Privacy Policy

Personal Data Protection Policy (GDPR)
Our guarantee:
Your data will be processed for payment, improvement and guarantee of services provided by us. This data is stored in a secure environment.

Personal data will be transmitted to arpiconferinta.ro members and will be used in invoicing software, payments, webinar registrations and for advertising purposes. The law of the European Union regarding the protection of personal data, “General Data Protection Regulation” (hereinafter referred to as “GDPR”) entered into force on May 25, 2016, but it is effective from May 25, 2018.

The protection of personal data is important to us, so we pay special attention to protecting the privacy of visitors who access the arpiconferinta.ro website (hereinafter referred to as arpiconferinta.ro), in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the Parliament European and Council Regulation of April 27, 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data (hereinafter referred to as “GDPR”).

Please pay special attention to reading the following Policy (PPDP- Personal Data Protection Policy) to understand how your information (referred to as “personal data”) will be treated and used. The PPDP explains the practices of arpiconferinta.ro regarding the application of GDPR provisions, as well as the rights you benefit from regarding the way in which your information is used through the arpiconferinta.ro applications

arpiconferinta.ro will always process this data in accordance with the provisions of the GDPR, as well as with the regulations on the protection of personal data, specific to each country in which arpiconferinta.ro operates.

Through this policy, arpiconferinta.ro wishes to inform visitors about the nature of personal data that may be collected and processed, as well as about the purposes of their processing. At the same time, the users of the arpiconferinta.ro website are informed through PPDP and regarding the rights they benefit from.

OUR IDENTITY
We are the ROMANIAN ASSOCIATION OF INTEGRATIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY (ARPI), based at SIRIULUI 28-32 ET:3 CAM. 2A BUCHAREST SECT 1, CUI 40034010, having account no. RO55BTRLRONCRT0462157301, opened at Banca Transilvania.

WHAT IS PERSONAL DATA?
Personal data means any information that can identify you directly (such as your name) or indirectly (such as a unique identification number).

Personal data include information such as: name, surname, address, gender, date and place of birth, data from civil status documents, telephone number, e-mail, profession, professional training, workplace, economic and financial situation, family situation, information regarding assets owned, image, voice, shopping preferences and habits, habits/preferences/behaviour, user-generated content.

They may also include unique numeric identifiers, such as your computer’s IP address, mobile device’s MAC address, and cookies.

WHAT DOES PERSONAL DATA PROCESSING MEAN?
Data processing refers to any operation (or set of operations) performed on personal data with or without the use of automated means, such as: collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or modification, extraction, consultation, use, transmission through transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, deletion or destruction.

PURPOSES OF PERSONAL DATA PROCESSING
For the purpose of concluding and executing contracts – According to art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) of the GDPR, personal data may be processed for the purpose of concluding or executing the contract. The processing of personal data is necessary to be able to offer the products and services of arpiconferinta.ro. In order to fulfill some legal obligations – According to art. 6 para. 1 lit. c) of the GDPR, personal data may be processed for the purpose of fulfilling legal obligations. We request a range of personal data, including, in certain situations, your personal identification number, in order to fulfill our obligations imposed by the tax authorities in relation to invoicing and reporting to the tax authorities. For marketing purposes – According to art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) of the GDPR, personal data may be processed if the data subject has given his consent for the processing of his personal data for one or more specific purposes.

PRINCIPLES OF DATA PROCESSING
arpiconferinta.ro undertakes to comply with the personal data protection principles provided by the GDPR to ensure that the data are:
Processed legally, fairly and transparently;
Collected for specified, legitimate and explicit purposes;
Relevant, appropriate and li bribes in relation to the purposes of the processing;
Kept in a form that does not allow the identification of individuals for longer than necessary (depending on the purpose for which they are processed);
Correct and up-to-date;
Processed according to the rights of the individual and in a way that ensures adequate security of the processing, so that the data is intact, confidential and available.

TYPES OF DATA WE COLLECT
Personal data may be collected when you express your desire to participate in events, when you create an account, when you use the site and its other tools, when you want to purchase courses, when you register for webinars, when it is desired to conclude contract, when you send reviews or simply when you contact us.

The data we may collect are:
Name, home address, telephone number, e-mail address;
Detailed information including date of birth, gender, identity card details; History of participation in events and information related to courses;
Information relating to purchases;
Information relating to the use of our website;
Communications made with us by any means (calls, emails, letters, chat services, social networks, etc.);
Location, including real-time geographic location of computer or mobile devices via GPS and IP address, including Wi-Fi, hotspot and GSM locations, if you use location-based features and Location Services are active.

DATA WE NEVER STORE
The payment card data used by the Client/Buyer/User will not be stored by arpiconferinta.ro, but only by the institution authorizing the transaction or an entity authorized to keep this data and identify that card (in the present case: stripes).

3D Secure is a new global approach to authenticating buyers and sellers in secure internet transactions. This measure redirects the user to a secure page at the time of payment, where the registration of each cardholder is done by assigning an authorization code to each online transaction.

All card types are accepted for making payments to arpiconferinta.ro.

PURPOSES OF USE OF PERSONAL DATA AND PERIOD OF USE
Personal data may be used for these purposes:

Providing the requested products and services;
Contacting users in case of changes of any kind, for example: changes related to the program of events, cancellations, various changes requested by users (information is not transmitted for commercial purposes and it is not possible to unsubscribe from them);
Using the data for accounting, billing and auditing purposes (to avoid fraudulent activities);
Administrative and legal purposes, such as: statistical and marketing analysis, customer satisfaction surveys, system testing, maintenance and development, dispute resolution and claims. Data collected for statistical and marketing analysis may be used in profiling activities, and by providing any personal data, you expressly consent to its use;
Legal purposes: personal information may be passed on to government authorities or law enforcement bodies to comply with legal requirements;
Communication: using data to manage and improve our services and experience;
Provision of personalized services: using data to transmit information about which you may be interested before, during and after participation, but also to personalize the services offered, such as special offers for courses;
Marketing: There will be communications from us containing information about courses, events and more via online communications. Communications such as those via e-mail will have the option to subscribe and unsubscribe.
The processing of personal data will only be done if there is a legal basis for this, this basis depending on the reasons for collecting the data. Mainly, the processing of the collected data is done for the contracts made with us.

Other cases in which we can process personal data:
Compliance with legal obligations, such as accounting requirements; Pursuant to user consent for various purposes, such as commercial; Pursuant to legitimate interests in the operation of the company (for example, administrative purposes).
The minimum age to give consent is 16. For those under the age of 16, parental or legal guardian consent is required.

Personal data will not be kept longer than is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which they are processed.

The periods of fulfillment of legal or administrative obligations and for protection are also taken into account legal rights, periods during which it may be necessary to retain data.

Personal data will be deleted or securely destroyed when we no longer need it, and we also try to minimize the amount of personal data collected. If we can anonymize personal data by removing association or identification with the user, we may use that data without further notice.

DATA STORAGE PERIOD
arpiconferinta.ro can keep the data for different periods of time in accordance with the stated purposes, limited to the period necessary to achieve those purposes and obligations, which are judged to be reasonable.

Data storage period criteria:

Purchase of products and services – during the contractual relationship;
Participation in promotional offers – for the duration of the offer in question;
Contacting for various reasons – maximum 5 years from the last communication with us; Account creation – until the request to delete it or 5 years after the last interaction using the account (for example, logging into the account);
Marketing – until unsubscribing or requesting data deletion or after 5 years of inactivity with anything related to arpiconferinta.ro;
Cookie modules – maximum 5 years from collection, based on your consent.

PROCESSING SECURITY
arpiconferinta.ro adopts technical and organizational measures for data processing, these being updated according to GDPR requirements, with the aim of protecting personal data against dangerous factors (unauthorized access, improper use or transmission, accidental deletion or loss, unauthorized modification). All employees and collaborators of arpiconferinta.ro, as well as affiliated third parties, have the obligation to respect the confidentiality of personal data and GDPR requirements, according to this Policy.

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING – COOKIES
The arpiconferinta.ro site uses cookie identifiers. For information, we invite you to consult the Cookie Policy in the section intended for this purpose.