Privacy Policy – Protection of personal data

1. Introduction

In compliance with current regulations on Personal Data Protection, with special reference to Regulation EU 2016/679 of the European Parliament and Council of April 27, 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data (“RGPD”) and Organic Law 3/2018 of December 5, of Personal Data Protection and guarantee of digital rights (“LOPDGDD”), users are informed that the personal data they provide by e-mail, sent through forms, private areas, or by any other means located on this website will be incorporated into data processing systems of Lucía Gato Consultores, S. L., Responsible for processing (hereinafter, GATO & PARTNERS), in order to deal with your queries and requests, to contact you, to manage the services requested, professional and commercial relations and legitimate functions and interests related to your activity, as well as to send you any newsletters and newsletters to which you may have subscribed and to send you future professional and commercial communications that may be of interest to you.

2. Legal bases and legitimacy

The legal bases for the processing of the data described are, in the terms established by data protection regulations, your consent to the processing of the data (e.g. contact forms), the need to process your data for the execution of the services requested by you (e.g. browsing and using our website or contracting our services), compliance with legal obligations (e.g. mandatory communications to public administrations) and/or the legitimate interest of the Data Controller (e.g. for the purpose of sending you professional, commercial or informative communications).

The processing of your personal data will be carried out in a confidential manner. GATO & PARTNERS is committed to the privacy and protection of the personal data of its users and uses its resources to guarantee the security and privacy of those concerned.

3. Collection of personal data

The Responsible for the Treatment does not require that you provide personal data to access the website, however, on the website there are contact and newsletter subscription forms, whose use requires that the user provides personal data, mostly identifying and / or contact, and there is a private area, whose access requires that the user is registered in advance.

The user provides his or her personal data freely and voluntarily. GATO & PARTNERS does not ask for more personal information than is necessary to carry out the requested service. The user that includes in this website any type of content (documents, data, texts, images, messages or other material) declares and guarantees to do so in a way that conforms to the conditions expressed here and to the current legislation. The user who includes personal data of third parties declares that he has the express consent of these third parties for their processing.

The user is solely responsible for the truthfulness, correctness and legitimate treatment of the data included, exonerating GATO & PARTNERS from any responsibility in this respect. The users guarantee and are responsible for the accuracy, validity and authenticity of the personal data provided, and undertake to keep them duly updated. Failure to complete or incorrect completion of fields indicated as obligatory on the website forms may result in the Controller being unable to deal with the user’s request.

The Responsible for the Treatment will collect the personal data in an adequate way, pertinent according to the purposes, utilities, services and/or benefits included in its website, in a determined, explicit and legitimate way, so that in no case will fraudulent, unfair or illicit means be used, or those that in any way endanger the legitimate rights of the users.

The services of the Data Controller are not aimed at minors. In the event that some of our services are specifically aimed at minors, GATO & PARTNERS will request the consent of parents or guardians for the collection of personal data or, where appropriate, for the processing of the data.

Users who provide their curriculum vitae through this website, forms, e-mail or similar mechanisms give their express consent to the inclusion of their data in the company’s data processing system. Your data may be used for the purpose of involving you in future personnel selection processes in the company. Likewise, your data may be transferred to external companies that the Data Processing Manager contracts to carry out personnel selection processes.

The sending of information through this website necessarily implies the acceptance of this privacy policy, cookies policy and the general conditions of the website.

4. Electronic Bulletin

In the case of subscription to newsletters, users may request the cancellation of these services at any time they wish by sending a request by e-mail or using any other means that the Controller provides for this purpose, such as the mechanism called “Unsubscribe”, located at the end of the newsletters themselves.

5. Link to social networks and web channels

This website may offer links to social networks and external websites and channels. GATO & PARTNERS does not assume any responsibility for these linked sites. Users who access social networks and external websites and channels, related to GATO & PARTNERS, from links located on this website or otherwise, are previously and expressly informed that the conditions of use, privacy policies, cookie policies and any conditions and/or regulations are the responsibility of the entities responsible for such social networks and websites and never of GATO & PARTNERS.

6. Rights of data subjects

You may exercise your rights of access, rectification, deletion, limitation of processing, portability and opposition, as well as withdraw your consent or make any other request in this regard by writing to the Data Controller, Lucía Gato Consultores, S.L., at P.E. Zuatzu, Zuatzu kalea, 6, Ed. Bidasoa, Pl. 2, Ofi. 5, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián (Gipuzkoa), tel. 943 013 683, or via the e-mail address info@gatoandpartners.com.

The application must include a copy of the document proving the identity of the applicant (ID card or similar). If the application is made in your capacity as a legal representative, you must attach, in addition to the copy of the document proving the identity of the applicant, a document proving such representation.

The supervisory authority to which you may address yourself in the event that you do not agree with the resolution of the applications or to file a complaint is the Spanish Data Protection Agency: www.aepd.es.

7. Security measures

GATO & PARTNERS will process the personal data contained in its data processing systems by adopting the technical and organisational measures necessary to guarantee their security and avoid their alteration, loss, processing or unauthorised access, taking into account the state of technology, the nature of the data stored and the risks to which they are exposed, whether these are the result of human action or the physical or natural environment, in accordance with the legislation in force that is applicable to security measures for the processing of personal data. However, users are informed that computer security measures are not impregnable and are not safe from possible illegal and undue interference, which would not be the responsibility of GATO & PARTNERS.

8. Traffic Data

In order to offer a better service through this website, the IP address of the user’s device may be recorded, thus allowing the subsequent processing of the data in order to analyse, among other things, the number of pages visited, the number of visits, as well as the activity of the visitors/users of the website, and their frequency of use.

The User is informed of the registration of the IP of his/her device during connection and navigation on the website, without it being necessary to inform him/her each time he/she accesses this website.

For the above-mentioned purposes, this website may be measured and analysed with Google Analytics and/or similar tools, which may use tags on the pages and cookies to analyse what happens on the various pages of the GATO & PARTNERS website.

9. Link to social networks and web channels

This website offers links to social networks and external websites and channels, such as Facebook, Lindekin and Twitter, among others. GATO & PARTNERS does not assume any responsibility for these linked sites. Users who access social networks and external websites and channels, related to GATO & PARTNERS, from links located on this website or otherwise, are previously and expressly informed that the terms of use, privacy policies, cookie policies and any conditions and/or regulations depend on the entities responsible for such social networks and websites and channels, and never on GATO & PARTNERS.

10. Validity

GATO & PARTNERS reserves the right to modify its privacy policy according to its own criteria, to legislative or jurisprudential changes. If the person responsible for the processing introduces any modification, the new text will be published on this same website, where the user will be able to have knowledge of it. In any case, the relationship with users will be governed by the rules provided for at the precise moment when the website is accessed. For this reason, the Data Processing Manager recommends that you visit this privacy policy every time you connect to the website.

GATO & PARTNERS will prosecute any breach of this privacy policy, as well as any improper use of the features and contents presented in this website, exercising all civil and criminal actions that may correspond in law, including those of an economic nature.