Privacy notice

1.Data controller

The controller is Cabinet de avocat Chituc Cătălin, an individual law office in the Bucharest Bar, founded by Decision no. 2162/2003 of the Bucharest Bar. Principal lawyer: Cătălin-Ioan Chituc.

• Office: Strada Tudor Arghezi 21, 030167 București
• Phone: 0723 171 934
• Email: catalin.chituc@gmail.com

2.What data we process

Through the contact form we collect only the data you fill in:

• first name and last name
• email address
• phone number, if you provide it
• client type: individual or legal entity
• the practice area your request concerns
• your message
• confirmation that you have read this notice

A few technical details are sent with your message: the page and language from which the form was sent, and the date and time of sending. The service that receives the form processes your IP address and browser information to deliver the message and for security.

Please include in your message only the information needed to understand your request. If your message contains information about criminal offences, it is processed only to assess your request, subject to professional secrecy.

3.Purpose of processing

Your data are used to reply to your request and, where appropriate, to arrange a discussion with the lawyer. Technical data are used to deliver the message and to protect the form against abuse.

Data about visits to the website are used only for aggregate traffic statistics: how many people visit the website, which pages are read and where visitors come from.

Your data are not used for marketing and are not sold or passed to anyone else for that purpose.

4.Legal basis

The processing is based on:

• Article 6(1)(b) GDPR, for steps taken at your request before a possible legal assistance contract is concluded
• Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, the office's legitimate interest in replying to the requests it receives and in keeping the form secure
• Article 6(1)(a) GDPR and Article 4(5) of Romanian Law no. 506/2004, your consent, for analytics cookies; Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, the office's legitimate interest in knowing, in aggregate, how the website is used, for cookieless measurement signals (section “Cookies and traffic statistics”)

5.How long we keep your data

Data from requests that are not followed by a legal assistance contract are kept for no more than 12 months from receipt, and are then deleted.

If a request is followed by a legal assistance contract, the data become part of the records of the mandate and are kept in line with the lawyer's professional obligations.

6.Who receives your data

Requests are read only by the principal lawyer. To run the website and the form we use the following providers, acting as processors:

• Amazon Web Services (AWS): hosting of the site files, receipt of the form and sending of the message through Amazon SES, in the EU region (Frankfurt, eu-central-1); pages are delivered through the AWS CloudFront network, which may serve visitors from locations outside the EU, under standard contractual clauses
• Google, the provider of the Gmail email service in which the office receives messages
• Google Ireland Limited, the provider of Google Analytics, for traffic statistics (section “Cookies and traffic statistics”)
• the website's technical administrator, only as far as needed to maintain it

Google may also process data outside the European Economic Area. In that case, the transfer takes place under the mechanisms provided by the GDPR, such as adequacy decisions or standard contractual clauses.

Data may be disclosed to public authorities only where the law requires it, subject to professional secrecy.

7.Your rights

Under the GDPR and within the limits set by law, you have the following rights:

• the right of access to the data processed
• the right to have inaccurate data rectified
• the right to erasure
• the right to restriction of processing
• the right to data portability
• the right to object to processing based on legitimate interest
• the right to lodge a complaint with the Romanian National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing (ANSPDCP), www.dataprotection.ro

To exercise your rights, you can write to catalin.chituc@gmail.com or call 0723 171 934. We reply within the period set by the GDPR, normally within one month.

Your data are not used for decisions based solely on automated processing.

8.Cookies and traffic statistics

We use Google Analytics 4, a service of Google Ireland Limited, to learn how many people visit the website, which pages are read and where visitors come from. We see the statistics in aggregate. We do not use them to identify visitors, advertising features are switched off, and Google Analytics 4 does not store IP addresses. Your device may hold:

• the Google Analytics cookies (names starting with _ga), set only after you press “Accept” in the cookie banner; they expire after at most 2 years
• the choice you made in the cookie banner, kept in your browser's local storage (localStorage) so that we do not ask on every page
• the language you chose in the language menu, kept in a technical cookie (lang) for one year so that the website opens in that language
• your choice to close the announcement bar at the top of the page, kept in your browser's local storage

Without your consent, Google Analytics sets no cookies. The website still sends it cookieless measurement signals without identifiers (the page visited, the time of the visit, the type of browser and device), which Google uses to estimate the statistics in aggregate.

You can change your choice at any time through the “Cookie settings” link at the foot of every page. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing carried out before. Visit-level data are kept in Google Analytics for at most 14 months. Google may transfer data to the United States under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

Information kept in your browser's local storage stays on your device, is not sent to us and can be cleared in your browser settings.

9.Professional secrecy

Communications with the lawyer are protected by professional secrecy under Law no. 51/1995 on the organisation and exercise of the legal profession.

Sending the form does not, in itself, conclude a legal assistance contract and does not constitute legal advice.

10.Contact

For questions about this notice or the processing of your data, you can contact us:

• email: catalin.chituc@gmail.com
• phone: 0723 171 934
• office: Strada Tudor Arghezi 21, 030167 București

11.Updates to this notice

This notice may be updated when the way the website works or the legal requirements change. The date of the latest update is shown at the top of the page.