Privacy Policy
As a scientific organization, the Portuguese Society for Constructivist Psychotherapies needs to collect personal data as part of its mission and is responsible for processing such data under current legislation.
The Portuguese Society for Constructivist Psychotherapies is strongly committed to protecting your personal data and respecting the exercise of your right to privacy.
This policy helps you understand how we collect, use, process and protect your personal data, in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679) of April 27, 2016 (GDPR) and other applicable legislation.
Personal data
Personal data is information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, directly or indirectly, such as by name, photography, identification number, or any other specific element of identity provided for in current legislation.
Entity responsible for processing
The entity responsible for collecting and processing data is the Portuguese Society for Constructivist Psychotherapies, considering the nature, scope, context and purposes of data processing, as well as the risks to the rights and freedoms of individuals, in accordance with the GDPR.
Data Protection Officer (DPO)
For questions related to the processing of personal data and the exercise of rights granted to you by the GDPR, the data protection officer can be contacted at the following address constructivists@sppc.org.pt.
The data protection officer of the Portuguese Society for Constructivist Psychotherapies performs, among others, the following functions:
• Informs and advises the Portuguese Society for Constructivist Psychotherapies or the subcontractor, as well as the employees who process data, regarding their obligations under the GDPR or applicable legislation;
• Monitors compliance of data processing with the data protection provisions of the European Union or Member States and with the policies of the controller or processor regarding the protection of personal data;
• Provides advice, when requested, regarding the assessment of the impact on data protection and monitors its implementation, in accordance with Article 35 of the GDPR;
• Cooperates with the supervisory authority, an entity that you may consult and is your point of contact for questions related to data processing.
Collection of personal data
The Portuguese Society for Constructivist Psychotherapies is committed to protecting the privacy of users of its services, and to this end takes care to develop/use technology that offers the best guarantees of security and privacy.
In most cases, users are given the possibility to browse the websites of the Portuguese Society for Constructivist Psychotherapies without having to provide personal data. Sometimes, however, some essential information is collected and stored for the provision and access to services.
Processing of personal data
The Portuguese Society for Constructivist Psychotherapies respects your right to privacy and does not collect personal information other than the personal data you voluntarily provide us by filling out a form or other legitimate means for this purpose. By providing your personal data to the Portuguese Society for Constructivist Psychotherapies, the user acknowledges and consents to their processing in accordance with this privacy and personal data processing policy, with the guarantee that they will only be used for the purposes described at the time of collection.
Whenever personal data is collected by the Portuguese Society for Constructivist Psychotherapies whose transfer depends on the consent of its holder, information will be provided on the specific, determined, explicit and legitimate purposes of the collection.
If the processing of your personal data for a purpose other than that initially described is justified, we will always request your explicit consent for such processing, except in cases where the processing is lawful without consent, in accordance with the legislation in force.
Lawfulness of the Processing of Personal Data
In accordance with current legislation on the protection of personal data, the Portuguese Society for Constructivist Psychotherapies may also lawfully process your personal data in specific situations, such as when:
1. The processing is necessary for the execution of a contract, to which the data subject is a party, or for carrying out pre-contractual diligences at the request of the data subject;
2. The processing is necessary for compliance with legal obligations of the Portuguese Society for Constructivist Psychotherapies;
3. The processing is necessary to defend the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person;
4. The processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Portuguese Society for Constructivist Psychotherapies or by third parties, except where the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject prevail, which require the protection of personal data, in particular if the data subject is a child.
5. The processing is necessary for the purposes of fulfilling obligations and exercising specific rights of the Portuguese Society for Constructivist Psychotherapies or the data subject in terms of employment, social security and social protection legislation, under the terms set out in the GDPR.
6. The processing is necessary for archiving and public interest purposes, scientific or historical research, or for statistical purposes, under the terms set out in the GDPR.
Confidentiality
The information collected is for use by the Portuguese Society for Constructivist Psychotherapies in accordance with the purposes indicated at the time of collection or for compliance with legal obligations.
The information collected will be treated confidentially and may be accessed by a restricted group of employees/collaborators of the Portuguese Society for Constructivist Psychotherapies, in compliance with their professional duties, within the precise limits and for the purposes of carrying out their functions.
Protection of personal information
The Portuguese Society for Constructivist Psychotherapies will apply the appropriate and necessary technical and organizational measures to protect the information stored in the system against access, use, alteration or destruction of personal information.
Personal data will be kept for the minimum period necessary for the specific purposes of the processing that was the basis for its collection or subsequent processing, in compliance with current legislation.
Rights of data subjects
At any time, as the data subject, you have the right to request access to your personal data, as well as to request its rectification or erasure, to oppose its processing, to withdraw your consent and to exercise other rights provided for by law, within the limits of current legislation.
If you withdraw your consent, this does not compromise the lawfulness of the data processing carried out based on the prior consent that was given.
The holder of personal data also has the right to be notified in the event of a breach of personal data, in accordance with and under the terms of the GDPR.
Applicability
Generally, this privacy and personal data processing policy applies to all services provided by the Portuguese Society for Constructivist Psychotherapies, without prejudice to other policies, agreements and legislation applicable in more specific contexts of collection and processing of personal data.
Changes to this policy
The Portuguese Society for Constructivist Psychotherapies may change the privacy and personal data processing policy whenever technically or legally justifiable. The changes apply to new processing of personal data and, if they have an impact on the processing of personal data already collected, the Portuguese Society for Constructivist Psychotherapies will inform the data subject of these changes so that he or she can give his or her explicit consent or exercise his or her right to object or erasure.
Collection of technical/anonymous information
This website collects anonymous information about its visitors that is made available by web browsers and servers, such as browser type, language preferences, website of origin, pages visited, duration of visit(s), date and time of each request, search terms, among others. No information is intentionally collected that can be used to identify website visitors. This information is collected with the aim of understanding how our users use the website, so that we can improve the quality and usefulness of the services we provide. Notwithstanding the anonymous information collected and processed on our Web Analytics platform, technical information about your visit(s) may be collected by the technological infrastructure that supports the system. Portuguese Society for Constructivist Psychotherapies does not share this information with third parties, without prejudice to the legal requirements imposed by current legislation (i.e., this information may be shared with the competent public authorities, in compliance with Portuguese and European legislation).
Use of cookies
When you use this website, we store cookies (small files with information) on your access device that allow us, for example, to understand whether or not you wish to contribute anonymous information to our Web Analytics platform, whether or not you are authenticated on the website, among others.
In our implementation, both technical cookies and analysis cookies do not contain personal data and are transferred securely. As for third-party cookies, these are not managed by our system and may therefore have their own cookie and privacy policy, outside the scope of the policy described in this document. In any case, our system will not send personal data under any circumstances and intentionally to external services.
Cookies can be blocked and/or disabled using your browser settings or add-ons. Consult your browser documentation for more information.
Please note, however, that by disabling cookies, the user may prevent some web services from functioning correctly, partially or totally affecting navigation on the website.