The data provided by users will be incorporated into MATER’s computerized files. We are responsible for their computerized processing and confidentiality based on the following rules:

FIRST: The data collected on this website will be used for the purpose, in the manner, and with the limitations and rights set out in Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data.

SECOND: MATER has adopted the necessary technical and organizational measures to ensure the security and integrity of the data, as well as to prevent their alteration, loss, or unauthorized processing or access.

THIRD: Users who provide personal data consent to their processing—computerized or otherwise—so that they may be used by MATER for commercial purposes of personalization, operations, and statistics, and for activities related to its corporate purpose, expressly authorizing MATER to extract and store data and carry out marketing studies in order to tailor its offers to each user profile. MATER will provide the necessary data to the corresponding provider when the USER contracts a service provided by such provider. MATER may retain your data once the relationship with the user has ended in order to comply with legal obligations.

FOURTH: If the data collected are used for a purpose different from that for which they were obtained, prior consent from the data subjects will be required.

FIFTH: The user gives consent and authorizes MATER to provide such data to official bodies that require them in accordance with the laws of each of the countries in which we operate.

In accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 (hereinafter, GDPR), MATER informs you that the data obtained through this form or contract will be included in an automated file named BEZEROAK, registered with the Spanish Data Protection Agency under registration number 2131840998, whose Data Controller is MATER, c/San Juan, 118, 20110 Pasaia (Gipuzkoa), Tax ID G20762522.

You expressly consent to the processing of this data for the purpose of sending you information by any means about our products, services, offers, or special promotions, for which we may create user profiles to provide personalized offers. In accordance with the GDPR, you may exercise your rights of access, rectification, erasure, and objection free of charge by writing to the address indicated above.

BASIC PRINCIPLES GOVERNING OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Confidentiality

All data provided by email or electronic forms will be treated in accordance with current regulations on the protection of personal data and will in all cases be confidential for MATER staff who handle such information, as established in the confidentiality agreements our organization signs with its employees.

Information About the Voluntary Nature of Providing Data and Its Consequences

Voluntariness

Users of the websites are informed that responses to questions asked in the data collection forms on this website are voluntary; however, refusal to provide the requested data may make it impossible to access services that require them.

Consequence

By completing the forms included on the various websites relating to services provided by MATER, Users accept the inclusion and processing of the data they provide in a personal data file owned by MATER, and may exercise the relevant rights as indicated in the following clause.

Likewise, if a User does not wish to receive information by email or any other means, they may notify MATER by any means that provides proof of receipt, at the address indicated.

Information on the Data We Keep

The data we keep are those collected in the website forms—basic contact data such as name, surname, email, telephone, etc. This information is received by MATER and is never sold, transferred, or leased to other companies, except where necessary to provide the service. We may occasionally collect browsing data, such as IP addresses.

How long we keep data

Data collected for delivering our newsletter: From the time of subscription until the user requests cancellation of the service by sending an email.

User data uploaded to pages and social networks: From the time the user gives consent until they inform us of their wish to stop appearing there.

Purpose for which data are kept

The sole purpose of processing your data is to provide the service requested from our association.

Unsubscribing from the Mailing List

Occasionally, MATER sends emails with news, activities, or offers published on this website. You may unsubscribe at any time by sending an email to info@matermuseoa.com or by following the “Unsubscribe” link included in the emails received.

USER RESPONSIBILITY FOR USE AND CONTENT

Both access to the websites and any use made of the information and content included therein are the sole responsibility of the person doing so. Therefore, any use made of the information, images, content, and/or products referenced and accessible through the site will be subject to applicable national or international laws, as well as principles of good faith and lawful use by Users, who will be entirely responsible for such access and proper use.

Users are obliged to make reasonable use of the services or content, in good faith and in compliance with current legislation, morality, public order, good customs, and the rights of third parties or of MATER itself, all in accordance with the purposes for which they are conceived. MATER assumes no responsibility, direct or indirect, for damages or lost profits arising from misuse of the services or content by Users or third parties.

DEFINITION OF USER

Use of the Website confers the status of User and implies full and unreserved acceptance of all provisions included in this Legal Notice, in the version published by MATER at the time the User accesses the website. Consequently, the User must read this Legal Notice carefully each time they intend to use the Website, as it may be modified.

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE SITE

The legally established language is European Spanish. Therefore, in the event of any translation of this Legal Notice into any other language, the original clauses in Spanish shall be binding both in the Legal Notice and in the terms of service.

SOCIAL MEDIA

MATER has or may have profiles on major social media. On all such networks, MATER is recognized as the data controller for the data that users and/or followers of the company have included on the company’s profile. The processing MATER will carry out with such data will be that which the social network allows corporate profiles to perform under its policies.

Accordingly, MATER may inform its followers by any means the social network allows about its activities, new products, events, and acts, as well as offer personalized customer service. MATER will not extract data from social networks unless the user’s express and specific consent is obtained.

INFORMATION ABOUT LINKS

MATER is not responsible for non-proprietary websites that can be accessed via “links,” or for any content made available by third parties.

Any use of a link or access to a non-proprietary website is carried out at the user’s sole will and risk. MATER neither recommends nor guarantees any information obtained through a link external to MATER and is not responsible for any loss, claim, or damage arising from the use or misuse of a link, or of the information obtained through it—including other links or websites—service interruptions or access issues, or attempts to use or misuse a link, whether connecting to MATER’s Website or accessing information on other websites from MATER’s Website.

COOKIES

A cookie is a file that is downloaded to your computer when accessing certain web pages. Cookies allow a web page, among other things, to store and retrieve information about a user’s browsing habits or device and, depending on the information they contain and how the device is used, can be used to recognize the user. The user’s browser stores cookies on the hard drive only during the current session, occupying minimal memory space and not harming the computer. Cookies do not contain any specific personal information, and most are deleted from the hard drive at the end of the browser session (“session cookies”).

Most browsers accept cookies as a default setting and, regardless of them, allow temporary or stored cookies to be enabled or disabled in the security settings.

Without your express consent—by enabling cookies in your browser—our website will not link the stored data in cookies to your personal data provided at the time of registration or purchase.

WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES DOES THIS WEBSITE USE?

– Technical cookies: Enable the user to browse a website, platform, or application and use different options or services such as controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, accessing restricted areas, remembering items in an order, carrying out purchase processes, submitting registration or participation forms for events, using security elements during browsing, storing content for video or audio streaming, or sharing content via social networks.

Personalization cookies: Allow the user to access the service with certain predefined general features based on a series of criteria on the user’s device such as language, the type of browser used to access the service, or the regional configuration from which the service is accessed.

Analytics cookies: Whether processed by us or by third parties, these allow us to quantify the number of users and thus perform measurement and statistical analysis of how users use the service offered. To this end, your browsing on our website is analyzed to improve the products or services we offer.

Advertising cookies: Whether processed by us or by third parties, these allow us to manage the advertising spaces on the website as efficiently as possible, adapting the content of the advertisement to the content of the requested service or to the use you make of our website. For this purpose, we may analyze your Internet browsing habits and show you advertising related to your browsing profile.

Behavioral advertising cookies: Allow the most efficient management of advertising spaces that, where applicable, the publisher has included on a website, application, or platform from which the requested service is provided. These cookies store information on users’ behavior obtained through continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows a specific profile to be developed to display advertising based on it.

Third-party cookies: The Website may use third-party services that collect information for statistical purposes, about the User’s use of the Site, and to provide other services related to the Website’s activity and other Internet services.

IN PARTICULAR, THIS WEBSITE USES:

Google Analytics: cookies provided by Google Inc. Google Analytics is the application we use to obtain and analyze usage statistics for MATERMUSEOA.com. According to its privacy policy, Google may use these data to improve its own services and offer services to other companies. Google Analytics does not store names, surnames, emails, or postal addresses. The information stored includes language, location (city level), frequency and recurrence of visits, visit duration, browser and operating system, source of the visit, etc. At MATERMUSEOA.com we use this information to continuously improve our website. The cookies __utma, __utmb, __utmc, and __utmz you can see in your browser settings belong to Google Analytics.

Google AdWords: cookies provided by Google Inc. Google AdWords is the Google tool that allows ads to be published on its search engine. Google AdWords cookies allow us to measure the success of our advertising campaigns, calculating the sales generated by each campaign. The __ar_v4 cookie you can see in your browser settings belongs to Google AdWords.

Facebook: cookies provided by Facebook Inc. or Facebook Ireland Limited. Facebook cookies are used to obtain and analyze usage statistics for MATERMUSEOA.com. We use this information to continuously improve our website. The fbm_* cookie you can see in your browser settings belongs to Facebook.

Google Dynamic Remarketing: cookies provided by Google Inc. Dynamic Remarketing cookies are used to observe user preferences in order to display ads later if you access pages containing Google Remarketing ads.

Google Tag Manager: cookies provided by Google Inc. Google Tag Manager cookies help us manage tags to write or rewrite site code. We use this tool for digital marketing. It helps us improve user experience and usability and provides us with information on pages visited and time spent on each. The _dc_gtm_ cookie you can see in your browser settings belongs to Google Tag Manager.

DoubleClick: cookies provided by Google Inc. The DoubleClick tracking cookie is used by Google for tracking purposes. Each time you visit a website with Google ads, a cookie is stored in your browser by the ads and is used to track browsing across the Internet.

The User expressly accepts, by using this Site, the processing of the information collected in the manner and for the purposes mentioned above, and acknowledges being aware of the possibility of refusing such processing by rejecting the use of Cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in their browser. However, blocking Cookies in your browser may prevent you from fully using all the features of the Website.

You can allow, block, or delete cookies installed on your device by configuring the options of the browser installed on your computer: Chrome, Explorer, Firefox, or Safari.

VALIDITY

If any clause or part thereof in this notice is declared null and void, such circumstance shall not affect the validity of the remainder.

JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE LAW

The law applicable to this website and any disputes that may arise regarding the matters contained herein shall be Spanish law. The parties agree to submit to the Courts and Tribunals of San Sebastián (Gipuzkoa), expressly waiving any other jurisdiction that may correspond to them.

If you have any questions about this policy, please contact MATER (c/San Juan, 118, 20110 Pasaia) or itsasgela@itsasgela.org.