Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
I – Privacy and Protection of Personal Data
The privacy and protection of personal data of all Users of the services provided by the Descobertas PT website, at all times, constitute an essential aspect in the way it operates and organizes itself.
The Descobertas PT website aims to ensure that all its Users are aware, at all times, of the rules and principles relating to the protection and processing of personal data, making every possible effort to ensure the security of these same data, in accordance with the standards and procedures defined in the applicable legislation, namely the Personal Data Protection Law (Portuguese Law no. 67/98, 26 October).
In this way, it adopts the best technical and organizational practices to protect Users’ personal data against loss, involuntary or illicit deletion and undue alteration, as well as against integrity failures, unauthorized access or disclosure.
On the Descobertas PT website you can find links to other websites that are not related to you. The provision of such links is made in good faith, and Descobertas PT cannot be held responsible for the collection and processing of personal data carried out on these websites, nor be held responsible for the accuracy, credibility and functionality of websites belonging to third parties. Therefore, the provision of links to other websites outside of Descobertas PT does not imply any assumption of responsibility in relation to them, and this Privacy Policy is therefore not applicable to them.
The Descobertas PT website also recommends that its Users adopt additional security measures, including maintaining equipment and programs properly updated and configured, using protection against malicious software and firewalls and not browsing websites for which they have no the appropriate guarantees of authenticity.
This Privacy Policy may, at any time, be subject to change or revision, with any changes or revisions being duly disclosed and communicated on the Descobertas PT website.
II – What are Personal Data
Personal data is information, of any nature and regardless of its support, including sound and image, relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. A person who can be identified directly and indirectly, namely by reference to an identification number or to one or more specific elements of their physical, physiological, psychological, economic, cultural or social identity, is considered identifiable.
III – Responsible for the Collection and Processing of Personal Data
Descobertas PT is responsible for collecting and processing personal data from the Descobertas PT website, in accordance with paragraph d) of article 3 of Law no. of Customer Services, what personal data is collected, the means of processing the data and the purposes for which it is used.
IV – Responsibility for data communicated to Third Parties
In the exercise of its activity and within the scope of the Services it provides, it may subcontract third parties for the pursuit of the purposes mentioned above and for the development and management of its IT systems, which may imply access by these entities to personal data of its Users. When this happens, Descobertas PT takes the appropriate measures, so that the entities that will have access to the data offer the highest technical, organizational and human guarantees at that level.
Therefore, the Third Parties subcontracted by Revenues do Chef will be obliged, under the legally stipulated terms, as well as by virtue of an agreement signed with the former, to put into practice appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal data against accidental or illicit destruction, dissemination, alteration, disclosure, unauthorized access and against any other form of illicit treatment, as well as being bound by special duties of professional secrecy and confidentiality.
Outside of these cases, Descobertas PT will only transmit its Customers’ personal data to Third Parties when:
a) is obliged to do so by legal provision and only to the strictest extent of its obligations or,
b) in cases where the law expressly allows it, if the Customer expressly and specifically authorizes such transmission and is duly informed, in writing, about the recipients of the personal data and the purposes of the data transmitted.
In any case, Descobertas PT remains responsible for the personal data provided by Users of Descobertas PT, the provision of services may involve the transfer of your personal data outside of Portugal. In such a case, the company declares that it will strictly comply with the determination of the suitability of the country of destination of the information with regard to the protection of personal data and the requirements applicable to such transfers, under the legally stipulated terms.
V – Personal Data Collection Conditions
Descobertas PT only collects and processes the personal data of Descobertas PTUsers with their express consent, in accordance with each of the specific purposes of the processing in question, under the terms set out in the Personal Data Protection Law.
The consent given by Users may be withdrawn at any time, free of charge.
There are, however, personal data that are essential to the provision of services (mandatory data), with Users being duly and previously informed of this same need and the consequences of not making said data available.
If personal data, considered essential, is not provided by Users or proves to be insufficient, incorrect or out of date, Descobertas PT will not be able to provide the subscribed Service(s), Users in this case assuming full and exclusive due to the insufficiency or inaccuracy of the data transmitted.
VI – Personal Data Retention Period
Descobertas PT will only retain personal data for the period of time strictly necessary to allow:
a) the provision of the Service(s);
b) compliance with the legal obligations to which the Chef’s Revenue is bound;
c) the pursuit of the purposes of collection and/or processing;
d) the exercise of Users’ rights and the fulfillment of corresponding obligations. In cases where the National Commission for the Protection of Personal Data (CNPD) authorizes the retention of Users’ personal data for periods longer than the validity of the service provision contract, taking into account the specific purpose of the processing in question, the User will be timely and duly informed of this same purpose and the conservation period in question.
After the expiration of the period of conservation/guardianship, under the terms set out above, the Users’ personal data will be definitively deleted by Descobertas PT.
VII – User Rights regarding their personal data
In accordance with the provisions of the Personal Data Protection Law, the User as holder of personal data is guaranteed, free of charge, the right to access, correct, update and delete their personal data.
In any of the cases set out above, the User may exercise their legitimate rights by sending written communication to the contact form.
VIII – Unsolicited electronic communications for direct marketing purposes
The contact details of Users, who are natural persons, may be used by Descobertas PT in the course of its contractual obligations, if it expressly authorizes it, in direct marketing actions and promotion of services made available by Descobertas PT, under the terms of the provided for in article 13 of Law no. 41/2004, 18 August in the version conferred by Law no. 46/2012, 29 August.
In the case of a User of Descobertas PT who is a legal person, Descobertas PT may send unsolicited communications for direct marketing purposes relating to goods and services provided by itself or by a company within the same Group, unless the User expressly refuses the future receipt of this type of communications and register on the national list of legal entities that expressly oppose the receipt of unsolicited communications for direct marketing purposes, which the General Consumer Directorate (DGC) is responsible for keeping updated.
In any of the cases referred to above, the User will have the right to expressly and free of charge, via contact form, object to the sending by Descobertas PT of electronic communications for direct marketing purposes, the User will thus be able to exercise their legitimate rights rights by sending written communication to the contact form.