PRIVACY POLICIES

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Effective Date: May 10, 2026

Last Updated: May 13, 2026

 

This policy describes how we handle the personal information you provide through our website https://www.gunstone-studios.com

 

We encourage you to read it carefully to fully understand our privacy practices.

What are your rights as a data subject?

You have the following data protection rights:

  • Right to access your data: You can ask us if we are processing your data.
  • Right to update or correct your data: If your data is incorrect.
  • Right to object to the use of your data: We will stop processing your data in the manner you indicate, unless there are compelling legitimate grounds for the processing or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
  • Right to restrict the use of your data: In this case, your data will only be retained for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
  • Right to erasure of your data: Your data will be erased upon your confirmation.
  • Right to withdraw consent: If you have given your consent for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw it at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
  • Right to opt out.
  • Right to transfer your data to another data controller.
  • Right to lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection authority.

Right to be forgotten and access to your personal data

You have the right at any time to review, retrieve, anonymize, and/or delete, in whole or in part, the data stored on this website. Simply send an email to hello@gunstone-studios.com and request it as required by us.

Data Retention

The length of time we retain personal data depends on the processing purpose for which it was collected.

 We will store your personal data only as long as necessary to fulfill the specific processing purpose for that data category.

 After your personal information is deleted from our database, the related backup data will be deleted, generally within 7 days.

How to exercise your rights as a data subject

If you wish to exercise your rights, as described in this privacy policy, you can submit your requests through the following channels:

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to your request to protect the security of your personal information.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a Data Protection Authority regarding our collection and use of your personal information.

For more information on this, please contact your local data protection authority.

Your personal data is protected

We, Gunstone Studios, S.A. de C.V., are the company that collects and controls your personal information. We are responsible for processing your personal data, we value your privacy, and we are dedicated to protecting it.

We understand how important it is to keep your personal information secure. To protect your data, we implement the following technical measures:

 

  • Encryption (SSL Certificate)
  • Backups
  • Firewall and malware protection
  • Regular security audits
  • reCAPTCHA

Data Privacy and Security

Gunstone Studios, S.A. de C.V. is committed to using your data responsibly, respecting its confidentiality, and using it only for its intended purpose. We are also committed to fulfilling our obligation to safeguard your data and implement all necessary measures to prevent its alteration, loss, unauthorized processing, or access, in accordance with the provisions of the European Parliament Regulation (GDPR) and the Spanish Organic Law on Personal Data Protection and Guarantee of Digital Rights.

As a visitor to our website, you must guarantee that the personal data you provide through the contact form is truthful, accurate, and up-to-date.

Furthermore, you must keep your data updated at all times. You are solely responsible for any inaccuracy or falsity of the data provided and for any damages that may be caused to Gunstone Studios, S.A. de C.V., as the owner of the Gunstone Studios website, or to third parties as a result of its use.

Security Breaches

Gunstone Studios, S.A. de C.V., adopts reasonably adequate security measures to detect viruses, brute-force attacks, and code injections.

Visitor IP addresses, logged-in visitor IDs, and visitor names from login attempts are conditionally logged to check for malicious activity and protect the site from specific types of attacks.

This information is retained for 180 days.

Examples of conditions under which logging occurs include login attempts, logout requests, requests for suspicious URLs, changes to site content, and password changes.

For visitors who only fill out the contact form, these controls are not performed. The only validation is reCAPTCHA, as a security method to ensure the visitor is a human and not a bot.

However, you should be aware that internet security measures are not 100% reliable and, therefore, Gunstone Studios, S.A. de C.V., cannot guarantee the absence of viruses or other elements that may cause damage to the visitor’s computer systems (software and hardware) or to their electronic documents and files stored on them.

Nevertheless, to try to guarantee the security and privacy of your personal data, Gunstone Studios, S.A. de C.V., has an active security monitoring system that reports on all visitor activity and potential data breaches.

In the event of a breach, Gunstone Studios, S.A. de C.V., undertakes to inform visitors within a maximum of 72 hours.

What information do we collect from visitors and how do we use it?

The services mentioned on the Gunstone Studios website refer to the contact form, solely for submitting questions or inquiries, or for scheduling meetings to discuss the services we offer.

This website always requires visitors’ prior consent to process their personal data for the stated purposes. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

Record of Data Processing Activities

Website Security and Hosting: The Gunstone Studios website uses SSL encryption, which allows for the secure transmission of personal data through standard contact forms hosted on servers contracted by Gunstone Studios S.A. de C.V. from Hostinger USA.

Data collected through the website contact form: We will receive your name, email address, the comment or subject of your message, your browser type, and your IP address. This IP address will be used to verify the origin of your message, providing information to protect against spam and detect potential irregularities.

Data collected via email: You may provide us with your data via email and other communication channels indicated in the contact section.

Email: Our email service provider is Google, Inc., through Google Apps for Business (Google Workspace).

Comment form: There is no comment form on the Gunstone Studios website.

Visitor registration: Visitors cannot create accounts; only administrators and content managers are registered, and registration is private.

Purchase form: We do not process any online transactions. We are not an eCommerce site, and we do not use payment gateways or manage any online payments.

Newsletter subscription forms: We do not have a newsletter subscription form and do not have accounts with any company that provides this service.

Security logs: The IP address of our administrator visitors, the ID of logged-in visitors, and the name of login attempts are conditionally logged to check for malicious activity and protect the site from specific types of attacks. Examples of conditions under which logging occurs include login attempts, logout requests, requests for suspicious URLs, changes to site content, and password changes. This information is retained for 30 days.

Instant messaging: Gunstone Studios S.A. C.V. does not provide services through instant messaging platforms such as WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger.

Payment service providers: No online payment services are accepted.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Blog articles on the Gunstone Studios website may include embedded content, such as videos, images, links, etc.

Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor had visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account or are logged in to those websites.

The purpose of processing this data will be solely to provide you with the information or services you request.

Social Media

  • Social Media Presence: Gunstone Studios S.A. de C.V. maintains profiles on some of the leading social media platforms, including LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (X), and YouTube.
  • Purpose and Legal Basis: The processing of data by Gunstone Studios S.A. de C.V. within each of these networks will be limited to what the social network allows for corporate profiles. Therefore, Gunstone Studios S.A. de C.V. may inform its followers, when not prohibited by law, through any means permitted by the social network, about its activities, presentations, and offers, as well as provide personalized customer service.
  • Data Extraction: Gunstone Studios S.A. de C.V. will not extract data from social media under any circumstances unless it obtains the visitor’s explicit and specific consent.
  • Rights: When, due to the very nature of social networks, the effective exercise of the follower’s data protection rights is subject to the modification of their personal profile, Gunstone Studios S.A. de C.V. will help and advise them to that end to the extent possible.

Why we process personal data

We process personal data for the following reasons:

  • To collect analytical data that improves our service and your browsing experience on our website.
  • To communicate with you when you request answers to your questions or when you ask us for information about our services.

Personal Data We Collect

We collect the following personal data on our website:

  • First and last name
  • Email address
  • IP address (anonymized)
  • Web browser

How We Collect Your Personal Data

We collect data in two ways:

  • Data you provide through our contact form
  • Data collected by third-party services

 We collect data directly from you when you contact us through our contact form to ask questions about our services or simply to get in touch.

In addition to the data you provide, we also use third-party tools to compile statistical reports on the pages visited on our website.

Tools We Use

The Gunstone Studios website uses tools that employ cookies and other tracking technologies; however, the third-party tools we use will only insert cookies and other tracking technologies with your explicit consent.

You can provide your consent by clicking ‘Accept all’ on our consent banner displayed on our website. You can manage your permissions by clicking the Preferences button on our consent banner and configuring your settings.

Collection of Statistical Data

The Gunstone Studios website uses Google Analytics, which is classified as Measurement or Analytical Cookies. These are used to understand how users interact with the site (which pages they view, how long they stay, and where they come from).

In most jurisdictions, these cookies are not «strictly necessary» for the website to load, so they require consent.

  • Name: _ga
  • Provider: Google Analytics
  • Purpose: To distinguish unique users in order to collect statistical browsing data.
  • Duration: 2 years
  • Name: _ga_XXXX
  • Provider: Google Analytics
  • Purpose: Used to maintain the user’s browsing session state.
  • Duration: 2 years

If you wish to disable Google Analytics, please follow this link to the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Spam Protection (Google reCAPTCHA)

We use software to distinguish real people from bots and spam.

The service we use is: Google reCAPTCHA.

To ensure the security of your data submission through our contact forms and to prevent the misuse of our website by bots or automated software, we use the reCAPTCHA service, owned by Google Ireland Limited (hereinafter, Google).

How does it work?

reCAPTCHA analyzes user behavior on the website (e.g., mouse movements, typing rate, IP address, and Google session cookies) to distinguish between human interaction and automated access.

  • Legal Basis: The processing of this data is based on our legitimate interest (Art. 6.1.f of the GDPR) in protecting our technological infrastructure, preventing the sending of unsolicited emails (spam), and ensuring that the communications we receive from our clients are legitimate.
  • Data Processed and International Transfer: IP address, operating system information, Google cookies, mouse movements, and visit duration. When using this service, Google may collect information about the visitor’s hardware and software. The data collected during analysis is sent to Google servers for processing. Please note that this may involve the transfer of personal data to servers located outside the European Economic Area (USA), under the protection of Google’s applicable privacy compliance frameworks.

The reCAPTCHA is primarily classified as a Security/Technical Cookie (Necessary).

Its main function is to prevent fraud, spam, and bot attacks (such as brute-forcing on login forms). As a tool that protects the integrity of the site and the security of user data, it is considered essential for the secure operation of the service.

  • Name: _grecaptcha
  • Provider: Google
  • Purpose: Site protection against spam and the submission of fraudulent forms by bots.
  • Expiration: 6 months.
  • Type: Necessary/Technical

Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Commitments and Obligations to Our Visitors

Access to and/or use of the Gunstone Studios website confers upon the user the status of visitor, and from that moment, the user fully and unreservedly accepts this legal notice in relation to certain services and content of the Gunstone Studios website.

When using the Gunstone Studios website, the visitor agrees not to engage in any conduct that could damage the image, interests, or rights of Gunstone Studios S.A. de C.V., or of third parties, or that could damage, disable, or overload the Gunstone Studios website, or that could in any way impede the normal use of the Gunstone Studios website.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

From time to time, we may update this Privacy Policy. If we do, we will update the «Last Updated» sections at the top of the Privacy Policy.

If we make material changes to this policy, we may notify you on our website, through a blog post, by email, or by any other method we deem appropriate.

Your continued use of this website or our service and/or your continued provision of information to us will be subject to the terms of the Privacy Policy in effect at that time.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, the contact details for our Data Protection Officer are:

 

  • Company: Gunstone Studios S.A. de C.V.
  • VAT Registration Number: 266249-2
  • Business Activity: IT Consulting and Management Services
  • Address: San Salvador, El Salvador
  • Email: hello@gunstone-studios.com
  • Website Purpose: Corporate Website