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Acciona, S.A. (hereinafter, ACCIONA), in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 regarding the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and their free circulation, and other regulations in force in terms of Data Protection, makes available to the User/s of this website https://www.activesustainability.com/ (hereinafter, the Page), the Privacy Policy that will apply in the processing of data personal data that the User voluntarily provides to access it.
ACCIONA informs the User of the Page that their personal data may only be obtained for processing when such data are adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the scope and specific, explicit and legitimate purposes for which they have been obtained. ACCIONA expresses its commitment to comply with the legislation in force at all times in terms of data protection.
ACCIONA adopts the technical and organisational measures necessary to guarantee the security of the personal data contained therein and to prevent the alteration, loss or unauthorised processing of or access to such data, taking into account the state of the art, the nature of the data and the risks to which the data are exposed. The User may also confirm the presence of the SSL certificate by checking the Website’s properties in your browser. A connection will be secure when "https://" appears in the browser's address bar instead of "http://" and a padlock symbol is displayed. You can look up the features of this certificate in the Legal Notice section.
Users are solely responsible for the veracity and lawfulness of the personal data provided.
The User may contact the Data Protection Department to resolve their doubts related to the processing of their personal data at the same postal address provided or through the email address protecciondedatos@acciona.com.
Personal data are considered to be data that identify persons or that may be used to identify them.
We can collect personal data indirectly provided by the User through their visit to the Website (through the cookies configured by the User), or directly when the User subscribes to our Newsletter.
Among the data categories that we will process are the identification and contact details: email address and IP address and, in the event that the User consents, data regarding their browsing preferences and content.
Likewise, we will process the data provided by the User when contacting us, and which will mainly be identifying data (name, surname, language, contact data) and data related to the business area of interest.
ACCIONA collects and processes the personal data of the Website User with the following purposes:
The legitimate basis for this processing is the consent granted by the User when configuring Cookies.
The data related to the email address provided by the User, in the event that they subscribe to our Newsletter, will be processed so that they can receive it.
The legal basis of the processing is the consent given by the User by reading and accepting the information on data protection available.
If the User decides to contact ACCIONA, the data provided will be processed in order to attend to and manage the User's queries, requests, claims or suggestions, as well as to send, by electronic means, information about our services and products (all of this hereinafter referred to as the "Application").
The legal basis for the processing is the consent given by the User when contacting ACCIONA.
The data relating to your preferences are processed for the purpose of sending you personalised communications tailored to your interests on the basis of profiling using internal data.
The legal basis for the processing is the legitimate interest in sending you communications and content that are of interest to you.
In general, the data will be kept i) for as long as is necessary for the purpose for which the data were collected and ii) during the applicable limitation periods, if liabilities might be incurred as the result of the processing.
As a special instance, the data collected based on the consent of the User, as in the case of the subscription to the Newsletter or Cookies, will be kept as long as it is not withdrawn.
In the event that the User contacts ACCIONA, the data provided will be kept for the time necessary to be able to attend to and respond to their Request and never for a period exceeding twelve months.
In the case of the Newsletter, the User may unsubscribe at any time via the communication itself.
In the case of Cookies, the User may at any time modify their preferences by clicking on Cookies.
At ACCIONA we undertake not to transfer or disclose our Users’ personal information except as described in this Privacy Policy or, where applicable, at the time of collection of the data.
Likewise, ACCIONA would inform you that some of these service providers, third parties or Group companies may be located in territories outside the European Economic Area that do not provide a level of data protection comparable to that of the European Union. In such cases we transfer Users’ data with appropriate safeguards, maintaining at all times the security of such data; these may include the formulation of Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the Commission, the content of which may be examined by clicking on the following link: https: // ec .europa.eu / info / law / law-topic / data-protection / international-dimension-data-protection / standard-contractual-clauses-scc_es.
Users may exercise their rights of access to or rectification, erasure or portability of their data, and/or the restriction of or objection to the processing of such data, by contacting the corresponding Data Controller, by writing to the Personal Data Protection Department at Avenida de Europa, 18, Parque Empresarial La Moraleja, 28108 Alcobendas (Madrid), by e-mail at people.privacy@acciona.com if the User is an ACCIONA employee or by e-mail at protecciondedatos@acciona.com if the User is not. Users may also exercise their rights by sending the form available at the following link.
If we consider this necessary to be able to identify you, we may request a copy of a document that proves your identity.
Likewise, the User may at any time withdraw the consent given by writing to the address indicated above, as well as, if appropriate, by complaining to the Supervisory Authority (in Spain, the Spanish Data Protection Agency www.aepd.es ).
Below the User will find a series of links to further information on the specific processing of personal data. You will also find information about the website in the Legal notice.
Ethical channel: We have a reporting channel, known as the Ethical Channel, in which both employees and providers or third parties can confidentially report any breach of which they are aware. The User can examine all the information on this processing in full at
Compliance, Ethics and Integrity | ACCIONA | Business as unusual
Any change made to the Privacy Policy and to information management practices will be reflected in a timely manner, with ACCIONA being permitted to add, modify or remove the said Privacy Policy whenever it deems this necessary.
This Privacy Policy is published in Spanish and English; in case of any discrepancy between the two versions, the Spanish version will prevail.
Last updated on May 17, 2022