Privacy policy

This policy explains what personal data spanishconsulates.co.uk handles, why, on what legal basis, for how long and what rights you have.

Who is the data controller

  • Owner: José Martínez
  • Address: 2226 2nd Ave, New York, United States
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Website: https://spanishconsulates.co.uk

The site is aimed at people in the United Kingdom and is run in line with the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, and with the EU GDPR for visitors in the European Union.

⚠️ Never send us your documents. We are not a consulate and cannot process any application. Do not email us passport scans, birth certificates or NIE or DNI numbers: if you do, we delete them. Applications go to the consulate or to BLS through their own channels.

What data we handle

This is a reference site: no login, no account, no shop and no newsletter, and right now it loads no analytics tool and no advertising.

  • Technical data from your visit: IP address, browser and device type, referring page, pages visited and time, which the server and the content delivery network record when a page is requested.
  • What you send us: if you email us, your address and whatever you write.

Why, and on what basis

  • To run and secure the website: legitimate interest; server logs are what let the site be served and abuse be detected.
  • To answer your email: legitimate interest in replying to someone who has contacted us.

If an audience measurement tool is ever added, this policy and the cookie policy will say so before it is switched on, with how to refuse it.

How long we keep it

Server logs are kept for the time needed for security and diagnostics and then deleted or aggregated. Emails are kept for as long as needed to deal with the matter.

Who else sees it

We do not sell personal data or share it for advertising. It reaches only the providers needed to run the site: hosting, content delivery (Cloudflare) and maps (Google Maps). Some may process data outside the UK; transfers then rely on adequacy regulations or standard contractual clauses.

Your rights

You can ask for access to your data, its rectification or erasure, restriction of or objection to processing, and portability. Write to [email protected]; we reply within one month. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority.

Changes to this policy

We update this policy when the site or the law changes; the version published here is the one in force. See also the legal notice, the cookie policy and the cookie settings page.

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