Privacy Policy

BLINK BOOKING PRIVACY POLICY

• This Privacy Policy will take effect from 16th March 2013.

• INTRODUCTION

  INNOVATE MOBILE APPS EUROPE, S.L. (“the Company”, “BLINK”, “us”, “we” or “our”) considers its basic objective to guarantee the privacy of its User's personal data collected in any system that enables data transfer (hereafter “Personal Data”). In order to ensure this objective and to protect your intimacy and privacy, we have drafted this privacy policy (hereafter “the Policy”), applied to the website www.blinkbooking.com and its mobile application (“APP”), available on Android and iOS systems, we evidence and we commit to guarantee the legal requirements stipulated by the applicable law and regulations. Therefore, pursuant to the Personal Data Protection Law 15/1999, of December and, specifically, Article 5 therein, which regulates the collection of data, BLINK hereby brings the following issues to your attention:

• 1. FILE OWNERSHIP

  INNOVATE MOBILE APPS EUROPE, S.L., a company incorporated in Spain, with employer identification number: B-47680731 and tax domicile at c/ Callao, nº 5, 8º floor, 28045 Madrid, registered in the Madrid Company Register, Volume 3.690, Sheet 150, Page M-552252, Entry 2, is the owning body of the file that includes your personal data and responsible for the handling thereof.

• 2. COLLECTION, HANDLING AND OBJECTIVE

  Personal data. BLINK may request Personal Data from you through online forms. We may request you to provide us with some of, but not limited to, the following personal data: Name and surnames, Age and gender, Geographical location, E-mail, Bank card details for the payment of the services, And Spanish national identity document if the user requires an invoice for the services. These data must be handled for the provision of offered services through this APP. The Personal Data will be included in an automated file that may be located within the European Union and will meet the requirements under the prevailing applicable legislation in Spain (hereafter, the “Personal Data File”). The Data Protection Agency was notified of the existence and the characteristics of the Personal Data File. BLINK will automate the handling of the Personal Data. The objective of collecting and handling the Personal Data on an automated basis is to (i) manage the APP services to which this privacy policy refers to, e.g. to manage the collection of the services contracted by the users, to generate the invoice whenever requested by the user and the contracting is done directly with BLINK, to render the contracted service, etc. as well as (ii) to implement any promotional initiatives for products and services related to your user profile. We may send these initiatives to you by any means, including commercial e-mails.

• 3. USE OF COOKIES AND LINKS

  BLINK may use “technical cookies “when the User browses any of its websites. A “cookie” can be defined as a text file stored by a website on your computer’s hard drive, containing information relating to the user. BLINK only uses “technical cookies” to achieve the desired efficacy of the online services provided to the Users. This APP includes hyperlinks (“links”) that allow you to move to other web pages or websites. BLINK does not accept any responsibility with respect to the data protection policy that might have been adopted therein, and advises users to investigate the content thereof. In any case, users are fully aware that the present Legislation applies solely and exclusively to the information collected by this APP.

• 4. TRANSFER AND/OR COMMUNICATION OF INFORMATION

  BLINK may, where appropriate, transfer the Personal Data to companies within its Consortium for handling in accordance with the purposes specified in Rule Two above. In those situations where BLINK transfers international data to companies in the Consortium in countries where, pursuant to Article 33 of the Data Protection Law: a. They do not provide a level of protection comparable to the level provided by the Spanish Legislation. b. They are not included in the exceptions to Article 34, the appropriate authorisation will be obtained from the Data Protection Agency Director. In any case, the treatment of the personal data provided by these third parties will be limited to the fulfilment of the automatic collection and handling of personal data and to execute the activities of the BLINK Group. This transfer will be documented contractually, including clauses that safeguard the confidentiality of the Personal Data, under which these Companies cannot retain, transfer nor communicate the data in question for purposes other than those indicated, ensuring the elimination or destruction of those data that could have stayed in its power once the transfer has been finalized. BLINK will not communicate data to third parties outside of the Consortium to which BLINK belongs, unless this communication occurs in a dissociated form, in such a way that the user’s identity remains completely anonymous.

• 5. NEWSLETTER SERVICE AND PROMOTION OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

  Whenever the User wants to subscribe to our newsletter and promotion service, he or she must provide the Personal Data required, in any case, the minimum data required to send publicity, which will only be used for the purposes of these services. In any case, the publicity that you may receive through this system will be easily identifiable as such. When registering as a member on the APP, referred to in this Privacy policy, the users expressly authorise their e-mail addresses to be used in order to comply with each and everyone of the purposes of data handling shown in Rule Two, by sending electronic commercial correspondence. Users may at any time revoke the consent provided to send commercial communications, by sending an e-mail to the address indicated below together with their name and surname(s), stating their desire to not receive commercial correspondence by any means and indicating (“UNSUBSCRIBE MAILING LIST) in the subject line of the email. Users may also revoke their consent granted to send commercial correspondence in each of the e-mails that they receive by clicking on the link “unsubscribe from commercial e-mails” and by following the indications on the screen.

• 6. SECURITY MEASURES

  BLINK guarantees that it has adopted the legally required security levels to protect the Personal Data, and has installed all the technical means and measures within its reach to prevent the loss, misuse, alteration, unauthorised access and theft thereof. However, Users must be aware that the online security measures are not invulnerable. Whenever we ask you to provide us with important information (e.g. your Spanish National Identity Document or your credit card number), this information is subjected to encryption processes and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology, under the market standards. Most of the existing browsers accept SSL. Any data transferred from this point onwards are fully secure. In addition, we have included measures that tend to guarantee the integrity of the data and the correct use thereof. An identification and authentication system has been implemented, as well as mechanisms to control the physical access of authorised personnel. For this purpose, our employees’ screens are protected by a password access system which is de-activated whenever they move away from their desk. Upon returning to their desk, they have to re-enter their password to gain access to any personal information. Our employees have been trained in matters relating to privacy and security in data handling. Lastly, we have adopted the necessary organisational measures to ensure that the servers that are physically storing the protected information are located in suitably equipped premises with restricted access. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any doubts, questions, comments or suggestions concerning security, by submitting them to the e-mail address indicated below in Rule Ten.In order to guarantee the maximum possible security when handling your personal data, access to the services on the APP to which this Privacy Policy applies is subject to the use of an identifying username and a secret and non-transferable personal password, as explained in the General Terms and Conditions of Use of the APP which can be consulted on the APP itself.

• 7. ACCESS RIGHTS, CORRECTION, OBSTRUCTION AND CANCELATION

  Any individual that has provided its data to BLINK may appeal to it, as the responsible of the file containing its Personal Data, in order to exercise its access rights, cancelation, correction and obstruction with regard to the data included in the file. Given the personal nature of these rights, the affected party must give proof of his identity to BLINK, and BLINK reserves the right to adopt the relevant measures in order to verify his or her identity, To exercise these rights, the affected party may opt for any of the communication channels available in Rule Ten below. Once his or her identity has been established, BLINK will notify him or her of its decision within one month. If affirmative, you may access the relevant information within 10 days of the notification. The rights to correction and cancelation may be exercised, pursuant to the following provisions, as long as you consider that the personal details included in our files are inaccurate, incomplete, insufficient or excessive. If this is the case, you may exercise them using one of the measures foreseen above. Once your identity has been confirmed, BLINK will proceed to the rectification or cancellation within 10 days of receiving your request.

• 9. CHANGES IN LEGISLATION

  BLINK reserves the right to modify this Policy with a view to adapt it to any changes in law or jurisprudence as well as any changes that might arise from codes that may exist in the area or for corporate strategical reasons. Such changes will be notified with whatever notice is deemed necessary in our APP, with due regard to asking the necessary consent of those affected, whenever this was not considered granted under the terms of this Policy. Do not hesitate to inform us of any doubts, questions or comments with regard to this Legislation by sending your communication to the address indicated in Rule Ten below.

• 10. NOTIFICATIONS

  Should the affected party wish to send any correspondence pursuant to the above Rules, please send a letter to Plaza de Callao, 5, 8º Madrid (28013) and/or an e-mail to contact@blinkbooking.com.