Privacy Policy

Introduction:

The General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union (GDPR) – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 – establishes the rules regarding the protection of personal data of natural persons, being directly applicable in the legal framework of all Member States, and imposing a series of obligations as stipulated by Law no. 58/2019 of 8 August, which ensures the enforcement of the GDPR and defines this Privacy and Data Processing Policy.

Scope:

This Privacy Policy applies to the data collected and processed by João Matos in the course of his professional activity, in order to enable:

• Human Design Consulting/Coaching;
• Responding to inquiries and clarifying questions related to Human Design topics or subjects;
• The communication and sharing of all past and upcoming activities, such as trainings, courses, conferences, workshops, webinars, masterclasses, symposiums, congresses, events, gatherings, and talks — both national and international — as well as other roles of interest in the field of personal development and related areas, whether delivered in person or online.
• Sending newsletters from the website omapadotesouro.com and sharing information on social platforms;
• Information about visits and usage of the website omapadotesouro.com;

O Mapa do Tesouro (Human Design) by João Matos is committed to the privacy of its collaborators, clients, potential clients, and the general public. Therefore, this document has been adopted to establish the general terms and conditions applicable to the processing of personal data, including, among others, the rules regarding the collection, organization, processing, and use of all data provided on any João Matos platforms (hereinafter “Privacy Policy”).

With the adoption of this Privacy Policy, the aim is not only to comply with the applicable legislation but also to clarify and inform all data subjects about these rules and the processing of their personal data.

For this reason, our Privacy Policy should be read in advance to understand and acknowledge how the information you provide to us will be handled when interacting with us.

Some definitions (from the GDPR):

• “Personal data”: any information, of any nature and regardless of the medium, including sound and image, relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (data subject); a person is considered identifiable if they can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identification number or to one or more specific elements of their physical, physiological, psychological, economic, cultural, or social identity;
• “Processing of personal data”: any operation or set of operations performed on personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as the collection, recording, organization, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, as well as blocking, erasure or destruction;
• “Personal data file”: any structured set of personal data, accessible according to specific criteria, whether centralized, decentralized or functionally or geographically distributed;
• “Consent of the data subject”: any freely given, specific and informed expression of will, by which the data subject agrees to the processing of their personal data;

Who this policy applies to:

This Privacy Policy applies to all clients, potential clients or users of all João Matos platforms (physical or digital).

Data collection

1. Category of Personal Data

The personal data stored in our database is obtained through direct consent, reflected in the Pre-Registration to acquire Human Design consulting/coaching services.

To this end, the client/potential client will be asked to complete a short online form, in which they must provide, depending on the case, some of their personal data, such as:

• Identification data (e.g. full name, date, time and place of birth – city and country; tax identification number);
• Contact data (e.g. address; email address; phone/mobile number);
• Banking information for the purpose of payment for the service;
• Indication of preferred date and time for the session;
• Areas of interest, in the case of newsletter subscription.

In addition to the personal data provided in the form, all online consulting sessions are recorded, and the video with audio is made available to the Client after the session has ended.

2. Purpose of Processing

João Matos is responsible for the collection and processing of the personal data of Clients who interact with “o mapa do tesouro (desenho humano)”.

The personal data collected is intended, on the one hand, to enable the contracting of Human Design consulting/coaching services and, on the other hand, to respond to inquiries and questions on topics or matters related to the field, as well as to share the activities he carries out, such as the Congress, trainings, conferences, workshops, webinars, masterclasses, seminars, events or others, to send newsletters, and to disseminate information and news about activities to the general public.

The collected personal data may also be processed for statistical purposes, to assess access levels and identify the topics and areas that generate the most interest, as well as for carrying out marketing actions (you may object at any time to the processing of your data for marketing purposes).

3. Form of Processing

Clients’ personal data will be processed and stored electronically for the purposes defined within the various activities developed by the Human Design consulting/coaching service.

João Matos may use subcontracted entities to process data on his behalf and according to his instructions. The data shared with such entities will be limited strictly to what is necessary for the execution of the purpose for which they were subcontracted, and these entities will be required to adopt appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the data and ensure the rights of the data subjects.

Personal Data

.Without prejudice to the measures João Matos adopts to ensure the accuracy and updating of personal data whenever necessary, João Matos assumes that the personal data and information provided by the data subject are accurate, truthful, complete, and up to date; therefore, any inaccuracy, omission, or incompleteness in the data provided will be the sole responsibility of the clients.

The collected personal data is retained for different periods of time, depending on the purpose for which it was collected and taking into account legal criteria, necessity, and the principle of data minimization.

Data Controller

The personal data is and will be processed by João Pedro Matos Fernandes, tax identification number 224498444, with provisional headquarters at Av. 5 de Outubro, nº148, 3rd floor, Room I, Edifício Bocage, 2900-309 Setúbal, who is responsible for processing, managing, and protecting the personal data provided by his clients, potential clients, and the general public, whether active or not, under the General Data Protection Regulation.

Data Subjects’ Rights

Under the applicable legislation on personal data protection, João Matos guarantees, at all times, the exercise of the rights legally granted to you, namely:

• The right to access information about the Client or potential client;
• The right to rectify the information if it is incorrect or incomplete;
• Or the erasure of your personal data (“right to be forgotten”), for one of the following reasons:

• • The personal data is no longer necessary for the purpose that justified its collection or processing;
  • You are no longer our Client;
  • The data subject objects to the processing and there are no overriding legitimate grounds on the part of João Matos that justify the continuation of the processing.

• The right to restrict processing, and also to object to processing for the purposes of direct marketing.

If the processing is based on your consent or agreement and is carried out by automated means, you have the right to receive the personal data previously provided, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.

To exercise the rights mentioned above, you may send a written request addressed to Mapa do Tesouro (Human Design) by João Matos (data controller):

• By email: Fala Comigo
• By post: Av. 5 de Outubro, nº148, 3rd floor, Room I, Edifício Bocage, 2900-309 Setúbal

If you believe your rights have been infringed, you should notify João Matos using the contact details above.

Sharing of Information with Third Parties

João Matos does not share personal data with third parties except, as mentioned above, when using subcontracted entities that, on his behalf and in accordance with his instructions, process the data. In such cases, these entities are required to adopt appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the data and ensure the rights of data subjects.

However, due to the use of digital platforms, there are hyperlinks and references to third-party websites over which João Matos has no control, and whose privacy policies and practices are the responsibility of those third-party entities, namely:

• Newsletter Manager MailerLite https://www.mailerlite.com/legal/privacy-policy
• Website Product Manager WooCommerce https://woocommerce.com/pl/privacy-policy/
• Website Content Manager WordPress.org https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/
• Credit Card Payments via Stripe https://stripe.com/pt-pt/privacy
• Payments via PayPal https://www.paypal.com/pt/legalhub/paypal/privacy-full
• Website Hosting https://www.hostinger.com/pt/legal/politica-de-privacidade
• Instagram https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy
• Facebook https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/
• Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

Security Measures

João Matos will adopt the necessary technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized or unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction, or damage, including when subcontracting data processing operations.

1. O Mapa do Tesouro (Human Design) by João Matos:

João Matos is highly committed to privacy and therefore aims to ensure the protection and security of the personal data provided by his clients or potential clients, ensuring that the data is collected under appropriate security conditions.

To this end, he has implemented a variety of technical and organizational measures to protect clients’ and potential clients’ personal data against unauthorized access via the internet, and to ensure a reasonable degree of protection, while preventing disclosure, loss, misuse, alteration, processing, or unauthorized access.

2. Regarding Clients and Potential Clients:

Without prejudice to all the security mechanisms adopted and the compliance with all personal data protection rules, the client or potential client must be aware that, if their system does not have the necessary protection barriers (such as antivirus, firewall, anti-spyware, etc.), while browsing the Internet their personal data may be seen and used by unauthorized third parties.

In this context, we are obliged to alert all clients and potential clients to take the necessary precautions to ensure greater security while using the Internet, namely by ensuring they use a browser that supports secure communication.

‘Cookies’

By default, the website omapadotesouro.com uses cookies, which are small anonymized records created based on your navigation on our site. These cookies are intended to optimize your browsing experience. João Matos may use cookies to help determine the usefulness, relevance, and frequency of visits to this site, also enabling faster navigation by eliminating the need to re-enter the same information repeatedly. The cookies used respect the anonymity of clients, potential clients, or the general public and will not be used to collect any personally identifiable information.

The website omapadotesouro.com uses Google Analytics to recognize a computer when a user visits the site, track users as they navigate the site in order to enable shopping cart functionality, improve site usability, analyze site usage, administer the site, prevent fraud and enhance site security, personalize the site for each user, and serve targeted advertisements that may be of particular interest to specific users.

Although cookies are not linked to any identifiable information, you may limit or restrict their use through your browser settings, namely:

1. In Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies by using the cookie handling override settings available under “Tools,” “Internet Options,” “Privacy,” and “Advanced”;
2. In Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” “Privacy,” selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the dropdown menu, and unchecking “Accept cookies from sites”;

1. In Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Content settings,” then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” section.

Clients, potential clients, and the general public may also delete cookies already stored on their computer:

a.No Internet Explorer (versão 10), deve excluir manualmente o cookie arquivos (pode encontrar instruções para fazer isso em http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);

1. In Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” “Privacy,” selecting “Use custom settings for history,” clicking “Show Cookies,” and then “Remove All Cookies”;
2. In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by going to the “Customize and control” menu, clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Clear browsing data,” then selecting “Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data” before clicking “Clear browsing data.”

Deleting or blocking cookies may have a negative impact on the usability of the site and may prevent the use of all features available on omapadotesouro.com.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

O Mapa do Tesouro – João Matos reserves the right to update, adjust, or change this Privacy Policy at any time, in order to keep it up to date and compliant with the law. These changes will be duly announced on this website.