1. Data controller
The controller of personal data is Grupo Ecológico de Cascais (GEC), a non-profit association based in Cascais, Portugal. For any privacy question, contact us at grupoecologicocascais@gmail.com.
2. Data we collect
In the membership application: full name, occupation, phone, email, address, postcode, town/country, date of birth, tax identification number, identity document and its number, and proof of payment of the fee.
When you contact the GEC: name, phone, email and the content of your message.
3. Purposes and legal bases
- Managing members and fees, based on the membership relationship (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR).
- Association communications — notices of meetings, activities and news about the association — based on consent and the GEC's legitimate interest.
- Compliance with legal, accounting and statutory obligations (Article 6(1)(c) GDPR).
- Responding to enquiries, based on the consent of the person contacting us.
4. Payment of fees
Fees are paid by bank transfer to the GEC account — account holder: Grupo Ecológico de Cascais; IBAN: to be confirmed by the Board. The GEC does not collect payment card data. Proof of payment is kept for accounting purposes.
5. Retention period
Member data is kept for the duration of membership and for no more than five years after it ends, without prejudice to longer legal retention periods (for example, for accounting).
Contact and enquiry data is kept only as long as needed to respond, and for no more than one year.
6. Who has access to the data
Data is accessed only by members of the governing bodies responsible for managing membership and by technical service providers (for example, website hosting) acting as processors with appropriate safeguards under the GDPR.
Data is never sold or shared with third parties for commercial purposes.
7. Your rights
You may at any time request access to, rectification, erasure, restriction or portability of your data, object to its processing and withdraw your consent, without affecting the lawfulness of prior processing. Requests should be made in writing to grupoecologicocascais@gmail.com and will be answered within one month.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Portuguese Data Protection Authority, CNPD (www.cnpd.pt).
8. Security
The GEC applies appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against loss, unauthorised access or improper disclosure.
9. Cookies
This website does not use advertising or audience-analytics cookies. Only one technical cookie is used, for the restricted content-management area.
10. Changes
This statement may be updated. The current version is always available on this page, together with the date of the last update.