PRIVACY POLICY

PRIVACY POLICY

By using PIPECODES website and any content, information, or material, you agree to comply with the conditions set out in this Privacy Policy. The website https://www.pipecodes.com/ is owned by PIPECODES Lda. PIPECODES is committed to ensuring that the privacy of Data Subjects is protected. Personal or other information, collected through the voluntary completion of forms, spontaneous applications, University employment platforms, job fairs, references from employees or former collaborators, workshops, partnerships, and subscriptions, are intended solely and exclusively for administrative use by PIPECODES, to respond to user requests and needs.

In compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation, PIPECODES is committed to maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of data entered or provided by users of the website:

• The data will be processed lawfully, collecting only the necessary data for the purpose for which they are intended;
• Each user and holder of the provided data has the right to update, edit or delete the provided data to PIPECODES. To do this, you must contact us through info@pipecodes.com;
• Whenever third party data protection standards are not met, they will not be supplied or sold;
• Provide security mechanisms that prevent consultation, alteration, or destruction of data by an authorized person.

Regardless of the previous efforts to guarantee the privacy of users’ data, in the event of security breaches, the data may be deleted or shared. Therefore, PIPECODES is exempt from information loss that occurs as a result of cyberattacks or other external breaches, which cannot be predicted or controlled by the company.

Information Collected and Use

We collect personally identifiable information voluntarily provided by PIPECODES users, which will be used to contact or identify them. Personally, identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• Name
• Company name
• Phone number
• Email
• Address
• NIF/ NUIPC

Data Recipients

The data collected is processed exclusively for its purpose, having as a framework a reason of lawfulness previously and explicitly identified and validated. For this purpose, it is suggested to consult the PIPECODES terms and conditions.

Principles of Data Use

By subscribing to our contact list, users will be asked for some data, namely, but not limited to: name, e-mail, telephone contact, and company. Your personal information can be used to contact you with informational content, marketing or promotional materials and media, and others.

According to Portuguese law, the user can select whether or not to receive newsletters or other PIPECODES communications, changing the respective settings in the subscription preferences. In addition to the previous one, you can unsubscribe from receiving any marketing content or promotional email PIPECODES, through the available unsubscribe links.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

PIPECODES uses cookies and other similar technologies on its website to improve users’ browsing experience and online performance, eliminating the need for the user to repeatedly enter the same information. Users could, through their browser, refuse or accept cookies. However, by refusing to use cookies, users may be unable to use some Site sections.

Google Analytics

PIPECODES uses online services provided by the Google Analytics web analytics service, offered in the EU, EEA and Switzerland by Google Ireland Limited Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4., Ireland and in the US by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google Analytics uses cookies that are stored on the user/visitor’s computer, to analyze the use and navigation on the website. Google Analytics is used on the PIPECODES website for web analysis purposes exclusively with an add-on that provides an anonymized IP function”. This setting ensures that Google Analytics deletes the last part of your IP address. As such, PIPECODES does not receive data that allows the personal identification of each user/visitor of the website.

The Universal Analytics functionality with Google Analytics is also used, which allows PIPECODES to analyze the use of its online services on all devices. Each user will be assigned an anonymous ID and this is how the system recognizes each user’s ID when accessing the website through a different device. The user ID is not named, nor is personal data provided to Google.

On the other hand, you can prevent the installation of cookies by configuring your browser software. You can also prevent the collection, processing and storage of data created by the use of cookies, related to the use of PIPECODES online services, by clicking here. This will prevent any future data collection by Google Analytics on the PIPECODES web pages.

Hotjar

PIPECODES uses Hotjar’s analysis service to help analyze and better understand the needs of website visitors, in order to optimize their service and online browsing experience. This is a service offered by Hotjar Limited, Lever 2, St Julians Business Centre, 3, Elia Zammit Street, St Julians STJ 1000, Malta, Europe.

Hotjar anonymously stores this information, and it is not sent to Hotjar’s servers, so neither Hotjar nor PIPECODES uses this information to identify users or combine it with additional data from an individual user.

During the visit to the PIPECODES website, Hotjar saves data from the user/visitor’s online browser and collects the following information:

• Anonymized IP address of your computer;
• Screen size of the device used;
• Browser information (which browser, which version, etc.);
• Geographic location (country only);
• Preferred language;
• Visited pages (sub-pages);
• Date and time of use of the sub-page or website.

Through Hotjar, reports and visual representations (called “Heatmaps”) are generated that show where and how visitors to the PIPECODES website “move”, for example, HTML changes that occur when using this website, mouse movements and clicks, page shifts or browser window size changes. Hotjar does not record content or information entered an input field (example: contact form) or sent through this website.

Hotjar creates a Hotjar Tracking Code to track a visitor’s use of this website using a Hotjar cookie. For more details, you can consult Hotjar’s Privacy Policy by clicking here.

On the other hand, Hotjar gives all users and visitors the possibility of preventing or deactivating the storage of data by Hotjar on the use of the website and use of cookies by Hotjar, by clicking here.

Learn more about Hotjar Ltd. and the tools available at https://www.hotjar.com. 

Purpose and Basis of Data Processing

The purpose and basis on which your personal data are processed depends on the user’s condition.

If you are a candidate, your personal data will be collected and processed for the following purposes:

• Recruitment – includes recruitment activities to provide services, such as candidate research and selection. In this context, data relating to salary processing will also be processed;
• Contract – includes the execution of contracts between PIPECODES and the candidate, as well as communication with the parties involved (insurers, beneficiaries, intermediaries).