Privacy Policy

Portuguese Law no. 58/2019 of August 8, 2019 ensures the implementation, in the national legal order, of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016, on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, hereinafter referred to as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

TEV2 - Distribuição de Material Eléctrico, Lda, hereinafter referred to as TEV2, is committed to protecting the privacy of users on the website it makes available at www.tev.pt, hereinafter referred to as the website and of which it is the owner. In this context, it has drawn up this Privacy Policy with the aim of informing you about the data it collects when you use the website and how it is subsequently processed. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully as the provision of your personal data implies knowledge and acceptance of the conditions contained herein. Therefore, by providing your personal data, you are authorizing the collection and use of such data in accordance with the rules set out herein.

1. Entity responsible for processing
The entity responsible for collecting and processing the personal data obtained on the website is TEV2 - Distribuição de Material Eléctrico, Lda, with the following contact details:

TEV2 - Distribuição de Material Eléctrico, Lda
Zona Industrial da Maia I
Rua de Joaquim Silva Vicente, Lote 137
4470-434 Maia
Telephone: 229478170 (national fixed line)
Fax: 229485164 (national fixed line)
E-mail: dpo@tev.pt

Due to the requirements defined in the GDPR, TEV2 does not have to appoint a Data Protection Officer, so any request for information on personal data should be made to the above-mentioned e-mail address.

2. Data processed, purpose and storage period
Personal data is collected on the website in the following forms:

▪ Newsletter subscription in which the email address is requested. The data will be used, on the basis of your express and unambiguous consent, to send our periodic newsletter with information about our company and our products and services. The data will be stored until your consent is withdrawn or until you exercise your right to object to the processing;

▪ Contact form, which asks for your name, email address and telephone number. The data will be used on the basis of your express and unambiguous consent to deal with the matter that prompted your contact. The data will be kept for the period of time necessary for the contact to be resolved/ clarified or until you exercise your right to object to the processing;

The data collected on these forms is intended solely for the subsequent processing of the request made and will not be used for purposes other than those indicated. Your consent, by submitting the respective form, authorizes the processing of the personal data submitted for the purposes stipulated therein, on the legal basis of Article 6(1) of the GDPR.

3. Data sharing
TEV2 may subcontract third parties to carry out certain data processing on our behalf, namely for the provision of information technologies, webhosting services or digital marketing. Where such third parties have access to personal data in order to carry out such data processing, we have adopted technical, organizational and contractual measures to ensure that your personal data is processed exclusively for the purposes mentioned.

4. International data transfers
The personal data collected by TEV2 under this privacy policy is stored on servers located in Portugal, and no data is transferred to third countries.

5. Data retention period
The period of time for which data is stored and retained varies according to the purpose for which the information is processed. Whenever there is no specific legal requirement, your data will only be stored and kept for the minimum period necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.

6. Rights of the data subject
Under the terms of the GDPR, the data subject is guaranteed the exercise of all legally permitted rights, namely the right of access to personal data concerning him/her, as well as its rectification or erasure, the limitation of processing insofar as it concerns the data subject or the right to object to processing, as well as the right to data portability.

If you feel that your rights have been infringed, you can also lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority. In Portugal, this authority is the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados - CNPD | Rua de São Bento, nº 148, 3o, 1200-821 Lisboa | Tel.: 351 213928400 | Fax: +351 213976832 | e-mail: geral@cnpd.pt.

7. Optional or mandatory nature of data communication
The provision of personal data is generally optional. However, in certain cases, failure to provide data may make it impossible to access specific services or respond in a timely manner to a request.

8. Automated decisions
No automated decisions are made and no profiling is carried out based on the personal data collected under this privacy policy.

9. Cookie policy
A cookie is a file or text file containing small amounts of information that is downloaded and stored on the user's device via their browser when they visit a website.

Cookies are essential for the functioning of the Internet; they do not damage the user's equipment or device and, if they are activated in the configuration of their browser, they simplify browsing and allow the user to make better use of the website. To this end, the user is recognized anonymously whenever they access the website using the same device, eliminating the need to repeatedly enter the same information and thus enabling faster, more efficient and better quality browsing.

Cookies can be categorized according to the purpose they serve. There are cookies that are strictly necessary for the website to function, while others collect statistical information in order to analyze the use of the website and its performance or are used to ensure the availability of additional features to the website or to save visitor preferences regarding navigation on the website Other cookies may also serve to measure the success of applications and the effectiveness of third-party advertising.

TEV2 does not store sensitive personal information such as address, passwords, credit or debit card details, etc. in the cookies generated by the website. The data can be accessed by TEV2 or by third parties when it comes to third-party cookies such as Google Analytics, which is a Google tool that allows the website to be monitored to obtain access information such as the number of times a user visits the website, duration of each visit, links clicked, etc.

The user can always configure the devices and browsers they use to accept all or some cookies, to notify them whenever a cookie is issued or to never receive cookies, although if this is the desired option, some areas of the website may be inaccessible.

You can find more information and best practices at: www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

10. Changes to the privacy policy
TEV2 reserves the right to make adjustments or changes to its Privacy Policy at any time, always in strict compliance with the law. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we treat your personal data.

11. Consent
By accepting this Privacy Policy, the user gives their informed, express, free and unequivocal consent for the personal data provided through the website to be processed by TEV2 in such a way as to comply with the appropriate technical and organizational security measures.