The Consortium for the design, construction, equipment and operation of the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (hereinafter referred to as PLOCAN), in accordance with current legislation on Personal Data Protection, hereby informs the users of the website www.plocan.eu (hereinafter referred to as “the Website”) of the Privacy and Data Protection Policy that will apply to the processing of the personal data that the User voluntarily provides when accessing its website.

By providing PLOCAN with their personal data through the electronic forms on the Website and the contact section and, where applicable, by ticking the corresponding acceptance box, the User expressly consents to PLOCAN being able to process this data under the terms of this Privacy and Data Protection Policy clause and for the purposes expressed herein.

PLOCAN informs the users of the Website that their personal data may only be obtained for processing when they are adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the specific, explicit and legitimate scope and purposes for which they have been obtained. They shall be deleted when they are no longer necessary or relevant for that purpose or when requested by the data subject in the exercise of his or her right of deletion.

PLOCAN declares its commitment to comply with the legislation in force at all times in the field of data protection.

The personal data provided will be processed by PLOCAN and will be used in accordance with the following information.

What personal data do we collect through the Site?

We may collect or receive your data through your visit to the Site or as a result of your interaction with us by completing and submitting the contact form or as a result of your interaction with us on our social media profile pages identified on the Site.

In some cases, personal data is provided directly by the user when subscribing to our Newsletter or newsletter, when contacting us through the channels provided, responding to surveys, subscribing to our social network profiles or interacting with us through these profiles by means of comments, opinions or sharing the content published on each profile. In other cases, personal data is obtained indirectly from the user for purely statistical purposes in order to analyse the use made of our website through the use of cookies or to provide added value services such as the location map of our offices (See our Cookies Policy). The table below provides more detailed information on the processing of your personal data, including the following headings:

  • Primary purposes: This identifies the purpose for which we need to collect your data, i.e. why we process your information.
  • Legitimacy: The reason that enables us to process your data is detailed.
  • Retention periods: The specific retention period or the criteria that determine this period is identified.
  • Recipients: We identify, where appropriate, with whom we will legitimately share your data.
  • Rights of data subjects: We inform you of your rights as a data subject with regard to the processing of your personal data.
  • The fields of the contact form marked with an asterisk (*) included in the Page are considered obligatory fields in order to be able to deal with your request or the evaluation of the information you wish to provide us with. Likewise, if you do not accept the installation of cookies, you will not be able to activate the Page’s analytics services or view the location map of our offices.
  • The contact details will be kept for as long as the relationship is maintained and their deletion is not requested. In relation to cookies, please consult our Cookies Policy to identify the validity of each cookie.
  • The data associated with your interaction in the corporate profiles of social networks will be kept for the period of time that you enable in said social network to your publications.

INFORMATION ON PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION

(In compliance with EU Regulation 2016/679 on Data Protection)

Data controller The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN)
NIF: Q3500385D,
Direction: Carretera de Taliarte, s/n, 35200, Telde, Gran Canaria. Telephone:
+34928134414
e-mail: info@plocan.eu
contact DPD: dpd@plocan.eu
Purposes Cookies: to maintain the registered user login, provide statistics associated with the use of the Page, location of our offices and anti-spam systems (captcha).sending of commercial communications – expressly requested.
Legitimation and retention The basis for the processing of the data corresponds to the consent given by the User when filling in the data, ticking the acceptance box and sending the form or information, subscribing to the sending The fields of the contact form marked with an asterisk (*) included on the Page are considered obligatory fields in order to deal with your request or the evaluation of the information that you wish to provide us with. Likewise, if you do not accept the installation of cookies, you will not be able to activate the Page’s analytical services or view the location map of our offices.the contact details will be kept for as long as the relationship is maintained and you do not request their deletion. In relation to cookies, please consult our Cookies Policy to identify the validity of each cookie. The data associated with your interaction in the corporate profiles of social networks will be retained for the period of time that you enable in said social network to your publications.
Recipients of international transfers and assignments There are no plans to transfer your data to third parties responsible for web analytics services: The Site has enabled Google Analytics services provided by Google LLC. Interaction with users through the use of this tool involves the international transfer of analytical and technical data relating to the Site. The transfer is made under the EU-US Privacy Shield agreement. – Information available at: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI Social media owners: PLOCAN uses the social networks Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Interaction with users through the use of such profiles or tools involves the international transfer of data of an analytical and technical nature in relation to the Site and network profiles, and the data provided by users through such profiles is processed by the company on its servers.
Rights of data subjects You may exercise your rights of access, rectification, erasure, portability, and limitation or opposition by writing to the address above.data subjects have the right to withdraw the consent given.data subjects have the right to complain to the Supervisory Authority (Spanish Data Protection Agency): www.agpd.es

The user shall be solely responsible for the veracity of the data provided to PLOCAN.

PLOCAN adopts the technical and organisational measures necessary to guarantee the security of the personal data contained therein and to prevent their alteration, loss, unauthorised processing or access, taking into account the state of technology, the nature of the data and the risks to which they are exposed.

The Site has the SSL Certificate (Secure Socket Layer), in order to guarantee the security of data transmission between your browser and our Site.

The secure server establishes a connection so that the information is transmitted in encrypted form, which ensures that it is only intelligible to the user’s device and that of the Site. Thus, by using the SSL protocol, it is guaranteed:

  • That the user is communicating their data to the Page’s server centre and not to any other.
  • That between the user and the Site the data is transmitted in encrypted form, preventing its possible reading or manipulation by third parties.

To verify that he/she is in a secure environment, the Customer should check that the address of the Verification Page begins with https://

You can also identify the Site as secure when a padlock icon appears in the address bar of your browser.

Finally, you can also verify the presence of the SSL certificate by checking the properties of the Page in your browser, for which you should consult the characteristics of the certificate.

Any changes made to the Privacy Policy and information management practices will be reflected in a timely manner, and PLOCAN may add, modify or delete such privacy policy as it deems necessary.

Under no circumstances will PLOCAN modify policies or practices to make them less effective in protecting our clients’ previously stored personal data without the prior consent of the clients concerned.