Dear website visitor,

Starting with May 25, 2018, European Regulation 2016/679 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data (“the Regulation”) is applicable.

Its main purpose is to increase the level of protection of personal data and to create a climate of trust that allows each person control over their own data.

Respect for your privacy is one of the principles on which we base our activity. Your privacy is important to us, which is why we created this Privacy Policy to explain the website’s practices regarding the information it processes.

Who is the data operator?

The website’s address is https://cristianboldor.com. It is the personal brand website of Cristian Boldor, an author, trainer, and slam poet from Romania. The website does not sell directly services or products; however, it presents such offerings from a promotional standpoint only without an option to buy them online. As such, the personal data collected is limited to marketing insights, contact form, and a newsletter sign-up form.

This policy aims to summarize the approach as a personal data operator (“Privacy Policy”) and is addressed to visitors of this website.

General information on data processing

The website cristianboldor.com pays close attention to the protection of your personal data and strictly observes the legal regulations regarding the confidentiality of the data.

Personal information is collected on this site only to the extent that it is technically necessary. The information is never sold or transmitted to third parties for any reason.

What is personal data?

For the purpose of the Regulation, personal data is defined as “any information regarding an identified or identifiable natural person (” the data subject “); an identifiable natural person is a person who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identification element, such as a name, identification number, location data, an online identifier, or to one or more many specific elements, specific to its physical, physiological, genetic, psychological, economic, cultural or social identity.”

What personal data does the website collect and process?

Personal data is collected only if you communicate it personally. In addition, no personal data are collected. Any processing of your personal data that exceeds the scope of the legal permission is possible only on the basis of your express consent.

The website collects this data in order to function optimally, to improve the visitor’s experience in order to improve and personalize the content it provides.

During the time that the website is live it can collect the following categories of information: name and surname; email address; information about your use of the website (marketing insights); the communications you make or which you direct to us through letters, emails, chat services, calls and social networks; location, including the real-time geographic location of your computer or device via GPS, Bluetooth, along with Wi-Fi hotspot locations and crowd-sourced cell tower, if you use location-based features and enable Location and Device Location Services computer.

Use of cookies

Websites use so-called cookies in several locations. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to the hard drive that belongs to your computer, via Web Browser (if you allow it), which allows websites or service provider systems to recognize your browser – and to capture and remember certain information.

These serve to make the website more friendly, efficient, and safe. Cookies do not cause computer damage and do not contain viruses.

The website cristianboldor.com uses cookies to operate and provide better content, to be able to improve your experiences, to understand how the content performs and to be able to customize the content based on your needs. Consequently, this website uses cookies to show you relevant content that you desire to read. In addition, it may use cookies to remind you of your choices, such as language preferences, to provide you with a more secure experience and to personalize the content for you.

What is the purpose of data collection and processing? How is it done?

Any information that is collected from you can be used in one of the following ways:

• To provide you with personalized content (your information helps us better respond to your individual needs);
• To improve the website based on the information and feedback we receive from you;
• In order to contact you in order to detail the products or services offered or to carry out discussions prior to contracting. This will only happen after you have expressed your explicit and express consent in this regard;
• For periodic marketing communications (transmission of newsletters, articles, information about future products / services / projects). This will only happen after you have expressed your explicit and express consent in this regard through signing up for the newsletter;
• For conducting internal analysis (including statistical analysis to find marketing insights that can improve the user experience on the website).

The website processes personal data only for legitimate purposes. It is necessary to pursue legitimate interests in order to improve the content, and the user experience. The data collected and stored helps us to find out more about your interests and needs. This allows us to act accordingly, through an approach tailored to your needs.

What gives us the right to process data?

We will only process your data if there is a legal basis for this. We may process your data when one or more of the following exist:

We will only process your data if we have a legal basis to do so. Thus, this legal basis will depend on the reasons underlying the collection and use of your data.

Compliance with legal obligations – the collection of data in this regard will be based on the need for us to comply with the legal obligations incumbent on us.

Consent – This may be the legal basis for the processing of personal data for the purpose of managing the submission of marketing information (articles, information about projects, events, etc.) or for the purpose of contacting the owner via the contact form. The right of withdrawal of the consent regarding the processing of the data will be able to be exercised by you at any time. We should mention that only people at least 18 years old can give their consent. For those under this age, the consent of the parents or legal guardians of the children is required.

Legitimate Interest – Our legitimate interest lies in ensuring that our site is secure for you. It also helps us understand the needs, expectations and satisfaction level of our users. Thus, we will be able to improve the content and user experience. We carry out all these actions in order to improve the level of satisfaction of the visitors on the website.

How long do we process your personal data?

Your personal data will be stored until the termination of the contractual relationship, unless we have the legal obligation to continue storing this data in order to present them to the public authorities that may ask for this information.

Your personal data will only be kept for the time necessary to fulfill the purpose for which they are processed. Thus, in order to determine the period for proper storage, we will take into account the quantity, nature of the data and the purposes for which we process them and whether we can achieve these goals by other means as well.

In case the law requires us to keep your data for a certain period, your data will be erased after the expiration of this term. After this time of accomplishing the purpose for which they were processed, your personal data will be securely deleted or destroyed.

Also worth mentioning is the fact that we are constantly taking into consideration how we can minimize the amount of personal data we collect and use.

How do we protect your personal data?

This website uses information security techniques in order to prevent unauthorized access to data and to guarantee their confidentiality. We assure you that we have taken all the technical and organizational measures necessary to guarantee the security and integrity of personal data that they have we process, as well as to avoid their loss, destruction or damage in any way.

As mentioned, in some cases we may disclose your information to trusted third parties, partners of our company with whom we have entered into agreements that provide strict data protection clauses, for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. We ask all our partners to have adequate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data.

We are not responsible for the loss of information due to errors in the software with which the website is designed and hosted, and we are not responsible for any errors in the security of the server hosting the site.

What are your rights concerning the collection and processing of personal data?

1. The right to access your data;

The right to obtain a copy of the personal data subject to processing is without prejudice to the rights and freedoms of others.

2. The right to rectify personal data or to complete incomplete data;
3. The right to delete data (“the right to be forgotten”);

The right to delete data has the following limitations: a) the existence of a different legal basis for the processing of personal data than consent; b) the existence of legitimate reasons regarding the processing of personal data; c) if the processing of personal data involves the exercise of the right to free expression and information; d) if the processing of personal data involves the observance of a legal obligation or the fulfillment of a task performed in the public interest or in the exercise of an official authority; e) for reasons of public interest in the field of public health; f) for archiving purposes in the public interest, for scientific or historical research purposes or for statistical purposes; g) if the processing of personal data involves finding, exercising or defending a right in court.

4. The right to restrict processing, only in the following cases:
5. a) the data subject contests the accuracy of the data, for a period that allows the operator to verify the accuracy of the data; (b) the processing is illegal and the data subject opposes the deletion of personal data, requesting instead the restriction of their use; (c) the operator no longer needs the personal data for the purpose of processing, but the data subject requests them to find, exercise or defend a right in court; or (d) the data subject objected to the processing in accordance with Article 21 (1), for the period of time in which it is ascertained whether the operator’s legitimate rights prevail over those of the data subject.
6. The right to data portability;

The right to data portability does not apply if: a) the processing is not based on consent or contract; or (b) the processing is not carried out by automatic means.

6. The right to oppose the collection and processing of personal data (the right to object, Article 21 of the Regulation);
7. The right to withdraw at any time a consent given to stop a processing of the data based on your consent;

Withdrawal will not affect the legality of the processing based on the consent given before withdrawal (the right to withdraw consent, article 7 of the Regulation).

8. The right to file a complaint with a supervisory authority, the National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing, if you consider that data processing is a violation of the Regulation (the right to file a complaint with a supervisory authority, article 77 of the Regulation).

Using Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service of Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called cookies. These are text files saved on your computer that allow you to analyze your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about using this website is normally transferred to a US Google server and stored there. When enabling IP anonymization on this site, however, your IP address is first truncated by Google in the Member States of the European Union or in other Contracting Member States in the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is transferred to a US Google server and truncated there. Google uses this information on behalf of the operator of this site to evaluate the use of this site, to compile reports on website activity for the website operator, and to perform additional services related to the use of the website and the Internet regarding the web operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser in connection with Google Analytics is not combined with other data from Google. You can prevent cookies from being saved by a proper setting in your browser software. Please note that in this case you may not be able to fully utilize all the features of this website. In addition, you can prevent the capture of the data generated by the cookie and your use of the website (including your IP address) on Google, as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).

Use of a newsletter

When you sign up for the newsletter, please provide your name and surname, and the email address and, optionally, other information. We use this data exclusively to send you the newsletter. We keep the data you disclose in your newsletter application until you cancel your subscription to our newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any time by means of the link in the newsletter intended for this purpose or by sending the appropriate notification. By unsubscribing, you revoke the use of your email address.

Content embedded from other sources

The content on this website may include embedded content (for example, videos, images, articles, etc.). Content embedded from other websites behaves exactly as if visitors viewed another website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, include additional third party tracking, and monitor your interaction with embedded content, including tracking your interaction with embedded content if you have an account and are logged in on that website.

You may want to read the privacy policies of these external sources, as they may have different policies regarding the collection and processing of personal data than this website does.

Your consent – By using this website you acknowledge that you have become aware of and consent to the privacy policy of this website.

Changes to the Privacy Policy – this privacy policy may change from time to time, but any changes will be notified to you by email or notification on the website.