Privacy policy

PRIVACY POLICY

Privacy Policy

 -       Party responsible for processing

 Identity: AGENCIA LITERARIA CARMEN BALCELLS, SA

Postal address: Av. Diagonal, 580 CP 08021 Barcelona (Spain)   

Telephone: +34 93 2008933

Email: info@agenciabalcells.cominfo@agenciabalcells.com

 -       Legitimacy and purpose

The user gives their consent to AGENCIA LITERARIA C. BALCELLS, SA processing the personal data they supply when they send a form or an email to make an enquiry or request a service, for the purpose of sending electronic communications such as: dealing with your request and carrying on relations with the person in question, processing forms received with authorisation for use of information from the website, sending newsletters, new posts, subscribing to forums or chats hosted on the website, as well as any other communications that AGENCIA LITERARIA C. BALCELLS, SA considers to be of interest to its users.

Furthermore, AGENCIA LITERARIA C. BALCELLS, SA informs you that it complies with the information society services and e-commerce act, Law 34/2002 of 11th July 2002 by requesting your consent to processing your email for commercial purposes. The user consents to the processing of their data for the purposes of informing you, by whatever means, about the products and services of AGENCIA LITERARIA C. BALCELLS, SA.

The user may withdraw the said consent by writing to the following postal address: Av. Diagonal, 580 CP 08021 Barcelona (Spain) or to the email address info@agenciabalcells.com.

Agreement to the privacy policy, through the established double opt-in procedure, is considered to all intents and purposes as explicit, unequivocal consent to processing personal data on the terms set forth in this document.

The data gathered are necessary to carry on relations between the interested party and AGENCIA LITERARIA C. BALCELLS, SA.

AGENCIA LITERARIA C. BALCELLS, SA will be responsible for processing the following personal data for the following specific purposes:

Personal Data:

Personal data supplied by the user when they register or subscribe to the publication in question, as well as those generated while they browse the website and those gathered through some other channel.

The user must supply truthful information about their personal data and keep them up to date (to make any changes, see the “Rights” section of this policy).

Purposes:

Management and supervision of user registration on the website and any other application, subscription or other communication by the user on the website or through some other channel, in accordance with the terms and conditions applicable to each case and this policy.

Management and supervision of the advertising preferences you have to give when you register; this can subsequently be changed at any time. If your preferences say "yes", AGENCIA LITERARIA C. BALCELLS, SA may take commercial actions for users, personalised according to their profile (*) or otherwise, by electronic or other means, for products, services and content of different kinds (**) offered on this website or by third parties.

 (*) Analysis of the user's needs, tastes and preferences to design and offer them content, products and services of interest to them.

(**) Sectors: publishing, media, e-commerce, sports, travel, leisure, automotion, music, audiovisuals, technology, household, hospitality, restaurants, food, nutrition, cosmetics, fashion, training, luxury products, financial services, professional services, superstore products, games of chance and betting.

The portal owned by AGENCIA LITERARIA C. BALCELLS, SA contains links to third-party websites, whose privacy policies are beyond its control. When you access these websites you may decide whether to agree to their privacy and cookie policies. In general terms, when you browse the internet you can accept or reject third-party cookies using the setup options in your browser.

AGENCIA LITERARIA C. BALCELLS, SA processes data in confidence. Data will be kept while relations exist between the person in question and AGENCIA LITERARIA C. BALCELLS, SA, and for the periods stipulated by law or contractually for the exercise of any action or claim open to the interested party or AGENCIA LITERARIA C. BALCELLS, SA.

AGENCIA LITERARIA C. BALCELLS, SA adopts the levels of security required by the data protection rules approved in EU REGULATION 2016/679 OF THE EUROPEAN PARTLIAMENT AND COUNCIL on 27th April 2016 concerning the protection of individuals in relation to the processing of personal data and the free circulation of these data and superseding Directive 95/46/CE (GDPR). It has taken the appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security adequate for the risk involved in processing the personal data, including the destruction, loss or accidental alteration of personal data sent, stored or processed in any other way, or unauthorised revelation or access to the said data, in particular those which could cause physical, material or immaterial damages. Notwithstanding the above, internet security measures are not infallible and leaks may occur due to malicious actions by third parties. In this respect, AGENCIA LITERARIA C. BALCELLS, SA has taken steps in order to reinforce the confidentiality and integrity of information in its organisation, with constant supervision, monitoring and assessment of its processes to ensure respect for the privacy of data.

AGENCIA LITERARIA C. BALCELLS, SA will block data when they are no longer necessary for the purpose for which they were gathered, in accordance with the stipulations of data protection legislation. However, it may continue to make use of the data for the purposes of sending out the above-mentioned commercial messages while the user does not withdraw the consent they have given.

In the forms for collecting data, the fields marked with an asterisk are obligatory, so if the user does not provide the data in question, AGENCIA LITERARIA C. BALCELLS, SA may refuse the pertinent service as they are essential to fulfil the purposes in question.

-       Addressees

Data will not be passed on to third parties but AGENCIA LITERARIA C. BALCELLS, SA may reveal any information, including data of a personal nature, it considers necessary to fulfil legal obligations. You are further informed that the data supplied will be hosted on the servers of Mailchimp (email marketing supplier) through its company The Rocket Science Group LLC, domiciled in the USA, associated with the EU-US Privacy Shield agreement, information about which is available at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000KzNaAAK, approved by the European Data Protection Committee. See Mailchimp privacy policy at https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy.

AGENCIA LITERARIA C. BALCELLS, SA has engaged the hosting services of Serialnet, domiciled in Barcelona, C. Casp 108, 6th floor, postcode 08010 and entered in the Barcelona provincial companies register, in volume 39595, folio 1, page B 347527, with tax no.: B-64540222, which provides web hosting services.

-       Rights

Should they not authorise processing of their data for the above-mentioned purposes, the user may exercise their right to object to the processing of their data on the terms and conditions set forth in this section.

Users who have supplied AGENCIA LITERARIA C. BALCELLS, SA with their data through the website www.agenciabalcells.com, or through other channels, may approach the owner of the said website in order to exercise, free of charge, their rights to request access to their personal data, to correct or delete them, or to request the limitation of their processing or the portability of their data.

The user may exercise the above rights regarding the data sent by sending a written application to the following postal address: Av. Diagonal, 580 CP 08021 Barcelona (Spain) or the email address arcolopd@agenciabalcells.com. The user also has the right to withdraw their consent at any time through the same procedure, without this affecting the lawfulness of the processing based on their consent before it was withdrawn.

arcolopd@agenciabalcells.com

Any other enquiry regarding matters other than data protection which may be received at the said email address will not be dealt with.

Interested parties may lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority, especially where they are not satisfied with the way they have been able to exercise their rights.