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    • PRIVACY POLICY

    As required by Chapter 2 of the Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce Act (Law 34/2002), this is notice that this website is the property of LOIS COUNSEL, S.L. (LOIS) (also, the “Provider”), whose registered office is at Via Augusta 29, 6º, 08006, Barcelona and whose UTR is: B-67059253 and whose email address is: info@loiscounsel.com.

    LOIS as the owner of this website and in accordance with the law now in force in relation to the protection of personal database, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 (“GDPR”) on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, the Spanish Data Protection Act 1999 (Organic Law 15/1999 of 13 December), and by the Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce Act (Law 34/2002 of 11 July), has adopted all the organisational and technical security measures set out in Royal Decree 1720/2007 of 21 December, the implementing regulations for the Data Protection Act 2002, to ensure and protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the personal data collected.

    As required by the Data Protection Act, LOIS gives you notice that the personal data that you have voluntarily provided to us will be incorporated into our information systems in order to perform the required commercial and administrative processes in relation to users of the website. The operations by which personal data is intended to be processed are the following: to respond to enquiries and/or to provide the information requested by users; to provide the services and/or products contracted or subscribed to by users; to send advertising, promotions and digital content associated with the products, services and actions of the buisness.

    The Provider has marked with an asterisk (*) the boxes in the contact forms whose completion by users and consequent provision of personal data is mandatory. By giving and entering their personal data, the user gives express consent to LOIS to process the personal data provided for the stated purposes.

    Not providing the personal data requested or not accepting this Privacy and data protection policy will make it impossible to subscribe or register for or to receive information about the Provider’s products and services.

    As required by the law concerning the protection of personal data, the Provider complies with all provisions of the GDPR and the Data Protection Act as to the processing of personal data in respect of which it is the data controller.

    The DATA CONTROLLER warrants that it has adopted the organisational and technical measures required to implement the security measures required by GDPR and the Data Protection Act to protect the rights and freedoms of data subjects.

    In accordance with those laws, this is notice to data subjects that they have the right to request access, rectification, data portability and restriction of and objection to processing by application to Vía Augusta, 29, 6º, 08008, Barcelona, or by email to info@loiscounsel.com, putting in the Subject field: ‘DPA, Exercise of rights’ and attaching a copy of their national identity document or equivalent as required by statute. You have the right to withdraw the consent you have given at any time. The withdrawal of consent will have no effect on the lawfulness of processing carried out before the withdrawal of consent. You also have the right to make a complaint to the supervisory authority if you believe that your data protection rights have been breached (agpd.es).

    CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATA TO THIRD PARTIES

    The personal data that you provide to use will be processed confidentially. The Provider has implemented all the technical and organisational measures and adopted all the levels of protection required to ensure the security of the processing of personal data and to avoid their alteration, loss, theft, and unauthorised processing or access according to the state of the technology and the nature of the personal data stored. Those measures will also ensure that the processing and filing, programs, systems and devices, places and facilities will meet provide the integrity and security required by law.

    LOIS will not transfer personal data to third parties, except when required to do so by law. However, notice will be given of any proposed disclosure to a third party in order to seek the data subject’s consent to such disclosure. The data controller for the database and any organisation involved at any stage of data processing and/or the organisations to which any personal data has been disclose, which in all cases will be with the prior written consent of the data subject, will be required to maintain confidentiality and to adopt the levels of protection and the organisational and technical measures available to them to ensure the security of personal data and to the extent possible to avoid unauthorised access, improper modification, theft and/or loss of any personal data so as to achieve the same level of security as the filing system of the Provider, in function of the nature and sensitivity of the personal data provided by users of this website.

    ACCEPTANCE AND CONSENT

    Each user is solely responsible for the truthfulness and accuracy of the personal data that they provide to LOIS and they excuse the Provider from all liability in that regard. Each user warrants and accepts liability for the accuracy, currency and truthfulness of any personal data provided in all circumstances and undertakes to keep such data up to date. Each user agrees to provide complete, correct information in their registration or subscription form.

    SUBSCRIPTION TO THE LOIS COMMUNITY, NEWSLETTER OR BLOG

    This is notice that when a user subscribes to any of the channels or content in the heading to this section, any personal data provided will be processed to manage their registration and subscription by sending or accessing content, and that such data will be retained for so long as there is a mutual interest that requires such processing. When it is no longer to retain personal data for that purpose, the personal data will be deleted with sufficient security measures to ensure their pseudonymisation or complete destruction. Personal data will not be disclosed to third parties except as required by law.

    CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

    LOIS reserves the right to amend this policy in response to changes in law.

    COMMERCIAL EMAILS

    In accordance with the Information Society Services Act, LOIS does not send SPAM and as such does not send commercial emails that have not been solicited or authorised by the recipient. Consequently, each form on the Website asks the user to give their express consent to receipt of our content separately from any specific commercial information requested.

    COOKIES

    A cookie is a file that is downloaded to your computer/tablet/smartphone when you access certain websites or application. Cookies allow a website, among other things, to store and recover information about the browsing habits of a user or of their device and depending on the information they contain and the way in which the device is used, cookies can be used to recognise a user.

    The following types of cookies are used on this website:

    1. In function of the entity that manages them:
      • Own cookies: These cookies are sent to the user’s device from a domain or equipment managed by LOIS that is used to provide the service requested by the user.
      • Third party cookies: Third-party cookies are sent to the user’s device from a domain or equipment not managed not by LOIS but another entity that processes the information obtained through the cookies. The paragraph headed “Use of cookies” provides further information about the organisations that put cookies on the website.
    2. In function of how long cookies remain active
      • Session cookies: Session cookies are intended to gather and store data while a user accesses our website.
      • Persistent cookies: Persistent cookies are cookies that store data on the user’s device for access and use for a period of time set by the owner of the cookie, a period that may vary from minutes to years.
    3. In function of the purpose for which they are processed:
      • Analytic cookies: Analytic cookies are processed by LOIS and third parties and allow us to determine the number of users of the website and so measure and statistically analyse the use of the service offered by users. The browsing behaviour of users on our website or application is analysed to improve the goods or services that we offer.
      • Technical cookies: Technical cookies are processed by LOIS and third parties and allow users to browse our website and use the different options or services on the website, as plug-ins to share information on social media, and for the identification or authentication of users or session of multimedia viewers.
      • Personalisation cookies: Personalisation cookies are processed by LOIS and third parties and allow the user to access the service with some predefined general characteristics in function of a series of settings on the user’s device, such as the language in which our website is viewed.

    Deactivation or deletion of cookies. You can allow, block or delete the cookies installed on your devices in the settings for the browser installed on your computer/tablet/smartphone and the cookie settings banner that is shown on the Website.

    Use of cookies. This website also uses third-party cookies to analyse information about browsing, allow the sharing of content on social media and to view videos stored on other sites. Those third-parties are: Google Analytics, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

    When your browse our website or access our application, you consent to the installation and use of cookies. You can withdraw the consent you have given at any time and delete the cookies installed on your device through your browser’s settings, as explained under ‘Deactivation and deletion of cookies’. However, you should note that doing so may affect the operation of the website leading to a less satisfactory user experience.

    For further information, see our Cookies Policy.

    LEGISLATION

    For all purposes, the relationship between LOIS and the users of remote services from this website are governed by the laws and courts of Spain and the parties expressly submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of Spain for the resolution of any dispute or difference.