What is the Privacy Policy for?
This Privacy Policy applies to this Website and all users who visit it.
The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and indicates the obligations and requirements of users and website and website owners. Furthermore, the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed and targeted in this policy.
Our website
This site and its owners have taken and will always take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure that the necessary steps are taken to protect its users' privacy throughout their experience using the BECERTIF site.
What personal data is collected and why
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, the data present in the comments form, as well as the IP address and browser user agent, are saved to help with spam detection.
An anonymous string created from your email address (also called a hash) can be sent to the Gravatar service to verify that you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Multimedia
When uploading images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded geolocation data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can download and extract geolocation data from website images.
Contact Forms
The BECERTIF website can be visited unregistered, however if you contact us through any of our contact forms, the data requested in those forms will be stored. You can request its deletion whenever you want, through a written request to the email address becertif@becertif.pt, and continue to use our website normally.
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 visit the login page, a temporary cookie will be set to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain personal data and will be deleted when you close your browser.
When logging in, some cookies will be set to save your session information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for one year. If you select “Remember me”, your login will persist for two weeks. Upon logging out, login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie does not include personal data, it only indicates the content ID of the article you have just edited. Expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (eg videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves as if the user were to visit those websites.
This site may collect data about you, use cookies, incorporate third-party tracking, monitor your interactions with it, including recording interactions with embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that site.
How long is your data retained
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are saved indefinitely. This is so that any follow-up comments can be automatically recognized and approved, instead of putting them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on our website (if any), we store the personal information provided in your user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (with the exception of not being able to change their username). Site administrators can also view and edit this information.
Final dispositions
BECERTIF, whether acting individually or as a Subcontractor, if it determines the purposes and means of data processing, it is the “responsible for processing” and, to that extent, among other aspects, ensures that:
- Personal data are collected for specific, explicit and legitimate purposes and will not be further processed in a way that is incompatible with the purposes of collection;
- Only personal data that is adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the purposes of collection are collected;
- The personal data collected is accurate and up to date;
- Personal data are only kept for the period necessary to pursue the collection/processing purposes (ensuring compliance with the applicable National Control Authority Deliberations and the specific legislation applicable to certain sectors of activity);
- São disponibilizadas ao titular dos dados todas as informações relacionadas com o tratamento efetuado, concedendo-lhe o direito de acesso, retificação, e eliminação dos seus dados, bem como a oposição ao seu tratamento, nos termos da lei;
- The consent of the data subject is obtained for the processing of data, in cases where this is required;
- Collaborators authorized to access the personal data of others are bound by the duty of secrecy and confidentiality;
- Does not hire another processor, when acting as a processor, without the person responsible for the treatment having given, in advance and in writing, authorization, specific or general;
- Appropriate technical and organizational measures have been implemented to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, alteration, unauthorized access and disclosure and against any form of illicit treatment;
- The registration of personal data processing activities is carried out under legal terms.