Personal Data Protection (according to Law 3/2018 LOPD, “Organic Law on Data Protection”).

Responsible Entity

Spanish Official Translations (hereinafter, the Company), in application of current regulations governing the protection of personal data, informs the Customer (hereinafter, Customer or User) that all personal data collected through the forms on the Website: www.spanishofficialtranslations.com are included in the automated files specific to the Customers using the Company services.

Data Processing

The collection and automated processing of personal data is intended to maintain the business relationship and the performance of information-related procedures, provision of the Service, training and other activities delivered by the Company.

These data will only be transferred to those entities that are strictly needed for the sole purpose of complying with the aforementioned purposes. The Company has implemented the necessary measures to guarantee the security, integrity and confidentiality of the data collected in accordance with the provisions of the EU Regulation 2016/679 of the EU Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016, governing the protection of individuals with regards to the processing of personal data and their free circulation. 

User Data Rights

The user may at any time exercise the rights of access, opposition, rectification and cancellation recognized in the aforementioned Regulation (EU). The user can exercise these rights by sending an email to: spanishofficialtranslations@gmail.com.

The user declares that all the information provided is true and correct, and undertakes to keep it updated, communicating the changes to the Company through the same email mentioned above.

Personal Data Processing Purposes

Spanish Official Translations will process your personal data collected through the Website: http://www.spanishofficialtranslations.com, with the following purposes:

• In case of contracting the services offered through the Website as well as to maintain the contractual relationship between the Company and the Customer, and to manage, handle, inform, improve or deliver the Service. 
• Sending requested information through the forms provided on the Website.
• Send newsletters, as well as commercial communications of promotions and/or advertising related to the Website.

We remind you that you can oppose to the sending of commercial communications at any time, by sending an email to the address indicated above.

How long are personal data collected stored for?

The Company will store all personal data provided by the Customer during the commercial relationship period provided the Customer does not request their deletion as well as during the period for which legal responsibilities could arise for the Service provided.

Legitimation

Data processing is carried out under the following legal provisions: 

1. The request for information and/or the delivery of Services available at the Website, whose Terms and Conditions will be available to the Customer in any case, prior to any potential contract of Services. 
2. A free, specific, informed and unequivocal consent via this Privacy Policy available to you, which after reading it and if you agree to it, you can expressly accept via a checkbox provided for that purpose.

In the event that you do not provide us with your data or do so in an erroneous or incomplete manner, we will not be able to meet your request, making it completely impossible to provide you with the requested information or to deliver the Provision of Services.

Third Party Communication

The data provided to the Company will not be communicated to third parties, except under legal obligation.

Data Collected by Users of Services

In cases where the user includes files with personal data in shared hosting servers, the Company is not responsible for the breach by the user of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). 

Data Retention

Spanish Official Translations informs the Customer that, as a data hosting service provider and by virtue of the provisions of Law 34/2002 of July 11 on Information Society and Electronic Commerce Services (known as LSSI in Spanish language), we retain the essential information to identify the origin of the data stored and the moment in which the provision of the service began for a maximum period of 12 months. The retention of this data does not affect the secrecy of communications and may only be used in the framework of a criminal investigation or to safeguard public safety, making it available to judges and/or courts in Madrid that so require it. 

The communication of data to the State Forces and Bodies will be done according to the provisions of regulations available on personal data protection.

Intellectual Property Rights

Spanish Official Translations is the owner of all copyright, intellectual and industrial property, “know how” and any other rights related to the Content appearing on the Website http://www.spanishofficialtranslations.com and the Services offered therein, as well as of all software needed for its implementation and related information.

The images that appear on the Website have been acquired through Adobe Stock or iStock via the corresponding standard licenses that allow the use of the files for personal, commercial or business purposes not restricted by this license. Otherwise, images have been obtained under the Creative Commons license.

The reproduction, publication and/or use not strictly private of the contents, in whole or in part, of the website www.spanishofficialtranslations.com is not permitted without prior written consent from the Company.

Software Intellectual Property

The user must respect third-party programs made available by the Company, even if they are free and/or publicly available. 

The Company has the necessary exploitation and intellectual property rights of all software.

The User does not acquire any right or license for the contracted service, on the software necessary for the Provision of the Service, nor on the technical information for monitoring the service, except for the rights and licenses necessary for the fulfillment of the contracted services and only during their duration.

For any action that exceeds compliance with the contract, the user will need written authorization from the Company, and the user is prohibited from accessing, modifying, viewing the configuration, structure, and files of the servers owned by the Company, assuming civil and criminal responsibility derived from any incident that could occur in the servers and security systems as a direct consequence of a negligent or malicious action of the user. 

Hosted Content Intellectual Property

It is forbidden any use of the Company Services that is contrary to the available legislation on intellectual property, in particular of:

• The use that is contrary to Spanish laws or that infringes the rights of third parties; 
• the publication or transmission of any content that, in view of the Company, is considered as
• violent, obscene, abusive, illegal, racist, xenophobic or defamatory; 
• the software serial numbers or any other content that violates the intellectual property rights of third parties; 
• the collection and/or use of personal data of other users without their express consent or in contravention of the provisions of the EU Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of April 27 2016, regarding the protection of individuals regarding the processing of personal data and their free circulation; 
• the use of the domain’s mail server and email addresses to send unwanted mass email; 

Hosted Content Protection

The Company makes backup copies of the content hosted on its servers, however it is not responsible for the loss or accidental deletion of data by users. In the same way, it does not guarantee the total replacement of the data deleted by the users, since the aforementioned data could have been deleted and/or modified during the period of time elapsed since the last backup copy.

The services offered, except for specific backup services, do not include the replacement of the content stored in the backup copies made by the Company when this loss is attributable to the user.

Commercial Communications

In application of the LSSI, the Company will not send advertising or promotional communications by email or other electronic means of communication that had not previously been requested or expressly authorized by the recipients thereof.

In the case of users with whom there is a prior contractual relationship, the Company is authorized to send commercial communications regarding products or services on the Website that are similar to those initially contracted with the Customer.

At any time, the Customer can oppose to the reception of commercial communications by sending a request to the Company through the email spanishofficialtranslations@gmail.com.