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Who is responsible for processing your data?

EDC, with Fiscal Identification Number 40249993300024, will be responsible for the personal data submitted on this website, by telephone, entered on any of our printed forms, obtained as a result of our relations with you, and derived from your browsing and consumption habits. The registered address of these companies is EDC, They may be contacted via email at edc@edc.edu.

Moreover, you can contact our Data Protection Manager by email to dpo@planeta.es or by post to Grupo Planeta, At.: Data Protection Manager, Avda. Diagonal 662-664, 08034 Barcelona.

For what purpose do we process your personal data?

EDC will process your personal details in order to manage its relations with you and to send you commercial communications via any means, even after our relations with you have terminated, in order to keep you informed about our products and services similar to those you have contracted.

Moreover, you are hereby informed that, for the purpose of offering you the products and services of EDC or third-party companies in line with your interests, as well as to improve your user experience on our website, we create a ‘commercial profile based on the information you provide and other information derived from your consumption and browsing habits and obtained from social media . 

Furthermore, your personal data and commercial profile will be transferred to the rest of the companies that form part of Grupo Planeta so that they can send you commercial communications about their products and services or the products and services of third-party companies that belong to or are unrelated to Grupo Planeta. For this purpose, these companies will, in turn, create their own commercial profile with the aforementioned data and profiles, as well as any other data and profiles related to you that they may already have or obtain, all in order to ensure that the communications set to you are of interest to you as they will be aligned to your tastes, consumption and browsing habits, and commercial preferences. This processing will therefore involve cross-referencing and enhancing the databases of the various companies that form part of Grupo Planeta.

You can check out the list of companies that form part of Grupo Planeta by clicking the following link www.planeta.es. These companies conduct their activities in the sectors of publishing, training, culture, leisure, collecting, textiles, private insurance, mass market and jewellery sectors.

In all cases, the third-party companies unrelated to our group in relation to which, if applicable, we send you commercial communications will conduct their activity in the same sectors as the companies of Grupo Planeta, as specified above, or in the sectors of telecommunications, banking and finance, travel, technology and legal services.

How long will we keep your data?

Both the personal data provided and the data obtained from your browsing and consumption habits, and the commercial profile obtained therefrom, shall be kept as long as you do not request their deletion or withdrawal.

What is our reason for processing your data?

The legal basis for processing your personal data is to execute and maintain our relations with you, as well as the consent that, if applicable, you have given for any further processing in the form of sending our own or third-party commercial communications, creating commercial profiles and transferring this data and profile to the rest of the companies that form part of Grupo Planeta for the purposes specified in the section “ For what purpose do we process your personal data?” above.

You are hereby informed that the personal data requested when you register in this website, by telephone or on any of our printed forms are strictly necessary for formalizing and managing our relations with you. Therefore, in the event that you do not provide this data, we will be unable to maintain these relations. In all cases, this primary purpose is not contingent on your consent to process the data that are not necessary for this primary purpose.

As mentioned above, the prospective communication of our own and/or third-party products and services, as well as the creation of commercial profiles and the transferral of such profiles and your personal data to third-party companies of Grupo Planeta, are additional forms of processing your data conditional on the consent requested from you. Under no circumstances will the refusal or withdrawal of this consent affect the maintenance of our relations with you.

Which recipients will your data be communicated to?

Only in the event that you give us your consent to this effect, your personal data and, if applicable, your commercial profile will be communicated to the rest of the companies that form part of Grupo Planeta for the purposes specified in the section “ For what purpose do we process your personal data? ” of this Privacy Policy. You can check out the list of companies that form part of Grupo Planeta by clicking the following link www.planeta.es.

What are your rights when you give us your data?

Anybody has the right to obtain confirmation as to whether or not, at EDC we are processing personal data that concerns them.

Moreover, the interested parties have the right to access their personal data, as well as to request the rectification of incorrect data and, if applicable, its deletion or withdrawal when, among other reasons, the data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was gathered.

Under certain circumstances, the interested parties can request that restrictions be applied to the processing of their data, in which case we will only keep the data for exercising or defending against any possible claims.

Under certain circumstances and for reasons related to their specific situation, the interested parties can oppose the processing of their data. In such case EDC will stop processing the data, except for cases in which they are legally obliged to do so, or to exercise or defend against any possible claims.

Moreover, the interested parties have the right to receive the personal data related to them that they have provided in a structured, legible and common format, and to transfer this data to another responsible party.

Interested parties can exercise these rights and the withdrawal of their consents, if applicable, at any time by sending written notification to EDC, Post office box 221 of Barcelona or by email to edc@edc.edu. In this respect, please note that forms to exercise these rights are available on the website of the Spanish Data Protection Agency (https://www.aepd.es/es/derechos-y-deberes/conoce-tus-derechos).