1. Who we are
This website, silviabuet.com, together with quizzes.silviabuet.com, is run by Dr. Silvia Buet González, author and psychologist, who also writes all its content. She is the data controller: she decides how your personal information is used and is responsible for protecting it.
Dr. Silvia Buet González
Contact: the contact form
2. What we collect, and why
- When you ask for a free tool, the report, the infographic or the book launch list: your first name, your email address and your consent. We use them to send you what you asked for and, if you agree, occasional emails from Dr. Silvia Buet. For the book launch list, we use them to send you the free bonuses and to tell you when the book is out. These forms are protected by Google reCAPTCHA, like the contact form below, to keep fake sign-ups out.
- When you take a quiz: your answers, your email address, and some details about you and your relationship: your age range, your gender, how long the relationship lasted, whether you were married, and whether you have children. We use them to work out your results and send your personal report. More about this in section 3.
- When you use the contact form: your name, your email address and your message, so we can reply. The form is protected by Google reCAPTCHA, which checks that the message comes from a person and not a spam program. To do this, Google looks at information such as your IP address and how you use the page.
- If you accept analytics cookies: Google Analytics collects information about how you use the site, such as the pages you visit, how you arrived and the type of device you use. It doesn’t tell us who you are. We use it to see which pages help people most, so we can improve them.
- When you visit the site: our hosting provider keeps standard server logs (IP address, browser, pages requested, date and time) to keep the site secure and working.
We don’t ask for payment details, your phone number, your address or your date of birth. We don’t use your information for advertising, and we don’t build profiles about you.
3. Your quiz answers
Some quiz questions ask how you feel after your breakup. Your answers can say something about your emotional health, so the law treats them as sensitive information. We take extra care with them:
- We only use them with your explicit consent, which you give when you choose to take the quiz. You don’t have to answer, and you can stop at any time.
- We use them to work out your results and write your report. We may also use answers with your name and email removed to understand breakup distress better and improve our tools.
- We never use them for marketing, and we never share them with anyone for their own use.
- You can ask us to delete them at any time (see section 9).
4. Our legal basis
Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Spain’s data protection law (Ley Orgánica 3/2018, LOPDGDD), we rely on:
- Consent for our emails and for analytics cookies. You can withdraw it at any time.
- Explicit consent for your quiz answers about how you feel.
- Legitimate interests for server logs, site security and spam protection, and for replying to your messages. These help us run a safe website, and we only use what we need.
- Legal obligation where the law requires us to keep or share information.
Using this website is not the same as giving consent. Where we rely on consent, we ask for it clearly, and you can say no.
5. Who we share it with
We never sell, rent or trade your information. We only share it with the services that help us run the site. They can only use it to do that job for us, and they must keep it safe:
- SendFox (email delivery), which stores your name and email address and sends our emails.
- Our web hosting provider, which stores the website, the quizzes and their answers, the contact form, and the server logs.
- Google, for Google Analytics (only if you accept analytics cookies) and for reCAPTCHA on the contact form and the sign-up forms. See Google’s Privacy Policy.
- YouTube (Google) and Instagram (Meta), when we show you one of our videos or Instagram posts, and only if you accept functional cookies. See Instagram’s Privacy Policy.
- CookiePal, which shows the cookie banner and keeps a record of your cookie choice.
- Authorities or courts, only if the law requires it, or to protect our legal rights.
If silviabuet.com is ever sold or transferred to another person or business, your information would pass to the new owner. They would have to keep protecting it as this policy describes, and we would tell you before anything changed.
6. Sending information outside Europe
Some of these providers store information outside the European Economic Area (EEA), for example in the United States. When that happens, we rely on the safeguards the GDPR allows, such as the EU–US Data Privacy Framework or the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses.
7. Cookies
We use necessary cookies to keep the site working. We use analytics cookies, and the functional cookies YouTube and Instagram need to show our videos and posts, only if you accept them. We don’t use advertising cookies. Our Cookie Policy lists every cookie we use and explains how to change your choice at any time.
8. How long we keep it
- Email list: until you unsubscribe, or until we stop using the list.
- Quiz answers: for as long as we need them to provide your report and improve the quiz. After that, we delete them or remove anything that identifies you.
- Contact form messages: for as long as we need them to deal with your message, and no longer than 5 years.
- Analytics data: Google Analytics keeps the detailed data for up to 14 months, the longest Google allows. The summary reports, which can’t identify you, are kept for up to 5 years.
- Server logs: for the short period set by our hosting provider.
Information that has been made anonymous and grouped together, so it can’t identify you in any way, may be kept indefinitely, for example to describe our research.
9. Your rights
You have the right to:
- see the information we hold about you, and get a copy;
- correct it if it’s wrong;
- ask us to delete it;
- ask us to limit how we use it, or object to us using it;
- receive it in a format you can take to another service;
- withdraw your consent at any time. This doesn’t affect what we did before you withdrew it.
You can unsubscribe from our emails at any time with the link at the bottom of every email. To use any of the other rights, write to us through the contact form. We’ll reply within one month, and it’s free.
If you’re not happy with how we handle your information, please tell us first so we can put it right. You also have the right to complain to the Spanish data protection authority, the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD), at aepd.es, or to the data protection authority of the country where you live.
10. Children
Our tools are for adults aged 18 and over. We don’t knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. If you think a child has given us their details, tell us and we’ll delete them.
11. Security
We use secure (https) connections and trusted providers, our forms are protected against spam, and we limit who can see your information. No system on the internet is completely secure, so we can’t guarantee absolute security, but we will tell you and the AEPD if a problem ever puts your information at risk, as the law requires.
12. Links to other websites
Our site links to other websites, such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Pinterest. They have their own privacy policies, and we aren’t responsible for how they handle your information. Please read their policies before you give them any details.
13. Changes to this policy
We update this policy when our tools or the law change. The date at the top shows the latest version. If a change affects how we use information you’ve already given us, we’ll tell you by email or on the site before it applies.
14. Contact us
Dr. Silvia Buet González
Contact: the contact form