ASOCIACIÓN ECOVALIA, in compliance with current regulations on personal data protection, informs you that the personal data collected through the forms on the website: https://bestpracticehens.eu/, are included in the automated files specifically for users of ASOCIACIÓN ECOVALIA’s services.

The collection and automated processing of personal data are intended to maintain the commercial relationship and perform tasks related to information, training, consulting, and other activities inherent to ASOCIACIÓN ECOVALIA.

These data will only be transferred to entities when necessary, solely for the purpose of fulfilling the aforementioned objectives.

ASOCIACIÓN ECOVALIA adopts the necessary measures to guarantee the security, integrity, and confidentiality of the data in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and the Council of April 27, 2016, regarding the protection of natural persons concerning the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data. This regulation repeals the former LOPD and is supplemented by the new Organic Law 3/2018, of December 5, on Data Protection and Guarantee of Digital Rights (LOPDGDD).

The user may at any time exercise the rights of access, objection, rectification, cancellation, restriction, and portability recognized under the aforementioned EU Regulation. These rights can be exercised by sending an email to: protecciondedatos@ecovalia.org or at the following address:

Avda. Diego Martínez Barrio Nº 10, Planta 1, Módulo 12, C.P. 41013 – Sevilla (Seville, Spain).

To ensure compliance with data protection regulations, an external Data Protection Officer (DPO), GRUPO ATICO34 SL, has been appointed to carry out related functions within ASOCIACIÓN ECOVALIA. You may contact them via the email address protecciondedatos@ecovalia.org.

The user declares that all the data provided are true and correct and agrees to keep them updated by notifying ASOCIACIÓN ECOVALIA of any changes.

Purpose of Personal Data Processing

For what purposes will we process your personal data?

At ASOCIACIÓN ECOVALIA, we will process your personal data collected through the website https://bestpracticehens.eu/ for the following purposes:

  1. To fulfill the association’s commercial, labor, corporate, and accounting obligations.
  2. To comply with the company’s internal processes regarding supplier and contractor management.
  3. To manage archiving, system updates, and the protection and safekeeping of company information and databases.
  4. To transmit data to third parties with whom contracts have been signed for this purpose, for commercial, contractual, administrative, marketing, and/or operational purposes.
  5. For security purposes or fraud prevention.
  6. To send promotional information via electronic means.
  7. To provide the information requested by the user through the contact form.
  8. To conduct market research and statistical analysis.

You may opt out of receiving commercial communications at any time by sending an email to the previously indicated address.

The fields in these forms are mandatory, and it will be impossible to carry out the stated purposes if the required data is not provided.

How Long Will Collected Personal Data Be Retained?

The personal data provided will be kept as long as the relationship continues or until you request its deletion. Additionally, data will be stored for the duration necessary to comply with any legal obligations related to the provided services.

Legal Basis for Processing

The processing of your data is carried out based on the following legal grounds:

  1. The request for information and/or the contracting of ASOCIACIÓN ECOVALIA’s services, whose terms and conditions will be provided to you prior to any potential contractual agreement.
  2. Your free, specific, informed, and unequivocal consent, as we inform you of our privacy policy, which you may accept by a clear affirmative action, such as ticking a designated checkbox.

If you do not provide your data or do so incorrectly or incompletely, we will not be able to process your request, making it impossible to provide the requested information or proceed with the service contract.

Recipients

The data will not be shared with any third party outside ASOCIACIÓN ECOVALIA, except where legally required. However, they may be transferred to service providers that have signed a data processing contract with ASOCIACIÓN ECOVALIA.

Likewise, your personal data may also be transferred to affiliated companies or entities to ensure proper internal administrative management of data and services.

Data Collected by Service Users

In cases where users upload files containing personal data to shared hosting servers, ASOCIACIÓN ECOVALIA will not be held responsible for any non-compliance by the user with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Protection of Stored Information

ASOCIACIÓN ECOVALIA performs backups of the content stored on its servers, but it is not responsible for accidental loss or deletion of data by users. Likewise, the company does not guarantee the full restoration of deleted data, as they may have been permanently removed or modified since the last backup.

The services offered—except for specific backup services—do not include the restoration of deleted content from backups when the data loss is attributable to the user. In such cases, a recovery fee will be determined based on the complexity and volume of the restoration, subject to prior user acceptance.

The recovery of deleted data is only included in the service price when the data loss is due to causes attributable to ASOCIACIÓN ECOVALIA.

Commercial Communications

In compliance with the Spanish Law on Information Society Services (LSSI), ASOCIACIÓN ECOVALIA will not send unsolicited advertising or promotional communications via email or any other electronic means without prior request or explicit authorization from the recipients.

For users with whom there is a prior contractual relationship, ASOCIACIÓN ECOVALIA is authorized to send commercial communications about products or services similar to those initially contracted by the client.

In any case, the user, upon proving their identity, may request to stop receiving commercial communications through the Customer Service channels.