Privacy and Cookies Policy & Legal Notice.

We ask that you please read this Privacy and Cookies Policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are, how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information, your rights in relation to your personal information and on how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.

Legal Notice - Please note that our website and our services are not intended for minors under the age of 18 or for consumers, and are for professional and/or business use only.

This website ancauntu.com is hosted by Squarespace Ireland Ltd registered in Ireland under company number 527641, with a registered office at Pole House, Ship Street Great, Dublin 8, Ireland. Squarespace may be contacted by email.

Anca Untu, auto-entrepreneur, registered in France under SIRET number 878858679 00029, is the editor and director of publications on this website.

We can be contacted at the ‘How to contact us’ section below. You can find out more about our services here: https://www.ancauntu.com/. References to ‘we’, ‘us’ and ‘our’ refer to Anca Untu.

We collect, use and are responsible for certain personal information about you. When we do so we are regulated under the General Data Protection Regulation which applies across the European Union and the United Kingdom and we are responsible as ‘controller’ of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.

Our collection and use of your personal information

We collect personal information about you when you access our website, contact us, send us feedback, enquire about our services, or engage us to use our services. We collect this personal information from you either directly, such as when you contact us or indirectly, such as your browsing activity while on our website (see ‘Cookies’ below). The personal information we collect about you depends on our relationship with you, and may include:

·        your name, address and contact details

·        limited banking information when you pay us for our services

·        details of any feedback you give us by phone, email, post or via social media

·        information about the services we provide to you

We use this personal information to register you as a client, provide services to you, customize our website and its content to your particular preferences, notify you of any changes to our website or to our services that may affect you, or to improve our services. Please note that we do not knowingly collect or use personal information relating to children or any sensitive or special category personal information.

Our legal basis for processing your personal information

When we use your personal information, we are required to have a legal basis for doing so. There are various different legal bases on which we may rely, depending on what personal information we process and why. The legal bases we may rely on include:

·        consent: where you have given us clear consent for us to process your personal information for a specific purpose

·        contract: where our use of your personal information is necessary for a contract we have with you, or because you have asked us to take specific steps before entering into a contract

·        legal obligation: where our use of your personal information is necessary for us to comply with the law (not including contractual obligations)

·        legitimate interests: where our use of your personal information is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party (unless there is a good reason to protect your personal information which overrides our legitimate interests)

Who we share your personal information with

We routinely share our data (which may incidentally contain limited amounts of your personal information) with trusted third parties to enable us to provide this website and our services to you. Such third parties include our accountants, lawyers and other professional advisors and also providers of our IT services (such as website and domain name hosting, cloud storage, hardware and IT back-ups). For a list of our third-party suppliers, please contact us. Some of those third-party recipients may be based outside the United Kingdom and European Economic Area — for further information including on how we safeguard your personal data when this occurs, see ‘Transfer of your information out of the EEA’. We will share personal information with law enforcement or other authorities if required by applicable law.

Transfer of your information out of the EEA

We may transfer your personal information to third-party suppliers which are located outside the European Economic Area (‘EEA’), or when you are based outside of the EEA.  Some non-EEA countries do not have the same data protection laws as in the EEA. Any transfer of your personal information will be subject to suitable relevant safeguards (e.g. where the receiving country is subject to a European Commission Adequacy Decision or where we enter into an approved contract). These safeguards are designed to help safeguard your privacy rights and give you remedies in the unlikely event of a misuse of your personal information.  If you would like further information, please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ below). We will not otherwise transfer your personal data outside of the EEA or to any organization (or subordinate bodies) governed by public international law or which is set up under any agreement between two or more countries.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (e.g. computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our website. We will always ask for your permission to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where they are essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested. We use the following cookies on our website:

·        Squarespace Analytics Cookies (Squarespace Ireland Ltd)

·        Purpose of the Cookie - This is a non-essential analytics cookie which determines unique visitors. This cookie provides us with information which allows us to collate accurate website traffic data

·        Duration of the Cookie - 12 months

If you do not want to accept cookies on this website or want to withdraw your consent to cookies, you can change your settings at any time by using the sliders via the icon at the bottom-right of any page on our website. You are also able to turn off all cookies for all websites you visit when navigating the internet, by adjusting your browser settings. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of this website and others that you visit. For further information about cookies and how to disable them, you can visit the following external webpages: https://www.cnil.fr/fr/cookies-et-autres-traceurs.

Marketing

We currently do not carry out any marketing or email newsletter activities. However, in the future we may like to send you information about our services which may be of interest to you. We will only do this where we have your consent to do so. Any changes to our marketing activities will be notified via this page.

Your rights

Under the General Data Protection Regulation you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:

·        access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy and Cookies Policy is already designed to address

·        require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold

·        require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations

·        receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to a third party in certain situations

·        object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing

·        object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you

·        object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information

·        otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances

For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.

If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:

·        email us

·        let us have enough information to identify you

·        let us have proof of your identity and address (a copy of your driving license or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill), and

·        let us know the information to which your request relates.

Keeping your personal information secure

We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed in an unauthorized way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorized manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

How to complain

We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information. The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in a EEA state if you work, normally live or if any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred in the relevant EEA state. The supervisory authority in France is the CNIL who may be contacted via this page: https://www.cnil.fr/fr/contacter-la-cnil-standard-et-permanences-telephoniques.

Changes to this Privacy and Cookies Policy

This Privacy and Cookies Policy was created on December 28, 2020 and last updated on January 18, 2021. We may change this Privacy and Cookies Policy from time to time, when we do we will inform you via this page. It is your responsibility to ensure you are aware of the most up-to-date version, so do check back regularly.

How to contact us

Please contact us if you have any questions about this Privacy and Cookies Policy or the information we hold about you. If you wish to contact us, please send an email to anca@ancauntu.com, write to Anca Untu, 6 rue Troyon, 75017 Paris, France, or call +33 6 45 84 16 43.