Privacy Policy

The MUNICIPALITY OF GUARDA is committed to protecting the security and privacy of the personal data of its residents and/or users of the mun-guarda.pt website, owned by the Municipality of Guarda.

In this context, it has drawn up this Privacy and Personal Data Protection Policy, undertaking to respect the privacy and personal data protection rules set out in Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 (GDPR), on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the movement of such data, as well as applicable national legislation, and has taken the necessary technical and organisational measures to comply with the GDPR and ensure that the processing of personal data is lawful, fair, transparent and limited to the authorised purposes.

The MUNICIPALITY OF GUARDA is also committed to the protection and confidentiality of personal data, and has adopted the measures it deems appropriate to ensure the accuracy, integrity and confidentiality of personal data, as well as all the other rights of the respective data subjects.

Data Protection Officer

In order to exercise the rights of data subjects provided for in EU regulations and national legislation on the protection of personal data, the MUNICIPALITY OF GUARDA has appointed a Data Protection Officer, who can be contacted at dpo@mun-guarda.pt or by letter to Praça do Município, 6300-854 Guarda.

Purposes and lawfulness of data processing

The collection and processing of personal data in connection with access to and use of the services provided on the mun-guarda.pt website will be strictly necessary to fulfil the purposes of improving the user's performance and experience and the relationship with the citizen.

Without prejudice to the additional information provided at the time of data collection, the MUNICIPALITY OF GUARDA may also, provided it is legally permissible, use the personal data provided by the data subject for other purposes, such as for the purposes of social intervention actions, dissemination of institutional information of the MUNICIPALITY OF GUARDA, as well as for carrying out evaluation or satisfaction surveys related to this website.

In addition to the purposes indicated, which are considered to be the main purposes, there may be ancillary purposes, for which the appropriate consent will be requested under the terms of the Community regulations in force on the protection of personal data.
The collection and processing of personal data is legitimate in the context of the contractual relationship established through the registration and use of this Portal and its associated services.

Categories of personal data

The MUNICIPALITY OF GUARDA collects and processes personal data that is strictly necessary, some of which is obligatory with the appropriate indication, but under no circumstances does it collect data that is considered to be of a special category under the terms and for the purposes of EU regulations and current legislation on the protection of personal data.

The personal data collected is strictly necessary to fulfil the purposes associated with the request, such as: name, VAT number, ID, address, telephone number, email address and educational qualifications.

Recipients of personal data

The personal data collected is intended to be used by the MUNICIPALITY OF GUARDA, and no transmission to other entities is foreseen and, in the case(s) in which it may occur, prior consent will be requested under the terms of the Community regulations and legislation in force regarding the protection of personal data or, if necessary for the purposes of scientific or historical research or for statistical purposes, the aforementioned regulations and legislation will be respected.

Retention of personal data

In accordance with EU regulations and national legislation, the personal data obtained is kept and stored in accordance with the periods and methods defined in the applicable legislation.

Therefore, and whenever there is no specific legal requirement, the data will be stored and kept only for the appropriate period and to the extent necessary to fulfil the purposes for which they were collected, unless the right to object or erasure is exercised within the regulatory and legal limits or, where applicable, consent is withdrawn.

In the end, the personal data will be irreversibly destroyed or, when legally required or justified for archiving purposes in the public interest, will be kept in an archive adopting the appropriate security, integrity and confidentiality measures.

Data subjects' rights

After registering, the user has the right to access information about the processing(s) of their data, to rectify it if it is not correct, or even to delete it.

In addition to these rights, designated and protected in the GDPR as Right to Information, Right of Access, Right to Rectification and Right to Erasure, the citizen/user also has the Right to Limitation of Purposes, Minimisation of Data, Opposition for Direct Marketing Purposes and Non-Subjection to Automated Individual Decisions, These can be exercised with the Data Controller, or by submitting a complaint to the Data Protection Officer and the National Supervisory Authority, and any violations can be grounds for a claim for compensation with the competent courts.

International data transfer

It is not foreseen and, when and if it appears necessary, the appropriate consent will be sought in advance in accordance with EU regulations and legislation in force.

Applicable legislation

Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the movement of such data.

Law no. 41/2004, of 18 August, as amended by Law no. 46/2012, of 29 August (Law on the Protection of Personal Data and Privacy in the Electronic Communications Sector).

Law no. 58/2019 of 8 August - Ensures the implementation in the national legal order of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data.

Changes to the Privacy and Personal Data Protection Policy

From time to time the MUNICIPALITY OF GUARDA may update this Privacy and Personal Data Protection Policy, so we ask that you periodically review this document to keep up to date.