Privacy Policy

Information about the personal data controller:

Sole Proprietorship Law Firm “Silvia Petkova” is a company registered in the Commercial Register of the Registry Agency with UIC: 177551355, e-mail: office@petkovalegal.com, tel.: +359 885 47 77 57.

Grounds and purposes for which we use your personal data

We process your personal data on the following grounds:

  • The general terms and conditions for use of the Website;
  • Express consent from you – the purpose is specified for each specific case;
  • When there is a legal obligation provided by law;

In the following paragraphs you will find detailed information regarding the processing of your personal data depending on the grounds on which we process them.

For contract performance

We process your personal data for the purposes of using the Website in accordance with the rules of the general terms and conditions

Processing purposes (when applicable):

  1. establishing your identity;
  2. providing the functionalities of our website

On this basis, we process only personal data in connection with the user profile created by you.

Data collected on this basis is deleted 2 years after termination of the contractual relationship, regardless of whether due to expiration of the contract term, termination or other grounds.

With your consent

We process your personal data on this basis only after express, unambiguous and voluntary consent from you. We will not provide for any adverse consequences for you if you refuse the processing of personal data.

Consent is a separate basis for processing your personal data and the purpose of processing is specified therein, and does not overlap with the purposes listed in this policy. If you give us the relevant consent and until its withdrawal or termination of any contractual relations with you, we prepare suitable offers for products/services for you by performing detailed analyses of your basic personal data;

Data we process on this basis:

On this basis, we may process personal data for direct marketing purposes, including website consumption data and social media profile data.

Provision of data to third parties

On this basis, we may provide your data to marketing agencies, Facebook, Google or other similar entities.

Withdrawal of consent

The consents provided may be withdrawn at any time. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the performance of contractual obligations. If you withdraw your consent for processing personal data for any or all of the methods described above, we will not use your personal data and information for the purposes specified above. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

To withdraw the given consent, you only need to use our website or simply our contact details.

When we delete data collected on this basis

Data collected on this basis is deleted upon request from you or 12 months after their initial collection.

How we protect your personal data

To ensure adequate protection of the company’s and its clients’ data, we apply all necessary organizational and technical measures provided for in the Personal Data Protection Act.

The company has established rules for preventing abuse and security breaches, which supports the processes of protecting and ensuring the security of your data.

For maximum security in processing, transferring and storing your data, we may use additional protection mechanisms such as encryption, pseudonymization, etc.

User Rights

Every User of the site enjoys all rights for personal data protection according to Bulgarian legislation and European Union law.

The User may exercise their rights by sending a message to our email.

Every User has the right to:

  • Information (regarding the processing of their personal data by the controller);
  • Access to their own personal data;
  • Rectification (if the data is inaccurate);
  • Erasure of personal data (right “to be forgotten”);
  • Restriction of processing by the controller or personal data processor;
  • Portability of personal data between individual controllers;
  • Objection to the processing of their personal data;
  • The data subject has the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning the data subject or similarly affects them to a significant degree;
  • Right to protection through judicial or administrative proceedings, in case the data subject’s rights have been violated.

 The User may request erasure if one of the following conditions exists:

  • Personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed;
  • The User withdraws their consent on which the data processing is based and there is no other legal basis for processing;
  • The User objects to the processing and there are no legitimate grounds for processing that take precedence;
  • Personal data has been processed unlawfully;
  • Personal data must be erased for compliance with a legal obligation under Union law or Member State law applicable to the controller;
  • Personal data has been collected in relation to the offer of information society services to children and consent was given by the person holding parental responsibility for the child.

The User has the right to restrict processing of their personal data by the controller when:

  • Challenge the accuracy of your personal data. In this case the restriction of processing is for a period which allows the controller to verify the accuracy of a15> personal data;
  • Processing is unlawful, but the User does not want personal data to be erased and instead requires restriction of their use;
  • The controller no longer needs personal data for processing purposes, but the User requires them for establishing, exercising or defending legal claims;
  • They object to processing pending verification whether the controller’s legitimate grounds override the User’s interests.

Right to portability.

The data subject has the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and has the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided, where the processing is based on consent or on a contractual obligation and the processing is carried out by automated means. When exercising their right to data portability, data subjects have the right to receive and transfer personal data directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible.

Right to object.

Users have the right to object to the administrator regarding the processing of their personal data. The personal data controller is obliged to terminate the processing unless it proves that there are compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights, and freedoms of the data subject or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims. In the event of objection to the processing of personal data for the purposes of the purposes of direct marketing processing shall be terminated a16> terminated immediately.

Complaint to the supervisory authority

Every User has the right to file a complaint regarding unlawful processing of their personal data to the Personal Data Protection Commission or to the competent court.