Privacy Policy of SUMA website
Our website address is: https://sumedioambiente.com.
SUMA SOLUCIONES MEDIOAMBIENTALES S.L., with registered address at Centro Empresarial INNOBAK: C/ Junqueral, 13. SUMA SOLUCIONES MEDIOAMBIENTALES S.L., located at Centro Empresarial INNOBAK: C/ Junqueral, 13. Office O-02, Postal Code 48903, Barakaldo, Bizkaia (“SUMA”), is committed to protecting the online privacy of users of the website www.sumedioambiente.com. As such, this document (“Privacy Policy”) has been drafted in order to better understand how your Personal Data, as defined below, will be managed when you use the Website. This Privacy Policy will also provide you with information so that you can give your explicit and informed consent to the processing of your personal data, when applicable.
As a general rule, any information or data you provide to SUMA through the Website, or that is otherwise collected through the Website while using SUMA’s services (“Services”) – as further described in Section 3 below – will be processed lawfully, fairly, and transparently by SUMA. To this end, SUMA takes into account the internationally recognized principles governing the processing of personal data, such as purpose limitation and storage limitation or minimization, quality, and confidentiality of data.
1. Data Controller
SUMA, as identified at the top of this Privacy Policy, is the data controller responsible for the processing of Personal Data that is processed through the website. You can contact SUMA’s Data Protection Officer (DPO) at the following address: info@sumedioambiente.com.
2. Personal Data Processed
When you use the website, you may provide us with or we may collect some of your Personal Data, such as your name, an identification number, an online identifier, or one or more elements representing your physical, physiological, psychological, economic, cultural or social identity, which can be used to identify you or make your identification possible, either on their own or together with other information that has been collected (“Personal Data”).
SUMA may collect your “Personal Data” both when you decide to provide it (for example, when you request information from SUMA through the “Contact” section of the website, when you subscribe to the newsletter or when you request the Services) and by analyzing your use of the website. The Personal Data that may be processed through the website are the following:
a. Name, Contact Information, and Other Personal Data.
In several sections of the website, and specifically when you request the Services or when you request information related to SUMA’s Services, you may be asked to submit information about yourself, such as your email address. In addition, whenever you communicate with SUMA using the contact information provided on the website, SUMA may collect any additional information you choose to provide.
b. Special Categories of Personal Data
Certain areas of the website (such as the contact form or the support chat form) may include free text fields where you may provide SUMA with information that may contain Personal Data. This information may include special categories of Personal Data such as data related to your physical or mental health, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or sexual orientation. SUMA recommends that you do not provide this type of information unless it is strictly necessary and you have given your explicit consent.
When it comes to completely free text fields, you may use them to disclose (consciously or unconsciously) more sensitive categories of Personal Data, such as data that reveals your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership. SUMA recommends that you do not provide this type of information unless it is strictly necessary and you have given your explicit consent. The content that you provide through these fields may also include, whether consciously or unconsciously, other sensitive information related to you, such as genetic data, biometric data, or data related to your health, sexual life, or sexual orientation. SUMA recommends that you do not provide this type of information unless it is strictly necessary and you have given your explicit consent. SUMA urges you not to disclose this type of Personal Data unless you consider it absolutely necessary. If you choose to provide this type of information, you must give your explicit consent to SUMA to process it. Please note that, as required by current legislation, sensitive categories of Personal Data can only be processed with your explicit consent. SUMA emphasizes the importance of obtaining your explicit consent to process this type of Personal Data if you decide to share it.
c. Voluntarily Provided Data by the Data Subject
As mentioned in the previous section, certain areas of the website allow you to publish different types of content to which SUMA will have access and which may include Personal Data referring to other people.
Whenever you decide to share Personal Data regarding other individuals, you will be considered an independent data controller regarding that Personal Data and will have to assume all the legal obligations and responsibilities inherent to that role. This implies, among other things, that you will have to indemnify SUMA, as and to the extent necessary, against complaints, claims, or demands for compensation for damages that may arise from the processing of such Personal Data and that may be presented by those individuals whose information you have provided through the website.
In any case, if you provide or process Personal Data of a third party when using the website, you hereby guarantee that this processing hypothesis is based on the consent of the third party in question or that you have another legal basis that legitimizes the processing of third-party Personal Data. Likewise, you assume all responsibility associated with such actions.
d. Data Automatically Collected when Sending Emails or Other Communications.
When we send emails or other communications, we use tracking systems – with the explicit and free consent of the user – such as pixels or web beacons, to detect if the messages are opened, if the hyperlinks contained in the emails are clicked, from which IP address or with what type of browser the email is opened, and other similar matters.
e. Browsing Data.
The operation of the website, as is usually the case with any Internet website, involves the use of computer systems and software procedures that collect information about users of the website as part of their normal operation. Although SUMA does not collect this information to link it to specific users, it may be possible to identify those users either directly through such information, or by using other collected information. As such, this information should also be considered Personal Data.
This information includes various parameters related to your operating system and IT environment, including your IP address, your location (country), the domain names of your computer, Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) requested on the web, the time of requests made, the method used to submit requests to the server, the size of the file obtained in response to a request, the numerical code indicating the status of the response sent by the server (“success,” “error,” etc.), and other parameters related to the user’s operating system and IT environment.
This data is used to collect statistical information about the use of the website, as well as to ensure its proper functioning and to identify any failures or abuse that occur on the website. Except for this latter purpose, this data will not be kept for more than seven days.
f. Cookies.
The following is SUMA’s cookie policy.
Cookies
Definitions, Characteristics, and Application of Laws.
Cookies are small text files that the website you visit can send and record on your computer to then resend them to those same sites when you visit them again. By using these cookies, sites can “remember” your actions and preferences – such as login information, chosen language, font size, other display settings, etc. – so that you do not have to provide that information again when you return to the site or navigate through its different pages.
Cookies are used for electronic authentication, session tracking, and storing information about your activities while using a website. They can also contain a unique identification code that allows tracking, for statistical or advertising purposes, of your browsing activities within a website.
They can also contain a unique identification code that allows tracking, for statistical or advertising purposes, of your browsing activities within a website.
Certain operations within a website may not be possible without using cookies, as in some cases they are necessary, from a technical point of view, for the functioning of the website.
There are several types of cookies, and each has different characteristics and functions. In addition, the time they remain on your computer can vary. For example, “session cookies” are automatically deleted when you close the browser; however, “persistent cookies” remain on your device for a predetermined period of time.
In accordance with applicable law, it is possible that your consent may not always be necessary to use cookies on a website. Specifically, “technical cookies” generally do not require this consent. We are talking about cookies that are used solely to send messages through an electronic communications network or that are necessary to provide the services you request. In other words, these cookies are essential for the operation of the site or necessary to carry out the activities that the user requests.
On the other hand, for “profiling cookies”, such as those intended to create user profiles and used to send advertising messages that are tailored to the preferences expressed by users while browsing the web, user consent is usually required, although this may vary depending on the applicable legislation.
Types of cookies used by the website and the possibility of selecting or deselecting them
The website uses the following types of cookies that can be deselected (excluding third-party cookies, which you should check in the relevant links):
- Navigation or session cookies: necessary for the functioning of the website or to allow the use of the website’s contents and services.
- Analytical cookies: Analytical cookies help SUMA understand how visitors use the website and track traffic to or from the website. These cookies do not collect Personal Data or information about your identity. The information is processed as aggregated and anonymously.
- Functionality cookies: they are used to activate specific features of the website and to configure the website according to your preferences (for example, language) in order to enhance your experience.
- Profile cookies: These are used to examine the preferences that you reveal through your use of the website and to send you advertising communications that fit those preferences.
SUMA also uses “third-party cookies,” which are cookies from websites/web servers owned by third parties and different from the SUMA website. Among these cookies are also profiling cookies. These third parties, which are listed below along with links to their relevant privacy policies, will act as independent data controllers for the data collected through the cookies they send (and will use the data they collect for their own purposes and according to their own terms) or as data processors for SUMA (i.e., they will process Personal Data on behalf of SUMA).