1. Our commitment

Your privacy is very important to us. In compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we present the following Privacy Policy, in which we describe how we process your personal data when visiting this website and how you can exercise your rights as a data subject.

By using our website, you accept the terms of this policy.

2. What is personal data?

Personal data includes all information of any nature, collected in any type of medium, relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. A person is considered identifiable when the set of information can lead to the identification of a specific person, particularly by reference to an identification number or other specific elements of their physical, physiological, psychological, economic, cultural, or social identity.

3. What personal data do we collect?

We only collect data that is adequate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary for the purposes for which it is processed. We may collect the following information:
- Identification data: name, nationality, or date of birth
- Contact data: mobile phone, address, or email
- Navigation data: IP address, device type, browser, pages visited, visit time

4. What are the purposes of collection?

The collected data serves to:
- Provide and manage website services;
- Respond to contact requests or information requests;
- Send newsletters or communications, with prior consent;
- Improve user experience and website performance;
- Comply with legal obligations.

5. What are the legal grounds for processing your data?

The personal data we process has specific legal grounds, depending on the purposes for which they are intended, namely:
- Express, specific, and informed consent, through written support or via web,
- Compliance with legal obligations, such as, for example, the communication of data to other public bodies (national and community), fiscal or judicial
- Legitimate interest, when processing is necessary for the pursuit of legitimate interests of the entity responsible for processing or third parties, without prejudicing the rights and freedoms of their clients and/or users.

6. With whom may we share your data?

Your data may be shared with:
- Providers of certain technical services, namely hosting or email marketing;
- Analytics platforms, such as Google Analytics;
- Legal entities, if required by law.

7. What about sensitive personal data?

The use of this website does not imply the provision of sensitive personal data, such as information that reveals racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, health-related data, among others. We ask that you do not provide us with any sensitive personal data. If such data is provided to us, it will be immediately deleted.

8. How long do we retain your data?

We retain your data only for the time necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, except for legal obligations that require a longer period.

9. Does the website use cookies?

We use cookies to improve navigation and analyze website traffic. For more information, please consult our Cookie Policy.

10. How do we protect your data?

We adopt appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, loss, or destruction, ensuring that the minimum number of employees have access to it, being team members who comply with rules created for this purpose. Although we take all precautions, we advise you to pay special attention to these issues and adopt all necessary care.

11. What rights can you exercise?

Under current legislation, from the moment we collect and process your data, there is a set of rights that you can exercise at any time, namely:

• Right of access
Obtain information regarding the processing of your data and its characteristics.

• Right of rectification
Request the rectification of your data.

• Right to be forgotten
Request the deletion of your data, when you consider that there are no valid grounds for retention, provided that there is no other valid ground that legitimizes such processing.

• Right to Limitation
Suspend processing or limit processing to certain categories of data or purposes.

• Right to Portability
Request the sending of your data, in digital format and of current use, that allows its reuse or transmission to another entity.

• Right of Opposition
Oppose certain purposes, provided that legitimate interests that prevail over your interests are not verified.

• Right to Withdraw Consent
Can only be exercised when your consent is the only condition of legitimacy.

12. How can you exercise your rights?

All the rights described above may be exercised, with the limitations provided for in applicable legislation, through a written request, to be sent via email to info@azoresexpo2025.pt. You have the right to file a complaint with the competent supervisory authority in Portugal, the National Data Protection Commission, at www.cnpd.pt.

13. How are changes to the Privacy Policy communicated?

This policy may be modified at any time. We guarantee that the version available on the website is always the most recent.

14. Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or about the processing of your data, you can contact us via email at info@azoresexpo2025.pt.