Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important to us. ASCEND Marketing Solutions (a Somma Consulting, Unip. Lda. brand) is committed to respecting your privacy in relation to any information it may collect on its website and other communication channels.
We collect personal information only when strictly necessary to provide you with a service, always in a fair and lawful manner, with your knowledge and, where required by law, with your consent. We clearly state the reason for collecting this data and how it will be used. We retain the information only for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, and we protect it in accordance with data protection regulations to prevent loss, theft, unauthorised access, disclosure, copying, use or alteration. We do not share personally identifiable information with third parties, except as described in this policy, and you may refuse to provide personal data where you believe this affects the provision of the services you require.
For further information, please contact us at [email protected].
Somma Consulting, Unip. Lda, owner of the ASCEND Marketing Solutions brand. If you have any questions regarding the protection of your data or wish to exercise your rights, you can contact us by e-mail at [email protected].
We may collect your identification data (name, address, telephone, e-mail), contact data (content of your messages and history of communications via forms, e-mail, telephone and social networks), browsing data (IP address, cookies, pages visited) and professional data (company and position, when you provide them on business cards or fairs/events). We do not collect sensitive data such as health information, religious opinions, sexual orientation or biometric data.
We process your data to manage contact requests and quotes, execute contracts or take pre-contractual steps (legal basis: Article 6.1.b of the GDPR), to communicate information and updates and for direct marketing, with your explicit consent (Article 6.1.a of the GDPR), for statistical analysis and continuous improvement of our services based on our legitimate interest (Article 6.1.f of the GDPR) and to fulfil legal obligations (Article 6.1.c of the GDPR). Failure to indicate data marked as mandatory makes it impossible to process the request.
We keep your contact details and leads for 3 years after the last contact, quote and contract records for 5 years, marketing data (e.g. newsletters) for as long as you maintain consent, and system and browsing logs for 2 years.
We do not share your personal data with third parties, except to comply with legal obligations towards judicial, tax or regulatory authorities, with service providers who process data on our behalf, such as cloud and system maintenance partners (subject to confidentiality clauses and the providers listed under «Pages and Forms hosted by Cloudflare»), and to analytics and advertising services such as Google Analytics, Google Ads or Meta Pixel, which are only activated with your consent via the cookie banner. Any transfers to countries outside the European Economic Area are covered by an adequacy decision from the European Commission, such as the EU–US Privacy Shield, or by Standard Data Protection Clauses approved by the European Commission.
Some pages on this website, such as case studies and service pages, are hosted by Cloudflare, Inc., which acts as a data processor under Article 28 of the GDPR. When you complete a form on one of these pages, the data you provide (name, company, email address, telephone number, website and message) passes through Cloudflare solely to reach ASCEND and is sent by email via the Resend service, which is also a data processor. We use this data solely to respond to your enquiry (Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR) and retain it for the periods specified in the Data Retention section.
On these pages, visits are tracked using Cloudflare Web Analytics, which does not use cookies, does not store any information on your device and only displays aggregated statistics, without identifying individual visitors.
Cloudflare and Resend may process data outside the European Economic Area. Such transfers are protected by the EU–US Data Protection Framework or by Standard Data Protection Clauses approved by the European Commission.
We use cookies that are essential for the website to function, functional cookies for personalisation, analytical cookies for statistics, and advertising cookies for remarketing. Cookies that are not essential are only used with your consent, which you can change at any time under «manage cookies». For further details and to manage your preferences, please see our Cookie Policy.
We adopt appropriate technical and organisational measures, including TLS encryption, internal access control, regular backups, software updates and infrastructure monitoring, to guarantee the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your data.
In accordance with the GDPR and Law no. 58/2019, you can exercise your rights of access, rectification, erasure, limitation, portability, opposition, revocation of consent and not be subject to automated decisions free of charge. To do so, send a request to [email protected]. We will respond within 1 month, extendable for a further 2, and may request proof of identity in cases of security. If you are dissatisfied, you can lodge a complaint with the National Data Protection Commission (www.cnpd.pt).
We reserve the right to revise this Privacy Policy at any time. In the event of substantial changes, we will notify you by e-mail or display a banner on the website. The updated version will always be available at www.ascend.pt/politica-de-privacidade.
For further information or clarification, please contact us at [email protected].
Last updated: October 2026.
