Privacy Policy

Last updated: 9 September 2024

Suciu & Asociații Societate Profesională de Avocați cu Răspundere Limitată („Suciu & Asociații SPARL”) is committed to safeguarding your privacy and ensuring the protection of your personal data. As the data controller, we are responsible for any personal information you provide when you visit our website or request services from us.

This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal data, in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), and outlines your rights in relation to this data.

1. Scope of the website
The website www.suciupartners.ro provides general information about Suciu & Asociații SPARL, our services, and our team. It is accessible to both clients and non-clients of Suciu & Asociații SPARL. We may collect and use personal data you provide via email or other means, even if you are not contractually related to Suciu & Asociații SPARL, to respond to your inquiries or requests.

2. Personal data
Personal data refers to any information that can be used to identify an individual. The processing of personal data is always in accordance with GDPR.

3. Contact details of the data controller
Data controller for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:

Suciu & Asociații SPARL

T: +40 374 494 944

F: +40 374 094 490

E-mail: office@suciupartners.ro

Website: https://www.suciupartners.ro/contact/

4. Data we collect

We do not collect personally identifiable data about you such as your name, address, telephone number, fax number, e-mail address etc. unless you choose to provide it by contacting us directly.

However, we automatically collect non-personally identifiable data when you visit our website. This may include browser types and versions used, the operating system used, the website from which an accessing system reaches our website, the date and time of access to the internet website, an IP address, the internet service provider of the accessing system, and any other similar data and information that may be used for customizing the display of our website on your device or in the event of attacks on our information technology systems.

5. How we use your data

We use non-personally identifiable data for website traffic analysis, which allows us to improve the design and content of our website. This data is anonymous, and we do not use it to identify individual visitors.

In the ordinary course of business, we may use personal data you provide via e-mail information related to our mandate. If you are not a client of Suciu & Asociații SPARL, we may use your personal data that you send us via e-mail in order to respond to a specific enquiry sent by you.

We may also use the e-mail addresses in our database for marketing and informative newsletters. Such will be sent along with a clear and easy opt-out option for the recipient.

We will not contact you about other matters, unless you specifically request it, nor will we share, rent, or sell your personal data outside Suciu & Asociații SPARL, except where we have your approval or where that is necessary to fulfil our legal or contractual obligations.

If you are interested in applying for a job at Suciu & Asociații SPARL and choose to submit resume information by e-mail, we will use it only for the internal application review process. Please direct all job applications to recruitment@suciupartners.ro and not to other e-mail addresses available on the website.

However, it is possible, though unlikely, that we might be forced to disclose personal data in response to legal process or when we believe in good faith that the law requires it, for example, in response to a court order, subpoena or a law enforcement agency's request.

6. Third-party websites

Our website may contain links to third-party websites, such as LinkedIn or other external platforms, whose privacy practices may differ from ours. These third-party websites operate independently and have their own privacy policies, which we encourage you to review before interacting with their services or providing any personal data.

We encourage visitors to review the privacy policies of third parties, as we do not control or assume responsibility for how they collect or use data.

7. Cookies

Our website uses cookies to enhance your browsing experience. These are small text files stored on your device when you visit our website. Cookies help ensure essential website functionality, analyze traffic to understand user interests, and compile anonymous statistics to enhance the website’s performance.

You cannot be personally identified through this data. For more information, please refer to our [Cookie Policy].

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by clicking the right option on the pop-up window that is automatically displayed when you visit our website or by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our website if cookies are disabled. For further information about disabling or blocking cookies, please see our [Cookie Policy].

8. Data security

We take reasonable measures to hold information securely in electronic or physical form and to prevent unauthorized access, modification or disclosure. Our information security practices include access-controlled premises, secure databases requiring logins and passwords, and confidentiality obligations for staff and third-party providers.

9. Rights of the user

Under GDPR, you have the following rights concerning your personal data:

Right of confirmation – you have the right to confirm whether your personal data is being processed.
Right of access – you can request access to your personal data at any time and a copy of this information, upon request.
Right of rectification – you can request the rectification of inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
Right to erasure (“Right to be forgotten”) – you have the right to request the erasure of your personal data and Suciu & Asociații SPARL has the obligation to erase the personal data, as long as the processing is not necessary and no new lawful purpose exists.
Right to restrict processing – you can request a restriction of processing, where one of the following applies: the accuracy of the personal data is contested, for as long as it takes to verify that accuracy; the processing is unlawful and the user requests restriction, as opposed to exercising the right to erasure; Suciu & Asociații SPARL no longer needs the data for their original purpose, but the data are still required by Suciu & Asociații SPARL to establish, exercise or defend legal rights; or if verification of overriding grounds is pending, in the context of an erasure request.
Right to data portability – you can request a copy of your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format that allows for easy re-use. This enables you to: transfer your data to another data controller; store your data for personal use on a private device; request that your data be transmitted directly between controllers, without any hindrance.
Right to object to processing – you can object to data processing based on public interest or legitimate interest grounds. If Suciu & Asociații SPARL processes personal data for direct marketing purposes, the user has the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning them for such marketing. If the user objects to the processing for direct marketing purposes, Suciu & Asociații SPARL will no longer process the personal data for these purposes.
Right to withdraw consent – you can withdraw your consent to data processing at any time.

10. Legal basis for processing
There are several reasons why we hold, process and share individuals’ personal data.

Under data protection laws, the lawful reasons for processing personal data include:

to comply with a legal obligation (e.g., to keep records of our mandates and clients in accordance with the prerequisites of the legal profession in Romania; statutory reporting requirements; courts or the police are legally obliged to do so);
for a legitimate interest of Suciu & Asociații SPARL, except where those rights are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection (e.g., use of the e-mail addresses in our database for marketing and informative newsletters, recruitment processes, respond to and defend against legal claims or other investigatory processes, maintain a secure IT infrastructure);
consent – for specific activities like email marketing or placing cookies, where consent is required, only in limited circumstances (e.g., cookies).
Please refer to office@suciupartners.ro if you consider that there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground.

11. Routine erasure of personal data
Suciu & Asociații SPARL shall process and store the personal data of users only for the period necessary to achieve the purpose of processing or storage, or as long as other legislators in laws or regulations to which Suciu & Asociații SPARL is subject to requires. For the retention period of each type of specific personal data you may be concerned about, please send your queries to office@suciupopa.ro.

12. Existence of automated decision-making
We do not use automated decision-making or profiling. Profiling means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person.

13. Revisions to our Privacy Notice
We review this Privacy Notice regularly and reserve the right to revise it or any part of it from time to time to reflect changes in the law or technology practices. Please review the notice periodically for changes.

We encourage you to read this Privacy Notice carefully, together with any other privacy notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal information about you, so that you are aware of how and why we are using such information. Please send any questions regarding this notice to office@suciupartners.ro.