Legal Notice and Privacy Policy

Data Controller Details

  • Data Controller: Francisco Gelardo Sabater
  • Trade name: Paco Gelardo
  • Tax ID (NIF/CIF): 74237677W
  • Address: Calle de la Ceiba, 2. 6º 3. 28005 (Madrid)
  • Email: hola@pacogelardo.com

Here, as a user, you will find all the information about the legal terms and conditions that govern the relationship between users and myself as the owner of this website. As a user, it is important that you read these terms before you continue browsing.

as the owner of this website, I undertake to process the information of my users and clients with full guarantees and to comply with the national and European requirements governing the collection and use of my users’ personal data.

This website therefore strictly complies with Spanish Organic Law 15/1999 of 13 December on the Protection of Personal Data (LOPD), and with Royal Decree 1720/2007 of 21 December, known as the LOPD Implementing Regulation. It also complies with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons (GDPR), as well as with Law 34/2002 of 11 July on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce (LSSICE or LSSI).

General terms of use

These General Terms and Conditions govern the use (including mere access) of the web pages that make up the website of Paco Gelardo Sabater, including the content and services made available on them. Anyone who accesses the website pacogelardo.com (“user”) agrees to be bound by the General Terms and Conditions in force at any given time on the pacogelardo.com portal.

User commitments and obligations

Users are informed, and accept, that accessing this website does not in any way imply the start of a commercial relationship with Paco Gelardo. Users therefore agree to use the website, its services and its content without contravening current legislation, good faith or public order.

The use of this website for unlawful or harmful purposes, or in any way that may cause damage or prevent the normal operation of the website, is prohibited. With regard to the content of this website, the following is prohibited:

  • Its reproduction, distribution or modification, in whole or in part, unless authorised by me as the legitimate owner;
  • Any infringement of the rights of the provider or of myself as the legitimate owner;
  • Its use for commercial or advertising purposes.

When using the website pacogelardo.com, the user agrees not to engage in any conduct that could damage the image, interests or rights of pacogelardo.com or of third parties, or that could damage, disable or overload the pacogelardo.com portal, or that could in any way prevent the normal use of the website.

However, users should be aware that the security measures of computer systems on the Internet are not entirely reliable and that pacogelardo.com therefore cannot guarantee the absence of malware or other elements that may cause changes to the user’s computer systems (software and hardware) or to the electronic documents and files stored on them, although I use every necessary means and appropriate security measure to prevent the presence of such harmful elements.

Sponsored ads, affiliate links and advertising

This website offers users sponsored content, advertisements and/or affiliate links.

Among the links provided, there is the possibility of reporting on and referencing products and/or services and/or info products. In these latter cases, that request will be forwarded to third parties, such as:The information appearing in these affiliate links or in the advertisements inserted is provided by the advertisers themselves, so Paco Gelardo Sabater is not responsible for any inaccuracies or errors that the advertisements may contain, nor does he in any way guarantee the experience, integrity or responsibility of the advertisers or the quality of their products.

Advertisements will remain published on the portal until they are removed or suspended by the advertiser or by Paco Gelardo Sabater, who will logically not be responsible if, once removed from its databases, the advertisements continue to be indexed by search engines outside this portal.

Any contractual or non-contractual relationship that the user enters into with advertisers, affiliates or third parties contacted through this portal is understood to be established solely and exclusively between the user and the advertiser and/or third party. The user knows and accepts that pacogelardo.com acts only as an advertising channel or medium and therefore has no liability whatsoever for any damage or loss of any kind arising from their negotiations, conversations and/or contractual or non-contractual relationships with advertisers or third-party individuals or legal entities contacted through this portal.

Security measures

The personal data provided by the user to Paco Gelardo Sabater may be stored in automated or non-automated databases owned exclusively by Paco Gelardo Sabater, who adopts all the technical, organisational and security measures that guarantee the confidentiality, integrity and quality of the information contained therein in accordance with the data protection legislation in force.

Dispute resolution platform

I also make available to users the dispute resolution platform provided by the European Commission, which can be found at the following link: http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/

Intellectual and industrial property rights

Pursuant to the provisions of Articles 8 and 32.1, second paragraph, of the Spanish Intellectual Property Act, the reproduction, distribution and public communication, including making them available, of all or part of the contents of this website for commercial purposes, in any medium and by any technical means, without the authorisation of Paco Gelardo Sabater, is expressly prohibited. The user agrees to respect the Intellectual and Industrial Property rights owned by Paco Gelardo Sabater.

The user acknowledges and accepts that the entire website, including but not limited to the text, software, content (including its structure, selection, arrangement and presentation), podcasts, photographs, audiovisual material and graphics, is protected by trademarks, copyright and other legitimate rights, in accordance with the international treaties to which Spain is a party and other property rights and laws of Spain.

In the event that a user or a third party considers that a violation of their legitimate intellectual property rights has occurred as a result of the introduction of certain content on the website, they must notify pacogelardo.com of this circumstance, indicating:

  • The personal details of the party holding the allegedly infringed rights, or an indication of the capacity in which they are acting if the claim is submitted by a third party other than the interested party.
  • An indication of the content protected by intellectual property rights and its location on the website, evidence of the intellectual property rights indicated, and an express statement in which the interested party takes responsibility for the accuracy of the information provided in the notification.

External links

The pages of the pacogelardo.com website provide links to other websites of my own and to content owned by third parties, such as:

  • Tools
  • Resources
  • Content from other blogs
  • Affiliate links

Exclusion of warranties and liability

Paco Gelardo Sabater (Paco Gelardo Sabater) gives no warranty and accepts no liability whatsoever for any damage or loss of any kind that may arise from:

  • The lack of availability, maintenance and effective operation of the website, or of its services and content;
  • The existence of malware or malicious or harmful programs in the content;
  • Unlawful, negligent or fraudulent use, or use contrary to this Legal Notice;
  • The lack of lawfulness, quality, reliability, usefulness and availability of the services provided by third parties and made available to users on the website.
  • The provider accepts no liability whatsoever for any damage that may arise from the illegal or improper use of this website.

Applicable law and jurisdiction

In general, the relationships between Paco Gelardo Sabater and the users of its telematic services provided on this website are subject to Spanish law and jurisdiction and to the courts of Madrid.

Contact

If any user has any questions about these legal terms or any comments about the pacogelardo.com portal, please contact hola@pacogelardo.com

The legal notice was last updated on 1 June 2026.

Privacy policy

Your privacy is important to me. In this privacy statement I explain what personal data I collect from my users and how I use it. I encourage you to read these terms carefully before providing your personal data on this website. Users over the age of thirteen may register on pacogelardo.com as users without the prior consent of their parents or guardians.

In the case of children under thirteen, the consent of their parents or guardians is required for the processing of their personal data.

Under no circumstances will data concerning the professional or financial situation or the privacy of other family members be collected from a minor without their consent.

If you are under thirteen and have accessed this website without telling your parents, you must not register as a user.

This website respects and takes care of users’ personal data. As a user, you should know that your rights are guaranteed.

I have made an effort to create a safe and trustworthy space, which is why I want to share my principles regarding your privacy:

  • I never request personal information unless it is really necessary to provide you with the services you require from me.
  • I never share my users’ personal information with anyone, except to comply with the law or in the event that I have your express authorisation.
  • I never use your personal data for a purpose other than the one stated in this privacy policy. Please note that this Privacy Policy may change as a result of legislative or self-regulatory requirements, so users are advised to visit it periodically. It will apply in the event that users decide to fill in any of the contact forms on this website where personal data is collected.

pacogelardo.com has brought this website into line with the requirements of Organic Law 15/1999 of 13 December on the Protection of Personal Data (LOPD), and with Royal Decree 1720/2007 of 21 December, known as the Regulation implementing the LOPD. It also complies with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons (GDPR), as well as with Law 34/2002 of 11 July on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce (LSSICE or LSSI).

Controller of your personal data

  • Data Controller: Francisco Gelardo Sabater
  • Trade name: Paco Gelardo
  • Tax ID (NIF/CIF): 74237677W
  • Address: Calle de la Ceiba, 2. 6º 3. 28005 (Madrid)
  • Email: hola@pacogelardo.com

For the purposes of the aforementioned General Data Protection Regulation, the personal data you send me through the website forms will be processed as “Website users and subscribers”.

For the processing of my users’ data, I implement all the technical and organisational security measures established in current legislation.

Principles I will apply to your personal information

When processing your personal data, I will apply the following principles, which comply with the requirements of the new European data protection regulation:

    • Principle of lawfulness, fairness and transparency: I will always require your consent for the processing of your personal data for one or more specific purposes, which I will inform you of beforehand with complete transparency.
    • Principle of data minimisation: I will only request data that is strictly necessary in relation to the purposes for which I require it. The bare minimum.
    • Principle of storage limitation: data will be kept for no longer than is necessary for the purposes of the processing; depending on the purpose, I will inform you of the corresponding retention period. In the case of subscriptions, I will periodically review my lists and delete any records that have been inactive for a considerable time.
    • Principle of integrity and confidentiality: Your data will be processed in such a way as to ensure appropriate security of personal data and to guarantee confidentiality. You should know that I take all the necessary precautions to prevent unauthorised access to or misuse of my users’ data by third parties.

How did I obtain your data?

The personal data I process on pacogelardo.com comes from:

  • Contact form
  • Subscription form
  • Blog comments
  • Service request form

What are your rights when you provide me with your data?

Anyone has the right to obtain confirmation as to whether or not I am processing personal data concerning them on pacogelardo.com.

Data subjects have the right to:

  • Request access to the personal data concerning the data subject
  • Request their rectification or erasure
  • Request the restriction of their processing
  • Object to the processing
  • Request data portability

Data subjects may access their personal data, as well as request the rectification of inaccurate data or, where appropriate, request its erasure when, among other reasons, the data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected. In certain circumstances, data subjects may request the restriction of the processing of their data, in which case I will only keep it in order to exercise or defend claims.

In certain circumstances and for reasons relating to their particular situation, data subjects may object to the processing of their data. Paco Gelardo Sabater will stop processing the data, except for compelling legitimate reasons or the exercise or defence of possible claims. As a data subject, you have the right to receive the personal data concerning you that you have provided to me, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and to transmit it to another controller when:

  • The processing is based on consent
  • The data has been provided by the data subject.
  • The processing is carried out by automated means.

When exercising your right to data portability, you will have the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from controller to controller where technically feasible.

Data subjects also have the right to an effective judicial remedy and to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority, in this case the Spanish Data Protection Agency, if they consider that the processing of personal data concerning them infringes the Regulation.

Remarketing

The remarketing function allows me to reach people who have previously visited pacogelardo.com and to associate a specific audience with a specific message. Remarketing is a method of getting users who have visited my site to visit it again.

As a user of pacogelardo.com, I inform you that we are collecting information for this remarketing function on pacogelardo.com

The information I collect thanks to this function is gathered by cookies from Facebook, Twitter, Doubleclick and Google Adwords. You can find out what data these cookies collect in the following privacy policies for each service:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Doubleclick
  • Google Adwords
  • Linkedin

If you do not want your information to be collected by these cookies, you can disable the use of Google cookies through Google’s Ads Settings. You can also disable the use of a third-party provider’s cookies through the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.

This type of service allows you to interact with social networks or other external platforms directly from the pages of this website. The interactions and the information obtained by this website will always be subject to the user’s privacy settings on each social network. If a service is installed that allows interaction with social networks, it is possible that, even if users do not use the service, it may collect web traffic data relating to the pages on which it is installed.

DoubleClick

If you use DoubleClick remarketing pixels, you can disable the use of DoubleClick cookies through the DoubleClick opt-out page or the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.

Facebook ads

On pocogelardo.com I use Facebook ads, Facebook’s advertising platform, which allows me to create campaigns and ads. When creating an ad, the audience can be segmented by:

  • Location
  • Demographics (age, gender, etc.)
  • Interests (activities, hobbies, etc.)
  • What they buy online and through other channels
  • Etc.

The data obtained through Facebook ads is subject to this privacy policy from the moment the user leaves their details in the form on this website to join the newsletter. Under no circumstances will information from Facebook be used for a different purpose.

Twitter ads

On pacogelardo.com I use Twitter ads, Twitter’s advertising platform, which allows me to create campaigns and ads. When creating an ad, the audience can be segmented by:

  • Location
  • Demographics (age, gender, etc.)
  • Interests (activities, hobbies, etc.)
  • What they buy online and through other channels
  • Etc.

Data obtained through Twitter ads is subject to this privacy policy from the moment the user leaves their details in this website’s form to join the subscription newsletter. Under no circumstances will information from Twitter be used for a different purpose.

Linkedin ads

On pacogelardo.com I use Linkedin ads, Linkedin’s advertising platform, which allows me to create campaigns and ads. When creating an ad, the audience can be segmented by:

  • Sector
  • Job Function
  • Skills
  • Demographics (age, gender, etc.)
  • Etc.

The data obtained through LinkedIn Ads is subject to this privacy policy from the moment the user leaves their details in this website’s form to join the newsletter. Under no circumstances will information from LinkedIn be used for a different purpose.

Google Adwords

Adwords is a Google platform aimed at ADVERTISERS who want to advertise on GOOGLE. On pacogeelardo.com I use Google Adwords, Google’s advertising platform, which allows me to create campaigns and ads to display them on other web pages. When creating an ad, the audience can be segmented by:

  • Location
  • Demographics (age, gender, etc.)
  • Interests (activities, hobbies, etc.)
  • What they buy online and through other channels
  • Etc.

The data obtained through Google Adwords is subject to this privacy policy from the moment the user leaves their details in this website’s form to join the newsletter. Under no circumstances will information from Google be used for a different purpose.

Legitimation for the processing of your data

The legal basis for the processing of your data is: consent.

Consent to this privacy policy is required to contact us or leave comments on this website.

The prospective or commercial offer of products and services is based on the consent requested from you, and in no case will the withdrawal of this consent affect the performance of the subscription contract.

Data category

The categories of data processed are identifying data.

No specially protected categories of data are processed.

How long will I keep your data?

The personal data provided will be kept:

  • Until the data subject requests its deletion.

Who will your data be shared with?

Many of the tools I use to manage your data are contracted with third parties.

To provide services strictly necessary for carrying out the activity, pacogelardo.com shares data with the following providers under their corresponding privacy conditions:

Google Analytics: a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., a Delaware company whose main office is at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043, United States (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help pacogelardo.com analyze how users use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of pacogelardo.com (including your IP address) will be transmitted directly to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

Hosting: Raiola Networks SL, registered in Spain. More information at:https://raiolanetworks.es/politica-de-privacidad/ (Raiola Networks SL). Raiola Networks SL, processes data for the purpose of providing its hosting services to Paco Gelardo Sabater.

Plataforma web: Automattic Inc., based in the USA. More information at: https://es.wordpress.com/ (Automattic Inc.). Automattic Inc. processes data for the purpose of providing its web platform services to Paco Gelardo Sabater.

Email marketing: The Rocket Science Group LLC, based in the United States. More information at: ://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/ (The Rocket Science Group LLC). The Rocket Science Group LLC processes data for the purpose of providing its email marketing services to Paco Gelardo Sabater.

Navigation

When browsing pacogelardocom, non-identifying data may be collected, which may include IP addresses, geographic location (approximate), a record of how the services and sites are used, and other data that cannot be used to identify the user. Non-identifying data also includes data related to your browsing habits through third-party services. This website uses the following analytics services:

  • Google Analytics
  • Semrush
  • Facebook Pixel
  • Twitter Analytics
  • Facebook Insights
  • Buffer
  • Hootsuite
  • Google MyBusiness
  • Instagram Statistics

I use this information to analyze trends, administer the site, track users’ movements around the site, and to gather demographic information about my user base as a whole.

Data secrecy and security

pacogelardo.com undertakes, in the use and processing of users’ personal data, to respect its confidentiality and to use it in accordance with its purpose, as well as to fulfil its obligation to safeguard it and to adapt all measures to prevent unauthorized alteration, loss, processing or access, in accordance with current data protection regulations.

pacogelardo.com cannot guarantee the absolute inviolability of the Internet and therefore cannot guarantee that data will not be breached through fraudulent access by third parties.

With regard to the confidentiality of processing, Paco Gelardo Sabater will ensure that any person authorized by pacogelardo.com to process the client’s data (including its staff, collaborators and providers) is under an appropriate obligation of confidentiality (whether contractual or statutory).

Should a security incident occur, once pacogelardo.com becomes aware of it, it must notify the Client without undue delay and must provide timely information regarding the Security Incident as it becomes known or when the Client reasonably requests it.

Accuracy and truthfulness of data

As a user, you are solely responsible for the accuracy and correctness of the data you submit to pacogelardo.com, releasing Paco Gelardo Sabater (Paco Gelardo Sabater) from any liability in this regard.

Users guarantee and are responsible, in any case, for the accuracy, currency and authenticity of the personal data provided, and undertake to keep it duly updated. The user agrees to provide complete and correct information in the contact or subscription form.

Acceptance and consent

The user declares to have been informed of the conditions regarding the protection of personal data, accepting and consenting to its processing by Paco Gelardo Sabater (pacogelardo.com) in the manner and for the purposes indicated in this privacy policy.

Revocability

The consent given, both for the processing and for the transfer of data subjects’ data, may be revoked at any time by notifying Paco Gelardo Sabater (pacogelardo.com) under the terms established in this Policy for the exercise of ARCO rights. This revocation will under no circumstances be retroactive.

Changes to the privacy policy

Paco Gelardo Sabater reserves the right to modify this policy to adapt it to legislative or jurisprudential developments, as well as to industry practices. In such cases, Paco Gelardo Sabater will announce the changes introduced on this page with reasonable notice before they take effect.

Commercial emails

In accordance with the LSSICE, pacogelardo.com does not engage in SPAM practices, and therefore does not send commercial emails that have not been previously requested or authorized by the user. Consequently, in each of the forms available on the website, the user has the option to give express consent to receive the newsletter, regardless of the commercial information specifically requested.

In accordance with the provisions of Law 34/2002 on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce, pacogelardo.com undertakes not to send commercial communications without duly identifying them as such.

Document revised on June 2, 2026.