1. Who are we?

The COMPANHIA AURIFICIA – SIC IMOBILIÁRIA FECHADA, S.A., hereinafter referred to as “COMPANHIA AURIFÍCIA”, is an entity dedicated to the management and administration of real estate, the purchase, sale, leasing of real estate and real estate promotion.

The address of the Website: https://companhiaaurificia.pt/ (hereinafter the“WEBSITE”).

2. Commitment

COMPANHIA AURIFÍCIA has a strong commitment to the privacy and rights of personal data holders, acting in accordance with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other applicable legislation.

3. What is this policy about?

This Privacy and Cookies Policy explains how we collect and process the personal data necessary to the provision of the services available through the WEBSITE, describing the practices adopted for that effect in a general and abstract form, wherefore the information that is provided may be supplemented or removed, in whole or in part, with other policies, notices or information of more specific nature that have eventually been, or may become, made available in the context of certain types of personal data management.

The navigation through the WEBSITE doesn’t imply, necessarily, the supply of personal data. However, COMPANHIA AURIFÍCIA may provide, through the present WEBSITE, a contact form. The filling of said form implies the delivery of personal data, which is used in accordance with the terms laid out in the respective form.

Hence, COMPANHIA AURIFÍCIAL assumes, therefore, the commitment of securing the protection of all the personal data made available, having adopted several measures of security to protect the personal data made available through the use of the COMPANHIA AURIFÍCIA’s WEBSITE from unauthorized disclosure, loss, misuse, alteration, processing or access, or any other form of unlawful processing.

This Privacy Policy applies exclusively to the processing of personal data by COMPANHIA AURIFÍCIA collected through its WEBSITE.

4. Responsible for the Treatment

COMPANHIA AURIFICIA – SIC IMOBILIÁRIA FECHADA, S.A., NIPC 500530009, collective investment undertaking No. 1880, incorporated on March 7, 2023, pursuant to the authorization granted by the CMVM on January 13, 2023, is responsible for the processing of personal data for the purposes listed below.

COMPANHIA AURIFÍCIA is committed to protecting your privacy and is (depending on the reason behind your interaction with us) responsible for processing your personal data within the meaning of the data protection laws applicable in the European Union ("EU") and the European Economic Area ("EEA").

Hence, any questions that arise about the treatment of personal data, please contact COMPANHIA AURIFÍCIAthrough the following means:

Telephone: +351 220 437 620

Email: companhiaaurifica@fvcgroup.pt

Head Office: Edifício Península, na Praça do Bom Sucesso, n.º 127, escritório 210, 4150-146 Porto

 

5. Personal Data

It is considered as Personal Data any and all information regarding a natural person (“data holder”) who is identified or identifiable, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier. Examples of identifiers are the name, ID number, “email”, “IP address”, and/or one or more specific elements of physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of the natural person.

In the COMPANHIA AURIFÍCIA’s WEBSITE we only collect the identification data necessary to respond to your contact request, namely, name, email and/or telephone number.

COMPANHIA AURIFÍCIA protects the personal data made available at the time of online browsing, ensuring:

• a lawful, loyal and transparent treatment of all your data;
• the limitation of the processing of your data to the established purposes;
• the minimisation of processing which should be adequate, relevant and limited;
• the accuracy and updating of the personal data provided;
• the conservation of the data for the necessary period to fulfil its finality;
• the integrity and confidentiality of your personal data.

The Personal Data Protection Policy applies to all the data collected on the website https://companhiaaurificia.pt/ regardless of the means of access, whether by cell phone or any other means of online browsing.

 

5.1. How and when your personal data is collected

Your personal data may be collected when you fill out the fields in the “Contact Us” form on our website. Talk to Us. form on our website.

5.2. Legal basis and purpose of the processing of personal data

The fundamentals that legitimize the processing of your personal data by COMPANHIA AURIFÍCIA are as follows:

1. Consent: your personal data may be processed by manifestation of free, informed, and explicit will, in which you accept, by declaration, or unequivocal positive act, that your data will be processed by COMPANHIA AURIFÍCIA. By accepting the terms and conditions of the WEBSITE https://companhiaaurificia.pt/ you are consenting the processing of your personal data. The provision of consent does not constitute a legal or contractual obligation.
2. Legitimate Interest: Your personal data will be processed based on the legitimate interest of COMPANHIA AURIFÍCIA, to give response to contact requests forwarded to us, except in cases where your privacy and data protection rights prevail.
3. In the context of the provision of services: your personal data will be processed to the extent strictly necessary for the provision of services contracted by you. If services are contracted from COMPANHIA AURIFÍCIA, the data collected through the website, just as any other obtained in the context of the relationship, will be used for the management of the quality of services as well as to allow their provision.
4. Other purposes: COMPANHIA AURIFÍCIA may also use the personal data available for:
   • Management of service contracting through website contacts, as well as meetings scheduling;
   • Recruitment and selection processes;
   • Sending newsletters and other institutional communications actions within the activities of COMPANHIA AURIFÍCIA and FVC Group, including the companies that integrate it.

Within the recruitment and selection procedures, the personal data can be used for human resource’s management, for the fulfilment of legal obligations and for providing necessary means to the pursuit of the professional activity.

 

5.3. Retention period of your personal data

COMPANHIA AURIFÍCIA conserves your personal data only for the period strictly necessary to the pursuance of the finality for which they were collected.

Within the provision of services, we will conserve your personal data in conformity with the legal time limits applicable to the processing at hand.

If there is no specific legal obligation your data will be processed only for the period strictly necessary to fulfil the purposes that motivated its collection, if legitimate ground remain, or as long as you give consent and allow its retention by COMPANHIA AURIFÍCIA.

Once the maximum retention period has been reached, personal data will be anonymised in an irreversible way and may be stored or destroyed in a safe manner.

 

5.4. Transmission of your data

COMPANHIA AURIFÍCIA commits to only transmit your personal data when that reveals necessary to the pursuit of the purposes described, in particular to the provision of services, for the fulfilment of legal obligations to which COMPANHIA AURIFÍCIA is subject, as well as to send communications authorized by you.

COMPANHIA AURIFÍCIA suppliers and/or service providers are contractually subjected to the same terms and conditions of personal data processing as the former, and are prohibited of using, transferring, disclosing or recording the personal data of the user for any other purpose than the one that for which they were specifically contracted.

Additionally, we may share your personal data with other organizations/third parties in the following circumstances:

• if we are required by applicable laws or a public authority to share information about you;
• if we need to share information about you in order to establish, exercise, defend or protect the rights, property or safety of our business, our customers or others. This includes, in specific cases, exchanging information with other organizations for fraud protection purposes; and
• to successors or replacement operators of all or part of our respective businesses.

 

5.5. Holder’s Rights

COMPANHIA AURIFÍCIA guarantees to the holders of the personal data the exercise of their rights, established in the Data Protection Legislation, namely, the right of access, rectification, deletion, portability, limitation, and opposition to the processing of their personal data, as well as the right to withdraw its consent at any time, without compromising the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent previously given, when applicable.

If you request the deletion of some or the entirety of your personal data, some of the services requested may not be provided and COMPANHIA AURIFÍCIA will only retain the personal data necessary to comply with its legal obligations.

You can exercise your rights at the following address: companhiaaurifica@fvcgroup.pt

The holders of the data also have the right to lodge a complaint with the National Data Protection Commission (NDPC).

6. Cookies

Cookies are small information files that help identify your browser and that can store information, such as, user settings and preferences.

COMPANHIA AURIFÍCIA will only store cookies on your equipment to personalize and facilitate to the maxim the navigation, but also, to solve problems, statistics, quality assurance, and to monitor the system security.

Apart from cookies specifically necessary to the WEBSITE’s performance, the storage of other cookies will always depend on the acceptance and consent of the user, and this consent can be withdrawn at any time through browser-specific tools.

This information is used to provide to the user a more personalized service, allowing the improvement of the performance and browsing experience, increasing, on one side, the quickness and efficiency of the response from the website, and on the other, eliminating the need to repeatedly enter the same information. Placing cookies will help the website to recognize the device the next time the user visits it.

Cookies are not used to collect personal data.

The Cookies used in this WEBSITE are the following:

• PHPSESSID: cookie that allows the website to respond to any action that the user takes on the website, such as completing a survey form. The website does not work correctly if this cookie is not used.
• XMS USER: cookie used by users of the backoffice. The site works correctly if this cookie is not used.
• GOOGLE ANALYTICS: allows to collect information on the use of the website. This information is collected anonymously and used to create reports of visits to the website, in order to improve its functionalities.

All the browsers allow the user to accept, refuse, or delete cookies, namely through the selection of the appropriate settings in the used browser. You can set cookies in your browser “options” or “preferences” menu. To know more about cookies, including how to see why cookies were created and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org that includes information on how to manage your settings for several browser suppliers.

It should be noted, however, that deactivating cookies can affect, totally or partially, your experience of browsing on the website.

To give visitors a greater choice about how their data is collected by Google Analytics, Google developed the Google Analytics Browser Opt-ou Add-on. The add-on communicates with Google Analytics JavaScritp (ga-js) to indicate that the information about the visit to the website should not be sent to Google Analytics. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser does not preclude the information from being sent to the website itself or to other web analyitics services.

7. Links to other websites

Links to other websites The links contained on this WEBSITE may lead to other websites. COMPANHIA AURIFÍCIA is not responsible, approves or in any form supports or subscribes to the content of those websites, nor the websites linked or referred to these.

We advise reading the privacy policies of any other website that is connected to the COMPANHIA AURIFÍCIA WEBSITE.

8. Data security

COMPANHIA AURIFÍCIA has procedures of a technical and organizational nature in order to avoid security breaches and improper access to personal data, as well as its respective destruction or illicit uses.

Despite all efforts, COMPANHIA AURIFÍCIA cannot guarantee the full and absolute inviolability of the information received, considering the unsecure nature of the open networks such as Internet.

 

9. Changes to the Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be subject to change or revision, without notice, depending on legislative or regulatory requirements in compliance with the law in force. All significative changes to these terms will be duly communicated to users on the website in an appropriate location.