Privacy Policy

Fábrica de Tecidos do Carvalho Lda. ensures the protection of personal data made available through this website, continuously optimizing procedures and techniques designed to ensure compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR – approved by Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of April 26, 2016, and other applicable legislation.

This Policy aims to inform users about how their personal data is processed while browsing this website. Each time you use this website, your personal data will be processed in accordance with the Privacy Policy in force at the time, so it is recommended to regularly review this Policy.

The Data Controller of your data is Fábrica de Tecidos do Carvalho, Lda., NIPC 500 107 815, headquartered at Estrada Nacional 105, no. 991, 4815-158 Guimarães, hereinafter referred to as “Fábrica de Tecidos do Carvalho” or “FTC”.

While using the website, Fábrica de Tecidos do Carvalho collects both personal and non-personal information. Personal data refers to any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual. The following personal data is collected:

• Name;
• Address/City;
• Email;
• Resume;
• Any personal information that the User chooses to include in the contact form or recruitment form.

Additionally, other data is collected to ensure the website’s technical functionalities and guarantee stability and secure navigation, such as:

• User’s IP address;
• Date and time of request or registration;
• Request content (specific page);
• Data volume and transmitted page;
• Request origin;
• Browser type;
• User’s operating system;
• Language and version of browser software;
• Referring URLs;
• Websites visited by the user’s system through our website.

Most of the data listed above is collected through the use of cookies. For detailed information about cookies and how we use them, please refer to our Cookie Policy.

Fábrica de Tecidos do Carvalho maintains public profiles on various social networks to interact with active users, stakeholders, and customers, and to provide them with information about its services. Links to social media profiles may be found on this website.

If you are logged into your social media account and access our page on that platform, the social network operator may associate that visit with your user account.

User data collected through social media platforms such as Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Pinterest may be processed in third countries, particularly in the United States of America.

For more information on this subject, please refer to the privacy policies and terms and conditions available on the respective social network websites.

During the use of this website, Fábrica de Tecidos do Carvalho will collect personal data necessary for the following purposes, based on the following legal grounds:

• Management of contact requests, information, and complaints – pre-contractual steps at the data subject’s request, legitimate interest of Fábrica de Tecidos do Carvalho (Article 6(1)(a) and (f) of the GDPR);
• Receipt and management of job applications or spontaneous applications – pre-contractual steps at the data subject’s request (Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR);
• Sending direct marketing communications – data subject’s consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR).

Your personal data may also be processed whenever there is another legal basis justifying such processing, namely:

• Legal obligation of Fábrica de Tecidos do Carvalho (Article 6(1)(c) of the GDPR);
• Legitimate interest of Fábrica de Tecidos do Carvalho, provided that such interest does not override your fundamental rights and freedoms (Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR);
• Protection of your vital interests or those of a third party (Article 6(1)(d) of the GDPR).

Fábrica de Tecidos do Carvalho will store your personal data for the period strictly necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected, and may retain some of your personal data as necessary to comply with legal obligations or to manage or assert its rights.

Once the retention periods expire, personal data will be permanently deleted from our databases.

Fábrica de Tecidos do Carvalho may share your personal data with third parties, namely with entities related to the provision of contracted services (insurance companies, payment processing entities) or other public entities as necessary for its business activities.

All data transfers comply with applicable legislation using legally provided mechanisms.

Under current data protection legislation, Fábrica de Tecidos do Carvalho ensures you the following rights:

• Right to be informed
• Right of access
• Right to object
• Right to rectification
• Right to erasure
• Right to data portability
• Right to restriction of processing

To exercise your rights, contact: dpo@ftcarvalho.com

Privacy Policy - Version 2.0 - 10/03/2025