Privacy policy

This website was developed and launched by Bulgarian Port Infrastructure Company (BPI Co.) to promote the project Life for Lake Varna – LIFE19 NAT/BG/000839, implemented jointly with the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB). With this Privacy Policy we would like to provide you with information on how we are processing your personal data and what your rights are.

Contact Information of the Bulgarian Port Infrastructure Company:

Head Office

69, Shipchenski Prohod Blvd., Slatina District, 1574 Sofia

Email: office@bgports.bg

website: www.bgports.bg

Contact Information of the data officer:

69, Shipchenski Prohod Blvd., Slatina District, 1574 Sofia

Email: dpo@bgports.bg

Telephone: +359 2 807 99 51

Information, which may contain your personal data, is processed for the following purposes:

Visitors

In order to enter buildings and office premises of BPI Co., which are not publicly accessible areas, you need to identify yourself, to disclose the organization you are representing and the reason for your visit. You may be required to present an ID document, as the ID document shall be scanned, copied or temporarily kept by the security guards. We are processing your personal data for the purpose of ensuring the security of the property of BPI Co. and control the access, as the information is stored for one month and the access to it is strictly restricted. Each building with access control has an information board, providing you with detailed information.

Video surveillance

You may be the subject of video surveillance, when you enter, stay in or exit a building or office premises of BPI Co. In each and every building, where video surveillance takes place, there is a graphic sign “CCTV in operation“ and an information board. We do not carry out video surveillance in meeting rooms, personnel resting, toilettes etc. The purpose of the video surveillance is to protect the property of BPI Co. In order to obtain more detailed information, read the information board in the building you are visiting.

Contacts

If you contact us through the email address for contacts, we shall process the personal data you have provided, such as your email address, name and other information, shared in the email message. BPI Co. processes the personal data on a case-by-case basis. The data may only be disclosed to third parties, subject to the previsions of a legal regulation or law.

Signals and complaints

Your personal data, when you are filing a signal or complaint, and personal data, specified in such signal or complaint, are processed by BPI Co. on a case-by-case basis. The date in the signal or complaint may only be disclosed to third parties, subject to the previsions of a legal regulation or law.

Requests, pursuant to the Access to Public Information Act

Upon request, pursuant to the Access to Public Information Act, BPI Co. provides information solely and to the extent it corresponds to the objectives of the Access to Public Information Act and in compliance with the requirements of the data protection legislation.

Cookies”

Cookies” are small amounts of data, which the website stores on the browser of visitor’s computer or mobile device. Our website only uses “cookies“, required for its functioning. Through the respective setting of your browser, you can always turn off, both our cookies and those of third parties. Doing that, however, you may lose a part of the functionalities of some of the services.

 

Log files

Just like most websites, the website of BPI Co. collects data in log files. This information contains your IP and the time of your visit to our website. We reserve the right to use IP addresses of users for disclosing their identity in the cases, when this is required for ensuring regulatory compliance.

 

Links to other websites

This Privacy Policy does not guarantee the privacy of your personal data, when you use links on BPI Co.’s website to other websites. We recommend that you review the privacy policies of the other websites that you are visiting.

Your rights, related to the processing of your personal data

You have the following rights, according to Regulation (EU) 2016/679, when BPI Co., as a data controller, processes your personal data:

The right to be informed.

The right of access to the processed data.

The right to rectification of the processed data.

The right to erasure of the processed data.

The right to restrict processing of the processed data.

The right to data portability.

The right to object to the processing of the data.

The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing and profiling.

The right to withdraw your consent to the data processing.

BPI Co. is obliged to notify any and all third parties, to whim your personal data have been disclosed, of any rectification, erasure or restriction of the processing of your data.

If you want to exercise any of your rights, related to the processing of your personal data, you must complete the enclosed Application for Exercising Rights. You may exercise your rights in one of the following manners: by submitting an Application for Exercising Rights in person or acting through a proxy at the Head Office of BPI Co. in Sofia or at any of the branches – territorial divisions in Burgas, Varna, Lom or Ruse; to file an Application for Exercising Rights electronically, to the email address of the data officer of BPI Co. subject to the provisions of the applicable legislation (Electronic Document and Electronic Certifying Services Act, Electronic Governance Act and Electronic Identification Act).

We may request that you provide us with further information, which will be used to confirm your identity. In this way we shall prevent the possibility that we inadvertently disclose your personal data to a third party.

We shall response to your Application for Exercising Rights within one month. If you have submitted multiple Applications for Exercising Rights or if your requests are particularly complex, the deadline for our response may be extended to two months. In this case you will be notified of the extended deadline for the response.

If your requests are evidently unjustified, excessive or repeated, we may refuse to comply with your request, as you shall be notified of our decision and the respective motives.

You may submit a complaint to a data protection supervisory authority. The supervisory authority in the Republic of Bulgaria is the Commission for Personal Data Protection, address: 2, Prof. Tsvetan Lazarov Blvd, 1592 Sofia, website: https://www.cpdp.bg/.

Should you have any questions, regarding the processing of your personal data, or if you want to exercise your rights and believe that your rights have been breached, please contact the data officer at BPI Co. first, before contacting a data protection supervisory authority.

Bulgarian Port Infrastructure Company reserves its right to amend this Privacy Policy.