Privacy Policy
Relating to Contacting Schools via the Barcelona School Directory
In accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 of April of 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (GDPR) and the Organic Law 3/2018 of December 5, 2018 on the Protection of Personal Data and Guarantee of Digital Rights (LOPD GDD), we inform you that the personal data provided in this form will be processed by:
Data Controller
Anya van der Drift, holder of NIE Y2035820N, with professional domicile at Carrer Espinoi, 11, 08023 Barcelona, and with email hello@mybarcelonaschool.com (hereinafter, “My Barcelona School”)
Legal Age Declaration
By submitting your personal data through the form, you confirm that you are at least 18 years old. The option to contact schools through this form is intended exclusively for individuals who are 18 years of age or older. If we become aware that personal data has been collected from an individual under the age of 18, we will take appropriate steps to delete such data.
Data we process
We may process the following categories of data submitted through our form:
(i) Identity and Contact Data: such as your first name, last name, email address and telephone number (which you can choose to provide).
(ii) Non-Identifiable Technical Data: We may collect non-identifiable technical data to understand general usage patterns, including interest in specific schools, and to improve our services. This may include metrics such as how many times a school’s listing or page is viewed, or how many forms are submitted to a particular school. All such metrics and statistics are based solely on anonymous technical interactions — such as button clicks or page views — and are not derived from the personal data submitted through the form. They cannot be used to identify any individual.
Purpose
Your personal data will be processed for the following purposes:
(i) Sharing and transferring your personal data to the school(s) you’ve selected from our School Directory (the “Selected School(s)”), so that the Selected School(s) can contact you to respond to your inquiry and/or provide you with information about their school, services and/or offerings;
(ii) Legal compliance, record-keeping, technical or operational support (e.g., website development or maintenance) and legal defence; and
(iii) Where applicable, your personal data may also be processed by third-party service providers (e.g.,wix.com), who support us by hosting our website or data. Such providers may process personal data under a data processing agreement for the provision of the services, as well as for their own legal obligations (e.g., to prevent and mitigate security risks, fraud, errors, and illegal activities, or to complywith applicable laws or orders from competent authorities).
Legal basis
The processing of your personal data is based on:
(i) Your consent, which is collected by ticking the checkbox after completing the required information in the form and viewing the data privacy policy (accessible via the provided link). By doing so, you confirm that you have read and understood the privacy policy and agree to the processing of your data as described; and,
(ii) Compliance with legal obligations, including but not limited to record keeping (such as retaining proof of consent) and complying with court orders.
Your Responsibility for the Data Provided
You acknowledge and confirm that the personal data you provide to us through the form is accurate, complete, and lawful. If you need to correct or update the personal data you submitted via the form, please contact us at hello@mybarcelonaschool.com .
For any corrections or updates to your personal data held by the Selected School(s) after it is transferred, please contact the relevant school directly.
Disclosure to Selected Schools
The personal data you submit through the form is transmitted directly to the Selected School. Upon transmission, each Selected School independently processes your personal data, and you should consult their respective privacy policies for details on how they handle your personal data.
By submitting your personal data, you acknowledge and agree that:
(a) Upon receipt of your personal data, the Selected School becomes an independent data controller and assumes sole responsibility for processing your data in accordance with its own privacy policy and applicable data protection laws; and
(b) The Selected School may contact you to respond to your inquiry and provide information about the school and/or its services and/or offerings. Any further communications or processing of your data will be carried out under the sole
responsibility of the Selected School.
My Barcelona School is not responsible for, and disclaims any liability in relation to, the processing of your personal data by the Selected School(s) after the transfer. We recommend reviewing the privacy policy of each Selected School to understand their personal data processing practices.
Data Retention
Once your personal data is shared with the Selected School(s), or following the withdrawal of your consent, we will retain a copy of the submitted data - except for your phone number, which will be deleted - for accountability, legal compliance, technical and operational support, or legal defence purposes, where applicable, as such processing is compatible with the original purpose for which the data was collected. This data will be retained only for the duration of the applicable statute of limitations for any related legal claims. After this period has expired, the data will be securely and permanently deleted.
Transfers to third parties and international transfers
(i) Your personal data may be accessed or transferred to service providers such as IT professionals, legal advisors, and/or hosting, storage, and backup providers, including third-party platform providers, such as website hosting, form management, and cloud storage services, solely for purposes related to technical or operational support, legal compliance, and/or to exercise or defence of legal claims.
(ii) My Barcelona School engages third party service providers ( www.wix.com ) for the hosting and storage of personal data, which may be located outside the EU/EEA, or may involve transferring such data to countries outside the EU/EEA. As a result, your personal data may be transferred to, or stored in, countries outside the European Union (EU) or European Economic Area (EEA), including jurisdictions that may not provide the same level of data protection as within the EU/EEA. Any transfers of personal data outside the EU/EEA are conducted in compliance with applicable data protection laws and are subject to appropriate safeguards as set out in Wix's Data Privacy Policy and Wix´s Data Processing Agreement (DPA) both available at https://www.wix.com/about/privacy . In particular, as per the current DPA, personal data is initially transferred to Wix.com Ltd., located in Israel, a country for which the European Commission has issued an adequacy decision (Commission Decision 2011/61/EU). Any further transfers by Wix to an Adequate Country will be conducted under the applicable adequacy
decision published by the relevant data protection authority. For any other transfers outside the EU/EEA, appropriate safeguards are implemented and may include the use of Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) approved by the European Commission or any similar mechanism, and any other appropriate safeguards required under Article 46 of the GDPR or any equivalent provision.
Wix’s Data Processing Agreement (DPA) applies by default to all users of its platform, including My Barcelona School. This DPA forms part of Wix’s Data Privacy Policy and is publicly available at https://www.wix.com/about/privacy. It governs international data transfers and outlines the safeguards Wix implements. Should you wish to obtain a copy of these safeguards, you may contact Wix’s Data Protection Officer at privacy@wix.com. Please note that the terms of Wix’s DPA and the safeguards it outlines may be amended from time to time. Any updates or amendments will be made available on Wix’s website at the link above and will be effective as of the date of posting.
For more information on how Wix processes and protects your personal data, please consult Wix’s Data Privacy Policy linked above.
Data subject's Rights Likewise, we inform you that:
(i) You have the right to request access, rectification, portability and deletion of the data, the limitation and opposition to its processing and the right not to be subject to automated individual decision-making, by contacting My Barcelona School by email to hello@mybarcelonaschool.com, with the subject 'Rights Exercise', providing a document showing your identity and including the following information (name, surname, validity of the document), being able to hide the rest of the data that is not necessary, indicating the type of right you wish to exercise.
(ii) You also have the right to file a complaint with the national data protection supervisory authority, which in Spain is the Spanish Data Protection Agency (www.aepd.es), if you consider that the processing of personal data by My Barcelona School does not comply with current data privacy regulations.
(iii) You have the right to withdraw the consent you have given at any time. To do so, please send your request to the email address mentioned above with the subject line “Consent Withdrawal.” Please note that the withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out prior to the withdrawal.
Please be aware that once you submit your data via the form, you cannot withdraw your consent to share your data with the Selected School. If you do not wish your data to be shared with the Selected School, please do not fill out or submit the form.
Once your personal data has been transferred to the Selected School(s), any further processing will be their responsibility. To exercise your data privacy rights in that context, please refer to the relevant Selected School’s privacy policy.
Updates to This Policy:
We reserve the right to update this Data Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be published on our website st https://www.mybarcelonaschool.com/. If we make material changes that affect your rights or the way we process your data, we will notify you and, where required, request your renewed consent.
Updated May 2025