The protection of privacy and personal data is a priority for GOLDEN CHALLENGE, Lda (hereinafter referred to as GOLDEN CHALLENGE) and a clear commitment on our part.

This policy concerns the privacy practices of the portals and online sites managed by GOLDEN CHALLENGE.

Any personal data you provide us with will be treated with the guarantees of security and confidentiality required by the legal framework on the protection of personal data.

Access to and use of the sites for which GOLDEN CHALLENGE is responsible must be free on the part of the user, assuming that GOLDEN CHALLENGE has read, understood and accepted the Terms and Conditions of use.

Any attempts to alter the information, or any other action that could cause damage and jeopardise the integrity of the system, are strictly prohibited in accordance with current legislation.

The user of this site undertakes to strictly comply with the applicable legislation, particularly with regard to computer crime and intellectual property rights, and is solely responsible for any infringement of these regulations.

Data Protection Officer

GOLDEN CHALLENGE has appointed a Data Protection Officer who can be contacted at info@GOLDEN CHALLENGE.com or by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt to Rua dos Navegantes, BL7 – RCH-C, 2710-297 Sintra.

Privacy

GOLDEN CHALLENGE respects your right to privacy and does not collect any personal information about you on this site without your explicit request or consent.

Interaction with the GOLDEN CHALLENGE sites does not require any information from the user, except when, for expressly identified purposes, registration is declared necessary and is authorised by the user, under the terms defined below.

Responsible for Treatment

GOLDEN CHALLENGE as data controller:

• Ensures that the processing of your personal data is carried out only within the scope of the purposes for which it was collected or for purposes compatible with those purposes;
• It collects, uses and stores only the minimum personal data necessary and sufficient for the purpose in question;
• It does not pass on any personal data for commercial or advertising purposes;
• It processes personal data for legally prescribed purposes or to provide online services at your request.

Types of Personal Data

The personal data subject to processing by GOLDEN CHALLENGE is of various kinds in view of the provision of services promoted on the electronic platforms under its management or direct channels.According to the type of services provided, the following may be collected, with your prior authorisation: name; date of birth; tax identification number; civil identification number; social security number; identification document number; address; email address; mobile phone number.

Personal Data Security

GOLDEN CHALLENGE, in the pursuit of its activities, uses a set of security technologies and procedures suitable for the protection of your personal data, protecting unauthorised access and disclosure, namely:

• Physical security measures, namely access control for employees, collaborators and visitors to the head office premises and, for data centre and computing facilities, very strict mechanisms to combat intrusion, extinguish fires, monitor equipment 24×7 and house equipment in dedicated racks;
• Logical security measures, in terms of access to systems and workstations through identity, authentication and privilege management mechanisms; in terms of the network, the use of firewalls and intrusion detection systems, segregating networks (internal, external, demilitarised zone) and application environments, as well as encrypting information through secure communication channels.
• We will never sell your data or provide your data to third parties, except in cases where we are obliged to do so by court order or law.
• We do not transfer your data outside the European Union.
• We have implemented technology and operational security measures accepted as standard in order to protect your data from loss, misuse or improper alteration or destruction.

Access to and control of personal data

We make it possible for you to access, rectify and erase your personal data at your request. You also have the right to object to the processing of your personal data.

If the use of your personal data is based on consent, you have the right to withdraw it, without jeopardising the validity of the data processing carried out up to that point.

Through the data protection officer (info@GOLDEN CHALLENGE.com) you can request:

• Information about your data;
• Information about processing;
• The underlying purpose of the treatment;
• The correction or updating of some data;
• Your data in an open format;
• The deletion of data, which in this case will jeopardise future treatments.

Personal Data Archive

Your personal data will be kept by GOLDEN CHALLENGE for the period strictly necessary for processing, in accordance with the respective purpose.

Conservation periods may be altered according to the associated public interest, historical, scientific or statistical reasons that justify it, and GOLDEN CHALLENGE undertakes to adopt the appropriate conservation and security measures.

Cookies e Tecnologias Semelhantes

GOLDEN CHALLENGE uses cookies on its websites to improve the performance and browsing experience of its Users, increasing, on the one hand, the speed and efficiency of response and, on the other, eliminating the need to repeatedly enter the same information. The placement of cookies not only helps websites to recognise the User’s device on the next visit, but also often helps them to function correctly. The cookies used on the GOLDEN CHALLENGE portals are as follows:

• Essential – necessary for browsing the website, guaranteeing access to private areas of the website to enable services to be carried out:

– Session cookies (e.g. moodle login)

• Analytical – necessary to collect information for statistical analysis of navigation and use of the website, in particular:

– Google

• Social Networks – possibility of interaction with social networks, namely:

– Facebook; – Addthis; – Twitter.

• Performance – necessary for monitoring the user experience of the website, for example:

– Cloudflare; – Plumbr. The metadata generated by the use of cookies may be sent to third parties to analyse trends, track user browsing on the sites and their performance, without, however, identifying any individual. In order to improve the user experience of this Site, GOLDEN CHALLENGE uses cookies, small text files that are stored on your computer via your browser, retaining only information related to your preferences and therefore not including your personal data. GOLDEN CHALLENGE uses cookies in its dynamic services, in order to simplify filling in the forms associated with them, and on the other pages of the website in order to collect elements relating to the interaction and general activity of users on the GOLDEN CHALLENGE Website. The cookies used by GOLDEN CHALLENGE are not invasive or harmful to the user. However, you can accept, refuse or delete cookies using our cookie acceptance tool. GOLDEN CHALLENGE warns, however, that deactivating cookies may prevent some of the site’s services from working properly, partially or totally affecting navigation of the Site. The table below identifies the cookies used and their purpose:

Users can prevent the use of cookies in their browser settings. If you limit this option, however, the use of some features or the performance of certain tools may be restricted.

Release of Liability

GOLDEN CHALLENGE shall not be held liable for any losses or damages in civil liability (including, but not limited to, consequential damages, loss of profits and moral damages, caused directly or indirectly) arising as a result of the correct or incorrect use of its websites and their contents by the user, or access to the user’s computer and computer system by third parties.

The information disclosed should be seen as informative.

Despite GOLDEN CHALLENGE’s endeavours to keep the contents up to date and reliable, they may contain inaccuracies, clerical errors or be out of date, for which reason GOLDEN CHALLENGE cannot be held responsible with regard to the complete accuracy and currency of any information contained on its sites.

The websites may contain links to sites operated by third parties over which it has no control and for which it assumes no responsibility.

The visualisation of legal provisions on this site does not dispense with consulting the legal rules in force, officially approved, published in the original editions and media (namely the Diário da República or the Official Journal of the European Union).

Amendment to the security and privacy policy

These Terms and Conditions, which you should read carefully, may be amended, with the amendments taking effect from the date they are posted on this site, with express reference to the date of the update.

Applicable law and jurisdiction

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Portuguese law. The Court of Cascais, to the exclusion of any other, shall have jurisdiction to settle any disputes arising from the interpretation and application of these Terms and Conditions for the use of this site.

Date of the last update of the privacy policy:

02 May 2018