Social Media Privacy Policy

Who is responsible for the treatment of your personal data?

The CENTRE INTERNACIONAL DE MÈTODES NUMÈRICS A L’ENGINYERIA (CIMNE), hereinafter referred to as the CONTROLLER, informs the USER that it has created a profile on the social networks Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and BlueSky, which are responsible for the processing of the user’s personal data carried out on these social networks. This data will be processed in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April (GDPR), and Organic Law 3/2018 of 5 December (LOPDGDD), and therefore provides the following information on the processing:

Why do we process your personal data?

Purpose of processing: to maintain a relationship between the USER and the CONTROLLER, which may include the following operations:

• Process requests and queries submitted to the controller.
• Provide information about activities and events organised by the controller.
• Provide information about products or services offered by the controller.
• Interact through official profiles.

Why may we process your personal data?

Legal basis for processing: Article 6.1.a GDPR, the data subject has given consent to the processing of their personal data for one or more specific purposes. The USER has a profile on the same social network and has decided to join the CONTROLLER’s social network, thus showing interest in the information published on it. Therefore, when requesting to follow our official profiles, they give us their consent to process the personal data published on their profile.

The USER can access the privacy policies of the social network itself at any time, as well as configure their profile to ensure their privacy.

The CONTROLLER has access to and processes the USER’s public information, in particular their contact name. This data is only used within the social network itself and will only be incorporated into a file belonging to the CONTROLLER when necessary to process the USER’s request.

How long will we keep your personal data?

Data retention criteria: data will be retained as long as the USER does not revoke the consent given as indicated in this privacy policy.

Who do we share your personal data with?

Communication of data: the information provided by the USER through the CONTROLLER’s social networks, including their personal data, may be published, depending on the services that the USER uses, and may therefore be made publicly available to other third-party users of social networks. From each social network profile, the USER can configure what information they want to make public in each case, view the permissions that have been granted, delete or deactivate them, as with any third-party application that they no longer wish to use.

No communication of personal data to third parties outside the social network is envisaged, except if it is essential for the development and execution of the purposes of the processing, to our service providers related to communications, with whom the CONTROLLER has signed the confidentiality and data processor contracts required by current privacy regulations.

What are your rights?

Rights of the USER: these rights may only be exercised in relation to information that is under the control of the CONTROLLER.

• Right to withdraw consent at any time.
• Right of access, rectification, portability, and erasure of your data, and of restriction or objection to its processing.
• Right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority (www.aepd.es) if you consider that the processing does not comply with current regulations.

Contact details for exercising your rights:

CENTRE INTERNACIONAL DE MÈTODES NUMÈRICS A L’ENGINYERIA (CIMNE). C. Gran Capità, s/n, C1 Building -Campus Nord – UPC, 08034 BARCELONA
E-mail: rgpd@cimne.upc.edu

Contact details of the data protection officer (DPO): Esperanza Jordà, dpo@cimne.upc.edu

The CONTROLLER will perform the following actions:

• Access to public profile information.
• Publication on the USER’s profile of all information already published on the CONTROLLER’s social network. Sending personal and individual messages through social network channels.
• Page status updates to be published on the USER’s profile.

The USER can always control their connections, delete content that no longer interests them and restrict who they share their connections with; to do so, they must access their privacy settings.

Once the USER has become a follower or has joined the CONTROLLER’s social network, they may post comments, links, images, photographs or any other type of multimedia content supported by the network. In all cases, the USER must be the owner of the content posted, hold the copyright and intellectual property rights, or have the consent of the third parties concerned.

Any publication on the social network, whether text, graphics, photographs, videos, etc., that violates or is likely to violate morality, ethics, good taste or decorum, and/or that infringes, violates or breaches intellectual or industrial property rights, image rights or the law, is expressly prohibited.

In such cases, the CONTROLLER reserves the right to immediately remove the content, without prior notice, and may request the permanent blocking of the USER.

The CONTROLLER shall not be liable for content freely published by a USER.

The USER must bear in mind that their posts will be seen by other users, and therefore they are primarily responsible for their privacy.

Images that may be published on the social network will not be stored in any file by the CONTROLLER, but will remain on the social network.

Access and registration via the CONTROLLER’s social media accounts is prohibited for children under the age of 14. If the USER has special needs, the intervention of their parent or guardian, or their legal representative, will be required, with valid documentation proving their representation.

The CONTROLLER shall be expressly exempt from any liability that may arise from the use of social networks by minors or persons with special needs. The CONTROLLER’s social networks do not knowingly collect any personal information from minors. Therefore, if the USER is a minor, they should not register, use the CONTROLLER’s social networks or provide any personal information.