Privacy Policy

Privacy and Data Protection Policy

Who we are

The Light Rebar Company is a registered trademark of The Light Rebar Company Lda. with registered office at Rua Padre António Caldas 51 4810 – 246 Guimarães, hereinafter referred to as The Light Rebar Company, does not automatically collect any personal information from users who are not registered, thus allowing visitors to browse anonymously.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully, because if you are accessing our website, the provision of your personal data implies knowledge and acceptance of the conditions contained herein.

This Privacy Policy regulates the possible collection and processing, namely consent, of personal data collected or provided by users anywhere on the website, as well as the exercise of their rights in relation to this data, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016), with effect from May 25, 2018.

Personal Data

Any information of any nature and regardless of its medium, including sound and image, relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

An identifiable person is one who can be identified directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identification number.

Data controller

The entity responsible for the collection and processing of personal data is The Light Rebar Company , which provides the service and which, in the context, decides which data is collected, the means of processing the data and for what purposes it is used.

If you have any questions about our Privacy and Data Processing Policy

You can contact us through the following channels:

E-mail: marketing@thelrc.eu

Postal Mail: A/C Privacy and Data Protection , The Light Rebar Company

Travessa dos Mártires, nº12, 4800-054, Guimarães

Type of personal data collected

As part of its activity, The Light Rebar Company collects and processes the personal data necessary for managing and communicating with clients and potential clients, processing requests for information and any complaints, statistical analysis, as well as its use for direct marketing purposes and improving or personalizing the services provided, processing data such as: name, address, country, telephone contact, tax number, email address, date of birth and personal interests in marketing and communication.

The personal data collected is processed by computer and in strict compliance with the legislation on the protection of personal data. It is stored in a specific database, created for this purpose and which guarantees its security and confidentiality in accordance with accepted information technology, technical and organizational measures, in order to protect it from loss, alteration, destruction, misuse in general or that the data collected is used for a purpose other than that for which the data subject has given their consent.

If you wish to subscribe to the newsletter or if we require further information, you will be presented with a form for collecting personal data.

If you fill in any of the forms available for the purposes described above, we consider that you have given your conscious, express and unequivocal consent to their activation and subsequent use.

The Light Rebar Company does not register users and does not create or provide access to reserved areas. Each order registration and associated data is collected and processed by a unique reference associated with the respective order.

Purpose of processing personal data

The purpose of processing personal data is to manage and communicate with clients and potential clients, process requests for information and any complaints.

Marketing actions and consent

The Light Rebar Company may process your data for marketing purposes in order to send you information about its products, and any action will only be carried out with your consent when you create your user account or place an order. When you give your consent, you will receive marketing communications via email and/or SMS, as well as advertising and marketing campaigns on social networks, and your data may be shared with third parties who manage The Light Rebar Company’s social networks.

The Light Rebar Company guarantees that it regulates all relations with all its partners and suppliers so that they ensure the necessary technical and organizational conditions that are appropriate and legally required.

This consent can be revoked at any time by contacting Customer Support or through the links or banners available in each communication.

Holders’ rights

The Light Rebar Company undertakes to respect the confidentiality of your personal data and to guarantee you the exercise of your rights, under the terms and for the purposes of current legislation on the protection of personal data, which are guaranteed to the data subject:

The right to be informed:

At the time the personal data is collected:
Contact details of the data controller
Purpose(s) of processing
The storage time limit
Your rights as a data subject
The possibility of lodging a complaint with the supervisory authority (and contact details)
The (possible) existence of automated decisions and/or profiling.
Ask what information The Light Rebar Company has about them and why;
Know where your data is stored and how it is processed;
To be informed of how The Light Rebar Company complies with its data protection obligations.

Right of access:

Confirmation of whether or not your personal data is being processed;
Ask how to get access to your data;
Providing a copy of the personal data processed, preferably in an exportable format.

Right to correct, delete and block:

Be informed about how to keep them up to date;
Obtain rectification of outdated, incorrect or incomplete data;
Possibility of deleting personal data that is no longer needed for the purpose;
Block the processing of this data in order to verify accuracy or opposition.

Right to limitation:

Challenging the accuracy of personal data, for a period that allows the controller to verify its accuracy.

Right to be removed/forgotten:

Request the removal of your data and the definitive deletion of data that does not conflict with legal obligations.

Right to Portability:

Request the portability of your data;
Possibility of requesting your personal data in a frequently used or common format, in order to operate the transfer to another organization, even if it is a competitor.

Owners can exercise their rights through the channels provided for this purpose and identified above.

Access, Authorization, Rectification, Opposition, Limitation, Removal and portability of personal data

Any request for access, updating, rectification, opposition, limitation, deletion, portability or non-subjection to automated individual decisions of personal data that may identify you, may be requested by contacting The Light Rebar Company directly or using the contact form on the website indicating the subject “Alteration, Opposition, Deletion or Portability of personal data”.

If you do not wish to receive this communication, you can object at any time to the use of your data for marketing purposes and the sending of informative communications, by sending a written request to The Light Rebar Company, using the addresses provided for this purpose or using the contact form on the website, indicating the subject “Objection to receiving contacts for marketing purposes”.

Communication of data to other entities (third parties and subcontractors)

The Light Rebar Company does not share users’ personal data with third parties with whom it has not established a contractual relationship that provides for the confidential processing of this data in accordance with its privacy statement.

The Light Rebar Company may communicate your personal data to third party service providers, such as financial institutions, fraud prevention entities, technology service providers, marketing, logistics, transportation, delivery and advertising.

The personal data collected may be shared exclusively for hosting and backup on servers located in Lisbon, Portugal, managed by the ISP Almouroltec Serviços De Informática E Internet LDA, with The Light Rebar Company guaranteeing that it regulates its relations with all its partners and providers so that they ensure the necessary technical and organizational conditions that are appropriate and legally required.

The Light Rebar Company may communicate your personal data to third parties provided that it has unequivocally obtained the consent of the data subjects or when:

a) the transmission is made in compliance with a legal obligation, a decision of the National Data Protection Commission or a court order or;
b) the communication is carried out to protect the vital interests of the data subjects or any other legitimate purpose provided for by law.

In any case, The Light Rebar Company is responsible for the personal data collected.

In the event of data being passed on to third parties, The Light Rebar Company and its subcontractors remain responsible for processing personal data in a legal, lawful and transparent manner. The subcontractor may only process personal data in accordance with the instructions defined by The Light Rebar Company and always in strict compliance with the law and the purposes entrusted to it under the contract entered into.

The transmission of personal data to subcontractors will only be carried out within the scope of contractually established relationships with The Light Rebar Company and only when there is a justifiable interest on the part of the data subject.

In order to guarantee the confidentiality and security of the data, The Light Rebar Company will take the legally prescribed measures to ensure that the subcontracted entity offers sufficient guarantees for the protection of personal data, that it is a reputable entity and that it has sufficient technical and organizational security measures to protect personal data against destruction, accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, alteration, dissemination or unauthorized access and against any other form of unlawful processing, agreed, in particular, by formalizing a contract between The Light Rebar Company and the subcontractor in which the latter undertakes to act only on the instructions of the former with regard to the processing of personal data.

Subcontractors of The Light Rebar Company will only process personal data for the purposes defined and agreed between the parties, and must ensure that the retention of data, where necessary and applicable, complies with the deadlines established by law and/or contract.

The holders of personal data must be informed at the time of the collection of their data about its possible sharing with subcontractors of The Light Rebar Company, whenever possible with identification of the organization and respective contact, as well as the purpose of such sharing.

In the event that the data is transferred to a subcontractor of The Light Rebar Company that is located in a third country not belonging to the European Union, the subcontractor must maintain a level of data protection equivalent to the protection afforded by the legislation in force in the European area, namely that provided for in Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016.

For international data transfers, (at least) one of the following procedures must be followed:

Individual contract or standard contractual clauses adopted directly by the European Commission or a supervisory authority;
Participation of the subcontractor in a certification system or standard accredited or recognized by the EU to guarantee an adequate level of protection;
Acknowledgement that the subcontractor’s binding corporate rules guarantee an adequate level of data protection, issued by the supervisory authorities.
Existence of an adequacy decision concerning the third country, the specific territory or sector of that third country, or concerning the international organization concerned.

The rules for cross-border data transfers do not apply when the operations are occasional and necessary for the fulfillment of a contract or in the context of a contentious process (judicial, administrative, regulatory or similar).

Cookie Policy

The use of cookies allows the navigation of the website to be constantly optimized in order to provide a high quality experience that surpasses the quality obtained on the user’s previous visit.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of text stored on your computer by your browser. They are normally used to facilitate browsing and store information between visits about the visitor’s options or preferences.

The Light Rebar Company uses cookies on its website to improve the information provided and allow faster and more efficient browsing, eliminating the need to repeatedly enter the same information.

The Light Rebar Company has no control over the creation of cookies that are used by content providers that may be inserted or shared on our website, such as content from Facebook, Instagram, Youtube or other social networks. By accessing these publications with such third-party content, cookies from these websites may be created.

The Light Rebar Company uses cookies from the Google Analytics tool, which allow us to analyze the number of visits to the site, as well as to understand how you move around while browsing. These tools allow Bolder Premium Protection to work on continuous improvement to optimize the functioning of the site.

Which cookies and why do we use them?

Name	Type	Duration	Description	Owner
cookieConsent	cookie	1 year	Save cookie preferences	LRC
_ga	cookie	2 years	Used to distinguish users	Google
_gid	cookie	24 hours	Used to distinguish users	Google
_gat	cookie	1 minute	Used to control the request rate	Google
fr	cookie	3 months	Enable ad delivery or remarketing	Facebook
xs	cookie	3 months	It contains several pieces of information, separated by a colon. The first value is a number of up to two digits representing the session number. The second part of the value is a session secret. The optional third component is a ‘secure’ flag for whether the user has enabled the secure browsing feature.	Facebook
spin	cookie	1 day	It allows the user’s ads to be adapted to their preferences.	Facebook
sb	cookie	2 years	This cookie allows the website to be integrated with Facebook.	Facebook
datr	cookie	2 years	Saves information about the browser used	Facebook
c_user	cookie	3 months	Saves user’s Facebook ID information	Facebook
lang	cookie	Session		Linkedin
lidc	cookie	1 day	Locate LinkedIn’s features on the page and share the Site’s information on social networks.	Linkedin
UserMatchHistory	cookie	30 days	LinkedIn ad ID synchronization	Linkedin
AnalyticsSyncHistory	cookie	30 days	Used to store information about the time at which a synchronization with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the designated countries	Linkedin
lms_analytics	cookie	30 days	Used to identify LinkedIn users in the countries designated for analysis	Linkedin
bcookie	cookie	2 years	Saves information about the browser used	Linkedin
lms_ads	cookie		Used to identify LinkedIn users outside LinkedIn in countries designated for advertising	Linkedin

How can I block the use of cookies?

You can block the creation of cookies via your browser settings. However, if you block all cookies you may not be able to access some features of the site.

Normally, all changes to the web browser regarding how cookies are used and/or accepted can be made in the “Options” or “Browser Preferences” section.

Here are some instructions for blocking the use of cookies for the most common internet browsers:

Google Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=pt&answer=95647

Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/pt-pt/windows7/how-to-manage-cookies-in-internet-explorer-9

Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/pt-PT/kb/ativar-e-desativar-cookies-que-os-websites-utiliza

Apple Safari: https://support.apple.com/pt-pt/HT201265

Other services

Other services that may arise at a later date and that require the input of personal data and/or the respective entities are covered by the privacy and security policy of The Light Rebar Company website referred to in this Privacy Policy.

Links

Our website contains links to other websites. The Light Rebar Company website is not responsible for the privacy policies or content of these sites.

Users can choose not to share their data with Google services. To do so, they should access the Ads Preferences Manager and the Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Security

The Light Rebar Company uses security programs in order to protect your personal data against destruction, accidental loss, alteration, dissemination or unauthorized access or any form of illicit processing.

The Light Rebar Company cannot guarantee that the security measures adopted to protect this website will prevent or exclude any risk of unauthorized access or loss of data. It is therefore advisable that the access devices used are equipped with software devices that protect you when transmitting and receiving data (up-to-date antivirus systems) and that the browser follows the appropriate measures to guarantee security when transmitting data (firewall and anti-spam filters).

Conservation time

The period of time for which data is stored and retained varies according to the purpose for which the information is processed and according to any applicable legal obligations and requirements, which oblige data to be retained for a certain minimum period.

Therefore, and whenever there is no specific legal obligation, the data will only be stored and kept for the minimum period necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or subsequently processed, after which it will be deleted.

We expressly point out that at any time you can request the deletion of all your personal data from our databases. This request should be sent to the following email address: marketing@thelrc.eu

Changes to the privacy policy

The Light Rebar Company reserves the right at any time, without prior notice and with immediate effect, but without prejudice to the legal rights conferred on data subjects, to amend, add to or revoke, in whole or in part, this Data Protection Policy.

Privacy, depending on the respective and possible legislative or regulatory changes.

Any changes will be immediately posted on this website.

For further clarification regarding the processing of your personal data by The Light Rebar Company, please contact us at the addresses provided above.

This Privacy Policy was last updated on July 9, 2025.