Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used and shared when visiting or shopping at https://www.shop.biota.pt.
1. Who is responsible for processing your data?
The person responsible for processing your personal data is A BIOTA - ESTUDOS E DIVULGAÇÃO EM AMBIENTE LDA, (hereinafter referred to as “BIOTA”), with NIF 508342961, and is located at : ABC-Apoio de Base à Criatividade -Convento de São Miguel das Gaeiras - 2510-718 Gaeiras - P ortugal.
We inform you that this Website (hereinafter, the “Webiste”) is owned by BIOTA.
Accessing and/or using the Website assigns you the status of User (hereinafter, the “User”), and implies acceptance, from that access and/or use, of this Privacy Policy.
The User may contact BIOTA via the following email address: info@biota.pt
2. Why is BIOTA authorized to carry out data processing?
BIOTA is authorized to process your data in order to provide its services.
Likewise, BIOTA is entitled to process your data based on the consent requested from the User or on a legitimate interest if applicable.
BIOTA takes the protection of your privacy and personal data very seriously. Therefore, your personal information remains secure and is treated with the utmost care.
This Privacy Policy regulates access and/or use of the service (hereinafter, the “Service”) that BIOTA makes available to the User interested in its services.
In this sense, the legitimation bases used by BIOTA for the processing of User data are:
(i) Contractual execution.
(ii) Users' consent to the processing of their personal data for the purposes specified in each case.
(iii) Legitimate interest, if applicable.
3. What are the purposes of processing your personal data by BIOTA?
Your personal data collected by BIOTA may be used for the following purposes, in accordance with the consent granted in the corresponding registration form:
3.1 The provision of BIOTA services
To provide the service requested by the User, BIOTA will need to process the personal data obtained from the information that the User provides to BIOTA.
We inform you that BIOTA is proactive in protecting your privacy and personal data and, specifically, specially protected data related to your health.
3.2 Sending commercial communications and/or Newsletters by BIOTA
If the User has consented, their personal data may be used to send them, by letter, telephone, email, SMS/MMS, or other equivalent means of electronic communication, commercial communications or information from BIOTA.
4. Veracity of data provided by Users and data of minors
The User guarantees that the personal data provided is true and is responsible for communicating any changes to them to BIOTA. The User will respond, in any case, to the veracity of the data provided, with BIOTA reserving the right to exclude from the registered Services any User who has provided false data, without prejudice to other actions arising from the Law.
5. Data retention
The personal data provided will be kept by BIOTA as long as the User does not express an interest in canceling the subscription to BIOTA services, and this in order to receive information about the company's services. Subsequently, if necessary, BIOTA will keep the information blocked within the legally established deadlines.
6. User rights in relation to your data
The User has the right to:
(i) Access your personal data.
(ii) Request the rectification of any inaccurate data.
(iii) Request the deletion of your data.
(iv) Request that the processing of your data be limited.
(v) Object to the processing of your data.
(vi) Request portability of your data.
(vii) Likewise, the User will have the right not to be subject to decisions based solely on automated data processing.
The User can exercise all their rights through the following email address: info@biota.pt, indicating the reason for their request.
7. Data security
The protection of Users' privacy and personal data is very important to BIOTA. Therefore, BIOTA does everything in its power to prevent your data from being used inappropriately, allowing access to it only to authorized personnel.
BIOTA maintains personal data protection security levels in accordance with applicable regulations and has established all technical means within its reach to prevent the loss, misuse, alteration, unauthorized access and theft of data that the User provides through the Website without prejudice to informing you that internet security measures are not impregnable.
BIOTA undertakes to comply with the duty of secrecy and confidentiality regarding personal data in accordance with applicable legislation, as well as to grant them secure treatment in the international assignments and transfers of data that, if applicable, may occur .
For Website services where you need to register as a User, you must choose a password. The User is responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of this password, as well as all activities that occur in the section starting with their name and password.
The User undertakes to notify BIOTA as soon as possible of the unauthorized use of their User name and/or password or any other security breach. BIOTA will not be responsible for damages or losses that may arise due to the User’s failure to comply with this obligation.
8. Changes
BIOTA reserves the right to review its Privacy Policy at any time it deems appropriate. For this reason, we ask that you regularly check this Privacy Policy to read the most recent version of it.
However, any changes to this Privacy Policy will be communicated to the User.
9.- Links to web pages
The BIOTA Website may contain links to websites of third-party companies and entities. BIOTA cannot be held responsible for the way in which these companies treat the protection of privacy and personal data, so we advise you to carefully read the Privacy Policy statements of these web pages that are not owned by BIOTA with regard to use, processing and protection of personal data.
The conditions offered by these web pages may not be the same as those offered by BIOTA.
10. Questions
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the processing of your data, we ask you to contact BIOTA via email: info@biota.pt.
11. Acceptance and Consent
The User declares to have been informed of the conditions on the protection of personal data, accepting and consenting to the processing of these by BIOTA, in the manner and for the purposes indicated in this Privacy Policy.
