PRIVACY POLICY

WHO WE ARE?

ABOWIN PARTNERS, LDA (“ABOWIN”), corporate entity no. 513907408, with registered office at Rua do Molhe, 256, 4150-499 Porto, owns the website “Talent Portugal”. ABOWIN is the entity that processes the personal data provided by users on the aforementioned platforms, as the entity responsible for processing personal data, in the sense in which such expressions are defined and used in personal data protection legislation. 

ABOWIN processes Users' personal data, ensuring that it is processed in accordance with the data protection rules emerging from the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and other applicable national legislation.

PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

ABOWIN only requests the minimum information necessary to correctly provide its services.

1.  Website “Talent Portugal"

One of the objectives of the website “Talent Portugal"is to connect candidates and employers closely. To register, you must provide us with the following personal data: 

• Identification data – name, year of birth, district of residence, nationality;
• Contact details – email address;
• Data relating to education and professional experience – academic degree, languages ​​spoken and any information included in your CV;
• Photography – optional

When registering on the website, you'll be asked whether you want your candidate profile to be available to all companies participating in the platform or only to the companies you apply to. This means you can have a private candidate profile, with your personal data only available to the companies to which you submit an application; or a public candidate profile, with your personal data being available to any company participating in the platform, even if you don't submit an application.

You can find the updated list of participating companies here: companies on the website Talent Portugal

The personal data you provide will be processed by ABOWIN, as the data controller, to manage the website and your candidate profile. 

We may also send you career and employability communications that we think you may find useful, based on our legitimate interest.

Depending on your choice, your personal data will be made available to participating companies, which will process it as data controllers. Participating companies may contact you directly for recruitment and selection purposes, and are independently responsible for this purpose.  

Basis of legality: The processing of your personal data for this purpose is based on your express consent, granted when registering on the platform. We send communications about careers and employability based on our legitimate interest in providing you with useful information about our events or services.

You can change your profile type in your user account and delete your account at any time. When deleting your account, please note that participating companies may have already stored your profile and may still contact you for recruitment and selection purposes.

2. Job Fairs

As part of its business, ABOWIN promotes and organizes job fairs. As part of ABOWIN's commercial relationship with its clients, contracts are concluded that allow and legitimize each event to be managed by ABOWIN's client with ABOWIN's support. 

Each of the events promoted by ABOWIN customers is your sole responsibility – as the event organizer – and you must explain the purpose of using the website. Talent Portugal.

ABOWIN recommends that event organizers fully comply with legislation regarding the processing of personal data. If any non-compliance is detected, ABOWIN reserves the right to terminate the contract with the event organizer. This disclaimer is not intended to limit ABOWIN's liability unlawfully, nor to exclude its liability when this is impossible.

To share your profile at job fairs, the candidate must register on the website Talent Portugal and create your profile, providing the personal data referred to in point 1.

When registering on the website, you'll be asked whether you want your candidate profile to be available to all participating companies or only to the companies you apply to. This means you can have:

• A private candidate profile – in which your personal data will only be made available to the companies to which you submit an application, by scanning the respective QR Code, at their Job Fair stand.

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• A public candidate profile – in this case, your personal data will be available to any company participating in the Job Fair and also to all companies participating in the platform, even if you do not submit an application by scanning the QR Codes.

The personal data you provide will be processed by ABOWIN, as the data controller, to manage the website and your candidate profile. We may also send you communications about careers and employability that we believe may be useful to you, based on our legitimate interest.

If you choose to share your profile with participating companies, your personal data will be shared with the companies to which you submit your application (if you have a private profile) or with any company participating in the Job Fair and also with all companies participating in the platform (if you have a public profile).

Once companies receive your profile, they will become autonomously responsible for processing your personal data and may contact you directly for recruitment and selection purposes. Participating companies are responsible for complying with their obligations under data protection legislation.

Basis of legality: The processing of your personal data for this purpose is based on your express consent, granted when registering on the website. We send communications about careers and employability based on our legitimate interest in providing you with useful information about our events or services.

You can change your profile type in your user account and delete your account at any time. When deleting your account, please note that participating companies may have already stored your profile and may still contact you for recruitment and selection purposes.

3. Events and conferences

ABOWIN processes personal data of users who register to participate in the events and conferences it organizes. In these circumstances, the name, contact details and professional information (company and position) of the participant are collected. 

This data is processed to organize and manage participation in events and conferences, as well as to send relevant communications about them. 

If participants expressly consent, ABOWIN may also share their contact details with the partners of the respective event or conference, so that they can promote their future initiatives that may represent opportunities and/or knowledge sharing for participants.  

Basis of legality: For the purposes of managing and organizing participation in events and conferences, participants' personal data is processed based on our legitimate interest in ensuring the best experience for participants. Sending communications about events and sharing your data with event partners is based on your express consent, granted at the time of registration or enrollment for the event or conference. 

4. Newsletters

In some cases, we may launch newsletters about careers and employability, which you may receive if you subscribe to them. To do this, ABOWIN collects your email address. 

Basis of legality: The sending of newsletters is based on your express consent, granted at the time of subscription.

DATA SUBJECT RIGHTS

The data subject may, at any time, exercise a set of rights, under the terms and conditions provided for by law. These rights include the right to object, often exercised in relation to certain types of communications, as well as the right of access, the right to erasure, the right to restrict processing, and the right to rectification.

For processing activities based on consent, the data subject has the right to withdraw the consent given at any time, without consequences for him/her.

The exercise of these rights must be carried out with ABOWIN, to the electronic address [email protected] or to the headquarters located at Rua do Molhe, 256, 4150-499 Porto.

In the course of its business, ABOWIN may transfer personal data to subcontractors, data controllers, and other entities, ensuring compliance with applicable data protection regulations. Recipients include:

• Partners and companies participating in our website: your personal data may be shared with event or conference partners and companies participating in the website. Talent Portugal, if you expressly consent to such sharing.
• External service providers: such as entities contracted for technical or logistical support or to perform specialized activities. For example, data may be shared with entities that provide communications sending services, technological support services and consultancy.
• Government and judicial entities: include courts, public prosecutors and other competent authorities, to comply with legal obligations or within the scope of legal proceedings.

ABOWIN may transfer personal data outside the European Economic Area, via its external service providers. We ensure that appropriate safeguards have been adopted to comply with the requirements of data protection legislation. You can obtain further information about these safeguards by contacting us.

PERSONAL DATA STORAGE PERIOD

ABOWIN will retain the personal data of all users for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes defined in this Policy or for the period required by applicable legal regulations.

We may, however, retain personal data for a longer period if responsibilities arise as a result of the processing, in accordance with the legislation in force at any given time.

Thus, the time limits for keeping personal data, according to each processing purpose, are as follows:

1. Data processed based on the explicit consent of data subjects will be kept until and if they withdraw their consent;

2. Data processed for the purposes of organizing and managing events and conferences will be kept for the duration of the events and conferences and will be subsequently deleted, unless the data subjects give their explicit consent for other purposes;

3. The data we process to send relevant communications about employability and careers will be processed until and unless the data subject objects to receiving them, in particular by unsubscribing.

Access to the website of Talent Portugal by companies participating in Job Fairs is deleted three months after the conclusion of the respective Job Fair. After this period, it is the responsibility of the participating companies to ensure that they have a valid legal basis to continue processing candidates' personal data.

CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY NOTICE

This privacy notice may be updated, and data subjects will be informed within a reasonable period of time when the changes reveal a fundamental change in the nature of the processing, such as a change in the purposes of the processing, a change in the identity of the controller or the expansion of the categories of recipients.

Version 5 | October 24, 2025