Privacy policy – TAO Center

PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION POLICY OF TAOCENTER.BG

The Administrator takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. We process your personal data in compliance with the mandatory regulations for protection of personal data and the present confidentiality policy. If you use this website, some of your personal data will be collected. Personal data is any kind of data through which you can be identified. This policy explains how will process the data and how the data will be processed; how long will your personal data be stored; what are the measures for protection which are undertaken in relation to the processing of personal data, etc.

When you choose to provide personal data, you declare that you are aware of the present policy for protection of personal data.

Who processes your personal data and who is responsible?

Your personal data is processed by taocenter.bg, Sofia, Bulgaria

9 Arsenalski Blvd. (hereinafter referred to as the “Administrator”)

The Administrator is a person who will decide on their own or with the participation of some other persons on the goals and methods used for the processing of your data (names, email and other addresses, etc.)

How do we collect data through our website?

Some of the data we collect will be received only after your provided it. For example, this is the case when you provide your data in the case the Contact Form is filled in. Another part of the data will be collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit our website. This data is mainly technical, for example, what is your browser and operating system that you use or the time when you visited our website. This data is collected automatically when you visit our website.

What are the rights your have in relation to your data?

You will always have the right to request information at no cost about the collected data, their origin, the recipients and the goals related to its use. Also, you will have the right to request your data to be edited, blocked or deleted. You can contact us at any time if you have additional questions about the confidentiality and protection of the data. Of course, if needed you can send a complaint to the competent institutions. You can find more information about your rights and how you can exercise them below.

Do we have use of analysis methods and tools associated with third parties?

When you visit our website, we can have a statistical analysis of your surfing behavior. This is realized mainly through the use of cookies and analyses. The analysis of your browsing behavior is usually anonymous, i.e. we shall not be able to identify you on the basis of this data. You can object against these analyses or limit them if you do not use some of the provided tools.

Detailed information can be found in the present privacy policy.

When do we process your data?

The cookies do NOT harm your computer and they include NO viruses. The cookies make taocenter.bg more easy to work with, more effective and more secure. The cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and kept by your browser. Most of the cookies we use are the so-called “session cookies”. They are deleted immediately after your visit. Some other cookies remain in the memory of your device until you erase them. These “cookies” allow us to recognize your browser during the next time you visit the website. You can configure your browser, so that it informed you about the use of cookies, so you could decide on each specific case whether you want to accept or reject the cookies. Also, your browser may be configured to accept automatically the cookies at certain conditions or reject them always; or the browser may automatically delete the cookies when you close your browser session. The deactivation of cookies may limit the functionality of taocenter.bg. TAO Center has legal interest to store the cookies in order to provide an optimized service with no technical errors. If some other cookies are stored like the ones used for the analysis of the behavior during surfing/browsing, they will be identified in the respective Cookie Policy of the website.

Registration Server Files

The website www.taocenter.bg will automatically collect and store information which your browser automatically sends to the “registration files of the server”. This information is the following:

* Browser type and version

* Used operation system

* Name of the access host

* Time for the server request

* IP address

The provided data will NOT be combined with data from other sources.

Email Address Registration

After you provide your email address, the latter will be used for the so-called direct marketing as far as this is allowed by the law. When we use your personal data for the goals of direct marketing, commercial bulletins and marketing messages related to new products and services or other offers we believe that might be interesting to you, we shall activate a link and/or special functionality for termination of the subscription that you may use if you do not want to receive messages in the future. This may be done when you press the button “Unsubscribe”. In this case we shall stop the processing of personal data and we shall delete this data from our database.

Contact Form

In the section “Contacts” of taocenter.bg or through another section of the website you may contact us and we shall be glad to respond to your inquiry. In relation to this you will have to provide the following personal data:

* Two or three of your names;

* Email address;

If you send us question through the contact form we shall collect the data that was entered in the form, including the contact data which you provide in order to respond to your question and any other questions that might appear later. We shall NOT share this information without your consent.

We shall store the data you provide in the contact form until you request their deletion; or if you withdraw your consent for storage; or if the goal associated with the storage of data was no longer effective (for example, after the realization of your request). Any mandatory legal regulations, especially the ones associated with the mandatory periods for storage of data, will not be affected by this provision.

You can withdraw your consent at any time. The data that was processed before we received your request will have the potential to be processed legally.

What are the grounds for the processing of your data?

We shall process the data you provided only on the basis of your explicit consent to have that data provided to us. In some specific cases we might process your personal data in relation to legal requirements that we comply with or in order to protect our legitimate interests. In any case we shall process your personal data on the basis of the regulations identified in Article 6, EU Directive 2016/679 by the European Parliament and the Council dated 27-Apr-2016.

What are the rights your have as a personal data holder?

You have the following rights and we shall cooperate at any time in relation to these rights:

You will have the right to receive information at the time your personal data was collected;

You will have the right to withdraw your consent for processing of your personal data;

You will have the right to request access to your personal data;

You will have the right to request editing of your personal data;

You will have the right to have your personal data erased;

You will have the right to limit the processing of your personal data;

You will have the right to object against the processing of your personal data;

You will have the right to transfer your personal data;

You will have the right to seek protection of your rights through the submission of a complaint to the respective control institution on national level or legally.

How can you exercise your rights?

You can exercise each of the specified rights by sending a written notice to the following address: Sofia, 9 Arsenalski Blvd. – To the attention of the Administrator. The application will be submitted by you personally or a person you authorized unless a special law specified otherwise.

The application should include: name, address and other information for identification of the respective natural person; description of the request; preferred form for communication and actions as specified in Articles 15-22 of EU Regulation 2016/679; signature, submission date and correspondence address. In case the application was submitted through a proxy, a Power of Attorney should be specifically enclosed.

If you have any questions about the methods for the exercising of your rights, you can contact us.

What will happen if you failed to provide consent for the processing of your personal data and you withdrew that consent?

In case you failed to give your consent for the processing of your personal data or you withdrew the consent you had given, you will not be able to use the services offered through the website taocenter.bg that are related to the provided data.

What will happen if I am younger than 16 years?

We only process personal data of persons who are at least 16 years old. When you provide your personal data you will declare that your age is at least 16 y.o.

Which are the measures we have taken to protect your personal data?

We understand well how important it is to have your data processed properly and be well protected. The team of the Administrator has introduced adequate technical and organizational measures in order to protect your personal data. These measures – among other things – allow compliance with the principles associated with the processing of personal data and the following will be guaranteed:

Your personal data was processed lawfully, conscientiously and transparently with regard to the data holder (“lawfulness, conscientiousness and transparency”);

Your personal data was collected with regard to specific, explicitly defined and legitimate purposes with no further processing in ways that are incompatible with the specified purposes (“limitation of goals”);

Your personal data was suitable and limited to the necessary properties in relation to the associated processing goals (“minimum data”);

Your personal data was accurate and maintained up-to-date. We undertook all reasonable measures in order to guarantee timely deletion or adjustment of inaccurate data considering the goals related to processing (“accuracy”);

Your personal data was stored in the format which will allow identification of the data subject for a period which was not longer than the necessary in relation to the goals associated with the data processing (“limitation of storage”);

Your personal data was processed in a way that will guarantee suitable level of security for personal data, including protection against unauthorized or illegal processing and accidental loss, destruction or damage. In relation to this, specific technical and organization measures will be applied (“integrity and privacy”);

The Administrator will be responsible and will be able to prove that they comply with the basic principles related to personal data processing (“accountability“).

When can we change the present policy?

The Administrator reserves their right to change the present policy at any time by updating it, supplementing it and modifying it.

Privacy Policy – TAOCENTER.BG