Personal Data Protection
Information about us
The Institute for the State and the Law at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, UIC 831906179, with its seat and registered address at 4 Serdika Street, Sofia, is the only research unit that carries out fundamental and applied research in the field of law, conducts active research-expert and advisory activity in support of the bodies of the legislative, executive and judicial powers, and works actively to train highly qualified research staff and doctoral students in the field of legal science, as well as to teach law students at various higher education institutions.
Contact details of the Institute for the State and the Law at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences:
Location:
Country: Republic of Bulgaria Address: Sofia 1000, 4 Serdika Street
Telephone: +359 87 889 1135
Email: ipn_ban@bas.bg
Website: www.ipn-bg.org
Contact details of the Data Protection Officer:
Email: gdpr.idp@gmail.com
Tel.: 0885 006 288
The Institute for the State and the Law at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences processes your personal data in compliance with high standards for ensuring their confidentiality, security and protection. The necessary technical and organisational measures have been introduced and are applied against unauthorised access, loss and unauthorised use of your personal data. All data are collected and processed in accordance with Bulgarian legislation and EU law.
What categories of personal data we collect:
Three names, address, telephone number, personal identification number (EGN), email address, bank account. All of the listed categories of personal data are collected on the basis of law.
In special cases – when conferences are held, or when information containing personal data is uploaded to the website of the Institute for the State and the Law at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (where there is no legal basis) – data subjects sign an informed consent declaration for the collection of the personal data.
For what purposes we process your personal data and what the basis for providing them is
Your personal data are processed for the purpose of carrying out the core activities of the Institute for the State and the Law as a research organisation, as well as an organisation equated to a higher education institution, in accordance with Bulgarian legislation. The personal data collected are processed for the purposes of employment legal relationships, the holding of admission competitions, the education and training of doctoral students, the filling of academic positions – assistant professors, chief assistant professors, associate professors and professors – and for doctors of legal sciences. Some of the personal data collected are processed for the needs of state institutions.
Disclosure of personal data to third parties:
The Institute for the State and the Law provides the personal data collected solely to state authorities on the basis of national legislation. Personal data are not provided to any persons other than those mentioned.
Data retention period:
The data are retained for the periods established in the regulatory framework of the Republic of Bulgaria. Data whose retention period has expired and which are not subject to transfer to the National Archive Fund are destroyed.
What your rights are and the procedure for exercising them:
Right of access:
You have the right to request from us: information on whether data concerning you are being processed; information on the purposes of such processing, the categories of data and the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the data are disclosed; the envisaged period for which your personal data will be stored; information on your right, in the cases provided for by law, to request rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of the processing of personal data relating to you, or to object to such processing; information on your right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority; and information on whether your personal data are subject to automated processing.
Right to withdraw consent:
Where your data are processed on the basis of your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, and such withdrawal shall not affect the lawfulness of the processing of personal data based on your consent before it was withdrawn.
Right to rectification and right to erasure:
If you withdraw your consent, or if your data have been processed unlawfully or are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected and processed, you have the right to request that your personal data be erased without undue delay.
If the data we process are incomplete, incorrect or have changed, you have the right at any time to request that we erase or rectify your personal data.
Right to object:
Where there is a legal basis for doing so, you have the right at any time to object to the processing of your personal data. If the objection is justified, your personal data will no longer be processed.
Right to restriction of processing:
You may request restriction of the processing of your personal data if the processing is unlawful but you do not wish your data to be erased and instead request the restriction of their use.
Right to lodge a complaint:
We strictly comply with the legislation in force. If you have reason to believe that there has been any infringement on our part, please contact the Data Protection Officer, whose contact details are given at the beginning. Regardless of this, in any case you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Commission for Personal Data Protection, which is the regulatory authority for our country (www.cpdp.bg).