Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Policy

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InovaPrime and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “InovaPrime”, “us” or “we”) understand that your privacy is important to you. We are committed to respecting your privacy and protecting your personal data, which is any information that is capable of identifying you as an individual person, collected via all websites or apps that post a link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, “the Sites”). This Privacy Policy describes how we handle and protect your personal data in connection with the Sites, in our capacity as data controllers.
Whenever you have any question on the use we make of your personal data we will be available to help you through the following channels:
Address: Rua Julieta Ferrão 10, 3ºDrt, 1600-131 Lisboa Portugal
Electronic mail: marketing@inovaprime.com

Responsible for Your Personal Data

InovaPrime, Serviços em Tecnologias de Informação, Lda. is responsible for processing your personal data under the terms of the General Data Protection Regulation and of related local data protection laws applicable in the countries in which it operates.

Personal Data We May Collect

InovaPrime collects personal data on certain areas of the Sites when you register for or apply for jobs through the InovaPrime, register for InovaPrime newsletters and alerts, participate in our webinares, sign up for conferences and events, and/or participate in public user posting areas (such as bulletin boards, discussion forums and surveys). The personal data collected varies across the Sites and may include information that you provide, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, country or region, job position, company name, and background information required to apply for a job. For instance, by registering for InovaPrime newsletters, you agree to receive the correspondence to which you have subscribed at the e-mail address that you provided at registration. Only InovaPrime will contact you using this e-mail address. We will send e-mails to this address related to your registration. If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, detailed unsubscribe instructions are included at the bottom of each email or you may contact us via email (marketing@inovaprime.com).
We may also automatically collect information about the devices you use to interact with our Sites. The information we automatically collect may include IP address, device identifier, web browser, and browsing information collected through cookies, pixels, and other similar technologies (collectively “Cookies”) on our Sites. We may also automatically collect information about how you use the Sites, such as what you have searched for and viewed on the Sites. The information automatically collected will be associated with any personal data you have provided. (Learn more: Cookies Policy)

How and Why We Use Your Personal Data

The personal data we collect may be used where we have your specific consent to do so, or where InovaPrime has a legitimate interest in or other legal basis for processing such information. In some situations, the collection of personal data may be required for the operation of the Sites or to provide certain services or products. InovaPrime uses your personal data to fulfill your requests for information, process your requests to participate in conferences and events, personalize content that you view or receive on the Sites, evaluate and improve our services, distribute newsletters and alerts to you, recruit and evaluate job applicants, analyze the Sites’ performance and functioning, comply with all applicable laws and corporate reporting obligations, enforce InovaPrime’s agreements, and accomplish other purposes you may initiate or request. We may keep any of your personal data on file and use it to contact you.
InovaPrime may use first and third party Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to manage our Sites and our services and collect analytics about how you use them. The information provided throughout this Privacy Policy about cookies also applies to these other tracking technologies. Please refer to our Cookie Policy for more details regarding our use of cookies.

For How Long Do We Keep Your Personal Data

We only keep your personal data for as long as we need to achieve the purposes stated in the previous paragraph and to comply with law.
When the maximum retention period is attained, your personal data are anonymized or destroyed/erased in a secure manner.

How You May Exercise Your Personal Data Protection Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have the right to request from us:

• Additional information on how we use your personal data;
• Access to your personal data;
• That we transfer to a third party the personal data you gave us;
• That we update your personal data;
• That we erase your personal data;
• That we suspend processing of your personal data once you opposed to it;
• That we limit how we use your personal data, whilst we correct them or we clarify any doubts we may have on their content or the way we use them;
• That we provide adequate means to enable you to object to decisions based solely on automated processing of your data.

You also have the right to withdraw, at any moment, the consent which you may have given us to use your personal data, when this use is based on consent.
You may not exercise these rights when your personal data are used to protect public interest, namely when used for crime investigation and prevention, or when subject to professional confidentiality.
To exercise your data protection rights or whenever you have any question on the use we make of your personal data you should contact us through the following channels:

• Address: Rua Julieta Ferrão 10, 3ºDrt, 1600-131 Lisboa Portugal
• Electronic mail: marketing@inovaprime.com

Transfer To Other Countries

InovaPrime shares your personal data globally with other InovaPrime group companies in order to perform the activities specified in this Policy. This includes InovaPrime Group companies in the following countries: Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburgish, Denmark, Sweden.
InovaPrime may also subcontract treatment to or share personal data with third parties located in countries other than the owner’s country of residence. This data may therefore be subject to privacy laws other than those in force in the data subject’s country of residence.
Personal data collected in the European Union and Switzerland can, for example, be transferred and processed by third parties located in a country outside the European Union and Switzerland. In such situations, InovaPrime will ensure that the transfer of personal data is carried out in accordance with the applicable privacy laws and, in particular, the adoption of appropriate contractual, technical and organizational measures.

How Do We Protect Your Personal Data?

We are committed to protecting the personal data we collect and treat. We implement technical and organizational measures to help protect the security of personal data; however, please note that no system is completely secure.
We implement various policies, including encryption, access and retention guidelines, contractual clauses, among others to prevent unauthorized access and unnecessary retention of personal data in our systems.

Updates to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. Updates will be made available on our website.