Privacy Policy – ConnectNordics.com
This Privacy Policy will inform you what personal data we collect when you use our site, how we use that data and what are your privacy protection rights. Please, read it.
1. Who are we
This website (“connectnordics.com” or “Our Site”) is owned by the Bulgaria Nordics Business Council, a non-profit organization registered under Bulgarian law with Unified Identification Code 206686412 (“We”, “Us”). We collect and process your personal data according to all requirements of the EU GDPR and the Bulgarian Personal Data Protection Law.
2. What data do we collect and how do we collect it
- When you register and log in to Our Site with an e-mail, we collect information about your name, e-mail address, and phone number. When you access Our Site through your LinkedIn profile, we will use basic information from your LinkedIn profile, as well as any other LinkedIn information that you have permitted for sharing with third parties.
- We collect automatically (including through “cookies”) some usage data when you register an account with Our Site, log in, use it, read our articles and materials, take part in online events and discussions, talk with the Chatbot, receive our newsletter, or otherwise interact with Our Site. Usage data is your device’s internet protocol address, internet browser type and version, pages of Our Site that you visit, time and date of your visit, time spent on these pages, device identifiers, or other diagnostic data. Please, refer to the Privacy Policy of Our Site’s platform provider Abilitics for details.
3. Lawfulness of data collection
We collect and process your data on the basis of your informed consent, that you give to us by accepting this Privacy Policy and Cookies before accessing Our Site or by subscribing to our newsletter without registering an account with Our Site. We also will have a legal basis to process your data if it is required from Us in order to comply with a legal obligation under the EU or Bulgarian legislation.
4. Special categories of personal data
We do not collect and process special categories of personal data, such as personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, genetic, biometric, and health data. We do not encourage you to share such data of yours when using Our Site.
5. How do we collect your data
You directly provide Us with most of the data we collect. We collect and process data when you:
- View Our Site (via your browser’s cookies)
- Register and log in to Our Site
- Use Our Site by viewing, searching, following and participating in various events organized by Us (conferences, seminars, etc.), uploading content to your profile, reaching out to the other users’ profiles, or otherwise interacting with Our Site
- Subscribe to our newsletter – you can do that whether or not you register an account with Our Site
- Provide voluntary feedback, complete a user survey, or respond to any of our message boards
6. Purposes, for which we collect your data:
We collect your personal data only for the purpose of providing you with our services. Our activity is devoted to helping companies from the regions of Northern Europe and from Southeastern Europe to connect with each other in order to find and enter new markets. Our Site is intended to help you scale your business, grow your network and tell your story digitally. Our Site collects your data so that we can:
- Process your registration request and manage your account
- Provide you with articles and materials, and with information about business opportunities and future events from the two regions
- Send you our Newsletter
7. How do we store your data
Our Site securely stores your data. Please, refer to Abilitics’ Terms of Service and Abilitics’ Privacy Policy for details.
8. Time period for which we keep your data
Our Site will keep your data for as long as it is necessary for using your account registered on Our Site or until you unsubscribe to our newsletter. Once you delete your account, we will delete your data automatically.
9. Statistics
We might collect and process your personal data and preferences for statistical purposes, in order to study and analyze through Google Analytics Our Site’s users’ behavior, and offer them content and information which would interest them. We will not do it for profit but only for providing a better service of ours.
10. Principles
When we collect and process your personal data we comply with the following principles:
- “Lawfulness, fairness and transparency”
- “Purpose limitation” – we collect personal data only for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes, and do not further process it in a manner that is incompatible with these purposes
- “Data minimization” – we collect and process personal data which is adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary for the indicated purposes
- “Accuracy” – we take reasonable steps to ensure that personal data which is inaccurate shall be erased or rectified without delay
- “Storage limitation” – we keep collected personal data in a form that permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the indicated purposes
- “Integrity and Confidentiality” – we collect and process personal data in a manner, which ensures appropriate security of the personal data
11. What are your data protection rights
We want to make sure that you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user with a registered account on Our Site is entitled to the following:
- The right to access – you have the right to request Our Site for copies of your personal data.
- The right to rectification – you have the right to request that Our Site corrects any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Our Site to complete information you believe is incomplete.
- The right to erasure – you have the right to request that Our Site erase your personal data, under certain conditions. You may update, amend, or delete Your information at any time by signing in to Your account. You may also contact Us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to Us. Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.
- The right to restrict processing – you have the right to request that Our Site restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to object to processing – you have the right to object to Our Site’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our e-mail: connectnordics@gmail.com.
12. Privacy policies of other websites
Our Privacy Policy applies only to Our Site.
Our Site’s platform provider Abilitics (our data processor) has its own Privacy Policy which we recommend you read since it explains technical details on collection, procession and storage of personal data by Our Site.
Our Site contains links to other websites, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.
By accessing ConnectNordics through your LinkedIn account, you should consent to LinkedIn’s privacy policy.
13. How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about Our Site’s Privacy Policy or the data we collect from you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please contact us:
14. How to contact the competent data protection authority
If you would like to file a complaint regarding the protection of your data privacy rights or consider that Our Site has not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact the competent GDPR authority in the Republic of Bulgaria – The Commission for Personal Data Protection, with address: 2 Prof. Tsvetan Lazarov Blvd., Sofia 1592, tel. +359 2 91 53 519, e-mail: kzld@cpdp.bg, website: www.cpdp.bg.
You can also contact your local GDPR competent authority.
You have the right to complain under GDPR if you are an EU member state citizen or a citizen of a country belonging to the European Economic Area (Iceland, Liechtenstein, or Norway).
15. Changes to our Privacy Policy
We keep our Privacy Policy under regular review. This Privacy Policy is updated on 8th May 2023.