Identifying Information of the Owner of the Website:
In accordance with Law 34/2002, of July 11, on Information Society and Electronic Commerce Services (LSSICE).
Obligations and general information set out in Article 10 of the LSSI.
This data protection policy regulates the access and use of the website http://aboutbasquecountry.eus, owned by the Asociación socio-cultural Euskadi Munduan elkarte sozio-kulturala (hereafter ABOUT BASQUE COUNTRY), headquartered at APDO 6104, 48012 BILBAO- BIZKAIA.
Data Protection Policy
LEGISLATION. In compliance with Article 12 of European Data Protection Regulations regarding the transparency of information, communication, and modes of exercising one’s rights, and with Article 13 regarding the information that must be provided when one’s personal data is obtained.
RESPONSIBLE FOR PROCESSING. The same website owner.
IN CHARGE OF HANDLING. For the NEWSLETTERS. FeedPress
PURPOSE OF HANDLING. The purpose of handing is to fulfill your requests for information or contact, as well as to keep you informed of our products and services, both current and future, and/or to process mailing list subscription requests.
AUTHENTIFICATION. We inform you that the legal basis for handling your data is to be able to fulfill your contact and/or subscription requests. The user gives his or her consent when filling out the form and sending us his or her data.
PRESERVATION OF DATA. The data provided by means of our contact form are kept for as long as necessary to fulfill your requests or consultations, while those provided when subscribing to the mailing list are kept until you unsubscribe. In any case, the data will be kept no longer than one year after the last contact.
TRANSFERS OF DATA. Data will not be transferred to third parties except in cases of legal obligation.
RIGHTS OF THE USER. You will have the right to access your personal data, as well as to request the rectification of inaccurate data or, where appropriate, to request the deletion of your data when, among other reasons, the data are no longer necessary for the means for which they were collected. You may request to limit or oppose the processing of your data, in which case we will only keep them to comply with legally established obligations.
RIGHT TO NOT BE SUBJECT TO AUTOMATED INDIVIDUTAL DECISIONS, INCLUDING THE CREATION OF PROFILES. No automated individual decisions will be made about the user, nor will profiles be created that may have legal effect or that may significantly affect the user in a similar way.
WHERE TO EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS. To exercise your rights, you must send an e-mail to [email protected] stating your request in writing and attaching a photocopy of your ID.
SECURITY MEASURES. Taking into account the state of the art, the costs of application, and the nature, scope, context, and purposes of the processing, as well as risks of variable probability and severity for the rights and freedoms of natural persons, ASOCIACIÓN SOCIO-CULTURAL EUSKADI MUNDUAN ELKARTE SOZIO-KULTURALA applies the appropriate technical and organizational measures to guarantee a level of security appropriate to the risk.
PROCESSING BASED ON THE USER’S CONSENT. Via the webpage https://aboutbasquecountry.eus, no personal data are collected without the user’s consent.
DUTY OF CONFIDENTIALITY. In accordance with Article 5.1.f of the EU Directive 2016/679, ASOCIACIÓN SOCIO-CULTURAL EUSKADI MUNDUAN ELKARTE SOZIO-KULTURALA commits itself to processing your personal data in absolute confidentiality and to using it only for the stated purposes.
INACCURACY OF DATA OBTAINED DIRECTLY FROM THE USER. For the purposes set out in Article 5.1.d of EU Directive 2016/679, those responsible for processing personal data shall no be held liable if the data are inaccurate for the means for which they are being processed if you have not exercised your right to correct them.
RIGHT TO COMPLAIN. If you do not agree with how your data is being processed, you can file a claim with the Data Protection Authority.
* Manners via which personal data are collected. Purposes for processing
- Contact forms and traditional means of communcation
You may provide us with your data via e-mail or other means of communication laid out on the contact page. The purpose for processing these data will only be to provide you with the information or services you request of us.
- Social media
THE WEBSITE has a profile on the main social media websites (Facebook, Twitter, and Google+), acknowledging itself in all cases as responsible for the processing of the data of its users, fans, subscribers, commentators, and other user profiles (hereafter, followers). The processing that THE OWNER will carry out with said data will be, at most, that which is the social media website allows corporate profiles. Thus, it may inform its followers via any means the social media site allows regarding activities, talks, offers, as well as providing personalized customer service to the user. In no case will THE OWNER extract data from the social media sites unless the user’s consent is obtained specifically and expressly to that end. When, due to the very nature of social networks, the effective exercise of the rights of the follower is subject to the modification of the personal profile of the latter, Abanlex will help and advise to this end to the extent of its possibilities.
- Bulletins or RSS via e-mail
The automatic update service or feed subscription of THE SITE is handled via Feedpress (privacy policy). The updates of the SITE content are sent via e-mail daily, automatically, and free for the user who, in order to subscribe, must give his or her prior express authorization via identity verification systems. If you are subscribed to the feed via e-mail, you can unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the link that appears at the end of the update message you receive via email, or by sending a request to exercise your rights to THE SITE.
OBJECT
It is in the interest of ABOUT BASQUE COUNTRY that this website works with maximum efficacy and fulfills the ends for which it was created, but accepts no liability for possible defects or anomalies in its proper functioning.
ABOUT BASQUE COUNTRY reserves the right to modify the terms and conditions that appear on this website, as well as to expand content, information, etc. at any time and without prior notice and, therefore, advises the user to consult them with a reasonable frequency to check to see if there have been any changes.
The use of this website implies the acceptance of the terms and conditions contained in the same.
Upon using THE SITE, it will be understood that you have read, understood, and accepted, with no limitations or reservations, the Terms of Use of said website contained in this legal notice, as well as those legal notices about the Personal Data Protection Policy incorporated into every form through which personal data are collected. If you do not agree with the same, or have any doubts, we ask you to not register or use this website.
One of the goals of ABOUT BASQUE COUNTRY is to protect your information online, just as it protects all personal data that reaches THE SITE. You may visit our website and consult all the information contained on it and freely provide your personal data in those cases when it is requested of you.
ABOUT BASQUE COUNTRY will use said personal data in accordance with the purposes for which they were requested, maintaining data protection security levels that are in accordance with current legislation.
ABOUT BASQUE COUNTRY has adopted the personal data protection security levels demanded by current legislation regarding data protection, installing all possible means within its reach to prevent the loss, misuse, alteration, or unauthorized access to the same.
ABOUT BASQUE COUNTRY does not guarantee that the website and server are free of viruses, and does not accept liability for damage caused by accessing the website or the inability to access the same.
ABOUT BASQUE COUNTRY informs the user that his or her comments left on profiles related to THE SITE on social media websites may be published on our website, as well as the profile photo included with the comments.
ANTI-SPAM POLICY
ABOUT BASQUE COUNTRY declares that it is completely against unsolicited commercial communication and any type of behavior or manifestation known as “spam”, as well as declaring it is committed to the fight against this type of abusive practice.
Therefore, the provider guarantees the user that under no circumstances will the personal data collected on this website be sent, shared, transferred, or sold to any third party.
For the same reasons, the process to register must not be used to register the e-mail addresses of other people without the express consent of those affected. THE SITE, as a countermeasure against these practices, implements a double opt-in style email list which needs the explicit confirmation on the part of the owner of the e-mail account whose address has been subscribed before any communication will be sent to that e-mail address.
Even so, should any user receive communication from this website without having registered, or without having given his or her express consent to that registration, he or she may cancel the subscription from the links contained in the same communication.
Furthermore, the user may get in touch with us via the contact form the website maintains, both to communicate what happened and to request the immediate deletion of his or her data from our system.
OBLIGATIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE USER
When using this website, you must act in accordance with the Law, morality, good use and habits, public order, and the requirements of good faith, with the diligence that corresponds to the nature of the content or services of the website. You will not use this website for ends that are illicit, prohibited, harmful of third parties’ rights, or which may in any way harm, render useless, overload, deteriorate, or impede the site’s normal functioning.
When using this website, we consider that the user has read this document carefully and has understood and followed its advice. Should the user not agree with this data protection policy or the advice given in the same, please do not use our website.
ABOUT BASQUE COUNTRY reserves the right to remove all comments and contributions that infringe on the respect or dignity of anyone, or which are discriminatory, xenophobic, racist, pornographic, or which attack youth and children, public order or safety, or which, to its judgment, are not appropriate for publication. In any case, ABOUT BASQUE COUNTRY will not be held liable for the opinions provided by THE USER in its forums or in other areas of participation.
LINKS
Should THE SITE provide any links or hyperlinks to other Internet website, THE OWNER will exercise no control over any of those sites or their content. Under no circumstances will ABOUT BASQUE COUNTRY assume any liability for the content of any link belonging to a third-party website, nor will it guarantee the technical availability, quality, trustworthiness, accuracy, scope, truthfulness, validity, or constitutionality of any material or information contained in any of said hyperlinked pages or of any other pages on the Internet.
Likewise, the inclusion of these external links will not imply any type of association, merger, or participation on the linked entities.
RIGHT OF EXCLUSION:
ABOUT BASQUE COUNTRY reserves the right to refuse or withdraw access to THE SITE and/or services offered without the need of forewarning, at the behest of the same person or of a third party, to those users who violate these Terms of Use.
GENERALITIES:
ABOUT BASQUE COUNTRY will prosecute the non-compliance of these Terms of Use as well as any other undue use of THE SITE, exercising all civil and criminal actions to which it is entitled in law.
MODIFICATION OF THESE CONDITIONS AND DURATION:
ABOUT BASQUE COUNTRY may modify these conditions at any time, being duly published as they are here. The validity of these conditions will depend on their being displayed and will be valid until they are modified by others, also duly published.
APPLICABLE LEGISLATION
This Legal Notice will be regulated by what is set out in Spanish legislation, and the venue will be the Courts assigned to the address of the Website owner.
