Privacy and Cookies Policy
General Information
This Privacy and Cookies Policy is applicable to all personal data that you, as a user, (understood as any individual accessing the website) provide to Varda Desarrollo Sostenible, S.L. when you access https://letsbenicetotheocean.org, hereinafter the "Website".
The purpose of this Privacy and Cookies Policy is to provide you with information about the use we make of the personal data of users, as well as to inform you about the rights granted to you in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation and the Organic Law on Data Protection and Digital Rights Guarantee.
Who is responsible?
The data controller for the personal data collected through the Website is Varda Desarrollo Sostenible, S.L., with Tax ID number B83786848 and registered address at C/ Rioja 19 Madrid, Madrid 28042.
You can contact the Data Protection Officer at the email address isabel@vardagroup.org to make any inquiries or request information you may need regarding the processing of users' personal data.) The personal data we collect will be treated confidentially and will be included in our Processing Activities Register.
Why do we ask for your data?
| Purpose | Description | Data |
|---|---|---|
| Provide practical comments and ideas | We invite all ocean voices to contribute with feedback and actionable ideas outside the box. | |
| Management of non-profit organisations with political, philosophical, religious or trade union aims (political parties, trade unions, churches, foundations, etc) | The processing of personal data for the purpose of managing a non-profit organization for political, philosophical, religious or trade union purposes will require an impact assessment. | |
| To get in touch with the user | Handling enquiries made through the contact form, complaint form or other customer service channels. | Organización , Name and/or surname, Email address. |
What is our legal basis for data processing?
Our legal basis for processing personal data is as follows:
- Consent: if you have given explicit consent when entering personal data by checking the corresponding box.
- Contract performance: if there is a contractual relationship between you and Varda Desarrollo Sostenible, S.L., or if the processing of personal data is necessary for the performance of the commercial relationship.
- Compliance with a legal obligation: in cases where Varda Desarrollo Sostenible, S.L. has a legal obligation applicable to us as data controllers.
- Legitimate interest: in cases where there is a legitimate interest of our own or of third parties related to the operation of the Website or the provision of services to the user, provided that the fundamental interests and rights of the users do not override the legitimate interest.
How long will we retain your data?
The personal data we collect through the Website will be processed and retained for the time necessary to fulfill the purpose for which they were collected.
Specifically, data collected for the development and execution of a contract with you will be retained for as long as the contractual relationship is in effect. However, personal data collected based on legitimate interest or with your consent will only be retained for the time necessary to fulfill that purpose.
After the strictly necessary period for the purposes described above has elapsed, we will retain personal data for an additional period, until all actions arising from our liability resulting from each of the processing activities have expired.
Do we share your data with third parties?
In order to fulfill the purposes described above, it is necessary to grant access to your personal data to other service providers, who will act as data processors, such as:
- Technology and analytical service providers
We have entered into an agreement with the companies acting as data processors to regulate the management and processing of users' personal data, as well as the implementation of security measures.
In cases where we need to transfer data to third parties with headquarters or servers outside the European Union or the European Economic Area (Iceland, Norway, or Liechtenstein), and the European Commission has not issued an Adequacy Decision for that country, or we do not have Binding Corporate Rules, we will comply with the provisions set by the European Commission for these cases to provide you with adequate guarantees, either by signing the standard contractual clauses or by obtaining your informed consent.
If you want more information about the transfer of personal data to countries outside the EU/EEA, you can contact us via the following email address: isabel@vardagroup.org
You should be aware that the United States has not received an adequacy decision regarding European data protection regulations. Therefore, when these companies are based or have servers in the United States, the standards for protecting your personal data may not be the same as those provided for in European regulations. In this regard, by continuing to use the services or the Website, you consent to the processing of this personal data in the United States.
What are your rights?
You can exercise the following rights at any time and free of charge:
- Access: to know what data we hold and what we do with it.
- Rectification: to inform us of any inaccurate data.
- Erasure: to have your personal data deleted, to the extent possible.
- Objection: to stop us from processing your personal data for any of the purposes mentioned above, provided there is no legal obligation preventing it.
- Portability: to have your personal data transferred to a third party, to the extent possible.
- Restriction: to have your data suspended when you challenge its accuracy, or if you want us to keep it for legal claims.
- Not to be subject to decisions based solely on automated processing of your data.
You can exercise these rights by sending an email to isabel@vardagroup.org, indicating the right you wish to exercise, accompanied by a document proving your identity or by using the following forms:
- Exercise of the right of access here.
- Exercise of the right to rectification here.
- Exercise of the right to erasure here.
- Exercise of the right to object here.
- Exercise of the right to data portability here.
- Exercise of the right to restriction here.
- Exercise of the right not to be subject to automated decisions here.
If we do not properly respect these rights as the data controller, please note that you can file a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority, the Spanish Data Protection Agency, at C/Jorge Juan, 6, 28001- Madrid or at the email address dpd@agpd.es.
Confidentiality and Security Measures
Varda Desarrollo Sostenible, S.L., as the data controller, we undertake to respect the confidentiality of users' personal data and to use it in accordance with the purposes for which it was collected. We have implemented all appropriate technical and organizational security measures according to the nature of the data being processed and as required by data protection regulations.
COOKIE POLICY
Before we begin, what is a cookie? What types of cookies exist?
A cookie is a small text file that websites install on the computer or mobile device of users who visit them. Cookies are generally used to make web pages work, or work more efficiently, as well as to gather information about their usage.
Cookies can be classified as follows:
- According to the entity that manages them: first-party cookies and third-party cookies;
- By the period they remain active: session cookies and persistent cookies;
- According to their purpose: technical, preference or customization, analytical, and marketing cookies.
What cookies do we use?
The following table explains the cookies we use and their purposes:
| Name | Function | Owner | Domain | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Behavioural advertising | youtube.com | 179d | |
| YSC | Strictly Necessary | youtube.com | session | |
| CONSENT | Strictly Necessary | youtube.com | session | |
| TESTCOOKIESENABLED | Behavioural advertising | Youtube | www.youtube.com | session |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Behavioural advertising | youtube.com | 179d | |
| _ga_S2SHYFDXYT | Analysis or measurement | letsbenicetotheocean.org | 729d | |
| _ga | Analysis or measurement | letsbenicetotheocean.org | 729d |
Delete cookies
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Changes to the Privacy and Cookie Policy
This Privacy and Cookie Policy was last updated on 02/05/2024, Varda Desarrollo Sostenible, S.L. reserves the right to update and modify certain aspects of it to adapt to legislative and jurisprudential developments, so we recommend reviewing it periodically.