This Privacy Policy explains how APSAIDAL collects, uses, stores and otherwise processes personal data when you visit or interact with this website, contact us, submit content or proposals, subscribe to communications, create or manage an account or professional profile where available, or use other APSAIDAL services.
Last updated: 6 September 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how APSAIDAL collects, uses, stores and otherwise processes personal data when you visit or interact with this website, contact us, submit content or proposals, subscribe to communications, create or manage an account or professional profile where available, or use other APSAIDAL services.
This Policy should be read together with our Legal Notice, Terms of Use and Cookie Policy.
APSAIDAL is the editorial name used for the website and platform.
Questions relating to privacy or the processing of personal data may be sent to:
The personal data APSAIDAL processes depends on how you interact with the platform.
It may include:
Please do not send unnecessary sensitive personal information through APSAIDAL forms or communications.
Because APSAIDAL is an editorial platform focused on the built environment, some professional information published or processed by APSAIDAL may not be obtained directly from the person concerned.
APSAIDAL may obtain limited professional information from legitimate sources such as:
This may include information such as a person’s name, professional role, organisation, authorship, participation in a project or other information relevant to APSAIDAL’s editorial and professional coverage.
APSAIDAL seeks to process such information only where it is relevant to its editorial, documentary or professional purposes and to maintain appropriate attribution and context.
Where personal data has not been obtained directly from the individual concerned, APSAIDAL will provide the information required under applicable data-protection law, including Article 14 GDPR where applicable, unless a lawful exemption or exception applies.
In assessing whether and how such information should be provided, APSAIDAL may take into account the nature and source of the information, the editorial context, applicable freedom-of-expression and information principles, archival or documentary interests and any other circumstances recognised by applicable law.
If you believe professional information concerning you is inaccurate, outdated, incorrectly attributed or otherwise inappropriate, you may contact:
APSAIDAL will assess the request in accordance with applicable data-protection law and its legitimate editorial and documentary interests.
When you contact APSAIDAL, we may process your name, contact details, professional information and the contents of your message.
We use this information to respond to your enquiry, communicate with you, provide requested information, manage follow-up communications and maintain appropriate records of relevant correspondence.
The legal basis may be our legitimate interest in managing communications and operating the platform, taking steps at your request before entering into an agreement, or compliance with legal obligations where applicable.
When you submit a project, article, news item, event, product, professional profile, press material or other information for possible publication, APSAIDAL may process the contact and professional information of the person making the submission together with personal information contained in the submitted material.
We may use this information to review the submission, assess its editorial relevance, contact the contributor or rights holder, verify authorship, credits, rights or project information, prepare and organise editorial content, maintain editorial and rights-management records and contact relevant parties regarding corrections, updates or future editorial opportunities.
The legal basis is generally APSAIDAL’s legitimate interest in operating its editorial platform and processing material voluntarily submitted for editorial consideration, together with contractual or pre-contractual steps where applicable.
Submission does not guarantee publication.
Further conditions governing submitted material are set out in the Terms of Use.
Where APSAIDAL provides professional profiles for persons, studios, companies, organisations or institutions, we may process identification, contact and professional information necessary to create, display and maintain those profiles.
Where a user creates or claims a profile, we may additionally process account information and information needed to verify the relationship between the user and the relevant professional or organisation.
Information intentionally included in a public profile will be publicly accessible.
The processing may be based on the user’s request, the operation of the relevant service, APSAIDAL’s legitimate interest in maintaining an accurate professional information platform and, where appropriate, the legitimate interests of professionals and organisations in being correctly represented.
Users and represented entities may request corrections where information is inaccurate.
Where account functionality is available, APSAIDAL may process data necessary to create and administer the account, authenticate the user, provide account features, maintain account security, prevent unauthorised access or abuse, allow users to manage permitted content or professional profiles and communicate about important account or service matters.
The legal basis is normally the performance of the service requested by the user and APSAIDAL’s legitimate interest in ensuring the security and proper operation of its platform.
If you subscribe to an APSAIDAL newsletter or other optional editorial communication, we will process your email address and relevant subscription preferences.
The legal basis for sending such communications is your consent.
You may withdraw your consent and unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe mechanism included in the communication or by contacting info@apsaidal.com.
Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.
Newsletter consent is independent from cookie consent and from acceptance of the Terms of Use.
If you contact APSAIDAL regarding advertising, sponsorship, partnerships, collaboration or another commercial matter, we may process your name, professional contact information, organisation and correspondence.
This information is used to respond to the enquiry, prepare proposals, discuss potential commercial arrangements, administer existing business relationships and maintain relevant contractual and accounting records.
The legal basis may include steps taken at your request before entering into an agreement, performance of a contract, compliance with legal obligations and APSAIDAL’s legitimate interests in managing professional and commercial relationships.
Where APSAIDAL publishes employment or professional opportunities, personal information may be processed in connection with the submission and management of job listings.
If APSAIDAL later enables direct applications, candidate profiles or similar functionality, additional information may be collected from applicants.
The relevant interface will provide any additional privacy information required for that particular processing.
APSAIDAL will not use candidate information for purposes incompatible with the purpose for which it was collected without an appropriate legal basis.
Certain technical information may be processed when users access APSAIDAL, including IP addresses, request information, security logs and device or browser data.
This information may be used to operate and secure the website, detect malicious activity, prevent fraud, spam and unauthorised access, diagnose technical problems and maintain infrastructure and service reliability.
This processing is based on APSAIDAL’s legitimate interest in maintaining the security and integrity of the website and, where applicable, compliance with legal obligations.
APSAIDAL may process and retain personal data where necessary to comply with legal or regulatory obligations, respond to lawful requests from authorities, establish, exercise or defend legal claims, investigate potential violations of our Terms of Use or protect APSAIDAL, its users or third parties against unlawful activity.
The legal basis may be compliance with a legal obligation or APSAIDAL’s legitimate interest in protecting its legal rights.
Names, professional roles, project credits, organisations, authorship information and similar professional information may form part of APSAIDAL’s published editorial content.
Such information may remain publicly accessible as part of APSAIDAL’s editorial archive even after the original publication date where retaining the content remains relevant to the historical, architectural, professional or editorial record.
Requests concerning inaccurate information, attribution or personal data contained in published material can be sent to info@apsaidal.com.
Applicable rights concerning freedom of expression, information, intellectual property, archival interests and data protection will be taken into account when assessing such requests.
APSAIDAL may use automated or artificial-intelligence-assisted tools to support its editorial and administrative workflows.
Depending on the functionality involved, such tools may assist with tasks such as:
Where such tools process personal data, APSAIDAL will seek to apply the same data-protection principles applicable to other processing activities.
APSAIDAL does not currently use solely automated decision-making that produces legal effects or similarly significant effects on individuals.
Important editorial and publication decisions remain subject to human oversight.
APSAIDAL uses essential technologies required for the operation of the website.
With the user’s permission, third-party technologies may also be activated to display external content such as YouTube or Vimeo videos and Google Maps.
Non-essential technologies are controlled through the consent mechanism available on the website.
For detailed information, see our Cookie Policy.
You can change or withdraw your non-essential cookie choices at any time through Cookie Settings.
Personal data may be accessible to service providers that APSAIDAL uses where this is necessary for them to provide their services.
Depending on the service concerned, these may include providers of website hosting and infrastructure, website administration and technical maintenance, email and communications, cloud storage, security and anti-abuse services, newsletter distribution, professional or business software, data backup, consent-management technology and other technology necessary to operate APSAIDAL.
Such providers process personal data only to the extent required for their role and, where required, are subject to appropriate contractual and confidentiality obligations.
Personal data may also be disclosed where the individual has requested or authorised the disclosure, where information is intentionally published as part of a public profile or editorial contribution, where required by law, to courts, regulators, law-enforcement authorities or other competent bodies where legally required, or where necessary to protect or defend legitimate legal rights.
APSAIDAL does not sell personal data to advertisers.
Some technology providers or third-party services used by APSAIDAL may process information outside Spain or the European Economic Area.
Where personal data is transferred internationally and the GDPR requires additional safeguards, APSAIDAL will seek to rely on an appropriate legal transfer mechanism, which may include a European Commission adequacy decision, Standard Contractual Clauses or another transfer mechanism recognised under applicable data-protection law.
Third-party external content that requires consent will only be activated in accordance with the user’s consent preferences where required.
Further information about these services is provided in the Cookie Policy.
APSAIDAL retains personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected and for any additional period required by law or necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
Retention periods may therefore vary according to the processing activity.
As a general approach:
Data may be retained for longer where this is required by law, litigation, regulatory proceedings or the defence of legal rights.
Depending on the circumstances, APSAIDAL may process personal data on one or more of the following legal bases.
Consent — for example, where a user voluntarily subscribes to a newsletter or enables non-essential technologies.
Performance of a contract or steps requested before entering into a contract — for example, where a user requests a service or enters into a commercial arrangement with APSAIDAL.
Compliance with a legal obligation — where processing is necessary to meet applicable legal, tax, accounting, regulatory or other obligations.
Legitimate interests — where processing is necessary for the operation, security, editorial activity, professional communication, rights management or development of APSAIDAL and those interests are not overridden by the rights and freedoms of the individual.
Where processing relies on legitimate interests, APSAIDAL will take into account the nature of the information, the context in which it was obtained, the reasonable expectations of the individual and the potential effect of the processing.
Subject to the conditions and limitations established by applicable law, you may have the right to:
To exercise a data-protection right, contact:
Please specify the right you wish to exercise and provide sufficient information for APSAIDAL to identify the relevant data.
Where reasonably necessary to prevent unauthorised disclosure of personal information, APSAIDAL may request information to verify your identity.
If you believe that your personal data has been processed in breach of applicable data-protection law, you may contact APSAIDAL first so that we can investigate the matter.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.
For APSAIDAL’s establishment in Spain, the supervisory authority is the Spanish Data Protection Agency (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos — AEPD).
APSAIDAL implements technical and organisational measures intended to protect personal data against unauthorised access, loss, alteration, disclosure or destruction.
However, no internet-based system can guarantee absolute security.
Users are responsible for keeping any account credentials confidential and should inform APSAIDAL if they suspect unauthorised access to their account.
APSAIDAL may link to external websites and may display content supplied by third-party services.
Those providers operate under their own privacy policies and terms, and APSAIDAL is not responsible for how independent third parties process personal data once a user interacts directly with them.
Further information about external-content technologies is available in our Cookie Policy.
APSAIDAL may update this Privacy Policy when necessary to reflect changes to the website or its services, new processing activities, changes to technology providers, changes to applicable legislation or regulatory guidance or changes to the identity or circumstances of the data controller.
The current version will always be published on this page together with the date of the latest update.
Material changes may also be communicated through the website or other appropriate means where required.
You can find additional information about APSAIDAL and the use of the platform in:
Legal Notice
Terms of Use
Cookie Policy
You can review or modify your non-essential cookie choices at any time through Cookie Settings.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please get in touch.
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