Privacy Policy

Privacy and General Terms

Rankbench.com has adapted this website to the requirements of the Organic Law 15/1999, of December 13, on the Protection of Personal Data (LOPD), and the Royal Decree 1720/2007, of December 21, known as the regulation of development 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 (RGPD), as well as with Law 34/2002, of July 11, on Services of the Information Society and Electronic Commerce (LSSICE or LSSI).

Principles that apply to your personal information.

In the processing of your personal data, the following principles that comply with the requirements of the new European data protection regulation are applied:

  • Principle of legality, loyalty and transparency: Your consent is required for the processing of your personal data for one or more specific purposes previously indicated with absolute transparency.
  • Principle of data minimization: Data strictly necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are required. The minimum possible.
  • Principle of limitation of the retention period: the data will be maintained for no longer than necessary for the purposes of the processing, depending on the purpose, prior information on the corresponding retention period, in the case of subscriptions, I will periodically review my lists and delete those records inactive for a considerable time.
  • Principle of integrity and confidentiality: Your data will be treated in such a way that adequate security of personal data is guaranteed and confidentiality is ensured. You should know that I take all necessary precautions to prevent unauthorized access or improper use of my users' data by third parties.

How are your data obtained?

Personal data on Rankbench.com comes from:

  • Contact form.
  • Subscription form.
  • Blog comments.

What are your rights when you provide your data?

Interested parties have the right to:

  • Request access to personal data concerning the data subject.
  • Request its rectification or deletion.
  • Request the limitation of their treatment.
  • Oppose the treatment.
  • Request the portability of the data.

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. Under certain circumstances, interested parties may request the limitation of the processing of their data, in which case they will only be kept for the exercise or defense of claims.

Under certain circumstances and for reasons related to their particular situation, interested parties may oppose the processing of their data. In this case, data processing will be stopped, except for compelling legitimate reasons, or the exercise or defense of possible claims. As an interested party, you have the right to receive the personal data that concerns you, that you have provided me, and in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and to transmit them to another data controller when:

  • The treatment is based on consent.
  • The data has been provided by the interested party.
  • The treatment is carried out by automated means.

When exercising your right to data portability, you will have the right for personal data to be transmitted directly from one controller to another, when technically possible.

Interested parties will also have the right to effective judicial protection and to file a claim with the control authority, in this case, the Spanish Agency for Data Protection, if they consider that the processing of personal data that concerns them violates the Regulation.

For what purpose is your personal data processed?

When a user connects to this website for example to comment on a post, send an email to the owner, subscribe or carry out some hiring, he is providing personal information for which Rankbench.com 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 gives their consent for their information to be collected, used, managed and stored by Rankbench.com, only as described in the Legal Notice and in this Privacy Policy.

At Rankbench.com there are different systems for capturing personal information provided by interested parties for the following purpose for each capture system (forms):

  • Contact form: I request the following personal data: Name, Email, to respond to the requirements of the users of Rankbench.com. For example, I can use that data to respond to your request and respond to questions, complaints, comments or concerns you may have regarding the information included on the website, the services provided through the website, the processing of your personal data, issues related to the legal texts included on the website, as well as any other queries that you may have and that are not subject to the conditions of contracting. I inform you that the data you provide me will be located on the servers of OVH HISPANO SL within the EU.
  • Subscription form for content: In this case, I request the following personal data: Name, Email, to manage the subscription list, send newsletters, promotions and special offers, provided by the user when making the subscription. Within the website there are several forms to activate the subscription. The electronic newsletters or newsletter are managed by Active campaign. I inform you that the data you provide me will be located on the servers of Active campaign outside the EU in the USA. Active campaign is covered by the EU-US Privacy Shield agreement, whose information is available here, approved by the European Committee for Data Protection.
  • Registration form for blog comments: To comment on the blog publications of Rankbench.com, the user is required to register through this form. In this case, I request the following personal data: Name, Email, Once registered, the user will be able to make as many comments as they wish and respond to previous ones. I inform you that the data you provide me will be located on the servers of OVH HISPANO SL within the EU.
  • Service request form: I request the following personal data: Name, Email, to request any of the services that Rankbench.com makes available to its users. The information collected will allow the corresponding service to be requested for possible offline processing. Requests will be answered by email. The website does not allow payments to be managed directly. I inform you that the data you provide me will be located on the servers of OVH HISPANO SL within the EU.
  • Registration form: In this case, I request the following personal data: Name, Email, so that you can create an account in my system and have access to its functionalities. I inform you that the data you provide me will be located on the servers of OVH HISPANO SL within the EU.

There are other purposes for which your personal data are processed:

  • To ensure compliance with the terms of use and applicable law. 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.
  • Other non-identifiable data are also collected, which are obtained through some cookies that are downloaded to the user's computer when browsing this website, which I detail in the cookie policy.
  • To manage social networks. Rankbench.com may have a presence on social networks. The treatment of the data that is carried out of the people who become followers in the social networks of the official pages of Rankbench.com, will be governed by this section. As well as by those conditions of use, privacy policies and access regulations that belong to the social network that applies in each case and previously accepted by the user. It will treat your data for the purposes of properly managing your presence on the social network, informing of activities, products or services of Rankbench.com. As well as for any other purpose that the regulations of social networks allow. In no case are the profiles of followers in social networks used to send advertising individually.

Rankbench.com does not sell, rent or transfer personal data that can 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 be carried out, in those cases, consent will be required from the users informing about the identity of the collaborator and the purpose of the collaboration. It will always be done with the strictest security standards.

Remarketing.

The remarketing function allows reaching people who have previously visited Rankbench.com and associate a specific audience with a specific message. Remarketing is a method to get users who have visited my site to do it again.

As a user of Rankbench.com I inform you that we are collecting information for this remarketing function on Rankbench.com.

The information collected through this function is collected by Facebook cookies. You can know the data that these cookies collect in the following privacy policies of each service:

If you do not want your information to be collected by these cookies, you can disable the use of Google cookies through Google's Ads Settings. You can also disable the use of cookies from a third party through the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.

This type of services allows you to interact with social networks or other external platforms directly from the pages of this website.

Facebook ads.

At Rankbench.com, Facebook ads is used, the advertising platform of Facebook, which allows you to create campaigns and ads. When generating an ad, you can segment the audience by:

  • Place.
  • Demographic data (age, sex, etc.)
  • Interests (activities, hobbies, etc.)
  • What they buy on the internet and through other channels.
  • Etc.

The data obtained through Facebook ads are subject to this privacy policy from the moment the user leaves their data in the form of this website to join the subscription newsletter. In no case will the information from Facebook be used for a different purpose.

Legitimation for the processing of your data.

The legal basis for the processing of your data is: consent.

To contact or make comments on this website, consent to this privacy policy is required.

The prospective or commercial offer of products and services is based on the consent that is requested, without the withdrawal of this consent conditioning the execution of the subscription contract.

Category of data collected.

The categories of data that are treated are identifying data. In no case are especially protected data categories treated.

How long will your data be kept?

The personal data provided will be kept until its deletion is requested by the interested party.

To whom will your data be communicated?

Many tools used to manage your data are contracted by third parties.

To provide services strictly necessary for the development of the activity, Rankbench.com, shares data with the following providers under their respective privacy conditions:

Google Analytics: a web analytical service provided by Google, Inc., a Delaware company whose main office is 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 Rankbench.com analyze how users use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of Rankbench.com (including your IP address) will be directly transmitted and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

Hosting: OVH, domiciled in Spain. More information at: https://www.ovh.es (OVH HISPANO SL)

Web platform: Automattic Inc., domiciled in the USA. More information at: https://es.wordpress.com/ (Automattic Inc.). Automattic Inc. treats data for the purpose of performing its web platform services.

Navigation.

When browsing Rankbench.com, non-identifiable data can be collected, which may include, IP addresses, geographical location (approximately), a record of how services and sites are used, and other data that cannot be used to identify the user. Among the non-identifiable data are also those related to your browsing habits through third-party services. This website uses the following third-party analysis services:

  • Google analytics.
  • Facebook pixel.

I use this information to analyze trends, administer the site, track user movements around the site, and to collect demographic information about users.

Data secrecy and security.

Rankbench.com is committed to the use and treatment of the personal data included of the users, respecting their confidentiality and to use them in accordance with the purpose of the same, as well as to comply with its obligation to keep them and adapt all measures to avoid alteration, loss, treatment or unauthorized access, in accordance with the provisions of current data protection regulations.

This website includes an SSL certificate. It is a security protocol that makes your data travel in an integral and secure way, that is, the transmission of data between a server and web user, and in feedback, is fully encrypted or encrypted.

Rankbench.com cannot guarantee the absolute impregnability of the Internet network and therefore the violation of data through fraudulent access to them by third parties.

With regard to the confidentiality of the processing, the administrators will ensure that any person who is authorized by Rankbench.com to process the customer's data (including its staff, collaborators and providers), will be under the appropriate duty of confidentiality (either a contractual or legal duty).

When a security incident occurs, it must notify the Customer without undue delay and must provide timely information related to the Security Incident as it is known or when the Customer reasonably requests it.

Accuracy and veracity of the data.

As a user, you are solely responsible for the veracity and correctness of the data you send to Rankbench.com exonerating its administrators of 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 duly updated. The user agrees to provide complete and correct information in the contact form or subscription.

Acceptance and consent.

The user declares to have been informed of the conditions on protection of personal data, accepting and consenting to the treatment thereof by Rankbench.com in the manner and for the purposes indicated in this privacy policy.

Revocability.

The consent given, both for the processing and for the transfer of the data of the interested parties, is revocable at any time by communicating it through our contact form https://www.Rankbench.com/contact in the terms established in this Policy for the exercise of ARCO rights. This revocation in no case will have retroactive character.

Changes in the privacy policy.

Rankbench.com reserves the right to modify this policy to adapt it to legislative or jurisprudential changes, as well as to industry practices. In such cases, it will announce on this page the changes introduced with reasonable advance notice before its implementation.

Commercial emails.

In accordance with the LSSICE, Rankbench.com does not engage in SPAM practices, so it does not send commercial emails by electronic means that have not been previously requested or authorized by the user. Consequently, in each of the forms on the website, the user has the possibility to give their express consent to receive the newsletter, regardless of the commercial information requested punctually.

In accordance with the provisions of Law 34/2002 on Services of the Information Society and electronic commerce, Rankbench.com undertakes not to send communications of a commercial nature without properly identifying them.