In compliance with the European Regulation on data protection (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and the free circulation of these data and repealing the Directive 95/46/EC) (General Data Protection Regulation), we inform you of the processing of the personal data that you provide to us.

Casa Asia may revise this privacy policy from time to time and post a more updated version on its website. Casa Asia will expressly inform users if their rights are affected as a result of a review. 

1. Responsible for the treatment

The information provided is the property of the Consortium Casa Asia with address at the Can Tiana Campus, C/ Bolivia, 56, 08018 Barcelona.

For any additional information you can make your inquiry through the following means:

Telephone: 93 368 08 36

Contact Email: [email protected]

2. Purpose of treatment

The intended purpose of the processing of personal data is:

Disseminate activities and news about Asia-Pacific: Send by email newsletters and information about activities, courses, conferences and seminars, institutional events, exhibitions and film shows organized by Casa Asia.

  • Personal data collected: identifying data (name, surname, email and population) and areas and activities of interest related to Asia-Pacific.
  • Legitimation: consent of the interested person.

Manage registration for activities: formalization, registration, administrative management, execution and development of the courses, workshops and other activities organized Casa Asia.

  • Personal data collected: identification data (Mandatory: name, surname, DNI/NIE/Passport, email and contact telephone number. Optional: year of birth, postal address and sex), professional data (company and profession), bank details (in the case of cancellation of payment activities) and areas and activities of interest related to Asia-Pacific.
  • Legitimation: consent of the interested person.

Loan service from the Media Library Casa Asia: manage the registration of users in order to be able to offer library lending services from the fund available to the Media Library of Casa Asia.

  • Personal data collected: identifying data (name, surname, DNI/NIE/Passport, email, telephone, postal address and sex).
  • Legitimation: consent of the interested person.
  • Recipients: The Media Library of Casa Asia It belongs to the public network of Specialized Libraries of the Generalitat of Catalonia. The data requested is incorporated into a file in the Library Management System created for the management of the services offered to users of public libraries in Catalonia.

Respond to requests for information or queries: Respond to queries and requests for information received through any channel (website, email, in person).

  • Personal data collected: identification data (name, surname, email and contact telephone number)
  • Legitimation: the user's consent, implicit in their request for information or consultation, for the purposes of Casa Asia can attend to it.

Manage agreements for carrying out educational cooperation practices in Casa Asia: selection and management of applications, development and evaluation of internships for students from different universities or educational centers.

  • Personal data collected: identification data (name, surname, DNI/NIE/Passport, email and contact telephone number), academic data (studies completed and in progress, languages, computing) and professional data (professional experience)
  • Legitimation: consent of the interested person, the existing legal relationship through the signing of an internship agreement between the educational center Casa Asia and the student, necessary to carry out the internship, the legitimate interest for the development of academic relationships.

Manage responses to self-nominations for job applications or professional collaboration: spontaneous sending by the interested person of their CV, via email or any other means

  • Personal data collected: identification data (name, surname, email, telephone, postal address), CV and cover letter.
  • Legitimation: consent of the person interested in sending the resume or job application.

Manage the relationship with suppliers and collaborators: manage and/or execute the assignment or established collaboration.

  • Personal data collected: identification data (name, surname, email, telephone, postal address)
  • Legitimation: execution of the commercial, negotiating or contractual obligations assumed by the supplier or collaborator and Casa Asia. 

3. Data retention

The data will be kept as long as the consent of the interested person is available and, in the case of service users, for the time necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected. In both cases, for the time necessary to determine the possible responsibilities that may arise from the purpose and processing of the data.

4. Communication of data to third parties

Your data will not be transferred or communicated to third parties, except for the following purposes:

  • Disseminate activities and news about Asia-Pacific: the MailChimp platform will be used, which involves transferring the data to a processor located in the United States, The Rocket Science Group, LLC.
  • Loan service from the Media Library Casa Asia: the data requested is incorporated into a file whose responsibility is the Generalitat de Catalunya. Department of Culture. General Directorate of Archives, Libraries, Museums and Heritage. Library Service.

5. International data transfer

As mentioned in the previous point, to disseminate our activities and newsletters, we use the MailChimp platform, from The Rocket Science Group LLC, a company with address at 675 Ponce de Leon Ave. NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308 USES. The data of the subscribed persons are, therefore, the subject of an international data transfer since it is a North American company and its systems are located outside the EU. The Rocket Science Group LLC has been certified by the Department of Commerce of the Federal Government of the United States and, in accordance with Decision 2016/1250/EC of July 12, appears on the list of North American companies that assume European standards in data protection matters (Privacy Shield, www.privacyshield.gov). MailChimp's Legal Policies can access their data protection policy and contact their Data Protection Officer by sending a message to [email protected].

6 Rights

The interested party can exercise their rights of access, rectification, deletion, limitation of processing, data portability and opposition.

In the processing of data whose legitimacy is based on the consent given by the interested party, the latter has the right to withdraw their consent at any time, without this affecting the legality of the processing based on the consent prior to withdrawal. 

To exercise these rights, the interested person can send their request by writing to Casa Asia by postal mail (Can Tiana Campus, C/ Bolivia, 56, 08018 Barcelona), or through the email address [email protected]. The request must clearly indicate the right or rights that you want to exercise.

In the case of users of the loan service of the Media Library of Casa Asia, the interested person can also exercise their rights of access, rectification, deletion, limitation of processing, data portability and opposition through Casa Asia, or by contacting the person responsible for the file: Generalitat de Catalunya. Department of Culture. General Directorate of Archives, Libraries, Museums and Heritage. Servei de Biblioteques (Plaça de Salvador Seguí, 1-9, 08001 Barcelona), or through the email address: [email protected] 

If it is considered that their rights have not been adequately addressed, the interested person has the right to file a claim with the supervisory authority of the Spanish Data Protection Agency, either through its electronic headquarters or at their home, at Jorge Juan street 6, 28001 Madrid.