Personal data policy

  1. The team of Georgiev and Petrov Law Firm (owner of the website www.gplawbg.com) takes the security and protection of personal data of visitors to our site with an utmost seriousness. We hereby inform you how and for what purposes we will process personal information submitted by you in connection with the usage of our website.
  2. Collection of personal information
2.1. The team of www.gplawbg.com can collect, store and use these types of personal information when you use our website: (A) Information for your computer or device which you use when visiting our website (including IP address, geographical location, browser type and the version, operational system, length of the visiting, visited subpages); (B) Information which you submit to book an appointment for consultation; (C) Information contained in or related to any communication made/sent through our website (including the content of the communication, metadata related to the communication); (D) Any other personal information that you have submitted to us in order to use the functionality of the site; 2.2. In case you use the website on behalf of a third party, any sharing of information representing personal data within the meaning of the Bulgarian and European legislation should be provided only with the express consent of this person. The gplawbg.com is not responsible for information about third parties submitted by a user without their consent.
  1. Usage of your personal data
3.1. All data shared by you will be used for the purposes set out in this policy. 3.2. We may use your personal information for: (A) Administration and maintenance of our website. (B) Optimizing its functionalities for better use. (C) In view of the use of our website and its functionalities – To make an appointment for a consultation or send an inquiry to our team. (D) To send messages to Users regarding the functionalities of the website, including confirmation of an appointment for a consultation or to check the status of a case filed by you. (E) To send email notifications that you have requested or are expecting; (F) To send marketing messages related to our business that we believe may be of interest to you. 3.3. The team of gplawbg.com will not provide information to third parties, which is personal data within the meaning of the Bulgarian and European legislation, regardless of the purposes without your explicit consent.
  1. Disclosure of personal information
4.1. The team of www.gplawbg.com may provide your personal information only in cases provided by the law, in view of the functioning of the website and compliance with our legal requirements as a controller of personal data 4.2. The gplawbg.com team may share personal data in the following cases: With the exception of what is provided in this policy, we will not share your personal data with third parties. (A) In cases required by law by a competent authority; (B) In connection with any current or future litigation; (C) To exercise or protect our legal right (including providing information to others for anti-fraud purposes);
  1. Storage of personal information
5.1. All data provided by you in connection with the use of our website will be processed and stored only for the purposes set out in this policy. 5.2. The personal data provided will not be stored for a longer period than for the purposes set out in this policy or in accordance with legal requirements.

  1. Protection of personal information
6.1. The team of gplawbg.com will undertake all necessary and appropriate technical and organizational measures in order to prevent the loss, misuse or deletion of your personal information. 6.2. All shared information on the website is stored on password-protected servers stored under the appropriate technical security requirements.

7. Amendments

7.1. The team of gplawbg.com has the right to update and change this policy by publishing up to date versions with the date of the last change on our website.

7.2. The team of gplawbg.com may additionally inform you of any changes in the privacy policy by e-mail or other source of communication established by you when using the functionalities of the website.

  1. Your Rights
8.1. As a visitor of the website, you have the right to request the provision of any personal information that we store about you in connection with the visit and use of the website. Please bear in mind that the provision of such information may be subject to:

(A) Payment of the costs if the information has to be sent on a physical medium or another way which requires the payment of additional costs

(B) In order to exercise your rights in connection with your personal data, our team can request the verification of your identity, in order to comply with the legal requirement to provide personal data only to the relevant persons.

8.2. The team of gplawbg.com may provide your personal data only to the extent provided by the law.

8.3. You have the right to inform us explicitly if you do not wish your data to be used for marketing purposes or to receive information about our latest offers.

  1. Update of the information
The information you provide is subject to update. In order to use for the stated purposes with which you agree, you should inform us in cases where this information has been changed.
  1. Cookies
10.1. The website gplawbg.com uses cookies. 10.2. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent from a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The ID is sent back to the server each time when one of the server pages loads. 10.3. The cookies are two types – “permanent” cookies or “session” cookies. The “permanent” cookies are subject to storage by the appropriate web browser you use and will remain valid until the expiration date, unless they are deleted by the user before the expiration date; The “session” cookie at the end of each individual user session when the web browser is closed. 10.4. Cookies do not usually contain type of information through which users can be personally identified, but contain personal information that is stored about you that may be related to the information stored in the cookies received. 10.5. The website uses both types of cookies. Most browsers allow cookies to be blocked. The user is free to block them at any time and you have the right to do so. If you choose to block cookies this would have a negative impact on the use of the site’s functionality.