Privacy Policy and Information on Personal Data Protection for the Website and Social Networks of Gekko Technical Solutions, S.L.

Data Controller

The company “Gekko Technical Solutions, S.L.” (hereinafter “Gekko Solutions” or “the company”) acts, under the terms established in data protection regulations, as the Data Controller in relation to the processing of personal data (users, information applicants, subscribers to informative communications, etc.) carried out through its official websites and corporate presence on social and professional networks.

Data Controller: Gekko Technical Solutions, S.L. “Gekko Solutions”
NIF: B75186502
Address: Calle Juan F. Gilisagasti, 2, Oficina 219
Town/City: 20018 Donostia San Sebastián (Gipuzkoa)
Telephone: 943 84 87 42
Email: gekko@gekkosolutions.eu

Applicable Legislation

The basic regulations regarding personal data protection applicable to the data processing carried out by Gekko Solutions are:

Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (“GDPR”).
Organic Law 3/2018, of 5 December, on the Protection of Personal Data and guarantee of digital rights (“LOPDGDD”).
Their respective complementary and development regulations.

Websites and Social Media Presence

The official website of Gekko Solutions is located at gekko@gekkosolutions.eu.

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, henceforth the official website of Gekko Solutions and any potential official channels on corporate social and professional networks will all be referred to as “the website”, unless specified otherwise.

Purposes and Lawful Bases for Processing

In compliance with current regulations on Personal Data Protection, users are informed that any personal data they provide by any means located on the website or through Gekko Solutions’ official social or professional media channels (via email, forms, messages, newsletter subscription, etc.), or as a result of using them, may be incorporated into Gekko Solutions’ data processing systems.

The purposes of the data processing that may occur through the Gekko Solutions website are:

To manage our consultancy and advisory services for the search of industrial solutions, as well as related activities.
Main lawful basis: Necessity of data processing for the management of our services (“contractual” or “pre-contractual” relationship according to Article 6.1.b of the GDPR).

To provide tools for contact, enquiry, and communication with interested and related parties, and to respond to requests and petitions.
Main lawful basis: Consent of the data subject (GDPR Art. 6.1.a).

To manage and analyse the use of our website and potential social media presence.
Main lawful basis: Legitimate interest of Gekko Solutions (GDPR Art. 6.1.f).

Duty of Confidentiality

Gekko Solutions is committed to the privacy and protection of the data of the website’s users. The processing of their personal data will be carried out confidentially and in compliance with these regulations.

Collection of Personal Data

Gekko Solutions does not require you to provide personal data to access the website. However, there may be forms on the website (“Contact”, etc.) whose use requires the user to provide personal data, mostly identifying or contact details. The user provides their personal data freely and voluntarily. Gekko Solutions does not request more personal information than is necessary to carry out the requested service.

Any user who sends/includes any type of content (data, documents, blueprints, texts, videos, sound, photographs, graphics, messages, or other material) declares and warrants that they do so in a manner that complies with the conditions expressed herein and with current legislation. Any user who includes personal data of third parties declares that they have their express and demonstrable consent for its processing. The inclusion of third-party data without prior and express consent is strictly prohibited.

The user is solely responsible for the truthfulness, correctness, and lawful processing of the data included, exonerating Gekko Solutions from any liability in this regard. Users guarantee and are responsible, in any case, for the accuracy, validity, and authenticity of the personal data provided, and undertake to keep it duly updated.

Failure to complete or incorrectly completing fields indicated as mandatory on the website forms may result in Gekko Solutions being unable to handle the user’s request.

Gekko Solutions will collect personal data in an adequate and relevant manner according to the purposes, utilities, services, or benefits included on its website, in a specific, explicit, and legitimate way. Therefore, under no circumstances will fraudulent, unfair, unlawful means, or means that in any way jeopardize the legitimate rights of users, be used.

Sending information through this website necessarily implies express authorisation for the data processing described in this privacy policy and in the website’s conditions of use.

Job Applicants

Any person who provides their curriculum vitae, offering their candidacy to work at Gekko Solutions through forms, email, social or professional media channels, or similar mechanisms, is informed, in accordance with personal data protection regulations, that the data provided through their job application will be incorporated into our data processing system named “CVs and Personnel Selection”.

Your data may be used for the purpose of including you in future personnel selection processes at Gekko Solutions, which may be carried out internally or by external companies hired by Gekko Solutions to conduct personnel selection processes.

Gekko Solutions will retain your CV for an approximate period of one year. After this period, the data will be destroyed, applying the necessary security measures to guarantee its confidentiality.

If you do not agree with any of the described purposes, please inform us in writing as soon as possible. Likewise, should there be any modification to your data, please keep us informed.

You may exercise your rights regarding the protection of your personal data (erasure, access, rectification, restriction of processing, portability, objection, etc.), as well as any request on this matter, as indicated in the “Rights of Data Subjects” section of this Privacy Policy.

Links to Social and Professional Networks

This website may offer links to social networks, professional networks, and external websites and channels. Gekko Solutions assumes no responsibility in relation to these linked sites. Any user who accesses social or professional networks and external websites and channels related to Gekko Solutions via links located on this website or in any other way, is previously and expressly informed that the conditions of use, privacy policies, cookies policies, and any conditions or regulations depend on the entities responsible for those social or professional networks and websites and channels, and never on Gekko Solutions.

Security Breaches
 
The user must immediately notify Gekko Solutions of any incident, security breach, improper or unauthorised access detected in relation to the website, private areas, access keys, social media presence, or any other circumstance that jeopardises the security and confidentiality of the information or the proper functioning of the website.
 
The preferred notification channels established are the telephone number (+34) 943 84 87 42 and the email address gekko@gekkosolutions.eu.
 
Data Retention Period
 
The personal data provided will be retained for the time necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected, to determine any potential liabilities that could derive from said purpose, or for the period established by applicable regulations in each case (accounting, tax, commercial, consumer, etc.), after which it will be erased by adopting the necessary security measures to guarantee its confidentiality.
 
Rights of Data Subjects
 
You may exercise your rights regarding the protection of your personal data (access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, portability, and objection), as well as withdraw any consent granted or make any other request on this matter, by writing to Calle Juan F. Gilisagasti, 2, oficina 219, 20018 Donostia San Sebastián (Gipuzkoa), telephone 943 84 87 42, or email gekko@gekkosolutions.eu.
 
The request must include a copy of a document or proof verifying the applicant’s identity. If the request is made in your capacity as a legal representative, you must attach, in addition to the copy of the document verifying the applicant’s identity, a document or proof verifying such representation.
 
The supervisory authority you may contact if you do not agree with the resolution of your requests or to lodge a complaint is the Spanish Data Protection Agency: www.aepd.es

Specific Data Processing: Registrations and Subscriptions
 
In the case of subscriptions to newsletters or similar services that involve the processing of personal data, users may request to unsubscribe from such services at any time they wish by sending a request to the email address gekko@gekkosolutions.eu or by using any other means provided by Gekko Solutions for this purpose, such as the “Unsubscribe” mechanism located at the end of the newsletters themselves.
 
Validity and Modifications
 
Gekko Solutions reserves the right to modify its privacy policy according to its own criteria, or in response to legislative or jurisprudential changes. If Gekko Solutions introduces any modification, the new text will be published on this same website, where the user can consult it. In any case, the relationship with users will be governed by the rules provided at the precise moment the website is accessed. For this reason, Gekko Solutions recommends visiting this privacy policy each time you connect to the website.
 
Jurisdiction

The relations established between Gekko Solutions and the user shall be governed by current regulations concerning applicable legislation and competent jurisdiction. However, for cases where the regulations allow the parties the possibility to submit to a specific forum, Gekko Solutions and the user, expressly waiving any other forum that might correspond to them, submit to the Courts and Tribunals of Donostia San Sebastián (Gipuzkoa, Spain).
 
Gekko Solutions will pursue any breach of this Privacy Policy, as well as any misuse of the content presented on this website, by exercising all civil and criminal actions that may correspond by Law, including those of a financial nature.