Privacy Policy

Additional information on data protection

This Privacy Policy describes the processing of your personal data carried out by THE MEET AND TRADE GROUP, S.L. (hereinafter "APARTOOL"), through the internet portal: https://www.apartool.com (hereinafter, the "Site").

You must be of legal age to use the services offered through this Site. If we detect that you are under 18 years old, we may block and/or delete the personal data that you may have provided us. However, there may be specific cases, especially during a promotional action, where personal data of minors is processed, in which case the consent and authorization of the parents or guardians will be requested if the minor has not yet reached the age of 14. If you are a minor and are not sure you understand something that we explain, ask your parents or guardians for help.

Regarding the use of social networks, we recommend that parents or guardians regularly check and supervise their children's internet activity. Please ensure that your children do not provide us with personal data without asking for your permission and consent.In any case, the parents or guardians of the minor may contact privacy@apartool.com to block and/or delete the minor's personal data, through the means indicated in the “YOUR RIGHTS” section of this Privacy Policy.

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PROCESSING?

Identity: THE MEET AND TRADE GROUP, S.L.
Tax ID: B-66562653
NIF: B66562653
Address: Passatge de Pagès, 6, 08013, Barcelona (Spain)
Phone: (+34) 933158763
Email: privacy@apartool.com

WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE PROCESS?

Personal data that you provide us. Generally, the personal information you provide us (for example, through the forms on the Site, if you contact our customer service, and with website registration) includes: name and surname, address, date of birth, email, and contact phone. In very specific cases, and depending on the purpose and intended use of your data, your ID or passport as identification data, personal characteristics, academic and professional details, employment information, commercial, social, economic, and insurance circumstances, transfers of goods and services, as well as data of special categories in accordance with Article 9.1 of the GDPR, specifically health data, may be collected.

In the same sense, the aforementioned personal data are mandatory to attend to your requests, so the refusal to provide them will make it impossible to attend to them and, where appropriate, carry out the provision of the requested services.

If you provide third-party data, you declare to have their consent and commit to transferring the information contained in this clause, exempting APARTOOL from any responsibility. In any case, APARTOOL may carry out periodic checks to verify this fact, adopting the due diligence measures that correspond in accordance with the applicable regulations.

Personal data that we collect from the Site: the Site uses cookies (and/or similar technologies) so that, depending on your configuration of them, APARTOOL may collect and process personal data.

Generally, we collect and store limited personal information and anonymous global statistics from all users who visit our websites, either because you provide us with this information actively or simply by browsing our websites. The information we collect includes the Internet protocol (IP) address of the device you are using, the browser program you use, your operating system, the date and time of access, the Internet address of the website from which you accessed our websites, and also information about how you use our websites.

Other personal data that we collect: Additionally, APARTOOL may obtain your personal data from the internal and/or external sources detailed below, always respecting your rights and freedoms and with the guarantees required by the applicable regulations

Data that we obtain from the Social Networks in which APARTOOL is present, and through which we may contact and/or maintain a relationship with you.

For more information on the use and configuration of cookies (and/or similar technologies), please consult our Cookie Policy.

WHAT PURPOSES?

APARTOOL will process your personal data for the following purposes:

1.In case you request information through the forms provided for this purpose or you contact our customer service, to process and attend to your request, as well as to provide you with the best possible service;

2. In case you subscribe and do not express your opposition, to send you newsletters and commercial communications related to the activities, products, services, and promotions of APARTOOL, without this implying the communication of your data to third parties, nor the creation of profiles;

3. In case you are interested in creating an APATOOL account, we will process your data to properly manage your subscription request to the user portal, as well as access to the content and faculties that are made available to you as a member of the portal.

4.Compliance with legal obligations, including, but not limited to, the Law 10/2010 on the Prevention of Money Laundering;

5. In case you are interested and submit the corresponding application, to manage your application for the job positions offered by APARTOOL through the "Careers" section of the Site.

6. Depending on your configuration regarding the use of cookies, to perform statistical analyses and create profiles based on your browsing habits.

LEGITIMATION

The legal bases for the processing of your personal data based on the purposes described above are as follows:In case you request information through the different forms you will find on the Site, or when you contact our customer service, your data will be processed based on the execution of the contractual relationship with you, or the adoption of pre-contractual measures if you are not yet a client.

1. In case you request information through the various forms found on the Site, or when you contact our customer service, your data will be processed based on the execution of the contractual relationship with you, or the adoption of pre-contractual measures if you are not yet a client.

2.In case you subscribe to the sending of commercial communications, we will base on your express consent.

3. For the creation and management of your account in the user portal of APARTOOL, your data are processed in accordance with the execution of the contract or adoption of pre-contractual measures.

4. For the compliance with the various legal obligations that are applicable.

5.In its case, your consent to perform statistical analyses and create profiles based on your browsing habits.

6.Regarding the management of your application, your data will be processed based on the adoption of pre-contractual measures.

WHO DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA WITH?

Generally, APARTOOL will not share your personal data with third parties, except in the following cases:

a. To authorities and competent bodies, courts, tribunals, or any other third parties authorized under applicable regulations.

b. On certain occasions, to ensure the correct execution of the contract, it may be necessary to communicate your data to third parties who hold or manage the property in which the contracted accommodation is located.

c. Furthermore, APARTOOL has contracted the provision of certain services (e.g., virtual infrastructure services, cloud computing, etc.) to providers, who may have access to and/or process personal data as data processors.

Some of these providers may process and store personal information on servers located outside your country of residence. If you wish to obtain more information about these providers, you can do so by sending your request to privacy@apartool.com.

Therefore, depending on the user's location, data transfers to other countries may occur. In such cases, your personal data may be transferred internationally to third parties located outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"), provided that APARTOOL has the authority to do so and subject to compliance with the appropriate safeguards established in Articles 44 to 50 of the GDPR. These third parties will only access the data to carry out their services on behalf of and at the instruction of APARTOOL, under a duty of confidentiality and always following their instructions and without at any time being able to use such data for their own purposes and/or unauthorized ends.

In any case, the appropriate safeguards include, among others:

1. Adequacy Decision. A declaration by the European Commission that a non-EU state offers an adequate level of data protection equivalent to that provided by European data protection legislation, allowing for the international transfer of data to a third party established in that non-EU state;

2. Binding Corporate Rules. Applicable to business groups or the union of companies engaged in a joint economic activity, which enables the flow of personal data based on a self-regulation accepted and assumed by each of the signing entities;

3.Standard Contractual Clauses. This is a mechanism signed between the personal data exporter from any of the EEA countries and a third country. It is a contractual agreement whose model has been approved and published by the European Commission and aligned with the provisions of the GDPR.

4. Code of conduct or a certification mechanism, along with binding and enforceable commitments undertaken by the recipient concerning the application of the appropriate safeguards for the protection of transferred data.

5. In the absence of the above, your personal data may be exceptionally transferred to a third country or international organization, applying the mechanisms that data protection legislation may recognize.APARTOOL, in order of preference, will conduct international transfers under the following guarantees.

Guarantee

Criteria used by APARTOOL

Adequacy Decision issued by the EC

This measure is preferred by APARTOOL. You can find the list of countries subject to an adequacy decision at:https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection/adequacy-decisions_en

Binding Corporate Rules

In the absence of an Adequacy Decision, this will be the preferred guarantee measure that APARTOOL will request from the importer of personal data. You can find the list of entities that have BCRs here:https://edpb.europa.eu/our-work-tools/accountability-tools/bcr_en?page=1

Standard Contractual Clauses

As a secondary guarantee mechanism in the absence of the above, we will proceed to subscribe and/or request a copy as appropriate from the importer of the personal data of the signed version of the Standard Contractual Clauses aligned with the models of the European Commission, available here:https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/ES/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32021D0914

HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR DATA?

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‍APARTOOL will retain your personal data to attend to and/or carry out the requested services (provided that their deletion or opposition is not requested through the means indicated in the "YOUR RIGHTS" section), and subsequently, will keep them properly blocked for the necessary limitation periods according to the legislation that, in each case, is applicable to address future liabilities. After the legal limitation periods have passed, your personal data will be destroyed.

YOUR RIGHTS

‍At any time, you can exercise a series of rights regarding the processing of your personal data. These rights are inherent to each Data Subject and, therefore, are non-waivable and include the following:

Right of access: Right to access the personal data that are processed by the Data Controller in accordance with Article 15 GDPR.
Right to rectification: Right to request that the Data Controller rectify certain personal data of the Data Subject in accordance with Article 16 GDPR. Regarding information obtained through social networks, this can only be satisfied concerning that information under the control of APARTOOL (for example, removing comments posted on the page itself, or images or web content that contain personal data of the interested party).
Right to object: Right to object to those Processing activities based on consent or the existence of a legitimate interest (including but not limited to the sending of commercial communications) in accordance with Article 21.2 GDPR. In cases where the Processing is based on the existence of a legitimate interest, the Data Subject has the right to request the assessment report made by the Data Controller. Also, in cases where the Processing aims to send own or third-party commercial information, the Data Subject may voluntarily opt into an advertising exclusion mechanism (more information can be found here: https://www.listarobinson.es/).
Right to erasure: Right to request the Data Controller to delete all or part of the Data Subject's personal data in accordance with Article 17 GDPR. Remember that as long as the commercial and/or contractual relationship with you continues, there are certain personal data that we need to process to fulfill the contract, so while it lasts, we cannot delete, block or cancel them, because otherwise, it would prevent us from complying with the contract.
Right to restriction of processing: Right to obtain from the Data Controller the restriction of Processing of their personal data as long as one of the conditions set out in Article 18 GDPR is met.
Right to data portability: Right to receive the data that you have provided to the Data Controller in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and to transmit them to another data controller (or to have them transmitted directly to the new data controller, when technically feasible), in accordance with Article 20 GDPR.
Right to withdraw consent: Granted for the performance of the Processing identified in the section Processing based on the Data Subject's consent, without such revocation having retroactive effects, in accordance with Article 7.3 GDPR.
Right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning or significantly affects them. The Data Controller informs the Data Subject that, notwithstanding the fact that it carries out decisions based on automated systems, these decisions (i) either do not produce legal effects or significant effects on the Data Subject; (ii) or are not made exclusively by automated means.

We will attend to your request as soon as possible and, in any case, within the legally established deadline. Likewise, you may withdraw your consent at any time via the email address: privacy@apartool.com, without, in any case, the withdrawal thereof conditioning a proper management of the commercial relationship.In the event that we fail to comply with our data protection obligations, you have the right to file a complaint with the Spanish Data Protection Agency (www.aepd.es).Finally, we remind you that in the event that you provide us with data relating to another natural person, you must, prior to their inclusion, inform them of the terms contained in this Policy.

LINKS

‍This Site may include, display, or deploy links to other websites for your convenience and information. These websites may operate independently from us. Linked pages may have their own privacy policies, which we strongly recommend you read when you visit them. To the extent that any linked website you visit is not owned or controlled by us, we are not responsible for such websites' content, their use, or their privacy practices.

UPDATE

‍This Policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes in our personal data processing practices. We recommend that you review it periodically, and we will indicate at the bottom of the Policy when it was last updated.Last update: June 25, 2024.