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Privacy policy

This is an English translation for convenience. The Spanish version is the legally binding one: read the Spanish version.

Last updated: November 9, 2026

In short. You can read portalecm without giving us any data. There is no sign-up and we do not use cookies. We only ask for your email address if you want our free PDF. When you ask for it, you also sign up for our emails about new stories. We count visits with a tool we run ourselves, which does not identify you. We process personal data in three cases: if you ask for the PDF, if you email us, and in the minimal technical logs kept by the server.

1. Who is responsible for your data

  • Data controller: Miguel Parada, Tax ID (NIF) 76115884Y
  • Address: Calle C, 1, Ciudad Jardín, 10400 Jaraíz de la Vera (Cáceres), Spain
  • Email: contacto@portalecm.com

2. What data we process and why

If you ask for the PDF

If you leave your email address to receive the PDF, we keep your address, your language, the page you asked for it on, the link you came through if you arrived from social media, the text you accepted, and the date. We send you an email to confirm that the address is yours. If you do not confirm, we do not write to you again.

By asking for the PDF, you also agree to receive portalecm’s new stories by email. The checkbox on the form says so. The legal basis is your consent. You can withdraw it whenever you like with the unsubscribe link in every email, or by writing to us. Even if you unsubscribe, you can still download the PDF with your link.

If you write to us

If you send us an email, we process your email address, your name if you give it, and whatever you tell us, only in order to reply to you. The legal basis is your consent when you write to us and our interest in responding to your message.

When you visit the website

Like any server, ours records each visit in a technical log: the IP address, the date and time, the page requested, and the type of browser. It is used to keep the website running and to protect it from attacks. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in keeping the website secure. These logs are not used to find out who you are and are not combined with any other data.

Visit statistics

To know how many people read each page, we use Umami, an analytics program installed on our own server, in Madrid. It does not use cookies or store anything in your browser. It records the page you visit, the website you came from, the type of device, the browser and operating system, the language, and your approximate country or city. It also counts, without knowing who you are, whether you reach the middle and the end of what you are reading, whether you click a link to buy a book or to visit our social media, whether you ask for and download the PDF, and how long the page takes to load. Your IP address is used only to work out that approximate location and is not stored. With this data, we cannot know who you are. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in knowing which content people are interested in.

We do not use Google Analytics or any other third-party tracking tools, advertising, or social media buttons that track you. Fonts and all other files are served from our own server.

The search

What you type in the search goes to our own server, in Madrid, and is not passed on to anyone else. The search does not store it. To improve the website, Umami counts how many searches are made and which result is clicked. When a search finds nothing, we also keep what was typed, so we know what the website is missing; never if it looks like an email address or a phone number. On the results page, what you search for is part of the page address, so it is kept in the technical log like any other page visited. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in helping you find what you are looking for.

The people whose stories we tell

The stories on portalecm are based on what the people in them published or stated in public: books, interviews, documentaries, and studies. We use this material for research and educational purposes, always citing the source. If you are one of those people and want to correct something, add your side of the story, or ask us to take your story down, write to us.

3. How long we keep data

  • PDF and new-story emails: for as long as you stay subscribed. If you unsubscribe, we stop sending you those emails. We keep your email address and a record that you unsubscribed, so that we do not write to you again. We also keep a record of your consent, with when and where you signed up, for as long as the law requires us to be able to prove it. If you want us to delete everything, write to us and we will delete it.
  • If you do not confirm your email address: we delete the request after 90 days.
  • Emails: for as long as the conversation lasts and, after that, for as long as needed to deal with any possible legal liability.
  • Server logs: deleted automatically by rotation once they reach a fixed size, usually within a few weeks.
  • Visit statistics: kept as counts. Since they cannot identify you, there is no personal data to delete.

4. Who else sees the data

We do not sell or pass on data to anyone. The only parties that process it, on our behalf, are the providers that keep the website running:

  • Oracle Cloud: the server that hosts the website and the statistics, located in Madrid.
  • Cloudflare: the secure connection through which visit statistics reach our server.
  • Piensa Solutions: the email service for portalecm.com, which sends the confirmation email and the email with the PDF.
  • Mailrelay (CPC Servicios Informáticos Aplicados a Nuevas Tecnologías S.L., Spain): the service that sends the emails about new stories. It stores your address, your language and how you reached us.

The data is stored within the European Union. If any provider ever had to process it outside the EU, it would be with the safeguards required by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We would only hand over data to an authority if the law required us to.

5. Your rights

You can ask us at any time to access your data, correct it, delete it, object to our processing it, restrict its use, or receive it in a format you can take with you. Write to contacto@portalecm.com saying what you would like. We may ask you for something that shows it is really you.

If you believe we have not handled your data properly, you can file a complaint with the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, Spain’s data protection authority (aepd.es). If you live in another EU country, you can also complain to the data protection authority of the country where you live.

6. Minors

You must be at least 14 years old to ask for the PDF. We do not ask minors for any other data. If you send us an email, we use your data only to reply to you. Visits leave the technical records described above. Some of the content deals with death and illness. That is why we recommend that minors read it with an adult.

7. Security

The website uses an encrypted connection (HTTPS), the server is kept up to date, and access to the admin area is protected.

8. Changes

If the way we process data changes, we will update this page before doing so. The date of the last update appears at the top.

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