Privacy Policy

According to the new GDPR policy, www.costinbusioc.com has the obligation to securely manage and only for specified purposes the personal data you provide to us. The purpose of data collection is mentioned below. We want to emphasize that your personal information is confidential when you visit this website, unless you voluntarily choose to disclose it. We only collect personal information that you provide voluntarily and only for the purposes specified in these privacy policies. We do not ask you to send us this information to access our website, and we do not require you to disclose more information than is necessary to participate in any activity on our website.


When we collect personal data, we are obliged to comply with the relevant regulations regarding the protection of personal data. Please read all the information provided below, and if you have questions or uncertainties regarding our Privacy Policy or if you want to share your experiences on this website, please notify us at the email address contact@costinbusioc.com.


If you are a minor, please do not provide us with personal data!


1. General Aspects


When you use the website http://www.costinbusioc.com (“Website”), we process a series of personal data about you as a data controller, in accordance with the relevant legislation on the protection of personal data. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes the types of data processed, how they are used, and your rights in connection with these processing activities. We recommend that you read this Policy before using the Website. If you do not agree with its provisions, please cease using the Website.


2. Processed Personal Data


“Personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“Data Subject”). We collect personal information in accordance with applicable regulations, for example, to send you news and articles via email, to include you and participate in prize contests, to notify winners, to send publications, brochures, and other promotional materials, or to respond to your inquiries, complaints, and comments. We process your personal information only based on your consent, laws, or the legitimate interests of the data controller.


www.costinbusioc.com processes the following categories of personal data:

  1. Contact and identification details necessary for writing a comment on any article on the website www.costinbusioc.com and/or for sending an email using the website’s contact form. Contact and identification details include: name, surname, email address, and website. Any data provided via the comments form and the website’s contact form (real, pseudonymous, or false) are stored in the blog’s database and are only used if the user has requested to be automatically notified by the platform in case of new articles/comments or if they will receive a response to a question/complaint/suggestion sent through the contact form. The user’s agreement is recorded by the platform when the checkboxes next to the comment field are checked.

  2. Data regarding the user’s interaction with the Website – The Operator collects data about how you interact with the Website by using cookies. For details about these technologies and their use, please refer to Section 8 (Cookie Policy).

  3. Data regarding newsletter registration to keep you updated with new articles published on the blog. If you no longer wish to receive this, you have the option to unsubscribe. Unsubscribing can be done at any time using the links at the end of the received emails or by requesting article unsubscribing via an email from the respective address.

  4. Data received from Google Analytics, a service offered by Google Inc. that generates detailed statistics about website traffic and traffic sources, and measures conversions and sales. Google Analytics uses “cookies” stored on your computer to help analyze how users use the blog. The information generated by cookies about how you use the blog, including your IP address, will be anonymized by using appropriate settings (the “_anonymizelp()” or equivalent function) and transmitted to Google servers in the United States. For more information about how IP anonymization works, visit https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052

Google may transfer this information to third parties in case of a statutory obligation or if that third party processes data on behalf of Google. Google will not combine or associate your IP address with other data stored at Google under any circumstances. You can prevent or stop the installation and storage of cookies through your browser settings, by downloading and installing the free Opt-out Browser Add-on available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. In this case, you may not be able to use all the features of the website/blog. By using this site/blog, you agree to the processing of any personal data collected by Google about you and for the purposes described above.


We may offer you the possibility to use social login data (e.g., Facebook). If you choose to use your social profile, please be aware that the social platform, depending on the profile settings in that social network, may share your profile information with us.


We do not collect, record, and use the personal data of minors, to the extent of our knowledge, other than with the consent of their parents or, as the case may be, their legal representatives. If you are a minor, please do not provide us with your personal data, such as name, surname, address, telephone number, or email address, as well as any other data that could help identify you. However, if you choose to send us correspondence that discloses personal data even though you are a minor and do not have the consent of your parents or legal representatives, we inform you that the processing of this correspondence will be explicitly refused.


In case, despite this fact, contact is established at the request of the minor, in the case of the transfer of personal data by the minor, www.costinbusioc.com expressly refuses to accept any material or moral requests arising from the processing of such contact.


3. Purposes for which personal data are processed


The purposes of personal data processing are:

3.1. Creating user profiles on a Website;

3.2. Sending news (articles) via email (subject to your consent);

3.3. Participation in surveys, questionnaires, and/or prize contests organized by www.costinbusioc.com. For details on this type of processing, please refer to Section 7 (Surveys, Questionnaires, and Marketing Promotions);

3.4. Providing answers to questions you send or to your advice, complaints, comments, and similar matters.

We do not sell, transfer, or disclose the information we collect on our website to anyone outside of www.costinbusioc.com without your consent, except (1) as required by law and when necessary to comply with legal obligations; (2) when necessary for the protection of life or bodily integrity and you are unable to give your consent for the processing of personal information; (3) when necessary for the performance of tasks of public interest, (4) when you have personally disclosed this information, and (5) when necessary to protect our legitimate interests. We will keep your personal information only for the time necessary to achieve the above purposes.

All or part of the personal data may be disclosed to other recipients, as shown below:

3.5. Delegated persons designated to process personal data on its behalf, such as providers or collaborators who assist in maintaining and carrying out the services offered through these web pages (e.g., providers of website production and maintenance services, providers/collaborators in the creation/execution of marketing campaigns, and similar, collaborators or providers who can provide the best answers to your questions).


www.costinbusioc.com cannot be held responsible for incorrect use that cannot be established as a result of a breach of the website’s security or the omission of www.costinbusioc.com.


4. Sending Email Messages


When you send us electronic correspondence (such as an email containing a question, comment, complaint, suggestion, and similar, or through the contact form on our page) containing personal data through which you can be identified, we will use this information to fulfill your request. We may forward your email address, as well as the message/request, to other collaborators (e.g., providers) who can best answer your questions.


All collaborators and partners are responsible for respecting the privacy rules of personal data, applying GDPR conditions to their websites.


5. Surveys, Questionnaires, Marketing Promotions


We rarely conduct surveys or may ask you to complete questionnaires on the Website. The data collected from these surveys and questionnaires are used exclusively within the website www.costinbusioc.com. In case on a webpage or through our social media accounts, we publish the results of a survey, these are cumulative statistical data and do not contain personal data.


The Website may contain information about various contests that we organize (“contests”). For these contests and lotteries that allow electronic access, unless otherwise specified in the contest rules, we will use your personal information only for the purpose of conducting a contest (e.g., to contact a winner and fulfill our legal obligations related to organizing the contest). We may disclose this information to service providers (such as courier companies through which we transmit prizes or other “sponsor” providers who help us organize the contest and who have a legal obligation to keep all data confidential or public authorities for the purpose of fulfilling legal obligations). We may also publish certain personal data (e.g., name, surname, and prize value) to fulfill legal obligations or to ensure transparency in contests organized by us.


www.costinbusioc.com cannot be held responsible for damages resulting from the use of information from these pages for purposes that exceed the intended purpose.


6. Cookie Policy


The Website uses so-called “Cookies.” Cookies are small files consisting of letters and numbers that will be stored on your computer, mobile device, or other equipment via a web browser to provide users with the best services and content available for internet access. They store certain information (such as preferred language or webpage settings) that your browser can retransfer to us when you revisit the Website (depending on the cookie’s lifespan).

We use two categories of Cookies:


A. Cookies strictly necessary for the functionality of the website


Certain cookies are strictly necessary to allow you to explore this website and use its fundamental services and features. Without these cookies, for example, you will not be able to access certain secure areas or track your online shopping cart. These cookies cannot be disabled.


We use the following mandatory cookies:


wordpress_{hash},

wordpress_logged_in_{hash}

comment_author_{HASH},comment_author_email_{HASH},comment_author_url_{HASH}


The purpose is to recognize the unregistered user when they want to write a comment (so the client does not need to enter email, address, etc., every time).

comment_author_{HASH},

comment_author_email_{HASH},

comment_author_url_{HASH}


The purpose is to recognize the registered and logged-in user.

comment_author_{HASH}


The purpose is to recognize the registered and logged-in user.

comment_author_{HASH}


The purpose is to recognize network attacks and parasite users and prevent these attacks as much as possible. It does not function with users’ personal information.


B. Optional Cookies


We use this type of cookies within our website to offer you a better experience while browsing it. The information received from these cookies helps us understand how our visitors use the website so that we can improve the quality of the content presented to you and the browsing experience.


Optional cookies include Google Analytics cookies (a web analysis service provided by Google Inc.). These types of cookies monitor participation and analyze the success of the site, which is available to www.costinbusioc.com as statistical data, without personal data of individual users). We may also use social media cookies (e.g., Facebook and Instagram) that allow the user to share specific content on social networks through their own account.


When you first access the website, a label will appear warning you about the existence of cookies and asking for your acceptance.


If you refuse to accept cookies, the functionality and/or quality of the content of the website may be affected. We exclude any liability for any loss of functionality and/or quality of the website content in these cases.


7. Data Subject Rights


Consent to the processing of personal data is not obligatory, but refusal to grant access to the processing of data as mentioned above may prevent the user from using all or part of the content offered by the website www.costinbusioc.com.


By transmitting personal data to www.costinbusioc.com, the “data subject” does not waive the rights guaranteed by Romanian regulations for the protection of personal data and, in particular, the right to request the correction or deletion of personal data from the database if they are incomplete, incorrect, or inappropriate, or if their processing does not comply with Romanian regulations.


To the extent that the processing of your personal data is based exclusively on your consent, as a data subject, you have a number of rights, including:

a) The right to rectify data: Users have the right to request the modification of incorrect personal information or the completion of incomplete data.

b) The right to delete personal data or withdraw privileges: users have the right to withdraw their consent previously given for the processing of personal data at any time.

c) Also, in certain circumstances, users have the right to object to the processing of personal data, the right to request the restriction of data processing, and the right to the portability of personal data.

For all matters related to the protection of personal data and the exercise of the aforementioned rights, please contact the contact address mentioned in Article 10 of these Rules.

d) The right to file a complaint with the supervisory authority: If you believe that your rights are being violated, you have the right to file a complaint with the supervisory authority for the processing of personal data in Romania.


Depending on the user’s/data subject’s request, www.costinbusioc.com undertakes:

  1. To confirm to the user whether it processes or does not process personal data concerning that user/data subject;

  2. To correct or delete, free of charge and without delay, personal data concerning the user/data subject;

  3. To limit or stop the processing of personal data of users/data subjects.

8. Contact


For any questions regarding the protection of your personal data, as well as for the exercise of rights and requirements mentioned above, you can contact us by sending an email to: contact@costinbusioc.com. www.costinbusioc.com does not respond to anonymous requests.

Scroll to Top