Privacy Policy
This website (farmaciasguardia.com) and the associated Telegram bot (@FarmaciaGuardiaAlicanteBot) are operated by a private individual residing in Spain as a personal, free project. This policy explains what personal data is processed, for what purpose, and your rights.
1. Data controller
The data controller is a private individual residing in Spain. To exercise your rights or for any data-related question, contact contact@farmaciasguardia.com. Responses within 30 calendar days.
2. Data processed
On the website (farmaciasguardia.com):
• Technical browser data (anonymised IP, user-agent, language, approximate country) when you accept analytics.
• Anonymous Google Analytics 4 identifier (cookie _ga).
In the Telegram bot:
• Your Telegram chat_id (SHA-256 hashed before storage — does not directly identify a person).
• Your Telegram client language and the city you pick via /city.
• Commands you send and timestamp, for aggregated statistics.
NOT processed: name, surname, email, phone, postal address, health data.
3. Purpose and legal basis
• Service operation: executing your request (replying to your command, showing the on-duty pharmacy). Legal basis: performance of requested service (Art. 6.1.b GDPR).
• Aggregated analytics: measuring site/bot usage to improve the service. Legal basis: consent (Art. 6.1.a GDPR), via the cookie banner.
4. Retention
• Bot usage events: 24 months.
• Google Analytics data: GA4 default retention (14 months), after which aggregated or deleted.
• Stored preferences (language, city): until the chat is active or you change /lang or /city.
5. Recipients and international transfers
Technical data is processed on Google Cloud infrastructure (servers in europe-west1, Belgium). Statistics are sent to Google Analytics (United States), under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework safeguards. No data is sold or shared for commercial purposes.
6. Your rights
You can exercise at any time:
• Access
• Rectification
• Erasure ("right to be forgotten")
• Objection to processing
• Restriction of processing
• Portability
• Consent withdrawal
To exercise these rights, email contact@farmaciasguardia.com. If you believe processing is not lawful, you may lodge a complaint with the Spanish Data Protection Agency (www.aepd.es).
7. Source of pharmacy data
On-duty pharmacy data displayed on this site and bot comes from the official calendar published by COFA (Colegio Oficial de Farmacéuticos de Alicante, cofalicante.com). This site is unofficial and not affiliated with COFA. When in doubt, always verify at the official source.
8. Changes to this policy
This policy may be updated to reflect legal or service changes. The last-updated date is shown at the end of the document.
Last updated: 2026-05-24