This Privacy Policy s applicable to any user enjoying the Services of El País granted by its website.
For the correct understanding of this Privacy Policy and the Conditions of Servicios El País, the following definitions are provided:
The User shall be a natural or legal person accessing and/or using any of theServices El País by any means without having to register.
The Prisa Group (Grupo Prisa) is the business group headed by the Spanish company PROMOTORA DE INFORMACIONES, S.A., with its registered office at 32 Gran Vía, Madrid, and Tax ID No. A-28297059.
El País Services comprises services, products and promotional activities, whether free of charge or paid, consisting of the access to the various information, commercial, or non-commercial contents, marketing communications, editorials and corporate communications, programs, applications, shops, websites, video on demand or similar items. made available by El País for Users within the Internet (hereinafter, “El País Services”).
By browsing on this WebSite you expressly understand and accept this Privacy Policy as a User of any of the media or El País Services.
The Privacy Policy of El País Services applies to:
This Privacy Policy of El País Services shall not apply to those services where prior registration is mandatory. Said services may entail additional data collection from Users. This additional processing shall be regulated in specific Privacy Policies and Use Conditions.
The organization responsible of the WebSite, being located in Spain, is subject to compliance with Spanish and European regulations in the field of Data Protection and Information Society Services.
Therefore, the User is guaranteed at all times the complete and full compliance with the obligations provided by the Data Protection and Information Society Services regulations, as well as by any other laws supplementing or replacing the foregoing.
Personal data gathered via El País Services shall be processed by:
Both companies, as part of Grupo PRISA, has voluntarily designated a Data Protection Officer through whom the User may forward claims, complaints and suggestions in relation to the processing of their personal data, as well as exercising their rights. To this end, the User may use the following email address: dpo@prisa.com.
The data provided by Users of El País Services will be processed for lthe following purposes:
Controllers of the processing will use the data that is strictly necessary to fulfill the purposes described above.
Some of the purposes listed will require your prior consent. This consent will be specifically requested from you prior to the fulfillment of the purposes.
Controllers of the processing shall only process User’s data gathered or generated via their use of El País Services.
For El País Services provision, controllers of the WebSite shall process IP address from which they access El País Services. Furthermore, one user code shall be allocated unilaterally by El País for each device or browser accessing the WebSite. These data may be considered personal data insofar as they allow the User to be identified or render them identifiable.
In this way, both controllers shall link the following information to said data:
To measure the use of the Services, Controllers use external suppliers that use cookies to carry out analytical studies of the use of El País Services. The User may consult the COOKIES POLICY at any time.
Controllers shall not Users' personal data to any third parties without a lawful basis authorising said processing.
In order to measure the use of the Services, El País utilizes external suppliers who use Cookies to carry out analytical studies on the use of El País Services. The User may check the OOKIES POLICY at any time.
Minors below the age of 14 shall not use El País Services without the consent of their parents or guardians.
If controllers detect Users who might be less than 14 years old, they reserve the right to ask them for a copy of their Spanish ID Card or an equivalent document or, as the case may be, the authorisation of their parents or guardians.
The news included on this may contain personal data of newsworthy individuals because of their public relevance, their public renown or because of circumstances arising from facts of public interest in which they are involved.
Via this section, we inform newsworthy individuals on the processing of their data pursuant to the provisions in the regulations in force, which establishes that when it is impossible or would require a disproportionate effort to inform the parties concerned of the processing of their data, adequate steps are to be taken to protect their rights, freedoms and legitimate interests, even by disclosing the information, which is met via this Privacy Policy.
Personal data shall be obtained via research and journalistic resources available to this medium, consisting of the relevant data to draw up said news items.
The lawful basic authorising the processing of personal data of newsworthy individuals is the need to fulfil a mission carried out in the public interest. Personal data shall be processed indefinitely over time.
The personal data of the User shall be processed actively as long as they retain their status as a User of El País Services. As soon as the User ceases being a User, the data shall be retained for 5 years.
Additionally, Users may exercise their right of erasure at any time. In such case, their data shall be blocked and conserved in a restricted manner, at the disposal of the relevant authorities, during a term of 5 years in order to meet any liabilities arising from the processing.
The lawful basis legitimizing the above-mentioned processing activities are, depending on the case, the legitimate interests of the controllers of the processing or the consent granted by the User.
When it might be applicable, the User may exercise the rights of access, rectification, erasure, objection, portability and restriction, by writing to the controllers, by post sent to the address above, accrediting sufficiently their identity and specifying the right they wish to exercise. It is recommended that the User provide all the information on the El País Services they use or have used in order to adequately handle their request.
The User is entitled to file a claim or complaint with the Spanish Data Protection Agency (www.aepd.es) and the Data Protection Delegate of Grupo Prisa (dpo@prisa.com).
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