence.

Newsletter

Where you have subscribed, we may use your email address to:

  • send the Minor Explorer newsletter;

  • share new articles, travel stories and projects;

  • share photographs, videos and editorial content;

  • provide information about Minor Explorer;

  • occasionally share relevant products, services, partnerships or recommendations; and

  • manage your subscription and communication preferences.

Analytics

Where appropriate consent has been obtained, analytics information may be used to understand:

  • which pages are visited;

  • how visitors navigate the Website;

  • which content is useful or popular;

  • how the Website performs; and

  • how the Website can be improved.

Affiliate marketing

Where applicable, we may use affiliate links in articles, guides, reviews or other content.

Affiliate links allow Minor Explorer to receive a commission or other compensation if you click a link and subsequently make a qualifying purchase or booking with the relevant third party.

Affiliate tracking may involve cookies or similar technologies operated by the relevant affiliate network or merchant.

Affiliate links do not normally increase the price you pay, but the third party's own terms, prices and privacy policy will apply to your transaction.

Legal and administrative purposes

We may process personal data where necessary to:

  • comply with legal obligations;

  • establish, exercise or defend legal claims;

  • protect the rights, property and security of Minor Explorer or others; and

  • comply with lawful requests from competent authorities.

4. Legal Bases for Processing

Depending on the circumstances, Minor Explorer may process personal data on the following legal bases:

Consent

Where required, we will ask for your consent before processing personal data for a specific purpose.

Examples may include:

  • subscribing to marketing communications;

  • placing or reading certain non-essential cookies;

  • certain analytics technologies; and

  • certain third-party embedded content.

You may withdraw consent at any time.

Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that took place before withdrawal.

Legitimate interests

We may process personal data where this is necessary for our legitimate interests, provided that those interests are not overridden by your rights and freedoms.

Examples may include:

  • Website security;

  • preventing abuse;

  • maintaining Website functionality;

  • responding to communications;

  • improving our content and Website;

  • maintaining business records; and

  • protecting our legal rights.

Contractual necessity

Where applicable, personal data may be processed where necessary to take steps at your request or perform an agreement with you.

Legal obligations

Personal data may also be processed where necessary to comply with an applicable legal obligation.

Consent is therefore not necessarily required for every processing activity. The appropriate legal basis depends on the specific processing activity.

5. Squarespace

The Minor Explorer Website is hosted and operated using Squarespace.

Squarespace provides Website hosting, infrastructure and various Website functionality.

Depending on the features enabled on the Website, Squarespace may process technical information and information relating to Website visitors, including information associated with cookies, analytics, forms and other Website functionality.

Squarespace may also provide tools that allow Website owners to manage cookies and visitor consent.

The use of Squarespace does not mean that Minor Explorer has access to all information collected or processed by Squarespace. The processing of data by Squarespace is also governed by Squarespace's own privacy documentation and contractual arrangements.

For more information, please consult Squarespace's privacy documentation and terms.

6. Google Analytics

Minor Explorer may use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the Website.

Google Analytics may collect information such as:

  • Website interactions;

  • pages visited;

  • approximate location;

  • device information;

  • browser information;

  • referral information;

  • approximate session information; and

  • other usage and technical information.

Google Analytics may use cookies or similar technologies.

Where applicable under EU/EEA privacy and cookie requirements, non-essential analytics technologies will only be activated according to the visitor's consent choices.

If you decline analytics cookies, the corresponding analytics technologies will not be used in the manner that requires that consent.

Google may process information in accordance with its own privacy policies and applicable contractual safeguards.

Minor Explorer does not sell Google Analytics information to third parties.

7. YouTube

Minor Explorer may embed or link to videos hosted on YouTube.

When you interact with an embedded YouTube video, YouTube may process information about your device, browser, interaction with the video and other technical information.

Where technically available, Minor Explorer may use YouTube's privacy-enhanced embedding option.

YouTube states that its privacy-enhanced embedded player uses the youtube-nocookie.com domain and is designed to prevent views of embedded content from being used to personalise the YouTube viewing experience outside the embedded player.

However, YouTube remains a third-party service and its own privacy practices apply.

If you click through from Minor Explorer to YouTube, your interaction with YouTube is governed by YouTube's own terms and privacy policies.

8. Instagram and Social Media

Minor Explorer may provide links to or display content from social media platforms, including Instagram.

If you visit or interact with Instagram or another social media platform through a link, embedded content or social media feature, that platform may collect and process information about you.

Social media providers may use cookies, pixels or other tracking technologies and may associate your interaction with an account you hold with that platform.

Minor Explorer does not control the data processing practices of Instagram or other social media platforms.

Your use of those platforms is governed by their respective privacy policies and terms.

Where possible, Minor Explorer will seek to use privacy-conscious embedding and consent mechanisms for non-essential third-party content.

9. Contact Form

If you contact Minor Explorer using a Website contact form, the information you provide may include:

  • your name;

  • email address;

  • message;

  • information contained in attachments, where applicable; and

  • any other information you voluntarily provide.

This information will be used to:

  • respond to your enquiry;

  • provide information requested by you;

  • maintain correspondence;

  • take action in response to your request; and

  • keep appropriate records where necessary.

We do not use information submitted through the contact form to send marketing communications unless you have separately provided the appropriate consent or another lawful basis applies.

Contact form information will be retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

10. Newsletter

If you subscribe to the Minor Explorer newsletter, we will collect and process the information necessary to manage your subscription, normally including your email address and, where provided, your name.

Newsletter subscriptions are based on your consent where consent is the applicable legal basis.

You may unsubscribe at any time by:

We may retain evidence of your subscription and consent where necessary to demonstrate compliance with applicable legal requirements.

We may use a third-party email marketing service to manage newsletter subscriptions and send emails.

The provider currently used for the Minor Explorer newsletter will be identified in this Privacy Policy when the service is implemented.

Newsletter providers may process information such as:

  • email address;

  • name;

  • subscription status;

  • date and source of subscription;

  • email delivery information;

  • unsubscribe information; and

  • limited interaction information, such as whether an email was opened or a link was clicked, where these features are enabled.

We will not knowingly add individuals to the Minor Explorer marketing list without an appropriate lawful basis.

11. Affiliate Links

Minor Explorer may participate in affiliate programmes operated by third-party companies, retailers, booking platforms, travel companies, equipment providers or affiliate networks.

An affiliate link is a link that may allow the relevant third party or affiliate network to identify that a visitor came from Minor Explorer.

If you click an affiliate link, the third party may use cookies or other tracking technologies to attribute a subsequent purchase, booking or other qualifying action to Minor Explorer.

If you make a qualifying purchase or booking, Minor Explorer may receive a commission.

Affiliate relationships do not determine whether a product, service, destination or experience is suitable for you.

Where appropriate, affiliate relationships will be disclosed within the relevant content.

The transaction itself takes place with the third-party merchant or service provider, not with Minor Explorer.

The third party's own terms, privacy policy, cancellation policy, prices and conditions apply to your transaction.

12. Cookies and Similar Technologies

The Website may use cookies and similar technologies.

Cookies may be used for different purposes, including:

Necessary cookies

These may be required for:

  • Website functionality;

  • security;

  • navigation;

  • session management; and

  • other essential Website operations.

Analytics cookies

Where enabled and where consent is required, analytics cookies may be used to understand Website usage and performance.

Third-party cookies

Third-party services such as YouTube, Instagram, Google Analytics, affiliate networks or other embedded services may use cookies or similar technologies.

Non-essential cookies and similar technologies will be handled according to the consent choices made through the Website's cookie mechanism, where required by applicable law.

You may also control cookies through your browser settings.

For detailed information about the cookies used on the Website, their purposes and how to manage them, please refer to the Minor Explorer Cookie Policy.

13. Third-Party Websites and Services

The Website may contain links to websites, products, services, booking platforms, retailers, travel companies, social networks and other third parties.

These websites are outside the control of Minor Explorer.

When you leave the Website or interact with a third-party service, that third party may collect and process personal data according to its own privacy policy.

Minor Explorer is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, availability or content of third-party websites.

We recommend reviewing the privacy policy of any third-party service before providing personal information.

14. Who May Receive Personal Data

Depending on how you use the Website, personal data may be processed by:

  • Bruno Silva / Minor Explorer;

  • Squarespace;

  • Google and relevant Google services;

  • YouTube;

  • Instagram or other social media providers;

  • the email/newsletter service provider;

  • contact form or communication service providers;

  • analytics providers;

  • affiliate networks;

  • technical and hosting service providers;

  • professional advisers where necessary; and

  • public authorities where required by law.

Third-party providers will only receive information where this is necessary for the relevant service, where you have consented, or where another lawful basis permits the processing.

15. International Data Transfers

Some service providers used by Minor Explorer may process personal data outside Portugal or outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”).

Where personal data is transferred outside the EEA, Minor Explorer will take appropriate measures to ensure that the transfer is carried out in accordance with applicable data protection law.

Depending on the circumstances, this may include:

  • an adequacy decision recognised under applicable law;

  • Standard Contractual Clauses;

  • other legally recognised safeguards; or

  • another lawful transfer mechanism.

The availability and location of processing may vary depending on the third-party services used by the Website.

16. Data Retention

Minor Explorer does not keep personal data indefinitely.

Personal data will be retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, unless a longer period is required or permitted by law.

Different types of information may therefore be retained for different periods.

For example:

Contact enquiries

Correspondence may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to deal with the enquiry and maintain appropriate records.

Newsletter subscriptions

Newsletter information may be retained while you remain subscribed.

After you unsubscribe, your information may be retained in limited form where necessary to record your withdrawal of consent or prevent you from being inadvertently resubscribed.

Analytics information

Analytics information is retained according to the configuration and retention settings of the relevant analytics service.

Legal records

Certain information may be retained for longer where necessary to comply with legal, accounting or tax obligations or to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

17. Your Rights Under the GDPR

Depending on the circumstances, you have rights concerning your personal data, including:

Right to be informed

You have the right to receive clear information about how your personal data is processed.

Right of access

You may request access to the personal data we hold about you.

Right to rectification

You may ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data.

Right to erasure

In certain circumstances, you may ask us to delete your personal data.

Right to restriction

In certain circumstances, you may request that we restrict the processing of your personal data.

Right to data portability

Where applicable, you may request your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.

Right to object

You may object to certain processing activities, including processing based on legitimate interests and direct marketing.

Right to withdraw consent

Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time.

Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before your withdrawal.

These rights are subject to the conditions and limitations established by applicable law.

18. How to Exercise Your Rights

To exercise your rights or ask questions about your personal data, contact:

Bruno Silva
Minor Explorer
Email: [email protected]

Please provide enough information for us to understand and process your request.

We may need to verify your identity before responding to certain requests.

We will generally respond to valid GDPR requests within one month, although this period may be extended where permitted by law.

Requests are generally handled free of charge unless applicable law permits us to charge a reasonable fee or refuse a manifestly unfounded or excessive request.

19. Right to Lodge a Complaint

If you believe that your personal data has been processed in breach of applicable data protection law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority.

In Portugal, the supervisory authority is:

Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (CNPD)

Rua de São Bento n.º 148, 3.º
1200-821 Lisboa
Portugal

Website: www.cnpd.pt

You may contact the CNPD directly regarding concerns about the processing of your personal data.

20. Data Security

Minor Explorer takes reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against:

  • unauthorised access;

  • unlawful processing;

  • accidental loss;

  • destruction;

  • alteration; and

  • unauthorised disclosure.

However, no website, online service or method of electronic transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

You should therefore avoid submitting unnecessary sensitive or confidential information through public or unsecured communication channels.

21. Children's Privacy

The Minor Explorer Website is not specifically directed at children.

We do not knowingly collect personal data from children for purposes requiring parental consent.

If you believe that a child has provided personal data to Minor Explorer without the appropriate consent, please contact us so that we can review and, where appropriate, delete the information.

22. Automated Decision-Making and Profiling

Minor Explorer does not use personal data collected through this Website to make decisions based solely on automated processing that produce legal or similarly significant effects on individuals.

Third-party services used by the Website may have their own automated processing or profiling practices. Such processing is governed by the relevant third party's privacy policy.

23. Changes to This Privacy Policy

Minor Explorer may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

Changes may be made to reflect:

  • changes to the Website;

  • new services or technologies;

  • changes to third-party providers;

  • changes to our data processing practices;

  • changes to applicable law; or

  • other operational or legal requirements.

The latest version will always be published on this page.

The “Last updated” date at the beginning of this Privacy Policy will be changed whenever material updates are made.

24. Contact

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your personal data, or the privacy practices of Minor Explorer, please contact:

Bruno Silva
Minor Explorer
Email: [email protected]

Last updated: September 23, 2026