Privacy Policy

Information regarding the Personal Data Controller:

Our website address: healthcaremagazine.bg.

MD LAB EOOD is a company registered in the Commercial Register of the Registry Agency with UIC 207353898, with its registered office and management address at: BULGARIA, Sofia, Vitosha District, 2 Gen. Mikhail Kutuzov St., bl. -, ent. -, fl. 1, Tel: +359 889 601 345; e-mail: ceo@healthcaremagazine.bg

We process your personal data on the following grounds:

Your explicit consent – the purpose is specified for each specific case;

In the following paragraphs, you will find information regarding the processing of your personal data depending on the grounds on which we process them.

1. COLLECTION AND PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA

Personal data is information that serves for your identification, i.e., name, phone number, email, or postal address. healthcaremagazine.bg does not collect personal data from you unless you provide it in specific cases, for example, when ordering products or signing up to receive promotional messages. By providing your personal data, you agree to receive email communications regarding current commercial offers, promotions, news, and the organization of events and marketing campaigns.

1.1 UPON YOUR CONSENT

We process your personal data on this basis only after your explicit, unambiguous, and voluntary consent. We will not impose any adverse consequences on you if you refuse the processing of personal data.

Consent is a separate basis for processing your personal data, and the purpose of the processing is stated therein and is not covered by the purposes listed in this policy. If you provide us with the relevant consent, and until its withdrawal or the termination of any contractual relationship with you, we will prepare suitable product/service offers for you.

On this basis, we process only the data for which you have given us your explicit consent. Specific data is determined for each individual case. Usually, the data includes:

• Email
• Phone
• Address
• Names

Provided consents may be withdrawn at any time. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the fulfillment of contractual obligations. If you withdraw your consent for the processing of personal data for any or all of the methods described above, we will not use your personal data and information for the purposes specified above.

2. USE AND STORAGE OF PERSONAL DATA

healthcaremagazine.bg uses your personal data solely for the purposes of technical management of the site, to provide you with access to specific information, or for general communication with you.

healthcaremagazine.bg will not sell your personal data to third parties, nor will it trade them elsewhere. The employees of healthcaremagazine.bg are obliged to protect the confidentiality of your data and to comply with a confidentiality agreement.

2.1 PROCESSING OF ANONYMIZED PERSONAL DATA

We process your data for statistical purposes, meaning for analyses where the results are only aggregate and therefore the data is anonymous. Identifying a specific person from this information is impossible.

2.2 AUTOMATICALLY RECORDED INFORMATION

When you access the healthcaremagazine.bg website, certain general non-personal data is automatically recorded (not as part of registration), such as the Internet browser used, number of visits, average time spent on the site, and pages viewed.

This information is used to assess the attractiveness of our site and to improve its content and functionality. Your data is not processed further, nor is it transferred to third parties.

2.3 “COOKIES”

“Cookies” are small files that are temporarily stored on your hard drive and allow our site to recognize your computer the next time you visit the healthcaremagazine.bg website. It uses “cookies” solely to collect information regarding the use of our site.

2.4 SECURITY

healthcaremagazine.bg attaches great importance to ensuring the security of your personal data. Your data is conscientiously protected from loss, destruction, distortion/falsification, manipulation, and unauthorized access or unauthorized disclosure.

2.5 MINORS

healthcaremagazine.bg advises all parents and guardians to teach their children about safety and responsibility when providing personal data on the Internet. Minors should not transmit personal data to the healthcaremagazine.bg website without the permission of their parents or guardians. healthcaremagazine.bg will never knowingly collect personal data from minors, nor will it use it in any way or disclose it to third parties without permission.

2.6 LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

This privacy protection statement applies to the healthcaremagazine.bg website. Sub-pages within this site may contain links to other providers who do not apply this privacy protection statement. When you leave the healthcaremagazine.bg site, please look for and read the privacy statement of every site that collects personal information.

3. HOW WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA

To ensure adequate protection of the company’s and its clients’ data, we apply all necessary organizational and technical measures provided for in the Personal Data Protection Act.

For the purpose of maximum security during the processing, transfer, and storage of your data, we may use additional protection mechanisms such as encryption, pseudonymization, etc.

4. USER RIGHTS

Every User of the site enjoys all rights for the protection of personal data according to Bulgarian legislation and European Union law. Every User has the right to:

• Information (regarding the processing of their personal data by the controller);
• Access to their own personal data;
• Rectification (if the data is inaccurate);
• Erasure of personal data (the right to be forgotten);
• Restriction of processing by the controller or the personal data processor;
• Data portability between different controllers;
• Objection to the processing of their personal data;
• The data subject also has 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 significantly affects them;
• The right to judicial or administrative protection in the event that the data subject’s rights have been violated.

The User may request erasure if one of the following conditions is met:

• The personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed;
• The User withdraws their consent on which the processing is based and there is no other legal ground for the processing;
• The User objects to the processing and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing;
• The personal data has been processed unlawfully;
• The personal data must be erased for compliance with a legal obligation under Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject;
• The personal data has been collected in relation to the offer of information society services to children and consent was given by the person holding parental responsibility for the child.

The User has the right to restrict the processing of their personal data by the controller when:

• They contest the accuracy of the personal data. In this case, the restriction of processing is for a period that allows the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data;
• The processing is unlawful, but the User does not want the personal data erased and instead requests the restriction of its use;
• The controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of processing, but the User requires it for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims;
• They object to the processing pending verification whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override the interests of the User.

4.1 RIGHT TO PORTABILITY

The data subject has the right to receive the personal data concerning them, which they have provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and has the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to whom the personal data was provided, where the processing is based on consent or on a contractual obligation and the processing is carried out by automated means.

When exercising their right to data portability, the data subject has the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible.

4.2 RIGHT TO OBJECT

Users have the right to object to the controller against the processing of their personal data. The personal data controller is obliged to terminate the processing unless they demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights, and freedoms of the data subject, or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

In the event of an objection to the processing of personal data for direct marketing purposes, the processing should be terminated immediately.

4.3 COMPLAINT TO THE SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY

Every User has the right to file a complaint against the unlawful processing of their personal data with the Commission for Personal Data Protection or the competent court.

5. NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES

All changes to our personal data protection policy will be announced in the privacy statement, on the homepage, and in other places we deem appropriate.

6. CONCLUSION OF CONTRACT:

By clicking the “Contact Us” button, you make an electronic statement by which you conclude a contract with MD LAB EOOD under these Terms and undertake to comply with them. Before clicking the “Contact Us” button, you have the opportunity to review and edit the information you have provided.

You accept that electronic statements to MD LAB EOOD and electronic statements from MD LAB EOOD to you are considered signed with a simple electronic signature in accordance with Art. 3, paragraph 10 of Regulation (EU) No. 910/2014, with the force of a handwritten signature.

In addition, MD LAB EOOD stores information about the registration and agreement with the Terms (date, time, and IP address), and maintains a log of the fact that the statement was sent (without its content) for a period of 1 (one) year. The log contains the date of the statement, the name and email address of the sender, as well as the identification of the recipient.

In the processing of your personal data, you will not be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling.

MD LAB EOOD protects the User’s personal data in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act.

The User may store data on the User’s terminal communication device unless the latter expresses disagreement with this.

The User agrees that MD LAB EOOD has the right to send the User electronic newsletters, offers for product purchases, promotions, etc., via electronic messages at any time.

MD LAB EOOD has the right to collect, store, and process data on the User’s actions during the use of healthcaremagazine.bg.bg.

MD LAB EOOD has the right to request the User to identify themselves at any time and to verify the data on healthcaremagazine.bg.bg.

6.1 NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES

All changes to our personal data protection policy will be announced in the privacy statement, on the homepage, and in other places we deem appropriate.