Privacy policy

We care about your privacy!

Therefore, POENARU LEGAL („We”, „Our law office” or „POENARU LEGAL”) takes great care to handle your personal data in accordance with the data protection laws applicable in Romania, including the EU Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR), which governs the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data, while repealing Directive 95/46/EC. Personal data refers to any information related to an identified or identifiable individual, where an identifiable person can be recognized directly or indirectly, especially through an identification number or various factors related to their physical, psychological, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity.

This privacy policy pertains to the personal data of our clients, business partners and individuals who contact or visit us. It applies to data collected through our website, www.poenaru-legal.ro.

PURPOSES, GROUNDS FOR PROCESSING AND CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL DATA

In the context of your interaction with POENARU LEGAL, you, as a natural person, may be subject to the data processing activities that we perform. Thus, we use your personal data in the following cases:

If you are a client or potential client of POENARU LEGAL:

1.1. Providing the legal and IP-related services requested from us

We use your relevant personal data in order to prepare and provide the services requested from us. For instance, in preparing materials required during the course of litigation and consultancy services, we may have to rely on your personal data of relevance for your case. We rely in this case on the performance of our agreement as grounds for processing.

1.2. Communicating with you

We use your contact details in order to communicate with you with respect to your requests and any other relevant business-related matters. We also rely in this case on our agreement as grounds for processing.

1.3 Data processing as obligation imposed by the law and by the statute governing the legal profession

We may process some of your data in the context of providing the services based on legal obligations or obligations imposed upon POENARU LEGAL by the statute governing the legal profession. The grounds for processing is the legal obligation.

The categories of data processed in the context of our relationship with you are your name, e-mail, phone, address, as well as other personal data you may provide directly to us.

If you are a job/internship applicant:

We use the personal data contained in the CVs we receive in order to assess the applicants’ qualifications for a position within POENARU LEGAL. The processing is made on the grounds of entering into and performing of the agreement.

The categories of data processed in the context of our relationship with you are your name, e-mail, phone, address, personal data included in CVs, education and training details, professional qualifications, as well as other personal data you may provide directly to us.

If you are a user of our Internet website:

We use the personal data we collect from you when you visit our site, in order monitor the traffic and improve the  content of the website. We base this data processing activity on our legitimate interest in ensuring the proper functioning of our Internet website, as well as its improvement.

PROVIDING THE PERSONAL DATA

When the data is required directly from you, POENARU LEGAL kindly asks you to provide all categories of personal data we request in the aforementioned purposes, as otherwise we shall not be able to carry out our activity (including, among others, to provide you with our legal services).

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

While as a rule we shall not disclose your personal data to any third parties, we may, if in your interest and necessary, disclose relevant personal data to courts of law or relevant authorities, in the context of providing the services you have requested from us.

DURATION OF PROCESSING

We intend to keep your personal data for the duration of the assistance agreement, as well as afterwards, according to our internal policies and the legal obligations incumbent upon us.

In case the data is not collected in the context of an assistance agreement, such data will be kept for as long as necessary in order to attain the purpose of the envisaged data collection.

YOUR RIGHTS

In your capacity as data subjects, the GDPR provides you with a series of rights including:

• the right of access – allowing you to obtain confirmation that your personal data is being processed by us and, if affirmative, the relevant details of such processing activities;
• the right to rectification – allowing you to rectify your personal data if inaccurate;
• right to erasure – allowing you to obtain the erasure of your personal data in certain cases (e.g., if the data is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected);
• right to restriction – allowing you to obtain the restriction of processing your personal data in certain cases (e.g., when you contest the accuracy of your personal data, for a period enabling us to verify such accuracy);
• the right to object – allowing you to object to further processing of your personal data within the conditions and limits set forth by law;
• right to data portability – allowing you to receive the personal data concerning you that you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to transmit this data to another data controller.

You may exercise your aforementioned rights and find out more about such rights by filing with us, as data controller, a written request at POENARU LEGAL | Lucian Poenaru – Cabinet de avocat, 136 Viitorului Street, 4th floor, 2nd District, 020617 Bucharest, Romania or by e-mailing us at lucian@poenaru-legal.ro.

You also have the right to file a complaint with the data protection authority.

VERSIONS TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy is in force as of April 2025.