Welcome to the Privacy Policy of https://www.abelgil.com. Here you will find matters relating to your privacy and the protection of your personal data. This policy is based on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), or Regulation (EU) 679/2016.
By accepting this Privacy Policy you give your informed, express, free and unequivocal consent for the personal data you provide through the website https://www.abelgil.com (hereinafter Abel Gil) to be included in a Customer file.
OWNER OF THE WEBSITE
- Trade name: Abel Gil
- Identity of the controller: Abel Gil Ñiguez
- ID number (DNI): 20085322C
- Registered address: C/ Practicante Alberto Berenguer 4 – Algorfa 03169 Alicante
- Activity: Professional photographer
- Email address: info@abelgil.com
All of the above is duly registered with the Spanish Data Protection Agency (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos), and Abel Gil guarantees that the organisational and technical security measures required by the European Data Protection Regulation and the legislation in force have been applied.
This Privacy Policy will only be valid for the personal data obtained on the Website, and will not apply to information collected by third parties on other websites, even if these are linked from the Website.
With this I state my commitment to maintaining and guaranteeing commercial relationships in a secure way by protecting personal data and safeguarding the right to privacy of each and every user of the website.
PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA
Data controller
Contact details of the controller: Abel Gil and contact email address, info@abelgil.com
As data processors external to the aforementioned controller:
- Abel Gil has contracted hosting services with BanaHosting.com, which processes your data for the purpose of providing its hosting services to https://www.abelgil.com.
Data processors outside the EU
Google Analytics: is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., a Delaware company whose main office is at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043, United States (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help www.abelgil.com analyse how users use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of www.abelgil.com (including your IP address) will be directly transmitted and stored by Google on servers in the United States.
Legal basis for the processing
The processing of personal data is carried out on www.abelgil.com in accordance with:
- The GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons), which is the new European Union legislation that unifies the regulation of the processing of personal data in the different EU countries.
- The LOPD (Ley Orgánica 15/1999, de 13 de diciembre, de Protección de Datos de Carácter Personal y Real Decreto 1720/2007, de 21 de diciembre, el Reglamento de desarrollo de la LOPD), the Spanish Personal Data Protection Act, which regulates the processing of personal data and the obligations that we, as owners of a website or a blog, must assume when managing this information.
- The LSSI (Ley 34/2002, de 11 de julio, de Servicios de la Sociedad de la Información y Comercio Electrónico), the Spanish Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce Act, which regulates economic transactions by electronic means, as is the case with this blog.
In addition, the processing of personal data on www.abelgil.com is justified given that the data subject has given their consent through a clear affirmative action to www.abelgil.com or implicitly by browsing this website.
YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS
How to exercise your rights: You may send a written communication to the registered office of Abel Gil or to the email address indicated at the beginning of this Privacy Policy, including in both cases a photocopy of your ID card or another similar identification document, in order to request the exercise of the following rights:
- Right to request access to personal data: you may ask Abel Gil whether this company is processing your data.
- Right to request its rectification (if it is incorrect) or erasure.
- Right to request the restriction of its processing, in which case it will only be kept by Abel Gil for the exercise or defence of claims.
- Right to object to the processing: Abel Gil will stop processing the data in the way you indicate, unless it has to continue processing it for compelling legitimate reasons or for the exercise or defence of possible claims.
- Right to data portability: if you want your data to be processed by another firm, Abel Gil will facilitate the portability of your data to the new controller.
Templates, forms and more information about your rights: Official website of the Spanish Data Protection Agency
Possibility of withdrawing consent: if you have given your consent for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw it at any time, without this affecting the lawfulness of the processing based on the consent given prior to its withdrawal.
How to complain to the Supervisory Authority: If you believe there is a problem with the way Abel Gil is handling your data, you can address your complaints to the Security Officer of Abel Gil (indicated above) or to the relevant data protection authority, which in the case of Spain is the Spanish Data Protection Agency.
Right to be forgotten and access to your personal data
At any time you will have the right to review, retrieve, anonymise and/or delete, in whole or in part, the data stored on the Website. You only have to send an email to info@abelgil.com and request it.
Data retention
Aggregated data: Disaggregated data will be kept with no erasure deadline.
Customer data: The retention period for personal data will vary depending on the service the customer contracts on our website. In any case, it will be the minimum necessary, and may be kept for up to:
- 4 years: Spanish Act on Infringements and Penalties in the Social Order (obligations relating to affiliation, registrations, deregistrations, contributions, payment of salaries…); Arts. 66 et seq. of the Spanish General Tax Act (accounting books…);
- 5 years: Art. 1964 of the Spanish Civil Code (personal actions with no special time limit)
- 6 years: Art. 30 of the Spanish Commercial Code (accounting books, invoices…)
- 10 years: Art. 25 of the Spanish Act on the Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing.
Confidentiality and data security
In using the data, Abel Gil undertakes to respect its confidentiality and to use it in accordance with its purpose, as well as to comply with its obligation to safeguard it and to adopt all measures to prevent its alteration, loss, unauthorised processing or access, in accordance with the provisions of Royal Decree 1720/2007 of 21 December, which approves the Regulation implementing Organic Act 15/1999 of 13 December on the Protection of Personal Data.
You guarantee that the personal data provided through the forms is truthful, and you are obliged to notify any changes to it. You also guarantee that all the information provided corresponds to your actual situation, that it is up to date and accurate.
You must also keep your data updated at all times, being solely responsible for the inaccuracy or falsehood of the data provided and for any harm this may cause to Abel Gil as owner of www.abelgil.com, or to third parties as a result of such use.
Security breaches
Abel Gil adopts reasonably appropriate security measures to detect the existence of viruses, brute force attacks and code injections. However, you should be aware that the security measures of computer systems on the internet are not entirely reliable and that, therefore, Abel Gil cannot guarantee the absence of viruses or other elements that may cause alterations to the User’s computer systems (software and hardware) or to their electronic documents and files contained therein.
Nevertheless, Abel Gil has an active security monitoring system that reports on each user activity and possible breaches in the security of user data.
If any breach is detected, Abel Gil undertakes to inform users within a maximum period of 72 hours.
WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM USERS AND WHAT WE USE IT FOR
All the products and services offered on the Abel Gil website refer to contact forms. This Website always requires the prior consent of users in order to process their personal data for the stated purposes.
You have the right to revoke your prior consent at any time.
Record of data processing activities
Website and hosting: Abel Gil has SSL TLS v.1.2 encryption that allows the secure sending of personal data through standard contact forms, hosted on the servers that Abel Gil has contracted with BanaHosting.com.
Data collected through the website: The personal data collected will be subject to automated processing and included in the corresponding files owned by Abel Gil.
- We will receive your IP address, which will be used to check the origin of the message in order to provide you with information, to protect against SPAM comments and to detect possible irregularities (for example: opposing parties in the same case writing on the website from the same IP address), as well as data relating to your ISP.
- You may also provide us with your data by email and other means of communication indicated in the contact section.
Contact/quote form: There is a contact/quote form whose purpose is to answer enquiries, suggestions or requests for quotes. In this case the email address will be used to answer them and to send the information the user requests through the website; this data will be stored on the servers of BanaHosting.com.
Cookies: When the user browses this website, “cookies” are stored. The user may consult the cookies policy at any time for further information on the use of cookies and how to disable them.
Minors
If you are a minor, you should know that under the age of 13 the consent of parents or guardians is required for the processing of your personal data to take place. If you are under 13, please do not give us any personal information on www.abelgil.com, and do not register on our website.
In addition, certain data relating to minors is specially protected by the Regulation, in particular data based on profiling. Under no circumstances will minors under 18 be asked for information about the personal or financial activity or the private life of the minor’s family.
Embedded content from other websites
Abel Gil articles may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in exactly the same way as if the visitor had visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account or are logged in to that website.
Other services: Certain services provided through the Abel Gil website may contain particular conditions with specific provisions regarding the protection of personal data. It is essential to read and accept them before requesting the service in question.
Purpose and legitimacy: The purpose of processing this data will solely be to provide you with the information or services you request from us.
Social networks
Presence on social networks: Abel Gil has profiles on some of the main social networks on the internet.
Purpose and legitimacy: The processing that Abel Gil will carry out with the data within each of these networks will be, at most, that which the social network allows for corporate profiles. Therefore, Abel Gil may inform its followers, where not prohibited by law, by any means the social network allows, about its activities, talks and offers, as well as provide a personalised customer service.
Data extraction: Under no circumstances will Abel Gil extract data from social networks, unless the user’s specific and express consent is obtained for this purpose.
Rights: When, due to the very nature of social networks, the effective exercise of the follower’s data protection rights depends on the modification of their personal profile, Abel Gil will help and advise you to this end as far as possible.
Commitments and obligations with our users
Access to and/or use of Abel Gil grants the person doing so the status of user, fully and unreservedly accepting, from that very moment, this privacy policy in relation to certain services and contents of Abel Gil.
When using Abel Gil, the user undertakes not to engage in any conduct that could damage the image, interests and rights of Abel Gil or of third parties, or that could damage, disable or overload the Abel Gil portal, or that could in any way prevent the normal use of Abel Gil.
Acceptance and Consent
The User declares that they have been informed of the conditions regarding the protection of personal data, accepting and consenting to its processing by Abel Gil in the manner and for the purposes indicated in this privacy policy.
Revocability
The consent given, both for the processing and for the transfer of the data subjects’ data, may be revoked at any time by notifying Abel Gil under the terms established in this Policy for the exercise of ARCO rights. This revocation will under no circumstances have retroactive effect.
Changes to this privacy policy
Abel Gil reserves the right to modify this policy in order to adapt it to legislative or case law developments, as well as to industry practices. In such cases, Abel Gil will announce the changes introduced on this page with reasonable notice before they are implemented.
Commercial emails
In accordance with the LSSICE, Abel Gil does not engage in SPAM practices, and therefore does not send commercial emails electronically that have not been previously requested or authorised by the user. Consequently, in each of the forms on the website, the user has the possibility of giving their express consent to receive the newsletter, regardless of the commercial information specifically requested.
In accordance with the provisions of Ley 34/2002 on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce, Abel Gil undertakes not to send commercial communications without duly identifying them.
Document reviewed on 24-05-2018.

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