Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

The companies of the GVC GAESCO Group (GVC Gaesco Holding, S.L., GVC Gaesco Valores, S.V., S.A., GVC Gaesco Gestión, SGIIC, S.A., GVC Gaesco Pensiones, SGFP, S.A. and GVC Gaesco Correduría de Seguros S.A.) are committed to protecting the personal information you share with us. Your privacy is our priority. We aim to guarantee and protect the privacy and confidentiality of your personal data, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU Regulation 2016/679).

This statement sets out our privacy and data protection policy as regards the information you provide us to ensure that: (i) you may request the cancellation of your personal data at any time, provided the fulfilment of the legal requirements of data protection and storage; (ii) we undertake to comply with our obligation of secrecy regarding the personal data and with our duty to store the data confidentiality without communicating them to third parties unless the explicit prior consent of their owner; and (iii) we have adopted the required technical and organizational measures, considering the state of the art, the costs of application, and the nature, scope, context and purposes of the processing, as well as the probability and severity of risks for the rights and freedoms of natural persons to ensure an appropriate level of security to the risk detected, the pseudonymisation and encryption of personal data as well as the capability to guarantee the permanent confidentiality, integrity, availability and resilience of processing systems and services.

Purpose of the collection, processing, and use of personal data

The collection and use of personal data, unless the cases described in the section “Data processing to enable the use of the website” below, will be process only if you explicitly provide us with your personal data and will be applied to the following situations and purposes:

Contracting and opening an account "the Contract"

The personal data provided during the opening process of an account or the signing up of a client will be collected, processed, and used in order to manage the subsequent execution of the signed Contract and keep the contractual relationship, management, administration, provision, extension, and improvement of services, as well as sending technical and operational information related to the Contract, by any means, email or equivalent included.

In this respect, we inform you that your personal data along with the results of possible satisfaction surveys will be used to assess your opinion and study your specific profile for the sole purpose of improving our services and thus adapt and design our commercial offers.

Personal data will not be transferred to third parties, except by legal obligation or the pursuit of a legitimate interest of the company, a third party or yourself.

Assignment of your contract data

For the management of the inherent purposes to the development and fulfilment of the object of this contract we shall communicate your personal data, required for the provision of the respective service, to the different suppliers of the products and services, who shall be obliged to use the data, solely and exclusively, to accomplish with the object of this contract, by virtue of contracts entered into with the aforementioned third parties.

Storage period of the contract data

The personal data provided in the contracting process will be kept as long as the commercial relationship among the parties is maintained and up to a 5-years maximum.

Legitimacy of the data processing

The legal grounds for processing your personal data, concerning the abovementioned purposes, is the execution of the contract hereby (Legislative Royal Decree1/2007, of November 16, that approved the Amended Text of the General Law for the Protection of Consumers and Users and other supplementary laws.

Newsletter and subsequent advertising

This requires your explicit and unambiguous consent. Therefore, if you wish to receive our newsletter, you must sign up and provide us with an assigned and functional email which enables us to verify that you are the applicant and its owner. By accepting the Privacy Policy for sending communications, the users explicitly consent, for this purpose, to enter their contact details in our system.

The user, through the acceptance of the Privacy Policy for sending communications, explicitly consents to the incorporation of their personal contact data in our systems and for that purpose.

Privacy policy for sending communications GVC GAESCO HOLDING, S.L.
Privacy policy for sending communications GVC GAESCO VALORES, S.V., S.A
Privacy policy for sending communications GVC GAESCO CORREDURÍA DE SEGUROS, S.A.
Privacy policy for sending communications GVC GAESCO PENSIONES, S.G.F.P., S.A.
Privacy policy for sending communications GVC GAESCO GESTIÓN, S.G.I.I.C., S.A

Data retention period

The data incorporated for the abovementioned purposes will be stored as long as the users do not exercise their rights of deletion or revocation of their consent granted.

Legitimation of the processing

The legal grounds for processing your personal data, in relation to the abovementioned purposes, is the consent given by the user through the acceptance of the Privacy Policy for sending communications.

Automated decisions

The companies of GVC Gaesco Group, in the event of having obtained the express and unequivocal consent by the user, shall make automated decisions including profiling, with the aim of informing about products and services in accordance with the user circumstances and market.

Other purposes than collection

If further processing data is planned for different purposes than which they were initially collected for, related information and any relevant additional information shall be prior provided to the client and thus, may consent expressly and unambiguously such further processing.

Data processing to enable the use of the website.

When you visit our website, we collect the data necessary for you to access (usage data). This includes your IP address and data about the beginning, end, and subject of your use of the website and likely your identification data (e.g., your login details if you sign up in the Private area). These data is used for the provision and design service based on of each user needs and is deleted as soon as it is no longer needed.

Cookies

If you visit our websites, the information may be stored in the form of a cookie on your local device. This allows us to recognize you on your later visits and to improve your browsing on the website (e.g., to avoid logging in later). Cookies are small text files that are sent from a web server to your browser and stored on your own device. Visit our Cookies Policy for more information. 

Pseudonymous user profiles for advertising and market research

For advertising, market research and pleasant browsing purposes, the companies of the GVC GAESCO Group use web tracking systems. Accordingly, data of our website usage in pseudonymous user profiles is stored. This will allow us to further develop our websites and tailor our content to your needs. In addition, usage profiles are used for so-called redirection. By doing this, the companies of the GVC GAESCO Group may publish and insert interesting offers into other websites you visit. Pseudonymous usage profiles are not combined with personal data.

You can object to the creation of pseudonymous usage profiles. Visit our Cookies Policy to turn off the cookies in your browser. You may also protect your privacy by installing certain add-ons on your browser to prevent the tracking.

Data collection by third-party providers/social media

Our website contains links to social media operators (e.g., Facebook, XING, Google Plus, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.). These social networks are exclusively operated by third parties. By clicking on the links, the information may be transmitted to those third parties. For further information about the purpose and scope of your data collection and the subsequent local processing, as well as your rights and how to protect your privacy, you should contact to the operators and find out each of their privacy policies.  

Disclosure data to third parties

Personal data will not be transferred to third parties unless you have prior given your explicit and unambiguous consent, or by legal decision, obligation or the pursuit of a legitimate interest of the company, a third party or yourself. However, your data may be disclosed to other entities of the business group to which the companies of the GVC GAESCO Group belong (GVC GAESCO HOLDING, S.L., GVC GAESCO VALORES, S.V., S.A., GVC GAESCO CORREDURÍA DE SEGUROS, S.A., GVC GAESCO PENSIONES, S.G.F.P., S.A. and GVC GAESCO GESTIÓN, S.G.I.I.C., S.A.) to duly fulfill the purposes described in the section Purpose of the collection, processing, and use of personal data hereof.

Data security

The companies of the GVC GAESCO Group have implemented the necessary technical and organizational measures, taking into account the state of the art, the costs of application, and the nature, scope, context and purposes of the processing, as well as risks of variable probability and severity for the rights and freedom of natural persons, to guarantee a level of security appropriate to the risk detected and ensure the pseudonymization and encryption of personal data and the ability to ensure the ongoing confidentiality, integrity, availability and resilience of processing systems and services.

It Is compulsory for all our employees, collaborators and people involved in the personal data processing to accomplish with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, as well as other relevant laws to data protection and the confidential handling of personal data. To protect the personal information of our users we use a secure method of transmission (Secure Socket Layer – SSL). SSL encryption ensures the encrypted and complete transmission of your data.

Exercise of rights

Please note that you can exercise your right, free of charge and insofar as the legal requirements are met, to obtain confirmation on whether the companies of the GVC GAESCO Group process personal data related to you. You may also exercise the right, as concerned party, to access your personal data, as well as to request the rectification of inaccurate data or, where appropriate, request their deletion when, among other reasons, the data is no longer necessary for the purposes that was collected. Likewise, you may request the limitation of your data processing, in which case we will only keep them for the exercise or defense of claims or for compelling legitimate reasons.

In certain circumstances and for reasons related to your specific situation, you may object to your data processing. The companies of the GVC GAESCO Group will stop the data processing, except for compelling legitimate reasons, or the exercise or defense of possible claims. In all communications for advertising purposes you may exercise your right of opposition. You may revoke your data protection consent at any time with future effect. To exercise these rights, you may contact, by explicit request, to the address: DPO – Grupo GVC Gaesco C/ Doctor Ferran 3-5, Barcelona. 08034 (Spain). Visit our website (www.gvcgaesco.es) to learn more about Data Protection. 

Complaints to the data protection authority

Users may address their claims arising from the processing of their personal data to the Spanish Data Protection Agency (www.agpd.es). The last update of this privacy policy was in May 2018.

This Privacy Policy was last updated on May 2018