1. Introduction
Thank you for visiting the Kickstart Solutions, Lda. (hereinafter, “Kickstart Solutions” “we”, “us”) website. The protection of your personal data is of the utmost importance to us. In this Privacy Notice we explain how we collect your personal data, how we process them, for what purposes and on what legal basis this is done, and which rights you have.
2. Data Controller
The responsible controller (Art. 4 GDPR) of any personal data processed in connection with the use of this website is Kickstart Solutions:
Kickstart Solutions, Lda
Reg. Nr.: 515140554,
Adress: Rua da Carreira, No. 102 9000-042 Funchal, Portugal
E-mail: info@kickstartsolutions.co
3. Contact Details and Data Protection Officer
3.1 If you have any questions about or in connection with this Privacy Notice, please contact us:
Kickstart Solutions, Lda
Reg. Nr.: 515140554,
Adress: Rua da Carreira, No. 102 9000-042 Funchal, Portugal
E-mail: info@kickstartsolutions.co
3.2 You may contact our data protection officer at any times:
Email: dpo@kickstartsolutions.co
4. Processing of your personal data
4.1 When you visit our website, we use cookies to store certain information about you, for example what browser and operating system you use, the date and time of your visit and your IP address.
4.2 We only process any other of your personal data if you provide these to us, for example when using our contact form, and even in these cases only insofar as this is permitted on the basis of the consent given by you or in accordance with the applicable legal provisions.
5. Purposes of the processing
5.1 We use your personal data, collected when you visit our website, in order to operate our system in the most convenient manner for your use and to protect our IT systems from attacks and other illegal activities.
5.2 If you provide us with further personal data, for example when using our business contact form, we use these data for the purposes of customer administration and – if necessary – for the purposes of processing and accounting of any business transactions, in each case to the extent required for this.
6. Legal basis of the processing
6.1 Insofar as you have given us your consent for the processing of your personal data, that consent is the legal basis for the processing, Art. 6 I a) GDPR.
6.2 For the processing of personal data for the purposes of initiating or fulfilling a contract with you, Art. 6 I b) GDPR is the legal basis.
6.3. Insofar as the processing of your personal data is necessary for the fulfillment of our legal obligations, we are authorized to do so according to Art. 6 I c) GDPR.
6.4 In addition, we process personal data for the purposes of safeguarding our legitimate interests and the legitimate interests of third parties according to Art. 6 I f) GDPR. Maintaining the functionality of our IT systems as well as marketing our own and third-party products and services are such legitimate interests.
7. Recipients of your personal data
7.1 Any access to your personal data at Kickstart Solutions is restricted to those individuals that have a need to know in order to fulfil their job responsibilities.
7.2 Kickstart Solutions may transfer your personal data to private third parties, either affiliated or unaffiliated private bodies.
7.3 Kickstart Solutions may transfer your personal data to data processors. Data processors are certain third parties, whether affiliated or unaffiliated, which process your personal data on our behalf and under appropriate instructions as necessary for the respective processing purposes. All data processors are subject to strict contractual obligations to implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to safeguard your personal data, and to process the personal data only as instructed.
7.4 Kickstart Solutions may transfer your personal data to governmental authorities, courts, external advisors, and similar third parties that are public bodies as required or permitted by applicable law.
8. Cross-Border Transfer
8.1 Recipients of your personal data may be located, or may have relevant operations, outside of your country and the European Union.
8.2 Recipients in the US may partially be certified under the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield and thereby recognized as providing an adequate level of data protection from a European data protection law perspective.
8.3 With regard to data transfers to recipients outside of the European Union we provide appropriate safeguards by way of entering into data transfer agreements adopted by the European Commission (Standard Contractual Clauses, 2010/87/EU and / or 2004/915/EC) with the recipients or taking other effective measures to provide an adequate level of data protection.
9. Data Security
Kickstart Solutions uses technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to, personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed. We constantly improve our security measures in line with technical developments in order to ensure an appropriate level of security for any of your personal data that we process.
10. Deletion of your personal data
Your personal data are stored only to the extent and duration as necessary. As soon as the purposes for which your data were collected have been fulfilled or otherwise cease to exist, your data will be deleted. Beyond this, data are only stored if this is required by the laws, regulations or other legal provisions of the European Union or of a member state of the European Union to which we are subject.
11. Changes to this Privacy Notice
This Privacy Notice may require an update from time to time – for example due to the implementation of new technologies or the introduction of new services. We reserve the right to change or supplement this Privacy Notice at any time. We will immediately publish any changes here.
Appendix Your Rights
(a) Right of access: You may have the right to obtain from us confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you is processed, and, where that is the case, to request access to the personal data. The access information includes – inter alia – the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned, and the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed. However, this is not an absolute right and the interests of other individuals may restrict your right of access.
You may have the right to obtain a copy of the personal data undergoing processing. For further copies requested by you, we may charge a reasonable fee based on administrative costs.
(b) Right to rectification: You may have the right to obtain from us the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you. Depending on the purposes of the processing, you may have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.
(c) Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”): Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to obtain from us the erasure of personal data concerning you and we may be obliged to erase such personal data.
(d) Right to restriction of processing: Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to obtain from us restriction of processing your personal data. In this case, the respective data will be marked and may only be processed by us for certain purposes.
(e) Right to data portability: Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and you may have the right to transmit those data to another entity without hindrance from us.
(f) Right to object: Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, or where personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes at any time to the processing of your personal data by us and we can be required to no longer process your personal data.
Moreover, if your personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for such marketing, which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. In this case your personal data will no longer be processed for such purposes by us.