Privacy Policy and Data Protection
WE ARE COMMITTED TO PROTECTING THE PRIVACY AND PERSONAL DATA OF OUR CLIENTS AND USERS OF THE WEBSITE, WHICH IS WHY WE HAVE DRAFTED THIS POLICY AND THE PRACTICES DESCRIBED HERE. IN THIS POLICY, WE EXPLAIN HOW YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS COLLECTED AND HANDLED, SO WE RECOMMEND READING IT.
IDENTIFICATION OF THE ENTITY RESPONSIBLE FOR DATA PROCESSING.
Entity:Hubel Engineering, Lda. (hereinafter, “Hubel Engineering”)
NIPC: 514 170 344
Headquarters: Parque Hubel, Pechão, 8700-179 Olhão (Portugal)
Phone contact: +351 289 710 500
Email: engenharia@hubel.pt
WHAT IS THIS POLICY ABOUT?
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect and process the personal data necessary for providing services available through the website, describing practices adopted for this purpose.
WHAT ARE PERSONAL DATA?
Personal data is any information related to a person that identifies them or makes them identifiable, regardless of the nature and format of the information, including sound and image of the person.
By identifiable, it should be understood as a person who can be identified, directly or indirectly, particularly by reference to an identification number or other specific elements of their physical, physiological, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity.
HOW WILL WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
The operations of personal data processing that we carry out are an essential tool for your satisfaction and for the activity of Hubel Engineering and are carried out in accordance with applicable legislation and in line with best practices.
Your personal data will not be reused for purposes other than those previously identified or that are not related to the purposes for which they were initially collected.
WHAT ARE THE PURPOSES, GROUNDS, AND RETENTION PERIODS FOR THE COLLECTED DATA?
The personal data we process have specific grounds, depending on the purposes for which they are intended, and will be retained for the time necessary for the respective purposes, as outlined in this Privacy Policy.
The personal data collected are only those necessary and appropriate for the indicated purposes.
In the following table, you can view the purposes of processing and the data collected for them, the respective grounds, and the retention periods or criteria for data retention:
PURPOSE |
GROUND |
DATA COLLECTED |
RETENTION PERIOD |
To follow up on your customer registration on the website and allow access to its functionalities. |
Pre-contractual measures. |
Name and email. |
For the period during which you are registered as a customer and wish to use the respective services of the website and up to 1 year after the last access. |
To retain your account data in the reserved area. |
Pre-contractual measures. |
Name and email. |
For the period during which you are registered as a customer and wish to use the respective services of the website and up to 1 year after the last access. |
To analyze and respond to your contact and information request. |
Consent for that specific purpose. |
Name, phone number, email, company, subject and question, and any personal data it may contain. |
1 year. |
To analyze and respond to your contact and information request through LiveChat. |
Consent for that specific purpose. |
Message, file, and any personal data that may be contained in both. |
1 year. |
To analyze and respond to your help request. |
Consent for that specific purpose. |
Full name, phone, email address, company, subject, question, attachments, and any personal data that may be included. |
1 year. |
To analyze and respond to your contact request regarding the choice of the sleeve for the irrigation system. |
Consent for that specific purpose. |
Name, contact, email, company, subject, request, and any personal data that may be included. |
1 year. |
To analyze and respond to your contact request regarding electric chargers. |
Consent for that specific purpose. |
Name, contact, email, charging location, request, and any personal data that may be included. |
1 year. |
To analyze and respond to your request for information regarding irrigation tapes. |
Consent for that specific purpose. |
Name, email, subject, type of support requested, and personal data that may be included. |
1 year. |
To maintain a record of your contact details. |
Consent for this specific purpose; |
Name and email. |
1 year. |
To analyze and follow up on your job application with Hubel Engineering. | Pre-contractual diligences | Name, email, phone, and resume. | For 1 year if not selected or, if selected, during the execution of the contract and for at least 1 year after its termination. |
For website management operations. |
Consent for this specific purpose (cookies); Legitimate interests pursued by Hubel Engineering. |
Cookies; IP Address |
Consult the Cookie Policy. |
For commercial purposes, such as data analysis, audits. |
Consent for this specific purpose (cookies); Legitimate interests pursued by Hubel Engineering. |
Cookies; IP Address |
Consult the Cookie Policy. |
For fraud prevention and information systems security. |
Legitimate interests pursued by Hubel Engineering. |
Cookies; IP Address |
Consult the Cookie Policy. |
If the law results in a specific or mandatory period, the data retention period will be that. In all other cases, personal data will be retained for a maximum of the times indicated above, periods that Hubel Engineering considers sufficient to fulfill the purposes.
At the end of the retention period, all collected personal data will be deleted.
HOW DO WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
We will collect your personal data through the forms present on the website, but also through the website and the communication it makes with your device and messages fromemailthat you send us.
Your personal data is collected through your device in the following ways:
By filling out the forms on the website.
Through your browser;
Throughcookies;
Throughpixel tagsand other similar technologies;
IP address;
Through your user data.
Hubel Engineering commits to processing your data in accordance with the law and in a legitimate manner.
Hubel Engineering will not sell, rent, or share your personal data with third parties, except in cases clearly identified in this Privacy Policy (see Point 11 to understand how).
The services of Hubel Engineering they are not directed at minors, and personal data of minors is not intentionally processed.
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are small information files that help identify your browser and can store information, for example, user settings and preferences.
The Hubel Engenharia will storecookieson your device to personalize and facilitate navigation as much as possible, but also for troubleshooting, statistics, quality assurance, and to monitor system security.
Except for the cookies specifically necessary for the website's performance, the storage of other cookies will always depend on the user's acceptance and consent, which can be withdrawn at any time through specific browser tools.
To learn more about the cookies we use, you should consult our Cookie Policy.
HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
Your personal data is kept secure through the adoption of various security measures, both technical and organizational, that ensure that only employees who need access to the personal data have access, in accordance with the need for access and rules created for this purpose.
To protect your personal data, we only use data center providers that offer us adequate and documented security measures, namely, guarantees that your personal data is stored on servers that are maintained in controlled environments with limited access.
Similarly, when you browse the website, we protect your data with encryption, such as Transport Layer Security (TLS, which is a security protocol that protects telecommunications over the internet) and your password is stored using a one-way hash, meaning it cannot be retrieved (or disclosed) by anyone, including Hubel Engineering, and can only be reset.
Although we take the care and precautions we deem appropriate to protect the personal data you provide and we collect, it is important to be aware that no security system is impenetrable.
Therefore, you should take certain precautions, such as keeping your password secret and not disclosing it to anyone else; if you believe your password has been used improperly, you should notify us immediately; you should also be careful to log in and out whenever you close the browser.
WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS
Before we explain how you can exercise your rights, we inform you that the legislation grants you the following rights:
Access: the right to obtain confirmation as to whether or not your personal data is being processed and, if so, the right to access your personal data;
Rectification: the right to obtain the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you and to have incomplete personal data completed;
Erasure: the right to obtain the erasure of your personal data when one of the reasons listed in the legislation applies, namely when:
Personal data is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected or processed;
Withdraw the consent on which the data processing is based and there is no other legal basis for the processing;
If opposed to the processing and there are no prevailing legitimate interests that justify it;
Personal data has been processed unlawfully;
Personal data must be erased to comply with a legal obligation;
Personal data was collected in the context of the provision of information society services.
Limitation of processing: the right to obtain the limitation of processing if one of the situations listed in the legislation applies, namely when:
Contesting the accuracy of personal data;
The processing is unlawful and the data subject opposes the erasure of personal data and requests, instead, the limitation of its use;
The data controller no longer needs the personal data for processing purposes, but such data is required by the data subject for the declaration, exercise, or defense of a right in a legal proceeding;
If the data subject has opposed the processing based on automated individual decisions.
Objection: the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning them;
Portabilitythe right to receive personal data concerning you in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and the right to transmit that data to another data controller without the controller to whom the personal data was provided being able to prevent it, when the processing is based on consent or contract, or when it is carried out through automated means.
You also have the right to file a complaint with the competent supervisory authority (in Portugal, the National Data Protection Commission in www.cnpd.pt).
In addition to the rights described above, whenever the basis for data processing is consent, the User has the right to withdraw the consent given at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out until that moment.
HOW CAN YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS?
By written contact to the following addresses:
By email:marketing@hubel.pt
By postal mail: Parque Hubel, Pechão, 8700-179 Olhão (Portugal)
If you request the deletion of some or all of your personal data, some of the requested services may not be provided to you and the Hubel Engineering will only retain the personal data necessary to comply with the legal obligations to which it is bound.
WHEN DO WE COMMUNICATE DATA TO THIRD PARTIES?
The Hubel Engineering may resort to third parties for the provision of certain services, in terms of maintenance, technical support, marketing, billing, or payment management, and these may have access to some personal data, namely, the data necessary for the contracted purposes.
The Hubel Engineering ensures that the entities that have access to the data are credible and offer high guarantees of protection, never being transmitted data beyond what is necessary for the provision of the contracted service, remaining, however, the Hubel Engineering as responsible for the personal data provided.
The Hubel Engineering may also share your data with the following entities:
Companies of the corporate group to which the Hubel Engineering belongs and with which it has commercial partnerships for the creation and offering of benefits; or,
Other partners outside its corporate group (with prior authorization from you).
The Hubel Engineering may also transmit data to third parties in the context of investigations, inquiries, and judicial and/or administrative processes or similar in nature, provided that it is duly ordered by a court order in that regard.
THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES
The website may contain links to other websites which may collect and process your personal data, and this processing is the sole responsibility of the owners of those websites, with no liability on the part of the Hubel Engineering for their policies and/or practices.
Examples of these third parties include Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube through the buttons that are present on the website.
DATA TRANSFERS OUTSIDE THE EUROPEAN UNION
Your data will be processed by us within the European Economic Area.
If data transfers to third countries outside the European Economic Area may occur, Hubel Engenharia will make the necessary efforts to adopt the appropriate safeguards to ensure that these transfers are carried out in accordance with applicable legislation.
MINORS
The website is not directed at individuals under 18 years of age, and we request that these minors do not provide us with personal data through the website, application, social networks, or emails.
SENSITIVE PERSONAL DATA
Hubel Engenharia requests that you do not send us or disclose any sensitive personal data, that is, information revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic information, biometric information, health data, or data related to the sexual life of a natural person or sexual orientation. If you still send us or disclose such categories of personal data, they will be immediately deleted.
CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY
Hubel Engenharia
reserves the right to adjust or change this Privacy Policy at any time, with such changes being published. OUR CONTACT DETAILS If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us in writing via email.
OUR CONTACT DETAILS
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us in writing via email marketing@hubel.pt.
LAST VERSION
29 of January, 2026. Faro (Portugal).