Privacy Policy

Carpin Belgium recommends a careful reading of the Terms and Conditions presented below.
By accessing and using this Website, the user declares that they have read, understood, and accepted the Terms and Conditions presented, without the need for any further act or consent.

The access and use of other platforms of Carpin Belgium are likewise regulated by these Terms and Conditions to the applicable extent and with the necessary adaptations.

The Terms and Conditions may be changed at any time, and such changes will take effect from the date of their update on the website. The user’s continued access and use of the website or platforms will be considered as unequivocal acceptance of the new changes to the Terms and Conditions.

Carpin Belgium is committed to respecting the privacy of its users; therefore, the following Privacy Policy has been prepared to properly inform users about how the website operates and how their personal information is processed.
References in this Privacy Policy to “Carpin Belgium,” “we,” “us,” or “our” refer to Carpin Belgium.
Any changes to our Privacy Policy after the active submission of personal data that affect the purposes for which they were provided can be consulted on this page.

Retention of Personal Information

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and the Council – all personal data provided will be subject to computerized processing and will be in our possession.

After collecting the personal information that you have voluntarily provided, we will store and maintain it until instructed otherwise by you, or for the minimum period necessary for the purposes that justified its collection or processing, or for the time authorized by the National Data Protection Commission. The retention of this information allows us to continue providing you with personalized services without interruption.

Any user is free to choose whether or not to provide any individualized personal information. By providing your personal data, you are authorizing its collection, use, and disclosure between Carpin Belgium and its subsidiary companies under the rules defined herein, namely, not using information provided by users without their authorization, except for the intended purposes.

As stipulated in the Data Protection Regulation, the owner of the provided personal data may, at any time, exercise their right to object to marketing communications, rectify, or delete any personal data provided. This right can be exercised via email at daniel.abreu@carpincasais.pt.
Any form on this site allows subscription to the newsletter database according to the principles mentioned in this section.

Security and Use of Information

Carpin Belgium is committed to ensuring the privacy of visitors to its website.

In addition to guaranteeing confidentiality and absolute secrecy regarding the data to which we have access, we commit to using it strictly for the purposes for which it was collected. There will never be any sale, rental, or availability to third parties of any personal data sent by users of our website.

Carpin Belgium follows best practices in security and data protection, applying all necessary measures based on current technical knowledge to prevent the loss, misuse, alteration, unlawful intrusion, and theft of personal data. However, it is important to mention that no method of communication or electronic storage is completely secure, meaning that we cannot guarantee that the data will not be accessed by third parties.

Copyright and Intellectual Property

All data, registered trademarks, and content on this website may be protected under general legal provisions and national and international Intellectual Property laws. Personal use reproduction is permitted, but unauthorized modifications, imitations, loans, rentals, transmissions, or sales of any content on this website are prohibited.

All rights not expressly granted by us are reserved. Thus, all texts, images, illustrations, photographs, advertisements, trademarks, and other elements of website content may be protected by law. Any copying, reproduction, distribution, transmission, modification, sale, publication, or any other use—whether total or partial, and regardless of the means used—is expressly prohibited.

Exceptions include free uses authorized by law, such as the right to quote, provided the source is clearly identified.

Permission is granted to use documents (such as Press Releases, Statements, and Reports) from this website, provided that the copyright notice appears on all copies. These documents should only be used for informational and non-commercial or personal purposes, should not be copied or placed on any network computer or broadcast via any other communication medium, and must not be modified. Violators will be subject to legal action.

Although personal data provided to us is protected under our privacy policy, we consider that all information communicated to us via the internet (including suggestions, materials, or ideas) becomes our exclusive property and use, albeit in a restricted manner. Such information will not necessarily be treated as confidential by us.

Some parts of the website may contain images subject to copyright by their providers (such as stock photos).

Any file made available for download from the website is copyrighted by the operator providing it. The terms of use for these files are determined by the operator, so we recommend reading them carefully.

Hyperlinks

To facilitate accessibility, links to other websites on the internet may be added. If you choose to use links to these websites, you should review and accept their terms before using them. We cannot guarantee their quality, nor do we assume any responsibility for their content or other functionalities.

The company’s website is not responsible for the content or themes of any other portal, including websites that have linked to our portal or that are accessed through our portal.

Use and Risk

Neither Carpin Belgium nor any other party involved in the creation, production, maintenance, or implementation of the website may be held liable for any damages or losses under civil liability (including but not limited to consequential damages, lost profits, and moral damages, whether directly or indirectly caused) resulting from the correct or incorrect use of the website and its content by the user, third-party access to the user’s computer and IT system, viruses, etc.

Despite efforts to ensure website security and the implementation of appropriate technical, physical, and logical protection measures, we do not guarantee or declare that the files available for download on the website are free of viruses, worms, Trojan horses, scripts, or any other code or program with destructive or harmful properties.

The information on the website should be considered informational. Despite efforts to keep content updated and reliable, it may contain inaccuracies, typographical errors, or be outdated, and may be changed at any time without prior notice. Therefore, its use for decision-making is not recommended.

Alternative Dispute Resolution – ADR

In case of a dispute, the consumer may resort to an Alternative Dispute Resolution entity.