PRIVACY POLICY


1. Personal Data    


 What is personal data? 


Personal data is any information, of any nature and in any medium, concerning an identified or identifiable natural person. An identifiable person is one who can be identified directly or indirectly, for example by name, identification number, location data, electronic identifier or other elements that allow the identification of that natural person.


The privacy and the protection of the personal data of all the Customers and users of the services supplied by Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda, in every moment, constitute an essential aspect in the way this acts and is organized.


The Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda Privacy Policy aims to ensure that all its Customers know, at all times, the rules and principles relating to the protection and treatment of personal data, developing Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda all possible efforts to ensure the security of these data, in accordance with the standards and procedures defined in the applicable legislation.


In the Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda online communication media you may find access links to other websites that are alien to our entity. The provision of such links is made in good faith and Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda cannot be held responsible for the collection and processing of personal data carried out on these websites, nor can it be held responsible for the accuracy, credibility and functionality of websites belonging to third parties. Thus, the provision of links to other websites unrelated to Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda. does not imply any assumption of responsibility for them. 


Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda. also recommends that its Customers adopt additional security measures, including the maintenance of equipment and programs properly updated and configured, the use of protection against malicious software and firewall and refrain from browsing on websites that do not have the appropriate guarantees of authenticity.


This Privacy Policy may, at any time, be subject to change or revision, being any changes or revisions duly disclosed and communicated in the media online Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda. 


Who are the holders of personal data? 


The Customer or User, natural person, to whom the data concern and that has used the services or products of Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda. The Customer will be the person who celebrates the contract with Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda and the User is the person who uses the services or products of Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda.


2 Treatment of personal data     


Who is responsible for the treatment of your personal data?


The responsible person for the treatment of your personal data will be the entity Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda. that provides the service or supplies the product to you and that in that context decides which data to collect, the means of treatment and the purposes for which the data will be used. 


3 Basis of data processing     


These are the circumstances under which we process your personal data:


- Consent


When your express consent is obtained - in writing, or by validating an option on an electronic form and if such consent is free, informed, specific and unambiguous. 


- Consent of minors


In the case of processing personal data of minors, which may be subject to consent, Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda. will require that consent is provided by the holders of parental responsibilities.


- Contract execution and pre-contractual diligences


When the processing of personal data is necessary for the conclusion, execution and management of the contract concluded with Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda, such as for the preparation of a proposal for services, for the management of contacts, information and requests, for the management of billing, collection and payments.


- Fulfillment of legal obligation


When the processing of personal data is necessary to comply with a legal obligation to which the Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda. is subject.

4 Purposes of data processing     


For what purposes do we process your Personal Data?


- Marketing and Sales


- Customer and Service Management


- Accounting, Fiscal and Administrative Management


- Fulfillment of legal obligations


Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda. may, in the course of its activity and in the scope of the Services it provides, subcontract third parties to pursue the purposes mentioned above, which may imply access by these entities to the personal data of its Clients. When this happens, Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda. takes the appropriate measures so that the entities that will have access to the data offer the highest technical, organizational and human guarantees at this level. Thus, Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda subcontractors will be obliged, under the terms foreseen by law, as well as by force of contract signed with Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda, to implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, disclosure, alteration, dissemination, unauthorized access and against any other form of unlawful treatment, as well as being bound to special duties of professional secrecy and confidentiality.


Outside of these cases, Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda. will only transmit the personal data of its Clients to third parties when


a) it is obliged to do so by force of legal provision and only to the strict extent of its obligations;


b) If the Customer authorizes expressly and specifically such transmission and is duly informed, in writing, about the recipients of the personal data and the purposes of the data transmitted.


Which are the terms of treatment and conservation of personal data?


Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda. processes and keeps your personal data in accordance with the purposes for which they are processed. 


There are cases in which the law requires the treatment and conservation of data for a minimum period of time. But, whenever there is not a specific legal obligation, then the data will be treated only for the period necessary for the fulfillment of the purposes that motivated their collection and preservation and always in accordance with the law, the guidelines and decisions of the CNPD. 


Thus, Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda. will treat and keep your personal data for the period in which it maintains a contractual relationship with you.


Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda. may keep personal data for periods longer than the duration of the contractual relationship, either based on your consent, or to ensure rights or duties related to the contract, or because it has legitimate interests that justify it, but always for the period strictly necessary to achieve the respective purposes and in accordance with the guidelines and decisions of the CNPD.


5 Collection of personal data     


We collect personal data through your consent when you purchase products or services from Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda. The collection may be done orally, in writing or through the online media of Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda.


But your personal information may also be collected from publicly available sources or from other sources.


Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda only collects and processes Customers' personal data with their express consent, in accordance with each of the specific purposes of the treatment in question, under the terms provided for in the General Data Protection Regulation (whose execution in the Portuguese legal system is ensured by Law no. 58/2019, of 8 August).


The consent given by Customers may be withdrawn by them at any time.


There are, however, personal data that are essential to the provision of the Services by Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda., and Customers are duly and previously informed of this need and of the consequences of the non-availability of said data.


If the personal data, considered indispensable, are not supplied by the Customers or are insufficient, incorrect or outdated, Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda. will not be able to provide the contracted Service(s), assuming in this case the Customers full and exclusive responsibility for the insufficiency or incorrectness of the transmitted data.

6 Data Protection Rights     


What are your rights?


Right of access


Right to obtain confirmation as to which of your personal data are being processed and information about them, such as the purposes for which they are being processed, their retention periods, and so on.


Right of rectification


Right to request the rectification of your personal data that are inaccurate or to request that incomplete personal data be completed (such as address, TIN, email, telephone contacts, among others).


Right to erasure or to be "forgotten


Right to obtain the erasure of your personal data, in cases where this is legally possible and provided that there are no valid reasons for its retention, such as for example where the data must be kept to comply with a legal obligation.


Right to portability


Right to receive the data you have provided us with in a digital format for current use and automatic reading or to request the direct transmission of your data to another entity that becomes the new responsible for your personal data.


Right to object and automated individual decisions


Right to object or withdraw your consent at any time to a data processing in cases where this is legally possible (such as in the case of data processing for marketing purposes).


Right of limitation


Right to request the limitation of the processing of your personal data, in cases where it is legally possible, in the form of:


- Suspension of processing


- Limitation of the scope of processing to certain categories of data or purposes of processing. 


Right to complain


Right to complain to the supervisory authority, the CNPD.


How can you exercise your rights?


The exercise of rights is free of charge, except in the case of a manifestly unfounded or excessive request, in which case a reasonable fee may be charged taking into account the costs. Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda. shall confirm proof of your identity and may request additional information that is necessary for this purpose.


The answer to the requests must be given in the maximum period of 30 days, except if it is a particularly complex request (in this case, the previously indicated period of 30 days can be extended up to 2 months).


Exercise your rights through the following addresses: 


Entity: Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda.


Address: Estrada Nacional 261 Km 8.4, 7570-779 Carvalhal


Email: comercial@areiasverdes.com


7 Protection of personal data     


How does the Entity protect your personal data?


Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda. applies the necessary technical and organizational measures to ensure that, by default, only the personal data of the Clients necessary for each specific purpose of treatment will be treated. These measures are periodically reviewed and updated by the responsible department.


Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda has implemented the appropriate logical, physical, organizational and security measures, necessary and sufficient to protect your personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access. 


Whenever it is necessary to communicate personal data of its Customers to third parties, Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda. guarantees that


a) the sharing of personal information complies with the legal regulations in force;


b) the transmission is made with security;


c) the third parties are contractually obliged to observe the duties of confidentiality and secrecy and to ensure the security of personal data that, for this purpose, are communicated to you, not being able to use such data for any other purposes, for their own benefit or for the benefit of third parties, nor to correlate them with other data that are at your disposal.


COOKIES POLICY


     

Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda uses cookies on its website to improve its performance and user experience.

What are cookies?


Cookies are small text files stored in the Customer computer through the internet browser, storing only information related to the user preferences (generic information), not including, therefore, the personal data of the same.


The cookies used by Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda. observe the principles of anonymity and confidentiality and their only purpose is to recognize the user, not being used in any case to collect information that identifies the user, nor for direct marketing purposes. Cookies help the Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda. website to recognize your device the next time you visit.


At any time the user can, through your internet browser (browser) decide to be notified about the receipt of cookies, as well as block their entry into your system.


Attention is drawn to the fact that refusal to use cookies on the website may result in the user being unable to access any of its areas and/or receive personalized information.


What are cookies used for?


Cookies are used to help determine the usefulness, interest and number of uses of the Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda. website, allowing faster and more efficient browsing, eliminating the need to repeatedly enter the same information.


What kind of cookies are used by Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda?


The cookies used by Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda. have different functions and are distinguished in the following terms:


1 - Strictly necessary (essential) cookies: they allow navigation on the website and the use of its applications, as well as access to secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, the Service(s) subscribed to by the Client cannot be provided. Some cookies are essential to access specific areas of the Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda. website.


2 - Analytical cookies: performance cookies to know which pages are the most popular, which link between pages is the most effective or to determine why some pages are receiving error messages. These cookies are used only for the purpose of creation and statistical analysis, without ever collecting personal information.


3 - Functionality Cookies: store the user's preferences regarding the use of the website, so that it is not necessary to re-configure the website each time you visit.


Cookies can be:


Permanent: they are stored, for a variable time, at the level of the internet browser on your access devices and are used each time the user makes a new visit to the website. Normally, they are used to direct navigation according to the user's interests, allowing us to provide a more personalized service.


Session Cookies: These are temporary and remain in the cookies of your internet browser until you leave the website. The information obtained allows us to identify problems and provide a better browsing experience.


How to manage cookies?


All internet browsers allow you to accept, refuse or delete cookies, namely by selecting the appropriate settings in your internet browser.


Once you have authorised the use of cookies, you can always disable some or all of Areias Verdes, Equipamentos e Produtos para Piscinas e Jardins, Lda.