GENERIC

The Privacy Policy of Avocatdirect.ro is designed to regulate the privacy-related aspects of Avocatdirect.ro (Platform) and is based on the Personal Data legislation. This Privacy Policy is based on the data protection principles and requirements adopted pursuant to the European General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) and Law no. 190 of July 18, 2018 on measures to implement Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016 on the 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 (General Data Protection Regulation).
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time and you will be notified of any such updates. More details regarding the collection or processing of Personal Data can be requested from us at any time.

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The procedures of our platform regarding the protection of personal data, organizational and technical measures, are structured in accordance with the legal rigors in force, in order to ensure the confidentiality and security of personal data and all information under our care. We periodically check the appropriateness of the implemented measures.

DEFINITIONS

All terms listed below shall also have the meaning assigned to them in the GDPR.
PERSONAL DATA means any information regarding an identified or identifiable natural person (“data subject”); an identifiable natural person is a person who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, etc.
PROCESSING means any operation or set of operations performed on personal data or sets of personal data, with or without the use of automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or modification, extraction, viewing, using, disclosing by transmission, disseminating or otherwise making available, aligning or combining, restricting, deleting or destroying;
RESTRICTION OF PROCESSING means marking stored personal data with the aim of limiting their future processing;
DATA RECORD SYSTEM means any structured set of personal data accessible according to specific criteria, whether centralized, decentralized or distributed according to functional or geographical criteria;
OPERATOR means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body that, alone or together with others, determines the purposes and means of processing personal data; when the purposes and means of processing are established by Union law or domestic law, the operator or the specific criteria for its designation may be provided for in Union law or domestic law;
CONSENT of the data subject means any manifestation of the data subject’s free, specific, informed and unambiguous will by which he accepts, through a statement or an unequivocal action, that the personal data concerning him be processed ;
BREACH OF SECURITY OF PERSONAL DATA means a breach of security that results, accidentally or unlawfully, in the destruction, loss, alteration, or unauthorized disclosure of personal data transmitted, stored, or otherwise processed, or in unauthorized access to these;
DATA SUBJECT is an identified or identifiable natural person who can be identified, directly or indirectly, on the basis of specific Personal Data.

You can find the full definitions in Regulation (EU) no. 679 of April 27, 2016 on the 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 (General Data Protection Regulation) (Text with relevance for the EEA)

Collection of personal data

The Avoctdirect.ro platform collects the personal data of customers and potential customers, natural persons, representatives of organizations and their contact persons, the contact data of the people they interact with and of those who act according to the instructions of Avocatdiect.ro customers, suppliers the platform, the people who contact the representatives or employees of the website, as well as the relevant people who make their personal data public obviously.
The Avocatdirect.ro platform collects and stores personal data as part of the procedures for accepting customers and executing the contracts thus concluded.

What personal data we collect

We inform you that the Avocatdirect.ro platform collects different data, depending on the context. The data collected by the platform are, in particular: the name and surname of the contact person, the name of the form of exercise of the lawyer profession, the position of the lawyer (owner, associate, etc.), telephone number, e-mail address, postal address, date, time and other possible contact details, which help us to have a clear record of the persons who contract with the Avocatdirect.ro platform, of Client Users, of Lawyer Users, or, in certain situations, of third parties interested in the functionality website or other relevant aspects.
We do not want to collect your personal numeric number or other unique government-assigned numeric data, so we only do so if required to do so by law and always with appropriate security measures in place. If incidentally such data comes to our knowledge, the platform undertakes to delete it immediately.

How we use personal data

The personal data relating to the contacts can be consulted by the representatives and/or employees of Avocatdirect.ro only to the extent that it is strictly necessary to initiate and maintain the connection with the contact persons in question, for the execution of contracts, as well as for other purposes that arise from obligations arising from laws, contracts or legal customs.
In this sense, we specify that we take into account the context in which the personal data were collected, especially with regard to the relationship between the data subjects and the Avocatdirect.ro platform, as well as the possible legal effects on the data subjects.

The Avocatdirect.ro platform informs that it will publish personal data of the Lawyer Users with whom it contracts, under the conditions established by the Contract, as well as in the Terms and Conditions Section, a fact that takes place strictly with the consent of the lawyer user.
Also, in the same vein, the Avocatdirect.ro platform will publish personal data and customer user data for the context in which the latter will deliberately publish a review on the platform about the lawyer with whom he had a legal consultation session through through the website.

Purposes of personal data processing

We process personal data for the development of the services of the Avocatdirect.ro platform, to provide contact persons with information about our platform and our range of services, facilities and opportunities. In this sense, we also use this data to provide personal data to the members of the Avocatdirect.ro team for the purpose of providing contracted services and offering new services and facilities.

According to EU Regulation no. 2016/679 (GDPR), we are subject to legal obligations and honest customs, which is why we have to keep some records, which do not concern personal data, but may contain personal data, so they are subject to the same protection rigors. Also, the platform stores information in order to prevent possible disputes.

The legal basis for processing personal data

The Avocatdirect.ro platform processes the personal data of the contact persons based on the consent, or the contract concluded with us or on the basis of honest customs, as well as for the execution of our legal obligations.

The time interval for data retention

Personal data will be kept by the Avocatdirect.ro platform strictly as long as necessary for the processing purposes, as well as, of course, according to legal or contractual requirements. In the absence of such requirements, the legal retention period for records and supporting documents for services should not exceed a term of 10 (ten) years.

Legal obligation not to disclose information – GDPR

The Avocatdirect.ro platform informs that it does not sell, rent or share your personal data in any way with third parties for marketing purposes. The personal data collected will be able to communicate with some of the platform’s partners, but not with marketing partners, but partners that support our activity for the realization of services, such as: Google Calendar, LinkedIn, Facebook. (updated: 16.09.2024)

GDPR security measures

The Avocatdirect.ro platform informs that the security measures adopted by it, both technical and organizational, protect both our information and information about contacts and other important data. We constantly take care of the detection, prevention and resolution of security threats, meaning that we allocate significant logistical and financial resources.

The rights of data subjects

The Avocatdirect.ro platform informs you about your rights Regarding Personal Data (GDPR), where you have: Right of access: the right to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you; The right to rectification: the right to rectify any incorrect or incomplete personal data; The right to deletion: the right to delete your personal data, in situations where you have withdrawn your consent, the processing is no longer necessary or the said processing is contrary to the law; Right to object: the right to object to the platform’s use of your personal data; Right of withdrawal: the right to withdraw your consent for the processing of data processed on the basis of consent; The right to restrict processing: the right to restrict the platform’s use of your personal data; The right to data portability: the right to data portability which allows you to receive a copy of the processed data we have received from you or to transmit it to another entity indicated by you.
In order to exercise the rights, we need to ensure that the requests come from the concerned persons. Please notify us of your requests in any way that is sufficiently reassuring as to the identity of the requester and his capacity as a person entitled to it. We will answer you as soon as possible. In case you are dissatisfied with the way of resolution, you can contact ANSPDCP.

Free newsletter

The platform provides free of charge to interested persons the opportunity to receive the Avocatdirect.ro newsletter in their e-mail box, which contains information and links to materials published on Avocatdirect.ro and its subdomains. For this purpose, we collect, store and use your name, surname and email address to send you information. This personal data is stored securely on a server in the European Union and the technical service provider is in the European Union. Note: subscribers to the newsletter can unsubscribe at any time, without any conditions or excessive formality, but in a simple way: either by using the automatic unsubscribe link inside each e-mail, or by contacting in writing directly to office@avocatdirect.ro .

YouTube channel

The Avocatdirect.ro platform uses YouTube services for the publication and distribution of video materials on the dedicated channel https://www.youtube.com/@avocatdirect which contains personal data of the people who made them public with their consent. Distribution is free. For a complete analysis of YouTube’s privacy policy, click here.

Google Calendar integration

The Avocatdirect.ro platform uses Google Calendar services to synchronize the appointments made through the platform with the lawyers’ calendar and to update their availability on the platform.

Lawyers are invited to allow Avocatdirect.ro access to one of their calendars from Google Calendar. Avocatdirect.ro will be only be able to access all the events in that calendar and will be able to add new events. Avocatdirect.ro does not access sensitive data from these events such as the title, location, description, participants, etc we only retrieve:

• event id
• timezone
• start date and end date
• status – if it is valid or cancelled
• if it is set as busy or free
• details about the recurrence of the event

For appointments made through the platform, customers will receive an email with the event dates with a special .ics file attached that most email reader interfaces can read and provide for adding the details to the customer’s personal calendar.
Avocatdirect.ro has no control over the event a client added to their own calendar, it cannot remotely read or modify its data, even if they were added to Google Calendar with which an integration was made only for lawyers.

GDPR – method of contact/questions/concerns/reports

The Avocatdirect.ro platform does not have as its main or secondary activity the performance of personal data processing operations. Also, the platform does not monitor your personal data on a large scale, nor systematically or periodically. For these reasons, from a legal point of view, the designation of a DPO (responsible for data processing) is not necessary. However, we advise you to use the e-mail address office@avocatdirect.ro or any other convenient way of contact for any concerns, requests, complaints or suggestions regarding the protection of personal data.

* This page was last updated: September 16, 2024