Privacy policy and terms of use

Privacy policy and terms of use

This page explains the privacy policy of Animal Ethics. Here you will find questions regarding your privacy and the protection of your personal data.

 

Principles of this privacy policy

This privacy policy is inspired by these principles and values:

  • Transparency in the progress of the activity: We always seek to be transparent, particularly with respect to the management of personal data.
  • Principle of accountability and governance: Personal data will always be handled with the utmost care, and the security measures used and the lawfulness of the treatment of the data will be reviewed periodically.
  • Principle of data minimization: The personal data collected will always be adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary to be able to perform the legitimate purposes for which the interested party gives his consent: subscribing to content, the contact form and comments.
  • Rejection of strategies that are intrusive for the user: We strongly disassociate ourselves from strategies involving intrusive advertising, and spam, this means that our website is a space that is free from advertising.

 

Lawfulness

The processing of personal data is carried out in accordance with current legislation.

Moreover, the processing of personal data is justified because the interested party has given his consent through clear affirmative action to Animal Ethics, or implicitly when browsing this web site.

Specifically, if you want to support Animal Ethics financially, either through a donation or by means of periodic contributions, this support will always be given voluntarily, but it is necessary that you provide us with your personal data in order to give effect to it.

 

Processing of personal data

The data that we collect will be adequate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary, for the sole purpose of responding to the contact forms and to the comments on this web site. A user who provides his personal information should also be aware that this information will only be passed on to the entities listed below, in order to comply with current regulations.

In the event that it is necessary to transfer your personal data to third parties to offer a new service, we will make sure that we have your consent as an interested party, and that the third parties comply with current regulations. In addition, the relevant update will be carried out to this privacy policy.

You should also be aware that at any time you can exercise your rights set out in current regulations: of access, to rectification, erasure, object, restriction of processing, to data portability and not to be subject to automated individual decision making, including profiling. To do this, you can use the address [email protected]

 

Party responsible for the processing of personal data

The contact information which you will find below refers to the entity responsible for the processing of personal data, whose key information is as follows:

Full name: Animal Ethics, Inc.
EIN: 46-1062870
E-mail: [email protected]

 

Reasons for processing and the data that are processed

The data collected are provided on a voluntary basis, by means of this web site, email, telephone or in person. This information is kept confidential, and its purpose is to inform those who have requested it about the activities of the Foundation, news, and the mailing of the newsletter.

Also, to improve the digital services, including data encryption systems and cookies, the following identifiers will be processed: name, e-mail address and IP address.

 

Data retention

The data will be retained unless a request is received for erasure by the interested party.

 

Data transfer

The management of the Animal Ethics website will be handled partly internally and partly through a contracted service. Therefore, the personal data of the users of the website will be transferred to the following entities:

Hosting. OVH Hispano, S.L., CIF B83834747, address Alcala 21, 5th Floor (28014 Madrid, Spain), and e-mail [email protected]. Its personal data protection policy can be viewed on this website.

Web platform. The transfer of data only applies to the support services provided by WordPress.org

Analysis and cookies. Google Analytics. You can view the privacy policy section on this website.

Marketing online. MailerLite. You can view the privacy policy section on this website.

If the contractual relationship ends and it is necessary to appoint another company to provide this service, we will have the explicit consent of the users, and Animal Ethics will ensure that the company complies with current regulations.

 

Confidentiality

Animal Ethics guarantees that the strictest confidence will be maintained over your personal data, and that they will be not transferred to any entity except those that are necessary, in a fundamental way, for the development of the activity of this web site.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at the following email address: [email protected]

 

Rights acknowledged

Any individual has the right to be properly informed about data protection, and to obtain confirmation about whether or not Animal Ethics is involved in processing his personal data.

Interested parties shall have the right to access the information held by Animal Ethics, including to obtain a copy of the data, as well as the right to correct or erase data when they are not necessary for the purposes for which they were collected, among other reasons, and request any changes.

In certain circumstances, they shall also be able to request the limitation of the processing of their personal data, which will involve their retention exclusively for the exercise or defense of claims. In certain cases, and for reasons related to their individual circumstances, those concerned shall also be able to object to the processing of their personal data. Animal Ethics will cease to process such data, except for lawful and compelling reasons, or the exercise or defense of claims.

Interested parties shall also have the right to the portability of automated personal data held by Animal Ethics, which will be transferred in an accessible format to another person responsible for processing data nominated by the interested party.

 

Do Not Track

Our website does not respond to Do Not Track signals in your browser. You may be able to block cookies via your browser settings.

 

Possibility of claims

If someone wishes, and considers that rights have been violated, the person concerned shall always have the right to file a complaint with the authority responsible for this matter.

 

Children

A child, below the age of 13 requires the consent of his parents or guardians for his personal data to be processed. If you are less than 13 years old, do not supply any personal information to us.

In addition, certain data from children are specifically protected, particularly those that are used to create profiles. In no event shall those under legal age be asked for information about their families’ personal, economic or private activities.

 

Security measures

Finally Animal Ethics advises that it will adopt appropriate technical and administrative measures in its information system to comply with the principle of accountability and governance, in order to guarantee the security and confidentiality of the stored data, thus preventing its alteration, loss, unauthorized access or processing, taking into account the status of technology and the cost of implementation, as well as the nature, scope, context and purposes of the processing, and risks of varying probability and severity in relation to each means of processing. All in accordance with current legislation.

The data supplied are stored on a private server hired from the company OVH Hispano, SL, CIF B83834747, address Alcalá 21, 5th Floor (28014 Madrid, Spain).

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact our organization by writing to: [email protected]

 

Terms of use and intellectual property

All texts included in this website are the property of Animal Ethics. They can be used under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.