Privacy Policy

The OWNER of the website is committed to protecting the privacy of users who access this website and/or any of its services. The use of the website and/or any of the services offered by the OWNER implies the user’s acceptance of the provisions contained in this Privacy Policy.

Please note that although there may be links from our website to other websites, this Privacy Policy does not apply to the websites of other companies or organizations to which the website may redirect. The OWNER does not control the content of third-party sites nor accepts any responsibility for the content or privacy policies of these sites, as indicated in our Legal Notice.

In compliance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of April 27, 2016 (GDPR), and Organic Law 3/2018, of December 5, on Personal Data Protection and guarantee of digital rights (LOPDGDD), we offer you the following information about the processing of your personal data:

Who is the Data Controller of your data?

The Data Controller of your data is Jordi Barros Maltas, with National ID (DNI) 38800878Q and domiciled at C/ Partida Malgovern, 68-CP 25192 in the town of Lleida. The data is included in the Legal Notice of this website.

Principles that Jordi Barros Maltas will apply to the personal information of Data Subjects

  • Principle of lawfulness, fairness, and transparency: I will always require your consent for the processing of your personal data for one or more specific purposes that I will inform you of beforehand with absolute transparency.
  • Principle of data minimization: I will only request strictly necessary data in relation to the purposes for which I require them. The minimum possible.
  • Principle of storage limitation: The data will be kept for no longer than is necessary for the purposes of the processing. Depending on the purpose, I will inform you of the corresponding retention period. In the case of subscriptions, I will periodically review my lists and delete inactive records for a considerable time.
  • Principle of integrity and confidentiality: Your data will be processed in such a way as to ensure adequate security of personal data and confidentiality. You should know that I take all necessary precautions to prevent unauthorized access or misuse of my users’ data by third parties.

What data do we process?

  • User account creation in order to access the Private Area for our online courses, and sending contact or additional information requests: identification data (name and surname, date of birth, identification document [you may provide us with a copy of your government-issued identification document to help us verify that you are who you claim to be, when such identification is required for the provision or management related to our Services]).
  • Academic data (training/qualifications, student history).
  • Financial data (bank details of your card, used for billing if you enroll in our training courses).
  • Registrations and cancellations (transaction data of goods and services received by the data subject).
  • Preferences or opinions about our service: we may send surveys and promotions for marketing purposes. When you decide to participate, you provide us with information to process your registration and participation, as well as your answers to our questions and your comments.
  • Any other data necessary for the proper execution of the relationship between the User and Jordi Barros Maltas.

The refusal by the Data Subject to provide us with certain data could hinder the development of the relationship between them and Jordi Barros Maltas, affecting the provision of services. If the Data Subject has any questions regarding this section, they should contact Jordi Barros Maltas at the address provided in the “Data Controller” section.

How did we obtain your data?

The data processed by Jordi Barros Maltas comes from the Data Subject themselves. On the Website, there are different information capture systems through data collection forms:

  • Contact form.
  • Newsletter subscription form.
  • Service request form.
  • Information request forms (about services, products, etc.).
  • User registration form.

To this end, the User guarantees that the data provided is true and undertakes to provide truthful information, prohibiting the use of aliases or means to hide their identity, except in cases where the form expressly requests the creation of a username, nick or alias. For the information provided to be always updated and free of errors, the User must communicate to Jordi Barros Maltas, as soon as possible, any modifications and rectifications of their personal data that occur through the modification of their registration data in their private area. Likewise, by clicking on the “I Accept” (or equivalent) button incorporated in the aforementioned forms, the User declares that the information and data provided therein are accurate and truthful.

For what purpose do we process your personal data?

With the consent of the Data Subject or in accordance with the legitimate interests of Jordi Barros Maltas, we will use the Data Subject’s data to carry out some of the following actions based on the respective legal basis:

  • Answer calls, emails or queries from our Users to respond to questions, complaints, comments, information requests or concerns they may have related to the information included on the Website, the products sold through the Website, the processing of their personal data, questions regarding the legal texts included on the Website, information about our distribution network, etc..
  • Ensure compliance with the terms of use and applicable law. This may include the development of tools and algorithms that help this website ensure the confidentiality of the personal data it collects.
  • Manage the registration, maintenance, modification or cancellation of User accounts/profiles in our Private Area for students.
  • Carry out the execution and management of the services used by our Users through the channels established for this purpose.
  • Send satisfaction or opinion surveys regarding the Services received.
  • Carry out advertising and marketing campaigns, sending commercial information and communication regarding contracted services and keeping you informed about new training relevant to your interests regarding products and/or services from Jordi Barros Maltas.
  • Offer discounts and promotions.
  • To manage social media. Jordi Barros Maltas may have a presence on social media. The processing of data of people who become followers of Jordi Barros Maltas’ official pages on social media will be governed by the terms of use, privacy policies, and access regulations belonging to the respective social network in each case and previously accepted by the user. In no case will social media follower profiles be used to send individual advertising.
  • Manage any claims or complaints submitted to Jordi Barros Maltas.

What is the legal basis for the processing of your data?

The legal basis for the processing of your data for the purposes described above is the User’s consent, freely given at the time of registration (Art. 6.1.a) of the GDPR). As a legal basis, there is also the possibility that the processing of the provided data is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the User is party or for the application of pre-contractual measures at their request (Art. 6.1.b) of the GDPR) ; for compliance with a legal obligation applicable to the Data Controller (Art. 6.1.c) GDPR) ; for the legitimate interest of GIMANS (Art. 6.1.f) GDPR) related to the improvement of its service or the security of its Users, among others ; or for compliance with other legal provisions applicable to the relationship between Users and Jordi Barros Maltas.

Data of minors

The services offered on this website are restricted to individuals who are at least 18 years old. If the User is under 18 years old, they should not register as a User or contract the services available on our website.

How long will we retain your data?

The personal data provided by the User will be kept as long as the contract between the User and Jordi Barros Maltas is in force. At the moment of its termination or the management of its cancellation or the closing of your User account/profile, we will keep your data blocked until the expiration of the limitation period for obligations that may arise for Jordi Barros Maltas.

In the event that you have consented to its processing, until the User requests its deletion, at which point it will be blocked until the applicable limitation periods expire. After one year of inactivity in your User account, it will be deleted. User data will be kept for one more year before being definitively destroyed or irreversibly anonymized. An account is considered inactive when the User has not used our Services during the indicated period.

We will retain data based on our legitimate interest when there is a pending or potential matter, claim or litigation that requires us to retain the data (in particular if we receive a valid subpoena or legal request asking us to retain the data, in which case we would need to retain it to comply with our legal obligations, or if the data were otherwise necessary in the context of legal proceedings).

To which recipients will your data be communicated?

Jordi Barros Maltas will only share or provide your data to third parties to the extent necessary and permitted or required in accordance with current regulations. In this regard, your data may be communicated to the following recipients:

  • Public Administrations (Tax Agency, Social Security, Municipalities, Generalitat, Provincial Councils), Security Forces and Bodies and Courts, when so established by an applicable legal provision (to comply with a legal process, such as a court order, subpoena or search warrant, a government/law enforcement investigation or other legal requirements; to assist in crime prevention or detection; to protect the safety of any person; and to establish, exercise or defend legal claims).
  • Providers that provide services to Jordi Barros Maltas related to the management of this website or the management and provision of services contracted by Users and who act as data processors, such as, but not limited to, technology service providers, customer service providers, teachers, lawyers or management agencies or legal or natural entities linked to Jordi Barros Maltas in any way.
  • Providers and collaborators who provide services related to marketing and advertising, only if the User has given their express consent.
  • Merger or acquisition. Jordi Barros Maltas may transfer your data if it is involved, in whole or in part, in a merger, sale, acquisition, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, bankruptcy or other change in ownership or control of its business.

In any case, third parties with whom certain personal data of the Data Subject are shared will have previously accredited the adoption of appropriate measures for the correct protection of such data.

International Data Transfers

The personal data of Users processed through our website is hosted on servers located in the European Union. If at any time Jordi Barros Maltas were to host your data outside the European Economic Area or in countries that have not been declared to have an adequate level of protection, we would ensure that the security and legitimacy of the processing of your data is guaranteed, confirming that such transmissions are carried out under conditions that allow guaranteeing the confidentiality of the data, as well as an adequate level of protection in compliance with current regulations, through the application of standard contractual clauses of the European Commission.

What are your rights when you provide us with your data?

Any person has the right to obtain confirmation as to whether or not we are processing personal data concerning them. Interested persons have the right to access their personal data, as well as to request the rectification of inaccurate data or, where appropriate, request its deletion when, among other reasons, the data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected.

In certain cases, the Data Subject will have the right to request the limitation of the processing of their data, in which case we will only retain them for the exercise or defense of claims. In certain circumstances and for reasons related to their particular situation, data subjects may object to the processing of their data. In such a case, Jordi Barros Maltas will stop processing the data, except for compelling legitimate reasons or the exercise or defense of possible claims.

In any of the above cases, Jordi Barros Maltas will communicate any rectification or deletion of personal data, as well as any limitation of processing carried out to each of the recipients to whom the personal data has been communicated, unless this is impossible or requires disproportionate effort. If the Data Subject so requests, Jordi Barros Maltas will inform them about said recipients.

Likewise, the Data Subject will have the right to receive the personal data concerning them, which they have provided to Jordi Barros Maltas, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and to transmit them to another controller when the processing is based on consent or a contract and is carried out by automated means.

The Data Subject will have the right to object at any time, for reasons related to their particular situation, to personal data concerning them being subject to processing based on public interest or legitimate interest by Jordi Barros Maltas or a third party, including profiling, so that Jordi Barros Maltas stops processing the personal data, unless they can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override the interests, rights and freedoms of the Data Subject, or for the formulation, exercise or defense of claims.

Likewise, the Data Subject will have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning them or significantly affects them, unless this decision is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract with Jordi Barros Maltas and is authorized by current European or national law or is based on the explicit consent of the Data Subject.

Finally, the data subject will have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authorities.

How can you exercise your rights?

The aforementioned rights of access, rectification, deletion, opposition, portability and limitation, as well as not to be subject to automated individual decisions, may be exercised by sending a written request with an attached copy of your ID to the following email address: kokimaltas@learnspanishelcurso.com.

IP Addresses

The website servers may automatically detect the IP address and domain name used by Users. An IP address is a number automatically assigned to a computer when it connects to the Internet. All this information is recorded in a server activity file that allows the processing of data for the purpose of obtaining statistical results that allow knowing the number of visits to the website, the order of these visits, the access points, etc..

Security

This Website uses information security techniques such as firewalls, access control procedures and cryptographic mechanisms. All these security systems are used with the aim of preventing unauthorized access to the data processed through the Website. All data that must be entered through the channels enabled for this purpose on the Website will be transmitted using a secure communication protocol (https://...) so that no third party has access to said information.

Do we use cookies?

We use cookies during navigation on our website with the informed consent of the User. The User can configure their browser to be warned about the use of cookies and to prevent their use. For more information, visit our Cookies Policy.

Modifications to our Privacy Policy

Jordi Barros Maltas reserves the right to update, modify and correct its Privacy Policy. Please check this section regularly to consult any changes that may exist and how they may affect you.