PRIVACY POLICY

The  Assembleia Legislativa da Região Autónoma dos Açores is committed to protecting the privacy of its Customers and website Users and, in this context, has drawn up this Privacy Policy to demonstrate its commitment and respect for privacy and personal data protection rules. 

 

This Privacy Policy applies exclusively to the collection and processing of personal data by our company. We recommend reading this document in full. 

 

This Privacy Policy applies to all personal data collected on the website. 

 

Data Controller 

The entity responsible for processing personal data is Assembleia Legislativa da Região Autónoma dos Açores

headquartered at Rua Marcelino Lima 9900-122 Horta Portugal and can be contacted at gppsdfaial@alra.pt


 

Types of Personal Data 

The data collected in the course of our professional activities is the information provided in the contact forms on our website.

 

How do we collect your personal data?

  • Through our website; 
  • By subscribing to our newsletter, you give us your consent.

 

Legal Basis and Purposes of Processing

  • Marketing and Sales Activities, such as marketing campaigns, events, promotions, information about new or current services and/or products, and satisfaction surveys;
  • Pre-contractual steps and/or performance of a service contract; 
  • Delivery of contracted services and customer management; 
  • Compliance with a legal obligation; 
  • When processing is necessary to comply with legal obligations, such as responding to judicial, regulatory and supervisory authorities, among others; 
  • Legitimate interest; 
  • Where personal data is processed on the basis of a legitimate interest, for example to improve service quality or detect fraud. 

 

Data Retention Period

We retain your data only for as long as necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.

 

Users’ Rights 

You may exercise your rights of access, rectification, erasure and restriction at any time. You may also object to the company using your data for commercial purposes and withdraw your consent, without affecting the lawfulness of any processing carried out on the basis of that consent. You also have the right to data portability, which you can exercise by making a request through any of the channels listed above.

 

Data subjects may also lodge complaints about data processing with the Portuguese Data Protection Authority. 

 

Data Transmission 

User data may be processed by a reputable service provider engaged by our company. In such cases, appropriate measures are taken to ensure that any entities with access to the data provide the highest guarantees of data protection.

Accordingly, any subprocessor will process Users’ personal data on behalf of and for our company, strictly complying with the legal requirements on personal data protection, information security and other applicable regulations. 

 

International Data Transfers 

For the purposes described, our company may transfer user data outside the territory of the European Economic Area (EEA). In such cases, we will strictly comply with applicable legal provisions, including determining whether the destination country or countries provide an adequate level of personal data protection and meeting the requirements applicable to such transfers. 

 

Automated Decisions   

Our company may create user profiles, enabling automated decision-making based on personal characteristics, preferences, behavioural history and location. In such cases, users have the right to request human intervention in the decision, express their point of view and contest the decision made. 

 

Personal Data Protection Measures

Our company implements various appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect users' personal data.

 

Changes to the Privacy Policy 

Our company may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. 

Please review this document periodically to stay up to date.