Privacy Policy

INTRODUCTION

The privacy of visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains what we will do with your personal information.

Granting consent for the use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when visiting our website for the first time allows us to use cookies every time you visit our website.

APPIC respects the privacy of all its visitors and customers and will handle/process personal data with great care, under appropriate technical and organizational security conditions. Thus, we will dedicate all necessary resources and efforts to process your data in full compliance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“General Data Protection Regulation” or “GDPR”) as well as any other applicable legislation in Romania.

Through this document, we want to inform you about how we collect, use, transfer, and protect your personal data when you interact with us regarding our products and services, including through our website. We reserve the right to update and periodically modify this Privacy Policy to reflect any changes in the way we process your personal data or any legal requirements. In the event of such changes, we will post the updated version of the Privacy Policy on our website, and we kindly ask you to check its content periodically.

WHO WE ARE AND HOW YOU CAN CONTACT US

APPIC is the trade name of PLAN PATRU.

WHAT PERSONAL DATA DOES APPIC PROCESS?

APPIC processes the personal data you provide when you use the website, purchase services or products from the site, sign up for our campaigns (and/or campaigns organized together with our partners or by our partners), want to receive commercial communications, or participate in our surveys and questionnaires, or contact us by any means of communication.

We use cookies to measure traffic and personalize displayed ads. Cookies come from third-party services, such as Google Analytics, Google Adsense, and Facebook. Cookies help improve user experience, measure traffic, and personalize displayed advertisements.

We may also collect and further process certain information regarding your behavior while visiting our website to personalize your online experience and provide tailored offers to your profile. We invite you to learn more about this by reviewing the section on processing purposes below. On our website, we can store and collect information in cookies and similar technologies in accordance with the Cookie Policy.

COLLECTION AND STORAGE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:

  • Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system;
  • Information about your visits to and use of this website, including referral source, duration of visit, page views, and website navigation paths;
  • Information such as your email address, name, profile picture, which you enter when submitting a comment or message through our website;
  • Information generated while using our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
  • Information you post on our website with the intention of publishing on the internet, which may include your username, profile pictures, and the content of your posts;
  • Information contained in any communications you send us by email or through our website, including the content of communications and metadata;
  • Any other personal information you send us.

Your personal data may be stored on:

  • The server of the company hosting the site planpatru.ro;
  • Computers and external data storage devices that APPIC operates;
  • Encrypted servers of the digital courier provider.

Before disclosing another person’s personal information to us, you must obtain that person’s consent for both the disclosure and the processing of their personal information in accordance with this policy.

USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Personal information submitted through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information to:

  1. Administer our website;
  2. Personalize our website for you;
  3. Enable your use of services available on our website;
  4. Send you explicitly requested information by email;
  5. Provide third parties with statistical information about our users (those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user based on this information);
  6. Address inquiries and complaints made by you or about you regarding our website;
  7. Keep our website secure and prevent fraud;
  8. Verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our private messaging service);
  9. Other uses.

If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the permission you grant us.

Privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted using the privacy controls on the website.

Without your express consent, we will not provide your personal information to any third parties for direct marketing by those third parties or any other third party.

DURATION OF PERSONAL DATA PROCESSING

To achieve the stated purpose, APPIC will process your personal data throughout the duration of the activities until you or your legal representative/executive exercise the right to oppose/delete the data (except when we process the data based on a legal obligation or justify a legitimate interest). After the completion of personal data processing for the purpose for which it was collected, if you or your legal representative/executive do not exercise the right to oppose/delete it in accordance with the law, this data will be archived by APPIC for the period specified in APPIC’s internal procedures and/or will be destroyed.

HOW WE PROTECT THE SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We are committed to ensuring the security of personal data by implementing appropriate technical and organizational measures, in accordance with industry standards.

Your personal data transmission is carried out using encryption algorithms, and we store it on secure servers, ensuring data redundancy at the same time.

Despite the measures we take to protect your personal data, we draw your attention to the fact that the transmission of information over the Internet, in general, or through other public networks is not completely secure, and there is a risk that data may be viewed and used by unauthorized third parties. We cannot be held responsible for such vulnerabilities of systems that are not under our control.

NEWSLETTERS

When you subscribe to a newsletter, your email address will be used to optimize our services until you unsubscribe from the newsletter. You will receive information about content developed on the website www.planpatru.ro, as well as information about products or services from our partners’ portfolios. By subscribing to the Newsletter service, you agree that, for the duration of your subscription, your email address will be used for communication purposes. After unsubscribing, the service will end, but APPIC may store the email address and/or your name for a duration determined according to legal provisions and relevant purposes for retention (e.g., subscriber record keeping).

You can unsubscribe from the Newsletter at any time. To unsubscribe, you will find the Unsubscribe option at the footer of any newsletter.

DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may disclose your personal information as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy. We may disclose your personal information:

  1. To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
  2. In connection with any potential or ongoing legal proceedings;
  3. To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights;
  4. To the purchaser (or potential purchaser) of any business or asset that we are selling (or are considering selling); and
  5. To any person whom we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for the disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be likely to order the disclosure of that personal information.

Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS

  1. Information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to allow us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
  2. Information collected may be transferred to the following countries, which do not have personal data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China, and India.
  3. Personal information you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available worldwide via the internet. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
  4. You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section.

RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

  1. This Section outlines our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
  2. Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
  3. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
    a. To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
    b. If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or future legal proceedings; and
    c. To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights.

MODIFICATIONS

We reserve the right to update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes made to this policy.

YOUR RIGHTS

According to the law, you are recognized the following rights as the data subject:

  1. Right of access – you can obtain from us confirmation that we process your personal data, as well as information regarding the specifics of processing.
  2. Right to rectify data – you can ask us to modify your incorrect personal data or, as the case may be, complete the data that is incomplete.
  3. Right to erasure – you can request the deletion of personal data when: (i) they are no longer necessary for the purposes for which we collected and processed them; (ii) you withdraw your consent for data processing, and we can no longer process them on other legal grounds; (iii) data is processed illegally; or (iv) data must be erased in order to comply with relevant legal provisions.
  4. Withdrawal of consent and right to object – you can withdraw your consent for data processing at any time. Moreover, you can object at any time to the processing of your data for marketing purposes, including profiling done for direct marketing purposes, as well as to the processing of your data based on a legitimate interest, for reasons related to your particular situation, through:
    – Accessing the unsubscribe link displayed in the messages you receive from us, or
    – Contacting us using the following contact details: contact@planpatru.ro.
  5. Restriction – under certain conditions, you can request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.
  6. Right to data portability – to the extent that we process data through automated means, you can request, in accordance with the law, that we provide your data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. If you request this, we can also transmit your data to another entity, if technically feasible.
  7. Right to file a complaint with the supervisory authority – you have the right to file a complaint with the supervisory authority for data processing if you believe your rights have been violated: The National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing in Romania, B-dul G-ral. Gheorghe Magheru 28-30, Sector 1, Postal Code 010336, Bucharest, Romania, anspdcp@dataprotection.ro.

THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES

Our website includes hyperlinks to and details about third-party websites. We do not have any control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.