Introduction
Sarbu Partners, a professional law firm based in Bucharest, Romania, hereby informs you of our Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”). This policy aims to provide you with an overview of how we collect, record, store, use (“Processing”) process your personal data.
Categories of Personal Data
By “Personal Data” we mean information that directly or indirectly identifies you, such as your name, surname, date and place of birth, the name of your job and company, address, telephone number, e-mail address and other similar details. In addition, we may process special categories of personal data, such as health information or criminal convictions, in certain circumstances.
In the course of our business, we may also process special categories of personal data, such as personal numerical code, identity card number and serial number, health data, data concerning membership of various organizations, data concerning criminal convictions and offences, where applicable.
We collect personal data from you in various ways, including when you contact us for legal advice, when you browse our website, when you offer to provide services for us, or when you voluntarily provide personal data to us for any reason. We may also obtain your data from third party sources, such as your employer or other organizations with which you have links.
Purposes for Processing Personal Data
The purposes for which we process your personal data include communicating with you in relation to the services you have requested, managing the business relationship, complying with legal obligations, protecting security and assessing compliance. We may also use your data for marketing purposes if you have opted in to receive such communications and you have the option to unsubscribe at any time.
Basis for Processing Personal Data
The processing of your personal data is based on various legal grounds, such as your consent, the performance of a contract to which you are a party, in order to fulfill legal obligations. We respect your legal rights, including the right of access to your data, the right to rectification or erasure, the right to restriction of processing and the right to data portability. You also have the right to object to the processing of your data in certain circumstances.
Data Transfers, Recipients And the Legal Basis for Such Transfers
We transfer your personal data to third parties only to the extent necessary to fulfill the aforementioned purposes. We work with trusted entities and comply with data protection regulations in all transfers.
Security of Personal Data. Retention Period
To ensure the security of your personal data, we have implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures. We store your data on secure systems and keep it only for the period required by applicable law.
Your Rights
Under applicable law, you have the following rights:
- Right of access – your right to be informed, upon request, whether your personal data is being processed, and if so, you have the right to request access to it. Relevant information about the data processing activities includes, inter alia, the purposes of the Processing, the categories of Personal Data affected and the recipients or categories of recipients to whom your Personal Data has been or will be transmitted.
- Right to rectification of data – your right to obtain from Sarbu Partners the rectification of your Personal Data that is inaccurate, as well as the right to complete incomplete Personal Data.
- Right to data erasure – your right to request that we erase your Personal Data, subject to limitations arising from legal obligations incumbent on us that require us to retain the data for a certain period or where the data is useful to us for a legitimate interest such as the defense of a claim in court.
- Right to restriction of processing – your right to request restriction of the Processing of your Personal Data. In this case, the data concerned will be flagged and may be processed by us only for certain purposes.
- Right to data portability – your right to receive the Personal Data you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format and the right to transmit this data to another entity.
- Right to object – your right to object to the processing of your Personal Data under the conditions and within the limits provided by law. We inform you that the law obliges us to comply with your request only for processing carried out for direct marketing purposes (e.g. if you receive emails with our newsletters you can ask us to unsubscribe). In other cases, we will consider our interests and your particular situation in order to make a decision. In this regard, please also explain why you object to the processing when making such a request.
If you have any questions or wish to exercise your legal rights, please contact us at our address in Bucharest.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing.
Versions of The Privacy Policy
This privacy policy is effective as of February 15, 2025.
The Privacy Policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes in law or practice. Any updates will be posted on our website or communicated to you accordingly.