On this page you can read about our legal notice (uses, limitations, rights and duties) regarding the use of the web and the protection of personal data (methods, limitations, rights) that we carry out in SurfingPortugal.net.
Part One: Legal Notice
Below you can read information about the rights and obligations you have to comply with when using our website.
INTRODUCTION
This Legal Notice is intended to inform you of your rights and obligations as a user of this website. Here you will find all the information you need about this website, its activity, the personal data it collects and its purpose, as well as the rules of use that regulate the use of this website.
When you access this website (https://surfingportugal.net), you assume the condition of user, so the content of this Legal Notice affects you directly. Therefore, it is important that you read it to dispel any doubts you may have and have knowledge of cause on the conditions you are accepting.
To begin with, you should know that this website complies with current regulations on data protection, in order to provide you with the guarantees, security and transparency that, as a user, correspond to you when using this website.
The RGPD (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons) which is the new regulation of the European Union that unifies the regulation of the processing of personal data in the different countries of the EU.
The LOPD (Organic Law 15/1999, of December 13, on the Protection of Personal Data and Royal Decree 1720/2007, of December 21, the Regulation of development of the LOPD) which regulates the treatment of personal data and the obligations that we must assume those responsible for a website or a blog when managing this information.
The LSSI (Law 34/2002, of July 11, 2002, on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce) which regulates economic transactions by electronic means, as is the case of this blog.
IDENTIFICATION DATA
The responsible and owner of this website is Xevi Baena.
The owner’s contact details are:
Website activity: Content and information about surfing in Portugal, spots, surf-related businesses, advertising and recommendation of affiliate products.
The data you provide us with your consent, and according to the use established in our Privacy Policy, will be incorporated into an automated file duly registered with the Spanish Agency for Data Protection, in which the responsible of this file is: Xevi Baena. This means that your data is safe, according to the law.
RULES OF ACCESS TO THE WEBSITE
As a user of our website, you also have a series of obligations:
- You may not use this website to carry out activities contrary to the law, morality, public order and, in general, to use it in accordance with the conditions set out in this Legal Notice.
- You may not carry out advertising or commercial exploitation activities by sending messages using a false identity.
- You will be solely responsible for the truthfulness and accuracy of the content you enter on this website and the personal data you provide for the purposes set out in our Privacy Policy.
- You will also be solely responsible for the realization of any kind of illegal, harmful, harmful and / or harmful rights in the sites of third parties to which we can refer you from this website for the development of our activity.
As responsible for the website, Xevi Baena may interrupt the service of the page being used by the user and immediately terminate the relationship if it detects a use of the website or any of the services offered therein that may be considered contrary to what is expressed in this Legal Notice.
INTELLECTUAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY
The entirety of this website (text, images, trademarks, graphics, logos, buttons, software files, color combinations, as well as the structure, selection, arrangement and presentation of its contents) is protected by the laws in force on Intellectual and Industrial Property, being prohibited its reproduction, distribution, public communication and transformation, without the express permission of the owners of the website. Exempt from such protection are logos, trademarks and designs from other authors, and that we mention in the third part of this document.
As the owner of this website, Xevi Baena does not guarantee that the contents are accurate or free of error or that the free use of the same by users does not infringe the rights of third parties. The good or bad use of this page and its contents is the responsibility of the user.
It is also forbidden to reproduce, retransmit, copy, transfer or rebroadcast, in whole or in part, the information contained in the page, whatever its purpose and the means used for it, without prior authorization from Xevi Baena.
LINKS
This website includes links to third party sites. The pages belonging to these third parties are not reviewed and are not subject to continuous controls by us, so Xevi Baena can not be held responsible for the contents of these third-party websites, nor for the measures taken in relation to your privacy or the processing of your personal data or other data that may arise.
Therefore, we recommend that you carefully read the terms of use, privacy policy, legal notices and / or similar of these sites.
AFFILIATION LINKS
This website, according to its purpose, uses affiliate links.
This means that you will find links to products and services that you can access directly from our website but, where appropriate, the purchase will be made on another website, under their own conditions at that time.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
In exercise of its right as owner of this website, we inform you that Xevi Baena is not responsible in any case for the following:
The quality of the service, the speed of access, the correct operation or the availability or continuity of operation of the page.
The existence of viruses, malware, malicious or harmful programs in the contents.
The illicit, negligent, fraudulent or contrary to this Legal Notice.
The lack of legality, quality, reliability, usefulness and availability of the services provided by third parties and made available to users on this website.
For damages that may arise from the illegal or improper use of this blog or website.
COOKIE POLICY
As we inform you as soon as you access our website, this site uses its own and third party cookies in order to provide you with the best user experience and develop our activity.
At any time, you will have the option to configure your browser to reject the use of these cookies that, in some cases, will affect your user experience.
To access complete information about the use of cookies on this website, their purpose and their rejection, you can consult our COOKIES POLICY.
AD NETWORK
This website has inserted display ads through the Google AdSense display network.
AdSense providers, including Google, use cookies to display relevant ads based on a user’s previous visits to your website or other websites (including this one).
The use of advertising cookies allows Google and its partners to display ads based on users’ visits to their websites or other websites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of personalized advertising. To do so, you will need to go to Ads Preferences. Also, if you do not want third-party vendors to use cookies for targeted advertising, you should go to www.aboutads.info.
APPLICABLE LAW AND COMPETENT JURISDICTION
This Legal Notice is subject to the legislation in force in Spanish territory.
If necessary, in the event of any legal dispute, Xevi Baena and the user, expressly waiving any other jurisdiction, shall submit to the Courts and Tribunals of the User’s domicile for any dispute that may arise.
In the event that the user is domiciled outside Spain, Xevi Baena and the user shall submit to the courts and tribunals of Barcelona (Spain), expressly waiving any other jurisdiction.
If you have any questions about this Legal Notice, you can send an email to hello@surfingportugal.net
Part Two: Privacy Policy
Below you can read about our privacy and data protection policy for users of our website.
INTRODUCTION
This website complies with current legislation on data protection, which means that, as a user, you must give your express consent before providing us with personal data through the various forms made available in the sections of our page.
Therefore, for the sake of transparency and the exercise of your right, our duty is to inform you about the personal data we collect, store and process and for what purposes, having at any time the possibility to freely revoke your consent.
What is included in this Privacy Policy is valid only for personal data obtained on this website, not being applicable to information collected by third parties or other websites, although these websites are linked or inserted within surfingportugal.net.
WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND WHY WE COLLECT IT
We only collect data that you voluntarily provide when you contact us by phone, email or contact form, or when you register your company in our directory.
In addition, we may also need other information such as NIF, DNI or mailing address in case you hire our services and need an invoice.
In addition, when you visit our website, certain information is automatically stored for technical reasons, such as the IP address assigned by your Internet access provider.
PURPOSE OF COLLECTING PERSONAL DATA
As stated in the regulations, the USER is informed that, through the contact forms or emails sent to us, data is collected, which is stored in a file, with the sole purpose of communicating with the user. The fields marked as mandatory fields are essential to perform the expressed purpose.
The purpose of the collection of this data is the following:
- The sale of services related to surf in Portugal to users and visitors.
- The sale of products or services of third parties through affiliation.
- The sale of products or services to surf-related companies.
- Provision of content for blogs
- Provision of web design services
COMMENTS
When visitors and users leave comments on the website (such as on our blog or place listings in our online directory), we collect the data displayed in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user-agent string to aid in the detection of spam and comments written by bots.
An anonymous string created from your email address (also called a hash) can be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The privacy policy for the Gravatar service is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile image is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
MEDIA
If you upload images to the web you should avoid uploading images with location data (GPS EXIF) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from the images on the website.
CONTACT FORMS
By means of the contact forms present on our website the user will automatically and voluntarily provide personal data such as name and surname and e-mail address.
These data will be used only for communication with the user.
COOKIES
- If you leave a comment on our site you can choose to save your name, email address and website in cookies. This is for your convenience, so you don’t have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment.
- These cookies will last for one year.
- If you have an account and log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies.
- This cookie contains no personal data and is deleted when you close your browser.
- When you log in, we will also set several cookies to store your login information and screen display options.
- The login cookies last for two days, and the display options cookies last for one year. If you select “Remember me”, your login will last for two weeks.
- If you log out of your account, your login cookies will be deleted.
- If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie does not include personal data and simply indicates the ID of the article you have just edited.
- This cookie expires after 1 day.
For more information about cookies, please see our cookie policy.
EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES
Articles, pages and directory listings on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in exactly the same way as if the visitor had visited the other website.
These sites 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 into that site.
ANALYTICS
We use web analytics tools to help us better understand how users use our website. All data we collect through these services is completely anonymous.
The analytics tool we use is Google Analytics. For more information about the privacy policy of this tool you can visit: https://policies.google.com/privacy/
WHO WE SHARE YOUR DATA WITH
We do not share your data with third parties, with the exception of our collaborators who help us to provide any of the services you contract with us.
In this case, you agree that we may occasionally share your information with third parties, for the negotiation of our services and during or after the start of our professional collaboration.
HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR DATA
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so that we can recognize and approve successive comments automatically instead of keeping them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on our site (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can view, edit or delete their personal information at any time (except that they cannot change their user name). Site administrators can also view and edit that information.
We retain such data until the date indicated in the regulations or until you request deletion.
For such a request you can write to: hello@surfingportugal.net
WHAT RIGHTS YOU HAVE OVER YOUR DATA
If you have an account or have left comments on this site, you may request to receive an export file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You may also request that we delete any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data that we are required to retain for administrative, legal or security purposes.
WHERE WE SEND YOUR INFORMATION
Visitor comments may be reviewed by an automatic spam detection service. In addition, we have an encrypted and secured mail service where all emails and communications you send to us are stored.
HOW WE PROTECT YOUR DATA
- All our web traffic is encrypted using SSL certificate (secure connection) and we use secure passwords for access.
- The analytics tools we use are encrypted against data breaches, use SSL certificates and we use secure passwords for them.
- We use a powerful and professional hosting service that keeps our website secure and attack-proof and provides backups so that your data is not lost.
WHAT PROCEDURES DO WE USE AGAINST DATA BREACHES?
Our web storage system is provided by a specialized company, namely Loading.es.
Loading.es protects its clients’ data through its own security systems (in this case our data, and therefore also yours), although it cannot guarantee 100% that there will never be a personal data breach. In the event that such a breach is detected, we will contact us and if we deem it appropriate, we will contact you.
SITE PUBLISHING POLICY
Surfingportugal.net is planned and designed based on compliance with the following standards and code of ethics and professionalism:
- We are committed to providing information about surfing in Portugal promoting the preservation of the natural environment.
- We defend a sustainable tourism based on the preservation of the environment and the natural environment and landscapes of the portuguese coast.
- The information provided here is intended to help tourists and surf fans to find their way around Portugal to make their stay more comfortable.
- We want to provide an agile and attractive web environment for surf-related companies and businesses in Portugal or outside Portugal so that visitors can find their services easily and quickly.
- We defend the small commerce and local business and all our website is designed to give these businesses a balanced and homogeneous visibility.
- You, as a user of the website, also commit yourself to promote a sustainable tourism based on the protection of the natural environment of Portugal.
- We reserve the right to remove any comment and / or assessment made by an external user unilaterally if we consider that it does not concern any of the above 6 points of this editorial policy.