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PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: 29 June 2026

1. DATA CONTROLLER

In accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 (General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR), Spanish Organic Law 3/2018 of 5 December on Personal Data Protection and the Guarantee of Digital Rights (LOPDGDD), and all other applicable legislation, users of this website are informed about the processing of their personal data.

Data Controller

Company name: SPORTS EVASION, S.L.

Trading name: Water Sports Centre

Tax Identification Number (CIF): B60187531

Registered office: Carrer Jovara, 153, Ground Floor, 08370 Calella (Barcelona), Spain.

Email: info@wsc.cat

Website: www.wsc.cat

SPORTS EVASION, S.L. is the Data Controller of the personal data provided through this website and guarantees that such data is processed in accordance with the principles of lawfulness, fairness, transparency, purpose limitation, data minimisation, accuracy, integrity, confidentiality and accountability established by the General Data Protection Regulation.

2. PURPOSE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY

The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to provide clear and transparent information regarding how Water Sports Centre collects, uses, stores and protects the personal data of users who browse this website or purchase any of the services offered.

Access to and use of this website implies that users have read this Privacy Policy. The use of any forms available on this website involves the processing of personal data in accordance with the conditions described herein.

This Privacy Policy applies to all personal data provided by users through the various communication channels made available by Water Sports Centre, including but not limited to:

  • Contact forms.

  • Activity booking forms.

  • Enquiries submitted by email.

  • Telephone communications.

  • WhatsApp messages or other authorised messaging channels.

  • Social media platforms managed by Water Sports Centre.

  • Any other communication maintained with the company.

3. PRINCIPLES OF DATA PROCESSING

SPORTS EVASION, S.L. processes personal data in full compliance with European and Spanish data protection legislation.

Personal data shall be processed in accordance with the following principles:

Lawfulness, Fairness and Transparency

Personal data shall only be processed where there is a lawful basis and always in a transparent manner.

Purpose Limitation

Personal data shall only be collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and shall not subsequently be processed in a manner incompatible with those purposes.

Data Minimisation

Only personal data that is strictly necessary for providing the requested services or complying with legal obligations shall be collected.

Accuracy

Water Sports Centre shall take reasonable steps to ensure that personal data is accurate, kept up to date and corrected or erased where inaccurate.

Storage Limitation

Personal data shall only be retained for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected and for the retention periods required by applicable legislation.

Integrity and Confidentiality

Personal data shall be processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security through technical and organisational measures designed to prevent unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, loss or destruction.

Accountability

SPORTS EVASION, S.L. implements appropriate measures to demonstrate compliance with data protection legislation and regularly reviews its internal procedures to ensure continued compliance.

4. SCOPE OF APPLICATION

This Privacy Policy applies to all individuals who interact with Water Sports Centre through www.wsc.cat or any other communication channel made available by the company.

Data processing may concern, among others:

  • Customers.

  • Individuals requesting information.

  • Individuals making bookings.

  • Activity participants.

  • Parents or legal guardians of minors.

  • Suppliers.

  • Business partners.

  • Individuals contacting the company through forms or email.

5. COMMITMENT TO DATA PROTECTION

Protecting the privacy of our users is a priority for Water Sports Centre.

Accordingly, the company applies the technical, organisational and security measures necessary to guarantee the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the personal data processed, preventing unauthorised access, alteration, loss or any other unlawful processing.

All authorised staff members and service providers with access to personal data are bound by confidentiality obligations and, where legally required, by Data Processing Agreements in accordance with Article 28 of the GDPR.

Water Sports Centre regularly reviews its internal procedures to adapt them to legal and technological developments, maintaining an appropriate level of protection for users' personal data.

6. PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT

Water Sports Centre only collects the personal data necessary to manage its relationship with users, customers and activity participants.

Personal data may be provided directly by the data subject through the available communication channels or generated during the provision of services.

Depending on the type of service requested, the following categories of personal data may be processed:

Identification Data

  • Full name.

  • Identity document where legally or contractually required.

  • Date of birth where necessary to verify minimum age requirements.

Contact Details

  • Email address.

  • Telephone number.

  • Postal address where necessary.

Booking Information

  • Booked activity.

  • Date and time of the booking.

  • Number of participants.

  • Booking notes.

  • Booking history.

Financial Information

Where necessary for payment processing:

  • Booking amount.

  • Payment status.

  • Billing details.

Water Sports Centre does not store full payment card details where payments are processed through external payment providers.

Browsing Information

When visiting the website, certain technical information may be collected automatically, including:

  • IP address.

  • Browser type.

  • Operating system.

  • Browser language.

  • Pages visited.

  • Browsing duration.

  • Information collected through cookies, always subject to the user's consent preferences.

Information Voluntarily Provided

Any additional information that users choose to provide through forms, email, WhatsApp, telephone or any other communication channel.

As a general rule, Water Sports Centre does not request or process special categories of personal data. Should such processing become exceptionally necessary, it will be carried out in accordance with applicable legislation and with the appropriate safeguards.

7. HOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL DATA

Personal data may be collected through:

  • Website contact forms.

  • Activity booking forms.

  • Requests for information.

  • Email communications.

  • Telephone calls.

  • WhatsApp or other messaging services.

  • Official Water Sports Centre social media accounts.

  • In-person bookings.

  • Information provided during the delivery of our services.

Users guarantee that all personal data provided is accurate, complete, truthful and kept up to date, and shall be responsible for any damage arising from inaccurate or incomplete information.

8. PURPOSES OF DATA PROCESSING

Personal data shall only be processed for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes.

These purposes include:

8.1 Booking Management

Managing activity bookings, confirming reservations, organising participant groups, modifying or cancelling bookings and providing the contracted services.

8.2 Customer Service

Responding to enquiries, requests for information, incidents, complaints and any communication submitted by users.

8.3 Administrative and Accounting Management

Preparing quotations, invoices, payment receipts, maintaining accounting records and complying with tax and administrative obligations.

8.4 Compliance with Legal Obligations

Complying with all obligations imposed by applicable legislation, particularly in relation to taxation, commercial law, consumer protection, insurance and maritime safety.

8.5 Activity Safety

Ensuring the safety of participants, supervising activities, managing incidents and protecting participants, vessels and equipment.

8.6 Booking Communications

Sending essential information relating to booked activities, timetable changes, weather-related updates, reminders and any other communication necessary for the proper delivery of the service.

These communications are strictly informational and form part of the contractual relationship.

8.7 Service Improvement

Analysing website usage, identifying technical issues, preparing aggregated statistics and improving the user experience, always in accordance with the user's cookie preferences.

8.8 Marketing Communications

Where the user has given consent or another lawful basis exists, Water Sports Centre may send information regarding activities, promotions, events, special offers and news relating to its services.

Users may object to receiving such communications at any time.

9. LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING

Personal data shall only be processed where a lawful basis exists.

Depending on the purpose, the legal basis may include:

Performance of a Contract

To manage bookings, provide the contracted services, process payments, issue invoices and maintain the contractual relationship with customers.

Compliance with Legal Obligations

Where processing is necessary to comply with obligations arising under tax, commercial, consumer protection, insurance, maritime safety or other applicable legislation.

Consent

For marketing communications, certain cookies, contact forms or any processing requiring the user's prior consent.

Consent may be withdrawn at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out before its withdrawal.

Legitimate Interests

Water Sports Centre may process certain personal data where it has a legitimate interest, particularly to ensure service security, prevent fraud, manage incidents, defend legal claims or improve the quality of its services, always respecting the rights and freedoms of data subjects.

10. OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE PERSONAL DATA

The data identified as mandatory in the website forms is required in order to process bookings correctly or respond to users' requests.

Failure to provide the required information may prevent Water Sports Centre from providing the requested service or processing the relevant enquiry.

Users guarantee that all personal data provided is accurate, complete and up to date. Users shall be responsible for any damage arising from the provision of false, inaccurate or incomplete information.

11. DATA RETENTION

Water Sports Centre shall retain personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected and, subsequently, for the periods required under applicable legislation.

As a general rule, personal data shall be retained as follows:

Contact Form Enquiries

Until the enquiry has been resolved and, in any event, for a maximum period of one year, unless a subsequent contractual relationship exists.

Booking and Contractual Data

For the duration of the contractual relationship and thereafter for the legal limitation periods established by applicable legislation.

Accounting and Billing Data

For the retention periods established under Spanish tax, commercial and accounting legislation.

Marketing Communications

Until the data subject withdraws their consent or exercises their right to object.

Cookie Data

For the periods established in the Cookie Policy and according to the user's consent preferences.

Once the personal data is no longer necessary, it shall be securely erased or anonymised unless its retention is required by law.

12. RECIPIENTS OF PERSONAL DATA

Personal data shall only be disclosed to third parties where this is necessary for the provision of the contracted services, required by law or authorised by the data subject.

For the proper operation of the website and the provision of services, Water Sports Centre may disclose personal data to the following categories of recipients:

  • Public authorities and government bodies where legally required.

  • Banks and payment service providers for payment processing.

  • Insurance companies related to the contracted activities.

  • Tax, legal, labour and accounting advisers.

  • Technology providers necessary for the operation of the website and contracted services.

Water Sports Centre does not sell, rent or disclose personal data to third parties for commercial purposes.

13. DATA PROCESSORS

To provide its services, Water Sports Centre works with various service providers that may process personal data exclusively on behalf of SPORTS EVASION, S.L. and under the safeguards required by Article 28 of the General Data Protection Regulation.

The main service providers include:

Wix.com Ltd.

Website development, hosting and maintenance platform for www.wsc.cat.

CDmon

Provider of domain-related services and, where applicable, corporate email services.

Google Ireland Limited

Website analytics, mapping services, security services and other tools that may be integrated into the website, always subject to the user's consent where legally required.

Meta Platforms Ireland Limited

Management of Water Sports Centre's official Facebook and Instagram profiles and, where applicable, advertising and statistical services.

Where legally required, Water Sports Centre enters into Data Processing Agreements with all service providers in accordance with the GDPR.

These providers shall process personal data solely in accordance with Water Sports Centre's instructions and may not use such data for their own purposes.

14. INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS

As a general rule, personal data is processed within the European Economic Area (EEA).

However, certain technology providers used by Water Sports Centre may be located outside the EEA or may carry out international transfers of personal data.

In such cases, Water Sports Centre ensures that any international transfer is carried out only where an adequacy decision has been adopted by the European Commission or where one of the safeguards provided by the GDPR has been implemented, including:

  • Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission.

  • Binding Corporate Rules.

  • Any other legally recognised safeguard.

Users may request further information regarding these safeguards by contacting Water Sports Centre.

15. DATA SUBJECT RIGHTS

Every individual has the right to obtain confirmation as to whether Water Sports Centre processes personal data concerning them.

Where personal data is being processed, the individual may exercise the following rights:

Right of Access

To obtain confirmation of whether personal data is being processed and to receive information about such processing.

Right to Rectification

To request the correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data.

Right to Erasure

To request the deletion of personal data where legally applicable.

Right to Restriction of Processing

To request restriction of processing in the circumstances established by the GDPR.

Right to Object

To object to the processing of personal data where legally applicable.

Right to Data Portability

To receive the personal data provided in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or request that it be transmitted to another data controller where technically feasible.

Right to Withdraw Consent

Where processing is based on consent, the data subject may withdraw such consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out prior to its withdrawal.

16. HOW TO EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS

Data protection rights may be exercised free of charge by submitting a request to:

SPORTS EVASION, S.L.

Email: info@wsc.cat

The request must clearly identify the data subject and specify the right they wish to exercise.

Where there are reasonable doubts concerning the identity of the applicant, Water Sports Centre may request additional information to verify their identity.

Requests shall be dealt with within the time limits established by applicable legislation.

17. RIGHT TO LODGE A COMPLAINT

If a data subject considers that the processing of their personal data does not comply with applicable legislation, they have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

In Spain, the competent supervisory authority is the Spanish Data Protection Agency (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos – AEPD), without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedies available.

Before lodging a complaint with the supervisory authority, Water Sports Centre recommends contacting the company first in order to attempt to resolve the matter quickly and amicably.

18. SECURITY MEASURES

Water Sports Centre implements appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risks involved, in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and all other applicable legislation.

These measures are designed to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure or unauthorised access.

Among other measures, Water Sports Centre implements:

  • Encrypted communications using secure SSL/TLS protocols.

  • Access control systems.

  • Authorised user management procedures.

  • Regular data backups.

  • Protection systems against unauthorised access.

  • Internal confidentiality procedures.

  • Periodic reviews of implemented security measures.

Nevertheless, users acknowledge that no security system on the Internet can be considered completely secure. Consequently, Water Sports Centre cannot guarantee absolute security.

Should a personal data breach occur that is likely to result in a risk to the rights and freedoms of individuals, Water Sports Centre shall act in accordance with the procedures established by applicable data protection legislation.

19. MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS

Water Sports Centre shall only send marketing communications where there is a lawful basis to do so.

Such communications may include information regarding:

  • New activities.

  • Promotions.

  • Events.

  • Special offers.

  • Information relating to the services provided by Water Sports Centre.

The data subject may withdraw their consent or object to receiving marketing communications at any time, free of charge, by using the unsubscribe mechanism included in each communication or by contacting Water Sports Centre directly.

20. SOCIAL MEDIA

Water Sports Centre maintains official profiles on various social media platforms.

Users' interaction with these profiles is governed both by this Privacy Policy and by the privacy policies and terms of the respective social media platforms.

Information published by users through these profiles shall only be processed for the purposes of community management, responding to enquiries, promoting activities and informing users about the services offered by Water Sports Centre.

Water Sports Centre accepts no responsibility for the processing of personal data carried out by the operators of social media platforms.

Users are encouraged to review the privacy policies of each platform before interacting with them.

21. LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES

This website may contain links to third-party websites.

Water Sports Centre is not responsible for the content, services or privacy policies of such external websites.

Where users access third-party websites, they do so entirely at their own risk and should consult the applicable privacy policies of those websites.

22. COOKIES

This website uses first-party and third-party cookies to ensure the proper functioning of the website, improve the browsing experience, generate usage statistics and, where appropriate, display personalised content or advertising.

Cookies that are not strictly necessary shall only be installed after the user has given their explicit consent through the cookie consent management platform implemented on the website.

Users may accept, reject or configure cookies at any time.

Detailed information regarding the cookies used, their purposes, retention periods and configuration options is available in the Cookie Policy published on this website.

23. MINORS

The services offered by Water Sports Centre may be intended for both adults and minors where permitted under applicable legislation.

Where parental or legal guardian consent is required, such consent must be obtained before the minor participates in any activity.

Parents or legal guardians are responsible for the information provided on behalf of minors and guarantee that such information is accurate, complete and up to date.

24. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

Water Sports Centre reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy in order to reflect legislative developments, judicial decisions, guidance issued by supervisory authorities or changes in the services provided.

Where the amendments are significant and affect users' rights, appropriate notice shall be provided through the website or by any other suitable means.

The date of the latest update appears at the beginning of this Privacy Policy.

25. APPLICABLE LAW

This Privacy Policy is governed by Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR), Spanish Organic Law 3/2018 on Personal Data Protection and the Guarantee of Digital Rights, Spanish Law 34/2002 on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce (LSSI-CE), together with all other applicable Spanish and European legislation.

26. CONTACT

For any questions relating to this Privacy Policy or the processing of personal data, users may contact:

SPORTS EVASION, S.L.

Trading name: Water Sports Centre

Address: Carrer Jovara, 153, Ground Floor, 08370 Calella (Barcelona), Spain.

Email: info@wsc.cat

Water Sports Centre shall deal with all data protection enquiries diligently and within the time limits established by applicable legislation.

27. ENTRY INTO FORCE

This Privacy Policy shall enter into force on the date of its publication on the Water Sports Centre website and shall remain valid until it is replaced by a new version duly published.

The date of the latest update is indicated at the beginning of this document.

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