This website is the property of PBC Attorneys at Law, having its office in Bucharest, Romania – 4-6 Prof. Ion Bogdan Street, 4-5th floor.
Please find below the terms & conditions applicable to access and use of this website:
Use of website
The design and content of www.pbca.ro represent a general information resource for clients and other third parties. By using this website, you will be informed about PBC Attorneys at Law, including information about the law firm, its capabilities, its practices, strategic approach as well as information related to its lawyers.
Intellectual Property Rights
The website and its content are the property of PBC Attorneys at Law.
You hereby acknowledge and agree that PBC Attorneys at Law is the sole and exclusive owner of all intellectual rights over the design and content of the website, including but not limited to brand name, texts, profiles, photos, videos, and graphics.
You hereby agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, publish, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purpose any portion of the website or its content, unless authorized by PBC Attorneys at Law in writing.
Trademarks and copyrights are the exclusive property of PBC Attorneys at Law and their unauthorized use in prohibited.
Availability of the services
The content of the website does not represent a guarantee of the availability of the services described on the website, nor legal advice or consultancy. No information in this website shall be considered as creating an attorney-client relationship between the user and PBC Attorneys at Law.
Any specialized advice a user of the website may require under the Romanian legislation it will only be provided by PBC Attorneys at Law upon request and instructions provided by the user.
Personal data processing
Certain personal data are collected through the Website. The details regarding the processing by PBC Attorneys at Law of such personal data are available in Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy sections of this website.
Security
PBC Attorneys at Law uses proper technological resources in order to ensure the security of the website. Under no circumstances, PBC Attorneys at Law shall be responsible for any loss or damage to your data or your computer system which may occur while using www.pbca.ro website.
Links to Other Sites
The website may contain links to websites operated by other parties. PBC Attorneys at Law has no control over these websites, does not endorse them and is not responsible for the content available on the websites operated by other parties. Therefore, PBC Attorneys at Law cannot be held responsible for any negative effects of accessing these websites. By clicking on certain links, you confirm you understand the possible consequences and agree to use them at your own risks.
Governing Law
The herein Terms and Conditions are governed by, and will be construed under, Romanian law.
General terms
These hereby Terms and Conditions represent an agreement between you and PBC Attorneys at Law with respect to the subject matter. In these terms and conditions, the term ‘you’ refer to any user who access www.pbca.ro, while PBC Attorneys at Law, we, us or our refer to PopBriciuCrai law firm.
PBC Attorneys at Law may revise the Terms & conditions at any time by posting the revised version on the website. The changes will become effective as of the date they are posted on the website and you agree that your use of the website will constitute acceptance of the changes.
For any questions regarding the Terms and Conditions, as well as regarding www.pbca.ro please contact:
PBC Attorneys at Law – Prof. Ion Bogdan nr. 4-6, 4th floor, Bucharest 010539, Romania. Telephone no: 021 211 4339. E-mail address: office@pbca.ro.
Privacy policy
PBC Attorneys at Law values your privacy.
The law firm processes personal data in accordance with the Romanian data protection legislations – including (EU) Regulation 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (“GDPR”).
This Privacy Policy explains how PBC Attorneys at Law collects and treats your personal data when you visit www.pbca.ro and/or engage either way with PBC Attorneys at Law.
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
PBC Attorneys at Law is the trade mark of Paul POP, Traian-Cornel BRICIU & Adriana CRAI-CIOCÂRLAN CABINETE GRUPATE DE AVOCAȚI, a three-part entity, each of them being solely or jointly responsible for your personal data, as the case may be.
WHICH PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT?
PBC Attorneys at Law may collect your personal data on website and during the course of business when you contact or request information from us, when you engage in legal and other services or as a result of your relationship with one or more of our colleagues and clients.
Type of data collected by PBC Attorneys at Law
On website
PBC Attorneys at Law may collect the personal data that your web browser transmits to our server, including IP address, date and time of your visit, and data relating to operating system and web browser. As well, www.pbca.ro uses cookies – for more information about cookies, please see our Cookies Policy.
During the course of business
PBC Attorneys at Law may collect and process personal data about clients, potential clients, their affiliates, their partners, their representatives, their counterparts, and/or adversaries.
During the course of business PBC Attorneys at Law may collect and process contact details, including but not limited to name, e-mail, phone, fax, address, as well as other personal data you may provide directly to us, as needed to fulfil the agreed objectives, as well as other information relevant for providing our services.
During the course of litigation and arbitration proceedings, PBC Attorneys at Law may process the personal data of relevance for your case in preparing the documentation, including personal identification numbers, when such process is mandatory according to the legal provisions in force.
The processing of your personal data includes any operation or set of operations which is performed upon personal data, such as collection, recording, organization, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, blocking, erasure or destruction of data, and such processing will always be carried out in compliance with data protection rules.
During recruitment and collaboration process
If you are a candidate for an internship, part-time or full-time position, as well as during a collaboration relation, PBC Attorneys at Law may collect and process personal data, including name and job title, e-mail and telephone, professional and educational background, and other personal data you may provide directly to us, as well as other information relevant for the recruitment or collaboration process.
PBC Attorneys at Law will not process any special category data except where we are kept to do so under applicable legislation or with your explicit consent.
Disclosure of personal information
As a principle, PBC Attorneys at Law do not disclose personal data to third parties without consent. The law firm may share your personal information for the goals described above. As well, the firm may:
Share your contact details to our collaborators and services providers (including data processors), and any other relevant third party providers;
If in your interest and necessary, disclose relevant personal data to courts of law and arbitration panels or relevant authorities, during the course of business;
If we collected your personal data in the course of providing legal services to any of our clients, we may disclose it to that client, and where permitted by law to others for the purposes of providing those services;
Please note this list is non-exhaustive and there may be other cases where we need to share your personal information with other parties in order to provide our services.
In order to provide these services, we may need to transfer your personal information to locations outside the jurisdiction in which you provide it.
Personal data about other people which you provide to us
If you provide personal data to us about someone else (such as one of your directors or employees, or someone with whom you have business dealings) you must ensure that you are entitled to disclose that personal data to us and that, without our taking any further steps, we may collect, use and disclose that personal data as described in this Privacy Policy. In particular, you must ensure the individual concerned is aware of the various matters detailed in this Privacy Policy, as those matters relate to that individual, including our identity, how to contact us, our purposes of collection, our personal data disclosure practices (including disclosure to overseas recipients), the individual’s right to obtain access to the personal data and make complaints about the handling of the personal data, and the consequences if the personal data is not provided (such as our inability to provide services).
The duration of processing
For website visitors PBC Attorneys at Law will retain relevant personal information for at least three years from the date of our last interaction with you and in compliance with our obligations under the EU General Data Protection Regulation or similar legislation, or for longer if we are required to do so according to our regulatory obligations or professional indemnity obligations.
For service provision to any client, we will retain relevant personal information for the duration of the assistance agreement, as well as afterwards, for six years, according to internal policies and legal obligations – under the EU General Data Protection Regulation or similar legislation, or for longer if we are required, according to regulatory obligations or professional indemnity obligations. We may then destroy such files without further notice or liability.
Keeping your personal data secure
We will take appropriate technical and organisational measures to keep your personal data confidential and secure in accordance with our internal procedures covering the storage, disclosure of and access to personal data.
Personal data may be kept on our personal data technology systems, those of our contractors or in paper files.
Transferring your personal data abroad
We may transfer your personal data abroad if required for the permitted purposes as described above. This may include countries which do not provide the same level of protection as the EU laws. We will
ensure that any such international transfers are made subject to appropriate or suitable safeguards as required by the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 or other relevant laws. This includes entering into the EU Standard Contractual Clauses. You may contact us anytime using the contact details
Updating your personal data
If any of the personal data that you have provided to us changes, for example if you change your email address or if you wish to cancel any request you have made of us, or if you become aware we have any inaccurate personal data about you, please let us know by sending an email to data.privacy@pbca.ro. We will not be responsible for any losses arising from any inaccurate, inauthentic, deficient or incomplete personal data that you provide to us.
The rights over personal information
Subject to certain legal conditions and restrictions, you may have the following rights:
Rights of access: following your request, we will confirm whether PBC Attorneys at Law is processing your personal information and, as per request, provide you with a copy of that personal information
Rights to rectification: in case the personal information retained by PBC Attorneys at Law is inaccurate or incomplete, you are entitled to request rectifications. following your request, where possible and lawful to do so, our team will inform you about the third parties sharing your personal information.
Rights to erasure: following your request, PBC Attorneys at Law will delete or remove your personal information in some circumstances if the data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected.
Rights to restriction: following your request, PBC Attorneys at Law will no longer process your personal information in certain circumstances, such as where you contest the accuracy of that personal information or you object to us.
Rights to object: you have the right to object to further processing of your personal data within the conditions and limits set forth by law.
Rights to portability: you have the right to receive the personal data concerning you that you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to transmit this data to another data controller.
If you wish to exert any of your rights please send us an email to data.protection@pbca.ro. We may request that you prove your identity by providing us with a copy of a valid means of identification in order for us to comply with our security obligations and to prevent unauthorised disclosure of data. We reserve the right to charge you a reasonable administrative fee for any manifestly unfounded or excessive requests concerning your access to your data, and for any additional copies of the personal data you request from us.
We will consider any requests or complaints which we receive and provide you with a response in a timely
manner. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may take your complaint to dataprotection.ro.
Updates to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy was last updated in December 2019. We reserve the right to update and change this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect any changes to the way in which we process your personal data or changing legal requirements. In case of any such changes, we will post the changed Privacy Policy on our website or publish it otherwise. The changes will take effect as soon as they are posted on this website.
How to get in touch with PBC Attorneys at Law
We welcome your views about our website and our Privacy Policy. If you would like to contact us with any
queries or comments, please send an email to data.privacy@pbca.ro or send a letter to our office in Bucharest, District 1, 4-6 Profesor Ion Bogdan Street, 4-5th Floor.
Our use of cookies and other information-gathering technologies
“Cookies” are small text files, which are stored on the user’s hard drive or mobile device and perform a number of functions associated with browsing websites, being used for a variety of different purposes, such as tracing users from page to page on an internet site, thereby enhancing a user’s browsing experience. They are generated by web servers when the user enters an internet page, and are passed to the user’s computer or mobile device and stored for subsequent future access.
We only use cookies in certain areas of www.pbca.ro You are not obliged to accept a cookie and you can modify your browser so that it will not accept cookies. However, if you do so this may affect your browsing experience and certain functions within the website may not work.
The user can reject the cookies as follows:
Most internet browsers are initially set up to automatically accept cookies. The users can configure their browser to reject all the cookie files or to alert the user when cookies are sent to the device. It is important to note that the deactivation or refusal to receive cookies can make certain sections difficult to view and use.
All the modern browsers offer the possibility to change the settings of cookies. These settings are usually found in “Options” or in the menu “Preferences” of your browser.
You may contact us at office@pbca.ro for any other additional questions in relation to how the cookies are used by this website.