The protection of natural persons in relation to the processing of personal data is a fundamental right recognised in Articles 18(4) of the Spanish Constitution, 8(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and 16(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. The Constitutional Court maintains a policy of full respect for and compliance with the regulations on the protection of personal data. Under this commitment, the Constitutional Court assures citizens that it treats processes their personal data in a confidential, lawful, transparent and fair manner.
Personal data will be used for the purposes foreseen in the respective processing, limited to those strictly necessary for the proper exercise of the Constitutional Court's functions.
The Constitutional Tribunal has the necessary security measures in place to prevent the alteration, loss, processing or unauthorised access to personal data, taking into account the state of technology and the nature of the personal data processed and the risks to which they are exposed.
The natural persons whose personal data are processed by the Constitutional Court may exercise the rights of access, rectification, deletion, limitation of processing and objection, free of charge and in person or through a representative, before the General Secretariat of the Constitutional Court (Calle Domenico Scarlatti, 6 - 28003 Madrid).
In order to exercise the rights of access, rectification, deletion, limitation of processing and objection, a request must be sent to the General Secretariat of the Constitutional Court with the name and surname of the data subject, the request being made, address for notification purposes, date and signature. Such request shall include a photocopy of their national identity document (passport or other valid identification document) and the documents accrediting the request made, where appropriate. Likewise, in the event that representation has been granted, the application shall be include a photocopy of the representative's national identity document (passport or other valid identification document) and of the document accrediting the representation.
The application may be submitted in writing to the registry of the Constitutional Court or through the electronic form available for this purpose on the Court's website (data protection section).