Privacy Policy

Paralab Website Privacy Policy

Paralab has drawn up this Privacy Policy in order to demonstrate its commitment, transparency and respect for the privacy and personal data protection rules set out in the legislation in force regarding the protection and processing of personal data, namely 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, as well as any related legislation that may further specify and supplement it at national level.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) describes how organisations, including Paralab, must proceed in operations or sets of operations performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction. These rules apply regardless of whether the data are processed by automated or non-automated means, i.e. electronically, on paper or in other physical formats.

To comply with the applicable legal framework, personal data must be collected and used lawfully, transparently and fairly, as well as stored securely and not disclosed, exposed or made accessible unlawfully and/or unjustifiably, except in the cases provided for by law.

The GDPR is based on data protection and security principles that promote an ideal approach to achieving organisation-wide compliance within a holistic continuous improvement process.

This Privacy Policy applies to all personal data processing activities carried out under Paralab’s supervision and responsibility.

The Paralab website ensures its users’ privacy and security regarding the data provided for the various services made available, and only requests and collects the data necessary to provide the service in accordance with the explicit information on the website, namely under the terms and conditions of use and the user’s options.

 

Personal data processing:


In general, the Paralab website can be visited without the need to disclose any personal information. However, there is an area of the website where the user may provide their personal data in order to use the services available there, specifically contact requests, subscription to our newsletter, and in the context of spontaneous applications and recruitment processes.

Paralab is bound by a duty of confidentiality regarding the data to which it has access within the operations of its IT systems, is duly aware of the importance of complying with the legal duty of secrecy, and is responsible for fulfilling this confidentiality obligation.

The data provided by users will only be used to deliver the service selected by the user for which the data were provided, and will not be used to send information unrelated to Paralab’s activity and services.

  1. Data subject rights:

Under the legislation in force on personal data protection, we inform you that the following rights are guaranteed to the data subject:

Right to be informed:

  • At the time personal data are collected:
  • Contact details of the controller
  • Purpose(s) of processing
  • Retention period
  • Their rights as personal data subjects
  • The possibility of recourse to the supervisory authority to lodge a complaint (and the respective contact details)
  • The (possible) existence of automated decisions and/or profiling

 

  • Ask what information Paralab holds about them and why
  • Know where their data are stored and how they are processed
  • Be informed of how Paralab fulfils its data protection obligations

 

Right of access:

  • Confirmation as to whether or not their personal data are being processed
  • Ask how to obtain access to their data
  • Provision of a copy of the personal data processed, preferably in an exportable format

 

Right to rectify, erase and block:

  • Be informed how to keep their data up to date
  • Obtain rectification of outdated, inaccurate or incomplete data
  • Possibility of erasure of personal data that are no longer necessary for the purpose
  • Block the processing of such data to verify accuracy or in case of objection

 

Right to restriction:

  • Challenge the accuracy of personal data, for a period enabling the controller to verify its accuracy.

 

Right to removal/erasure (right to be forgotten):

  • Request the removal of their data and the definitive deletion of those that do not conflict with legal obligations.

 

Right to data portability:

  • Request the portability of their data
  • Possibility of requesting their personal data in a commonly used or common format, in order to transfer it to another organisation, even a competitor.

 

Data subjects may exercise their rights via the email address rgpd@paralab.pt, or by post, sending a letter with the details below:

Subject: Exercise of rights – personal data protection
Attn: Privacy Paralab
Rua Dr. Joaquim
Manuel Costa, 946 B
4420-437 Valbom
Gondomar

 

       2. Third parties:

In general, the personal data collected on the Paralab website are not transferred to third parties, unless this is required to comply with a legal obligation or to perform a contract.

Where data are transferred to third parties, Paralab remains jointly responsible with its processors for processing personal data fairly, lawfully and transparently. The processor may only process personal data in accordance with the instructions defined by Paralab and always in strict compliance with the law and the purposes entrusted to it under the contract entered into.

The transfer of personal data to processors will only be carried out within the scope of contractually established relationships with Paralab, and only when there is a lawful basis that justifies it.

In order to ensure the confidentiality and security of the data, Paralab will take the legally required measures to ensure that the processor provides sufficient guarantees for the protection of personal data, is a reputable entity, and has adequate technical and organisational security measures to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of or access to personal data, and against any other unlawful form of processing, agreed in particular through a contract between Paralab and the processor, under which the latter undertakes to act only on the instructions of the former in matters relating to the processing of personal data.

Paralab’s processors will only process personal data for the purposes defined and agreed between the parties, and must also ensure that data retention, when necessary and applicable, complies with the time limits established by law and/or contractually.

Data subjects must be informed, at the time their data are collected, of any sharing with Paralab’s processors, whenever possible identifying the organisation and its contact details, as well as the purpose of such sharing.

If data are transferred to a Paralab processor located in a third country outside the European Union, that processor must maintain a level of data protection equivalent to that provided by the legislation in force within the European area, in particular that set out in Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016.

In the context of international data transfers, at least one of the following procedures must be followed:

An individual contract or standard contractual clauses adopted directly by the European Commission or by a supervisory authority
The processor’s participation in a certification scheme or standard accredited or recognised by the EU as ensuring an adequate level of protection
Recognition that the processor’s binding corporate rules ensure an adequate level of data protection, issued by supervisory authorities
The existence of an adequacy decision regarding the third country, territory or specific sector of that third country, or regarding the international organisation concerned.

The rules applicable to cross-border data transfers will not apply where occasional and necessary operations are required for the performance of a contract or within the scope of contentious proceedings (judicial, administrative, or proceedings before regulatory bodies or similar).

      3. Principles, security and rights:

Internal security and privacy rules include:

Processing data lawfully and fairly, collecting only the information necessary and relevant to the intended purpose
Not using the data collected for a purpose incompatible with that for which they were collected
Ensuring the data subject’s explicit consent whenever required
Guaranteeing, free of charge, the right to have data erased when requested by the data subject
Having security systems that prevent consultation, modification or destruction of data by unauthorised persons and that allow the detection of intentional or unintentional information breaches.

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Cookie Policy

Who are we?
Paralab – Equipamentos Industriais e de Laboratório, S.A. is a company operating in the distribution of scientific equipment for laboratory and industrial applications.

What are cookies?
Cookies are small snippets of text stored on the computer through the browser. They are typically used to facilitate navigation and to store information between visits, such as the visitor’s choices or preferences.

Paralab uses cookies on its website to improve the information provided and enable faster and more efficient browsing, eliminating the need to repeatedly enter the same information.

Paralab has no control over the creation of cookies that may be used by content providers whose content may occasionally be embedded in or shared on our website, namely content from other social networks. By accessing those publications with third-party content, cookies from those websites may be created.

Paralab uses cookies from the Google Analytics tool, which allow analysis of the number of visits to the website and an understanding of how users move around while browsing. These tools enable Paralab to work on continuous improvement to enhance the website’s performance.

How to block the use of cookies?
You can block the creation of cookies through your browser settings. However, if you block all cookies you may not be able to access some website features.

Typically, all changes in the web browser regarding how cookies are used and/or accepted can be made in the “Options” or “Preferences” section of the browser.

Below are some instructions for blocking cookies for the most common internet browsers:

Google Chrome:
http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=pt&answer=95647

Internet Explorer:
http://windows.microsoft.com/pt-pt/windows7/how-to-manage-cookies-in-internet-explorer-9

Mozilla Firefox:
https://support.mozilla.org/pt-PT/kb/ativar-e-desativar-cookies-que-os-websites-utiliza

Apple Safari:
https://support.apple.com/pt-pt/HT201265

Users may choose not to share their data with Google services. To do so, they should access the Ads Preferences Manager and the Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Other services
Any other services that may arise later and require the entry of personal data and/or the respective entities are covered by the Paralab website privacy and security policy referred to in this document.

Links
Our website contains links to other websites. The Paralab website is not responsible for the privacy policies or content of those websites.