Browsing Transparency

1. Kindly note that browsing www.carlosramires.eu will not trig-ger or result in the installation of files, cookies, or tracking technologies in the visiting browser, much less collect, profile, or report any automatically transmitted data, such as IP addresses or technical pro-tocols.

2. At the visitor’s request, consent for the installation of a local storage unit shall only be required for the sole purpose of operating the website’s ERDS privacy vault or defining its accessibility settings, but always without performing any data collection, storage, or analy-sis, and while allowing its removal or deletion at all times via a dedicated “reset button”. The status regarding all such operations shall automatically be provided to the operating visitor without any human intervention.

3. The browsing of www.carlosramires.eu shall likewise not be-come subject to, nor ever give cause to presume or imply, any form of data-processing consent, pre-contractual agreement, or waiver of rights; nor shall it resort to standard contractual clauses, bundled terms, or pre-ticked consent mechanisms to harvest consent for any matter other than explicit permission to install the above-mentioned local storage unit.

Binding Contractual Effects & Confidentiality

4. As all legal commitments and privacy agreements shall solely arise from the act of a tailored and individually negotiated contract — and only following the expiry of a free withdrawal period as to be specified — no enquiries, preliminaries, conditions, or offers under consideration shall give rise to any legally binding or contractual ob-ligations until formally executed in writing as aforesaid.

5. All communications shared with Carlos Ramires Compliance Law shall be held strictly confidential and subject to GDPR standards and qualified professional privilege protections, irrespective of their personal or non-personal nature, albeit without prejudice to statutory disclosure requirements that may apply, such as those arising from anti-money laundering and economic crime regulations.

6. English and Portuguese shall be the sole official languages avail-able for service, commitment, and documentation. Enquiries, translations, and replies in any other language shall be welcomed as an act of courtesy, subject to the explicit understanding and permission that automated translation tools may be used without human revision, as set forth and further explained in the AI Use Statement of Principle above.

AI Use Statement of Principle

7. All content available on www.carlosramires.eu, as well as all documents, services, and communications made ready to be issued or delivered, shall be subject to Artificial Intelligence review for the pur-poses of applicable professional editing and ensuring, where possible, a standard of international English free of potential local colloquialisms, in alignment with established Plain English Campaign and UK Government Digital Service (GDS) standards.

8. To mitigate privacy, cybersecurity, and environmental concerns associated with frontier AI models, all AI operations at Carlos Ramires Compliance Law shall be strictly restricted to Small Language Models (SLMs) and privacy-first infrastructures, such as Swiss-based Proton and Infomaniak. No personal data or any other details shall ever be subject to automated AI processing, and explicit consent for any AI data processing shall always be required.

9. Under no circumstances shall any communications or opera-tional exchanges be delegated to automated reply systems, other than those technically provided for under Paragraph 2 hereof.

110. www.carlosramires.eu and, by default, all information it might receive shall be securely hosted on Infomaniak’s Swiss infrastructure with TLS/HTTPS encryption in transit. For end-to-end encryption (E2EE), users or clients shall be inquired as to their preference to use Proton, Signal, or pseudonymisation features.

Open Access and Moral Rights

11. In view of standard or prevailing screening requirements, all content displayed on www.carlosramires.eu — with the formal exception of logos, photographs, and graphic or design assets — is hereby made available for the public’s free, legitimate, and personal benefit, in whatever form such benefit may arise, but with the formal exclusion of commercial publishing, provided, however, that no such use is made that could misrepresent the author’s statements, opinions, or views, or expose him to any liability or reputational harm.

12. Reproduction, adaptation, or redistribution is, therefore, formally authorised without the need for any citation, attribution, or permission — and free of all copyright or licensing restrictions that would traditionally apply — although without entailing or implying the waiver, loss, limitation, or transfer of any moral rights — namely the right to authorship, the right to modify, delete, or withdraw con-tent from public availability, and the right to the integrity of the work — which shall remain reserved as provided for in Article 56 of the Portuguese Copyright and Related Rights Code (Código do Direito de Autor e dos Direitos Conexos) and under the principles governing freedom of will established by the Berne Convention (1886), the TRIPS Agreement (1994), and the WIPO Copyright Treaty (1996).

13. The exercise of all such reserved moral rights shall operate solely for the future (“ex nunc”) and without restricting, affecting, or invalidating the continued use, reproduction, or reliance by third parties upon any copies previously downloaded, shared, or lawfully acquired in good faith under the terms set forth herein.

Legal effects

14. For the avoidance of any doubt, the permissions and “conces-sions of use” set forth herein are hereby issued under the doctrinal and statutory framework governing “public declarations” within Romanic legal systems, and the doctrines of “acceptance by perfor-mance” and “promissory estoppel” within Common Law jurisdictions — including, inter alia, Article 225 of the Portuguese Civil Code and the principles affirmed in Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Co. [1892] (UK) — with the express intention of conferring upon all beneficiaries the highest attainable degree of legal assurance regarding the use of the content herein provided, and of pre-emptively excluding or neutralising any potential claims, objections, or liabilities that may arise in connection with potential doubts or infringements of intellectual property rights.

15. Kindly note, however, that as the contents of www.carlosramires.eu are being provided for illustrative and infor-mational purposes only, they have not been structured or intended to act as any form of legal advice or reflect any legal amendments that might be enacted after their date of publication.

16. They must not, accordingly, be taken or relied upon, under any circumstances, for any specific legal effects if and until formally re-viewed, adapted, or complemented by specific legal counsel.

Accessibility & Plagiarism Cautions

17. Please be advised that, in compliance with digital accessibility requirements and for the purposes of supporting digital Braille and other neurodiversity-assisting technologies, all content available on www.carlosramires.eu will also be published in open HTML format.

18. It will be, consequently, readily indexed and detectable online by automated anti-plagiarism and content-detection systems (such as Turnitin, iThenticate, Ouriginal, or GPTZero), which, in certain circumstances, may trigger automated false-positive plagiarism flags and subject users to unintended academic scrutiny or reputational friction.

19. While any such unintended inconveniences are deeply regret-ted and apologized for in advance, users are kindly advised to manage these risks in accordance with standard academic and professional practices in order to address and prevent any potential adverse impact.

20. Alternatively, the source may also be explicitly disclosed or cited ("www.carlosramires.eu") to clarify and immediately dismiss any such unfortunate misunderstandings.

Spoofing, OSINT and Impersonation

21. Kindly note that all personal, sensitive, or GDPR-relevant data traditionally expected to be disclosed on the website has been inten-tionally removed for the purposes of safeguarding the confidentiality of our clients’ assignments — particularly when involving highly sen-sitive matters or potential litigation — and to adhere to “surface min-imisation” principles as recommended by recognised cybersecurity authorities such as CERT-EU (Cybersecurity Mitigation Measures Against Critical Threats), the ENISA Threat Landscape, the UK Gov-ernment Cyber Security Policy Handbook, and NCSC Guidance.

22. Accordingly, all contact details will be disclosed at a later stage following the applicable mutual trust protocols. A public email address for general enquiries is available, alongside an official LinkedIn profile which must not be used, under any circumstances, for the transmis-sion or sharing of any personal, sensitive, or private information. Un-til the completion of our mutual trust protocols, visitors are encour-aged to communicate anonymously or under a pseudonym of their choice. Please refer to our Mutual Trust Protocols for further details.

23. All forms of data-crossing, profiling, and Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) — whether automated or manual — as well as any background checks, are hereby strictly prohibited unless and until specifically authorized. Likewise, all forms of spoofing, data mining, and the harvesting or scraping of content for the training of artificial intelligence or machine learning models are equally prohibited.

24. Whenever necessary, all relevant personal or institutional details required for specified legitimate purposes will be provided or requested exclusively within an appropriate, controlled, and purpose-bound environment, subject to explicit and individual agreement.

25. All mandatory legal-compliance screening or vetting require-ments — such as those provided under the AML/CFT Regulations — shall only be undertaken where a specific and informed preliminary purpose has been clearly established, and following a formal decision to proceed with a contractual engagement.

Consent & Data Protection Safeguards

26. Limited and conditional consent is hereby granted for the retention and processing of the personal data made available on this website for reference or initial-consideration purposes only. Kindly note, however, that such consent will not exempt, absolve, or release any party from their overarching legal obligations to handle, process, and maintain these details in strict compliance with all applicable privacy and data-protection laws.

27. Accordingly, any use of third-party proprietary communication platforms or vendor portals that may require consent for the processing of personal data shall not, under any circumstances, imply or constitute any broader consent insofar as the use and processing of our data is concerned.

7. GDPR, CJEU and UK Judiciary

28. In accordance with GDPR Regulations and the principles af-firmed by the UK Judiciary in RTM v. Sky Betting and Gaming [2025] EWHC 111 (KB) and by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Orange România SA v. ANSPDCP (Case C-61/19), it must be formally accepted and understood that:

a) The sharing, transmission, or processing of all personal details hereof for any purpose other than initial consideration — including any background checks, screening requirements, automated vetting, or AML compliance — is strictly prohibited, unless expressly author-ised under our personal or authenticated electronic signature;

b) No automated, implied, or “one-size-fits-all” forms of consent that might be claimed to exist — particularly when arising from ge-neric “privacy policy” consents, website visits, software-installation protocols, cookies, or other online mechanisms — shall be accepted, recognised, or deemed lawful under any circumstances; and

c) Where, for the avoidance of doubt, any such consent may be claimed to exist, it is hereby formally and expressly withdrawn.

29. Should you or your team be inadvertently unable to comply with these terms, we would be grateful if you could inform us promptly so that appropriate redress measures may be discussed and adopted in good faith.

30. This document constitutes the definitive and binding frame-work governing data sovereignty, communication terms, and interaction protocols for carlosramires.eu. Any operation, system access, or data processing conducted outside these express boundaries shall be deemed null, void, and subject to immediate legal remedy.

We sincerely appreciate your cooperation and understanding.