The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to explain how we collect, process and protect the personal data that you as a User have provided us through our website or blog (hereinafter “Website”) and for you to freely decide whether you want us to process them.
It also aims to comply with General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (hereinafter GDPR) and Organic Law 3/2018 on the protection of personal data and guarantee of digital rights (hereinafter LOPDGDD).
Identity – Organization ASOC. DE INVESTIGACIÓN DE MATERIALES PLÁSTICOS Y CONEXAS
CIF/NIF G46714853
Postal address Calle Gustave Eiffel 4, Paterna 46980, Valencia. Spain
Phone: 961 366 040
Email: dpo@aimplas.es
Business purpose: Instituto Tecnológico del Plástico
Website: https://www.aimplas.es/
Registration details: Entered in the Ministry of the Interior’s National Register of Associations under No. 134,600, and in the Register of Innovation and Technology Centres under No. 63.
Our organization has appointed a Data Protection Officer, to whom you can address your questions, recommendations or complaints about processing of your personal data.
The Data Protection Officer may be contacted by the following means:
BUSINESS ADAPTER, S.L.
Ronda Guglielmo Marconi, 11, 26, (Parque Tecnológico) 46980 Paterna (Valencia).
Email: dpo@aimplas.es
The personal identification and contact data that you have provided us with through our contact forms, email, etc., will be treated confidentially and only by personnel authorized by our organization.
All categories and types of personal data processed will be duly identified in the relevant processing activities performed by our organization.
In general, the purpose of the personal data processing carried out by our organization is to maintain relationships with different groups of people, such as our association members, clients, suppliers, students, personnel, job applicants, users of our Website/Blog, social media users and data subjects in general who make contact with our organization by means of our Website forms, email, telephone and in person.
This processing is intended to meet the requirements of maintaining the existing relationships with each group of persons. Depending on the relationship, your data are processed for different purposes, such as attending to requests for information, complaints, claims and other requests from data subjects, complying with our contractual, commercial and legal obligations, and exercising specific rights.
If you are an associate, client, supplier or student, your personal data are processed for the sole purpose of maintaining the business, contractual or commercial relationship, whether for the provision of services, for accounting and billing management, or for other purposes for which we are obliged to maintain the relationship.
We do not send advertising without the prior consent of data subjects, except for information sent to our current clients about services and products related to items previously provided or purchased.
If you are a potential client or an information seeker, we will process your data exclusively to deal with your requests and our reply will include commercial information related to your request.
If you are a job applicant, we will process your data and include you in our selection processes and job vacancies. Job application policy.
The purposes of personal data processing will be duly identified in the relevant processing activities performed by our organization.
The processing of your personal data by our organization is carried out based on the following legitimate interests:
a. Your express, free, informed and unequivocal consent, given that we inform you that, after reading this privacy policy and expressing your agreement, you can voluntarily authorize us to process your data by ticking the boxes provided for this purpose on our forms.
We also inform you that you can change your mind and withdraw your consent at any time by writing to us at our postal or email address.
b. Fulfilment of the business or contractual relationship that we have with you as a client, supplier, student or a member of our personnel.
c. Compliance with our legal obligations.
It will be necessary to have the consent of the parents, guardians or legal representative of data subjects under 14 years of age for their data to be processed.
Users are solely responsible for the veracity of the data they send us.
The personal data provided will be kept for the time necessary to fulfil the purpose for which they are collected, for the time required by law and for as long as necessary to determine possible responsibilities arising from the processing mentioned in the purposes.
Job applications will be kept for no more than one year or until the data subject asks us to delete their data.
We do not create profiles using your personal data. However, if we do, we will inform you and ask for your prior permission to do so.
You also have the right to object to this type of processing at any time by sending an email to dpo@aimplas.es.
As a general rule, our organization does not disclose personal data to third parties, although in some cases this may be necessary:
If you are an associate, client, student or supplier, your personal data may be disclosed to third parties as required by law (e.g. tax authorities). The same is true in cases and organizations where it is necessary to provide our services and pay invoices (e.g. banking institutions).
In addition, as a member, student, client or supplier, your personal data may be processed by certain suppliers to whom we delegate some of our obligations (e.g. accounting consultants). All data processors have signed a data processing contract and have agreed to comply with the same security measures implemented by our organization, and to be subject to professional secrecy and confidentiality regarding the personal data processed, among other obligations in the area of personal data protection.
If you are a user of our Website, a job applicant, an information seeker or a general data subject, your data will not be disclosed to third-party organizations unless we are legally obligated to do so.
In the case of transfers to other organizations or other countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we will inform you and ask for your express prior consent.
Our organization has implemented all the necessary technical and organizational measures to protect the personal data processed and to prevent their loss, theft or unauthorized use.
These measures have been created based on the type of data processed and the purposes for which they are processed. These measures are regularly verified in our internal controls of data protection compliance and by external audits.
You have the right to know whether your personal data are being processed by our organization; you therefore have the right to access your data, the right to rectification if they are inaccurate and the right to request their erasure when data are no longer necessary, provided this is legally possible.
You may also exercise your right to object, your right to restriction and your right to data portability if you deem it appropriate. To do so, you must send an email to our organization at dpo@aimplas.es and attach a copy of your ID card to identify yourself.
If you wish to make a suggestion, complaint or query about processing of your personal data by our organization, you can contact our Data Protection Officer by email at dpo@aimplas.es or by using the data subject contact form.
Data subjects under 14 years of age who wish to exercise their rights may do so through their parents, guardians or legal representative.
If you wish to make a complaint on the grounds that your rights have been infringed, you may do so at the Spanish Data Protection Agency, C/ Jorge Juan, 6, 28001 Madrid or at www.aepd.es.
Scope of application
Our commitment to the protection of personal data is binding on all departments and employees in our organization, as well as those who act on our behalf.
Purpose
We have established protocols for processing personal data pursuant to the provisions of European and Spanish data protection regulations.
Principles
Lawfulness, Fairness, Transparency, Data Minimization, Accuracy, Time Limitation on Storage, Integrity, Confidentiality and Proactive Responsibility.
Special categories of data
The processing of personal data that reveal racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership; the processing of genetic or biometric data, data concerning health and data concerning sexual orientation is prohibited except in legally authorized exceptions and with the prior consent of the data subject.
Rights of data subjects
Data subjects have the right to access their personal data, as well as the right to rectification if their data are inaccurate, the right to erasure if data are no longer necessary or processing is no longer desired, the right to restrict certain processing, the right to be able to receive their data from the Data Controller easily and in structured and commonly used formats, the right to decide if their data will be used for profiling purposes, and the right to object to processing at any time.
Register of activities, impact assessment and security measures
We keep a register of processing activities and analyse the purposes of processing, categories of data subjects and data, recipients, international transfers, storage periods, etc., in order to assess the risks of processing and implement the necessary security measures to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of personal data.
We have also analysed the need to draw up an Impact Assessment and have appointed a Data Protection Officer who suitably fulfils the requirements of knowledge and experience pursuant to current legislation.
Control
We also have external consultants who monitor all publications of the competent control bodies and other European and Spanish organizations on data protection regulations in order to comply with these regulations at all times.
Updating this policy
We reserve the right to modify this Policy without prior notice. We therefore recommend that you consult it each time you visit our Website.
Updated on 21 March 2023
This Cookie Policy provides you with the information you need about the use of cookies on our Website.
It also aims to comply with Spanish Law 34 of 11 July 2002 on information society services and electronic commerce (hereinafter LSSICE), General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (hereinafter GDPR) and Organic Law 3/2018 on the protection of personal data and guarantee of digital rights (hereinafter LOPDGDD).
Pursuant to the provisions of Article 10 of Spanish Law 34 of 11 July 2002 on information society services and electronic commerce (hereinafter, LSSICE), we hereby expressly, precisely and unequivocally inform users, service recipients and the competent bodies of the following aspects relating to the provider of information society services:
Identity – Institution ASOC. DE INVESTIGACIÓN DE MATERIALES PLÁSTICOS Y CONEXAS
CIF/NIF G46714853
Postal address C/ Eiffel 4, Paterna 46980, Valencia. Spain
Phone: 961 366 040
Email: dpo@aimplas.es
Business purpose: Instituto Tecnológico del Plástico
Website: https://www.aimplas.es/
Registration details: Entered in the Ministry of the Interior’s National Register of Associations under No. 134,600, and in the Register of Innovation and Technology Centres under No. 63.
Our organization has appointed a Data Protection Officer, to whom you can address your questions or complaints about processing of your personal data.
The Data Protection Officer may be contacted by the following means:
BUSINESS ADAPTER, S.L.
Ronda Guglielmo Marconi, 11, 26, (Parque Tecnológico) 46980 Paterna (Valencia).
Email: info@businessadapter.es
As a User of our Website, you are hereby informed you that we use cookies and/or similar technologies (hereinafter “cookies”) that store and retrieve information when you browse the Website.
In general, these technologies can be used for a variety of purposes, such as recognizing you as a user, counting the number of visits you make, remembering your preferred language, obtaining information about your browsing habits, showing you advertising or personalizing the way content is displayed.
Cookies may also be installed by third parties we have authorized or contracted.
Below are details on the different types of cookies:
Type of cookies according to their purpose
They make it possible to monitor data traffic, identify the session, make purchases, make requests, use security features while browsing, store content for viewing videos and sound, and share content via social networks.
They allow the Data Controller to analyse website user behaviour, measure website activity and create user browsing profiles with the aim of offering improvements to users.
They are necessary for external social media sites (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram). Their purpose is to control interaction with social widgets within the website.
They provide information on user location so users can be offered appropriate information based on the city or country they are most interested in. These cookies are anonymous.
They allow users to be recognized so they can be offered personalized information (e.g. language, browser type).
They manage advertising on the website by adapting it to the service or products requested.
They manage advertising on the website by storing user behaviour gathered from continuous observation of user browsing habits to develop advertising with a specific profile.
Type of cookies according to their duration
These cookies are designed to collect and store data while the user visits a website. When the session ends, they are not stored on the user’s computer/device.
These cookies stay installed on the user’s computer/device and the information provided can be processed when the user leaves the website and then logs in again. Users can delete these cookies at any time.
Types of cookies based on the organization managing them
These cookies are sent to the user’s computer/device from the IT system owned by the website owner, from which the request was made, the service provided or a purchase made.
These are cookies sent to the user’s computer/device from a domain or IT system not owned by the website owner, but by a third-party organization authorized or contracted by the website owner, from which the request was made, the service provided or a purchase made.
You should be aware that if you accept third-party cookies, you should delete them in your browser options or in the system offered by the third party itself. Below are the sites you can visit to find out more about third-party cookies (e.g. deactivation, possible transfers of data to third countries):
and Google AdWords.
If you use other browsers, we recommend you consult their cookie use and management policy.
We inform you that you can perform private browsing, which prevents web browsers from storing information about the website you visit.
You may find the tool http://www.youronlinechoices.com/ very useful for managing the use of cookies.
Types of cookies for which consent is not necessary
Types of cookies used on this website
Cookie | Owner | Duration | Purpose |
CookieConsent | Own | 1 year | Technical / Used to remember the user’s acceptance of the use of cookies. |
Wp_wpml_
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current_ language | WordPress | 1 day | Technical / Stores the current language. |
test_cookie | Session | Technical / Used to check whether the user’s browser supports cookies. | |
CONSENT | 2 years | Technical / Cookies loaded by Google services (e.g. reCaptcha and Google+ search and content sharing services). | |
NID | |||
li_gc | 2 years | Technical / Used to store guests’ consent to the use of cookies for non-essential purposes | |
lang | Session | Technical / Used to remember a user’s language settings to ensure that LinkedIn.com is displayed in the language chosen by the user in the settings. | |
_ga | 2 years | ||
_ga_# | 1 minute | Analysis / Generates a unique user identifier, which is used to count the number of times a user visits the Website, as well as the date of the first and last visit to the Website. It records the date and time of access to any of the Website pages. It checks the need to keep a user session open or create a new one. It identifies the user session and collects the approximate geographic location of the computer/device accessing the Website for statistical purposes. | |
_gcl_au | 90 days | ||
_gid | 24 hours | ||
_dlt | Quancast | Session | Analysis / Defines a unique ID for the session. It allows the website to collect data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes. |
__hssc | HubSpot | 30 minutes | Analysis / This cookie tracks sessions. |
__hssrc | HubSpot | Session | Analysis / When HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also configured to determine whether users have restarted their browsers. |
__hstc | HubSpot | 13 months | Analysis / Visitor monitoring |
hubspotutk | HubSpot | 12 months | Analysis / Monitoring a visitor’s identity. It is sent to HubSpot with form submissions and is used to delete duplicate contacts. |
AnalyticsSyncHistory | 1 month | Analysis / This cookie is used to store information about when synchronization with the lms_analytics cookie was performed for users in designated countries. | |
lidc | 24 hours | Analysis / To facilitate data centre selection. | |
UserMatchHistory | 30 days | Analysis / LinkedIn Ads use this cookie to help PwC measure advertising performance. | |
1P_JAR | 30 days | Advertising / Cookie that transfers data to Google to provide more attractive advertising. | |
CONSENT | Google
| 2 years | Technical / Cookies loaded by Google services (e.g. reCaptcha and Google+ search and content sharing services). |
NID | |||
bcookie | 2 years | Social / browser identifier to identify devices accessing LinkedIn and detect platform abuse. |
We recommend that you review our cookie policy each time you access our website to be informed of any changes in the use of our cookies. We reserve the right to modify this Policy without prior notice.
Please note that if you disable any of the cookies, the monitoring tool will no longer work effectively and this may have a negative effect on your overall browsing experience.
As part of the duty to provide information pursuant to Article 13.2.f) of the GDPR, we inform you that we will request your prior consent if we start creating personal profiles. However, you should be aware that you can object to being subject to automated processing of your data, in which personal aspects are evaluated, such as analysing or predicting aspects related to your job performance, financial situation, health, personal preferences and interests, reliability and behaviour, such that you are subject to legal effects or are affected in a similar way.
We will implement suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights, freedoms and legitimate interests, such as the right to obtain human intervention from us in order to express your point of view and to contest the decision.
Your personal data will not be transferred to other countries or third parties. For transfers to organizations or countries outside the European Union, we will inform you and ask for your express prior consent.
Legitimate interests
By freely clicking the OK button in the cookie information window (banner or pop-up), you expressly consent to the use of cookies, although you can change your mind at any time and refuse the installation of cookies.
The period of data storage will be as short as possible, in accordance with the purpose for which the data were collected, taking into account the principle of data minimization.
For more information on the processing of personal data, please see our Privacy Policy on this page.
You have the right to know whether your personal data are being processed by our organization; you therefore have the right to access your data, the right to rectification if they are inaccurate and the right to request their erasure when the data are no longer necessary.
You may also exercise your right to object, your right to restriction and your right to data portability if you deem it appropriate. To do so, you must send an email to our organization at info@businessadapter.es and attach a copy of your ID card to identify yourself.
If you would like to submit a suggestion or query about processing of your personal data, you can contact our data protection consultants:
BUSINESS ADAPTER, S.L.
Ronda Guglielmo Marconi, 11, 26, (Parque Tecnológico) 46980 Paterna (Valencia).
Email: info@businessadapter.es
If you are under 14 years of age and want to exercise your rights, you may do so through your parents, guardians or legal representative.
If you wish to make a complaint on the grounds that your rights have been infringed, you may do so at the Spanish Data Protection Agency, C/ Jorge Juan, 6, 28001 Madrid or at www.aepd.es.
We reserve the right to modify this Policy without prior notice. We therefore recommend that you consult it each time you visit our Website.
As a result of the entry into force of the amendment to the Spanish Law on Information Society Services (LSSICE) established by Spanish Royal Decree 13/2012, the express consent of the users of all websites that include non-essential cookies must be obtained before the user can browse them.
Cookies and other similar technologies such as local shared objects, flash cookies and pixels are tools used by web servers to store and retrieve information about their visitors, as well as to ensure the proper functioning of the site.
Through the use of these devices, the web server is able to remember certain information about the user, such as their page viewing preferences on that server, their name and password, and the products they are most interested in.
According to the EU directive, cookies that require informed consent by the user are analytical cookies and advertising and affiliation cookies. The cookies that are exempt from the regulation are those of a technical nature and those necessary for the functioning of the website or the provision of services expressly requested by the user.
There are five main groups of cookies:
Analytical cookies: these collect information about the use made of the website.
Social cookies: these are necessary for external social networks.
Third-party cookies: these track visits from other sites, with which the website establishes an affiliate contract (affiliate companies).
Advertising and behavioural cookies: these collect information about the user’s personal preferences and choices (retargeting).
Technical and functional cookies: these are strictly necessary for the use of the website and for the provision of the contracted service.
__cfduid: cookie set by the CloudFlare service to identify trusted web traffic. It does not correspond to any user Id in the web application, nor does it store any personal data that can be identified. Expires: 1 year.
has_js: Drupal uses this cookie to indicate whether or not the visitor browser has enabled JavaScript. Purpose: Persistent functionality.
Google Cookies:
_gid: analytical cookie, related to Google Analytics that is used to identify users. Expires: 24 hours.
_ga: related to Google Analytics. Stores a unique customer identifier and is used to control unique visits, user data, campaigns… Expires: 2 years.
AID: If the visitor is signed in with their Google Account on another device, this cookie links their activity on the devices. Expires: 6 months.
Consent banner cookies set by Hubspot:
__hssc: This cookie tracks sessions. It is used to determine whether we should increase the number of sessions and time stamps in the _hstc cookie: contains the domain, viewCount (increases each pageView in a session) and the login time stamp of the session. Expires: 30 minutes.
__hssrc: session cookie. If this cookie does not exist when cookies are administered, it is presumed to be a new session. Persistent.
__hstc: cookie to track visitors. Contains the domain, utk, initial time stamp (first visit), most recent time stamp (last visit), current time stamp (this visit) and session number (increases with each subsequent session). Expires: 2 years.
Hubspotutk: this is used to track a visitor’s identity. It is passed on to HubSpot for form submission and is used to eliminate duplicate contacts. Expires: 10 years.
The user can configure their browser so that they are notified when cookies are received so that they cannot be installed on their computer. Please refer to your browser’s instructions and manuals for more information.
If you wish to reject or disable the reception of cookies you can do the following:
Delete cookies from your browser. Most browsers enable you to prevent all or some cookies from being stored on your computer. For more information about deleting or disabling cookies from your browser, use your browser’s “help” menu.
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