Privacy Policy
This website is owned and operated by Petrov Law Firm. As site administrators, we are committed to respecting and protecting the privacy of all visitors to our website. Petrov Law Firm administers the personal data, to which it has access, in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (General Data Protection Regulation) and the current Bulgarian regulations in the field of personal data protection. We are committed to always providing transparency in our handling and processing of personal data, in accordance with applicable personal data protection legislation. This Privacy Policy sets out how we may collect and use your personal information when you use our website.
Personal data that we collect and the purposes for which we use them
We collect information about how you use our website and the device(s) you use to access our website. This includes collecting a unique mobile device ID or Internet Protocol (IP), which are numbers that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the Internet. This information is related to the ID cookie that we receive and process. The collection of this data is necessary for the maintenance and analysis of our website to solve any efficiency issues, to improve accessibility and user experience. We may combine information about your online searches (clicks and views), your settings on our website and contact history. This information enables us to use various channels to manage relationships and market our products and services through email, social media, online advertising, which may include customizing the content of the website and offers to suit your preferences.
We may also collect your personal information if you use any of the features of our website that rely on a personalized answer or where we are required to answer any question you may have. The information we collect is limited to the data we need for providing you with a specific service that you have requested. The processing of personal data in order to answer a question requires the consent to the processing of personal data. By asking a question, we assume that you give your consent to the processing of personal data. The purpose for which the personal data will be processed is in the answer to the question. The categories of personal data we collect are the names and email addresses provided by the client. We do not collect any sensitive information, such as your political or religious beliefs, ethnicity, sexual orientation, health status or other confidential information.
We do not actively seek to collect information about children under the age of 16 inclusive. If you have any concerns about your child’s privacy with respect to our services, or if you believe that your child may have provided personal information on our site, please contact us at office@lawpetrov.com. We will delete this information from our archives within a reasonable time.
Sharing personal data
We may need to share personal information with third parties to help us provide you with services and products and to manage our website. Such data can be provided to:
- Service providers when necessary to provide us with data analysis services;
- Service providers that help us organize our site;
- Marketing companies;
- Media agencies for marketing and research purposes.
We provide information to third parties only when we are satisfied that adequate levels of protection are in place, as well as protections for the integrity and security of the information processed, and in accordance with applicable privacy and data protection laws.
We may need to provide personal data to law enforcement authorities in order to comply with a legal obligation or court order.
Storage of personal data
We are committed to ensuring the confidentiality of your personal information and not storing it for longer than necessary. We comply with the relevant legal requirements for the storage of certain categories of data in order to fulfill our obligations arising from any regulation or contract, as well as to protect our legal rights in the event of a claim. We will delete any personal data without undue delay when the need for storing this data is eliminated.
Security of personal data
We provide appropriate security measures to prevent the illegal or unauthorized use, access or accidental loss of information. The data you provide to us online is protected by an encrypted connection using an SSL certificate. SSL is a standard method in the field of encrypting personal data so that it can be securely transferred over the Internet. Personal data is stored on the company’s servers or in cloud data centers, where the data is protected with all modern and appropriate standard hardware and software security tools – firewalls, antivirus programs, data encryption, etc. We require from our service providers to ensure the same level of protection.
Your rights in connection with the processing of personal data:
Right to information: You have the right to ask us for information on whether and to what extent we process personal data.
Right of correction: In the event that we process incomplete or erroneous data, you have the right to request us at any time to correct or amend the relevant data.
Right of deletion: You can request the deletion of your personal data in the event that we process this data without a legal right to do so. Please note that deletion may not be performed immediately due to a data retention requirement.
Withdrawal of consent: You can withdraw your consent for all or only part of your personal data, as well as for specific or all purposes of processing. If you have consented to the collection, processing and storage of your personal data for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw it at any time in respect of that particular type of processing. Once you notify us that you are withdrawing your consent, we will discontinue processing your data for the purpose or purposes you originally agreed to, unless there is another legal basis to continue with that processing.
Right to restrict processing: You can request a restriction on the personal data being processed if:
- You dispute the accuracy of the data, and for the period during which we have to check data accuracy; or
- No legal basis exists for the processing of the data, but instead of deleting it, you want its limited processing; or
- We no longer need this data (for the specified purpose), but you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or
- You have objected to the processing of the data, pending verification of the legal grounds of the data controller.
Right to data portability: You can ask us to provide the personal data you have entrusted to our care in an organized, orderly, structured, generally accepted electronic format.
Right to object: In the event that we process data for purposes/tasks, a task of public interest or in the exercise of official powers conferred on us, or we have indicated that the data processing is for our legitimate interest, you may object to the data processing.
Right to complain: Please contact us if you have any doubt we are violating Bulgarian or European legislation,. For illegal processing of your personal data you have the right to file a complaint to the regulatory authorities in the Republic of Bulgaria, responsible for the protection of personal data.
Changes to the Privacy Policy:
Petrov Law Firm may, at its discretion, amend this Privacy Policies at any time, in compliance with the requirements of the current legislation in the field of personal data protection. In the event of any such chamge, we will indicate the date of the change and such change will take effect for you and your data after the date of the change or from another explicitly stated later date.
Details of the personal data controller:
Name: Petrov Law Firm
Address: Sofia City, 38 Alexander Stamboliyski Blvd., floor 1, Office 2
E-mail: office@lawpetrov.com
