Data Protection Policy

EPDHDB has implemented this Data Protection Policy that complies with the parameters and security measures set out in Organic Law 3/2018, of December 5, on the Protection of Personal Data and guarantee of digital rights and in European Regulation 679/ 2016, of April 27, relating to the protection of data of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data.

The use of this website implies the acceptance of this Data Protection Policy as well as the conditions included in the Legal Notice.

Owner of this website and responsible for this Data Protection Policy

The owner of this website is:

European Platform of Deafness, Hard of Hearing, and Deafblindness(EPDHDB)

Street Leiva 2D, ground floor (08014 – Barcelona)

T: 93 331 73 66

M: 678 71 26 19

Email: info@epdhdb.eu

CIF: G-61931895

Website: www.epdhdb.eu

What data do we collect?

Through our web page, we collect user contact data for the different services we offer through the web, as described below. As specified in the forms, these are:

Contact form: Name, email.

Volunteer form: Name, surname, ID, email, phone, mobile, city, postal code. There is also the possibility of adding your CV and photograph as attached documents.

At which sections of our website do we collect your personal data?

3.1. Via our corporate email: info@epdhdb.eu

Through our mail, you can request the information you consider necessary to clarify any doubts related to the entity, the services to people, or any other information.

3.2. Through the Contact form

Through the contact form, addressed to info@epdhdb.eu, where you will have to fill in a series of identification fields, we will collect the necessary information to resolve your request.

3.3. Through registrations for fun or training activities

Through this channel we collect identification data in order to enroll you in the activities in which you have shown interest.

3.4. Through the e-mailing list subscription forms

Through this channel we will collect the necessary data in order to send you information relating to the activities carried out by the entity.

The data provided to the owner will be located on the servers of The Rocket Science Group LLC d/b/a, domiciled in the USA. (Mailchimp).

3.6. Through social networks

We can collect through our social networks (which are detailed in point 12 of this policy) the data of your user profile, with the sole aim of communicating efficiently in the aforementioned networks.

What is the objective or purpose of data collection?

The purpose of data collection in all the sections mentioned in the previous point is to maintain direct and personalized contact with our users, new and old. In this way, we will use your data in order to respond to the information you may require, manage your requests and guarantee you a transparent experience that is as private as possible.

The e-mail address from which you write to us in our mail, we will use it to send you information related to what you have proposed to us or to carry out the procedures or help you with the procedures you need.

In no case will it receive information from third parties without having previously requested their express consent, ensuring in this way to comply with the parameters of European regulations; Nor will any type of transfer be carried out that has as its object your personal data Likewise, we inform you that your personal data will not be used for purposes other than mere information on the services and activities that the EPDHDB offers and that are useful to you.

On our website there is no link that allows the communication of your data to any other entity or company.

Use of personal data

The EPDHDB informs its users that the personal data provided to us will be processed for the purposes set out below:

Respond to and resolve user requests (any natural or legal person who makes a contact that requests any type of response)

Inform about news related to the activity of the EPDHDB

Send information that is considered to be of interest to the user

Allow access to options that require registration. In this case, the user must accept, in his case, the conditions of registration or contracting that, in his case, are established

Inform the user about the use of their data in the sense that:

a) Your data will not be used by others until those to carry out the treatment that you expressly consented to at the time or for what is established by this policy on our part;

b) All such information is stored on a separate secure server.

Warn you that the information you provide through the website may reveal or allow others to infer your nationality, age or other aspects of your private life. In this way, by providing this information entirely voluntarily through any means on our platform, the user is expressly and voluntarily accepting this Personal Data Protection Policy.

Sharing information with third parties

Under no circumstances will EPDHDB provide user data to third parties. In the event that you wish to do so, you will be informed beforehand and your consent will be requested.

Legal basis: unequivocal consent for the processing of your data

7.1. Consent of natural persons

In compliance with the requirements of Organic Law 3/2018, of December 5, Protection of Personal Data and guarantee of digital rights and the European Data Protection Regulation 679/2016 and in accordance with what is established by our internal policies, each time that the user delivers or sends to us personal data will have to give their express consent by clicking on the box that appears at the bottom of each form where their data is collected.

Also, when you write to one of our contact e-mails or to any other skill for specific functionalities within the web page, you will be expressly accepted that we can ask for your data for the purpose or request you have indicated.

With this action(s), you are expressing to us freely and unequivocally that you agree with EPDHDB treating your data according to the purposes mentioned in the previous sections.

The user guarantees that the personal data provided to the entity is true and is responsible for communicating any modification thereof.

The user’s acceptance of their data being processed for the purposes referred to in this policy is always revocable, without retroactive effects, all this in accordance with the provisions of current legislation; Therefore, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, without this affecting the legality of the treatment based on your prior consent, through the means provided in section 8 of this legal text.

7.2. Consent of legal or professional persons for the processing of their data

We inform you that, if you act on behalf of a legal entity or as an independent professional, you will authorize us to send you information associated with the requested services, at the appropriate times through the acceptance of this protection policy of data

Thus, when you register or request any information related to the entity through the channels established by the entity through the web page, your information may also be processed for the sending of electronic communications as long as when, also, he has authorized us to do so.

Likewise, the user’s acceptance of their data being processed for the purposes referred to in this policy is always revocable, without retroactive effects, all this in accordance with the provisions of current legislation; Therefore, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, without this affecting the legality of the treatment based on your prior consent, through the means provided in section 8 of this legal text.

On the rights of access, rectification, deletion, opposition, portability, oblivion and limitation on treatment

Organic Law 3/2018, of December 5, Protection of Personal Data and guarantee of digital rights and the European Data Protection Regulation 679/2016 have implemented a series of legal guarantees that allow the User to exercise their rights and actions related to the processing of your data.

The EPDHDB offers you the legal guarantee of the application of these rights so that you, at any time and/or when you consider it convenient, can make use of your rights of access, rectification, deletion, opposition, portability , oblivion and limitation in treatment by writing to the contact email and address indicated at the top, that is, to the email: info@epdhdb.eu, or by going to the entity’s headquarters:
Street Leiva, 2D local , 08014 Barcelona.

In both cases, you must attach a copy of your passport or DNI (data holder) expressly indicating in the subject the request you wish to make: access, rectification, deletion, opposition, portability, forgetting or limitation in the treatment.

However, it is important that as a user, you take into account that the information you have already shared with other users by other means could continue to be visible and that the entity is exempt from all responsibility in relation to the removal of this Information

In the same way, the EPDHDB does not control the renewal system of third-party search mechanisms, these mechanisms may contain certain public profile information that has already been canceled by the entity but is still on the Internet for the redistribution of the same, and in this case, we recommend that you go to those responsible for these platforms to request the cancellation or the exercise of a right to be forgotten.

What each right consists of:

Access: Through the exercise of this right, you can find out the personal data that is being processed about you by the entity, its purpose, origin or its possible transfer to third parties.

Rectification: It consists of guaranteeing that the user can modify their inaccurate or incomplete personal data, having to specify in the request which data they want to modify.

Deletion: Allows the cancellation of your personal data for inadequate or excessive

Opposition: With the right of opposition, the user can object to the processing of the data not being carried out in cases such as advertising activities and commercial prospecting or when this processing has as its purpose the adoption of a decision referred to you based solely on automated processing of your personal data

Portability: You will be able to receive your personal data provided in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and be able to transmit it to another person in charge, whenever it is technically possible

Forgotten: You may request the deletion of personal data without due delay when any of the cases contemplated occur. For example, unlawful processing of data or when the purpose that motivated the processing or collection has disappeared

Limitation in processing: In general, in cases where it is not clear whether personal data must be deleted, you can exercise your right to limit processing. This right exists in the following cases: (I) when the accuracy of the data in question is in doubt; (II) when you do not want the data to be deleted; (III) when the data is no longer necessary for the original purpose, but legal actions can be derived from it; (Iv) when the decision on your objection to the treatment is pending.

The limitation means that your personal data can only (except for storage) be processed with your consent for the formulation, exercise or defense of claims, or for reasons of public interest of the EU or a certain State member of the EU.

However, as a user, you have the right to file a claim with the competent Control Authority if you consider that the processing of personal data concerning you violates the provisions of data protection legislation and regulations; without prejudice to any other administrative recourse or judicial action

Also, you are informed that the data processing will not aim to make decisions about your information based solely on the automated processing – automated decisions -, including the elaboration of profiles, that is, it does not include the elaboration of profiles in an automated way – and without human intervention – of your personal data to evaluate personal aspects relating to you, such as analyzing or predicting aspects related to economic situations, health, personal preferences or interests, reliability or behavior, the situation or your moments, all to the extent that it may have legal consequences for you or significantly affect you.

In any case, it would only apply when a law required it, so that the treatment would be subject to the appropriate guarantees, which include information specific to your person, as an interested party, and the right to receive an explanation afterwards of the decision based on the evaluation, and challenge it, when appropriate. The Data Protection Policy is complemented by the Legal Notice and the Cookies Policy.

Security measures in the collection of data

To guarantee security on our website, we have integrated a secure system that allows us to maintain the confidentiality and integrity of our users’ data that has been sent or collected through the means mentioned in point 3.

In this way, the EPDHDB maintains the security levels of protection of its data required by Organic Law 3/2018, of December 5, on the Protection of Personal Data and guarantee of digital rights and by the European Regulation on the Protection of Data 679/2016, of April 27, and has arranged all the technical means at its disposal to avoid the loss, misuse, alteration, unauthorized access and theft of the data that the user provides through the platform.

Also, as a user of our website you understand, accept and understand that Internet security measures are not impregnable and that, therefore, you are obliged to adopt the necessary security measures that allow you to trust the veracity of the Web in which you are entering your data. The user is solely responsible for the security measures he implements in relation to the protection of his data, so EPDHDB is not responsible for situations where the user has not implemented the security measures corresponding security; nor of its consequences, as well as due to causes or damage caused by third parties outside the entity, including fortuitous cases and/or force majeure.

In accordance with what was established before, the entity cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties can have knowledge of the class, conditions, characteristics and circumstances of the use that users make of the services offered on the website. However, as a measure, conditions of use have been provided in our Legal Notice and conditions of use and contracting

Term of retention of your personal data

The personal data provided will be kept for the time necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it is collected and to determine the possible responsibilities that could arise for the purpose, in addition to the periods that arise from the applicable legislation.

Policy on social networks

The EPDHDB has corporate profiles on social networks: Twitter and Linkedin.

Thus, pursuant to the provisions of the European Data Protection Regulation 679/2016, the entity is “Responsible for the processing of your data” due to the existence of these profiles on social networks and the fact that we follow him and we can follow him, too.

This means that, if you decide to incorporate your corporate profile as a follower or with some social action with our content or profiles, you accept this policy, where we explain your rights and how we use your data.

As the person responsible for the treatment of your data, we guarantee the confidentiality of the treatment and the fulfillment of your rights. On the other hand, we inform you that we will use these social networks to announce relevant information related to the projects we carry out, activities that take place at the EPDHDB or where you participate; or on topics that we consider may be of interest to you.

We also let you know that there is no link between EPDHDB and these platforms or social networks, so you will accept their policy of use and conditions once you access them and/or validate their notices, terms and conditions in the registration procedure. Thus, the EPDHDB will never be responsible for the use or treatment of data outside the strict relationship and provision of services indicated in this policy.

Cookies policy

The EPDHDB uses third-party cookies to monitor and improve certain functionalities and services. If you want to check what our policy is on this subject, click here: Cookies policy

Modification of this Data Protection Policy

The EPDHDB reserves the right to modify this policy to adapt it to future legislation or jurisprudential developments, as well as for future uses that may be made of the personal data of website users.

In the event that this modification affects the processing of your data, for example, because it is intended to carry out some additional processing of the same, not previously informed, we would proceed to notify you of this reality so that you indicate your compliance or disagreement.

Unequivocal acceptance for data processing

In accordance with everything expressed in this data protection policy, the user will accept data processing based on the channels and forms already expressed in this policy and for the purposes described in point 5.

Integration with other legal texts

This data protection policy is complemented by the Legal Notice and the Cookies Policy associated with this Web Page.