Privacy Policy

1. Data controller

Rural Secaps is the entity responsible for the processing of personal data collected through the website www.ruralsecaps.aalmaalgarvia.pt, in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR).

2. Scope of this policy

This Privacy Policy applies exclusively to the processing of personal data collected through the Alma Learning Institute and Rural Secaps website, namely in the context of browsing, the use of contact forms and requests for information about its training activities.

The website does not have an online shop and does not allow purchases or direct payments.

3. Personal data collected

Through the website, Alma Learning Institute and Rural Secaps may collect the following categories of personal data:

• Identification data: name;
• Contact data: email address and phone number;
• Data voluntarily provided by the user through forms or communications;
• Technical and browsing data: IP address, device type, browser used, pages visited and interactions with the website.

Rural Secaps does not collect payment data or special categories of personal data through the website.

4. Purposes and legal bases for processing

The personal data collected is processed for the following purposes:

• Responding to requests for contact, information or clarification;
• Managing applications to training programmes, projects or collaboration opportunities;
• Carrying out pre-contractual steps requested by the user;
• Improving the operation, performance and security of the website;
• Statistical analysis of the use of the website;
• Sending informational or promotional communications, where prior consent exists.

The legal bases for processing are: the data subject's consent; pre-contractual steps requested by the data subject; and the legitimate interest of Rural Secaps, where applicable and legally permitted.

5. Cookies and analytics tools

The website uses cookies, including analytical cookies, in particular through the Google Analytics 4 (GA4) service, in order to collect aggregated statistical data on the use of the website.

The use of non-essential cookies depends on the user's prior consent, collected through the cookie management platform available on the website.

For more information on the use of cookies, please refer to the Cookie Policy available on the website.

6. Marketing communications and newsletter

Rural Secaps may send informational or promotional communications about its training, initiatives, projects and institutional activities, provided that the data subject has given prior, free, specific and informed consent.

Subscription to the newsletter is optional and is carried out through a dedicated form available on the website.

• Institutional news and updates;
• Information about courses, programmes and initiatives;
• Promotion of events, conferences and activities organised by Rural Secaps.

Each communication sent will include a simple and free mechanism allowing the user to withdraw consent and cancel the subscription at any time.

Newsletters may include tracking technologies for statistical purposes and to improve the content sent. This data will be used exclusively for analysis and improvement of communications.

Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out previously.

7. Applications and collaboration opportunities

Whenever application forms for programmes, projects or professional opportunities are made available, Rural Secaps may process the applicants' personal data for the purposes of analysing and evaluating those applications.

The data processed may include:

• Identification and contact data;
• Information contained in the curriculum vitae;
• Professional experience and academic qualifications;
• Other elements voluntarily provided by the applicant.

The processing aims to manage the application process and the possible establishment of a contractual or institutional relationship.

Personal data will be kept for the period necessary to complete the relevant process. If no immediate selection occurs, the data may be kept for a maximum period of 12 months for consideration in future compatible opportunities.

8. Data recipients

The personal data collected through the website may be processed:

• Internally, by Rural Secaps staff strictly necessary to manage the requests received;
• By technology and hosting service providers, as processors, under Article 28 of the GDPR.

The data will not be transferred to third parties for direct marketing purposes.

9. International data transfers

Whenever, in the context of the use of technology services, communication tools, educational platforms or hosting solutions, data is transferred to countries outside the European Union or the European Economic Area, Rural Secaps will ensure that such transfers are carried out under the appropriate protection mechanisms provided for in the GDPR.

10. Retention periods

The personal data collected through the website will be kept only for the period necessary for the purposes that justified its collection, namely:

• Contact data: for the period necessary to process the request;
• Data relating to pre-contractual steps: until the conclusion of the process or the signing of the relevant agreement;
• Statistical data: preferably in an aggregated and anonymised form.

11. User rights

Under the GDPR, the user may exercise the following rights at any time:

• Right of access;
• Right to rectification;
• Right to erasure;
• Right to restriction of processing;
• Right to object;
• Right to data portability, where applicable;
• Right not to be subject to automated decisions, including profiling;
• Right to lodge a complaint with the Portuguese National Data Protection Commission (CNPD).

12. Data Protection Officer

Rural Secaps has appointed as Data Protection Officer: Antonieta Guerreiro, who can be contacted at the email address: dpo@antonietaguerreiro.com.

13. Data security

Rural Secaps is committed to protecting the confidentiality of the personal data of website users, adopting appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure that the processing of data is carried out lawfully, fairly, transparently and limited to the purposes legally defined.

Appropriate measures will be implemented to protect personal data against loss, destruction, unauthorised access, disclosure or undue alteration.

14. Changes to the privacy policy

Rural Secaps reserves the right to update this Privacy Policy whenever necessary. Changes will be duly published on the website www.ruralsecaps.aalmaalgarvia.pt.