Privacy policy and Cookies

INTRODUCTION

The privacy policy described below offers you a general perspective of how Agritechcon treats your personal data and your rights in this matter, in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council – General Protection Regulation Data Protection (“GDPR”) and other applicable legislation on privacy and data protection. The specific personal data that will be processed and the way in which it will be used largely depends on the services requested and agreed with you.

This privacy policy applies to the personal data of Users of our Websites and Customers whenever they are natural persons.

Each time you use the Site you are subject to the application of the Privacy and Cookies Policy in force at each time, so we suggest that you read these Policies carefully to check whether you agree with the respective terms.

From time to time, we may change this Privacy Policy. If you would like to stay up to date, please visit this page as all changes will be posted here.

For the purposes of applicable data protection legislation, the company responsible for processing your personal data is Agritechcon.

GLOSSARY

Delete – we will permanently delete your personal data once the retention period ends or when we receive a valid request from you to do so and provided that there are no legitimate interests justifying the retention of your personal data.

Personal data – any information relating to a natural person that can directly identify that person or that makes that person identifiable, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier.

Customers – customers and others to whom Agritechcon provides services or supplies goods in the course of its activity.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – European Union legal instrument that aims to harmonize European legislation on data protection.

TYPE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Agritechcon collects different types of personal data depending on different purposes, as explained below. We emphasize that we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18 years of age. If we discover that we have unintentionally collected personal information from minors under the age of 18, we will take the necessary steps to delete the information as quickly as possible, unless we are required by applicable law to retain it.

• CUSTOMER DATA: We only collect the data necessary for the preparation, fulfillment and execution of any quote or service requested by the Customer from Agritechcon, as well as to respond to any subsequent complaints regarding the same. Normally, we only need to have your contact details (such as name, telephone number, email address), to enable us to ensure that our relationship runs smoothly.
• SITE USERS: We only collect the data necessary to guarantee a good experience when using the Site and to allow you to take advantage of all the potential and capabilities provided by it, as well as to help us manage the services we provide. This includes information such as how you use our website, how often you access it, your browser type, your IP address, the location from which you view our website, the language you choose to view it in and the times in which you visit our website. our website is most popular, as well as other information better described in our cookie policy below.

Please keep in mind that the above list of categories of personal data that we may collect is not exhaustive.

OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE DATA

Within the scope of our commercial or working relationship, you will have to provide the personal data necessary to establish and create this relationship and to comply with pre-contractual and derivative obligations and due diligence and also those that we are legally obliged to collect. Without this data, we will, as a general rule, have to refuse to conclude or execute the contract or we will not be able to maintain the contract and will have to terminate it.

If you do not provide us with the necessary information and documentation, we will not be able to establish or continue the commercial or working relationship you desire, or comply with the requests you make to us.

HOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL DATA

We may collect personal data in several ways

• Personal data that we receive directly from you, if you contact us proactively, normally by phone or email; and/or if we contact you by telephone or email or through business development activities more generally.
• Insert your data on the Destination Website using the form as part of the registration process;
• Send your CV by email, or through social networks or leave a copy of the CV on paper;
• Participate in a contest through a social media channel, such as Facebook, Instagram, or another;
• Subscription to our newsletter;
• Personal data we receive from other sources, typically through commercial due diligence or other market intelligence. We also receive personal data from other sources, for example, if you “like” our Facebook page or “follow” us on X and/or Instagram and/or Pinterest we will receive personal information from these sites.
• We collect your data automatically through cookies, in accordance with your browser’s cookie settings.

LEGAL BASIS

1. To provide products and services: Agritechcon may use your personal data when necessary to execute the contract concluded between you and Agritechcon , as well as to identify you. We may also use your Personal Data to prevent and investigate possible misuse of it.
2. Marketing Activities: we may periodically send you information that we consider to be of interest to you. In particular, we may use your data for the purposes listed below, where appropriate, namely: allowing us to develop commercial or marketing actions, in particular to promote actions to promote new functionalities or new products and services; send you reporting, promotions, offers and contact establishment data; provide you with information about certain discounts and offers to which you are entitled due to your relationship with Agritechcon allowing us to send you newsletters, which may contain information relating to promotional campaigns, discounts, promotions and offers, invitations, reminders relating to your reservations , actions to publicize new features, new products or services and to send information about participation in competitions and sweepstakes, in accordance with the thematic preferences that you have indicated to us, by email; provide you with information about personalized and unique offers for products and services identified based on your personal preferences and behaviors, as well as from your use of products, services and website navigation.
3. Other purposes: to store (and update when necessary) your information in our database, so that we can contact you in relation to the contracts you wish to enter into/have entered into with us; to provide services to you or to obtain support and services from you; to comply with certain legal obligations; to help us target appropriate marketing campaigns, and Agritechcon may adopt automated decisions, including profiling; In rare circumstances, to help us declare, exercise or defend a right and to defend the vital interests of the data subject, we may also use your personal data, if we consider it necessary to do so to defend our legitimate interests .
4. Development of products and services: Agritechcon may use your personal data to develop its products and services. However, we will predominantly use aggregated data and statistical information for this purpose. Agritechcon keeps a record of the pages that our customers visit within the website to determine which services/products are most requested. In this case, information is collected relating to the computer or device (including mobile devices) you use to access it, the website through which you accessed ours, the type and language of your browser, operating system, cookies, the country of which you are accessing, referring and exit pages, URL, type of platform, number of clicks made, domain names, landing pages, pages visited and the order in which you visited them, time spent on a particular page, the date and time you accessed our website, access errors and other similar information that your browser sends to us.
5. Communication: Agritechcon may use your personal data to communicate with you, in particular, to send you news related to our products or services, or to provide assistance in aspects related to customer support, in particular to respond to and process requests user through customer service channels, as well as monitoring the quality of our service. In this case, your full name, email address and telephone number are collected.

We use and process your personal data to manage and execute contracts or other measures requested by the data subject (Art. 6.º no. 1 subparagraph b) RGDP); within the scope of a legitimate interest (Art. 6.º no. 1 subparagraph f) RGDP); based on your consent (Art. 6.º no. 1 subparagraph a) RGDP) and by legal imperative or for the benefit of the public interest (Art. 6.º no. 1 subparagraph c) and e) RGDP).

ENTITIES WITH WHICH WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Where appropriate and in compliance with local laws and requirements, we may share your personal data in various ways and for various reasons with the following categories of people:

• In the course of investigation, complaint or procedure, to the Tax Authorities, Audit, Administration, Public Bodies, the Court, Foreigners and Borders Services (“SEF”) and the Security Forces, who are responsible for the matter ;
• Third party service providers who perform functions on our behalf (including external consultants, business partners and professional advisors such as lawyers, auditors and accountants, recruitment companies, technical support functions and IT consultants who carry out testing and development work on systems technology of our company);
• Third-party IT service providers and outsourced document storage, in cases where we have an appropriate processing contract (or similar protections);
• In the event of acquisition or disposal of businesses or assets, we may share your personal data with potential acquirers of these businesses or assets;
• In the case of payments, credit entities and other payment service providers, as well as technological service providers related to payment services to whom the data is transmitted to carry out the transaction, and who may be obliged by State legislation where they operate, or through agreements concluded by them, to provide information on transactions to the authorities or official bodies of other countries, located both inside and outside the European Union, within the scope of the fight against the financing of terrorism, serious forms of organized crime and prevention of money laundering.

SAFEGUARDING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We are committed to taking all reasonable and appropriate measures to protect the personal information we hold from misuse, accidental or unlawful alteration, loss, and unauthorized disclosure or access. To this end, Agritechcon uses security systems, rules and other procedures, in order to guarantee the protection of your personal data, as well as to prevent unauthorized access to data, improper use, disclosure, loss or destruction.

If you suspect misuse, loss or unauthorized access to your personal information, please inform us immediately.

CONSERVATION OF PERSONAL DATA

We only keep your personal data for as long as necessary to achieve the purpose for which we collected it, to respond to your needs, the requests you make to us, or to comply with our contractual and legal obligations, using the criteria mentioned:

• a) When you purchase products and services, we will keep your personal data for the duration of our commercial relationship, including any complaints that may arise, as well as for a period of ten 10 years after the termination of such relationship, without prejudice to the fulfillment of obligations legal requirements of the controller;
• b)When you contact us to ask questions, request information and clarifications, we will keep your personal data for the period necessary to resolve your question/provide the requested information and/or clarifications;
• c) When you create a customer account, i.e. when you register on our website, we will keep your data until you ask us to delete it or after a period of inactivity of five years;
• d) In relation to data collected in the recruitment process, during a maximum period of five years after the end of the recruitment process;
• e) Regarding the use of cookies, we keep them as long as necessary to achieve the purposes inherent to them, as detailed in the Cookies Policy;
• f) The time provided for in applicable legislation; or
• g) Until the specific purpose applicable to certain data ceases to exist.
• h) If there is a pending judicial or administrative proceeding, the data will be kept for the duration of the proceeding and up to six months after the final decision is rendered.

After the retention periods mentioned above, personal data will be deleted and/or erased in an absolutely secure manner.

HOW TO ACCESS, CHANGE OR REMOVE THE PERSONAL DATA YOU PROVIDE TO US

• Right to object: This right allows you to object to our processing of your personal data, on grounds relating to your particular situation where your personal data is processed for one of the following reasons: (i) our legitimate interests ; (ii) to enable us to perform a task in the public interest or exercise official authority; (iii) to send you direct marketing materials, including profiling; and (iv) scientific, historical, research or statistical purposes.
  If you exercise your right to object, we will terminate the processing of the data to which you have objected, unless: we can demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate reasons for the processing that override your interests or we are processing your data for the purposes of declaration, exercise or defense of a right.
• Right to withdraw consent: You can withdraw your consent to the processing of personal data at any time and we will no longer carry out the specific activity to which you previously consented, unless we consider that there is an alternative reason to justify continued processing on our part of your data for this purpose, in which case we will inform you about this condition.
• Data Subject Access Requests: You can ask us, at any time, to confirm the information we have about you, as well as request additional information about the purposes of processing, the period for which we retain your data, the existence of decisions automated, the recipients to whom the data is disclosed, among other information provided for in article 15 of the GDPR. We may ask you to verify your identity and further information about your order. If we grant you access to information we hold about you, we will not charge you for that access unless your request is “manifestly unfounded or excessive.” If you ask us for additional copies of this information, we may charge you a reasonable administrative fee where legally permitted. Where we are legally permitted to do so, we may refuse your request. If we refuse your request, you will always be informed of our reasons for doing so.
• Right to be forgotten/erased: In certain circumstances, you have the right to ask us to delete your personal data. Normally, the exercise of this right must comply with one of the following criteria: the data is no longer necessary for the purpose for which we originally collected and/or processed it; where you have withdrawn your consent for us to process your data and there is no other valid reason for us to continue processing it; if you object to the processing and there are no overriding legitimate interests justifying it: the data was processed unlawfully (i.e. in a way that does not comply with the GDPR); or it is necessary for the data to be erased in order to comply with our legal obligations as a controller.

This right, however, does not apply, and, therefore, Agritechcon may continue to process your data in a legitimate manner, when this proves necessary:

• to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information;
• to comply with legal obligations or to perform a task of public interest or the exercise of official authority;
• for public health reasons in the interest of the public;
• for archival, research or statistical purposes;
• for the exercise or defense of a right.

When complying with a valid data erasure request, we will take all reasonable practical steps to erase the data.

• Right to restrict processing: In certain circumstances, you have the right to restrict our processing of your personal data. This means that we can only continue to store your data and cannot carry out further processing activities with it until: (i) one of the circumstances listed below is resolved; (ii) we have obtained your consent; or (iii) further processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of a right, the protection of the rights of another person or for reasons of important public interest of the EU or a Member State.

The circumstances in which you have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data are:

• in the event that you dispute the accuracy of the personal data we process about you. In this case, our processing of your personal data will be restricted for the period during which the accuracy of the data is verified;
• in case you object to the processing of your personal data for our legitimate interests. In this situation, you can ask for the data to be restricted while we verify our grounds for processing your personal data;
• if our processing of your data is unlawful, but you prefer to restrict our processing of your data instead of deleting it; and
• if we no longer need to process your personal data, but we need the data to declare, exercise or defend a right.

If we have shared your personal data with third parties, they will be notified of the restricted processing unless this is impossible or involves disproportionate effort. We will, of course, notify you before lifting any restrictions on the processing of your personal data.

• Right to rectification: You have the right to ask us to rectify any inaccurate or incomplete personal data we hold about you. If we have shared this personal data with third parties, they will be notified of the rectification unless this is impossible or involves disproportionate effort. Where appropriate, we will also disclose to you which third parties we disclosed inaccurate or incomplete personal data to. Where we consider it reasonable for us not to comply with your request, we will explain the reasons for our decision. It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please let us know if there are changes to your personal information during the period we hold your data.
• Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority: You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority, which in Portugal is the National Data Protection Commission. You can contact her in the following ways: Telephone (+351) 213928400 / Privacy Line: +351 21 393 00 39 E-mail: geral@cnpd.pt/ Address: Rua de São Bento, nº 148-3º, 1200- 821 Lisbon / Fax: +351 21 397 68 32

If you wish to exercise any of these rights or withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data (if consent is our legal basis for processing your personal data), please contact us. Please note that we may keep a record of your communications to help us resolve any issues raised by you:

CONTACT

If you wish to exercise any of the above rights, suspect misuse, loss or unauthorized access or have any comments or suggestions regarding this Privacy Policy, you may contact us at the following address: christianSchroeder@schroederagc.de

GUARANTEES

The user guarantees that the personal data communicated to Agritechcon is correct and accurate and undertakes to notify any changes or modifications thereto and assumes exclusive responsibility for losses and damages caused by erroneous, inaccurate or incomplete communication of data. The user is expressly warned that when revealing personal data in Agritechcon’s public media. such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram, this information may be seen and used by third parties. Agritechcon does not read any personal communications published on its clients’ own web pages.

COOKIE POLICY

What is a cookie?

A “cookie” is an information file that is stored on your computer’s hard drive and that records your browsing on a website so that when you visit that website again, it can present you with personalized options based on information stored about your last visit. We may also use cookies on our website to analyze traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes, which will not harm your system. If you want to check or change the type of cookies you accept, you can do this in your browser settings.

Cookies collected and used:

Website language, user age, browser “pixel ratio”, session code.

Referring to google

Cookies used for analytics.

How do we use cookies?

We use cookies to do two things to track your use of our website. This allows us to understand the way you use the website and track any patterns that arise individually or from larger groups, which will help us develop and improve our website and services in response to what our visitors want and need;

Consent

Pursuant to Law No. 41/2004 of August 18, the storage of information and the possibility of accessing information stored on a user’s terminal equipment (notably through cookies) are only carried out by Agritechcon if the user has given your prior and express consent to the installation of cookies on your equipment, so we ask you, prior to using the websites, to accept this Privacy and Cookies Policy.

How to avoid the use of Cookies on websites

The Customer has the right to withdraw consent to the use of cookies by Agritechcon at any time by deleting the cookies stored on their computer through the configuration options of their Internet browser.

Finally, if you want greater control over the installation of cookies, you can install programs or add-ons to your browser, known as “do not track” tools, that will allow you to choose which cookies you want to allow.

In case of blocking or not authorizing the use of cookies, no cookies will be stored on your equipment, but the proper functioning of our websites is not guaranteed, and the customer will therefore not be able to derive maximum benefit from the content available on the websites, and , with each new access to the website, you will always be asked for authorization for the use of cookies.

DECLARE, EXERCISE OR DEFEND RIGHTS

We may at times need to process personal data and, where appropriate and in accordance with local laws and requirements, sensitive personal data in connection with the exercise or defense of rights. Article 9(2)(f) of the GDPR permits such processing where it is “necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of rights in legal proceedings or where courts are acting in the exercise of their jurisdictional function.” . This may arise, for example, where we need to obtain legal advice in relation to legal proceedings or if we are required by law to retain or disclose certain information as part of legal proceedings.

CHANGES TO THE DOCUMENT

Agritechcon may occasionally change this statement and its Privacy Policy to reflect the company’s image and customer feedback. We encourage our customers to periodically review our Privacy Policy to be up to date with how Agritechcon protects their information, without prejudice to informing you whenever relevant changes occur to our Privacy Policy.