Privacy Policy

Who we are

Spain Today Online S.L. is dedicated to your data privacy and to upholding the principles of the General Data Protection Regulation “GDPR”. Spain Today Online S.L. publishes a variety of web based products such as Murcia Today, Andalucia Today, Alicante Today, Aguilas Today, San Javier Today, Lorca Today, Spanish News Today, Murcia Property Page, Murcia Beach Guide and many others. All pages published under the umbrella of Spain Today Online S.L adheres to the privacy policy published below.

In our privacy policy we have outlined how we handle your data, why we hold it and what we do to protect it.

Spain Today Online S.L. is a Spanish registered limited company registration number is B30872212.

None of the sites will be used in the communication of services in connection with pyramid schemes, chain letters, junk email, spamming or any duplicative or unsolicited messages (commercial or otherwise).

Spain Today Online S.L. is strongly committed to protecting the privacy of its website users and customers. We have written this privacy policy to outline the specific information we collect, how we use this information, and what options you have in sharing this information with us when you visit our site. Protecting your privacy is a significant part of our commitment to providing you with a high quality service.

What Information Do We Gather About You?

The information we gather about you depends on the context. By and large, it’s information about you that can personally identify you — either on its own or when combined with other information.

The following describes the information we collect and how we obtain it.

Information Collected by Spain Today Online S.L.

1. Information That You Voluntarily Give Us

For Registration:

When you sign up for a Spain Today Online S.L Service (e.g., a subscription), we collect your contact information and account credentials.

For Billing:

To process payments or donations, we collect and use your payment information.

This can include your name, your address, your telephone number, your email address, your credit or debit card information and any other relevant information.

For User-Generated Content:

We may offer you the ability to post content that other users can read (e.g., comments ). Anyone can read, collect and use any personal information that accompanies your posts. 

We do not have to publish any of your content. If the law requires us to take down, remove or edit your personal information, we will comply to the required extent.

Information Collected Automatically

With Tracking Technologies in Your Browser and Mobile Apps:

These technologies include cookies, web beacons, tags and scripts, software development kits (or SDKs) and beyond.

We track and store data about how you visit and use Spain Today Online S.L Services, particularly through our websites and apps. The items we log include:

We combine this data with other information we collect about you. For more information about tracking methods on Spain Today Online S.L Services, and how to manage them, read our Terms and Conditions

Your IP address

Your location

Your operating system

Your browser

Your browser language

The URLs of any pages you visit on our sites and apps

Device identifiers

Advertising identifiers

Other usage information.

Information Collected From Other Sources.

A note about future updates:

We are always improving our products and services, and we create new features regularly. These updates sometimes require us to collect new information, or use what we already have differently. If there is a significant or material change in the way we handle your personal information, we will notify you as detailed below.

We provide the Spain Today Online S.L Services.

We use your information to help you use and navigate Spain Today Online S.L Services, such as:

Making a Spain Today Online S.L Service available to you

Arranging access to your account

Providing customer service

Responding to your inquiries, requests, suggestions or complaints

Completing your payments and transactions

Sending service-related messages (e.g., a change in our terms and conditions)

Letting you take part in paid services, polls, promotions, surveys, panels, research and comments.

We Allow You to Share User-Generated Content.

Any information you disclose in your content becomes public — along with your chosen screen name and uploaded photo.

We Develop Products and Services, and Do Analysis.

We analyze data on our users’ subscription, purchase and usage behaviors. This helps us make business and marketing decisions.

For example, our analysis lets us predict preferences and price points for our products and services. It helps us determine whether our marketing is successful. It also shows us characteristics about our readers, which we sometimes share in aggregate with advertisers.

Google Analytics is one of the analytics providers we use. You can find out how Google Analytics uses data and how to opt out of Google Analytics.

We Carry Out Administrative Tasks.

For auditing: We verify that our internal processes work as intended and comply with legal, regulatory and contractual requirements.

For fraud and security monitoring: We detect and prevent cyberattacks or unauthorized robot activities.

The above activities can involve outside companies, agents or contractors (“service providers”) with whom we share your personal information for these purposes (discussed further below).

We Allow for Personalized Advertising on Spain Today Online S.L Services.

We gather data and work with third parties to show you personalized ads. This data comes from ad tracking technologies (e.g., cookies), the information you provide (e.g., your email address), data collected as you use Spain Today Online S.L Services (e.g., your reading history), data from advertisers or advertising vendors (e.g., demographic data) and anything inferred from any of this information. We only use or share this information in a manner that does not reveal your identity.

For example, we use Google to serve ads on Spain Today Online S.L Services. Google uses cookies or unique device identifiers, in combination with their own data, to show you ads based on you visiting murciatoday.com and other sites. You can opt out of the use of the Google cookie by visiting the related Google privacy policy.

Additional notes:

For more about targeted advertising, and how to opt out with your specific browser and device, go to the DDA Webchoices Browser Check and NAI Opt Out of Interest-Based Advertising. You can download the AppChoices app to opt out in mobile apps.
 

We try to limit how our third-party advertising technology vendors use the information they gather from you. Many of these providers require us to enter into contracts that allow them to optimize their own services and products, or that help them create their own.
 

Essentially, these providers combine any information they gather about you through Spain Today Online S.L Services with information they receive from their other clients. This helps them target ads to you on behalf of their other clients, not just us.

These third parties sometimes use other services in order to serve ads.

We Advertise Spain Today Online S.L Services to You.

We market our properties to you. Sometimes we use marketing vendors to do this.

We serve ads through websites, locations, platforms and services operated and owned by third parties. Often these ads are targeted at people who have visited or registered for a Spain Today Online S.L Service but have not subscribed or purchased anything. The ads are also targeted at people with similar traits or behaviors to our subscribers or customers.

We target our advertising to these users by uploading an encrypted customer list to a third party, or by incorporating a tracking technology from a third party onto our Spain Today Online S.L Service. The third party then matches individuals who appear in both our data and their data. Because of how this matching process works, the third party can’t read our encrypted customer list if they don’t already have it. 

With Whom Do We Share the Information We Gather?

Within Spain Today Online S.L Company:

We work with service providers to carry out certain tasks:

Processing your payments

Fulfilling your orders

Maintaining technology and related infrastructure

Offering you customer service

Serving and targeting ads

Measuring ad performance

Presenting surveys

Shipping you products and mailings

Distributing emails

List processing and analytics

Managing and analyzing research

Managing promotions

When performing these tasks, service providers often have access to your personal information.

We sometimes allow them to use aggregated or de-identified information for other purposes, in accordance with applicable laws

With Other Third Parties:

There are situations when we share your information with third parties beyond our service providers. We never share your email address with these third parties without your consent, except in encrypted form to engage in the matched ads process described above.

We process payments you make through Stripe and PayPal.

We collect your information and share it with the third-party service for processing.

The third-party service collects your information for processing.

There are two ways this can happen:

In the event of a reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings), we would have a legitimate interest in disclosing or transferring your information to a third party — such as an acquiring entity and its advisers.

We can preserve or share personal information if the law requires us to do so. We can also preserve or share personal information if we believe it would be necessary to:

Comply with the law or with legal process

Protect and defend our rights and property

Protect against misuse or unauthorized use of the Spain Today Online S.L Services

Protect the safety or property of our users or the general public (e.g., if you provide false information or attempt to pose as someone else, we could share your information to help investigations into your actions)

Cooperate with government authorities, which could be outside your country of residence.

We disclose public activities in our RSS feeds, APIs and other distribution formats. Your public activities could thus appear on other websites, blogs or feeds.

What Are Your Rights?

How Do I Opt Out of Email, Phone, Mail and Push Notifications?

The opt-out methods described below are limited to the email address, phone or device used. They won’t affect subsequent subscriptions.

Email:

We offer a variety of commercial emails and email newsletters. You can unsubscribe from them by following the “unsubscribe” instructions near the bottom of the email. You can also email us at admin@murciatoday.com.

Mail or Telephone Promotions:

You can ask us to unsubscribe from our mail or telephone solicitations. You can also ask us to not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes. To do so, email us at admin@murciatoday.com. with “Opt Out” in the subject line, and your account number and phone number in the body of the email.

Push Notifications:

You can opt out any time by adjusting your device settings, or uninstalling our app.

Text Messages:

You can opt out of text alerts any time by replying “STOP,” or any alternative keyword we’ve shared with you.

We complete any opt-out request as quickly as we can. This opt-out request won’t prohibit us from sending you important nonmarketing notices.

What About Sensitive Personal Information?

We generally don’t want to gather any sensitive information about you. This includes:

Your social security number

Your racial or ethnic origin

Your political opinions

Your religion or other beliefs

Your health, biometric or genetic characteristics

Any trade union membership

Any criminal background

How Long Do You Retain Data?

It depends. We store your personal information for as long as needed, or permitted, based on the reason why we obtained it (consistent with applicable law). This means we might retain your personal information even after you close your account with us.

When deciding how long to keep your information, we consider:

How long we've had a relationship with you or provided a Spain Today Online S.L Service to you

Whether we are subject to any legal obligations (e.g., any laws that require us to keep transaction records for a certain period of time before we can delete them)

Whether we have taken any legal positions (e.g., in connection with any statutes of limitation).

Rather than delete your data, we might de-identify it by removing identifying details.

How Do You Protect My Information?

We protect your personal information with a series of organizational, technological and physical safeguards — but we cannot guarantee its absolute security. 

If you have reason to believe your interaction with us is no longer secure, notify us immediately.

Links to Third-Party Services?

Some Spain Today Online Services contain links to third-party websites, resources, vendors and advertisers. These third parties are not Spain Today Online Services. We do not control (and are not responsible for) third party content or privacy practices. Any personal data you provide to them is not covered by this Privacy Policy.

How Are Changes to This Privacy Policy Communicated?

We periodically update this Privacy Policy. We will post any changes on this page by updating this policy.

After we post any changes on this page, your continued use of Spain Today Online Services is subject to the updated Privacy Policy.

What we collect when you sign up as a user and why

First and last name

To identify you the user to ourselves

Email address

To contact you in the following cases:

if you forget your password we use your email to help reset it for you.

to send contact details from the Classifieds of interested purchaser/users in your advertisements.

to inform you of archiving Classified listings and renewals.

to inform you of changes to our service that may affect you.

to send you occasional news about our services.

to respond to you if you have contacted us regarding a support query.

when we send you an accept or reject notice for Classified advert submissions.

to receive our Whats On and News Flash bulletins if subscribed.

to receive our regional News and news flash bulletins if subscribed.

Logging into the site and cookies

When you log into your Spain Today Online S.L. account, the site places what is known as an encrypted cookie onto your machine. The only purpose of this cookie is to let the site know you are logged in, and to let the site know that you are who you say you are. The cookie is not used for advertising and is deleted when you log off the site.

When making an online payment to us, your bank may place a cookie onto your machine when authenticating you to services such as Verified by Visa.

When making an online payment to us via PayPal, PayPal may place a secure cookie onto your machine when you authenticate to use their service.

We also make use of Google Analytics to monitor website usage. In this case Google will place a cookie onto your machine. No personally identifiable information is collected about you.

If you would like to learn more about cookies please visit the following site: www.allaboutcookies.org

Data Security

Our site undergoes regular security scans.

We review our security and impact on any new functionality we may introduce.

Data stored with Spain Today Online S.L. are held in secure data centres.

Spain Today Online S.L. regularly reviews whether data are relevant, and if not they are assessed for deletion.

Secure details and SSL

All transactions on Spain Today Online S.L. take place over SSL encryption.

Credit card transactions are processed using our own Internet merchant account at PAY PAL and STRIPE. PAY PAL and STRIPE are trusted modular payment solutions and security systems on the Internet

Links

This web site may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that Spain Today Online S.L. is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by Murcia Today and other Spain Today Online S.L. sites.

E-Mag/Newsflash

These documents are integral to the operation of our services and to maintaining constant flash updates and contacts with our readers. If you do not wish to receive these communiqués then please notify Spain Today Online S.L. through the contact page or Unsubscribe on the bottom of any bulletin you have received and we will stop transmissions to you.

Your Feedback at Spain Today Online S.L.

Your privacy is extremely important. If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with us, please contact us using our secure contact us page and let us know. Thank you.