Archdesign

Terms and conditions

Chapter I – General Provisions

1. Meaning of some terms

1.1. The terms used below, unless the context indicates otherwise, have the following meaning:

  • We: SC Archdesign SRL, a company established under and subject to the laws of Romania, with its registered office in Cluj-Napoca, Dumbrava Roșie street no. 29, Cluj county and tax identification number RO 15352382, e-mail: atelier@archdesign.ro.
  • You/User: the natural or legal person who accesses and navigates the website;
  • Website: internet pages available at https://archdesign.ro;
  • Services: The services presented on the website, which We provide based on a service contract concluded in accordance with legal provisions;
  • Terms and conditions: all provisions presented below that apply to the relationship between Us and You, when you access or use the Website;
  • Privacy policy: Policy on the processing of personal data and policy on cookies;
 
Chapter II – Applicability

2. Applicability Terms and Conditions. Binding force

2.1. These Terms and Conditions, together with the Privacy Policy, apply each time You access and use the Website. Thus, to the extent that you browse and use the Website, you understand and accept that the relationship between You and Us will be subject to these Terms and Conditions and the GDPR Policies, the provisions presented having binding legal force. In other words, accessing and browsing the Website represents your agreement to the application of these Terms and Conditions.

2.2. To the extent that you do not agree with these Terms and Conditions or the Privacy Policy, please stop using the Website.

2.3. At the same time, by accessing and using the Website, you declare that you meet all the legal conditions for issuing the consent provided above and that there is no other legal impediment that would cause the non-application of these Terms and Conditions. We do not assume any liability if the information provided by you is not correct.

2.4. In the sense of the provisions mentioned in point 2.3., for Romanian citizens, the age at which you can, in principle, issue valid consent is 18 years. If you are not a Romanian citizen, it is necessary to check in the nationality legislation the conditions under which you can issue a valid consent, before using the Website.

2.5. By accepting the Terms and Conditions, you must bear in mind that a contract for the provision of services is not concluded between Us and You.

 
Chapter III – Information presented on the Website

3. Specialized articles

3.1. The Website presents some specialized articles in the field of green roofs and natural lawns. These articles are purely informative and do not represent assistance or advice on the topics presented.

3.2. Consulting is provided only on the basis of a service contract concluded between You and Us, in accordance with legal provisions.

3.3. Thus, we do not assume any responsibility regarding the way in which you use the information presented on the Website. You understand and accept that We cannot be held responsible for any damages you may suffer from improper use of the information presented on the Website.

 
Chapter IV – Services

4. Presentation of the Services

4.1. Some of the Services provided by Us are presented on the Website. If you wish to contract them, please contact us through the contact section or through the other available means.

4.2. Please do not send us documents and confidential information until you have concluded a service contract.

 
Chapter V – Intellectual property

5. General provisions

5.1. All content available on the Website is protected by intellectual property rights. Any copying, recording, downloading, transmission, reproduction, distribution and any other similar operations of the content of the Website under conditions other than those permitted by law and shown below are prohibited.

5.2. The specialized articles can be distributed, in their entirety, only through the functionality of the Website. Copying the web address where the article is located and distributing it is also allowed.

5.3. Certain sections or paragraphs of the articles presented on the Website may be distributed, reproduced, copied or transmitted only with the indication of the source and the author.

5.4. Under no circumstances is it allowed to distribute, copy, download, transmit, reproduce and other similar operations of the articles presented on the Website, in whole or in part, without indicating the source or the author. We reserve the right to report any infringement of intellectual property rights to all competent authorities.

5.5. All other elements of the Website, graphics, design, description of services, including the Privacy Policy and these Terms and Conditions, are protected by intellectual property rights and may not be copied, recorded, downloaded, transmitted, reproduced, distributed or subject to any similar operations.

 
Chapter VI – Disclaimer

6. General provisions

6.1. We assume no responsibility for how you use the Website. Thus, we do not guarantee any results regarding the use of the Website and could not be held responsible for any damages that you may suffer from the use or misuse of the Website and the information presented on it.

6.2. We do not assume any responsibility regarding the non-functionality of the Website or the impossibility of accessing it. The Website is provided “as is” with no obligation to ensure the functionality of the Website.

6.3. Thus, you understand and agree that you have no claim against us for any inconvenience or damage you may suffer as described in this section.

 
Chapter VII – Final Provisions

7.1. By accepting the Terms and Conditions, you understand and accept that the law applicable to them is Romanian law, both in terms of substantive and formal conditions.

7.2. We reserve the right to modify these Terms and Conditions as we deem necessary. To the extent that, after making these changes, you do not agree with the new provisions, please stop accessing and using the Website.

7.3. If a clause in these Terms and Conditions cannot be applied, for any reason, that clause will be replaced by the legal provision relevant to the situation for which the clause was intended and which comes closest to the meaning of the unenforceable clause.

7.4. By accepting these Terms and Conditions, you agree that any disputes arising between You and Us shall be resolved by the courts of Arad, Romania.

7.5. In case of interpretation conflicts between the language versions of this document, the Romanian version will take precedence.

privacy policy

Preliminary information

The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to explain to you what data we process, why we process it and what we do with it. Your privacy is important to us and we never sell lists or email addresses. Your personal information belongs to you, so we store it securely and process it carefully. We do not provide information to third parties without informing you. This information is important. Read them carefully!

This Privacy Policy does not cover the applications and websites of other third parties that you can reach by accessing the links on our website. This is beyond our control.

Please read the Privacy Policy of any website and/or application carefully before providing personal data.

 

Who are we?

SC Archdesign SRL is responsible for processing your personal data that we collect directly from you or from other sources.

According to the legislation, our company is a personal data operator. In order for your data to be processed safely, we have implemented the necessary measures to protect your personal information.

 

What quality do you have?

According to the law – you – the natural person, beneficiary of our services or the person in a relationship of any kind with us, are a “data subject”,that is, 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.

 

We respect the law regarding your personal data

The protection of your personal information is very important! That is why we undertake to comply with national and European legislation on the protection of personal data, including Regulation (EU) no. 679/2016 and, in particular, the following principles:

  • Legality, fairness and transparency
  • We process your data legally and fairly. We are always transparent about the information we use, and you are properly informed.
  • Control is yours – To the extent permitted by law, we provide you with the opportunity to review, modify, delete the personal data you have shared with us, and exercise your other rights.
  • Data integrity and purpose limitation – We use 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 the necessary steps to ensure that personal data is correct, complete and up-to-date.
  • Security – We have implemented security and encryption measures to protect your information as best as possible. However, keep in mind that no website, app, or internet connection is completely secure.
 
Changes

We may change this Privacy Policy at any time. All updates and changes to this Policy are valid immediately after notification, which we will make by posting on the website and/or notification via e-mail.

 

Questions and requests

If you have questions or concerns about 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 email from the contact section of the site.

 
What kind of information do we collect about our users?

When you interact in any way with us you may give us or receive from other sources information including:

  • First and last name
  • Email address
  • Social media profile
  • Interests and preferences
  • Address
  • Information about purchased products and services
  • Banking information

We may collect data through cookies or other similar technologies, including:

  • IP address
  • Internet browser
  • Ads you clicked
  • Location
  • The web pages you access on our site
 
 
Purpose of information collection

We collect your information for specified and legitimate purposes including but not limited to the following:

  • In order to enter into or perform a contract between you and us;
    Please note that providing information regarding name, surname and contact address is mandatory, otherwise we cannot deliver your goods.
  • To answer your questions and requests;
  • For marketing purposes, but only if we have your prior consent;
  • To provide and improve the services and products we offer;
  • To diagnose or fix technical problems;
  • To provide you with advertising and personalized content;
  • To defend against cyber attacks;
  • To create and/or maintain accounts;
  • To comply with legislation;
  • To establish or claim a right in court.
 
 
Legal grounds
  • You have given your consent for the processing of personal data
    You can withdraw your consent at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions in each e-mail or by sending a written request to the e-mail address in the contact section of the website ului.
  • Processing is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract between you and us
    Certain information, such as: name, surname and delivery address are mandatory for the execution of the sales contract between us.
  • The processing is necessary in order to fulfill a legal obligation
    In certain situations, data processing is necessary in order to fulfill a legal obligation, such as keeping invoices for 10 years.
 
 
How long is data stored in our database?

We store personal data only for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes, but no longer than 10 years after the termination of the contract or the last interaction with us. After the end of the period, the personal data will be deleted from the computer systems or transformed into anonymous data to be used for scientific, historical or statistical research purposes. In certain expressly regulated situations, we store data for the period required by law.

 

How do we share your information with others?

We may disclose your data, subject to applicable law, to product providers, business partners or other third parties. We always make reasonable efforts to ensure that these third parties have adequate protection and security measures in place. We have contractual clauses with these third parties so that your data is protected. We will inform you of the identity of these companies before the transfer or within a reasonable time and we will ensure that any transfer is legitimate, based on your consent or other legal basis.

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

We may also share your data with business partners as a result of a joint effort to provide a product or service. Although unlikely, we may sell the business or part of the business in the future, which will include the transfer of your data. We may pass on the data to other parties with your consent or according to your instructions. We will also be able to provide your personal information to the prosecutor’s office, the police, the courts and other competent state bodies, based on and within the limits of the legal provisions and as a result of express requests.

We will ensure, within reasonable limits, that your data does not leave the European Economic Area, but to the extent that we transfer data to countries outside the EEA, we will in all cases ensure that the transfers are legitimate, based on your consent explicit or other legal basis.

 

 

YOUR RIGHTS

  • You have the right to withdraw consent
  • You have the right to be informed about the processing of your data
  • You have the right to access the data
  • You have the right to rectify inaccurate or incomplete data
  • You have the right to erasure (“the right to be forgotten”)
  • You have the right to restriction of processing
  • You have the right to transmit the data we have about you to another operator
  • You have the right to object to data processing
  • You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling
  • You have the right to go to court
  • You have the right to lodge a complaint with a Supervisory Authority
 
Please note that:
  • You can withdraw your consent to direct marketing at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions in each email/text 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 in the contact section of the website.
  • The rights listed above are not absolute. There are exceptions, therefore each request received will be analyzed in order to decide whether it is justified or not. To the extent that the request is justified, we will facilitate the exercise of your rights. If the request is unfounded, we will reject it, but we will inform you about the reasons for the refusal and about your rights to file a complaint with the Supervisory Authority and to go to court.
  • We will try to respond to your request within 30 days. However, the deadline can be extended depending on various aspects, such as the complexity of the request, the large number of requests received or the impossibility of identifying yourself 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 identify you, we are not obligated to comply with the request.
 
Questions, requests and exercise of rights

If you have any questions or concerns about the processing of your information or wish to exercise your legal rights or have any other privacy concerns, you can write to us at the email address in the contact section of the website.

We’re glad you took the time to learn how we protect your personal information!

cookies policy

We want to offer you the most interactive online experience possible. For this purpose, we use cookies or similar techniques. It is important to know which cookies our website uses and for what purpose. This will help protect privacy while ensuring the ease of use of our website. The following information is intended to provide the user with more details about the placement, use and management of cookies used by our site.

 
 
Please read the following information carefully

This website uses its own and third-party cookies to provide visitors with a much better browsing experience and services tailored to each individual’s needs and interests. In what we call “Web 2.0”, “cookies” play an important role in facilitating the access and delivery of the multiple services that the user enjoys on the Internet, such as: customizing certain settings, such as: the language in which a site is viewed , the currency in which certain prices or tariffs are expressed, keeping the options for various products (measurements, other details, etc.) in the shopping cart (and memorizing these options) – thus generating the flexibility of the “shopping cart”. Cookies provide site owners with valuable feedback on how their sites are used by users, so that they can make them even more efficient and accessible to users. Allow multimedia or other applications from other sites to be included in a particular site to create a more valuable, useful and enjoyable browsing experience. 

 
What is a “cookie”?

An “Internet Cookie” (term also known as “browser cookie” or “HTTP cookie” or simply “cookie”) is a small file, consisting of letters and numbers, which will be stored on the computer, mobile terminal or other equipment of a user from which the Internet is accessed. The cookie is installed through the request issued by a web server to a browser (eg: Internet Explorer, Chrome) and is completely “passive” (it does not contain software programs, viruses or spyware and cannot access the information on the hard drive the user).

A cookie consists of 2 parts: the name and the content or value of the cookie. Furthermore, the lifetime of a cookie is determined; technically, only the webserver that sent the cookie can access it again when a user returns to the website associated with that webserver. Cookies themselves do not require personal information to be used and, in most cases, do not personally identify Internet users.

 
There are 2 large categories of cookies:
  1. Session cookies – these are temporarily stored in the cookie folder of the web browser, so that it remembers them until the user leaves the respective website or closes the browser window (eg: when logging in/out on a webmail account or on social networks).
  2. Persistent cookies – These are stored on the hard drive of a computer or device (and generally depend on the lifetime of the cookie). Persistent cookies also include those placed by a website other than the one the user is visiting at the time – known as ‘third party cookies’ – which can be used anonymously, for to remember a user’s interests, so that advertising is delivered as relevant as possible to users.
 
What are the advantages of cookies?

A cookie contains information that connects a web browser (the user) and a specific web server (the website). If a browser accesses that web server again, it can read the information already stored and react accordingly. Cookies provide users with a pleasant browsing experience and support the efforts of many websites to provide comfortable services to users: eg – online privacy preferences, site language options, shopping baskets or relevant advertising.

 
Why are cookies used?

Cookies can be used for different purposes. First of all, cookies may be necessary to ensure the correct functioning of the website. For example, without cookies, it may be difficult for the website to remember that you are logged in or which products you have added to your shopping cart. These are called mandatory cookies.

Cookies can be used to analyze how a website is used, to count the number of visitors and to find out how the website can be improved. We do not associate website usage statistics and other reports with individuals. These cookies are called analytical cookies.

Third, we use social media cookies to enable social media integration on the website and enable you to immediately like or share a page or product on your favorite social media service.

A fourth important reason we use cookies is to enable online advertising, which can be customized to display more relevant and interesting advertisements to you, both on and off our site. We do this through (targeted) advertising cookies such as Google Remarketing and Facebook Retargeting.

For example, our website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”) which contributes to the analysis of the use of the website. For this purpose, Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer.

The information generated by the cookie about how the website is used – standard internet usage log information (including your IP address) and information on visitor behavior in an anonymous form – is transmitted to Google and stored by this, including on servers in the United States. Before it is transmitted to Google, your IP address is anonymized.

In accordance with its Privacy Shield certification, Google declares that it complies with the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework. Google may transfer the information collected by Google Analytics to a third party when required by law or when that third party processes the information on Google’s behalf.

In accordance with the terms of use of Google Analytics, Google will not associate the users’ IP address with any other data held by Google.

 
What is the lifetime of a cookie?

Cookies are managed by web servers. The lifetime of a cookie can vary significantly, depending on the purpose for which it is placed. Some cookies are used exclusively for a single session (session cookies) and are no longer retained once the user has left the website and some cookies are retained and reused every time the user returns to that website (‘cookie permanents’). However, cookies can be deleted by the user at any time through the browser settings.

 
What are cookies placed by third parties?

Certain sections of content on some sites may be provided through third parties/providers (eg: news box, a video or an advertisement). These third parties can also place cookies through the website and they are called “third party cookies” because they are not placed by the owner of the respective website. Third party providers must also comply with applicable law and the privacy policies of the site owner.

 
What type of information is stored and accessed through cookies?

Cookies store information in a small text file that allows a website to recognize a browser. The webserver will recognize the browser until the cookie expires or is deleted.
The cookie stores important information that improves the Internet browsing experience (eg: language settings in which a website is accessed; keeping a user logged in to the webmail account; online banking security; keeping products in the shopping cart).

 
Why are cookies important for the Internet?

Cookies are central to the efficient functioning of the Internet, helping to generate a user-friendly browsing experience tailored to each user’s preferences and interests. Refusing or disabling cookies may make some sites unusable. Rejecting or deactivating cookies does not mean that you will no longer receive online advertising – but only that it will no longer be able to take into account your preferences and interests, highlighted by your browsing behavior.

 
Security and Privacy Issues

Cookies are NOT viruses! They use plain text formats. They are not made up of pieces of code, so they cannot be executed or auto-run. Consequently, they cannot be duplicated or replicated to other networks to run or replicate again. Since they cannot perform these functions, they cannot be considered viruses. Cookies can, however, be used for negative purposes. Because they store information about users’ preferences and browsing history, both on a particular site and across multiple sites, cookies can be used as a form of Spyware. Many anti-spyware products are aware of this fact and consistently mark cookies to be deleted during anti-virus/anti-spyware deletion/scanning procedures. In general, browsers have integrated privacy settings that provide different levels of cookie acceptance, validity period and automatic deletion after the user has visited a certain site.

 
Other security aspects related to cookies

Since identity protection is very valuable and is the right of every Internet user, it is advisable to know what possible problems cookies can create. Because through them information is constantly transmitted in both directions between the browser and the website, if an attacker or an unauthorized person intervenes during the data transmission, the information contained in the cookie can be intercepted. Although very rare, this can happen if the browser connects to the server using an unencrypted network (eg an unsecured WiFi network). Other cookie-based attacks involve missetting cookies on servers. If a website does not instruct the browser to use only encrypted channels, attackers can use this vulnerability to trick browsers into sending information over unsecured channels. Attackers then use the information to gain unauthorized access to certain websites. It is very important to be careful in choosing the most suitable method of personal information protection.

 
Tips for safe and responsible browsing based on cookies

Due to their flexibility and the fact that most of the most visited and largest sites use cookies, they are almost unavoidable. Disabling cookies will not allow the user access to the most widespread and used sites, including Youtube, Gmail, Yahoo and others.

 
How you can manage or disable cookies in your browser

Please note that the site currently does not have a technical solution that allows us to respond to your browser’s “do not track” signals, but you can always manage your cookie settings in your browser settings.

Most browsers allow you to:

  • see which cookies you have and delete them individually
  • block third-party cookies
  • to block cookies of certain sites
  • block the setting of all cookies
  • delete all cookies when you close your browser

If you disable all (our) cookies in your browser settings, certain sections or functions of our websites may not work because your browser may prevent us from setting cookies that are necessary for the website to function. We therefore recommend that you do not disable all cookies in your web browser.

In the list below you can find more information on how to disable cookies or how to manage cookie settings for the browser you are using: