Personal Data Protection

At Gericó Associates Legal Marketing, S.L. (hereinafter, Gericó Associates), we inform our users and, where applicable, clients, of the current legislation on the protection of personal data, user privacy and the secrecy and security of personal data, and our commitment to ensure their compliance.

Therefore, we subscribe to the principles contained in the applicable data protection regulations, currently within the General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter, GDPR), as well as by Organic Law 3/2018, of 5^th December, Protection of Personal Data and guarantee of digital rights (hereinafter, LOPDGDD). We will thus treat your data in a lawful, loyal and transparent manner, and it will always be collected for specific, explicit and legitimate, adequate, relevant and limited purposes.

This way, this Privacy and Data Protection Policy is aimed at establishing the information needed as a user of each and every web page located under the domain “www.gericoassociates.com”, and their respective subdomains and subdirectories (the “Website”), in order to understand the scope and purpose of processing your personal data when browsing it and for you to understand the scope and purpose of processing your data in such a way that your acceptance, necessary to access and use our website, is based on a perfectly informed consent.

In this regard, we inform that our Website can be used for you to contact us and keep you informed, but in no way it is a valid form of contracting any kind of service.

Our contact details:

• Address: Paseo de la Castellana 123 3ºC Derecha, Madrid.
• Phone Number: +34 917 377 457 
• Email: info@gericoassociates.com

For what purpose do we treat your data?

Depending on whether you browse our website, sign up for our Newsletter, or just contact or request some information, Gericó Associates will treat your data, as the case may be, for the following purposes:

• Management of queries made by the user/client: GERICÓ ASSOCIATES will carry out the necessary data processing for the attention of the user/client request. We will thus treat data such as: your name, surname, e-mail, telephone, province and postal code.
• Commercial communications: If you have decided to sign up for our Newsletter, GERICÓ ASSOCIATES may send you communications related to legal marketing, events, collaborations and services related to your interest. You may at any time withdraw this consent, by sending an email to info@gericoassociates.com, indicating in the subject Unsubscribe Commercial Communications. In these cases, we may process data such as your email address or phone number.
• Management of job applications: If you have decided to send your application either spontaneously, or for any specific job offer, we will treat the data included in it for consideration and, where appropriate, the necessary management for processing the offer for which you apply as a candidate. Similarly, if you have authorized us to do so, we may keep your data for future processes. In this case we will be able to process the contact information you have provided us, as well as the information you provide in your Curriculum Vitae.
• Connection and traffic data obtained through analytics tools: GERICÓ ASSOCIATES uses cookies and other technologies to keep a record of your interaction with our services. Cookies help manage a range of functions and content, as well as store searches. For more information about the types of cookies and similar technologies we use and why and how you can control these technologies in case you interact with us, please see the Cookies

And on what lawful bases will we process your data?

The purposes with which GERICÓ ASSOCIATES treats the user/client data on its website and electronic communications indicated above, are based on the following lawful bases:

• The unambiguous consent of the interested party, based on article 6.1.a) of the GDPR
• Obtained through signing up to our Newsletter, without prejudice to the possibility of withdrawing consent at any time;
• Obtained through the acceptance of cookies and other analytics tools. In relation to the use of analytics tools, according to the provider, it may involve international data transfers, which, depending on the functionality of the data generated, can be based on the necessary execution of the contract or, where appropriate, on your unambiguous consent when authorizing its use.
• Obtained through the relevant email when the user has sent their CV and has requested that GERICÓ ASSOCIATES keeps it for longer in their files.
• Management of pre-contractual and, where appropriate, contractual measures, based on Article 6.1.b) of the GDPR.
• When browsing the Website and accepting its Terms of Use.
• In case of contacting the company, in order to manage the queries raised and be able to contact the interested party.
• For the user who submits their profile, the handling of the requested job posting, which will require contacting the interested party.
• Compliance with legal obligations, based on article 6.1.c) of the GDPR.
• When the interested party exercises the following rights:

As a consequence of the judicial actions that are promoted by or directed against GERICÓ ASSOCIATES, before judicial courts. Regarding those users who make a  bad faith, abusive, improper and/or illegal use of the Website, GERICÓ ASSOCIATES will inform the competent authorities and law enforcement bodies.

• The legitimate interest based on article 6.1.f) of the GDPR.
• To send electronic communications to the user who is a Client and who has not objected, as long as related to GERICÓ ASSOCIATES’ services and without prejudice to the right of withdrawing consent at any time.

For how long will we process your data?

Regarding the data collected through the Website and for the purposes indicated above, GERICÓ ASSOCIATES will process data for the period required for the attention of the user’s request, which can vary from the time necessary to contact the user, up to the effective contracting or not of our services or, where appropriate, the time in which the user who requested the registration to our Newsletter, while not requesting to unsubscribe, and 2 years for the users who have authorized us to keep their data in our files.

Subsequently, we will keep your personal data (locked) during the statute of limitations of the actions that could derive from the relationship maintained with the user/client or for the attention of public authorities, being the longest data retention period of 10 years, in compliance with our legal obligations.

Recipients of your personal data.

No transfer of your data to third parties is foreseen, unless required by public bodies or legal obligation. In order to properly manage the service provided and the personal data of its user/client, Gericó Associates will have the collaboration of third party service providers who can access your personal data and who will treat the aforementioned data on behalf of GERICÓ ASSOCIATES , as a consequence of its services provision.

GERICÓ ASSOCIATES is committed to enter into the relevant Data Treatment Administrator agreement pursuant to the GDPR and LOPDGDD.

 Rights you can exercise regarding the processing of your personal data.

Every User has the right to obtain confirmation on whether at GERICÓ ASSOCIATES we are treating their personal data or not. In any case, every User has the right to access their personal data, as well as to request the rectification of inaccurate data or, where appropriate, request its deletion when, among other reasons, the data is no longer necessary for the purposes that were collected.

At any time you can object to the processing of your data, based on your lack of consent and, in certain circumstances, you may request the limitation of the processing of your data, in which case we will only keep them based on the treatment and legality for which they were collected and during the legal period that obliges GERICÓ ASSOCIATES to lock them for later deletion.

You may also request the portability of your data so that it is sent directly to the entity designated in a structured format, for common use and mechanical reading, provided that they are treated based on your consent, in the implementation of a contract. or the treatment is carried out by automated means.

For the exercise of the rights mentioned in this section you can write, proving your identity (for which we recommend you provide a copy of your identity document), to the email: info@gericoassociates.com

In any case, you may file a claim with the competent Control Authority in this matter, which in the case of Spain is the Spanish Agency for Data Protection, especially when you have not obtained satisfaction in the exercise of your rights, by writing to C / Jorge Juan 6, 28001 – Madrid or through the website: https://www.agpd.es.

Other issues

• GERICÓ ASSOCIATES has a Privacy Policy compliant with the GDPR and the LOPDGDD. This way, it has implemented effective technical, physical and organizational security measures to prevent and mitigate the damages that may be caused to personal data, committing to thorough compliance with them and keeping those measures updated in order to cover the possible changes that may occur in the risks.
• The personal data provided to GERICÓ ASSOCIATES will be treated with the utmost confidentiality, committing ourselves to maintain its due secrecy.
• Privacy policy update. GERICÓ ASSOCIATES may modify this privacy policy as a result of legislative changes, jurisprudential doctrine and opinions of the AEPD that are directly, indirectly or sectorally applicable.

All changes, modifications or amendments that we introduce in our Privacy Policy will be published on this page.