Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 2026

Gran Canaria Divers S.L. respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data.

This Privacy Policy explains what personal data we collect, why we collect it, how we use and protect it, how long it may be retained, with whom it may be shared, and the rights you have under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and applicable Spanish data protection legislation.

1. Data Controller

The controller responsible for the processing of your personal data is:

Gran Canaria Divers S.L.
Puerto de Mogán, Gran Canaria, Spain
CIF: B76079771
Email: info@grancanariadivers.com

For any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or the processing of your personal data, you may contact us using the email address above.

2. Personal Data We Collect

Depending on how you contact us and which services you use, we may collect and process:

  • First and last name
  • Postal address, postcode, city and country
  • Email address
  • Telephone number
  • Passport or national ID number where required for invoicing, identification, administration or applicable legal requirements
  • Booking and reservation information
  • Diving certification, qualification and diving experience
  • Information relating to diving courses, training and certifications
  • Payment and transaction information
  • Communications with us by email, telephone, WhatsApp, our website or other communication channels
  • Medical self-declaration information
  • Medical clearance or a doctor’s certificate where required for participation in diving activities
  • Emergency or safety-related information where required
  • Other information reasonably necessary to provide the requested diving, snorkelling, training or related service

We aim to collect only the information reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose.

3. How We Collect Your Data

Personal data may be collected when you:

  • Make a booking through our website
  • Make a booking by email, telephone or WhatsApp
  • Contact Gran Canaria Divers with an enquiry
  • Complete customer documentation at our dive centre
  • Complete a Medical Self-Declaration Form
  • Provide medical clearance or a doctor’s certificate
  • Register for or participate in a diving course
  • Make a payment or request a refund
  • Participate in one of our diving, snorkelling or training activities

The same data-protection principles apply regardless of whether information is collected electronically or on paper.

4. Why We Process Your Personal Data

We process personal data where necessary to:

  • Manage enquiries, reservations and bookings
  • Provide the diving, snorkelling, training or other services you have requested
  • Communicate with you before, during and where necessary after your activity
  • Verify certification, experience and participation requirements
  • Assess whether the applicable medical requirements for diving have been satisfied
  • Manage diving courses, training and certifications
  • Process payments and refunds
  • Issue invoices and maintain accounting and tax documentation
  • Fulfil legal, tax, administrative, safety and regulatory obligations
  • Maintain documentation required in connection with training or certification
  • Protect the security of our website and booking systems
  • Prevent fraud, spam and automated abuse
  • Establish, exercise or defend legal claims where necessary

For ordinary booking and customer administration, processing is generally necessary for the performance of a contract or to take steps requested by you before entering into a contract.

Where applicable, we also process information to comply with legal obligations.

5. Passport and ID Information

Gran Canaria Divers may request your passport or national ID number where this information is required for identification, invoicing, administration or applicable legal requirements associated with your booking or activity.

Passport and ID information is not used for advertising or unrelated marketing purposes.

Access to this information is limited to persons who require it for legitimate operational, administrative, accounting or legal purposes.

6. Medical Information and Fitness to Dive

Diving requires an appropriate level of medical fitness.

Customers may therefore be required to complete a Medical Self-Declaration Form before participating in diving activities.

The purpose of the Medical Self-Declaration is to identify whether medical clearance from a doctor is required before participation.

A positive answer on a Medical Self-Declaration does not necessarily mean that a person cannot dive. It may mean that appropriate medical clearance must first be obtained.

Where required, Gran Canaria Divers may request a medical certificate or other confirmation from an appropriately qualified doctor confirming fitness to dive.

Medical information constitutes specially protected personal data under the GDPR and is handled accordingly.

Gran Canaria Divers processes medical information only to the extent reasonably necessary for diving safety, participation requirements, documentation obligations and, where applicable, the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

Medical information is not used for marketing, advertising or unrelated commercial purposes.

Access to medical documentation is restricted to persons who require access for legitimate safety, operational, administrative or legal purposes.

7. Paper Forms and Documents at the Dive Centre

Personal information may also be collected on paper forms completed at Gran Canaria Divers.

This may include customer information, activity documentation, diving information, Medical Self-Declarations, medical clearance and course documentation.

Paper documentation containing personal information is kept securely and is accessible only where required for legitimate operational, safety, administrative or legal purposes.

Documents that no longer need to be retained are securely destroyed.

8. Diving Courses and Training Records

When you participate in a diving course, additional documentation may be required for training, certification, safety and record-keeping purposes.

This may include:

  • Student and course information
  • Training and completion records
  • Certification information
  • Medical documentation where applicable
  • Liability, assumption-of-risk or safety documentation
  • Other records required by applicable training standards or law

Certain course and training records may need to be retained after completion of your course.

Such documentation will be retained for as long as required by applicable law, relevant training or certification requirements, or where retention is reasonably necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

Where no continuing retention requirement exists, the documentation will be securely destroyed or deleted.

9. Retention and Destruction of Personal Data

Gran Canaria Divers does not retain personal data for longer than necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, subject to applicable legal and documentation requirements.

Activity and medical documentation

Paper Medical Self-Declarations and other activity documentation that is no longer required will normally be securely destroyed after the customer’s activities with Gran Canaria Divers have been completed and following their departure, provided that no legal, safety, training, certification or legitimate documentation requirement requires continued retention.

Where a document must be retained for one of those purposes, it will be kept only for the period reasonably necessary or legally required.

Course documentation

Course and training records will be retained for the period required by applicable law, relevant training or certification standards, or legitimate documentation requirements.

Invoices and accounting information

Invoices, copies of issued invoices and associated accounting documentation are retained for the periods required under Spanish tax and accounting legislation.

Electronic information

Electronic personal data will be deleted, anonymised or access-restricted when it is no longer necessary, subject to applicable legal or legitimate retention requirements.

10. Payments

Electronic and online payments may be processed through third-party payment service providers, including SumUp.

Where card information is entered directly into a payment provider’s payment environment, Gran Canaria Divers does not need to receive or store your complete payment-card details.

We may receive and retain information necessary to:

  • Identify a payment
  • Match a payment to a booking
  • Reconcile transactions
  • Process refunds
  • Maintain accounting records
  • Investigate payment problems or fraud
  • Comply with applicable legal obligations

Payment service providers process payment information in accordance with their own privacy and security requirements.

11. Website, Online Booking and WooCommerce

Our website and online booking system process information necessary to provide online reservations and purchases.

This may include information entered during checkout, booking selections, order information, customer contact details, IP or technical information required for website operation and security, and payment-related transaction information.

Information provided during checkout is used primarily to process and administer your booking and fulfil associated legal and accounting obligations.

12. Cookies, reCAPTCHA and Website Security

Our website may use cookies and similar technologies required for:

  • Website operation
  • Shopping cart functionality
  • Checkout functionality
  • Booking functionality
  • User preferences
  • Website security
  • Fraud and abuse prevention

We may use services such as Google reCAPTCHA or similar security technologies to protect forms, accounts, bookings and other areas of our website against spam, automated activity and abuse.

Where applicable law requires consent for non-essential cookies or technologies, these will be handled through the appropriate cookie-consent mechanism.

13. Communication by Email, Telephone and WhatsApp

Gran Canaria Divers may communicate with customers by email, telephone or WhatsApp where necessary to:

  • Answer an enquiry
  • Arrange or confirm a booking
  • Organise transportation or meeting arrangements
  • Provide information concerning an activity or course
  • Communicate changes caused by weather, safety or operational conditions
  • Deal with payments, cancellations or refunds
  • Provide other information necessary for the requested service

Communications necessary for an enquiry, booking or existing customer relationship are considered operational communications and are not treated as unrelated marketing.

14. Marketing Communications

We will not use medical information, passport/ID information or other sensitive information for marketing purposes.

Where personal information is used for direct marketing and consent is legally required, appropriate consent will be obtained separately.

Where processing is based on consent, that consent may be withdrawn at any time.

Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.

15. Sharing Personal Data

Gran Canaria Divers does not sell personal data.

Personal data may be disclosed where reasonably necessary to:

  • Payment service providers
  • Diving training or certification organisations where applicable
  • Accounting, tax and professional advisers
  • Website, hosting, IT and booking-system providers
  • Communication service providers
  • Public authorities, courts, tax authorities or regulatory bodies where legally required
  • Other service providers where their involvement is necessary to provide the booked service

Only information reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose will be disclosed.

Where a third party processes personal data on behalf of Gran Canaria Divers, appropriate data-protection requirements apply.

16. International Data Transfers

Some technology, communication, payment, website or service providers may process information outside Spain or the European Economic Area.

Where personal data is transferred internationally, Gran Canaria Divers requires the transfer to be made in accordance with applicable GDPR requirements and using an appropriate legal transfer mechanism where required.

17. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on the circumstances and applicable law, you may have the right to:

  • Access your personal data
  • Rectify inaccurate or incomplete personal data
  • Request deletion of personal data
  • Request restriction of processing
  • Object to certain processing
  • Request portability of your personal data
  • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent

These rights are subject to applicable legal limitations. For example, Gran Canaria Divers may be required to retain invoices, accounting documentation, training records or other information despite a deletion request where continued retention is required by law or another lawful basis applies.

To exercise your data-protection rights, please contact:

Gran Canaria Divers S.L.
Email: info@grancanariadivers.com

We may request reasonable information necessary to verify your identity before acting on a request.

18. Right to Lodge a Complaint

If you believe that your personal data has been processed in violation of applicable data-protection law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Spanish supervisory authority:

Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD)

You may also contact Gran Canaria Divers first at info@grancanariadivers.com so that we have an opportunity to address your concern.

19. Data Security

Gran Canaria Divers takes appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against:

  • Unauthorised access
  • Accidental loss
  • Unlawful disclosure
  • Misuse
  • Alteration
  • Destruction

Access to sensitive information, particularly medical information and passport/ID information, is restricted to persons who require access for legitimate purposes.

Paper documents containing sensitive personal information are securely stored and securely destroyed when retention is no longer necessary.

20. Changes to This Privacy Policy

Gran Canaria Divers may update this Privacy Policy where our services, systems, legal requirements or data-processing activities change.

The current version will always be made available on our website.

Last updated: August 2026