Privacy policy

The Compañía Española de Financiación del Desarrollo, S.A., hereafter COFIDES, will observe the provisions of the existing legislation on personal data protection with respect to the confidentiality and automatic processing of personal data voluntarily furnished by the users of this website. As a possible recipient of electronic messages sent from COFIDES, you are informed that neither the confidentiality nor the integrity or flawless delivery of the messages sent by electronic mail or other Internet channels can be guaranteed. Consequently, COFIDES assumes no responsibility for such circumstances. If you do not consent to the use of electronic mail or Internet communications, please let us know immediately. The information contained in electronic mails sent by COFIDES is confidential and intended exclusively for the designated recipients. Their data form part of a file for which COFIDES, headquartered at the address specified below, is responsible and are used to contact such recipients to inform them of our activities. COFIDES guarantees recipients of its electronic mails and all other Internet communications the right to access, rectify, cancel or challenge the processing and use of their data, via written notice sent to the aforementioned address. Persons receiving a message not addressed to them are requested to inform us immediately and proceed to destroy both the message itself and any attached documents. Unauthorised disclosure, reproduction, distribution or use of the information contained in such messages constitutes a violation of the existing legislation.

The purpose for which data are requested and the processing to which they will be subject are specified on each and every form to be filled in by users, to obtain their informed consent to both. You are urged to read the terms and conditions included on the forms before sending them in.

If data are to be furnished to other companies, COFIDES will request authorisation from the parties concerned in advance, informing them of the identity of the recipient and the reason for transferring the data.

Commercial messages about COFIDES’ products and services may be sent to consenting users to keep them abreast of all new developments in this regard. Users may cancel this service at any time via the messages themselves or by e-mailing their intention to the following address: , specifying “Cancellation" in the subject box.

COFIDES has adopted the technical and organisational measures needed to prevent the loss, misuse, alteration, unauthorised access or theft of the personal data processed in the company’s files. The company applies the security measures provided in the Constitutional Act on Data Protection and the respective Regulations for the type of personal data processed in its files.

Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers saved on a computer’s hard disk through the web navigator to enable COFIDES’ systems to identify users in subsequent visits and facilitate their navigation on its website. With cookies, users can access personalised website functions. Keeping them enabled is therefore recommended. Nonetheless, users may prefer to set their computers to reject cookies. Most navigators inform users of how to prevent new cookies from entering their computers, how to be notified of the receipt of new cookies and how to disable cookies altogether. This information can be obtained by pressing the "help” key on the navigator toolbar.

As provided in the Constitutional Act on Personal Data Protection, data subjects may exercise their right to access, rectify, cancel or challenge the data in COFIDES’ possession. They may serve notice to that effect upon Compañía Española de Financiación del Desarrollo, COFIDES S.A., by any method substantiating transmission and receipt, which should be addressed to: COFIDES Data Protection Area, 132 Príncipe de Vergara Street, floors 9-12, 28002 Madrid, Spain; or to:

The present privacy policy, in effect since 2007, was updated in November 2010. COFIDES reserves the right to amend its data protection policy in the event of changes in the existing legislation or case law, or in accordance with business criteria of its own. Any changes made to this policy will be published at this same address.