Privacy Policy

Administrator and contact details

The administrator of the personal data that is processed during or in connection with the use of the booksforkids.bg website is the Association for Culture and Literature, ID 176603831, address: Sofia, Al. Blvd. Dondukov №5, entrance 4, fl. 2, cultlitera@gmail.com, phone + 359 897 892 781.

Association for Culture and Literature takes all necessary care to ensure that your personal data is processed in accordance with the legal framework for the protection of personal data in the Republic of Bulgaria and the European Union. The association has implemented and implements the necessary technical and organizational measures to prevent unauthorized access, loss or unauthorized use of your personal data.

For what purpose do we collect your data?
We process your personal data when you use our services and/or wish to subscribe to our newsletter via https://www.booksforkids.bg.

On what basis do we process your data?
We process your personal data on the basis of your free, specific, informed and unequivocal consent to this and solely with a view to the purposes stated above.

What types of personal data do we collect?
For the purposes described above, data subjects agree to provide their three names and email address.

Who do we share your data with?
Association for Culture and Literature does not provide your personal data to third parties, incl. in third countries or international organizations, nor does it use them for marketing purposes.

What are your rights as data subjects, how can they be exercised?
The General Data Protection Regulation provides for the following rights of natural persons in relation to the processing of their personal data:

• right of access;
• right to correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data;
• right to erasure (the right to be forgotten), if the conditions of art. 17 of REGULATION 2016/679;
• right to restriction of processing;
• right to data portability when personal data is processed in an automated manner on the basis of consent or contract;
• right to object, if the specified conditions in REGULATION 2016/679 are present;
• right not to be the subject of a fully automated decision involving profiling that gives rise to legal consequences for the data subject or significantly affects him;
• the right to appeal to the Commission for the Protection of Personal Data - city of Sofia, p.k. 1592, Prof. Blvd. Tsvetan Lazarov No. 2, phone: +359 2 91-53-518, cpdp.bg, or to the court.

If you need information about the processing of your personal data and the realization of your rights, you can contact us in writing or electronically and specify your specific request.

We have taken technical and organizational measures to protect your data against destruction, loss, misuse, alteration, disclosure, unauthorized access. We constantly adapt our security measures in accordance with the development of technology. We protect your data by controlling the access of persons to the places where we store documents containing personal data, active Firewall protection, anti-virus program, anonymized IP addresses.

More about cookies

What are cookies and how do you benefit from them?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you browse websites.

Cookies are not actual programs or software. When you visit a web page, it stores a snippet of text from your visit; on the next visit, this text is retrieved from the website and it recognizes you. This may be used differently depending on the actual website visited. Cookies allow websites to store such things as user preferences. You can think of cookies as providing "memory" for the website, allowing it to recognize a user and respond appropriately. Cookies on our website do NOT store personally identifiable information such as names, addresses, email addresses or phone numbers.

Our cookies help us:

• To make our site work according to your expectations;
• To remember your settings during visits;
• Allow you to share pages (names/blogs) with social networks such as Facebook or Twitter;
• To continuously improve our website for you.

We do not use cookies for the:

• Collection of personally identifiable information – we will always ask for your express permission if we ever want to collect such information;
• Collection of sensitive information without your express consent.

What information is saved by the cookie?

Typically, a cookie stores:

• The name of the website it came from;
• How long the cookie will remain on your computer or phone;
• Value – usually a randomly generated unique number.

How long do cookies stay on my computer?

Session cookies - these cookies last until the browser is closed. They are not saved to your hard drive. They are generally used to track the pages you visit so that information about you can be personalized for that visit.

Persistent cookies – these cookies are stored on your hard drive until you delete them or they expire. They can be used, for example, to remember your preferences when you visit the site.

Giving permission to use cookies

If the settings in the software you use to view this website (ie a browser such as Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, etc.) are set to accept cookies, we accept this and your continued use of our website as consent to the use of cookies. If you wish to delete or not use cookies from our site, you can disable cookies through the "Internet Options" menu of your browser at any time, but please note that this will most likely mean that our site may not work as well as good as you'd expect.

Our use of cookies falls into several categories such as:

• Cookies for website functions;
• Cookies for social networks;
• Third Party Cookies;
• Analytical cookies.

Cookies for website functions such as session cookies or preferences

We use cookies to make our website work, including:

• Saving information after you log in once so that you do not need to log in again each time you visit a different page during your session;
• Once you log out or close the browser, the session cookies will be deleted.

Third Party Features

Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube or Vimeo video. Disabling these cookies may disrupt the features offered by these third parties.

Cookies for social network websites

To make it easier to share or like content on a social networking platform such as Facebook and Twitter, we have included share buttons on our site.

The privacy implications of this vary between social networks and depend on the privacy settings you have chosen for those networks.

Anonymous visitor cookies and behavioral statistics cookies

Analytics programs, such as Google Analytics, use cookies to collect statistical data that help us improve our site. All data collected by analytics programs is stored anonymously, and we only see aggregate values, not specific individual data.

Examples of this include:

• How visitors arrived at our website (for example, from a search engine, advertisement, social network site, etc.);
•  General statistics about the actions of users of the site, such as the number of pages viewed, time spent on a given page, on which page visitors left the site; How often visitors return to our site;
• The technology used by visitors (e.g. browser, operating system, device, etc.).

These statistics help us make our site as easy to use as possible to ensure good navigation for all visitors.

Disable cookies

You can turn off cookies by changing your internet browser settings so that it stops accepting cookies. There are many different browsers and versions. Some of the most common browsers and versions are listed below. Click on the name of your preferred browser below to learn how to disable and manage cookies. If your version or browser is not listed, visit your preferred browser.

• Internet Explorer
• Mozilla Firefox
• Safari
• Google Chrome

Note that turning off cookies will impair the functionality of many sites, not just ours.

This Policy may be changed by the Association.