At Mots Music we process your personal data in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG).
1. Data controller
- Controller: Ruth García Núñez de Arenas (Mots Music)
- Address: Elbestrasse 34, 12045 Berlin, Germany
- VAT ID (USt-IdNr.): DE367560083
- Email: mots@motsmusic.es
- Website: www.motsmusic.com
2. What data we collect and how
- Contact form: your name, email address, the service you are interested in and the message you send us.
- Email: whatever data you include when writing to us.
- Blog comments: name, email address and the content of the comment, together with the IP address it was sent from, as an anti-spam measure.
- Browsing: technical data such as IP address or browser type, held in the server logs.
We do not collect special categories of data, nor data from children under 16.
3. Why we use it and on what legal basis
- Answering your enquiries and proposals — basis: your consent when you send the form or write to us.
- Managing the professional or commercial relationship if we end up working together — basis: performance of a contract.
- Publishing and moderating blog comments — basis: your consent.
- Loading third-party players (Mixcloud, YouTube, SoundCloud…) — basis: your consent.
- Security and maintenance of the site — basis: our legitimate interest.
We do not send marketing communications unless you have expressly asked us to, and in that case you may unsubscribe at any time.
4. How long we keep it
- Enquiries that do not lead to a professional relationship: up to one year from the last contact.
- Professional or commercial relationships: for the duration of the relationship and thereafter for the applicable statutory limitation periods (up to six years for tax and accounting purposes).
- Blog comments: for as long as the entry remains published, or until you ask us to delete them.
5. Who else has access to your data
We do not share your data with third parties, except where legally required. Our service providers do have access to it, acting as data processors under the contract required by Article 28 GDPR:
- IONOS — website and email hosting. Servers located in the European Union.
If you use embedded third-party content (Mixcloud, Bandcamp, YouTube or social networks), those platforms process your data under their own policies.
6. Your rights
You may exercise the following rights at any time:
- Access — find out what data of yours we process.
- Rectification — correct data that is inaccurate.
- Erasure — ask us to delete it.
- Objection — object to a specific processing activity.
- Restriction — ask us to keep it but not use it.
- Portability — receive it in a structured format or have it sent to another controller.
- Withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out beforehand.
To exercise them, write to mots@motsmusic.es stating which right you wish to exercise and attaching a copy of a document proving your identity.
If you believe your request has not been handled properly, you may lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority: Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit, Alt-Moabit 59-61, 10555 Berlin (www.datenschutz-berlin.de).
7. Security
We apply reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your data against loss, misuse or unauthorised access. The site runs over an encrypted connection (HTTPS).
8. Cookies
Cookie use is described in our Legal notice and cookie policy.
9. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy to reflect legal changes or changes in how the site works. The version in force is always the one published on this page.
Last updated: September 2026.