Dimov & Tashev Law Firm is a legal partnership incorporated and validly existing under the Bar Act of the Republic of Bulgaria. It is registered with the law firms register at Sofia Bar Association and is regulated by the Supreme Bar Council. All references on this website to "Dimov & Tashev Law Firm", "Dimov & Tashev" or "the firm" should be read as referring to Dimov & Tashev Law Firm.
A list of members is open to inspection at this office at 12 Emil Bersinski Str, Sofia 1408, Bulgaria. The firm's lawyers are subject to the rules of the regulatory body with whom they are admitted.
Dimov & Tashev Law Firm is registered for VAT purposes with VAT registration number BG 175824595.
Dimov and Tashev Law Firm is a data controller of the personal data provided by you and conducts its activities in strict compliance with the requirements of the Personal Data Protection Act and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of this data (General Data Protection Regulation), in order to ensure confidentiality and lawful processing of its clients and employees personal data. Your privacy is important to us and we are committed to protecting and respecting it. For that reason, we have adopted this Privacy Policy which explains what personal data we collect from you, through our direct interactions with you and through our services, how we use that data, and what rights you have according to the GDPR and how you can exercise those rights. More information of the Bulgarian legislation concerning personal data protection is available on the website of the Commission for Personal Data Protection: www.cpdp.bg.
Definitions
Any reference in this Privacy Policy to your "personal data", means any information that we collect about you (such as name, age, address, date of birth, education, information on your employment, etc.) and based on which you can be identified. Generally, all of the information you provide us when registering for any of our services is personal data and we will protect it as such. This Privacy Policy describes how we process your personal data. When we refer to the "processing" of your personal data, we mean anything that we do with your data, including its collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, use, disclosure erasure or destruction. We will always strictly observe the requirements of the applicable data protection laws when processing your personal data.
Information We Collect
Dimov and Tashev Law Firm collects data to operate effectively and provide you the best experience with our services. You will provide some of this data directly, such as when you apply for work or send us an enquiry on our e-mail or in-person communication. You have choices about the data we collect. When you are asked to provide personal data, you may decline. But if you choose not to provide data that is necessary to provide you a service, you may not be able to use that service. Therefore, we will always inform you on the consequences of your refusal to provide us with your personal data. The data we collect depends on the context of your interactions with Dimov and Tashev Law Firm. The data we collect can include the following:
Name and contact data. We collect your first and last name, email address, postal address, phone number, and other similar contact data – to identify you and to contact you.
Company. We collect data about the company you represent.
Other information you may provide to us, such as in feedback forms or through the “Contacts” feature on our website.
How we use the information we collect
Services Improvement. We use data to provide and continually improve our services and to effectuate basic business operations.
Communication. We use data we collect to communicate with you and personalize our communication with you. For example, we may contact you by phone or email to get more information about your enquiry and send you personalized offer.
Legal Grounds for Processing your Personal Data
Consent: We process your personal data based on your explicit consent which you provide by sending us an enquiry from the contact form or by sending CV in order to apply for work. You can withdraw your consent at any time through the contact information incorporated in the section “Contacts” at the end of this Privacy Policy. If you do choose to withdraw your consent, this will not mean that our processing of your personal data before you withdrew your consent was unlawful. If you choose to withdraw your consent for the processing of your personal data for the delivery of our services, we will no longer be able to cooperate with you.
Legal obligations: Your personal data is also in certain situations processed in order for Dimov and Tashev Law Firm to comply with its legal obligations according to the applicable legislation, court rulings, or decisions taken by the authorities.
Information we share
We do not disclose personal information we collect about you, except as described in this Privacy Policy or in separate notices provided in connection with activities.
• We share your personal data with your consent or to provide the services you have requested from us or you have authorized us to deliver.
• We share personal data with vendors or agents working on our behalf for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
• In addition, we may disclose information about you (i) if we are required to do so by law or legal process; (ii) to law enforcement authorities or other government officials based on a lawful disclosure request; and (iii) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss, or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual fraudulent or illegal activity.
• When your personal data is transferred to third countries (outside the European Union), we make sure that there is an adequacy decision adopted by the European Commission. If there is no such decision applicable, we will always conclude with the data recipient a data protection agreement that ensures adequate level of protection of your personal data, including by incorporating the Standard contractual clauses issued by the European Commission.
• Personal data controllers to whom Dimov and Tashev may transfer personal data also include:
- The CPDP (Commission for Personal Data Protection)
- The CCP (Commission for Consumer Protection)
Your rights and choices
Under data protection law, you have rights we need to make you aware of. Below we have provided a list of the rights you can exercise at any time by contacting us. Contact information can be found at the end of this Privacy Policy in the section “Contacts”.
• Right to access: you can ask us at any time what information we hold about you and how we process it. You can ask us for copies of your personal information. We will provide you the information free of charge unless your requests are repeating in a short period of time in which cases, we will impose a reasonable fee;
• Right to rectification: you can ask us to correct your personal data if you think it is inaccurate. You can ask us to complete your information if you think it is incomplete;
• Right to erasure: you can ask us to delete your personal data under certain circumstances, for example, if you consider that there is no good reason for us to continue to process it. Please be aware that we may refuse to delete your data if the retention periods for the respective personal data have not yet lapsed.
• Right to withdraw your consent: You may at any time withdraw your consent to process your data.
• Right to restriction of processing: You have the right to ask us to stop using your information for a period of time in certain circumstances for instance if you believe we are not doing so lawfully.
• Right not to be subject to decision based solely on automated processing: you have the right not be subject to solely automated decision making. We will always inform you if the automated decision making of your personal data leads to us reaching decisions that may affect your legal rights or have similar effect on you. In such cases you will have the right to request human interference in the decision-making process.
• Right to data portability: You have the right to ask that we transfer the information you gave us to another data controller or give it to you. The right only applies if we are processing information based on your consent or for the performance and conclusion of a contract and the processing is automated.
• Right to object: you can object to us processing your personal data if the processing forms part of our public tasks, or is in our legitimate interests, including profiling, unless we do not demonstrate overriding legitimate grounds. You can always object if the processing is for direct marketing purposes.
If your request places Dimov and Tashev Law Firm in breach of the applicable legislation, we may refuse to fulfil it.
We have one month to respond to your request. We may sometimes need to extend this term by two additional months if your request is very complexed or we are overwhelmed by the number of the requests we have received. We will timely let you know if an extension will apply.
Our retention of Personal Data
We retain personal data for as long as necessary to provide the services you have requested, or for other essential purposes such as complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, and enforcing our agreements. The general duration of personal data and document retention of clients/prospect-clients, transactions and deals is 5 (five) years after closing the deal and terminating the relationship with the client. If you have given consent to the processing of your personal data, Dimov and Tashev Law Firm will process your personal data for the specific purpose, until you withdraw your consent. When the need to process your personal data no longer applies and the set retention periods expire, we will erase your personal data in a secure manner.
How we protect personal information
We maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information you provide against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use. Your personal data is stored on servers of Dimov and Tashev, where they are protected by all modern and fit for the purposes standard hardware and software means of protection – firewalls, anti-virus programs, data encrypting etc. We update and test our security technology on an ongoing basis. Dimov and Tashev ensures that access to your personal information is only granted to employees who need to process it in order to fulfil their work assignments, and that they abide by confidentiality in accordance with the applicable policies and procedures of Dimov and Tashev. In addition, we train our employees about the importance of confidentiality and maintaining the privacy and security of your information. We commit to taking appropriate disciplinary measures to enforce our employees' privacy responsibilities.
Supervision and compliance
If you are dissatisfied with the way we have used your information or if you believe that your information was processed contrary to the applicable data protection rules and regulations, you can contact us. You can also lodge a complaint to the competent supervisory data protection authority in the country where you reside, the country where you work or the country where you were situated when the alleged breach of your rights has occurred. The competent authority in Bulgaria where we are seated is the Commission for Personal Data Protection (www.cpdp.bg).
Contacts
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, would like to exercise your rights or would like us to update information we have about you or your preferences, please contacts us at:
12 Emil Bersinski Str., 5th floor
1408 Sofia, Bulgaria
Phone: +359 2 950 38 00
E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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