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Privacy policy

DATA CONTROLLER

Owner: Fundació Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya

Tax ID number: G64070592

Registered address: c/ Sant Honorat, 32, 08870 Sitges, Barcelona

Commercial Register data: registered in the Foundations Register of the Government of Catalonia with number 2216

E-mail address: lopd@sitgesfilmfestival.com

  
INFORMATION AND CONSENT

Fundació Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya (hereinafter “FUNDACIÓ SITGES”), in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 (GDPR) on the protection of natural persons about the processing of personal data, informs you that we have implemented the necessary security, technical and organizational measures, to ensure and protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the personal data stored in our files.

By reading this Privacy Policy you are informed about how FUNDACIÓ SITGES collects, processes and protects the personal data that it receives through the website at https://sitgesfilmfestival.com/en (hereinafter, the “Website”).

The acceptance of the Privacy Policy included in each of the forms through which you have voluntarily provided us with your personal data, implies your consent to process your personal data for the purposes indicated therein.

PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA. PURPOSES

We inform you that the personal data that you may voluntarily provide us through the specific forms of the Website, will be treated with absolute confidentiality by FUNDACIÓ SITGES, and will be used exclusively for the purposes indicated in the specific data protection clauses included in the corresponding form of the Website, which will have been expressly accepted by you.

The personal data requested in the forms accessible from the FUNDACIÓ SITGES Website are, in general, mandatory (unless otherwise specified in the required field) in order to comply with the purposes set forth therein. Therefore, if you do not provide them or if they are not provided correctly, we will not be able to fulfill these purposes.

Depending on your request, we may process your personal data for the following purposes:

  • To manage navigation through the Website.

  • Carrying out commercial transactions and providing services and/or products offered through the Website and requested by the Website user, such as the processing and management of your request to purchase tickets and/or packs to attend the Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya (hereinafter, the "Festival"), the processing and management of your request to be part of our organization or of the Festival's team of volunteers, etc., including communications with you regarding any incidents that may occur in relation to Festival tickets and/or the show you have purchased (e.g., notices of cancellations of Festival tickets and/or the show you have purchased), including communications with you regarding possible incidents that may occur in relation to Festival tickets and/or the purchased show (e.g., notices of cancellations of Festival films and/or shows, notices of date changes of Festival films and/or shows, etc.), by any means, including e-mail or similar.

  • Sending commercial communications, information, promotions, offers and news related to the commercialization of products and/or services of the FUNDACIÓ SITGES or activities of the FUNDACIÓ SITGES, including commercial communications from the Festival, by any means including but not limited to e-mail or similar. This sending of commercial communications will only be carried out if we have obtained your prior consent to do so, through the corresponding box on each form. Likewise, in the event that once you have given your consent you do not wish to continue receiving commercial communications, you may revoke your consent at any time by sending a message to lopd@sitgesfilmfestival.com.

  • To manage the registration of films.

  • Top manage the registration of candidates through the Website.

  • To manage the payment of the products and/or services eventually acquired by you, through the payment platforms contracted for this purpose.

  • To manage the subscription to the Festival Newsletter and its subsequent sending by any means, including e-mail or similar.

  • Management of contact requests with the FUNDACIÓ SITGES through the channels provided for this purpose.

  • To carry out statistical studies.

  • Notification of any relevant changes in the legal texts of the Website.

We will not process your personal data for a purpose other than that for which it was originally collected unless this is due under legal obligation or judicial requirement.

RETENTION TIME OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We will only retain your personal data for as long they are necessary or relevant for the purposes for which they were collected or recorded in our files, or as long as you do not request the deletion of the information or otherwise exercise your right of opposition or limitation to processing of the data. Subsequently, your personal data will be canceled, unless there is a legal rule that enables its conservation.

LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

You have consented to our processing your personal information. The legal basis for processing your personal data is your consent, which has been freely and voluntarily granted by you for the purposes described above, at the time you provide us with your data through the specific forms of this Website enabled for such purposes and, in certain cases, the execution of a contract.

Failure to provide the requested personal data or not accepting this data protection policy means that it will be impossible to subscribe, register or receive information about products and services from FUNDACIÓ SITGES.

In cases where there is a prior contractual relationship between the parties, the legitimacy for the development of administrative, tax, accounting and labor obligations that are necessary under current legislation will be the prior existence of the business relationship established between the parties.

RECIPIENTS OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA


Your personal data will be made available to the IT service provider that manages our Website and third-party providers with whom we may subcontract a service. Our third-party providers will comply at all times with the rules established in the GDPR.

The acceptance of this Privacy Policy implies that you expressly and unequivocally accept that your personal data be transferred or communicated to the aforementioned entities.

No other data communications are foreseen unless it is required to comply with a legal obligation.

International data transfers are not foreseen.

YOUR RIGHTS


As a user of our Website you have certain rights regarding the personal data that we maintain about you, which you will be able to exercise writing to FUNDACIÓ SITGES, at c/ Sant Honorat, 32, 08870, Sitges, Barcelona, o sending an e-mail to lopd@sitgesfilmfestival.com, in both cases sending a copy of your NIE/Identification Card and indicating the subject: “Data Privacy-Web”.

These rights are the following:

  • Access right: You may request a copy of the personal information that we maintain about you.

  • Amendment right: If your information is incorrect, you may request that we correct or amend information that is inaccurate.

  • Deleting right: You may request that we erase your personal information when -among other reasons- it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or it is inappropriate or excessive.

  • Opposing right: In certain circumstances, you may object to the processing of your personal data.

  • Restrict processing of data right: In certain circumstances, you may ask us not to use your personal data (we would need to secure and retain the data for your benefit but not otherwise use it).

  • Data Portability right: In certain circumstances, you are entitled to obtain your personal data from us in a format that makes it easier to reuse your information in another context, and to transmit this data to another data controller.

As a user, you may revoke your consent at any time.

If you consider that your rights have not been adequately met, we inform you that you have the right to file a claim with the competent authority (Spanish Agency for Data Protection).

OBTENTION OF THE INFORMATION


FUNDACIÓ SITGES obtains the information related to your personal data through the different forms that appear on the Website.

FUNDACIÓ SITGES collects the minimum and essential information with respect to the purposes -which have been voluntarily accepted by you- for which your personal data will be processed.

SECURITY MEASURES

Your personal data will always be processed in a confidential manner. We have adopted all the technical and organizational measures, as well as all the required levels of protection to guarantee the security in the processing of your personal data and to avoid its alteration, loss, theft, treatment or unauthorized access, taking into account the state of technology and of the nature of the stored data.


USER’S RESPONSABILITY

Any information provided to us by you through the forms of the Website shall be truthful, updated, exact and complete.

You warrant that you are of legal age or legally emancipated and that you are fully qualified.

If you are minor, it is required that you have the prior consent of your parents or guardians before proceeding to the inclusion of your personal data in the forms of the Website.

If you have provided us with personal data of a third party, prior to their inclusion in our files, you must have informed them and requested their consent to the points set forth herein.

CHANGES ON THIS PRIVACY POLICY


FUNDACIÓ SITGES may modify this Privacy Policy to adapt it to new legislation. In the event that we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will duly inform you (e.g., by displaying a prominent notice on the Website, by sending you an e-mail, etc.).

Last updated: February 1st, 2022.