Personal Data Protection Policy

APEMED presents to you its Personal Data Protection Policy, which informs you about the way your personal data is processed and what rights you have.

Browsing the BAPEMED website does not necessarily mean collecting your personal data. BAPEMED provides via its website adequate contact forms for our team if you wish to contact us. By filling out the form (contact form) you give us your personal data that we will process for contact and dialogue with anyone who has requested this by filling in the contact form via our site.

In this regard, BAPEMED has adopted several security measures to ensure the protection of personal data provided through our website against their dissemination, loss, misuse, alteration, unauthorized processing or access or other means of unlawful processing of personal data.

Controller of personal data

BAPEMED, Sofia, „Ekzarh Yosif” str. № 58, GSM +359 887 400 863, is a controller of personal data for the purposes listed below.

Personal Data

“Personal data” means any information related to an identified or identifiable person; an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified directly or indirectly by reference to an identifier such as name, identification number, location data, online identifier, or one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic , cultural or social identity of an individual.

In our site we collect only personal data that is deemed necessary for the contact that BAPEMED wants to keep with you, i.e. name, email address, or phone number.

How and when personal data are collected?

Your personal data can be collected:

1. When you fill in the “Email us” form on our website;
2. When you fill in the “Registration form” or participate in one of BAPEMED events;
3. When you submit an offer to collaborate with BAPEMED via e-mail or our website.

Principle and objectives for processing of personal data

The legal basis for the processing of personal data by BAPEMED is as follows:

1. Consent: Your personal data may be processed through free, specific, informed and unambiguous instructions to your data subject, by which he or she, through a statement or through clear positive action, means consent to the processing of personal data relating to him or her, by BAPEMED. We will ask for your agreement when we have the opportunity to invite you to the events organized by or with the participation of BAPEMED and in case of communications related to BAPEMED activities.
2. Legal interests: Your personal data may be necessary to perform certain activities by BAPEMED, namely recruitment processes.
3. In the scope of the provision of services: Your personal data will be processed when absolutely necessary for the provision of advice and assistance agreed upon by you.
4. Membership in BAPEMED: Your personal data will be collected and stored reliably upon your request for BAPEMED membership in connection with the membership application procedure, maintenance of an up-to-date register with the members of the Association as well as preparation of accounting documents (invoices) to pay for your membership fees.

Period during which personal data shall be stored

BAPEMED will only keep your personal data during the period strictly necessary for the purpose for which it has been collected.

BAPEMED will keep your personal data (name, address, e-mail and telephone number) in order to inform you about our events and send you invitations as well as newsletter and/or other information publications for the period provided for in the relevant regulations. We will not share your personal data with third parties by guaranteeing your legitimate rights, including the right of access, the right of rectification, and we will oppose the processing of your personal data for commercial and direct marketing purposes.

Once the specified maximum deadline has passed, your personal data will be anonymized in an irreversible manner so that it can be stored by BAPEMED or be safely destroyed.

Transfer of personal data

BAPEMED guarantees that it will only transmit your personal data when it deems necessary for the purposes described above, namely to send information about events, newsletters or other authorized messages.

Companies providing services to BAPEMED, in particular the companies responsible for sending the newsletters and communications described above, are subject to contractual terms and conditions of the same terms and conditions of processing of personal data. These subjects are responsible for the implementation of adequate security measures as enshrined in the General Data Protection Regulation.

BAPEMED guarantees that it will only negotiate with service providers and other processors who demonstrate that they are in compliance with the General Regulation.

Rights of the subjects of personal data

Personal data subjects have the right to request from BAPEMED access to their personal data as well as the correction, erasure, rectification of processing of their personal data, the right of objection, the right to data portability and the right to withdraw their consent at any time without to compromise the lawfulness of the process made by the given prior consent. Personal data subjects are also entitled to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority CPDP with address: Sofia 1592, „Profesor Tsvetan Lazarov ” № 2 (www.cpdp.bg) or the right of legal action against the supervisory authority or administrator.

Intellectual property

The content of this website, including trademarks, designs, logos, texts, images, audio and video materials, is owned by BAPEMED, unless otherwise indicated by reference to the source of the content. Such content is protected under general legal terms and international and national intellectual property protection legislation. It is not permitted to display, reproduce, distribute, modify, transmit or use the content of this website in any way for any public or commercial purpose without the express prior written consent of BAPEMED.

However, the user may print any part of the material on the website provided that it is not altered in any way if it is used for personal and non-commercial purposes and until the property statement has not been removed.

Cookies

Cookies are small files with numbers and letters stored in the user’s browser when you visit this website.
This information is used to make the service provided to the user more personalized, which allows to improve the performance of the navigation experience by increasing, on the one hand, the speed and efficiency of how the website is responsible and on the other hand, the need for multiple input of the same information. Cookies help the website recognize the device the next time the user accesses it.

BAPEMED website uses the following “cookies”:

Category Necessary

PHPSESSID
Purpose of the cookie: preserves the session state when loading different pages

Category Statistics

Not applicable

Category Marketing

Not applicable

You could delete cookies stored on your computer through your browser settings. An opportunity for controlling cookies of third parties exists, by using platform to improve privacy, for example: optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com. For more information regarding cookies, please visit: allaboutcookies.org.

Links to other websites

Links on the BAPEMED website may lead to other websites. BAPEMED is not responsible, does not endorse, or in any way does not support or subscribe to the content in it or its affiliated websites.

We encourage you to read the Privacy Policy of each of these websites.

Security of the data

BAPEMED has adopted adequate technical and organizational procedures to avoid security breaches, unauthorized access to personal data, destruction or illegal use.