I. General Information
The confidentiality of your personal data is one of my main concerns, Alina Raducan, as owner and administrator of the blog UtilitateaPlantelorMedicinale.com, as a data controller.
This document has the role of informing you about the processing of your personal data, in the context of using the website utilitateaplantelormedicinale.com, hereinafter referred to as „the Site”, in compliance with the legal provisions on personal data in force in Romania, law 677/2001 and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”).
II. Personal data processed
„Personal data” is unique individual information that helps to identify a physical person („data subject”), such as name, address, personal numerical code, IP or telephone number, location data, a online identifier or to one or more specific elements, specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.
As a visitor to the Site (Guest), your personal data that you provide directly in the context of Site usage (username, email address, web address of the person’s who leaves a comment on the site) will be processed, but also data that will be collected and stored automatically by simply accessing the site, such as IP address, browser used.
The Site also uses various additional services for monitoring and developing traffic, so that information about your browsing activity or how you interacted with the Site is stored. But these are done through cookies described in the Cookies Policy page. In this case, personal data from visitors is presented only as statistical information about blog traffic.
III. Purposes and grounds for processing
If you are a guest of the Site, the Utility of Medicinal Plants processes your personal data as follows:
• The IP and browser used are automatically collected when accessing the Site;
Ground: The IP and browser used are automatically collected when accessing the Site. This information is processed and presented automatically as statistical data, but is not used to identify you or for other purposes. Technically I don’t know if it’s possible on my part. If you do not want this data to be collected, it is impossible to access the Site.
- For marketing activities, specifically for the commercial communications regarding the new articles published on the Site performed by E-mail;
Ground: The processing of your data for this purpose is based on your consent, (art. 6 paragraph (1) letter a of Regulation (EU) 679/2016) for direct marketing activities, newsletter submission, etc.
For options such as posting a comment on an article, subscribing to the site (receiving notifications), the following personal data is required and collected: username, email address, web address of the person commenting. You express your consent to the processing of data for this purpose by filling in the appropriate boxes on the form for subscribing to the Site or posting a comment. To unsubscribe from receiving such commercial communications you can use the Unsubscribe option included in the E-mail that contains commercial communications.
Providing your data for this purpose is voluntary. Not providing this information is a refusal to post a comment or a refusal to subscribe.
If other personal data is provided by own initiative, their processing is based on the consent of the data subject, explicitly given when the information was entered.
This data is not transferred or traded to third parties and is not processed for purposes other than providing the services on the Site.
- to resolve complaints and to monitor traffic and improve your experience on the Site;
Ground: The processing of your data for this purpose is based on the legitimate interest of UtilitateaPlantelorMedicinale.com to ensure a proper activity of the Site, as well as to permanently improve the experience of visitors to the Site, including answering various comments, questions or complaints.
Providing your data for this purpose is voluntary. Not providing this information is a refusal to post a comment or a refusal to subscribe.
- In order to perform various traffic analyzes, reports on the activity of the Site, identify the consumption preferences, mainly in order to improve the experience offered on the Site.
Ground: The processing of your data for this purpose is based on the legitimate interest of UtilitateaPlantelorMedicinale.com to permanently improve the experience on the Site.
Providing your data for this purpose is voluntary. Not providing the data for this purpose will not have negative consequences for you. Google Analytics opt-out. Refuse (opt-out) Google Ads customization.
IV. How long we keep the information security?
Your personal data will be processed as long as necessary to achieve the processing purposes mentioned above.
If you are a subscriber member of the UtilitateaPlantelorMedicinale.com site, we will process your data throughout the existence of the account and subsequently according to the legal obligations applicable for UtilitateaPlantelorMedicinale.com (for example, IP addresses continue to be stored in the database data, in association with each post written by you).
If you withdraw your consent for data processing for non-commercial communications, UtilitateaPlantelorMedicinale.com will stop processing your personal data for this purpose, without affecting the processing carried out by UtilitateaPlantelorMedicinale.com based on the consent expressed by you before withdrawing it.
V. Information shared publicly
UtilitateaPlantelorMedicinale.com may disclose your data to partners, to third parties or entities that support the activity through the Site (IT service providers, etc.) or to central / local public authorities, in the following cases listed as examples:
• for the administration of the Site;
• when the communication would be necessary for the awards or other facilities to the persons concerned, obtained as a result of their participation in various promotional campaigns organized through the Site;
• for maintaining and improving the Site and the services provided through it;
• for performing data analysis, testing and research, monitoring usage and activity trends, developing security features and user authentication;
• for the transmission of commercial marketing communications, under the conditions and limits provided by law;
• when the disclosure of personal data is requested by law;
VI. The transfer of personal data
Personal data provided to UtilitateaPlantelorMedicinale.com may be transferred outside Romania, to European Union countries or to the United States of America, in accordance with the guarantees offered by EU-US Privacy Shield standards.
The personal data provided to UtilitateaPlantelorMedicinale.com will not be transferred, sold, rented to partners, third parties or entities that support the activity of the Site UtilitateaPlantelorMedicinale.com.
VII. Your rights
If you are located in a country that falls under the scope of the GDPR, data protection laws give you certain rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:
- Request access to your personal data;
- Request correction or deletion of your personal data;
- Object to our use and processing of your personal data;
- Request that we limit our use and processing of your personal data; and
- Request portability of your personal data.
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