Privacy Policy

According to the Act 15/1999, of 13th December, on the Protection of Personal Data, Article 5, you must be informed of the use and purpose of obtaining your personal information, being those details that can identify you (name and surname, e-mail, address, etc.). The University of Salamanca is committed to implementing the Act and to treating with due care and attention the personal details that are stored, avoiding alteration, loss, incorrect use or unauthorised access.

The University of Salamanca is the body responsible for the storage of data obtained from the personal details supplied by the users of the website www.usal.es.

The collection and automatic processing of personal data is done with the intention of managing, maintaining, upgrading and improving the services requested at anytime by the user and of monitoring queries made by the user.

In some cases the data requested of you is mandatory, in other cases it is optional. You are not obliged to provide any data that is not mandatory.

At all times you can exercise your rights of access, correction, cancellation or opposition, toward the University of Salamanca, Patio de Escuelas 1 • 37008 Salamanca (Spain).
You will always be given the opportunity to exercise your rights of access, correction, cancellation and opposition to your personal data files stored by the University of Salamanca.

In relation to the protection levels afforded your personal data, the University of Salamanca complies with Royal Directive 994/1999, of, 11th June, relative to security measures for automated files containing personal data and has established all the technical means at its disposal to prevent the loss, misuse, alteration, unauthorised access and theft of data that you have provided, subject to the fact that Internet security methods are not failproof.

The University of Salamanca reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy to comply with new legislation, case law or further interpretation of the Spanish Agency of Data Protection. In this case, the University of Salamanca will announce these changes, stating clearly and in time the changes made, and requesting, if necessary, the acceptance of such changes.