Privacy policy

This Privacy Policy arises to make our users aware of the general rules of privacy in the collection and processing of personal data in strict compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation¹.

By using this Service, you are entrusting us with your information that could be considered personal. This Privacy Policy is intended to help the user understand the data we collect, why we do it, and what we do with that data. This matter is important and we hope that you read this document carefully.

Service is the set of features provided by this website to its users.

This Service may be used in a variety of ways, e.g. to research and share information, communicate with the institution providing the Service, download content, etc. When you share information with us, for example, when creating a user account, it gives us the possibility to increase the range of services that we provide. As you use this Service, we want you to be fully aware of how we use your information and the means at your disposal to protect your privacy.

Our Privacy Policy explains:

What is personal data
Who is responsible for data processing
What information is collected
How we use that information
How we ensure the information security
What rights users have

What is personal data?

When we refer to personal data, we are referring to the information of any nature and regardless of its support, including sound and image, regarding a single identified or identifiable person.

Any person who can be identified directly or indirectly, namely by reference to an identification number or to one or more specific elements of his/her physical, physiological, psychic, economic, cultural or social identity, shall be considered identifiable.

Who is responsible for data processing?

The entity responsible for the collection and processing of personal data is the organization that provides this Service to you and, in the specific context, decides what data is collected, the means of processing data and for what purposes it is used.

What information is collected?

This Service collects the following information from and about you:

Registration Information - Information that, in itself, is submitted during the user registration process. The Registration Information can include, for example, name, email address, gender, postal code and date of birth. This information is considered essential to the provision of the Service. In case of doubt, please contact us.
Public Information and Publications - These are contents (e.g. comments) that are sent or published by the user on any of the pages that constitute this service, as well as the data accompanying such publications or content, which may include the name, comments, preferences, status, profile information and picture. The Public Information and Publications are always public, which means they are accessible to all users and can be displayed in search results from external search engines.
Information About the Activity. When you access this Service, the service itself and/or your providers collect certain information about your visits. For example, to allow access to the Service, our servers receive and record information about your computer, device and browser, including, in many cases, your IP address, type of browser and other information about the software or hardware you are using. If you access the service through a telephone or other mobile device, we can collect information about that device’s identifier, its geographical location or other transactional information regarding that device. This is protocol information that is normally transmitted whenever access is made through a device of that nature. This information is collected to optimize the Service.
Cookies and other localization technologies (such as cookies) consist of small data files that often include an unidentified or anonymous unique identifier. This service uses these data files when you request a web page, and stores the data on your computer or other device so that the website or application can identify you when you re-access. These technologies may be used to collect and store information about your use of the service, such as the pages you have visited, list of records you selected, searches you performed, etc. The majority of the browsers are set by default to accept cookies but such settings can be changed by you in the following way: you may block all the cookies or receive a notification whenever a cookie is being created or updated. For more information, please consult the "Help" section of your browser.
Social Networks' Information. If you access or log in to this Service through a Social Network or connect the Service to a Social Network account, the information we collect may also include your user identification and/or the username associated with that account, any information you have authorized in said Social Network to share with us, including the profile picture, the email address or list of friends, and any other information that was made public in the scope of such Social Network. When you access this service through a Social Network or when you link a service to a Social Network account, you are automatically authorizing us to collect, save and use the information and content in accordance with this Privacy Policy. The data that you choose to share with this Service can be defined during the process of connecting to the Social Network.

How do we use that information?

The organization that provides this Service uses the data collected from and about you to provide you an high quality service. This data may be used to evaluate and improve the Service and its features, improve its user experience, provide support to the user, etc.

When the information collected from and about you does not personally identify you nor does it allow you to be, directly or indirectly, identified, we may use this information for any purpose or share it with third parties, e.g. for scientific or statistical research.

Furthermore, we may use the data collected from and about you for the following purposes:

Allow third parties to assist in the service provision. The information collected from and about you can be provided to third parties with whom we have stablished relationships of trust, such as providers or partners that will assist us in the management and/or provision of the service. This includes partners responsible for the maintenance of the service.
To contact you. The organization that provides this Service may use your data to contact and/or notify you of any situations that have to do with the Service provision, including notifications about changes to the Service provided or to the Policies stablished.
Protect rights. There may be situations where it is necessary to use or disclose your data because you believe, in good faith, that such use or disclosure is necessary to: (i) protect, enforce, or defend legal rights, privacy, security, or property of the organization or of the third parties; (ii) protect the security, privacy and stability of the service users or members of the public; (iii) protect yourself against fraud and for risk management purposes; (iv) comply with the law or a court order; or (v) respond to requests from public and governmental authorities.
Merger or sale of assets. If the organization that provides the Service sells all or part of its business, sells or transfers its assets or is involved in a merger or transfer of all or of a substantial part of its business (including in the course of insolvency proceedings or similar), you may transfer your data, as an integral part of the transaction, to the party or parties involved in the transaction.

How do we ensure the information security?

This service uses all the technical and organizational measures it deems appropriate and financially reasonable in order to protect the information in its possession against the accidental loss, destruction, accidental or illicit, theft, unauthorized access, disclosure or change of that information.

In case of undue disclosure of the collected information, users will be notified by the organization providing the service.

Information like passwords and credit card numbers are not saved by the service in its natural, readable form. Cryptographic technics are used to prevent the discovery of this information.

What rights do users have?

The user has the right to access the information about him that we save. If you would like more information in this regard, please contact us through any of the contacts associated with this Service.

If the user wishes to access, review, correct, update, delete or limit our use of the personal data he provided to us, he can contact us as defined in the previous paragraph. The request for access to personal data should include the following elements: email address, name, address and telephone number of the user requesting the service and specify which information he wishes to access, change, update or supress. We will try to respond to your request as soon as possible.

The user also has the right to delete (or anonymize) all the information the Service has about him. If you would like more information in this regard, please contact us through any of the contacts associated with this Service.

This privacy policy came into effect in 2017-11-23.

¹ Regulation (UE) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016.