Privacy Policy​

Our Privacy Policy

We take privacy very seriously.

1. Introduction

ANTRIX VENTURES S.A (hereinafter Antrix) wants you to be familiar with how your data is collected, used, and communicated to third parties, because your privacy and its protection are fundamental to maintaining a relationship of trust.

The Privacy Policy practiced by Antrix is in compliance with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), a European directive (EU 2016/679) that establishes new rules regarding the protection, processing, and free circulation of personal data of citizens in the countries of the European Union. As of May 25, 2018, this law replaces the Protection Law – law no. 67/98, of October 26.

This Policy describes the type of personal data collected, how it is used, and with whom it is shared. It also describes the general practices of Antrix for dealing with other information (e.g., interests, demographic data, and service usage) collected through monitoring and Analytics tools. We also describe the steps we take to protect the information, your access options, and how you can contact us about your privacy practices.

All your personal information collected will be used to help us improve and make your visit to our website as productive and enjoyable as possible. Ensuring the confidentiality of the personal data of our website users is important to Antrix.

The use of the Antrix website implies the acceptance of this privacy agreement. We may change this agreement without prior notice. Therefore, we recommend that you regularly review our privacy policy to be always up-to-date.

2. Definitions

2.1. “Personal Information” means data related to an identified or identifiable individual, such as:

  • Name;
  • Address;
  • Phone number (including landline and mobile numbers);
  • Email address;
  • Profile picture;
  • Social media nickname (e.g., Facebook username);
  • Location information, if this information is linked to an identifiable individual;
  • Personal characteristics;
  • Browsing, consumption, preference, taste, and interest habits.

An identifiable individual is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, by reference, namely, to an identification number or to one or more specific factors about their physical, psychological, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity.

2.2. “Particularly Protected Data” are personal information considered especially sensitive, such as:

  • Racial or ethnic origin;
  • Political ideology or opinions;
  • Religion or other beliefs;
  • Health or disease;
  • Legal background;
  • Union affiliation;
  • Sexual orientation.

We ask that you do not provide us with or disclose particularly protected data through our website, our social media, or any other means. But if you provide us with any information of this nature, you are consenting and authorizing, under your sole responsibility, that we store and process it in our files for the purposes expressed in this policy or those indicated in the communication of the same data.

2.3. “Other Information” are, for example:

  • Browser and device information;
  • Information compiled through cookies, pixel tags, or other technologies, provided that subsequent user identification is excluded;
  • Demographic and geographical information.

2.4. Personal information of other people:

You cannot send us or publish personal information of third parties on our website, social media, or other means, for example, email. If you wish to send information about other people, you must ensure that this information is sent directly by the person(s) in question, regardless of the means of contract used (Website, Social Networks, or other means). If, despite this notice, you send us personal information of another person through its publication on our website, social media, or other means, we will assume under your full responsibility that you have prior authorization and consent to do so, including authorization for us to use this Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.

3. Information We Collect

Antrix is committed to processing only the personal data strictly necessary to improve your experience of using our website.

3.1. Personal Data

Personal data for the purposes of this Privacy Policy is information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable individual.

3.1.1 Personal data sent by the user

We collect personal information when it is submitted directly to our website, such as when you register a job application form on the page we dedicate for that purpose or when you send a generic contact form. The personal data submitted may include your name, address, telephone number, email address, date of birth, country of residence, city, nationality, qualifications, professional experience; current professional situation; level of competence according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, Courses Attended, completion date, and assessment obtained.5

3.2. Other Information

Other information is any information that is not intended to disclose your specific identity, such as browser information, usage data, information collected through cookies and other technologies, demographic information, geolocation data obtained with your consent, if required by applicable law.

3.3. Information collected automatically

Our website collects information through cookies and other proprietary or third-party monitoring technologies, such as Google Analytics, to increase the effectiveness of the website itself, as well as optimize and improve the user experience on it. For more information on how we use cookies and tracking technologies, please see our Cookie Policy.

Regarding the cookie policy and external monitoring tools, Antrix is not responsible for the privacy practices of such third parties, therefore, to stay informed, we recommend that you consult the applicable third-party privacy policy.

4. How We Use Your Personal Data, Other Information, and Automatically Collected Information

Antrix guarantees that your personal data will be processed only for the purposes communicated to you and will not be used for any other purpose. Thus, we process your personal data to ensure the quality of the service we provide and to be able to better respond to your needs.

4.1. Evaluate and improve our products and services

All your personal information collected will be used to make your visit to our website as productive and enjoyable as possible, including: processing a job application; processing a contact request; measuring interactions with specific pages of the website; providing customer support; improving the interface of our website, so that your navigation is intuitive and satisfactory.

4.2. Improve website content

To make your experience more interesting and personalized, we may use any of the Personal Data and Other Information collected so that the website content reflects the preference of its users, for example, through our blog, presenting posts with relevant content for visitors, taking into account the website browsing habits.

4.3. To contact you

On our website, you can interact with us in various ways, by email, contact form, or application form. We may also use your information (including a telephone number and email address you provided for this purpose) to contact you and respond to your comments, questions, or requests.

4.4. To guarantee your rights and those of Antrix.

In accordance with the data protection legislation in force in the European Union (General Data Protection Regulation), the use of personal data must be justified by at least one legal basis for the processing of personal data. You can consult the explanation of the scope of each of these grounds below *.

The legal basis applicable to the collection and use of your personal data for customer service and marketing purposes is your consent.

* Legal basis for the processing of personal data:

  • After having given consent for the processing of your personal data (for this purpose, you will be presented with a consent form for the use of your data, whose consent can subsequently be withdrawn);
  • Where processing is necessary to conclude a contract or execute it;
  • When processing is necessary to comply with legal obligations to which Antrix is subject;
  • When processing is necessary to achieve a legitimate interest and our reasons for its use prevail over your data protection rights;
  • When processing is necessary for us to testify, exercise, or defend a right in legal proceedings against you, us, or third parties.

5. How We Keep Your Personal Data Secure

We use a variety of security measures, including encryption and authentication tools, to help protect and maintain the security, integrity, and availability of your personal information.

Although data transmission over the Internet or website cannot guarantee total security against intrusions, we and our service providers and business partners make every effort to implement and maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection. Among others, we implement the following:

  • Restricted personal access to your personal data based on the “need to know” criterion and only within the scope of the communicated purposes;
  • Transfer of collected data only in encrypted form;
  • Storage of highly confidential data (such as credit card information) only in encrypted form;
  • Protection of computer systems through firewalls, to prevent unauthorized access to your personal data;
  • Continuous monitoring of access to information technology systems to prevent and detect misuse of your personal data.

6. How Long We Keep Your Personal Information

We store your data only for the time necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.

As soon as the maximum retention period is reached, your personal data will be irrevocably anonymized (anonymized data may be retained) or securely destroyed.

For the purposes described in this Privacy Policy (customer service) your personal data will be kept for a maximum period of 5 years from the collection of your consent or the last contact made (whichever occurs last) and within that period, you have not withdrawn your consent. In the case of questions related to Marketing, your contact will remain in our possession until you unsubscribe or otherwise indicate that you no longer wish to stay with us.

7. How You Can Change or Withdraw Your Consent

You can, at any time, change or withdraw your consent, with effects in the future.

After the complete withdrawal of your consent declarations, you will no longer be contacted and will receive communications for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

The consent granted to Antrix can be withdrawn by sending an email to info@antrix.pt

If you have any questions about the use of your personal data, please contact us first. Subject to certain conditions, you may have the right to request:

  • Additional information on how we use your personal information;
  • A copy of the personal data you have provided to us;
  • The personal information you have provided to another controller at your request;
  • The update of any inaccuracies in the personal data we hold;
  • That we delete personal data whose use is no longer legitimate;
  • That we limit the way we use your personal data until the complaint is investigated.

The exercise of these rights is subject to certain exceptions intended to safeguard the public interest (prevention or detection of crimes) or our interest (maintaining professional secrecy).

8. Data Retention Periods

Personal data must be preserved only for the period necessary for the purposes that led to its collection or subsequent processing, ensuring compliance with all legal rules applicable to archiving.

Consumer Information

Pursuant to article 18 of Law no. 144/2015, in case of dispute, the consumer may contact the Consumer Conflict Arbitration Center:

CIMAAL – Center for Information, Mediation and Arbitration of Consumer Conflicts of the Algarve.

  • Address: Ninho de Empresas, Edifício ANJE, Estrada da Penha, 3rd floor, room 26, 8000 Faro;
  • Tel: 289823135
  • E-mail: cimaal@mail.telepac.pt
  • Website: www.consumidoronline.pt
 
Terms and Conditions

Our Cookie Policy

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when browsing our website and also allows for its improvement.

How we use cookies

On the Antrix website, cookies are used to improve the performance and browsing experience of our users in two ways, by increasing the speed and efficiency of response and eliminating the need to repeatedly enter the same information. The placement of cookies not only helps the website to recognise your device the next time you visit us, but is also essential for its performance. The cookies used by Antrix do not collect personal information that allows user identification, they only store generic information, namely the user’s form and/or place of access and how they use the Site. Cookies only retain information related to user preferences.

Session cookies

These are temporary cookies that remain in the browser’s cookie file until the user leaves the webpage, so there is no record on the user’s hard drive. The information collected by these cookies is used to analyse website traffic patterns. Ultimately, this allows us to improve the content and enhance the usability of the website.

Analysis cookies

These are cookies that can be processed by us or by third-party applications/platforms, allowing us to quantify the number of users and carry out measurements and statistical analysis of how the offered service is used. We examine your browsing on our website in order to improve the way our products and services are presented to the user.

Cookies we use

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Below, we list the different types of cookies we may use on our website. These Cookies are essential for Antrix in order to facilitate our authentication and allow you to browse and use the features of our Site. Without these cookies, certain web pages and site features may not be presented correctly and the Antrix website will not function as well as we would like.

Strictly necessary cookies on the Antrix website may include:

  • ARRAffinity

This is used for load balancing to ensure that visitor page requests are routed to the same server across any browsing session.

  • ApplicationGatewayAffinity

Web traffic load controller that allows the management of web application traffic.

  • Csrftoken

This serves to help protect a website against a specific type of software attack on web forms.

  • Sessionid

Anonymous session identifier.

  • Cookieconsent_status

Stores cookie consent information.

Analysis Cookies

We and our service providers may use Analysis Cookies (or performance cookies) to collect information about the use of the Antrix website to help create reports and statistics about website performance that allow us to improve the way they work. Analytics cookies collect information such as IP address, device type, operating system, referrer URL, country information, date and time of page visits, and pages visited. The information allows us to count the size of our audience, see general usage patterns on the Antrix website, help us record any difficulties you have with our website, and show us whether our advertising is effective or not.

Google DoubleClick Google Adsense

http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/partners/

LinkedIn Insights and Ads Tags

https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-table

Your cookies

To browse the web and in particular the Antrix website, your Internet browser must be set up to receive cookies. The best-known browsers are:

  • Internet Explorer
  • Firefox
  • Safari
  • Google Chrome
  • Opera

You can choose not to allow cookies and still browse our site, however, you should be aware that by not allowing the use of cookies, certain web pages and site features may not be presented correctly.

Third-party cookies

Primary cookies are placed and originated from the same domain of the website you are visiting.

Third-party cookies have a different origin and can be identified by the different domain that generates that cookie. These cookies have a domain different from the website you are visiting. For example, when you visit our site, we may link to another company’s website – such as your Facebook or Twitter account or a YouTube video on our page.

Therefore, when, for example, a social network makes a “Tweet” or “Like” on a mobile phone presented on our website, these social networks may place cookies on your computer. We do not control how these cookies are used and suggest that you confirm on the respective sites how they are used and how you can manage them.

Cookie Control

You can control the use of cookies in your browser.

Disable and/or delete cookies in your browser

Alternatively and/or additionally, you can change your cookie settings in your Internet browser. Your Internet browser allows you to change your cookie settings. These cookie settings in the browser are normally found in the Internet browser’s “Options” or “Preferences” menu. You can also consult the browser’s “help” menu. Different browsers may use various mechanisms to disable cookies. See the links below for more information on how to manage your cookie settings:

  • Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
  • Cookie settings in Firefox
  • Cookie settings in Chrome
  • Cookie settings in Safari

Regarding browser settings for deleting old cookies, the same principles apply to disabling new cookies in browser settings. Follow the guidelines for your browser, as described above.

There are tools available online to clear all cookies left by the websites you have visited, such as www.allaboutcookies.org.

When you visit this site from different computers, you need to repeat the change to your cookie settings.

If you change your browser’s cookie settings, your experience with us will not be monitored. Information about controlling and deleting cookies is also available at www.allaboutcookies.org.