
Processing of Personal Data
Protecting your data is an important aspect for our company.
We appreciate the trust you have in us and we undertake to ensure the necessary protection and defend any type of personal information you entrust to us.
El Qual Consulting SRL processes in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EU) no. 679/27.04.2016 regarding the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and regarding the free circulation of these personal data in good faith and in achieving the purposes mentioned herein.
A. The personal data that El Qual Consulting SRL processes for the defined purposes:
⦁ Types of personal data that El Qual Consulting SRL processes are:
Personal data that can determine whether you are eligible to participate in a market study, such as: name and surname, data related to the domicile, the city where you live, marital status, data regarding the profession and workplace, data regarding the situation socio-economic, data on the use of products and services, data on attitudes towards products and services, etc.
Contact data for scheduling interviews or research discussions, such as: landline/mobile phone number, e-mail address, home address.
⦁ Video and/or audio recording of scheduled interviews and groups either online/telephone or face to face:
The personal data processed are collected on the basis of direct consent from the persons concerned by El Qual Consulting SRL
B. The purposes of personal data processing by El Qual Consulting SRL
In order to fulfill the legitimate interests of El Qual Consulting SRL. This category includes the collection of statistics/market studies regarding products/services, regarding the continuous improvement and development of products and services on the market.
C. Categories of data subjects
Customers/potential customers of the beneficiaries of the studies, consumers/potential consumers of the market categories in which the beneficiaries of the studies operate, employees of the beneficiaries of the studies.
D. Duration of personal data processing
El Qual Consulting SRL will process personal data for the duration of the existence of a legal or legitimate interest.
E. E. Transmission of personal data by El Qual Consulting SRL, in order to fulfill the processing purposes
El Qual Consulting SRL can disclose personal data to the following categories of recipients: clients of market research carried out by El Qual Consulting SRL, El Qual Consulting SRL’s authorized representatives regarding the processing of personal data, judicial authorities, central public authorities , local public authorities.
The data transmitted to third parties will be adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the purpose for which they were collected and which allows the transmission to a certain third party.
F. Confidentiality of processing
We combine the answers given by you to a certain activity with the answers of all the other participants, and report these combined answers to the client who requested the study. We will never intentionally report your individual responses.
The answers you give as part of participating in the study may be collected, stored or processed by certain of our affiliates or by non-affiliated service providers, both in the European Union and outside it. They are contractually obligated to maintain the confidentiality of any information they collect and disclose to us, or that we collect and disclose to them, and are obligated to protect it with broadly similar security standards and practices. with ours. In addition to keeping your responses confidential, we will not knowingly sell, share, rent or otherwise transfer your personal data to our clients, other market research firms, direct marketing firms or anyone else.
G. Data Security
The security of your information is very important to us. We have implemented appropriate security measures at our physical facilities to protect against the loss, unauthorized use or modification of information. El Qual Consulting SRL protects the personal information it owns or controls against loss or theft and against unauthorized access, disclosure, duplication, use or modification.
We inform our employees about our privacy and security policies and procedures, and emphasize the importance of following them. Our security procedures are at the level of generally accepted commercial standards for the protection of personal data and respect the security standards prescribed by the legislation in force.
H. Rights of data subjects
THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION – the right to be informed about the processing and protection of personal data by El Qual Consulting SRL. ;
DATA ACCESS RIGHT – the right to obtain from the data operator confirmation of the fact that personal data are or are not processed by him;
THE RIGHT TO RECTIFICATION – the right to obtain the rectification of inaccurate data, as well as the completion of incomplete data;
THE RIGHT TO DELETE DATA (“THE RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN”) – the right to obtain, to the extent that the legal conditions are met, the deletion of personal data;
THE RIGHT TO RESTRICT PROCESSING – the right to obtain, to the extent that the legal conditions are met, the marking of stored personal data, with the aim of limiting their further processing;
THE RIGHT TO DATA PORTABILITY – the right to receive personal data in a structured way, commonly used and in an easy-to-read format, as well as the right for this data to be transmitted by El Qual Consulting SRL to another data operator, to the extent that the legal conditions are met;
THE RIGHT TO OBJECT – the right to object at any time, for well-founded and legitimate reasons related to the particular situation, to personal data being the object of processing, to the extent that the legal conditions are met;
THE RIGHT NOT TO BE SUBJECT TO AN INDIVIDUAL DECISION – the right to request and obtain the withdrawal, cancellation or re-evaluation of any decision based exclusively on processing carried out by automatic means (including the creation of profiles) that produces legal effects or affects in a similar way, in – a significant measure, the persons concerned;
To exercise these rights, you can send a written, dated and signed request to El Qual Consulting SRL at office@elqual.ro.
If you send a request regarding the exercise of your rights regarding data protection, El Qual Consulting SRL will respond to this request, within 30 days, under the conditions provided by the General Data Protection Regulation.