During the year 2018 all workers of Medina Cuadros took a specific course of adaptation to the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), regulations applicable since May 25, 2018.

The staff of Medina Cuadros distributed by the different offices: Madrid, Jaén, Granada, Valencia, Seville, Las Palmas and Santiago carried out this training session recommended by the Spanish Data Protection Agency to all private sector companies to adapt workers to the new regulations.

On May 25, 2009, the new Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to theprocessing of personal data and to the free circulation of this data, which is one of the most important regulatory reforms at the EU level in this area.

Medina Cuadros is very aware of what this means in terms of data processing for the staff and for the benefit of customer security.

The highlights of the course on RGPD for Medina Cuadros employees were the implementation of the duty of information, the legal basis for the treatment, the contact with the responsible of the treatment and the maximum time during which the data will be retained.

The main new features of the new regulation include, among others, the abolition of the following the obligation to register data files before the Data Protection Agency, establishing the obligation of an internal registry of personal data processing activities and the creation of the figure of the “Data Protection Officer”. Data Protection Delegate, to advise the entity on the compliance of the data protection regulations.

The new RGPD provides for a part of citizens’ rights, it recognizes the “right to be forgotten”, the deletion of personal data concerning him, also called “right to erasure”.

The new regulation eliminates the “tacit consent of the data subject to carry out the processing of his personal data, and replaces it with the free, express and unequivocal consent at any time.

An important part of the course was aimed at explaining to the staff of Medina Cuadros the increased obligations of information that entities are obliged to provide to the interested party, the proactive responsibility and risk analysis.

It establishes the obligation of the data controller to notify security breaches to the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) within a maximum period of 72 hours and also to those affected, if their rights are put at risk.

The highlights of this new regulation are: homogeneity at European level, reduction of bureaucracy, legal certainty, ways to react to infringements and elements to move forward and build.

Medina Cuadros continues to be at the forefront in the application of the new General Data Protection Regulation, by providing its employees with the tools necessary to comply with the new regulation and provides customers with the security necessary to maintain their confidence in this company that has been a benchmark in its business sector for more than 40 years.

Document “Roadmap” adaptation of Medina Cuadros workers to the new RGPD