Privacy Policy

The Owner informs you about its Privacy Policy regarding the treatment and protection of personal data of users and customers that may be collected during navigation, when purchasing a product, or when contracting a service through the Website: https://spanishcometrue.com

In this regard, the Owner guarantees compliance with current regulations on the protection of personal data, as reflected in Organic Law 3/2018, of December 5, on the Protection of Personal Data and Guarantee of Digital Rights (LOPD GDD). It also complies with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016, on the protection of natural persons (GDPR).

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

Identity of the Controller

• Controller: Fernando Soto Ruiz
• Address: Danbury, CT, United States
• Email: fernando.soto@spanishcometrue.com
• Website: https://spanishcometrue.com

Principles applied in data processing

In the processing of your personal data, the Controller shall apply the following principles in accordance with the requirements of the new European data protection regulation (GDPR):

• Principle of lawfulness, fairness, and transparency: The Controller will always require consent for the processing of personal data, which may be for one or more specific purposes, about which the Controller will inform the User in advance with absolute transparency.
• Principle of data minimization: The Controller will only request data that is strictly necessary for the purpose or purposes for which it is requested.
• Principle of limitation of storage period: The Controller will keep the personal data collected for the time strictly necessary for the purpose or purposes of the processing. The Controller will inform the User of the corresponding storage period according to the purpose. In the case of subscriptions, the Controller will periodically review the lists and delete those 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 Controller takes necessary precautions to prevent unauthorized access or misuse of user data by third parties.

Acquisition of personal data

To navigate through the website, it is not necessary to provide any personal data. The cases in which you do provide your personal data are as follows:

• When contacting through the contact forms or sending an email.
• When making a comment on an article or page.
• When purchasing a product or contracting a service.
• When subscribing to a subscription form or a newsletter managed by the Owner.

Rights

The Owner informs you that regarding your personal data you have the right to:

• Request access to the stored data.
• Request rectification or deletion.
• Request the limitation of their processing.
• Object to the processing.

You cannot exercise the right to data portability.

The exercise of these rights is personal and must therefore be exercised directly by the data subject, by directly contacting the Controller. This means that any client, subscriber, or collaborator who has provided their data at any time can contact the Controller and request information about the data stored and how it was obtained, request rectification of the data, object to its processing, limit its use, or request the deletion of that data from the Controller’s files.

To exercise your rights, you must send your request along with a photocopy of your National Identity Document or equivalent to the email address: fernando.soto@spanishcometrue.com.

Exercising these rights does not include any data that the Controller is required to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

You have the right to effective judicial protection and to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority, in this case, the Spanish Data Protection Agency, if you consider that the processing of personal data concerning you violates the Regulation.

Purpose of personal data processing

When you connect to the Website to send an email to the Owner, write a comment on an article or page, subscribe to their newsletter, or purchase a product or service, you are providing personal information for which the Data Controller is the Owner. This information may include personal data such as your IP address, name and surname, physical address, email address, phone number, and other information. By providing this information, you consent to your information being collected, used, managed, and stored by the Owner as described in the Legal Notice and Privacy Policy pages.

Personal data and the purpose of processing by the Owner vary depending on the information capture system:

• Contact Forms: The Owner requests personal data such as name, email address, phone number, and website address to respond to User inquiries, provide information and demonstrations of the Owner’s products and services, including quotes.
• Comment Forms: The Owner requests personal data such as name, email address, and website address to respond to User comments.
• Product or Service Contract Forms: The Owner requests personal data such as name, identification document (tax identification number, foreigner identification number, passport, or residence permit), email address, postal address, phone number, and payment details (payment methods or bank details) to maintain a commercial relationship with the User, fulfill orders, provide contracted services, and for billing and payment collection of contracted products or services.
• Content Subscription Forms: The Owner requests the following personal data: name, email address, phone number, and website address to manage the subscription list, send newsletters, promotions, and special offers.

There are other purposes for which the Owner processes personal data:

• To ensure compliance with the conditions outlined in the Legal Notice page and applicable law. This may include the development of tools and algorithms to help the Website ensure the confidentiality of the personal data it collects.
• To support and improve the services offered by this Website.
• To analyze user navigation. The Owner collects other non-identifying data obtained through the use of cookies that are downloaded to the User’s computer when browsing the Website.
• To manage social networks. The Owner has a presence on social networks. If you become a follower on the Owner’s social networks, the processing of personal data will be governed by this section, as well as by those terms of use, privacy policies, and access regulations belonging to the social network in each case, which you have previously accepted.

The Owner will process your personal data for the purpose of properly managing its presence on the social network, informing you about its activities, products, or services, as well as for any other purpose permitted by the regulations of the social networks.

Under no circumstances will the Owner use follower profiles on social networks to send individual advertising.

Personal Data Security

To protect your personal data, the Owner takes all reasonable precautions and follows industry best practices to prevent its loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

The website is hosted on Siteground. Data security is ensured as they take all necessary security measures. You can refer to their privacy policy for more information.

Other sites’ content

The pages of this website 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 code, and monitor your interaction using this code.

Legitimacy for data processing

The legal basis for processing your data is:

• The consent of the data subject.
• Execution of the contract or the application of pre-contractual measures with the data subject, in order to provide a product or service acquired from the Owner.
• To comply with legal obligations.

Categories of personal data

The categories of personal data processed by the Owner are:

• Identifying information.

No specially protected categories of data are processed.

Retention of personal data

Personal data provided will be stored until the purpose for which it was collected has been fulfilled or until the data subject requests its deletion.

Recipients of personal data

Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., a Delaware company whose main office is at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043, United States («Google»). Google Analytics uses «cookies,» which are text files placed on your computer, to help the Owner analyze how Users use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. For more information, visit: https://analytics.google.com.

Web browsing

When browsing the Website, non-identifying data may be collected, including IP address, geolocation, a record of how 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 gather statistical data, analyze trends, manage the site, study navigation patterns, and collect demographic information.

The Owner is not responsible for the processing of personal data carried out by the websites accessed through the various links contained on the Website.

Accuracy and truthfulness of personal data

You agree that the data provided to the Owner is correct, complete, accurate, and up-to-date, and undertake to keep it duly updated.

As a User of the Website, you are solely responsible for the truthfulness and correctness of the data submitted to the Website, releasing the Owner from any liability in this regard.

Acceptance and consent

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

To contact the Owner, subscribe to a newsletter, or make comments on this Website, you must accept this Privacy Policy.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

The Owner reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy to adapt it to legislative or jurisprudential developments, as well as to industry practices.

These policies will be in effect until they are modified by duly published ones.