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Privacy Policy

When you access the Francisco Vaz da Costa Marques Filhos & C.ª, S.A. website, you may be asked to provide personal information. Providing this information or filling in forms is always voluntary.

Francisco Vaz da Costa Marques Filhos & C.ª, S.A. endeavours to ensure that your privacy is protected when you use and browse the website.

In this policy you can see what data we collect, why it is collected, how it is used, how long it is stored, where it is stored and under what security measures.

By using this website you consent to the terms described in this Privacy Policy as a whole.

1. Information on the data controller.

This website is the property of Francisco Vaz da Costa Marques Filhos & C.ª, S.A., NIPC 501 068 694, with its registered office at Rua do Pombal, Nº 194, (4800-023) Guimarães. The personal data you provide will always be managed by Francisco Vaz da Costa Marques Filhos & C.ª, S.A., as the controller and data processor, in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 – hereinafter referred to as the GDPR.

2. What personal data will be requested?

If you choose to fill in a contact form on this website, the personal data collected and processed by Francisco Vaz da Costa Marques Filhos & C.ª, S.A. will be that which you provide through the contact form available on the website, by sending an e-mail to the e-mail address available here and that arising from its use.

To send a message to Francisco Vaz da Costa Marques Filhos & C.ª, S.A. using the form on this website, you will need to provide your name, email address and the company you are contacting, as well as identify the subject that leads you to contact Francisco Vaz da Costa Marques Filhos & C.ª, S.A. and enter a message.

3. For what purpose do we collect this data?

The data collected on the form or sent via the available e-mail address will be used exclusively to respond to the contact made or to follow up on the request.

To apply for a job vacancy, you must use the e-mail address [email protected]. Any email sent regarding a job application sent to an address other than [email protected] will be discarded.

4. When do we collect this data?

The data will be requested when you fill in the contact form on the Francisco Vaz da Costa Marques Filhos & C.ª, S.A. website. In addition, the data will be collected as soon as you send an e-mail to the address available on our website.

5. Entities to whom you make your personal data available.

The data is collected and stored by Francisco Vaz da Costa Marques Filhos & C.ª, S.A., which is responsible for processing it. This data will not be disclosed to third parties, except in cases where Francisco Vaz da Costa Marques Filhos & C.ª, S.A. is legally obliged to do so.

In addition, Francisco Vaz da Costa Marques Filhos & C.ª, S.A. may hire other companies to provide it with services whose scope is related, in whole or in part, to the processing of personal data. However, these subcontractors, whether natural or legal (subcontractors), will be carefully selected by Francisco Vaz da Costa Marques Filhos & C.ª, S.A., which will only contract with entities that provide a guarantee of full compliance with the regulations relating to Data Protection and Privacy, and they will always act under the instructions of Francisco Vaz da Costa Marques Filhos & C.ª, S.A., and will not have the autonomy to change any of the commitments with the Data Protection Policy informed herein.

6. Where is this data stored?

The personal data you provide to Francisco Vaz da Costa Marques Filhos & C.ª, S.A. will be stored in the European Economic Area. Should Francisco Vaz da Costa Marques Filhos & C.ª, S.A. store your data outside this area, it will only do so in territories that offer the same type of protection as that required in the European Union. In any case, Francisco Vaz da Costa Marques Filhos & C.ª, S.A. will always be the Data Controller and therefore responsible for guaranteeing the security of your data.

7. Personal data storage period.

Francisco Vaz da Costa Marques Filhos & C.ª, S.A. will keep your data for as long as necessary to fulfil your request, respond to your contact, and/or to provide proof of any transaction originating therein. It may also have to keep the data for a period imposed by law.

After this period, the data will be anonymised or deleted from the database.

8. Security of your personal data.

Francisco Vaz da Costa Marques Filhos & C.ª, S.A. employs appropriate technical, organisational and administrative security measures to protect the data it stores from loss, misuse and/or unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration and destruction.

9. Data Subject Rights.

The user, as the data subject, can always choose not to disclose information, although some of it may be necessary in order to take advantage of some of the resources.

The user, as the data subject, also has the right to request information about their personal data, in order to understand what Francisco Vaz da Costa Marques Filhos & C.ª, S.A. holds or knows about the user, at any time, reasonably and free of charge.

Access, rectification, erasure, objection, restriction of processing or portability of your personal data, under the terms of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), can be requested by sending an e-mail describing your request to [email protected].

Francisco Vaz da Costa Marques Filhos & C.ª, S.A. will analyse the request and respond as soon as possible, but always within no more than 30 days (or 60 if the request is exceptionally complex). Finally, Francisco Vaz da Costa Marques Filhos & C.ª, S.A. reserves the right to use aggregated and de-identified Personal Information in such a way that unequivocal identification of the data subject is not possible.

10. Cookies.

The Francisco Vaz da Costa Marques Filhos & C.ª, S.A. website uses small information files that are stored on your internet access device via your browser. These files are called cookies or connection logs.

These files collect and store data about your browsing experience in order to improve your browsing experience. Only first-party and session cookies are used on this website to improve the functionalities of the website, adapting them to your user preferences and thus improving the browsing experience. You can choose to switch off these cookies in your browser options/settings or by making changes in the tools of antivirus programmes. However, please be aware that this may affect the way you interact with the website and may also prevent you from logging in to certain programmes, sites or forums on our and other networks.

11. External links.

The Francisco Vaz da Costa Marques Filhos & C.ª, S.A. website does not contain links to external locations. Nevertheless, Francisco Vaz da Costa Marques Filhos & C.ª, S.A. reserves the right to introduce such links on this website, in which case Francisco Vaz da Costa Marques Filhos & C.ª, S.A. will have no control over or responsibility for them, since by choosing to click on these links you will leave the Francisco Vaz da Costa Marques Filhos & C.ª, S.A. website and will be subject to the privacy policies and terms of use and conditions imposed by these third parties.