Legal Notices
In compliance with the corresponding legal provisions, and in particular with the GDPR - Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, we inform you of the following details: The company that owns the domain www.franquiciasfranquishop.com is FRANQUISHOP, S.L. (hereinafter FRANQUISHOP) with CIF B91879692 and registered office in Seville, Avda. Diego Martinez Barrio 4, 41013. Likewise, we inform you that you can contact us at the addresses indicated in the "Contact" section, through the phone 954.09.22.55 or by sending an email to the following email address: info@franquishop.com.
Our Privacy Policy explains how FRANQUISHOP collects and uses information about you. This Privacy Policy applies to the processing of information about registered users, entrepreneurs, or companies that we collect when you use our website or use the service we offer, or when you contact us.
To make this Privacy Policy easier to understand, we provide a more detailed explanation below that we recommend you read.
1. Information Collection
We collect information about you when:
- You create a user account;
- You attend a FRANQUISHOP event and register;
- You visit our website and fill out a form;
- You contact us by phone or email.
- We also collect information, such as usage statistics, using cookies, server logs, and similar technologies. Similarly, we may collect information through other sources, such as social media services, invitations, or imported contacts.
1.1 Information you provide us
We collect information you provide directly when you create an account, fill out a form, or contact us by phone or email, through the website, or by attending events in person, always after obtaining the user's express consent upon registering on the website. The type of information we may collect includes:
- If the user registers as an entrepreneur: your first and last name, username, email address, postal address, phone number, how you heard about FRANQUISHOP, and the business interests or preferences you may have within the framework of providing FRANQUISHOP services. Additionally, during your in-person attendance at any FRANQUISHOP events, we may want to document and graphically report on what happened at the event, so photos or videos of you may be taken during its development, which may later be published (without personally identifying you) in FRANQUISHOP's advertising and commercial dissemination materials.
- If the user registers as a franchisor, in addition to the above data, we may collect the business organization you belong to and the position you hold within it. Later, we will explain how we will use the information you provide to fulfill the purpose of our activity through our communications.
In no case will we collect or receive information from third parties about your beliefs, political, religious opinions, health issues, sexual identity, or other sensitive data.
1.2 Information we collect automatically when you use the Portal or attend our fairs:
When you, as a registered user, register on our website or attend our fair, we collect the information referred to in the previous point, including:
- Registration information: We collect registration information through the user registration form.
- Information collected by cookies and other tracking technologies: FRANQUISHOP and our service providers collect information using various technologies, including cookies and pixel tags. Cookies are small information files stored on your hard drive or device memory that help us improve our services by tracking user activity. You can learn more about the type of cookies that FRANQUISHOP and our service providers use by reading our Cookie Policy.
1.3 Information we collect from other sources
We may collect information about you from other sources but only when these third parties have your consent or are legally authorized to provide us with that data. Some examples include, among others:
- Social media services. If you register or log in to your account through a third-party social media service, we will have access to some of your account information from that service, such as your name and other account information. This information will be used for the purposes contemplated in providing FRANQUISHOP services.
- Information from other third-party sources: We may obtain information about you from publicly and commercially available sources as well as from third parties such as registered FRANQUISHOP franchisors, within the applicable legal limits.
Finally, we want to remind you that, in any case, you can contact us through info@franquishop.com to request that we send you a file with all the information and data we have about you so that you can request any information from our database if you wish.
2. Use of Information
Summary: We use information about you to:
- Transfer your contact details to franchising companies with whom you have requested an appointment at our franchise fairs, downloaded their dossier, and/or sent an information request through the franchise file form in question;
- Advertising by personalizing the content of our communications through marketing campaigns;
- Statistical purposes;
- Contact you;
2.1 Operation of our Platform: We may use information about you for various purposes related to the operation of our Portal, such as:
- Provide, optimize the development of new products and services, and manage and improve the performance of our website;
- Display information about entrepreneurs to franchising companies you have shown interest in.
- Personalize your experience as a registered user, for example, to suggest content that we think you may be interested in;
- Perform accounting and administrative tasks, and present or manage legal claims.
2.2 Contact you: We may use information to communicate with you, including:
- Respond to your comments, doubts, and requests, or generally provide service to registered users, whether they are entrepreneurs, franchising companies, or Institutions;
- Contact you about products, services, and events we offer ourselves and third parties that we believe may be of interest to you (based on the details provided at the time of registration); to conduct online surveys; to inform you about events that will be organized near your location;
- Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and administrative messages.
2.3 Advertising and other uses: We may use information about you for other purposes, including:
- Provide content, features, or sponsorships that match the interests or profiles of registered users;
- Promote contests and other promotions within the marketing purposes of FRANQUISHOP events.
- Carry out any other purpose described at the time we collect the information.
2.4 Statistical purposes:
We may use information about you to develop statistics related to the franchise event you attend and to improve other services provided by FRANQUISHOP; for example: how many appointments were made at a fair, how many information requests a specific franchising company received, etc.
2.5 Legal bases for processing
Our legal bases for collecting and using the information described above will depend on the type of information and the specific context in which we collect it; thus:
- We process information about you to provide and optimize our services.
- We also process information about you as it constitutes a legitimate interest for FRANQUISHOP and is not overridden by your rights (for example, in some cases of direct marketing, fraud prevention, response to your communications, and improvements to our Portal).
- We process information about you after obtaining your unequivocal consent.
- We may also process information to comply with a legal requirement or to formalize a contract.
3. Information Sharing
We do not share information about you in any way other than described in this Privacy Policy. Thus, we may disclose information about you:
- to registered users as franchising companies based on the contracted services;
- to public institutions collaborating in the franchise events you attended, such as local public entities, chambers of commerce, ...
- to our external service providers, who help us develop and optimize our Platform;
- to public authorities to comply with legal obligations and to protect and defend our rights and property if necessary;
3.1 With franchising companies and Institutions.
We share part of the information we collect by showing it to registered users as franchising companies on our Portal in accordance with the explicit interest shown by you at the time of registration. The use of information by third-party services will be regulated by the privacy policies of those third parties, and we have no control over the use these third parties make of the shared data. For more information on the purpose and scope of data collection and processing, review the privacy policies of the services offered by these franchising companies or Institutions.
3.2 With our Service Providers
We may use service providers in connection with the management and improvement of the Platform to help us with certain functions, email transmission, conducting surveys or contests, data hosting, managing our ads, and some aspects of our customer service and technical support.
3.5 Complying with the law and protecting FRANQUISHOP
We may access, preserve, and disclose information about you to third parties, including the content of emails, if we believe the disclosure is related to compliance or required by current laws, regulations, legal processes, or audits. We may also disclose information about you if we believe your actions do not comply with our policies or if necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of FRANQUISHOP or others, or to prevent fraud and abuse against them.
3.6 Distribution, merger, sale, or other asset transfers.
If FRANQUISHOP becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or bankruptcy process, information about you may be shared, sold, or transferred as part of that transaction. We may also share information about you with future affiliated companies.
4. Other Details
FRANQUISHOP takes all reasonable commercial measures to protect your personal information and has implemented consistent technical and organizational measures. We cannot guarantee that these controls provide absolute security. Our Privacy Policy is updated periodically and does not apply to third parties.
4.1 Advertising and analytics services provided by others
With your permission, we may allow others to use cookies, web beacons, device identifiers, and other technologies to collect information about your use of the Platform and other websites and online services. See our Cookie Policy for details on these technologies and the information they collect, use, or share, including how you can control or disable these services.
4.2 Security
We adopt technical and organizational measures designed to appropriately protect the information about you that is under our control. We train employees on our privacy procedures and policies, and allow access to information to our authorized employees based on the need to know according to their role. We use firewalls designed to protect against intruders and network vulnerability analysis. We store all the information you provide on secure servers, although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage method is completely secure.
If you have a password that allows you to use our services, you are solely responsible for making that password complex and keeping it secure and confidential. If you wish to update or change your password, you can click on the "Forgot your password?" link that appears on the login page. We will send you an email so you can reset your password, as neither FRANQUISHOP nor its employees have readable access to the passwords provided by users, as they are encrypted and hidden.
4.3 Data Retention
We retain certain information about you for the following reasons:
- To be able to use our website and continue to communicate with you unless you request otherwise;
- To better understand the use of our website so that we can offer all users the best possible experience.
- To ensure that we do not communicate with you if you have requested us not to do so.
- To detect and prevent abuses of our platform, illegal activities, and breaches of our terms of service; and
- To comply with applicable accounting, tax, or legal requirements.
4.5 Scope of the Policy
FRANQUISHOP SL is responsible for processing the data provided by registered users under their express consent to be processed in accordance with the general purposes and objectives established in this Privacy Policy.
For information sent by minors, it will be an essential requirement that the minor has previously obtained parental, guardian, or legal representative consent for the personal data to be processed by FRANQUISHOP.
4.6 Revisions to this Policy
We may modify this Privacy Policy periodically. When we do, we will notify you by posting the most recent version and revising the date at the top of the page. If we make any material changes to this policy, we will send you an additional notice, for example, via email or by displaying a prominent notice on the Portal.
5. Your Choices
We inform you that as a user, you can exercise your right to make complaints or suggestions, review, rectify your information, and delete your user account at any time. You also have the right to decide not to receive further advertising messages from FRANQUISHOP, but you may still receive other non-advertising communications.
5.1 Account Information
You can update, correct your account information, or unsubscribe by sending us a request to info@franquishop.com
5.2 Cookies
We may use and allow others to use cookies, web beacons, device identifiers, and other technologies to collect information about your use of the Platform and other websites and online services. See our Cookie Policy for details on these technologies and the information they collect, use, or share, including how you can control or disable these services.
5.2 Advertising Communications
You can control the messages you receive from FRANQUISHOP by selecting the "unsubscribe" link that appears in the communications you may receive. If you unsubscribe, we may still send you non-advertising messages, such as those related to your account or ongoing business relationships: for example, regarding the fair in which you will participate or have participated.
6. Data Rights
The rights you may have include:
- Access, correct, update, or request the deletion of your information.
- Object to the processing of your information by requesting us to limit processing or requesting the portability of your information.
- Decide not to receive commercial communications we send you at any time. You can exercise this right by selecting the "unsubscribe" link that appears in the commercial emails we send you.
- Withdraw your consent at any time if we have collected and processed your information with your consent. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the legality of any processing we conducted before your withdrawal, nor will it affect the processing of your information carried out for legal processing reasons other than consent.
- Submit complaints to the AEPD about our collection and use of your information.
- Please note that FRANQUISHOP is responsible for processing your information. Other registered users, such as franchising companies, may also act as data controllers of your information. You should contact these members if you have any questions about how they use the information you have provided them.
LAST UPDATED: 24/05/2018