False Friends English-Spanish Dictionary data protection
and privacy policy
Hello! Your privacy is important to us, which is why we consider it important that you read the following information carefully before you enter your personal details on our website. We hope you like reading, because it will take a while to get through it all.
In accordance with Act 34/2002 of 11 July on Information Society and Electronic Commercial Services (LSSI CE), please note the following information about the company that owns this website:
Owner:
- Company name: Lourdes de Rioja Marrero
- Registered name: English-Spanish False Friends Dictionary
- Registered office: Ctra. Gral Sur 48, Guimar, 38500, Tenerife, Canarias, Spain
- Contact: www.falsefriends.org/contact
You may contact the False Friends English-Spanish Dictionary directly in relation to this privacy policy.
- Register of processing operations in accordance with the General Register of Data Protection: clients/suppliers, website user and mailing lists
- Domain name (website): falsefriends.org
By accessing this website, you acquire the status of user and therefore commit to the strict observance and fulfilment of the terms of this document and any other applicable legal regulation.
The False Friends English-Spanish Dictionary reserves the right to amend any information that may appear on the website and has no obligation to notify in advance or inform users, with publication on the website being understood to constitute sufficient notice.
Data protection
The False Friends English-Spanish Dictionary team ensures compliance with Spanish personal data protection legislation and undertakes to comply fully with the provisions set out therein, as well as to apply the security measures set out in article 9 of Act 15/1999 on the Protection of Personal Data (LOPD) and the Implementing Regulation for compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679.
The purpose of the www.falsefriends.org website is to offer an English-Spanish dictionary that provides the most precise translation possible.
Why do we process your personal data?
- To send you the information you have requested via the form available on the website.
- To send bulletins and/or newsletters.
Please note that you can refuse such communications at any time, either by sending an e-mail to the aforementioned address or by unsubscribing directly using the option available in any of our e-mail communications.
How long will we keep personal data for?
We will keep the data until you ask us to delete them.
What data do we collect?
Personal data collected via our website are identification data, which under no circumstances can be considered special data categories or data related to criminal offences or convictions.
In other words, the form fields on the False Friends English-Spanish Dictionary website that are mandatory are essential in order to be able to respond to your request.
Please see below which of your personal user data we collect and how we use them.
- Data collected from the “leave a comment” form on the blog. If you decide to leave a comment on any of the blog articles, we collect your name, e-mail address and website.
- Data collected from contact forms. If you wish to contact the False Friends English-Spanish Dictionary, we collect your name and surname, your e-mail address, your city and your country of residence.
- User liability. By providing the requested information, you expressly state that you are doing so legitimately and you undertake to provide comprehensive, accurate and truthful information, failing which you are liable for breaching such obligation.
You can change the information provided by sending an e-mail to the aforementioned address or via one of the means available.
What are the purposes and legitimate interest (legal basis) of the processing of these personal data?
The False Friends English-Spanish Dictionary will process the personal data collected for the following purposes and legitimate interest (legal basis for data processing):
- Segmentation for commercial purposes. Segmentation consists of establishing user profiles for the sending of requested information in the most personalised manner possible in accordance with the interests that such users have indicated.
Likewise, if you have consented to the sending of commercial communications, such segmentation will ensure that these are in accordance with your interests as expressed while browsing.
Under no circumstances will the establishment of such profiles entail the adoption of individual automated decisions that produce legal effects concerning the individual or significantly affect them in a similar way.
The legal basis for such processing is the legitimate interest of the False Friends English-Spanish Dictionary in direct marketing. We remind you that you have the option to oppose such segmentation processing for commercial purposes at any time. - Sending commercial communications: if you have not contracted any of the products and/or services of the False Friends English-Spanish Dictionary, we will process your data in order to send you commercial communications or contact you by telephone to offer our products and/or services as long as we have your freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous consent, such consent constituting the legal basis for such processing. In any case, you may withdraw your consent and/or oppose the sending of commercial communications at any time.
- Leaving comments on the blog. To moderate and publish your comment on the blog with your name. Under no circumstances will your e-mail address or website address be published.
The legal basis is the legitimate interest of the False Friends English-Spanish Dictionary to deal with your request to publish a comment. - If you use any contact form or send an e-mail. To send you the information you require, on the legal basis of the legitimate interest of the False Friends English-Spanish Dictionary to respond to your request for information.
How will we obtain and process the data?
The False Friends English-Spanish Dictionary has the obligation to inform its website users about the possible collection of personal data when they send an e-mail or fill in forms on the website. In this regard, the False Friends English-Spanish Dictionary will be deemed to be responsible for the data collected by the aforementioned means.
Likewise, the False Friends English-Spanish Dictionary informs users that the purpose of the processing of the data collected is to deal with requests made by users, add them to contact lists, provide services and manage the commercial relationship. The operations, management and technical procedures carried out in an automated or non-automated fashion and which allow for the collection, storage, modification, transfer and other actions concerning personal data are considered to be personal data processing.
The False Friends English-Spanish Dictionary makes available to users a series of remote mechanisms for the collection and processing of their personal data for the purposes set out above. Personal data provided remotely, either through e-mail or the contact forms on this website, shall be used for the commercial and administrative management of company clients and users. These data shall be processed by way of servers managed by the data processing controller, as set out above.
E-mail and name data shall be stored in a database for the sending of commercial
communications and to manage subscriptions to services requested by the client or user, managed through the servers of False Friends, which will also be considered to be the data processing controller.
As a user, you may unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the link featured in our
communications or sending a request exercising your right to the data processing controller or to the False Friends English-Spanish Dictionary.
As set out in the LSSICE, the False Friends English-Spanish Dictionary undertakes not to send commercial communications without identifying them as such. In this regard, the information sent to clients to maintain the existing contractual relationship shall not be considered to be commercial communication.
In any case, only those data necessary to be able to carry out the contracted service or to respond appropriately to the request for information made by the user shall be obtained.
Who are the recipients of these data?
We guarantee that these data shall not be disclosed to any third party unrelated to the False Friends English-Spanish Dictionary unless there is a legal obligation to do so or we have your freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous consent for such purpose.
Nevertheless, some of the tools we use on the website to provide this service and carry out our activity are provided by the following service providers, which undertook to comply with the regulatory provisions regarding data protection when they were contracted.
We also remind you that, as a user, you can always oppose the transfer of your data to data processing controllers by sending a request in writing using any of the means previously mentioned.
Accuracy of the data
Very important: as users, you declare that all of the data you provide on our website are true and correct and you undertake to keep them up to date, informing the False Friends English-Spanish Dictionary about any modification thereof.
As users, you are answerable for the accuracy of your data and you will be solely liable for any conflicts or disputes that may arise if these are false.
So that we can keep personal data up to date, it is important that users inform the False Friends English-Spanish Dictionary about any modifications to these. If not, we cannot be liable for their accuracy.
Exercise of rights
The LOPD and GDPR give individuals the possibility to exercise a series of rights related to the processing of their personal data. Insofar as user data are subject to processing by the False Friends English-Spanish Dictionary, users may exercise their rights. In order to do so, they must provide proof of identity (ID card or passport) and submit written communication here. Such communication must include the following information: user’s name and surname, the request, address and supporting documents.
In principle, the users themselves must exercise their rights. Nevertheless, this may be done by a person appointed by the user as their legal representative. In such case, documentation proving representation of the individual must be provided.
Rights
As an individual who has provided their personal data, you may exercise the following rights recognised expressly by data protection legislation in accordance with the provisions of such legislation:
- Right of ACCESS to your personal data.
- Right to request the CORRECTION of incorrect data.
- Right to request the ERASURE of your data when such data are no longer necessary for the purpose for which they were collected, inter alia.
- In certain circumstances, you may request the RESTRICTION OF PROCESSING of your data, in which case we will store them only for the exercise or defence of legal claims.
- In certain circumstances and for reasons related to your specific circumstances, you may exercise your right to OBJECT TO the processing of your data. We will no longer process your data, except on compelling legitimate grounds, or for the exercise or defence of possible legal claims.
- In certain circumstances and for reasons related to your specific circumstances, you may exercise your right to data PORTABILITY. This right is supplementary to the right of access, as it gives individuals the right to obtain data that they have provided in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format so that it can be sent directly to another controller upon the request of the individual.
You may exercise the aforementioned rights upon request by any means that leaves a record of sending and receipt, setting out clearly your wish to do so and, where appropriate, attaching a copy of your identity document and/or any other proof of identity and sending it to the e-mail address provided above or the postal address of the person in charge of processing the data, also indicated above.
Furthermore, should you consider that any of your rights as an individual has been breached, you may lodge a complaint with the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD), at C/ Jorge Juan, 6, 28001 Madrid, Agencia Española de Protección de Datos or via the AEPD website.
Security and updating your personal data
In order to safeguard the security of your personal data, please note that we have adopted all of the technical and organisational measures necessary to guarantee the security of the personal data provided with a view to avoiding alteration, loss and/or unauthorised processing or access in accordance with the legislation, although absolute security does not exist.
For this reason, so that we can keep your personal data up to date, it is important that you inform us of any changes to such data.
If you do not provide your data or you provide incorrect or incomplete data, we will be unable to deal with your request and therefore it will be impossible to provide the requested information.
Confidentiality
Please also note that your data will be processed with the utmost confidentiality by all those involved in all of the processing phases.
Validity of this data protection and privacy policy
This data protection and privacy policy may vary depending on the changes in the legislation and case law, and it is the responsibility of the owner of the data to read the updated documentation in order to find out about their rights and responsibilities at all times.