Privacy Policy

1. VISOPARTS Commitment

Visoparts - Acessórios Para Semi-trailerques, Lda (hereinafter VISOPARTS), in the context of its duties, processes personal data, intending to ensure with accuracy, effectiveness and security the protection of all data that daily collects and processes.

Please read this Privacy Policy which describes how we treat your personal data and how you can exercise your rights as the holder of personal data processed by VISOPARTS.

2. The controller and the Data Protection Officer

Within the scope of its activities and tasks, VISOPARTS is the entity responsible for the collection and processing of personal data, which are processed and stored in an automated and non-automated way.

VISOPARTS has a Data Protection Officer (or Data Protection Officer), who can be contacted by e-mail at epd@visoparts.com.

The Data Protection Officer shall, in particular, monitor the compliance of the activities involving the processing of his or her data with the applicable legal and regulatory standards and shall be the contact point between VISOPARTS and the National Supervisory Authority, as well as between VISOPARTS and its customers and users in matters relating to the processing of personal data.

3. Personal data, holders of personal data and categories of personal data

What is personal data?

Personal data is all information of any nature, collected on any medium, relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. The set of information which may lead to the identification of a particular person is identifiable, in particular by reference to an identifier (such as the tax identification number or the telephone number).

From whom do we collect personal data?

Due to VISOPARTS' duties, the majority of data are processed from legal persons (companies and associations). However, for the performance of its tasks, data of the following types of natural persons (non-exhaustive list) may be collected and processed:

Employees of VISOPARTS;
Employees of clients;
Employees of Suppliers and Service Providers;
Job applicants and trainees;
Participants in events promoted by VISOPARTS;
Visitors to the VISOPARTS facilities.

What personal data do we process and how do we collect it?

VISOPARTS only collects data that is appropriate, relevant and limited to what is necessary for the purposes for which they are processed.

The collection of your data can be done orally, in writing (including through forms and contracts), as well as through the VISOPARTS website. As a general rule, we directly collect your data and personal data may also be collected through public sources (such as Internet sites and official public lists).

For the execution of different purposes, we may collect the following types of personal data:

identification data (such as name, place of birth, citizen’s card or date of birth);
contact details (such as mobile phone, address or e-mail);
educational and professional status data (such as level of education and CV);
bank, financial and transaction data (such as IBAN or tax identification number);
location data (such as IP address);
footage of event recording or video conferencing;
images taken through video surveillance systems.

As a rule, VISOPARTS does not collect special data, such as health data or data relating to criminal offences. 4. Grounds and Purposes of the Processing of Personal Data

4. Fundamentals and Purposes of the Processing of Personal Data

Why and on what basis do we use your personal data?

All data collected and processed by VISOPARTS are based on one of the following conditions of legitimacy

Consent: When the collection is preceded by your express, specific and informed consent, through written support or via the web. We collect your consent, for example, for purposes related to commercial contact, subscription of newsletters or registration in actions promoted by VISOPARTS.
A Performance of contract or pre-contractual diligence: when processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which it is party or for pre-contractual diligence. This condition will be met when we process your data for the purposes of service contracts.
Compliance with legal obligations: when processing is necessary for the fulfilment of a legal obligation. This includes, for example, the communication of data to public (national and Community) or tax or judicial bodies.
The public interest: when processing is necessary for the performance of tasks in the public interest.
Legitimate interest: when processing is necessary for the pursuit of legitimate interests of the controller or of third parties, without prejudice to the rights and freedoms of its customers and/or users. This includes all treatments resulting from assignments conferred by law.

What are the purposes for which we collect your data?

Personal data collected by VISOPARTS are processed only for specific, explicit and legitimate purposes. Where personal data are collected, they are intended exclusively for the purposes expressly identified at the time of collection. We list here the main purposes that justify the collection of personal data by VISOPARTS

Management of events promoted by VISOPARTS;
Contracting for supply and service contracts;
Dissemination of newsletters / publications;
Physical Security of Facilities and Personnel.

5. Period of retention of personal data

VISOPARTS processes and stores your data only for such period as is necessary for the continuation or completion of the purposes for which the processing is intended, in compliance with the maximum time limits necessary to comply with contractual, legal or regulatory obligations.

As a general rule, and when there is a contract that legitimizes the processing of your data, VISOPARTS will maintain such data as long as such contractual relationship is maintained. Other circumstances exist, such as compliance with legal or regulatory obligations (for example, for the purpose of fulfilling tax obligations, personal data relating to invoicing should be kept for a maximum period of 10 years from the practice of the act)as well as pending legal proceedings, which may legitimise that your data is stored for a longer period of time.

At the end of the retention period, VISOPARTS will proceed to the deletion of these data.

6. Rights of data subjects

Nos termos da legislação em vigor, a partir do momento em que recolhemos e tratamos os seus dados, existe um conjunto de direitos que, a qualquer momento, poderá exercer junto da VISOPARTS.

Quais os seus direitos?

Right of access: right to obtain information regarding the processing of your data and its characteristics (in particular the type of data, the purpose of the processing, to whom their data may be communicated, time limits for storage and which data they must provide, or on a voluntary basis).

Right of rectification: right that allows you to request the rectification of your data, requiring that these are accurate and current, for example, when you consider that they are incomplete or outdated.

Right to data deletion or "Right to be forgotten": right that allows you to request the deletion of your data, when you believe that there are no valid grounds for data retention and provided that there is no other valid basis for such processing (such as the performance of a contract or the fulfilment of a legal or regulatory obligation).

Right to Limitation: Right that allows you to suspend the processing or to limit the processing to certain categories of data or purposes.

Right to Portability: right through which you can request the sending of your data, in digital format and commonly used, that allows the reuse of such data. Alternatively, you may request the transmission of your data to another entity that becomes responsible for the processing of your data.

Right of Opposition: the right that allows it to oppose certain purposes and provided that there are no legitimate interests that prevail over its interests. One example of this right concerns opposition to direct marketing (marketing) purposes.

Right to Withdraw Consent: a right that allows you to withdraw your consent, but which can only be exercised when your consent is the only condition of legitimacy.

How can you exercise your rights?

All the rights described above may be exercised, with the limitations provided in the applicable legislation, upon written request, to be sent through the email protecao.dados@visoparts.com.

You can also send questions related to the processing of your data, directly to the Data Protection Officer, through the email epd@visoparts.com.

It may also lodge any complaint with the National Supervisory Authority.

7. Transmission of data

Who do we share your personal data with?

Taking into account the duties of VISOPARTS, and depending on its purpose, your data may be shared with third parties, including national and international public bodies and private entities for the purpose of complying with legal or regulatory, contractual or public interest obligations.

Your data may also be accessed by VISOPARTS service providers, which are deemed necessary for the execution of the above purposes, in particular as regards information security and archiving services. VISOPARTS ensures that it uses only service providers who provide the necessary and appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data.

Transfers of personal data outside the EEA

VISOPARTS may exceptionally transfer your personal data to third countries (outside the EEA - European Economic Area).

In such cases, VISOPARTS will ensure that data transfers are carried out in strict compliance with applicable legal standard.

8. Policy on Cookies

What are cookies

Cookies are small text files with relevant information that is downloaded by your access device (computer, mobile phone/smartphone or tablet), via the internet browser (browser), when a website is visited by the user, used to store information on user visits.

Cookies, depending on how long the user stays on the page, can be classified as session or permanent cookies. The first type of cookies expires when you close your browser. The second type of cookies expires when your goal has been completed or when they are turned off manually.

The cookies used by VISOPARTS on the visoparts.com website do not collect personal information that allows identifying the user.

The cookies used on the site visoparts.com are:

Analytics - collect information about users' browsing experience on the website, anonymously, but sometimes also allow a user to be identified, uniquely and unequivocally to obtain information about your interests in the services provided by the website.
Advertising - active persistently but for a limited period in order to collect user information about browsing habits on the Internet so that the advertising viewed by it matches their needs and interests.
Third-party - allow the site to remember browsing preferences, language, region and collect information from users to target advertising to their interests.

The site visoparts.com uses cookies to collect statistical information in order to analyze the operation of the site and the browsing experience of users, and to evaluate the effectiveness of advertising and promotional campaigns.

Disabling the use of cookies

All browsers allow you to accept, refuse or delete cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. Thus, users can disable the use of cookies on the site visoparts.com at any time by modifying their browser settings.

However, it is important to note that disabling cookies may prevent some web services from functioning properly, affecting all or part of browsing.

9. Legislation

The processing of personal data of users and customers carried out by VISOPARTS and the sending of commercial communications by electronic means are in accordance with the national and Community legislation in force, in particular by the General Data Protection Regulation.

Last updated: May 23, 2018