Privacy Policy

What we collect

Golden Visa Lawyers collects firm-account details, profile submissions, evidence records, aggregate profile events, sponsorship enquiries, billing identifiers returned by Stripe and information a prospective client deliberately submits through a GVL enquiry form.

Billing

Stripe hosts Checkout and the Customer Portal and processes payment, billing address, business and tax-ID information. Golden Visa Lawyers stores Stripe object identifiers and subscription status, not card details.

Website analytics

Golden Visa Lawyers uses Ahrefs Web Analytics to understand site usage and improve public pages. Ahrefs Web Analytics operates without browser cookies. It may process page URLs, referrers, browser and device information, language, approximate location, outbound-link clicks and qualifying form submissions, and derives a rotating daily pseudonymous visitor identifier from IP address and user-agent data. Ahrefs may use aggregated Web Analytics data to improve its services and traffic-estimation models. We do not use it for advertising.

Firm analytics

For paid profile-view and contact-click metrics, GVL converts the request's network address into a secret-keyed, rotating daily identifier on the server. The raw address is not written to the analytics event, callers cannot choose the deduplication identifier, and requests are rate-limited. Other marketplace events may use a random identifier held only in memory for the current page session. Neither identifier is an account ID or disclosed to firms. Advanced profile owners receive only aggregate 30- and 90-day counts for their own profile. These directional counts may still include some automated activity. One firm cannot access another firm's analytics.

Enquiry sharing

When GVL Match is enabled, a request requires explicit consent before submitted details may be shared with up to three suitable published firms that serve the selected country and programme. When only one firm can take a request, that firm is named on the send button (“Send to” and the firm's name) before anything is sent; tapping that button is the visitor's selection of that firm and their consent. On the questionnaire the firm is shown before any contact details are asked for. When several firms can, none is preselected and the visitor chooses. Questions sent from the Q&A and country guide pages about Portugal, Spain or Greece are shared the same way with the firm named on the send button, and are also kept for review before any publication; the asker's email is never published. A selected firm receives only the details covered by that consent, through its secure owner inbox when available or its published firm contact channel. If no suitable firm is available, or the firm check cannot be completed, the request remains with GVL administration.

Within GVL Match, every destination stays inside the same questionnaire. For Portugal, Spain and Greece, one firm in each country, shown with a "Related business" label, is offered GVL Match enquiries for that country first: when it can take an enquiry, it is the only firm offered; when it cannot, other suitable published firms are offered instead. Every firm, including a firm labelled "Related business", receives GVL Match details only when the visitor actively selects it, by ticking it or by tapping the send button that names it. GVL Match and concierge enquiries are not automatically routed into any firm's CRM, chat, spreadsheet or notification systems.

Public pages may also show an optional Golden Visa Lawyers enquiry invitation. Details submitted through that form remain in GVL's protected admin inbox for follow-up and are not automatically shared with a directory firm, Movingto or another provider. A designated GVL administrator receives an email notification that a new enquiry is available; the notification excludes contact details and free-text answers and links to the authenticated admin inbox.

Signing in with Google

Added 14 October 2026

Visitors can sign in to Golden Visa Lawyers with a Google account. When you are signed out, public pages load Google's sign-in service, which may show a Google sign-in prompt. We do not load it automatically when your browser sends a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal, on sign-in, account, admin, claim or unsubscribe pages, on pages for law firms (advertising and Advanced profile terms), or for automated visitors; you can still choose “Continue with Google” where it is offered. Loading the service connects your browser to Google, which runs the prompt under its own privacy policy, and Google may set a cookie named g_state on this site to remember the prompt's state. If you close the prompt, your browser remembers that and we do not show it again for 7 days.

If you sign in, Google sends us your name, email address, Google account ID and a link to your profile picture, and our sign-in provider stores them with your account. We record you as a contact in Golden Visa Lawyers' protected admin so our team can see who has signed in, and we save the firms you choose to compare so they are there when you return. When you open the Find a Lawyer match form, your name and email are filled in for you to check. We do not share these details with any law firm, Movingto or another provider unless you send them an enquiry yourself. Signing in does not give access to firm-owner or admin tools.

After your first sign-in we ask one question: whether you would like our short guide to choosing a golden visa lawyer by email (3 emails over about 10 days). The box starts unticked. If you tick it, we record when you agreed and the wording you were shown, and every email has an unsubscribe link. If you leave it unticked or close the window, we do not send these emails. To delete your account, write to sarah@goldenvisalawyers.com.

Commercial-data separation

Advanced profile subscription records, Stripe identifiers, advertiser leads, sponsorship pricing and owner analytics are restricted to the owning firm where applicable and designated Golden Visa Lawyers commercial administrators or super-administrators. Editorial staff without commercial access and Movingto team accounts do not receive this commercial data, and it is not copied into Movingto-controlled systems.

Retention and requests

We retain records as needed to operate the directory, administer subscriptions, preserve consent and audit decisions, meet legal obligations and resolve disputes. Access, correction or deletion requests may be sent to sarah@goldenvisalawyers.com; some records may need to be retained for legal or security reasons.