Ramona Dănac – Law Office

+40 722 222 592

office@danac.com.ro

Privacy Policy

Ramona Dănac Law Office is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. We dedicate to implement the highest standards of confidentiality and transparency in relation to the personal data that we process in our current activity.

This Privacy Policy describes the categories of your personal data that we process, the methods we collect your personal data, the purposes for which we collect, the cases when we transfer personal data and your rights and options in this respect. At the same time, the Privacy Policy details the way we process personal data in managing our client relationship, most frequently in order to keep you updated on the latest developments or events in your area of interest.

I. The controller of your personal data and contact details

The controller of your personal data is Dănac Ramona Cristina Cabinet de Avocat (“Ramona Dănac Law Office”) based in 36 Paris Street, First Floor, Ap. 3, 1^st District, Bucharest, România.
Mobile: +40 722 222 592
Phone: +40 310 699 891
Fax: +40 310 699 892
E-mail address: office@danac.com.ro

When processing your personal data, Ramona Dănac Law Office is responsible for complying with European and national legislation on personal data protection, including Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (“GDPR”).

We make every reasonable effort to protect your personal data in our possession or control by establishing reasonable security measures in order to prevent unauthorized access, collect, use, disclose, copy, modification or deletion, as well as other similar risks.

In this Privacy Policy, the terms personal data, controller, processor, data subject, consent, recipient, third party, processing and profiling have the meanings given to them in the GDPR.

II. Categories of processed personal data

We may collect personal information from you in the course of our business, including through your use of our website, when you contact or request information from us, when you engage our legal or other services or as a result of your relationship with one or more of our staff and clients.

The personal data that we process may include:

Contact information, such as your name, job title, postal address, including your home address (if provided), business address, telephone number, mobile phone number, fax number and email address;

Further information processed in a contractual relationship or voluntarily provided by you, such as instructions given, payments made, information on any legal matters, disputes, litigation or other legal claims in which you are involved in any capacity (i.e., defendant, plaintiff, intervenor, counsel, expert, etc.);

In the context of the services provided to you we may also collect and process special categories of personal data, such as: data on trade union membership, data concerning health, data on your political opinions, data on criminal convictions and offences;

Details of your visits of our offices or any other details on how you interact with us;

Data resulting from your browsing on our website, collected via cookies and similar technologies, according to our Cookie Policy.

III. Purposes for processing your personal data

Ramona Dănac Law Office collects and processes personal information about you in a number of ways, including through your use of our website and in the provision of services by us. We may use your personal data for the following purposes ("Permitted Purposes"):

Providing legal services, including legal representation before the courts of law, arbitral tribunals or other competent authorities;

Management of the contractual relationship with our clients;

Complying with our legal obligations (such as anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism financing obligations, obligations of reporting to the tax authorities);

Managing the security and access to our premises, the use of the IT systems (e.g., website, data management platforms, communication systems), including preventing and detecting security threats, fraud or other unauthorized or malicious activities;

For the purpose of complying with court judgments and exercising and/or defending our legal claims;

For the purpose of providing and improving this website, including auditing and monitoring its use;

Analyzing and improving our services and communications to you;

For the purposes of recruitment;

For any purpose related and/or ancillary to any of the above or any other purpose for which your personal data were provided to us, in compliance with the applicable law.

Also, based on your consent, we may send you various communications through the channels you have approved, to keep you up to date on the latest legal developments, announcements and other information about our services, products, events and projects or other promotional events.

We collect information from you as part of our business acceptance processes and about you and others as necessary in the course of providing legal services. We collect your personal information while monitoring our technology tools and services, including our websites and email communications sent to and from us.

We gather information about you when you provide it to us, or interact with us directly, for instance engaging with our staff or registering on one of our digital platforms. We may collect or receive information about you from other sources, such as keeping the contact details we already hold for you accurate and up to date using publicly available sources.

IV. Legal basis for personal data processing

Any data processing activity of your personal data shall be performed under one of the following legal bases:

Processing is necessary in order to execute or perform a contract to which you are party;

Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation of the controller;

Processing is performed with your consent;

Processing is necessary to protect your or other natural person’s vital interests;

Processing is necessary for legitimate interests;

Special categories of personal data, shall be processed if, in addition to a general legal basis for data processing, one the following specific processing conditions are met: (i) The consent of the data subject has been obtained, (ii) We have a legal obligation to process such data categories, (iii) Processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

V. How long do we retain your personal data?

Your personal information will be retained in accordance with our data retention policy which categorises all of the information held by Ramona Dănac Law Office and specifies the appropriate retention period for each category of data. Those periods are based on the requirements of applicable data protection laws and the purpose for which the information is collected and used, taking into account legal and regulatory requirements to retain the information for a minimum period, limitation periods for takin legal action, good practice and business purposes.

We will cease any processing of your personal data when it is no longer reasonably required for the Permitted Purposes or when you withdraw your consent (if applicable) and (i) there are no compelling legitimate grounds to continue processing of your personal data or (ii) if the personal data are no longer necessary to us for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

VI. Sharing your personal data

We may share your personal data with other lawyers (including other legal professionals with whom we cooperate in the provision of services) and legal specialists (including mediators, industrial property advisors), consultants or experts involved in the cases we manage and the services we provide, courts of justice or arbitral tribunals, other public authorities, entities nominated by you, parties involved in your case (which can be our client or a third party) or other entities in the context of the provision of our services (such as our service providers - IT service providers, technology service providers, translation service providers, insurance services)

VII. Transferring your personal data abroad

As a rule, we will not transfer your personal data outside of the European Economic Area (EEA). In exceptional circumstances and only if such transfer is required for the processing in accordance with the Permitted Purposes described above, we may transfer your personal data to EEA countries or countries recognized by the European Commission as offering an adequate level of protection.

In exceptional cases, if necessary, for the Permitted Purposes, we may transfer your personal data to third countries which were not recognized by the European Commission as offering an adequate level of protection. We will make sure that such international transfers are performed based on appropriate safeguards (such as based on Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission) as required by the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 or other applicable legal provisions. You may contact us anytime using the contact details below if you would like further information on such safeguards.

VIII. Updating your personal data

If any of the personal data that you have provided to us changes, for example if you change your name, surname or your email address or if you wish to cancel any request addressed to us, or if you become aware we have any inaccurate personal data about you, please e-mail us at office@danac.com.ro.

We will not be responsible for any loss arising from any inaccurate, inauthentic, insufficient or incomplete personal data that you provide to us.

IX. Your rights in relation to personal data processing

Subject to certain legal conditions, you have the following rights in relation to the processing of your personal data:

The right of access, namely the right to obtain confirmation from us that we process your personal data, as well as access to it by requesting a copy of your personal data which we hold and provision of information about the processing mode;

The right to the rectification of any inaccurate or incomplete personal data;

The right to object to or restrict our use of your personal data;

The right to withdraw your consent for the processing of personal data based on the consent;

The right to the erasure of your personal data/the right to be forgotten, namely the right to delete your personal data when you withdrew your consent, the processing is no longer necessary, or such processing is unlawful;

The right to data portability which allows you to receive a copy of the processed data which we received from you or to send them to another entity nominated by you;

The right to withdraw your consent for the consent-based processing. Withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before consent withdrawal. If you withdraw your consent, we will no longer process your personal data and shall take the necessary measures to erase your personal data. We may however process your personal data if there is another legal basis for such processing;

The right to lodge a complaint before a supervisory authority.

If you wish to exercise the rights detailed above, please contact us using the following contact details:
Address: 36 Paris Street, 1^st Floor, Ap. 3, 1^st District, Bucharest, România
E-mail: office@danac.com.ro
Telephone: +40 310 699 891
Fax: +40 310 699 892

If you have a complaint about our personal data processing practices, you should first contact Ramona Dănac Law Office. We will consider any requests or complaints which we receive and send you a response within the terms provided by the law. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may lodge a complaint with the Romanian supervisory authority If you are not satisfied with our response, you have the right to lodge your complaint with the following supervisory authority:

National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing
28-30 G-ral Gheorghe Magheru Bld., 1^st District, 010336, Bucharest, România
Telephone: +40 318 059 211
Email: anspdcp@dataprotection.ro
Website: www.dataprotection.ro

X. Updates to this privacy policy

The latest update to this Privacy Policy was made on March 10, 2020. We reserve the right to update and change this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect any changes in how we process your personal data or any changes of the applicable legal requirements. If any such amendment occurs, we will post the amended Privacy Policy on our website.

Please also refer to our Terms & Conditions and our Cookie Policy for further information on how we use of cookies on our website.