This page explains what personal data we process when you visit studentsforliberty.ro, write to us or register for our events, and what rights you have under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, EU Regulation 2016/679).
In short
- We use no advertising or tracking cookies and show no ads.
- Visitor statistics are anonymous and use no cookies.
- We never sell or rent anyone's data.
Who we are
This website is run by the Students for Liberty Romania team, the Romanian and Moldovan community of the international Students For Liberty network. Students for Liberty Romania does not currently have its own legal personality in Romania.
For any question or request about your personal data, write to us at inbox@studentsforliberty.org.
What data we process and why
When you visit the website
The website is hosted by Vercel Inc. Like any web server, Vercel's servers automatically receive technical data about each visit: your IP address, browser and device type, the page requested and the time. This data is used to keep the website running and protected against abuse, and is kept for a short time in Vercel's technical logs. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in a working, secure website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
Visitor statistics
We use Vercel Web Analytics to know how many people visit the website, which pages they read and where they come from (for example Instagram or Google). It uses no cookies and does not follow you across other websites. Visits are counted with a temporary identifier, derived from the request, which is automatically discarded after 24 hours. We only see aggregated statistics: pages visited, the website you came from, country and city, device type, operating system and browser. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in understanding what information is useful to visitors (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
When you write to us
If you send us an email or a message on social media, we use your name, contact details and the content of your message only to reply to you. We keep the conversation as long as needed to answer you and follow up on your request. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in answering the messages we receive (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
When you register for an event
Event registrations go through Google Forms, linked from the event pages. The forms are hosted by Google, which processes the data under the Google Privacy Policy. The data you fill in (for example your name and email address) is used:
- for the event: to organize it and to contact you about it;
- for our list of interested people: with your consent, given in the form, we keep it in our database of interested people to let you know about our future events and activities.
The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can unsubscribe at any time by writing to inbox@studentsforliberty.org: we delete your data from the list and stop contacting you. Until then, we keep your data on the list of interested people.
When you apply to become a member or coordinator
The "Fill in the signup form" button on the Get involved page takes you to the Students For Liberty form on studentsforliberty.org. That data is collected and processed by Students For Liberty under their privacy policy.
Photos from our events
We publish photos from our events on the website and on social media to show what we do. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in documenting and promoting our activity (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). If you appear in a photo and want it taken down, write to us and we will remove it.
Cookies
The website uses a single cookie for visitors:
- NEXT_LOCALE remembers the language you view the website in (Romanian or English). It is deleted when you close your browser.
This cookie only serves to show the website in the language you chose, so the law does not require your consent for it (Art. 4(5) of Romanian Law no. 506/2004). We use no advertising, tracking or third-party cookies. Team members who run the website also use a sign-in cookie in the admin area, which is not used for visitors.
Links to other websites
The website links to Instagram, Facebook, Google Forms and studentsforliberty.org. When you open them, those websites' privacy policies apply (for example those of Instagram and Facebook). The Instagram posts shown on the home page are copies hosted by us, so Instagram receives no data about you when you view them.
Who else has access to the data
We use the data only for the purposes above, together with the providers that help us operate:
- Vercel, for hosting the website and visitor statistics (Vercel Privacy Notice);
- Google, for the event registration forms;
- Students For Liberty, the international network we are part of, which runs the inbox@studentsforliberty.org address.
Some of these providers process data outside the European Union, including in the United States, with the safeguards required by the GDPR, such as the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or standard contractual clauses.
Your rights
Under the GDPR you have the right:
- to know what data we hold about you and receive a copy of it;
- to have inaccurate data corrected;
- to have your data erased;
- to have processing restricted;
- to object to processing based on our legitimate interest;
- to receive your data in a format that is easy to transfer (portability);
- to withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting processing done before.
For any of these, write to us at inbox@studentsforliberty.org. We will reply within one month.
If you believe your data is not being handled correctly, you can lodge a complaint with the Romanian data protection authority, ANSPDCP (Autoritatea Națională de Supraveghere a Prelucrării Datelor cu Caracter Personal), www.dataprotection.ro.
Changes
We update this page when the way the website works changes. The date of the last update is shown at the top of the page.