1. Identification Personal Data collected upon subscription and verification

When you make your subscription on the Platform, you will provide us with your your eMail, name and surname, country of residence, company, position in the company, corporate level, field of expertise. They are among the minimum required information for creating an Account with the Platform.

SeeNews will process your eMail address and your mobile phone number for the purposes of the two-step verification of your Account (its activation) and to communicate with you on the necessary occasions (e.g.; by sending notifications to subscribers over chat applications). . Furthermore, we will process your e-mail address to send you certain system notifications with respect to your subscription with the Platform, verification and upgrade of your Account or using the Services.

Your Personal Data is generally collected from you directly. When creating your Account with the Platform, you provide us with the data necessary for the subscription. In this way we obtain your Personal Data.

Cookies are widely used by online platform owners who aim to make their platforms work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information. There are various types of Cookies which are differing in their purposes, data processed and domain where the data is stored. We classify the Cookies that we use on our Platform in the following categories:

We process the Personal Data from your Account to provide you with the Services and enable you to use the Platform.

All processing operations with your Personal Data that we carry out have legal basis. Therefore, we observe the GDPR principle of lawfulness of the Processing.

The Personal Data from your Account is processed to perform our contractual obligation under the Terms of Use to provide you with The Services and enable you to use the Platform. Thus, the legal basis for the processing of this Personal Data is Art. 6 (1) (b) of the GDPR: the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the Data Subject is party or to take steps at the request of the Data Subject prior to entering into a contract.

Processing for marketing purposes will be initiated after we obtain your consent and therefore our legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (a) of the GDPR: the Data Subject has given consent to the processing of his or her Personal Data for one or more specific purposes. In exceptional cases, we may conduct processing for marketing purposes without your prior consent if it is allowed by law.

If we process any Personal Data by using Cookies, we will also do that after obtaining your prior consent through our consent panel, so we base this processing on Art. 6 (1) (a) of the GDPR.

We will keep your Personal Data while you maintain your Account with the Platform. Once you delete your Account or SeeNews terminates it as provided in the Terms of Use, we will cease to process your Personal Data and will erase it.

The processing terms for personal data collected by cookies is specified under section V above.

Please, be informed that we will keep some of your Personal Data within the statutorily defined terms for tax, social security or anti-money laundering purposes and we will not erase them when you delete your Account.

We may use third-parties' products, solutions, or services such as hosting or payment services that may lead to processing of Personal Data. In these cases, we have Data Processing Agreements executed with said service providers.

SeeNews does not transfer your Personal Data outside the EU/EEA. Our servers are located in Sofia, Bulgaria and we store there all the information processed while providing The Services via the Platform.

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your Personal Data are treated securely and in accordance with the GDPR.

There is no absolute guarantee that data may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. While no security system is completely secure, we implement appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access or disclosure of the information we may collect.

Furthermore, adhering to our data security policy, we conduct monitoring for vulnerabilities and security incidents at regular intervals with respect to our systems; we try to maintain our software and ensure we have the necessary updates in place; and use appropriate tools for ensuring that your Personal Data is being processed in a safety manner

SeeNews is a legal entity situated in the European Union. We process Persona Data of subscribers and visitors to the Platform while providing The Services. Therefore, SeeNews shall be defined as a Personal Data Controller as provided in the GDPR.

We are committed to ensuring the highest protection standards for your Personal Data. With this aim, we observe strictly the GDPR's requirements for implementation of technical and organisational measures, the principles of privacy by default and by design, lawfulness, fairness and transparency, purpose and storage limitation, data minimisation, integrity, confidentiality, and accuracy.

Furthermore, we strive to demonstrate accountability and transparency by providing you with detailed information for the processing of your Personal Data. You can find this information in the Policy and the other privacy notices addressed to you while browsing around the Platform.

GDPR provides Data Subjects with a wide array of rights. Being a Controller, we will respond and assist you when you request from us to exercise any of your GDPR rights concerning the processing related to The Services. We will do that when the respective legal grounds are in place (please see Section XIV).

You are entitled to exercise the rights you have as a Data Subject under the GDPR. Depending on the specific circumstances concerning your Personal Data that we process when providing the Services, you will have the following rights:

If you have a concern or complaint about your privacy, let us know and we will try to fix it. You may also contact us if you want to make us a proposal to improve The Services from privacy perspective.

Our contacts are as follows:

Since even the best-trained bots are not always helpful, our support team is available for you at:

[email protected]

The Policy will not remain the same during the Platform's lifetime. As digitalisation progresses and the regulation of Personal Data processing relations develops, we will strive to constantly improve and adapt our practices to this development, which in turn will be reflected in the Policy. Anytime we make a change to the Policy, we will publish a short notification on the Platform with the most important highlights.