Privacy Policy

Last update: May 2025

This Privacy Policy describes the SFA (Software for Automation) policies and procedures regarding the collection, use and disclosure of your information when you use our Service, and informs you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

We use your personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Interpretation

Words whose initial is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions will have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

  • Company (referred to as ‘the company’, ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’ in this agreement) refers to the SFA Group (Software for Automation), with operations in Argentina and the United States.
  • Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, which contain details of your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
  • Country refers to: Argentina and the United States, where the SFA Group operates mainly.
  • Device means any device that can access the service, such as a computer, cell phone, or digital tablet.
  • Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
  • service refers to the website.
  • Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to companies or individuals of third parties employed by the Company to facilitate the service, provide the Service on behalf of the Company, perform services related to the Service or help the Company analyze how the Service is used.
  • Website refers to SFA Automation, accessible from www.sfaautomation.com
  • You mean the person who accesses or uses the Service, or the company or other legal entity on behalf of which that person is accessing or using the Service, as appropriate.

Collected data types

Personal Data:
While using our service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • email address
  • Name and surname
  • phone number
  • Country and province of residence
  • Professional information (type of engineering)
  • Work experience
  • Visa information
  • Languages and domain level
  • LinkedIn profile
  • Portfolio
  • Curriculum Vitae (CV)
  • Usage data

Usage data

Usage data is automatically collected when using the service.

Usage data may include information such as your device’s Internet protocol address (for example, IP address), browser type, browser version, pages of our service you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time you spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

When you access the Service through or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, the unique ID of your mobile device, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers. and other diagnostic data.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our service and store certain information. The tracking technologies used are beacons, tags and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our service.

The main types of cookies we use are:

  • Necessary cookies: Essential for the functioning of the website, such as protection against spam and malicious attacks through services such as Google Recaptcha.
  • Functional cookies: They improve the functionality of the website by saving user preferences to improve their experience.
  • Advertising Cookies: They allow embedded video tracking and determine the video player interface.
  • Other cookies: Additional cookies established by third party services for various functionalities of the site.

Use of your personal data

The Company may use the Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our service, including monitoring the use of our service.
  • To manage contact forms: Your information allows us to answer your queries, provide technical and commercial advice, and establish a professional communication for possible collaborations.
  • To manage the application forms: Your information allows us to evaluate your professional profile for possible job opportunities, maintain a database of specialized engineers, contact you when opportunities according to your profile arise, and share your information with other members and associated companies of the SFA Group for potential job offers.
  • To contact you: To contact you by email, phone calls, SMS or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, regarding updates or information communications related to the contracted functionalities, products or services, including security updates, when necessary or reasonable for its implementation.
  • To provide you with news, general information about services and events we offer, unless you have chosen not to receive such information.
  • To manage your requests: To attend and manage your requests towards us.
  • FOR TRANSFER TRANSFERS: We may use your information to evaluate or carry out a merger, divestment, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, either as a functioning company or as part of a bankruptcy, settlement or similar procedure, in which the Personal data we have about the users of our service are among the transferred assets.

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

  • FOR TRANSFER TRANSFERS: We may share or transfer your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or part of our business to another company.
  • With Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those subsidiaries to honor this Privacy Policy. Subsidiaries include our parent company and any other subsidiary, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or are under common control with us.
  • With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.

Retention of your personal data

The Company will retain your personal data only for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements and legal policies.

  • Contact details: We keep your data for the time it takes to attend to your inquiry, plus an additional 2-year period for business follow-up purposes.
  • Applicant data: We keep your data for a period of 5 years to consider your profile in future job opportunities. After this time, your data will be deleted or anonymized.

Transfer of your personal data

Your information, including personal data, is processed at the company’s operating offices and anywhere else where the parties involved in the processing are located. This means that this information can be transferred to — and kept in — computers located outside your state, province, country or other government jurisdiction where data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your sending of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all measures reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your personal data will be made to an organization or country unless there are adequate controls, including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of your personal data

Business transactions:
If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, your personal data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your personal data is transferred and are subject to a different privacy policy.
compliance with the law.

In certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose your personal data if required by law or in response to valid requests from public authorities (for example, a court or a government agency).

The Company may disclose your personal data in good faith, believing that such action is necessary to:

  • comply with a legal obligation
  • protect and defend the rights or property of the company
  • prevent or investigate possible irregularities in relation to the service
  • Protect the personal safety of users of the service or the public
  • Protect against legal liability

Security of your personal data

The security of your personal data is important to us, but remember that no method of Internet transmission or electronic storage method is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee your absolute security.

Detailed information about the processing of your personal data

Analysis:
We may use third party service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our service.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google can use the data collected to contextualize and customize ads from your own ad network.

You can choose not to allow your activity on the service to be available for Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics browser disable plugin. The plugin prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visiting activity.

For more information on Google’s privacy practices, visit the Google Privacy and Terms website: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Privacy of minors

Our service is not aimed at people under 18 years of age. We do not consciously collect personally identifiable information from people under 18 years of age. If you are a parent or guardian and know that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we realize that we have collected personal data from someone under 18 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Links to other websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to the site of that third party. We strongly recommend that you review the privacy policy of all the sites you visit.

We have no control over and do not take responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of third party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will update the ‘Last Updated’ date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when posted on this page.