Privacy policy

Identity of the controller

Owner

MEDITERRANEAN ALGAE TECHNOLOGIES SL

Trade name

Mediterranean Algae

Tax ID (CIF)

B05288014

Registered tax address

Av. Elche 157, Alicante, 03008

Email

info@mediterraneanalgae.com

Contact telephone

601536892

Website

https://www.mediterraneanalgae.com/

Principles applied to data processing

• Principle of lawfulness, fairness and transparency: The Owner will always require consent for the processing of personal data, which may be for one or more specific purposes about which the Owner will inform the User in advance with absolute transparency.
• Principle of data minimisation: The Owner will request only the data strictly necessary for the purpose or purposes for which they are requested.
• Principle of storage limitation: The Owner will keep the personal data collected for the time strictly necessary for the purpose or purposes of the processing. The Owner will inform the User of the corresponding retention period according to the purpose. In the case of subscriptions, the Owner will periodically review the lists and delete any records that have been inactive for a considerable time.
• Principle of integrity and confidentiality: The personal data collected will be processed in such a way that their security, confidentiality and integrity are guaranteed. The Owner takes the necessary precautions to prevent unauthorised access to, or misuse of, its users' data by third parties.

Categories of data

The categories of personal data processed by the Owner are:

• Identification data.

No specially protected categories of data are processed

Collection of personal data

You do not need to provide any personal data to browse https://www.mediterraneanalgae.com/.

The cases in which you do provide your personal data are as follows:

• When signing up through a form or for a newsletter that the Owner manages with Gravityforms or similar tools
• When making a purchase

If the request includes personal data relating to persons other than the user, the user must, before including such data, inform those persons of the matters set out in the preceding paragraphs. Mediterranean Algae accepts no liability for any failure to comply with this requirement.

By providing your data through any of the means made available, you guarantee that the data provided are truthful and undertake to notify any change to them.

Please remember that, when we ask you to fill in your personal data to give you access to any functionality or service, we will mark certain fields as mandatory, since these are data we need in order to provide you with the service in question. Please bear in mind that, if you decide not to provide us with these data, you may not be able to enjoy those services or functionalities or to send us your request.

Personal data

You undertake to ensure that the data provided to the Owner are correct, complete, accurate and current, and to keep them duly updated.

As a User of the Website, you are solely responsible for the truthfulness and correctness of the data sent to the Website, releasing Mediterranean Algae from any liability in this respect.

As providers of information society services and controllers of the personal data files, we inform the users of this website that all personal data will be processed in absolute confidentiality and used for the purposes for which they were requested, within the framework of current Data Protection legislation, Ley 34/2002, de 11 de julio, de servicios de la sociedad de la información y de comercio electrónico (Law 34/2002 of 11 July on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce, LSSI-CE) and other applicable legal provisions.

Purpose

Users / visitors of the Controller's website.

We will process the personal data you provide through our web forms in order to:

• Handle the requests, complaints and incidents submitted through the contact channels included on the website.
• Where applicable, send commercial communications relating to the goods or services that make up our activity, and/or news or newsletters related to our sector.
• Manage and send you the purchase requested.

Customers and suppliers.

We will process the personal data you provide for:

• The management of the commercial relationship.
• The provision of the services you have contracted from us.
• Administrative, accounting and tax management.
• Handling the requests, complaints and incidents submitted through our established contact channels.
• Complying with the legal obligations that apply directly to us and regulate our activity.
• Protecting and exercising our rights or responding to claims of any kind.

Job applicants

To assess and manage, where applicable, your curriculum vitae for selection processes that match your professional profile, and to carry out the actions necessary for the selection and recruitment of staff.

Legal basis

Users / visitors of the Controller's website.

• The consent you have given us to process your data for the purposes indicated. Refusal to provide your personal data means that it will not be possible to process your data for the purposes mentioned.
• To comply with the legal obligations that apply to us. In this case, the data subject may not object to the processing of the personal data.

Customers and suppliers.

• The application, at the request of the data subject, of pre-contractual measures (quotations, engagement letters, service offers…).
• Performance of a contract to which you are a party or application of pre-contractual measures.
• Legitimate interest (sending requested information, answering the queries raised…).
• To comply with the legal obligations that apply to us. In this case, the data subject may not object to the processing of the personal data.
• Our legitimate interest in protecting our image, business and track record by preventing attacks on our website. In this case, the data subject may not object to the processing of the personal data, although they may exercise, where applicable, the rights recognised in section eight of this policy.

Job applicants.

• The consent you have given us to process your data for the purpose of analysing it and, if it meets our needs, starting the selection process.

Retention of personal data

The personal data provided will be kept for the time necessary to fulfil the purpose for which they are collected. Once this period has ended, we will keep your data duly stored and protected for the statutory limitation periods required. Once any possible actions in each case have become time-barred, we will proceed to erase the personal data.

Once blocked, your data will be inaccessible to Mediterranean Algae and will not be processed by it, except in order to make them available to the public administrations, judges and courts, for the purpose of addressing any liabilities arising from the processing, and for the exercise and defence of claims before the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD).

Recipients of personal data

In order to fulfil the purposes indicated in this Privacy Policy, we need to give access to your personal data to entities that support us in the services we offer you, namely:

• Partners of Mediterranean Algae
• Financial institutions
• Social Security
• Spanish Tax Agency (Agencia Tributaria)

Apart from those indicated, Mediterranean Algae will not disclose personal data to third parties, except where required by law. However, should the data be disclosed to any third party, the user will be informed in advance and their express consent to such disclosure will be requested. The entity responsible for the database, as well as those involved in any phase of the processing and/or the entities to which the data have been disclosed (in all cases, always with the corresponding authorisation granted by the user), are obliged to observe professional secrecy and to adopt the levels of protection and the necessary technical and organisational measures within their reach to guarantee the security of the personal data, preventing, as far as possible, unauthorised access, unlawful modification, theft and/or loss of the data, in order to ensure the corresponding level of security of the files, according to the nature and sensitivity of the data provided by the users of this website.

During the processing, Mediterranean Algae will make the disclosures provided for by law, and will deal with banking institutions and organisations or persons directly related to the controller

Rights

You can exercise any of the rights explained below simply by telling us the reason for your request and the right you wish to exercise. If we consider it necessary in order to identify you, we may ask you for a copy of a document proving your identity.

What are your rights when you provide us with your data?

Right of Access

By exercising this right, the data subject can find out which of their personal data are being processed by Mediterranean Algae, the purpose, the origin or any possible transfer to third parties and, in that case, has the right to access them.

Right to Rectification

The data subject will have the right to request that Mediterranean Algae rectify any data that are inaccurate or incomplete, specifying in the request which data they wish to have modified.

Right of Cancellation

The data subject will have the right to request that Mediterranean Algae erase the personal data concerning them when, among other reasons, they are inadequate or excessive or are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected.

Right to Data Portability

The data subject may receive the personal data they have provided in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and transmit them to another controller, provided that this is technically feasible.

Right to Restriction of Processing

In certain circumstances, the data subject may request the restriction of the processing of their data, in which case we will only keep them for the exercise or defence of claims.

Right to Object

By means of the right to object, the data subject may object to the processing of their data in cases such as: advertising and commercial prospecting activities, or where such processing is intended to take a decision about you based solely on the automated processing of your personal data.

Right to be Forgotten

The data subject may request the erasure of their personal data without undue delay when any of the cases provided for applies. For example, the unlawful processing of data, or where the purpose that gave rise to the processing or collection no longer exists.

How can the above rights be exercised?

The data subject may exercise their rights by sending a written request, with the reference 'Data Protection', enclosing a copy of their DNI (Spanish national identity document) or equivalent identity document, to:

• Mediterranean Algae at the address of the Data Controller detailed above, or
• The email account detailed above in the Controller's contact details

Right to withdraw consent given:

The data subject may revoke at any time the consent given for the processing of their data by means of a written notice addressed to Mediterranean Algae at the address of the Data Processor detailed above, or to the email address detailed above in the Processor's contact details, with the reference Data Protection, enclosing a copy of their DNI (Spanish national identity document) or equivalent identity document, without such revocation of consent affecting the processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

Right to lodge a complaint with the Supervisory Authority:

In any event, if the data subject considers that their rights have been infringed, they may lodge a complaint with the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD), with its address at calle Jorge Juan 6, 28001 Madrid, telephone 901 100 099, and website www.aepd.es/en.

Security

The user relies on the confidentiality and duty of secrecy of all those who process the data in the user's name and on the user's behalf. Without prejudice to the foregoing, the user is aware that the security of communications over the network may not be invulnerable.

The user's personal data are processed by Mediterranean Algae in the strictest confidence, adopting the technical and organisational measures necessary to prevent the loss, misuse, alteration, unauthorised access to and theft of the personal data processed.

Communications

Communications made by email or by any other electronic means will be those necessary to manage your request.

Under no circumstances will they be used for other purposes or disclosed to third parties. Mediterranean Algae is firmly opposed to 'spam' and will therefore under no circumstances use personal data to send unsolicited commercial communications without your authorisation.

Nevertheless, they will be those that have been expressly consented to or authorised by the recipients in accordance with Ley 34/2002, de 11 de julio, de Servicios de la Sociedad de la Información y de Comercio Electrónico (Law 34/2002 of 11 July on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce, LSSI-CE), except as provided in Article 21.2 of that same Law, as worded by the First Final Provision of the new General Telecommunications Act (Ley General de Telecomunicaciones).

Web browsing

When browsing https://www.mediterraneanalgae.com/, non-identifying data may be collected, which may include the IP address, geolocation, a record of how the services and sites are used, browsing habits and other data that cannot be used to identify you.

The Website uses the following third-party analytics services:

• Google Analytics.

The Owner uses the information obtained to obtain statistical data, analyse trends, administer the site, study browsing patterns and collect demographic information.

The Owner is not responsible for the processing of personal data carried out by the web pages that you may access through the various links contained on the Website.

Acceptance and consent

As a User of the Website, you declare that you have been informed of the conditions regarding the protection of personal data, and you accept and consent to their processing by Mediterranean Algae in the manner and for the purposes indicated in this Privacy Policy

Changes to the privacy policy

Mediterranean Algae reserves the right to modify its Data Protection Policy at its discretion, as a result of a change in legislation or in the organisation's practice. Such modifications will be published on this website, providing the user with the necessary means to read them. In any event, the relationship with users will be governed by the rules in force at the precise moment this website is accessed.

If you are interested, see also our Legal Notice and Cookies.