PRIVACY

PROTECTION OF DATA INPUT BY THE USER

We respect your privacy and thank you for your trust in us. In this Privacy Policy, we explain who we are, the purposes for which we process your data, how they will be processed, with whom we may share them, and their storage period, as well as how you can contact us and exercise your rights.

1. IDENTIFICATION OF THE COMPANY

1.1 This website and corresponding privacy policy are managed by SITECNA – Soluções Técnicas e de Embalagem S.A., taxpayer number 504 854 061, with its registered office at Estrada do Pêro Neto, no. 87, 2430-403 Marinha Grande, Portugal, hereinafter referred to as "SITECNA", "we" and "us". SITECNA will act as the controller of your personal data, for the purposes defined in the General Data Protection Regulations (“GDPR”).

Should you have any doubts about the processing of your personal data, please contact us on 00 351 244 555 290 or at sitecna@sitecna.com.

 

2. PRINCIPLES:

2.1. Respect for the user’s wishes:

We respect the privacy and security of the user’s personal data, paying particular attention to his or her preferences, as well as the autonomous, free, and simple management of such data. If the user should disagree with any point mentioned in this policy, he or she may object at any time, by contacting us through the means set out in 1.1.

2.2. Good practice

As personal data controller, SITECNA determines the purposes and means by which the personal data are processed, including the applicable security measures. We ensure that the personal data are processed in Portugal correctly, lawfully and in line with good practice.

 

2.3. Strict necessity:

When processing data that may directly or indirectly identify the user personally, we apply the principle of strict necessity. That is why we only collect the information necessary and relevant for its purposes and there will be a minimum use of personal data, so as not to go beyond the original purpose for which they were collected and/or processed.

3. PERSONAL DATA COLLECTION AND PROCESSING

3.1. SITECNA will only collect and process the personal data that the user voluntarily, expressly, and unequivocally puts on the forms on this website.

3.2. The data collected are distinguished by:

CORPORATE CUSTOMER

  • Company
  • Corporate Taxpayer Number
  • Address
  • Post Code: xxxx-xxx
  • Town
  • City
  • Country

Personal Data

Name

  • Email
  • Telephone: xxx-xxxxxxxxx
  • Password - Repeat Password

PRIVATE CUSTOMER

  • Name
  • Date of Birth*
  • Marital Status*
  • Telephone: xxx-xxxxxxxxx
  • Email
  • NIF (Tax Identification Number)
  • Address
  • Post Code: xxxx-xxx
  • Town
  • City
  • Country
  • Password - Repeat Password

 

*Date of birth and marital status are proof of the purchaser being of lawful age and/or emancipated.

4. PURPOSE FOR PROCESSING PERSONAL DATA

4.1. SITECTNA collects and processes personal data solely for the purposes closely linked to the use of this website, its associated services, to the sale of products, managing and improving the loyalty programme, direct marketing and customer support and help.

4.2. SITECNA endeavours to maintain relations with the user and provide him or her with the rightful benefits, and relevant information and content related to the company. Such data will only be processed for certain explicit and legitimate purposes and will not be subsequently processed in a way incompatible with those purposes. The collected and processed data are only those that are appropriate and relevant for such purposes and no more.

4.3. However, the personal data may also be used for other processing operations within the boundaries of such applications. In particular, the personal data may be used for the following purposes:

  • When you purchase something on this website, we collect personal data on the purchase form, solely for the purpose of selling, separating and transporting the products selected by you;
  • When you request assistance from customer service, we collect personal data solely with the aim of providing Sitecna customer support services that are relevant to this website, and to offer you the help you requested from us;
  • When you subscribe to the newsletter, we collect your email address, with the objective of offering you that service;
  • When you browse our website, we collect cookies. Depending on the type of cookies management you have in place to ensure our website and your interaction with us run smoothly, we use information collected through cookies to ensure our website works efficiently, in particular, being able to correctly view content, remembering your cart, remembering your registration, adjusting the screen resolution, and to improve our offers, among other things. This information includes details of registration, location, session duration, products you selected, equipment, browser, and IP address.
  • When you browse our website and subsequently visit platforms where there is advertising format (social media, Google, and other partners of these networks) you may be shown advertisements from our company. We will also use the data to reach potential new users who might be interested in our products.

4.4. When we collect data, we use asterisks to indicate the mandatory fields, when the data in question are necessary to:

Enter into our contract with you (for example for supplying products that you bought on our website);

Supply the service you requested (for example, supplying you with a newsletter), or to fulfil legal requirements (for example, invoicing).

4.5. Personal data may be communicated to SITECNA’s service providers for the purpose of supplying services to legal, fiscal, and regulatory authorities, in order to fulfil legal requirements.

5. CONSENT

Respecting the user’s wishes is one of SITECNA’s main concerns with regard to personal data processing. However, we do not want to affect our relationship with the user nor fail to meet his or her expectations. As such, we believe that if you have had a relationship with us in the last two years, that is, if you made a purchase, it is not deemed necessary for us to ask for your consent. Nevertheless, if you disagree, you can object, by sending us an email to sitecna@sitecna.com.

6. USER RIGHTS

6.1. To freely exercise the right of access, to rectification, deletion, erasure or blocking of the personal data, the user may send a written communication to the following email address: sitecna@sitecna.com .

6.2. If you no longer wish to receive direct marketing communications, you may, at any given time, exercise the right to object to personal data processing, by managing your consent as available in the online store’s customer area. You may also do so by sending an email to sitecna@sitecna.com.

7. SECURITY

7.1. SITECNA uses appropriate security measures to protect personal data from accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, unauthorised change, dissemination, or access, and from any other form of unlawful processing. In addition, we contractually require that the trusted external entities that process personal data for us do the same.

7.2. However, SITECNA cannot guarantee that the security measures adopted to protect this website and to transmit data and information through this website will prevent or exclude any risk of unauthorised access or loss of data. To this end, we advise that software be installed on the computer to protect it during transmission and receipt of data (such as up-to-date anti-virus systems), and that the browser takes the appropriate measures to ensure security during data transmission (such as a firewall and anti-spam filters).

8. RETENTION AND PROCESSING PERIOD

8.1. The data are retained by SITECNA for the purposes described herein for the time necessary for the stated purposes, except if the personal data in question is needed to prove compliance with obligations, during the timeframe of the associated rights, or if a longer data retention period is imposed by law.

8.2. When the personal data are no longer necessary, they will be removed from our systems and registries or maintained anonymously, so that you cannot by identified through them.

9. LEGISLATION

SITECNA will process personal data in compliance with the Portuguese Law in force concerning data protection, namely Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 27 April 2016, related to the protection of individuals, with regard to the processing of personal data and the free circulation of such data (“General Data Protection Regulations”) and other applicable community and Portuguese legislation.