Privacy Policy

This site is maintained by the Sociedade Brasileira de Ciência do Solo (SBCS), a non-profit scientific and civil entity, with its secretariat at Departamento de Solos, Edifício Silvio Brandão s/n, Caixa Postal 231 — Campus da UFV, CEP 36570-900 — Viçosa/MG.

SBCS is the controller of the personal data processed here, under the Brazilian General Data Protection Law (Law 13,709/2018).

The pages are static and none of them asks you to register in order to read it. The site carries no advertising, builds no behavioural profile and shares no data with advertisers.

The only thing the site stores in your browser is the audience measurement described below, and only if you accept it.

To learn which pages the community looks for, we use Google Analytics 4 (Google Ireland Limited) as a processor. It is only loaded after you accept the notice shown on your first visit. Before that, no request leaves your browser towards Google.

The measurement records the pages visited, where the visit came from, the language, the type of device and a handful of actions that help the Society understand what people are looking for: membership requests, access to the member area, contact form submissions, document downloads and departures to the SBCS social accounts.

There is no advertising, no personalisation and no cross-site tracking: consent for those uses stays denied even after you accept. The legal basis is your consent, given in the notice and withdrawable at any time on the Cookie Policy page.

The form asks for name, e-mail, subject and message. These are sent by e-mail to the Executive Secretariat and used only to reply to you. They are not added to any mailing list and are not passed on to third parties.

Delivery is handled by SendGrid (Twilio), acting as a processor that only carries the message. The legal basis is the legitimate interest in answering those who contact the Society, together with the consent expressed by sending the message.

The hosting provider (Vercel) keeps technical access logs — IP address, date and time, address requested and browser — for as long as needed for security and operation. Such logs are produced by any web server and are not used to build profiles.

The store, the member directory and the member area are SBCS systems run on the Assocializa platform, with their own policies. When you buy, search the directory or sign in, data processing becomes that system's.

The member directory shows the name, regional nucleus and commissions of those who authorised the Society to publish them. Anyone who would rather not appear there can ask for removal in the member area or from the Executive Secretariat.

On the home page, video thumbnails are loaded from YouTube (Google) servers. No player is loaded: the video only opens on YouTube after you click.

Links to event websites, to the Brazilian Journal of Soil Science and to partner organisations lead outside this site, where their own rules apply.

Brazilian data protection law lets you confirm whether we process your data, access it, correct it, ask for anonymisation or deletion, learn with whom it was shared, and withdraw consent.

For any request concerning your data, write to sbcs@sbcs.org.br or to the Executive Secretariat at Departamento de Solos, Edifício Silvio Brandão s/n, Caixa Postal 231 — Campus da UFV, CEP 36570-900 — Viçosa/MG.

If the site starts using any tool that collects data, this page will be updated beforehand, with a new revision date.