Paella Barcelona Cooking School has adapted this website to comply with the requirements of Organic Law 15/1999, of December 13, on the Protection of Personal Data (LOPD), and Royal Decree 1720/2007, of December 21, known as the Development Regulation of the LOPD. It also complies with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016, regarding the protection of natural persons (GDPR), as well as with Law 34/2002, of July 11, on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce (LSSICE or LSSI).
Responsible for processing your personal data:
Identification of the Responsible Party: Paella Barcelona Cooking School SL
NIF/CIF: B55459978
ADDRESS: Carrer del Notariat 8, 08001 Barcelona
Email address: hello@paellabarcelona.com
For the purposes of the provisions of the aforementioned General Data Protection Regulation, the personal data you send us through the website forms will be processed as "Website Users and Subscribers." To process our users' data, we implement all technical and organizational security measures established by current legislation.
Principles we will apply to your personal information:
In processing your personal data, we will apply the following principles that comply with the requirements of the new European Data Protection Regulation:
1. Principle of legality, fairness, and transparency: We will always need your consent to process your personal data for one or more specific purposes, which we will inform you about in advance with absolute transparency.
2. Principle of data minimization: We will only request the strictly necessary data related to the purposes for which we require it. The minimum possible.
3. Principle of storage limitation: Data will be kept for the time necessary for the purposes of processing. Depending on the purpose, we will inform you of the corresponding retention period. In the case of subscriptions, we will periodically review our lists and remove those inactive records for a considerable time.
4. Principle of integrity and confidentiality: Your data will be processed in such a way as to ensure adequate security of personal data and ensure confidentiality. You should know that we take all necessary precautions to prevent unauthorized access or misuse of our users' data by third parties.
How do we obtain personal data?
The personal data we process at paellabarcelona.com comes from:
- Contact form
- Subscription form
- Blog comments
What are your rights when you provide us with your data?
Any person has the right to obtain confirmation as to whether or not we are processing personal data concerning them at paellabarcelona.com. Interested parties have the right to:
- Request access to personal data concerning them
- Request rectification or deletion
- Request the limitation of their processing
- Object to processing
- Request data portability
Interested parties may access their personal data, as well as request the rectification of inaccurate data or, where appropriate, request its deletion when, among other reasons, the data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected. In certain circumstances, interested parties may request the limitation of the processing of their data, in which case we will only retain it for the exercise or defense of claims.
In certain circumstances and for reasons related to their particular situation, interested parties may object to the processing of their data. Paella Barcelona Cooking School will stop processing the data, except for legitimate compelling reasons, or the exercise or defense of possible claims. As an interested party, you have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and to transmit it to another data controller when:
- The processing is based on consent.
- The data has been provided by the interested party.
- The processing is carried out by automated means.
When exercising your right to data portability, you will have the right to have your personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another when technically feasible.
Interested parties will also have the right to effective judicial protection and to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority, in this case, the Spanish Agency for Data Protection, if they consider that the processing of personal data concerning them infringes the Regulation.
What purposes do we process your personal data for?
When a user connects to this website, for example, to comment on a post, send an email to the owner, subscribe, or make a booking, they are providing personal information for which Paella Barcelona Cooking School is responsible. This information may include personal data such as your IP address, name, physical address, email address, phone number, and other information. By providing this information, the user consents to have their information collected, used, managed, and stored by paellabarcelona.com, solely as described in the Legal Notice and this Privacy Policy.
At paellabarcelona.com, there are different systems for capturing personal information, and I process the information provided by interested parties for the following purposes for each capture system (forms):
- Contact form: We request the following personal data: Name, Email, to respond to user inquiries. For example, we may use this data to address their request and respond to any questions, complaints, comments, or concerns they may have regarding the information included on the website, the services provided through the website, the processing of their personal data, questions regarding the legal texts included on the website, as well as any other inquiry they may have that is not subject to the terms of the contract. I inform you that the data you provide will be located on the servers of Dinahosting (provider of Paella Barcelona Cooking School) within the EU.
- Content subscription form: In this case, we request the following personal data: Name, Email, to manage the subscription list, send newsletters, promotions, and special offers provided by the user upon subscribing. Within the website, there are several forms to activate the subscription. The electronic newsletters are managed by Elena Maslennikova Sergeeva. I inform you that the data you provide will be located on the servers of Mailrelay (provider of Paella Barcelona Cooking School) outside the EU in the USA. Mailrelay is covered by the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield agreement, which you can consult here, approved by the European Data Protection Board.
- Blog comment registration form: To comment on blog posts, users must register using this form. In this case, we request the following personal data: Name, Email, Website. Once registered, the user can make as many comments as they wish and respond to previous ones. I inform you that the data you provide will be located on the servers of DinaHosting (provider of Paella Barcelona Cooking School) within the EU.
There are other purposes for which we process your personal data:
- To ensure compliance with the terms of use and applicable legislation. This may include the development of tools and algorithms that help this website ensure the confidentiality of the personal data it collects.
- To support and improve the services offered by this website.
- We also collect other non-identifiable data obtained through some cookies that are downloaded to the user's computer when navigating this website, which are detailed in the cookie policy.
- To manage social networks. We may have a presence on social networks. The processing of data carried out on individuals who follow the social media pages of paellabarcelona.com will be governed by this section, as well as by the terms of use, privacy policies, and access rules specific to the respective social network and previously accepted by the user of Paella Barcelona Cooking School. We will process your data to properly manage your presence on the social network, informing you of activities, products, or services from paellabarcelona.com, as well as for any other purpose permitted by the social media regulations. We will never use followers' profiles on social media to send individualized advertising.
In accordance with the provisions of European Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016/679, Elena Maslennikova Sergeeva, residing at Calle Carretes 12, Barcelona, will be responsible for processing data concerning the Website Users and Subscribers.
Paella Barcelona Cooking School does not sell, rent, or transfer personal data that may identify the user, nor will it do so in the future, to third parties without prior consent. However, in some cases, collaborations with other professionals may take place, in which case user consent will be required, informing them of the identity of the collaborator and the purpose of the collaboration. This will always be done with the strictest security standards.
Remarketing
The remarketing function allows us to reach people who have previously visited paellabarcelona.com and associate a specific audience with a specific message. Remarketing is a method to encourage users who have visited our site to return.
As a user of paellabarcelona.com, I inform you that we are collecting or may collect information for this remarketing function on paellabarcelona.com. The information we collect through this function is captured by Facebook cookies and Google AdWords cookies. If you do not want these cookies to collect your information, you can disable the use of Google cookies through Google Ads Settings. You can also disable the use of external provider cookies through the voluntary exclusion page of the Network Advertising Initiative.
This type of service allows you to interact with social networks or other external platforms directly from the pages of this website. The interactions and information obtained by this website will always be subject to the user's privacy settings on each social network. If a service that allows interaction with social networks is installed, it is possible that, even if users do not use the service, it may collect web traffic data related to the pages where it is installed.
Facebook Ads (ONLY IF PUBLISHED ON FACEBOOK)
At paellabarcelona.com, we use Facebook ads, the advertising platform of Facebook, which allows us to create campaigns and ads. When generating an ad, you can segment your audience by:
- Location
- Demographics (age, gender, etc.)
- Interests (activities, hobbies, etc.)
- What they buy online and through other channels
The data obtained through Facebook ads are subject to this privacy policy from the moment the user provides their data in the form on this website to subscribe to the newsletter. Under no circumstances will the information from Facebook be used for any other purpose.
Google AdWords (ONLY IF RUNNING ADWORDS CAMPAIGNS)
At paellabarcelona.com, we use Google AdWords, the advertising platform of AdWords, which allows us to create campaigns and ads. The data obtained through Google are subject to this privacy policy from the moment the user provides their data in the form on this website to subscribe to the newsletter. Under no circumstances will Google information be used for any other purpose.
Legitimacy for processing your data
The legal basis for processing your data is: consent. To contact or comment on this website, consent to this privacy policy is required. The prospective or commercial offer of products and services is based on the consent requested, without any case the withdrawal of this consent affecting the execution of the subscription contract. The contracting of products and services is also based on the terms and conditions that appear in the COMMERCIAL POLICY.
Category of data
The categories of data processed are identifying data. No specially protected data categories are processed.
How long will we keep your data?
The personal data provided will be kept:
- While the commercial relationship is maintained.
- Until deletion is requested by the interested party.
- Period from the last confirmation of interest: 1 year.
To whom will your data be communicated?
Many of the tools we use to manage your data are contracted by third parties. To provide strictly necessary services for the development of the activity, paellabarcelona.com shares data with the following providers under their corresponding privacy conditions:
- Google Analytics: a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., a Delaware company whose headquarters are at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043, United States (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies,” which are text files placed on your computer, to help paellabarcelona.com analyze how users use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of paellabarcelona.com (including your IP address) will be transmitted directly and stored by Google on servers in the United States.
- Hosting: Raiola Networks, based in Spain. More information at: RaiolaNetworks.com. Raiola Networks processes the data for the purpose of providing hosting services to Paella Barcelona Cooking School.
The website is built with HTML and PHP.
Browsing
When browsing paellabarcelona.com, non-identifiable data may be collected, which may include IP addresses, geographical location (approximately), a record of how the services and sites are used, and other data that cannot be used to identify the user. Non-identifiable data also includes data related to your browsing habits through third-party services. This website uses the following third-party analytics services:
- Google Analytics
- Facebook Insights
We use this information to analyze trends, administer the site, track users' movements on the site, and collect demographic information about our user base as a whole.
Data security and confidentiality
paellabarcelona.com is committed to using and processing users' personal data, respecting their confidentiality and using them in accordance with their intended purpose, as well as fulfilling its obligation to keep them and adopting all measures to prevent alteration, loss, processing, or unauthorized access, in accordance with current data protection regulations.
This website includes an SSL certificate. It is a security protocol that ensures your data travels securely and intact, meaning the transmission of data between a server and web user, and vice versa, is fully encrypted.
paellabarcelona.com cannot guarantee the absolute invulnerability of the Internet network and therefore the violation of data through fraudulent access by third parties.
Regarding the confidentiality of processing, Paella Barcelona Cooking School will ensure that anyone authorized by Paella Barcelona Cooking School to process customer data (including its personnel, collaborators, and suppliers) is under the corresponding obligation of confidentiality (whether contractual or legal).
When a security incident occurs, once Paella Barcelona Cooking School becomes aware of it, it must notify the customer without undue delay and must provide timely information related to the Security Incident as it becomes known or when the customer reasonably requests it.
Accuracy and veracity of data
As a user, you are solely responsible for the truthfulness and accuracy of the data you send to paellabarcelona.com, exempting Paella Barcelona Cooking School from any responsibility in this regard. Users guarantee and respond, in any case, for the accuracy, validity, and authenticity of the personal data provided, and undertake to keep them properly updated. The user agrees to provide complete and correct information in the contact or subscription form.
Acceptance and consent
The user declares to have been informed of the conditions regarding the protection of personal data, accepting and consenting to their processing by Paella Barcelona Cooking School in the manner and for the purposes indicated in this privacy policy.
Revocability
The consent granted, both for the processing and for the transfer of data of the interested parties, is revocable at any time by communicating it to Paella Barcelona Cooking School under the terms established in this Policy for exercising ARCO rights. This revocation shall in no case have a retroactive character.
Changes to the privacy policy
Paella Barcelona Cooking School reserves the right to modify this policy to adapt it to legislative or jurisprudential developments, as well as to industry practices. In such cases, Paella Barcelona Cooking School will announce on this page the changes made with reasonable advance notice prior to their implementation.
Commercial emails
In accordance with the LSSICE, paellabarcelona.com does not engage in SPAM practices, meaning it does not send commercial emails that have not been previously requested or authorized by the user. Consequently, in each of the website forms, the user has the option to give their express consent to receive the newsletter, regardless of the commercial information they may request at that time. In accordance with the provisions of Law 34/2002 on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce, paellabarcelona.com commits to not send commercial communications without duly identifying them.
Document reviewed on 24/03/2026.
On behalf of the Paella Barcelona Cooking School team, we thank you for taking the time to read this privacy policy.
