Privacy policy

RULES FOR USE AND PROTECTION OF INFORMATION AND USE OF COOKIES ON THE PORTAL12.ORG WEBSITE ("Rules")

The provision of any information or content by a User is voluntary and is subject to the Terms of Use, an integral part of which are the present Rules for the use and protection of information and the use of cookies on the Portal12.ORG Website (referred to below "The Rules" for short).

1. What information do we collect, how and for what purposes do we use it?

1.1. Information about the User

Portal 12 has the right to collect and use information about the User. The information by which the User can be identified may include names, location (address), e-mail address, telephone, photos, gender, date of birth, as well as any other information that the User voluntarily enters or provides when using the Services on the Portal12.ORG Website (accessible via www.Portal12.ORG), including the information provided by Facebook to Portal 12 when the User registers via Facebook Login.

In the registration form filled out by the User when concluding the contract, Portal 12 clearly indicates the mandatory or voluntary nature of providing the data and the consequences of refusing to provide it. By expressing agreement with the Terms of Use and these Rules, the User agrees to have his/her information processed in the order provided for in them.

The provision of personal data marked as mandatory for provision in the relevant electronic forms for registration on the Portal12.ORG Website is necessary for the purpose of the User's registration and, accordingly, his access to the Services for which registration is required. Failure to provide them constitutes an obstacle to the successful completion of the registration or is grounds for the termination of the relevant registration unilaterally by Portal 12 in accordance with the provisions of the Terms of Use.

In addition to the information above, Portal 12 has the right (but not the obligation) to automatically save certain information that the User's computer or other terminal device sends to the Portal 12 Servers in connection with the User's activity. The information is stored in log files of Portal 12 Servers and may include information about the Internet pages on the Portal12.ORG Website (including User Profiles of Registered Users) that the User has visited, the Websites that referred the User to the Portal12.ORG Website , the websites visited through electronic links on the Portal12.ORG Website, the date and time of these visits, the User's IP address, the type of Internet browser the User uses, the keywords used by the User when searching on the Portal12.ORG Website, the number Users who viewed a given banner on the Portal12.ORG Website, the number of clicks on the banners on the Portal12.ORG Website, etc. similar. This information is not information that identifies the specific User and is used for non-personalized research and tracking of user behavior, habits and interests, to analyze the effectiveness of advertising, for statistical purposes, as well as to improve the Services offered.

This information may be processed and stored by Portal 12 in a customized form together with other information about the User, provided by him during the registration or use of the Services. In addition, Portal 12 collects log files (date, time and, accordingly, source - IP addresses) in cases where this is required by the current legislation, as well as log files and any other information necessary for the reproduction of electronic data generated when using the Services statements by the User (e.g. acceptance of the Terms of Use, etc.) and to identify the User, in the event of a legal dispute.

1.2. Publicly available content. User Content

The User Content (whether or not it contains personal data) that the User publishes on the Website, as well as any information that the User provides when using the Services (such as names, location (address), e-mail address, telephone, photos, gender, date of birth, information about profiles in social networks, etc.), are publicly available on the Website Portal12.ORG. Portal 12 shows Registered Users who viewed their profile.

When there is an explicitly indicated possibility to do so, the Registered User can limit access to part of this information to a certain group of Registered Users through the settings of his User Profile. The registered user can choose to have the visibility (access) to his User Profile limited to his friends or to his friends and their friends. Any information and content for which there are no explicitly indicated tools for restricting access are publicly available and the User agrees to their disclosure in this way by the act of their very publication on the Website and Portal12.ORG.

For the avoidance of doubt, Portal 12 does not intend to collect, use, store or process in any other way personal data or any other information that is subject to special protection under applicable law, through the User Content, published by the User on the Portal12.ORG Website, nor monitors the presence of such data or information in it. The publication of personal data or other information included in the User Content, or otherwise in the use of the Services by the User, is entirely at the User's risk and responsibility. By accepting the Terms of Use and these Rules, the User declares that he is informed, accepts and agrees that any information (including personal data) included in the User Content published by him or in his User Profile, as performed by him notes of events in which he will participate will be publicly available to all Users of the Portal12.ORG Website, as well as to all third parties to whom Portal 12 may provide access to this User Content or information as provided in the Terms of Use and in these Rules. The User also represents and warrants that when posting the User Content and any other information, it does not violate the rights of third parties in relation to the protection of their personal data or any of their other personal rights, including that it is previously obtained their consent to such publication (to the extent required under applicable law).

Portal 12 collects and uses the information under item 1.1 for the purposes provided for in the Terms of Use and in these Rules, namely to provide the Services, to provide the User with the opportunity to create, access and manage his User Profile, to perform of obligations of Portal 12, for processing and collecting payments owed by the User, for exercising and protecting legal rights and interests of users and of Portal 12, for offering goods and/or new services offered by Portal 12 and third parties, for promotions, organization of surveys, inquiries, surveys and promotional games and for statistical purposes.

1.3. Invite a friend

The User has the possibility to send through his User Profile an invitation to third parties (friends) to register on the Portal12.ORGG Website through the Invite Your Friends service, which gives access to the publicly available information from the user profile of such third parties on Facebook (www.facebook .com). When sending an invitation, the User declares and guarantees that he has received the prior consent of the relevant persons (friends) to disclose their e-mail addresses and, accordingly, other data that could be disclosed when sending the invitation, for the purposes of sending it. Persons who have received an "invitation from a friend" in the manner described here may refuse to register on the Portal12.ORG website.

1.4. Services related to third parties

At his discretion, the User may share on the Portal12.ORG Website (for example, through the Facebook Login service) information about himself that is publicly available on other websites, including information about who he is connected to on these other websites (for example, lists of his friends and contacts). These Rules do not apply to information stored about the User and his friends on other websites. The collection, storage, protection and processing of this information is subject to the terms and conditions of those other websites. In case the User does not want his friends, contacts and other information about him available on other websites to be shared on the Portal12.ORG Website, he can change his privacy settings in his profiles on these other websites.

Certain pages of the Portal12.ORG Website display buttons for sharing ("share") or recommending ("recommend") User Content with other websites. The User agrees and in his sole discretion makes his User Content (including any personal or other information it may contain) available for sharing on other websites. The User is informed that when using such buttons to share ("share") or recommend ("recommend") by third parties, they may share his User Content with third parties who are outside the control of Portal 12 and who may are located and carry out their activities outside the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria and even outside the European Union and the European Economic Area. These Rules do not apply to such shared User Content, and accordingly the collection, storage, protection and processing of such information is subject to the terms and conditions of those other websites.

1.5. Cookies

Portal 12 has the right (but not the obligation) to install on a computer or otherend device of the User cookies (cookies) – small text files that are saved from an Internet page through an Internet server on the User's hard disk and enable the recovery of information about the User by identifying the end device and/or browser used by him. Cookies may also be installed by third parties for the purpose of advertising goods and services.

When providing the services, Portal 12 stores information and receives access to such information stored in the end device of the User and accordingly processes it for the purpose of:
·                     Ensuring normal and quality access of the User to the Services with all their functional capabilities;
·                     Checking for the availability of scripts, software applications and settings on the User's end device necessary for the normal access and use of the Services and informing him of their absence;
·                     Tracking and preventing multi-accounting (registration and use of multiple user profiles by one person) and malicious actions;
·                     Visualization or non-visualization of elements of the Portal12.ORG Website that have specific requirements compatible or incompatible with specific properties, qualities or settings of the User's end device (e.g. screen width; resolution, etc.);
·                     Customizing the Services and providing automated display or hiding of various elements of the Portal12.ORG Website according to the User's preferences and settings (for example: saving the language selected by the User as the default language, locking the title bar of the main menu with the Website's categories Portal12.ORG, etc.);
·                     Displaying a pop-up window to like the page of Portal12.ORG on the website www.facebook.com;
·                     Advertising and research of User preferences.

The cookies used by Portal 12 do not store information (personal data) that would allow the identification of the User as a natural person.

The user has the right at any time to refuse the storage and/or access to the information stored in the end device used by him.

The prohibition and/or deletion of cookies (cookies) by the User may lead to the total or partial inability of the User to access the Portal12.ORG Website and/or the Services, to the modification or removal of cookies previously set by him during previous visits to the Website Portal12.ORG settings and/or to a significant deterioration of the quality of the Services, for which Portal 12 is not responsible.

The user has the right at any time to receive information about the data stored by Portal 12 in the end device used by him by sending a corresponding request to Portal 12 at the following e-mail address: INFO@Portal12.ORG

Portal 12 uses two types of cookies - "temporary" (which are deleted from the memory of the User's end device after the latter closes the Internet and his browser) and "permanent" (which remain on the User's end device until he deletes them). Persistent cookies can be removed by the User according to the instructions of the Internet browser used by the User. The cookies used by Portal 12 contain an identification code that helps to identify the User.

Cookies can also be installed by third parties for the purpose of advertising goods and services that are of interest to the User during his visit to the Portal12.ORG Website and other websites visited by him, in order to report statistics and trends in the development of the website etc. Portal 12 has no access to or control over the use of these cookies. These cookies also collect information about how the Portal12.ORG Website is used, such as which website referred to the Portal12.ORG Website, which Internet pages the User visited on the Portal12.ORG Website, information about the User's visits to other Websites, etc. ., but do not collect information such as names, e-mail address, other contact information, or other personal data that by itself could enable the third party to identify or contact the User.

The following third parties providing advertising, web analytics and online statistics services use cookies through the Portal12.ORG Website:

•          Google AdSense. For more information about the cookies installed by Google, you can visit the Google website;
•          OpenX. For more information about the hooks installed by OpenX, you can visit the OpenX website;
Google Analytics. For more information about the cookies installed by Google Analytics, you can visit the Google Developers website;

2. Who do we share your information with?

2.1. Public Content

Portal 12 has the right to askshare and provide the publicly available content of the Portal12.ORG Website, including any User Content, to persons associated with Portal 12, its business partners and any other third parties, and the User understands and agrees that these third parties may publish such User Content on their Websites or media platforms. They indicate the User as the source of the relevant User Content and may display and refer to publicly available information in their User Profile, e.g. names and photo.

2.2. Data processors on behalf of Portal 12 persons (Data Processors)

In order to carry out technical support and administration of the Portal12.ORG Website, as well as in the processing of information for statistical and marketing purposes, in performing tests and evaluating the performance of the Portal12.ORG Website, in making payments and using other services, related to the Portal12.ORG Website, personal data and other information about the User may be disclosed to and processed by third parties to whom Portal 12 has assigned the performance of certain services related to the Portal12.ORG Website. This data will be disclosed and accordingly processed only to the extent and in the volume that is necessary for the performance of the assigned work. These third parties will act as processors of the personal data on behalf of Portal 12 persons, will be obliged to process the relevant data only and only in strict compliance with the instructions of Portal 12 and will not be entitled to use or process in any other way personal data of Users for other purposes, except for the purposes specified in the Terms of Use and in these Rules.

2.3. Direct marketing

By accepting the Terms of Use and these Rules, the User agrees to the processing of his personal data for direct marketing purposes. The user has the right at any time to object to subsequent processing of his personal data for the purposes of direct marketing by sending a written message to Portal 12 at the specified address or e-mail contact address - INFO@PORTAL12.ORG. The user has the right to be notified before his personal data is disclosed for the first time to third parties or used on their behalf for direct marketing purposes, and to be given the opportunity to object to such disclosure and use.

By accepting the Terms of Use and these Rules, the User declares that he is informed and expresses his consent for his personal data to be provided and disclosed by Portal 12 to other personal data administrators for the purposes of marketing and advertising in the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria and in countries in and outside the European Union subject to the provisions of the Personal Data Protection Act. The user has the right at any time to withdraw his consent to the subsequent provision of his personal data to third parties in the manner described above in this point.

2.4.Disclosure of personal data

Portal 12 undertakes not to disclose personal data and other information about the User or his use of the Services and not to provide the collected information to third parties - government bodies, commercial companies, individuals and others, except:

2.4.1. when provided for in these Rules, in the Terms of Use, or the User has expressly consented at the time of registration or at a later time;
2.4.2. when this is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation of Portal 12 LTD;
2.4.3. when the information is requested by state authorities, judicial authorities or officials who, according to the current legislation, are competent to request and collect such information in accordance with legally established procedures and rules;
2.4.4. when the disclosure of personal data by Portal 12 is required to protect the rights, legal interests and reputation of Portal 12, persons connected to Portal 12 or the Users;
2.4.5. when the information is provided to employees or subcontractors of Portal 12 for administration activities of the Portal12.ORG Website and the use of the Services;
2.4.6. in other cases specified by law.

2.5. Retention of action after termination

The provisions of Section 2 remain in effect after termination of the contract between Portal 12 and the User.

3. How do we protect your information? What rights do you have?

3.1. Policy regarding persons under 14 years of age

The Portal12.ORG website is not directed at persons under the age of 14. Portal 12 does not intend and does not wish to collect and process personal data about persons under the age of 14. In the event that a person under the age of 14 has provided their personal data without the consent of their parents and/or guardians, the latter should inform Portal12 immediately about this.

3.2. Security

Portal 12 takes due care for the collection, storage and processing of the personal data of the Users in accordance with the Law on the Protection of Personal Data. Portal 12 is registered as an administrator of lichour data in the meaning and order of this law in the Register of personal data administrators and the registers with personal data kept by them.

Portal 12 takes due care and is responsible for protecting the information about the User, which became known to him on the occasion of providing the Services, subject to the Terms of Use, except in cases of force majeure, accidental event or malicious actions of third parties, as well as in the cases , where the User himself has made this information available to third parties.

3.3. Rights in relation to personal data

Apart from the above, by accepting the Terms of Use and these Rules, the User confirms that he is aware of the rights granted to him under the Law on the Protection of Personal Data, including but not limited to:

3.3.1. the right to access his personal data processed by Portal 12;
3.3.2. the right to correct and update your personal data processed by Portal 12;
3.3.3. the right to request deletion, correction or blocking of his personal data, the processing of which does not meet the requirements of the applicable legislation;
3.3.4. the right to require Portal 12 to notify the third parties to whom it has disclosed its personal data of any deletion, correction or blocking of such data, except in cases where this is impossible or involves excessive efforts for Portal 12.

Each Registered User can correct and update their personal data stored by Portal 12 through their User Profile.

The User may exercise any of his rights under this point by making a corresponding written request to Portal 12. The User may exercise the rights related to his personal data personally or through a person expressly authorized by him (with a notarized power of attorney).

These Rules were adopted by decision of the manager of "Portal 12" Ltd on 12.12.2015.

For more info: email: info@portal12.org