Legal information

Here you will find all the legal information related to this website: the legal notice including the general terms of use, the privacy policy, and the cookie policy.

The Sant Cugat del Vallès City Council, hereinafter referred to as the Sant Cugat City Council, is the owner of the domain [www.santcugatfeina.cat](http://www.santcugatfeina.cat), a website available to all users with the aim of offering the citizens of Sant Cugat information, guidance, support, and training services for employment. Through its Job Board, it facilitates connections between job offers and job seekers in the municipality for both companies and individuals.

General Considerations
The Sant Cugat City Council reserves the right to update the contents of these web pages at any time, as well as to delete them or limit access temporarily or permanently.

This website provides links to other independent websites not belonging to the Sant Cugat City Council, with the purpose of facilitating access to other sources of information related to the municipal organization and respecting intellectual property rights that may belong to their authors. However, the Sant Cugat City Council assumes no responsibility for the content or connections found through these links. Similarly, any links to the santcugatfeina.cat website must be requested and authorized in advance, and must respect the intellectual property rights owned by the municipality.

Users must refrain from using means that may remove, alter, bypass, or manipulate any protection devices or security systems that may be installed and that may pose a risk or cause damage or disable this website and/or its contents.

The Sant Cugat City Council is not responsible for any misuse of this website or its mobile applications by third parties, nor for the content, automatic Google translations, or updates of information provided by other individuals or entities, whether on the website or accessed via links or other systems. The content provided on this website or mobile apps is for informational purposes only. Therefore, the use made of it and any resulting consequences, damages, or losses are the sole responsibility of the user.

Access to this website is the sole responsibility of the user. The risks arising from its use will be assumed by the user. The Sant Cugat City Council accepts no liability for any kind of damages that may be caused by the use of links, directories, and search tools that allow access to websites or mobile apps owned and/or managed by third parties, or for the presence of viruses or other malicious code in the content that may cause damage to users’ computer systems, electronic documents, or files.

Intellectual Property
All distinguishing signs, trademarks, trade names, content (texts, graphics, images, photos, software, links, and other audiovisual or audio content and source code), structure, design, and presentation of elements, as well as any other information appearing on this website, including municipal mobile apps for Android and iOS devices, are the property of the Sant Cugat City Council or of third parties who have authorized its use. This content is protected by industrial and intellectual property rights.

Reproduction, transformation, distribution, public communication, or any other form of exploitation of the aforementioned elements is prohibited without the express authorization of the Sant Cugat City Council, unless explicitly stated otherwise.

The Sant Cugat City Council reserves the right to take legal action as deemed appropriate in response to any unlawful use by third parties of the content on its website or mobile applications.

This data protection policy governs how the Sant Cugat del Vallès City Council processes data collected through its website.

Data Controller Identity

The data controller of the personal data collected through the corporate website www.santcugat.cat is:

SANT CUGAT DEL VALLÈS CITY COUNCIL
Plaça de la Vila, 1
08172 Sant Cugat del Vallès

Purpose of Data Processing

The data you provide to the Sant Cugat City Council through different means—contact forms, surveys, or other procedures—is collected in accordance with current data protection legislation and solely for the purpose of delivering the requested service.

Each of these means informs you in detail about the purpose of the data processing, which will only take place if you have given your authorization.

Data Processing

All registered processing activities are listed in the Sant Cugat Record of Processing Activities. You can consult them on the page:
Data Protection

Only the data you have provided for the stated and authorized purpose will be processed. Your data will not be processed by third parties nor shared with others unless expressly authorized by you.

The legal basis for processing your data is the exercise of the City Council’s powers and the delivery of the services you request.

No automated decisions will be made based on your data.

You provide your data voluntarily and are informed at all times of its use and processing. All information provided must be truthful. You are solely responsible for any false or inaccurate statements you make and for any harm caused to the City Council or third parties. The City Council reserves the right to deny services to any user who has provided false data, without prejudice to other legal actions.

Your Rights Regarding Your Data

  • Access your data: request to see what data we have about you and how we use it, and even receive it for transfer to another organization.
  • Rectify your data: request corrections of any inaccurate information.
  • Delete your data: request that your data be deleted and not processed further, except where the law requires its retention.
  • Limit processing: request that your data be retained for legal purposes only.
  • Object to processing: request that your data not be used for a specific purpose.
  • Data portability: request that we provide your data in a compatible format so you can give it to a third-party service provider.
  • You can request information at any time about how and why we are processing your data.

To exercise any of these rights (Access, Rectification, Deletion, Objection, or Portability), send a request along with a copy of your ID either in person or by mail to:

SANT CUGAT CITY COUNCIL – Citizen Services
Plaça de la Vila, 1
08172 Sant Cugat del Vallès
Ref. “Data Protection”
Or by email to: [lopd@santcugat.cat](mailto:lopd@santcugat.cat)

Additional Information on Data Processing

If you would like more information about how the Sant Cugat City Council processes personal data, you can contact the Data Protection Officer at:
dpd@santcugat.cat
or by postal mail addressed to:
Data Protection Officer
Sant Cugat City Council
Plaça de la Vila, 1
08172 Sant Cugat del Vallès

You can also consult the data protection page for detailed information about the internal organization of the City Council regarding this matter and other related topics.

Filing Complaints

The Catalan Data Protection Authority (www.apdcat.cat) is the supervisory authority that ensures compliance with data protection regulations in the Catalan Public Administration. If you believe the City Council has violated any provisions of this regulation, you may file a complaint with this authority.

Session and Google Analytics Cookies

A cookie is a piece of text commonly known as a “cookie” that is sent between a web browser or mobile application and the server that has access to it. Cookies are used to differentiate one user from another and to transfer information from one web page to another during a single user session.

The Sant Cugat City Council uses cookies to provide a better user experience. The information provided by cookies helps to understand how our visitors use the City Council’s websites and mobile applications so we can improve the way we present our content.

Cookie name – Duration – Description
SESSION\_ID – At the end of the browser session – Used to improve navigation on the website.
These are called session cookies, cannot be disabled, and are deleted when the browser is closed.

The Sant Cugat City Council uses third-party analytical cookies from Google Analytics to define user sessions and obtain general browsing data on the municipal websites. They do not collect personal data from visitors to the municipal websites and use standard identification and expiration to correctly attribute visitor activity.

Cookie name – Duration – Description
\_ga – 2 years – Used to distinguish users.
\_gid – 24 hours – Used to distinguish users.
\_gat – 1 minute – Used to limit the request rate.
For more information, you can consult the Google Analytics cookies here.

Cookies are installed only when the user authorizes their installation in their browser, both on its pages and on linked or referred pages via links, without collecting any kind of personal or confidential user data.

Users who do not wish to receive cookies, wish to restrict the installation of certain cookies, or want to be notified when they are set, can configure their browser accordingly.

You can block or delete these cookies at any time by configuring your browser settings. Instructions for managing cookies in the most common browsers can be found at the following links:

Internet Explorer, cookie configuration instructions here
Firefox, cookie configuration instructions here
Google Chrome, cookie configuration instructions here
Safari, cookie configuration instructions here
Opera, cookie configuration instructions here