Privacy Policy

The protection of your personal data is a priority for “Semana Criativa”.

Below, we describe who we are, for what purposes we can use your personal data, how we treat it, with whom we share it, how long we keep it, and also the ways to get in touch with us and to exercise your rights.

Our website address is: https://homeingreencalderaazores.com.

 Your data will be treated by “Semana Criativa”– Guest Rental, Lda., registration number AL/4583 NIPC518580148, (hereinafter referred to as “Semana Criativa”). 
“Semana Criativa” is the data controller within the meaning General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter referred to as GDPR).

Your personal data may be collected and processed by “Semana Criativa” for the following purposes: 

a) For the fulfilment of legal obligations to which “Semana Criativa” is subject, in particular communications to foreign and border services and billing purposes. 

b) For the purpose of performance of Temporary accommodation contract for tourists or the Local Accommodation Management Contract celebrated with “Semana Criativa”, particularly payment transactions, management of check-in’s and check-out’s, management of guests, charge a deposit, providing complementary services to the stay as cleaning, transfers and breakfast or grocery services, contractual obligation management or for pre-contractual diligence purposes. 

c) For the purpose of mobile and email communications, with information and commercial communications, digital platforms, within the scope of “Semana Criativa” marketing strategies, commercial and contractual information and communications, as well as for requests for information. 

d) For the purpose of protecting property or held assets by “Semana Criativa”, as well as for statistical analysis purposes. 

The non-supply of personal data for the purposes provided for in points (a) and (b) leads “Semana Criativa” in non-compliance with statutory obligations and consequently the possibility of resolution of the Temporary Accommodation Contract for Tourists or the Local Accommodation Management Contract celebrated, without the right to any compensation, as well as deficit services provided by “Semana Criativa” that cannot be attributable to it.

Within the scope of its activity, “Semana Criativa” will collect and process the personal data necessary to provide the contracted services, requests for information or pre-contractual management, namely identification, contact, bank or payment card data.

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included.

Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

“Semana Criativa” may need to share some of your personal data with other recipients. These recipients include: 

a) Organizations and/or companies affiliated to “Semana Criativa” whenever they respect an equivalent policy on the protection of personal data. 

b) Public entities to which “Semana Criativa” is legally obliged to provide information, in particular the Foreign and Border Services and the DGCI – Directorate-General for Taxes.

c) Subcontractors providing certain services related to your personal data under the cover of a sub-contract and with the sole purpose to provide technical assistance to “Semana Criativa”. These include, particularly, site hosting providers, mail marketing service providers, cleaning service companies, lawyers firms, accounting firms and insurance companies. 

d) Competent authorities to which “Semana Criativa” is legally obliged to disclose information during judicial proceedings or to detect technical and/or security problems, such as judicial entities or competent control authorities. 

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

At any time, in accordance with GDPR, you may request access to your personal data, as well as to its rectification or deletion, limitation of the treatment performed, the right of opposition and the right to data portability. 

If the applications submitted are manifestly unfounded or excessive, in particular due to their repetitive nature, “Semana Criativa” may require payment of a reasonable fee taking into account the administrative costs of providing the information or communication, or taking the measures requested or refusing to comply with the request. 

In the case of personal data whose treatment by “Semana Criativa” is legitimate in the consent granted by you, the right to withdraw the consent is granted, without the exercise of such right being able to compromise the lawfulness of the treatment carried out with on the basis of the consent previously given, nor the subsequent processing of the same data, based on another legal basis, such as the fulfilment of the contract or the legal obligation to which “Semana Criativa” is subject. 
It also has the right to file a complaint with the National Data Protection Commission.

We are committed to keeping your data secure and we use appropriate security measures to ensure your personal data are protected and to prevent access to them by unauthorised persons. However, the transmission of data over the Internet is not completely secure and we cannot provide an absolute guarantee of the security of the information transmitted through our site. 

We also respect the confidentiality of your information. Therefore, we do not sell, distribute or make your information commercially available in any other way, to any third party. “Semana Criativa” undertakes to keep your information confidential in accordance with this Privacy Policy and with the applicable legislation. 

Your personal data, collected by “Semana Criativa”, will not be transferred to any entity established outside the territory of the European Union. 

Exceptionally and subject to certain conditions, “Semana Criativa” may transfer your personal data to countries outside the territory of the European Union, in accordance with the applicable legislation, namely for the purposes of data hosting or storage, technical processing subcontracting, back-up and recovery of hosted data, development of services. 

“Semana Criativa” assures you that it will not transfer your personal data to countries that do not guarantee an adequate level of protection, in accordance with the provisions of the GDPR.

The processing of your personal data will be carried out on the basis of the implementation of the temporary accommodation contract to tourists, of the Local Accommodation Management Contract and the fulfilment of legal obligations imposed on “Semana Criativa”, in particular by legislation on matters of entry, permanence and departure of foreigners in the national territory and fiscal legislation (article 6 no. 1 (b) and (c) of the GDPR).

In addition, the personal data collected for the purposes provided for in point (c) of the preceding paragraph are based on the consent by itself rendered to “Semana Criativa” for their treatment (article 6 no. 1 (a) of the GDPR).

For the purposes provided for in point (d) of the preceding paragraph, “Semana Criativa” shall proceed to the processing of personal data, based on the legitimate interest it has pursued (article 6 no. 1 (f) of the GDPR).

Without prejudice to legal provisions, regulatory or judicial determination in contrary, the personal data collected shall be kept only for the minimum period necessary for the purposes which have motivated their collection or subsequent treatment.

If any doubts remain in relation to the processing of your personal data, or if you wish to exercise any of your rights, please contact us:

E-mail: contact@homeingreencalderaazores.com

Adress: Rua do Arieiro N1F, 9675 048,  Furnas

Please keep in mind that “Semana Criativa” occasionally updates this Privacy Policy. Therefore, please review this document from time to time to ensure you have the latest information.