Privacy Policy

This privacy policy explains how Nova Perspektiva Media, located at 71 Ivan Vazov Street, 3rd Floor, Plovdiv, Plovdiv Province, 4003, Bulgaria, collects, uses, and protects your personal information when you use our online platform or services. We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your data transparently, in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Information We Collect

We may collect different types of information depending on how you interact with our site:

1. Information You Provide Directly: This includes information you voluntarily submit when using our service, such as when you register for an account, subscribe to newsletters, participate in surveys or contests, submit editorial content, or contact us. This might include your name, email address, and any other information you choose to provide.
2. Information Collected Automatically: When you visit our site, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and usage. This includes your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, and the dates/times of your visits. This information helps us understand how our users interact with the service.
3. Information from Other Sources: We may receive information about you from third parties, such as social media platforms or partners, in connection with your use of our service.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

• To provide, operate, and maintain our service and its features.
• To improve, personalize, and expand our service and user experience.
• To understand and analyze how you use our service.
• To develop new products, services, features, and functionality.
• To communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the service, and for marketing and promotional purposes (where permissible and in accordance with your preferences).
• To process your transactions and manage your subscriptions or accounts.
• To find and prevent fraud and other illegal activities.
• To comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

Legal Basis for Processing (for GDPR)

We process your personal information based on the following legal grounds:

• Consent: Where you have given us clear consent for processing your personal data for a specific purpose.
• Contract: Where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract.
• Legal Obligation: Where processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject.
• Legitimate Interests: Where processing is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests or those of a third party, provided your fundamental rights do not override those interests. This includes our legitimate interest in operating our site, providing and improving our services, preventing fraud, and understanding user behaviour.

Sharing Your Information

We do not sell your personal information. We may share your information with third parties in the following limited circumstances:

• Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party vendors, consultants, and other service providers who perform services for us or on our behalf, such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, information technology, and related infrastructure provision, customer service, and email delivery. These third parties are required to protect your information and use it only for the purposes for which they are engaged.
• Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) comply with a legal obligation, (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Nova Perspektiva Media, (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the service or the public, or (d) protect against legal liability.
• Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, restructuring, bankruptcy, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, your information may be among the assets transferred.
• With Your Consent: We may share your information with your consent or at your direction.

Data Retention

We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

Your Data Protection Rights (Under GDPR)

Depending on your location and applicable laws, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:

• The Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
• The Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
• The Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
• The Right to Withdraw Consent: Where our processing is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided below.

Data Security

We have implemented technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, please remember that we cannot guarantee that the internet itself is 100% secure.

International Data Transfers

Your information may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers. By using our service, you understand that your information may be transferred to countries outside of your country of residence, which may have different data protection rules than your country. When transferring data outside the EU/EEA, we implement appropriate safeguards, such as standard contractual clauses, to ensure your data is protected.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our site uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our service and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our service.

Children's Privacy

Our service is not directed to anyone under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 16. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child under age 16 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page. You are advised to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our data practices, please contact us by mail at:

Nova Perspektiva Media
71 Ivan Vazov Street, 3rd Floor
Plovdiv, Plovdiv Province, 4003
Bulgaria

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, particularly in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes GDPR.