We are committed to protecting the privacy and personal data of website users, which is why we have drawn up this policy and the practices described here. In this policy, we explain how your personal data is collected and processed, so we recommend that you read it.

1. identification of the entity responsible for data processing.

Organisation: Water Melon Monkey, Lda. (hereinafter, "Bazooka")
NIPC: 508504813
Headquarters: Rua Pinto Bessa, nº 272, sala 5, 4300 - 431 Porto
Telephone contact: 918318424
Email: hello@bazooka.pt

2. What is this policy about?

2.1.     This Privacy Policy explains how we collect and process personal data that is necessary for the provision of services that are available through the website, describing the practices adopted for this purpose.

3. What is personal data?

3.1.     Personal data is all information relating to a person and which identifies that person or makes that person identifiable, regardless of the nature and medium of the information, including the sound and image of the person.

3.2.      Identifiable means a person who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identification number or other factors specific to his or her physical, physiological, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.

4. How will we use your personal data?

4.1.      The personal data processing operations we carry out are an essential tool for your satisfaction and for the company's activity. Bazooka and are carried out in accordance with applicable legislation and best practice.

4.2.      Your personal data will not be reused for other purposes that have not been previously identified or that are unrelated to the purposes for which they were initially collected.

5. What are the purposes, grounds and retention periods for the data collected?

5.1.      The personal data we process has specific grounds, depending on the purposes for which it is intended, and will be kept for as long as necessary for the respective purposes, as listed in this Privacy Policy.

5.2.      The personal data collected is only that which is necessary and appropriate for the purposes indicated.

5.3.      In the following table you can see the purposes of processing and the data collected for them, the respective grounds and the time limits or criteria for storing the data:

To analyse and respond to your messages, enquiries and contact requests.	Consent for that specific purpose.	Name; Email address; Message content.	For 3 years or for the period deemed necessary to fulfil this purpose, if longer than 3 years.
To analyse and respond to your messages, enquiries and contact requests.	Consent for that specific purpose.	Name; Email address; Message content.	For 3 years or for the period deemed necessary to fulfil this purpose, if longer than 3 years.
For website management operations.	Consent for this specific purpose (cookies); Legitimate interests pursued by Bazooka.	Cookies; IP address.	Consult the Cookie Policy.
For fraud prevention and information systems security.	Consent for this specific purpose (cookies); Legitimate interests pursued by Bazooka.	Cookies; IP address.	Consult the Cookie Policy.

5.4.      In the event that a specific or mandatory period is provided for by law, this will be the data retention period. In all other cases, personal data will be kept for a maximum of the periods indicated above, periods that the Bazooka sees as sufficient to fulfil its objectives.

5.5.     At the end of the retention period, all personal data collected will be deleted

6. How do we collect your personal data?

6.1.      We will collect your personal data through the forms on the website, but also through the website and the communication it makes with your equipment and the e-mail messages you send us.

6.2.      Your personal data is collected via your device as follows:

(a)      When you fill in the contact form;
(b)      Through your browser;
(c)      Date and time of access;
(d)      Operating system;
(e)      Reference URLs;
(f)       Through cookies;
(g)      Through pixel tags and other similar technologies;
(h)      IP address.

6.3.      A Bazooka undertakes to process your data in accordance with the law and in a legitimate manner.

6.4.      A Bazooka will not sell, rent or share your personal data with third parties, with the exception of
in the cases clearly identified in this Privacy Policy (see Point 11 to understand how).

6.5.      The services of Bazooka are not aimed at minors, and no personal data of minors is processed intentionally.

7. What are cookies?

7.2.      A Bazooka will store cookies on your device to personalise and facilitate browsing as much as possible, but also for troubleshooting, statistics, quality assurance, and to monitor system security.

7.3.      With the exception of cookies specifically necessary for the performance of the website, the storage of other cookies will always depend on the User's acceptance and consent, which may be withdrawn at any time through specific browser tools.

7.4.      To find out more about the cookies we use, please consult our Cookie Policy.

8. How do we protect your personal data?

8.1.      Your personal data is kept secure through the adoption of various technical and organisational security measures that guarantee that only those Employees who must access personal data have access to it, in accordance with the need for access and the rules created for this purpose.

8.2.      To protect your personal data we only use data centre providers that offer us adequate and documented security measures, namely guarantees that your personal data is stored on servers that are kept in controlled environments with limited access.

8.3.      Although we take the care and precautions we deem appropriate to protect the personal data you provide and we collect, you should realise that no security system is impenetrable.

9. What are your rights?

9.1.      Before we explain how you can exercise your rights, we would like to inform you that the law gives you the following rights:

(a) Access: the right to obtain confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you is being processed and, if so, the right to access your personal data;
(b) Rectification: the right to have inaccurate personal data concerning you rectified and to have incomplete personal data completed;
(c) Deletion: the right to obtain the erasure of your personal data when one of the reasons listed in the legislation applies, namely when:

i. Personal data is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected or processed;
ii. Withdraw the consent on which the data processing is based and there is no other legal basis for the processing;
iii. If you object to the processing and there are no overriding legitimate interests justifying it;
iv. Personal data has been processed unlawfully;
v. Personal data must be deleted in order to fulfil a legal obligation;
vi. Personal data has been collected in the context of offering information society services.

(d) Limitation of treatment: the right to obtain restriction of processing if one of the situations listed in the legislation applies, namely when:

i. Challenge the accuracy of personal data;
ii. The processing is unlawful and the data subject opposes the erasure of the personal data and requests, instead, the restriction of its use;
iii. The controller no longer needs the personal data for processing purposes, but such data is required by the data subject for the purposes of declaring, exercising or defending a right in legal proceedings;
iv. If the data subject has objected to processing using automated individual decisions.

(e) OppositionThe right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you;
(f) Portability: the right to receive personal data concerning him/her in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and the right to transmit such data to another controller without the controller to whom the personal data have been provided being able to prevent it, when the processing is based on consent or contract, or when it is carried out by automated means.

9.2.      You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority (in Portugal, the National Data Protection Commission at www.cnpd.pt).

9.3.      In addition to the rights described above, whenever the basis for data processing is consent, the User has the right to withdraw the consent given at any time, without this invalidating the data processing carried out up to that point.

10. How can you exercise your rights?

10.1.      You can exercise your rights, free of charge, by writing to the following addresses:
a)  By email: hello@bazooka.pt

10.2.      If you ask us to delete some or all of your personal data, some of the services you have requested may not be provided. Bazooka may have to keep only the personal data that may be necessary to fulfil the legal obligations to which it is bound.

11. When do we communicate data to third parties?

11.1.      Bazooka may use third parties to provide certain services, such as maintenance, technical support or marketing, and they may have access to some of the personal data provided, in particular the data necessary for the contracted purposes.

11.2.      Bazooka ensures that the entities that have access to the data are credible and offer high guarantees of protection, never transmitting data to them beyond what is necessary to provide the contracted service, although Bazooka remains responsible for the personal data provided.

11.3.      Bazooka may also transmit data to third parties in the context of investigations, enquiries and judicial and/or administrative proceedings or of a similar nature, provided that it is duly ordered to do so by court order.

12. Third-party websites.

12.1.      Our website may contain links to other third-party websites that may collect and process your personal data. Such processing is the sole responsibility of the owners of those websites and Bazooka is not responsible for their policies and/or practices.

12.2.      Examples of these third parties are Facebook, Instagram, YouTube or LinkedIn via the buttons on the website.

13. Data transfers outside the European Union.

13.1.      We will process your data within the European Economic Area.

13.2.      In the event of data transfers to third countries not belonging to the European Union or the European Economic Area, Bazooka will comply with the law, in particular with regard to the suitability of the destination country for the protection of personal data and the requirements applicable to such transfers, and personal data will not be transferred to jurisdictions that do not offer guarantees of security and protection.

14. Minors.

14.1.      The website is not aimed at minors under the age of 18, so we ask that minors do not provide us with personal data through the website, application, social networks and social media or emails.

15. Sensitive personal data.

15.1.      Bazooka thanks you for not sending or disclosing any sensitive personal data, i.e. information revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic information, biometric information, health data or data relating to a natural person's sex life or sexual orientation.

15.2.      If you still send us or make known these categories of personal data, they will be deleted immediately.

16. Changes to the privacy policy.

16.1.      Bazooka reserves the right to adjust or modify this Privacy Policy at any time, and such changes will be publicised on this website with the updated effective date.

16.2.      Bazooka recommends that you (re)visit this policy periodically so that you are aware of any changes made.

17. Our contact details.

17.1.      If you have any doubts or questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us in writing at hello@bazooka.pt.

18. Latest version.

18.1.      18th December 2024. Porto (Portugal).