6. PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA
The processing of personal data means any operation or set of operations on personal data, carried out with or without automated means, such as the collection, registration, organization, conservation, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, communication by transmission, by broadcasting or by any other form of making available, as well as blocking, erasing or destroying.
6.1 Trasesa undertakes to comply with all requirements applicable to it under the Data Protection Law.
6.2 Within the scope of the provision of services, although it recognizes that its respective status is determined by the Data Protection Law, for the purposes of this Law, it declares that the Customer is the Data Controller and that Trasesa is the Subcontractor.
6.3 With regard to any Relevant Personal Data, the parties must:
a. Provide any reasonably required assistance in order to assist the Client and Trasesa in fulfilling their obligations under the Data Protection Act;
b. Trasesa shall process Relevant Personal Data only on behalf of the Client (or, if instructed by the Client or other members of the Client), only for the purposes of performing the Services and only in accordance with the instructions contained in the contracts or respective addenda, or otherwise periodically received by the Customer in writing;
c. Trasesa shall not transfer any Relevant Personal Data to any third country outside the European Economic Area, unless the parties authorize it in writing, in which case, being subject to any conditions that may be imposed by both parties;
d. In the event that Trasesa is required by applicable law to process the Relevant Personal Data without being in accordance with the previous clauses, it must inform the Client prior to the processing, giving notice of such processing as soon as reasonably possible;
e. Trasesa shall immediately inform the Client if, in Trasesa’s reasonable opinion, any instruction by the Client infringes, or is likely to infringe, the Data Protection Law;
f. Take appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk and to protect the Relevant Personal Data from unauthorized or illegal processing and from any accidental loss, destruction, damage, alteration or disclosure. These measures must be appropriate for damages that may result from any unauthorized or illegal processing, loss, destruction or accidental damage to Relevant Personal Data and taking into account the nature of the Relevant Personal Data that must be protected. Trasesa must regularly test, evaluate and, if necessary, improve the measures regarding their suitability and effectiveness to ensure the safety of the treatment. Technical and organizational measures are subject to technical progress and future developments. Trasesa may change the technical and organizational measures, as long as the new measures do not fall short of the security level provided by the specified measures;
g. Trasesa must ensure that only its employees who need access to Relevant Personal Data receive access to such data, and only for the performance of the Services, and ensure that all Trasesa employees necessary to access the Relevant Personal Data are informed the confidential nature of the Relevant Personal Data and that are subject to confidentiality commitments or professional or legal obligations of confidentiality and that comply with the obligations set out in this Clause, in particular the obligation to handle the Relevant Personal Data only in accordance with the instructions contained in the this document, or otherwise received from you from time to time in writing;
h. Trasesa must immediately notify the Customer (and in any case within 24 hours) if it discovers any real or suspected breach of personal data (as defined in the Data Protection Law) in relation to Relevant Personal Data or if it receives any claim or request relating to Relevant Personal Data or any other communications directly or indirectly related to the processing of any Relevant Personal Data relating to this document or the Service Provision Agreement;
i. In the event that Trasesa receives a complaint, request or communication related to the processing of Relevant Personal Data, it shall only respond to such request in accordance with the Client’s documented instructions or as required by the Applicable Laws.
j. Trasesa must provide the Client with all cooperation and assistance in fulfilling the Client’s obligations under the RGPD and in relation to any claim, request or other communication made in relation to any Relevant Personal Data.
k. Trasesa must allow the Client or its external consultants (subject to reasonable and appropriate confidentiality commitments) to audit the data processing activities carried out by Trasesa and comply with all reasonable requests or instructions of the Client in order to allow it to verify and obtain information that Trasesa is in full compliance with its obligations under this document and the Data Protection Act;
l. Trasesa and Client shall provide the assistance and information that the parties reasonably need in order to demonstrate compliance with the Data Protection Law by Trasesa or the Client and ensure the Client’s compliance with the Data Protection Law including (without limitations) Customer’s obligations relating to data security and the conduct and implementation of data protection impact assessments;
m. Trasesa and Client must keep complete and accurate records of all information necessary to demonstrate compliance with the Data Protection Act (such records shall include but are not limited to: personnel training records; technical and organizational measures adopted to ensure the compliance with the Data Protection Act; and records of processing activities) and make such records available to the parties upon request;
n. Upon the Client’s request, Trasesa must return, in a way that meets the data protection requirements, all documents, results of processing and use and the Relevant Personal Data within a maximum period of thirty days from the termination of the Contract of Provision of Services and demonstrate to the Customer that this has been done;
o. In the event that Trasesa is required by Applicable Law to retain Relevant Personal Data, it shall comply with its obligations under this Clause with respect to such Relevant Personal Data as soon as permitted under Applicable Law;
p. Trasesa and Client must communicate between themselves the point of contact for all matters relating to privacy and data protection under the Agreement.