Please read this privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how and why we collect, store, use and share your personal information. It also explains your rights in relation to your personal information and how to contact us or supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.
This policy applies to any individual whose personal information data we process, including customers, suppliers, and professional contacts.
We collect, use and are responsible for certain personal information about you. When we do so we are subject to the General Data Protection Regulation, which applies across the European Union and we are responsible as ‘controller’ of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.
WHO WE ARE
Company Name: TecnoVeritas – Services of Engineering and Systems Technology, Ltd
Site URL: www.tecnoveritas.net
Contact Information
Email: info@tecnoveritas.net
Phone: +351 261 819 819
Address: Av. Dr. Francisco Sá Carneiro, NEM – Pav.36-A, 2640-486 Mafra – Portugal
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
We may collect and use the following personal information about you:
- your name and contact information, including email address and telephone number and company details;
- information to enable us to check and verify your identity;
- information about how you use our website, IT, communication and other systems;
- your responses to surveys and promotions;
- your personal or professional interests.
This personal information is required to provide products and services to you. If you do not provide personal information we ask for, it may delay or prevent us from providing products and services to you.
Where you are a supplier or professional contact, this personal information is used to order goods and services from you, provide goods and services to third parties, and develop our professional relationship.
HOW YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IS COLLECTED?
We collect most of this personal information directly from you or your organisation - in person, by telephone, text or email and/or via our website.
HOW AND WHY WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Under data protection law, we can only use your personal information if we have a lawful basis for doing so:
- to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations;
- for the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract;
- for our legitimate interests or those of a third party;
- where you have given consent.
A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests.
PROMOTIONAL COMMUNICATIONS
We may use your personal information to send you updates (by email) about our products and services, including exclusive offers, promotions, new products and services, news, events or other technical content.
However, your consent is needed always you subscribe our newsletter, for example.
We will always treat your personal information with the utmost respect and never sell or share it with other organisations for marketing purposes.
You have the right to opt out of receiving promotional communications or update your marketing preferences at any time by:
- contacting us at info@tecnoveritas.net
- using the ‘unsubscribe’ link in emails or the “update my preferences”
We may ask you to confirm or update your marketing preferences if you instruct us to provide further products and/or services in the future, or if there are changes in the law, regulation, or the structure of our business.
COOKIES
This website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to make a user's experience more efficient.
We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. You consent to our cookies if you continue to use our website.
The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies, we need your permission.
This site uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third party services that appear on our pages. You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration.
Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.
Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.
Unclassified cookies are cookies that we are in the process of classifying, together with the providers of individual cookies.
Comments
By visiting our website and leave comments on it, we may collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
By filling a contact form on our website, we will only use the personal information you give us on it (email, phone number, name, company, job tile,…).
And we will keep your contact form submissions for a certain period for customer service purposes, but you do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Our website is tracked by Google Analytics, in order to better understand the needs and interests of our users. However, we do not collect any personal information or use information that is personally identifiable.
Please check google analytics privacy policy on section 7.
TO WHO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH
We may share personal information with external auditors for regulatory reasons.
We may disclose and exchange information with law enforcement agencies and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
WHERE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IS HELD AND HOW LONG
Information may be held at our office data base.
We will keep your personal information as long as you want or as necessary, we are providing products and services to you or if you are subscribed to our newsletter.
Thereafter, we will keep your personal information for as long as is necessary:
- to respond to any questions, complaints or claims made by you or on your behalf;
- to show that we treated you fairly; and
- to keep records required by law.
We will not retain your personal information for longer than necessary for the purposes set out in this policy. Different retention periods apply for different types of personal information.
YOUR RIGHTS
You have the following rights, which you can exercise free of charge:
Access - The right to be provided with a copy of your personal information;
Rectification - The right to require us to correct any mistakes in your personal information;
To be forgotten - The right to require us to delete your personal information - in certain situations;
Restriction of processing - The right to require us to restrict processing of your personal information - in certain circumstances, e.g. if you contest the accuracy of the data;
Data portability - The right to receive the personal information you provided to us - in certain situations.
The right to object - at any time to your personal information being processed for direct marketing; or in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information, e.g. processing carried out for the purpose of our legitimate interests;
Not to be subject to automated individual decision-making - The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling) that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.
If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:
- email, call or write to us, see ‘How to contact us’;
- let us have enough information to identify you (your full name, address and customer or matter reference number);
- let us know what right you want to exercise and the information to which your request relates.
KEEPING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURE
We have appropriate security measures to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed unlawfully. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to access it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
HOW TO COMPLAIN
We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you may raise about our use of your information.
The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European Union state where you work, normally live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred.
If you need to complain please contact us by email (info@tecnoveritas.net) or by phone (+351 261 819 819)
HOW TO CONTACT US
Please contact us if you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you:
Email: info@tecnoveritas.net
Phone: +351 261 819 819
Address: Av. Dr. Francisco Sá Carneiro, NEM – Pav.36-A, 2640-486 Mafra – Portugal
Last update: 18 Oct. 2018