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Processing the personal data obtained from this form will be the responsibility of the Fundació per a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (FUOC), with Tax Identification Number G60667813 and registered address at Rambla del Poblenou, 154-156, Barcelona, Spain. If you have any questions about the processing of your personal data, you can contact the Data Protection Officer by email at the following address: dpd@uoc.edu

The personal data collected through this form will be processed for the purpose of managing your subscription to the UOC's blogs newsletters.

Additionally, we will monitor and assess the newsletter through the use of statistics, which may involve asking you for your opinion through satisfaction surveys, or evaluating comments, recommendations or complaints that you voluntarily send us, with the aim in all cases of improving our newsletter.

Personal data will be processed by the FUOC for the stated purposes until such time as you instruct us to stop doing so.

At the end of the indicated period, the FUOC will store the personal data for the period of time in which legal liabilities may derive from them. When these liabilities no longer apply, the personal data will be deleted permanently.

The legal basis for the processing of personal data is the consent to subscribe to the newsletter and the legitimate interest in monitoring the newsletter through satisfaction surveys.

Consent may be withdrawn at any time through the means stipulated in the "What are my rights?" section of this document.

The UOC shall process personal data with the utmost confidentiality. Furthermore, it has implemented adequate technical and organizational measures to guarantee their security and prevent their destruction, loss or unlawful access or tampering. In deciding these measures, criteria such as the scope, context and purpose of the processing, the current state of the art and the existing risks have been taken into account.

The FUOC will disclose personal data to third parties if it is necessary to comply with the legal obligations that may be applicable in each case.

The UOC works with a number of service providers that assist it in performing different tasks related to the processing of your personal data.

You have the following rights regarding data protection:

Right What does it consist of?
Right of access See what personal data we have.
Right to rectification Modify the personal data we have when they are inaccurate.
Right to object Ask us not to process personal data for certain specific purposes, and to not be subject to automated individual decision-making.
Right to erasure Ask us to erase your personal data.
Right to restriction of processing Ask us to restrict processing of your personal data.
Right to data portability Ask us to provide you with the information we hold in a machine-readable format.
Right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority File a complaint. Without prejudice to exercising your rights before the Data Controller, you can lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority at any time in order to defend your data protection rights, through the website https://apdcat.gencat.cat/ca/inici/.


In order to exercise these rights, simply send a message to the Fundació per a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, either by email to fuoc_pd@uoc.edu or by post to Rambla del Poblenou, 154-156, Barcelona, stating as reference "Data protection". The request must include a copy of your National ID card or another equivalent identification document and the minimum content set forth in the applicable legislation. If your request does not meet the specified requirements, you may be asked to amend it. There is no charge for exercising these rights, although a fee may be charged when the requests are unfounded, excessive or repetitive.