PRIVACY POLICY

This website is owned and managed by Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A. We suggest that you read our Privacy Policy carefully to agree with its terms.

 

I. Privacy Statement

At Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A., VAT number: 500 154 749, headquartered at Rua Senhora de Fátima, No. 404, 4570-442, Póvoa de Varzim, we are committed to protecting the rights of individuals, privacy, and data protection in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and Council of April 27, 2016, concerning the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (General Data Protection Regulation, already published and directly applicable in all EU countries from May 2018). This is reflected in the way we handle information that can be used to identify, directly or indirectly, each person's personal data.

Whenever you use the site www.transportesmatos.pt , you are subject to the application of this Privacy Policy.

 

II. General Information

The website of Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A. may contain links to external websites, which have their own privacy practices and policies, for which Transportes Matos e Filhos is not responsible. We recommend that you read the privacy policies of these third parties. Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A. reserves the right to modify, without prior notice or communication, its Privacy Policy due to new legislative and/or regulatory requirements, for security reasons, and/or to adapt it to the instructions of data protection control authorities. For this reason, it is advisable to review it frequently.

 

III. Data Controller

The processing of personal data provided, as well as those you will provide, will be the responsibility of Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A., with the aforementioned headquarters.

 

IV. Provision of Personal Data

As a general principle, the consent and provision of any personal data under the terms herein is entirely voluntary. Choosing not to give your consent or not to provide personal data will not have any negative effect. However, there are circumstances where Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A. cannot act without certain personal data. These personal data are essential, for example, to process your budget requests, analyze your job applications, answer your questions, or guarantee access to offers and campaigns through newsletters, SMS, email, among other electronic disclosure/communication devices. Without access to these personal data, Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A., cannot attend to your request.

 

V. Application and Purpose

Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A. collects various types of personal data in the context of the following situations:

Registration and/or request for information through the contact forms available on the website;

Completion of forms for budget requests, job applications, and internships, through our website, the user expressly accepts the collection and processing of their data.

The processing of personal data is intended for:

 

Service provision

Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A. may use your personal data to perform a contract concluded between you and Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A., as well as to identify you. We may also use your personal data to prevent and investigate possible misuse of them.

Service development

Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A. keeps track of the pages our customers visit within our website for statistical purposes, understanding our customers' needs, and determining market niches. In this case, information relating to the computer or device, including mobile devices, used to access it, is collected, including your IP address, the type and language of the browser used, the operating system, cookies, the country from which you access the website, reference pages, platform type, number of clicks and visits, pages visited and the order in which you visited them, the time spent on each page, the date and time you accessed, access errors, and other information that allows us to study the market and its needs, for the development of products and services.

 

Communication

Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A. may use your personal data to communicate with you, to send you news, promotions, and campaigns related to our products and/or services, or to provide customer support, namely to respond and handle your requests through customer service channels, confirm or respond to your contact via forms on the website, as well as to monitor the quality of our service. In this case, your name, email address, and phone number are collected.

 

Marketing

Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A. may use your personal data for direct marketing purposes, namely to inform you of campaigns, promotions, service offers, which will be done through sending messages by email, SMS, among other electronic disclosure/communication devices.

 

Recruitment

Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A., during the personnel selection and recruitment process, proceeds to collect and process the personal data of the respective candidates, which, upon express consent, may be transmitted to other associated companies. The personal data processed are those contained in the application form and Curriculum Vitae, as well as all personal data that you spontaneously decide to transmit to Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A., including, but not limited to, name, age, gender, contact details, namely email address and phone number, information on education, employment history, immigration status, in case you need a work permit.

 

VI. Validity Term

The personal data provided will be kept:
Only for the time necessary to fulfill the purposes defined above;
During the duration of the contractual/recruitment relationship and, once this has ended, they will be kept for the time required by law. After the mentioned conservation periods, these data will be deleted.
Until you raise an objection to the fact that Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A. uses your personal data (when Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A. has a legitimate interest in using your personal data).
Until you withdraw your consent (when you have consented that Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A. use your personal data).
When you have consented to direct marketing, we will keep your personal data as long as the determining purpose of the collection remains or until you unsubscribe, or ask us to delete it.
In cases where Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A. is required by Law to keep your personal data for a longer period, or when your personal data is necessary for Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A. to file or defend against claims. Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A. will keep them until the end of the relevant retention period or until the claims in question have been resolved or prescribed.


Regarding the use of cookies, we keep them as long as necessary to achieve the purposes inherent to them, as detailed in the Cookie Policy.

 

VII. Privacy Statement

Your data may be communicated to third parties when necessary for the proper development and control of the existing contractual relationship/provision of certain services, such as marketing or website maintenance and digital suppliers, or when the legislation so determines, for example, Tax Authority, as well as in the case of being required by court or police order.
In the case of subcontracting, Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A. ensures that data processing is carried out by suitable providers who present sufficient guarantees for the processing of personal data on behalf of it, within the scope of the contracted services, ensuring the defense of the rights of data holders and adopting all appropriate data protection security measures to the specific case.

 

VII. Privacy Statement

Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A. stores the personal data you provide on a server that is in a secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. We adopt the necessary and appropriate technical, electronic, and organizational procedures to guarantee the security of your personal data and to prevent their loss, misuse, or unauthorized access. We will only process your data for the purposes for which they were collected, under the terms provided in this Privacy Policy, ensuring that we only collect, store, and process the information indispensable to the provision or improvement of our services. As the collection of personal data is done on an open network (internet), they may eventually circulate on the network without security conditions and may be viewed and/or used by unauthorized third parties for this purpose, despite having taken appropriate security measures against accidental or unauthorized destruction, and accidental loss and also against unauthorized access, modification, or dissemination.

 

IX. Privacy Statement

Rights

Under the Personal Data Protection Law, the data subject is guaranteed at all times the right to access, rectify, update, or delete their personal data, as well as the right to oppose and/or limit the processing of the same, upon written request, accompanied by a copy of an identification document, addressed to Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A. at its headquarters or via email to the following address: geral@transportesmatos.pt
Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A. also informs that, if you consider that there has been a violation of the current data protection legislation regarding the processing of your personal data, you have the right to file a complaint with the National Data Protection Commission.
If Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A. uses your personal data based on your consent or enters into a contract with you, you may also request a copy of the personal data you have provided to Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A.
Furthermore, you can always request that Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A. stop processing your personal data in the event of any of the following situations:
When you declare that the personal data Transportes Matos holds about you is incorrect, but only during the period for verifying the accuracy of the relevant personal data.
When there is no legal basis for the processing of your personal data by Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A., and you demand that they stop processing your personal data.
When Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A. no longer needs your personal data, but you claim that you need Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A. to retain this data to assert or exercise legal rights or defend against third-party claims.
If you believe that Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A. is not processing your personal data in accordance with the requirements established here or with the applicable EEA data protection legislation, you can, at any time, file a complaint with the data protection authority in the EEA country where you reside, or with the data protection authority in the country where Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A. has its corporate headquarters.

 

Duties and Guarantees

The user guarantees that the personal data communicated to Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A. are correct, committing to notify any changes to them, assuming exclusive responsibility for the losses and damages caused by the false, inaccurate, or incomplete communication of the data. It is also expressly warned that by disclosing personal data in public mediums of Transportes Matos e Filhos, S.A., such as social networks, this information may be seen and used by third parties.