Website host www.cavalinhas.com : O2switch.fr
Website owner : Barbara Ryckewaert

Contact : cavalinhaspt@gmail.com

Why this Policy?

This Privacy Policy describes Cavalinhas’ privacy policies and practices for protecting personal information collected in the course of its business.

1. Identity of the data controller.

Personal data is collected and processed by :

CAVALINHAS, a registered company recognised as nature tourism by the ICNF.
Barbara Ryckewaert is registered as a tourism agent with Turismo de Portugal.

Licence RNAAT n°117/2025

2. Purpose – use of your data

2.1 Managing your registrations

The information and data concerning you are necessary for the management of your order and our commercial relations. This information and data is also kept for security purposes, in order to comply with legal and regulatory obligations in the context of our activities.

2.2 Personalising our services

The information and data concerning you enable us to improve and personalise the services we offer you and the information we send you.

3. Data collected on our site 

3.1 What data do we collect?

In particular, we collect and process your first and last names, email address, telephone number, tax identification (for Portuguese customers), IP address, connection data and browsing data.

The compulsory or optional nature of the data is indicated at the time of collection by an asterisk. Some data is collected automatically as a result of your actions on the site.

We also carry out audience measurement, for example, we measure the number of pages viewed, the number of visits to the site, as well as the activity of visitors on the site and the frequency with which they return.

Customers are responsible for the accuracy of the personal data they provide when they register/book an activity or fill in a contact form.

3.2 When ?

We collect the information that you provide to us in particular when :

• You browse our site
• You submit forms (contact, registration)
• You take part in our activities

3.3 : Data recipients 

• The data collected on the site is intended exclusively for Cavalinhas.
• It may be transmitted to partner organisations (EPAE, Quinta do Pisão) for the purposes of carrying out activities on their sites. The partner organisations undertake to use our clients’ data exclusively for this purpose.

4. What rights do I have to my data?

4.1. What are my rights?

• A right of access
• A right of rectification,
• A right to object to and delete the processing of your data
• A right to object to profiling
• A right to limit processing,
• A right to data portability

4.2. How to use them ?

These rights may be exercised with Cavalinhas, which collected the personal data, by writing to us at the following address: cavalinhaspt@gmail.com.

Cavalinhas will send a reply as soon as possible, within a maximum of one month of exercising the right.

5. How long is my data kept?

To calculate the most appropriate retention period, Cavalinhas distinguishes between :

• Website Visitors’ who are not registered for an activity.
• ‘Students’ who are registered for an activity.

For visitors, data will be deleted after 1 month without interaction. Interaction meaning the opening of a canvassing email.

For students, the starting point for the retention period is the end of the activity. Customer data will be kept for 1 year after the end of the activity.

6. What security measures are taken to protect my data?

To guarantee the security of customers’ personal data, we use SSL digital certificates on our website and in the e-mail service (Gmail), which ensure encrypted transmission of the data entered.

Rules applicable to bank details and credit cards:

No bank details are used on the site.

Events Manager

We use Google services to create the maps and provide answers when searching for events by location. These services may collect data in accordance with Google’s privacy policy.

We collect and store information that you provide for bookings in order to process your request and to keep a record of the booking. This information is also used to manage the event.

We collect and store information that you provide about events (and associated locations) that you wish to publish on our site.

We may use temporary cookies to store information about a booking in progress as well as error/confirmation messages during the submission or management of your events and locations.

LiteSpeed Cache

This site uses caching to facilitate faster response times and a better user experience. Caching potentially stores a copy of each web page displayed on this site. All cache files are temporary and are never accessible to a third party, unless required to obtain technical support from the cache extension provider. Cache files expire according to a schedule set by the site administrator, but can easily be purged by the administrator before their natural expiry date, if necessary. Please see https://quic.cloud/privacy-policy/ for more details.

Akismet

We collect information about people who comment on sites that use Akismet’s anti-spam feature. The information collected depends on how Akismet has been set up on the site, and typically includes the IP address of the commenter, user agent, referrer, site URL (as well as other information directly from the comment such as name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

Cookie policy

If you go to the login page, a temporary cookie will be created to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. It does not contain any personal data and will be deleted automatically when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will set a number of cookies to record your login information and screen preferences. The lifetime of a connection cookie is two days, that of a screen option cookie is one year. If you tick ‘Remember me’, your connection cookie will be kept for a fortnight. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be deleted.

By modifying or publishing a publication, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal data. It simply indicates the ID of the publication you have just modified. It expires after one day.

Use of site content

The content of this site (text, photographs and logos) is protected by copyright and may not therefore be copied or reproduced, in whole or in part, or used for commercial purposes, without the prior authorisation of its owner Barbara Ryckewaert/Cavalinhas. Failure to respect these copyrights will result in prosecution.