Last updated: January 19th, 2023
Introduction
The website https://beccarvarela.com/ (the “Site”) belongs to Estudio Beccar Varela Asociación Civil (“Beccar Varela”), with legal domicile in Tucumán 1, 3rd floor, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Beccar Varela respects and protects the privacy of visitors and users of the Site. Therefore, this Privacy Policy aims to inform you how your personal data will be used to allow you to freely determine whether you intend to provide them to Beccar Varela when requested through the Site.
If you do not want Beccar Varela to obtain any information that personally identifies you, then you must avoid providing it.
Minimum age
Visitors or users under the age of 18 are not permitted to enter the Site, and we do not collect personal data (or any information) from children under the age of 18. If you are under 18, please leave the Site.
What data do we collect from you?
When using the Site, you may be required to provide certain personal data (the “Personal Data”) such as the following:
a) Name and surname, e-mail address, organization you belong to, job title, city and country, when you subscribe to receive our e-mails or when you update your personal data and preferences for receiving e-mails.
b) Contact information, such as first name, last name, e-mail address, and organization to which you belong, when you complete a “Contact Us” form or send an e-mail.
You are not obliged to provide your Personal Data, but if you do not provide them or if you provide false or inaccurate data, Beccar Varela will not be able to carry out the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
For what purposes do we use your Personal Data?
Your Personal Data will be used for the following purposes:
a) To respond to requests and queries you have made through the Site.
b) To improve the functionalities of the Site.
c) To contact you in the future and inform you of the activities that Beccar Varela carries out and which we believe may be of interest to you, including, but not limited to, presentations on a current issue, conferences, newsletters, brochures, events and company news.
With whom do we share your Personal Data and for what purposes?
We may share your Personal Data with third parties where necessary:
a) So that these third parties can provide us with services in relation to the management of the Site. For example, we may share your Personal Data with our service providers in order to perform certain functions on our behalf or to host our databases.
The following are the services we currently use: Mesi Web Hosting, to manage and host the Site; Microsoft Office 365 (Exchange-Sharepoint); Salesforce, for CRM (Client Relationship Management) functionality; and MailChimp, for bulk emailing.
In any case, the Personal Data shall not be used by the third-party service providers for any other purpose than that for which Beccar Varela has contracted them.
b) To comply with applicable laws or regulations, judicial or administrative proceedings, and/or requests from competent authorities.
c) To protect and defend the rights of Beccar Varela.
d) To comply with an order or request of any competent state agency, government agency or court.
e) To prevent a crime or protect the personal safety of users or the general public.
f) To protect your vital interests or those of any other user or person.
g) During a Beccar Varela audit process, with the auditors and their principals, always subject to an obligation of confidentiality.
h) In the event that Beccar Varela faces a process of sale, restructuring, merger, reorganization, dissolution or similar event, with the buyers, new partners, their agents or advisers.
International Transfer of Personal Data
When Personal Data is shared with third parties as described in this Privacy Policy, it may be transferred outside the Argentine Republic, even to countries whose legislation does not offer a standard of protection in personal data equivalent to that of the Argentine Republic.
For example, Mesi Web Hosting hosts the Site in the United States; Microsoft Office 365 (Exchange-Sharepoint) hosts the data in Brazil, Chile and the United States; Salesforce and MailChimp host the data in the United States.
In this context, it is important that you note that by providing your Personal Data you are consenting to such transfer.
What are your rights?
You have the right to request and obtain information about which of your Personal Data is stored by Beccar Varela. You also have the right to request the rectification, updating and, where appropriate, deletion of your Personal Data. To exercise these rights, you may contact Beccar Varela by sending an e-mail to privacidad@beccarvarela.com.
Beccar Varela will delete your Personal Data when they are no longer necessary for the purposes described above. Due to technical issues, this process may take some time. In certain cases, Beccar Varela may keep your Personal Data when there is a legal obligation to keep the Personal Data, or when this is necessary for the defense of Beccar Varela’s rights. However, during such time or term, the Personal Data will be kept encrypted and non-operational, until its elimination.
We inform you that the Agency for Access to Public Information, in its capacity as the Control Body of Law No. 25,326, has the authority to deal with complaints and claims made by those whose rights have been affected by non-compliance with the regulations in force regarding the protection of personal data.
Use of Cookies
Beccar Varela does not use its own cookies on the Site but does use third party cookies through Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a web analytics tool from Google LLC that stores data related to devices and browsers, IP addresses and data on website or application activity, in order to measure and generate statistical reports on user interactions on the Site and the applications that use Google Analytics. The collection of this data allows us to count the visits and sources of traffic in order to evaluate the performance of the Site and improve it. Also, it can help us to know how the Site is used, which sections are the most or least visited, and at the same time to be able to offer information about products and services that may be of interest while browsing the Site or specifically through any automated means.
By using this Site, you are consenting to the processing of information about you by Google LLC and for Google LLC to share this information with Beccar Varela. Therefore, you must exercise any rights in this regard by contacting Google LLC directly.
More information about Google Analytics at: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
Security of the Site
Beccar Varela informs you that we have implemented the technical and organizational security measures necessary to guarantee the security of your Personal Data and to safeguard them against unauthorized modifications, loss, processing and/or access, taking into account the state of technology, the nature of the data stored and the risks to which they are exposed, whether as a result of human action or the physical or natural environment. However, you should be aware that internet security measures are not foolproof.
Links to an external site
Beccar Varela may link to sites created and maintained by public and private organizations that may include or offer products or services from third parties.
Beccar Varela is not responsible for the security and privacy practices or the content of third-party websites that are linked to the Site.
Beccar Varela does not control or guarantee the accuracy, relevance, adequacy or integrity of the information contained on such sites and is not responsible for the content or activities of such sites.
If you click on a link from an external site, you will leave the Site and be subject to the privacy and security policies of the owners of the external site, so please read those privacy and security policies carefully.
Modifications to the Privacy Policy
We may modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If changes are made to the Privacy Policy, we will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Site. We will also update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
Enquiries
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or if you do not wish to receive any messages from us, please contact us at privacidad@beccarvarela.com.