We are committed to protecting your personal data and to respecting your privacy, by complying with all data protection laws and regulations applicable in Romania, including the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the “GDPR”).

Under this privacy policy, we will provide you with information on the processing of your personal data that we collect from you or that you provide during the use of the website (claudiuduiu.com), hereinafter referred to as the “Platform”. Please read the following information carefully, to understand our practices regarding the processing of your personal data and how we will treat them. By means of this policy, we also inform you about the rights you enjoy as a data subject and guide you on the manner to exercise them.

We use our best endeavours and take all reasonable steps in order to ensure the confidentiality and security of your personal data and to impose the same obligation to all the recipients that, through the Platform, have access to your personal data. However, please note that some of the recipients (such as some of our partners – external services platforms) are also data controllers, therefore they are independently liable for the way they process your personal data, as we will explain into more details below.

Who we are

COLVUD SRL is a private company that has the purpose of offering video production, marketing & consulting services to entrepreneurs or managers. The sole owner and founder is Claudiu Duiu.
His website address is: https://claudiuduiu.com. – the Platform.

The data controller is COLVUD SRL, with its headquarters in 115 Nicolae Titulescu Street, floor 2, Draganesti-Olt, Olt County, Romania, registered with the Trade Registry under no. J28/267/2018, having fiscal registration code 39067456 and VAT code RO39067456 (“COLVUD SRL” or the “Company”), having the telephone number +40701109820, the e-mail address contact@colvud.com, which is also the entity managing the Platform where we collect your personal data.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

During the activity carried out by COLVUD SRL, your personal data may be processed for different purposes. The personal data that we collect in the process of managing the Platform and offering our services to the users may be provided by the users of this Platform directly (e.g., name, surname, e-mail address, locality, telephone number and any other data provided in the context of the interaction with the Platform) or may be collected indirectly (e.g., IP address). We will further explain below and provide you with the relevant information regarding the activities of processing personal data that we perform (including the purposes of processing personal data, the legal ground of the processing for each applicable purpose, the categories of processed data, the duration of the processing, the recipients and the transfer of personal data, where applicable), taking into consideration the nature of your relationship with the Company, namely as a user holding a personal account or as the representative of a legal entity holding an account on the Platform or as an online visitor who access any of the pages from the Platform.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

The types of data we collect and how we use them later:

  • E-mail address: to send you free articles, information about marketing and business, about our own services and events or those we participate in.
  • First and Last name: to personalize the emails sent to you;
  • Function: to address your level of training;
  • Phone number: in order to be able to contact you, in order to inform you about our future events, as well as after registering for events (to inform you about last minute changes in the program, as well as logistical details), sending informative messages for marketing purposes.
  • City: to be able to send you personalized recommendations (on your city) about the business events we organize or participate in.

By installing some cookies on our websites we also collect information such as the visitor’s IP, the place from where the access was made, the time of access and information about the use of managed platforms such as pages accessed, number of pages accessed, time spent on platforms, the way you surf across websites.

The purposes of using this data are:

  • activities for the promotion of goods and services, marketing and advertising;
  • development of online products and platforms;
  • market research;
  • monitoring sales and customer buying behavior;
  • administrative and media activities;
  • information on new articles published in blog sections or news on managed platforms.

Who we share your data with

For the efficient operation of the platform, we use various services from external or internal providers (“persons authorized by COLVUD SRL – data controller”), to whom we may transmit some of the personal data collected, with the express mention that we will use only authorized persons who offer guarantees sufficient for the implementation of appropriate technical and organizational measures so that the processing complies with the requirements of this Regulation and ensures the protection of rights.

  • SMTP services (email communication) – e-mail address;
  • Newsletter services – e-mail address, name, surname, telephone number;
  • Billing services – name, surname, e-mail address, telephone number, address, CNP;
  • Courier / postal services – name, surname, e-mail address, telephone number, address;
  • SMS sending services – telephone number;
  • Online payment processing services – name, surname, e-mail address, telephone number, address;
  • Accounting services – name, surname, address, CNP;
  • Legal services – name, surname, address, CNP;

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

When you are visiting our Platform, we are using cookies to automatically collect technical information that could identify the visitor/user, such as the IP address, the type of internet browser used for navigating our Platform, your operating system, data regarding the visits on the Platform (including the number of visits, the time spent on the Platform, the manner in which the website is accessed, the behaviour on the Platform).

The main purpose of using cookies is, on the one hand, to ensure the proper functioning and operation of the Platform, or on the other hand, to help you have a better navigation experience, perform certain functions and allow the Platform to “remember” the actions or preferences of the user over a period of time. With respect to the cookies used, other than the strictly necessary cookies, we will only use cookies to the extent you have agreed to their use.

For more information on the use of cookies on this website and the purposes for which they are used, as well as regarding your possibilities to control and/or disable the cookies, please see our Cookies Policy made available on the Platform.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

How long we retain your data

For reaching the purposes described in Terms of Service, the Company uses the services of several contractual partners, acting as data processors, controllers or third parties (the latter referring to parties who do not intend to process the data, but may have access to them upon fulfilling their tasks or interacting with the Company).

The following categories of recipients have access to the personal data:
(i) companies providing services for hosting and maintenance of our Platform, carrying out their activity in Romania, the providers of software through which activities for the management of contractual, financial and accounting documents are carried out, carrying out their activity in Romania, providers of emailing services;
(ii) public authorities, financial or legal auditors or institutions competent to carry out inspections and checks on the Company’s business or assets, which request the Company to provide information, by virtue of the latter’s legal obligations. Such public authorities or institutions may be the National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing, ANAF or other authorities competent to perform verifications on our activity;
(iii) to comply with a legal requirement or to protect the rights and assets of our Company or of other entities or people, such as courts of law;
(iv) third parties acquisitors, insofar the business of the Company would be (totally or partially) transferred and the data subjects’ data would be part of the assets representing the object of the transaction and
(v) affiliated companies of the same corporate group as COLVUD SRL or owned by Claudiu Duiu.

The recipients may be provided with your personal data to be used within the limits of the obligations assumed towards the COLVUD SRL. The personal data we are disclosing to our data processors are limited to the minimum personal data information which is necessary to perform the respective services and we are requesting them not to use the personal data for any other purposes. We make every effort to ensure that all the entities we are working with are storing your personal data in safe and secure conditions and that they are bound by terms no less protective than those described in this Privacy Policy, or those we are subject to under applicable data protection laws.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

COLVUD SRL processes personal data only for the period necessary to achieve the data processing purposes explained in the above section, while complying with the legal requirements in force. If COLVUD SRL establishes that it has a legitimate interest or a legal obligation to further process your personal data for other purposes, you will be informed accordingly in this respect.

Once the processing period expires and the Company no longer has legal or legitimate reasons to process your personal data, the data will be deleted in accordance with its procedures, which may involve archiving, anonymizing or destroying them.

Within the context of the processing of your personal data, you have the following rights:

  1. The right of access to the processed personal data: you have the right to obtain a confirmation whether or not your personal data are being processed, and, if affirmative, to have access to the type of personal data and to the conditions of processing;
  2. The right to request the rectification or erasure of personal data: you have the possibility to request the rectification of inaccurate personal data, the supplementation of incomplete data or the erasure of your personal data in case (i) the data are no longer needed for their original purpose (and no new lawful purpose exists), (ii) the lawful basis for the processing is the data subject`s consent, the data subject withdraws that consent, and no other lawful ground exists, (iii) the data subject exercises the right to object and the controller has no overriding grounds for continuing the processing, (iv) the data have been processed unlawfully, (v) erasure is necessary for compliance with EU law or laws fromRomania, or (vi) the data were collected in connection with the information society services offered to children (if the case), where specific requirements regarding consent are applicable;
  3. The right to request the restriction of processing: you have the right to obtain the restriction of processing in cases where: (i) you consider that the processed personal data are inaccurate, for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data; (ii) the processing is unlawful, however you don’t want us to erase your personal data, but to restrict the use of data; (iii) in case the data controller no longer needs your personal data for the above-mentioned purposes, but you are requiring the data for establishing, exercising or defending a legal claim or (iv) you have objected to processing pending the verification whether the legitimate grounds of the data controller override those of the data subject;
  4. The right to withdraw your consentfor processing, at any time, when the processing is based on consent, without affecting the lawfulness of processing undertaken until that moment;
  5. The right to object to the data processing on grounds relating to your particular situation, when the processing is based on legitimate interest and to object at any moment to the data processing for direct marketing purposes, including profiling, if applicable;
  6. The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning the data subject or similarly affects the data subject in a significant manner;
  7. The right to data portability, meaning the right to receive your personal data, which you provided to the data controller in a structured, commonly used (where such a format exists) and machine-readable format and the right to transfer those data to another controller, if the processing is based on your consent or the performance of a contract and is undertaken by using automatic means;
  8. The right to file a complaint with the Data Protection Authority (ANSPDCP) and the right to address to the competent courts of law.

The above rights may be exercised at any time. For the purpose of exercising these rights, we encourage you to send a notice in writing, dated and signed or in electronic format, to the address indicated below. Also, if you wish to withdraw your consent, you may send an email to the address indicated in Section IX below or submit a written request in physical format or by mail to the Company’s headquarters.

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

To the extent that, in the context of the operations described above, your personal data may be transferred abroad to states in the European Union (“EU”) or European Economic Area (the “EEA”) (for example, in data centres around the world, wherever the Company facilities or service providers are located), any transfer performed the Company in an EU or EEA member state will observe the legal requirements laid down by the GDPR.

Refusal of the processing and consequences thereof

The personal data indicated above, which are processed under a legal obligation or for the performance of the contract to which you are a party represent a necessary obligation for the conclusion of a contract with the Company – COLVUD SRL, and you must provide personal data for the conclusion or performance of the agreement and to enable us to comply with our legal obligations towards you and towards the public authorities. If you do not provide us with the data for the purposes mentioned above, we will not be able to conclude the agreement and we will not be able to develop the contractual relationship based on the agreement. Thus some features of the website/app will remain unavailable within your account.

External Websites

Occasionally, the Company’s Platform may provide references or links to other websites, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, X Corp., Pinterest, YouTube, Bitcoin talk, Telegram (“External Websites”). The Company (COLVUD SRL) does not control these External Websites third party sites or any of the content contained therein. You agree that the Company is in no way responsible or liable for External Websites referenced or linked from the Company’s Platform, including, but not limited to, website content, policies, failures, promotions, products, services or actions and/or any damages, losses, failures or problems caused by, related to, or arising from those sites.

External Websites have separate and independent privacy policies. The Company encourages you to review the policies, rules, terms, and regulations of each site that you visit. You may review the privacy policies of the above-mentioned websites as follows:

(i) Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/policy.php;
(ii) LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy;
(iii) Instagram – https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875;
(iv) X Corp. ex: Twitter – https://twitter.com/en/privacy;
(v) Pinterest – https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy-2016;
(vi) YouTube – https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en;
(vii) Bitcoin talk – https://bitcointalk.org/privacy.php and
(viii) Telegram – https://telegram.org/privacy.

We seek to protect the integrity of the Company’s Platform and welcome any feedback about External Website information provided on the Company’s Platform.

The Company can only process personal data of social media users if they communicate directly with COLVUD SRL or with Claudiu Duiu via such platforms (e.g., posted articles, likes, direct messages, user inquiries, comments, etc.). In such cases, the Company is also responsible for the processing of personal data gathered thereby. In addition to the data processed by us, other providers, in particular operators of social network platforms, also process personal user data. The Company has no influence on this data processing and is not responsible for it – the data processing takes place exclusively in the area of responsibility of such other providers.

If you do not want the above-mentioned websites to associate the use of our online services with the user account, please do not access the respective links on the Company’s Platform.

This processing activity is based on the legitimate interest to allow interaction with stakeholders through different social media platforms.

Automated decision making and automated profiling

The personal data referred to in this Privacy Policy are not subject to automated decision making, including profiling.

Security of the data processing

The Company constantly evaluates and upgrades the security measures implemented to ensure a secure and safe personal data processing. These security measures include, but are not limited to:

  1. Password protected directories and databases.
  2. Secure Sockets Layered (SSL) Transport Layer Security (TLS) technology to ensure that your information is fully encrypted and sent across the Internet securely.
  3. PCI Scanning to actively protect the Company’s servers from hackers and other vulnerabilities.
  4. All financially sensitive and/or credit information is transmitted via SSL TLS technology and encrypted securely stored in the Company’s database. Only the Company’s authorized personnel are permitted access to your personal data, and these personnel are required to treat the information as highly confidential.

Really Simple SSL

Really Simple SSL and Really Simple SSL add-ons do not process any personal identifiable information, so the GDPR does not apply to these plugins or usage of these plugins on your website. You can find our privacy policy here.

LiteSpeed Cache

This site utilizes caching in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site. All cache files are temporary, and are never accessed by any third party, except as necessary to obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor. Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator, but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration, if necessary. We may use QUIC.cloud services to process & cache your data temporarily. Please see https://quic.cloud/privacy-policy/ for more details.

Akismet

We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet Anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

Contact details

You may address any question using the following contact details:

COLVUD SRL, with its headquarters in Draganesti-Olt, Str. Nicolae Titulescu, nr. 115, et. 2, telephone number +40701109820 e-mail address contact@colvud.com / contact@claudiuduiu.com

For any information regarding the protection of personal data, please contact us at dpo@claudiuduiu.com.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be changed and updated from time to time by the Company, as necessary. The Company will notify you of any material or substantial changes to this Privacy Policy and will ensure that such notification is made in such a way as to enable you to become aware of such changes, for example by publishing on the Company’s Platform or by any other appropriate means ensuring an effective communication.