Privacy Policy

This site is managed by Planning Ahead SRL, a legal entity registered in Romania, which assumes all legal and operational obligations in connection with its operation. Ahead Group is a registered trademark owned by Planning Ahead SRL, used to represent the services and products offered by our company.

All rights related to the use, promotion and representation of the Ahead Group brand belong exclusively to Planning Ahead SRL and any reference to it must be interpreted in the context of the company's ownership rights.

The purpose of this “Privacy Policy”, as well as the “Processing of Personal Data” Section, is to explain what personal data we process, why we process it and what we do with it. We take privacy seriously and never sell lists or email addresses. Being fully aware that personal information belongs to you, we do our best to store it securely and process it carefully. We do not provide information to third parties without informing you. This information is important. We hope you read it carefully.

This notice informs you about the information we process about you in relation to us. In collecting this information, we act as a controller and, by law, we are obliged to provide you with information about us, why and how we use your data and about the rights you have over your data.

This Privacy Policy does not cover third-party applications and websites that you may reach by clicking on links on our website. This is beyond our control. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy of any website and/or application before providing any personal data.

When accessing our website, you may be asked or you may provide a series of personal data, mainly necessary for the purpose of carrying out our activity (billing data, name / surname, telephone number, e-mail, etc.). Details regarding the data that is processed and the purposes of the processing can be found in the "Processing of personal data" section displayed on the website.

For the personal data processed by us, when you wish to transmit certain personal information to us, you will be asked for your express consent in advance, which can be granted by the user by checking a box in the relevant window. The following text will be displayed next to the box: "By checking this box, I give my express consent to the processing of my personal data, for the purposes and under the conditions provided in the "Processing of personal data" section and in the "Privacy Policy".

In the event that you do not provide your consent for the processing of personal data for the purposes mentioned in the section "Processing of personal data", your data will be processed based on the development of contractual relations, strictly for the purpose of achieving the object of the contract concluded between you and us.

We, Ahead Group, are responsible for the processing of your personal data that we collect directly from you or from other sources.

According to the legislation, we process personal data. In order for your data to be processed securely, we have made every effort to implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information.

1.     BENEFICIARIES OF THE SERVICES

According to the legislation, you, the natural person benefiting from our services, the representative or contact person of a company or the person in any kind of relationship with our company, are a “data subject”, i.e. an identified or identifiable natural person. In order to be completely transparent about data processing and to allow you to easily exercise your rights at any time, we have implemented measures to facilitate communication between us, the data controller, and you, the data subject.

2.     PRINCIPLES ACCORDING TO THE EUROPEAN REGULATION

The protection of your personal information is very important to us. That is why we are committed to complying with European and national legislation on the protection of personal data, in particular Regulation (EU) 679/2016, also known as GDPR, and the following principles:

- Lawfulness, fairness and transparency

We process your data lawfully and fairly. We are always transparent about the information we use and you are duly informed.

- You are in control

Within the limits of the law, we offer you the possibility to review, modify, delete the personal data you have shared with us and to exercise your other rights.

- Data integrity and purpose limitation

We use the data only for the purposes described at the time of collection or for new purposes compatible with the original ones. In all cases, our purposes are compatible with the law. We take reasonable steps to ensure that personal data is accurate, complete and up-to-date.

- Security

We have implemented reasonable security measures to protect your information as best we can. However, please note that no website, application, or internet connection is completely secure.

We may change this Privacy Policy at any time. All updates and changes to this Policy are effective immediately upon notice, which we will provide by posting on the Site and/or email notification.

3.     APPLICATIONS

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the processing of your data or wish to exercise your legal rights in relation to the data we hold, or if you have concerns about how we handle any privacy issue, you can write to us at the email address displayed in the contact section of the site.

4.     INFORMATION

What kind of information do we collect:

When you browse our website, when you send us a request by e-mail or contact us for any other purpose and on any other communication channel, you can communicate to us one or more of your personal data, as appropriate, which we collect directly from you or from other sources. There is also the possibility that our company may transmit some of your personal data to third parties with whom we have various collaborative relationships. Full details about the personal data processed, the purpose of the processing, as well as what we do with your data, can be found in the "Personal Data Processing Policy" section, displayed on our website.

We may collect data through cookies or other similar technologies, such as: IP address; Internet browser; Web pages you access on our site; For more details, please visit the "Cookie Policy" section displayed on the site. If we collect/will collect data through cookies, we will inform you accordingly, upon your first interaction with our site, through a pop-up window through which we will request your express consent to use cookies.

Thus, regarding the acceptance of the use of cookies, if we collect/will collect data through cookies, your consent will be requested, through the message that will appear when accessing the site: "This site uses cookies. To continue browsing, please express your agreement to the use of cookies. For more details, you can visit the "Cookies Policy" section. You also give your consent to the processing of personal data, which you can voluntarily transmit, for the purposes and under the conditions provided in the "Processing of personal data" and "Privacy Policy" sections.

4.1.     WHAT IS THE LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING?

• You have consented to the processing of your personal data

• Please note that you can withdraw your consent at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions in each email or by sending a written request to the email address displayed in the contact section of the website.

• The processing is necessary for the conclusion or performance of the contract / collaboration between you and us.

• The processing is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests or those of another party.

• Other grounds, according to the GDPR Regulation.

4.2.     DATA STORAGE PERIOD

We store personal data only for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes, but no longer than 5 years from the termination of the contract or from the last interaction with us.

After the end of the period, personal data will be destroyed or deleted from the IT systems or transformed into anonymous data for use for historical or statistical research purposes.

Please note that in certain expressly regulated situations, we store data for the period required by law.

4.3.     INFORMATION SHARING

We may disclose your data, in compliance with applicable law, to our business partners or other third parties. We constantly strive to ensure that these third parties have implemented adequate measures to protect and secure the processing of personal data. We have concluded clear contractual clauses and security protocols with these third parties, so that your data is protected. Thus, we will ensure that any transfer is legitimate, based on your consent or another legal basis (e.g.: continuation of a service / execution of a contract). 

For example, we may provide your data to our collaborators, such as IT or telecommunications service providers, accounting, legal services and other third parties with whom we have a contractual relationship, including in order to provide the services for which you have contacted us. These third parties are selected with particular care so that your data is processed only for the purposes that we indicate.

We may also share your data with business partners (such as specialists in various areas of activity involved in providing services to clients) as a result of a joint effort to provide a product or service.

We may also provide your personal information to courts and other competent state bodies, prosecutors, police, based on and within the limits of legal provisions and as a result of express requests.

To the extent that we transfer data to states outside the EEA (European Economic Area), we will ensure, in all cases, that the transfers are legitimate and carried out in complete security, by adopting appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure an optimal level of protection. We have concluded international collaborations, with the possibility of data exchanges including with companies outside the EEA, based on personal data transfer agreements specifically concluded in this regard. In this case, you give your consent to carry out these data transfers.

5.     WHAT ARE THE RIGHTS OF THE DATA SUBJECT?

 Your rights under the GDPR are as follows:

• Right to withdraw consent

• Right to be informed about the processing of your data

• Right to access data

• Right to rectify inaccurate or incomplete data

• Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”)

• Right to restriction of processing

• Right to transmit the data we hold about you to another controller

• Right to object to data processing

• Right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling

• Right to seek justice

• Right to lodge a complaint with a Supervisory Authority

Please note that:

· You can withdraw your consent at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions in each email/sms or other electronic message.

· If you want to exercise your rights, you can do so by sending a written, signed and dated request to the email address displayed in the contact section;

· The rights listed above are not absolute. There are exceptions, therefore each request received will be analyzed in order to decide whether it is well-founded or not. To the extent that the request is well-founded, we will facilitate the exercise of your rights. If the request is unfounded, we will reject it, but we will inform you of the reasons for the refusal and of your rights to file a complaint with the Supervisory Authority and to address the courts.

· We will try to respond to the request within 30 days. However, the deadline may be extended depending on various aspects, such as the complexity of the request, the large number of requests received or the impossibility of identifying you within a useful period.

· If, despite our best efforts, we are unable to identify you, and you do not provide us with additional information to enable us to identify you, we are not obligated to comply with the request.

6.     REQUESTS AND EXERCISE OF RIGHTS

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the processing of your information or wish to exercise your legal rights or have any other request regarding privacy and the processing of personal data, you can write to us at the above-mentioned e-mail address.

7.     COPYRIGHT

The entire content of the intellectual work carried out within our company, together with any documentation, materials and/or any other adjacent information, including those published on the site, are the exclusive property of Planning Ahead SRL. Any replication, copying or appropriation of any kind is strictly prohibited.

For any additional details, our Data Protection Officer is ready to respond to your request, at the contact address office@ahead-group.com