Privacy Policy

This policy explains which personal data is processed when you visit the Moldova în Farfurie website (a Chef's Forum project), why, and what rights you have. Processing is carried out in accordance with Law no. 133 of 8 July 2011 on personal data protection and the other legislation in force in the Republic of Moldova.

1. Data controller

The controller is Asociația Bucătarilor Profesioniști din Moldova ("the Controller", "we"). For any question about personal data, contact us using the details in the Contacts section of the website.

2. What data we process

The website does not ask you to create an account and has no forms. We only process:

• Technical access data – IP address, browser and device type, date and time of access and the pages requested. These are logged automatically by the hosting provider to deliver the website and protect it against abuse.
• Preferences stored in cookies – your chosen language and your cookie choice. See the Cookie Policy for details.
• Data sent to external content – if you accept cookies for external content and play a video, YouTube (Google) receives your device's technical data and may set its own cookies.
• Administrator data – the e-mail address and password (stored encrypted) of the people who manage the website's content.

If you e-mail or call us, we process the data you send only to reply to you.

3. Purposes and legal grounds

• Serving the website and keeping it secure – legal ground: the Controller's legitimate interest in a working, secure website;
• Remembering your language and cookie choice – legal ground: legitimate interest; these cookies are strictly necessary;
• Playing YouTube videos – legal ground: your consent, given through the cookie banner;
• Replying to your requests – legal ground: your consent and our legitimate interest in communicating with the public.

We do not use data for advertising, profiling or automated decisions, and we do not sell it.

4. Recipients and processors

The data may be accessed by the providers that help us run the website, acting as processors:

• Vercel Inc. – website hosting, content delivery network and image storage;
• Neon Inc. – hosting of the database with the website's content (it holds no visitor data);
• Google (YouTube) – only for videos played after you consent; Google acts as an independent controller under its own privacy policy.

Some providers are based outside the Republic of Moldova (including in the USA). In those cases data is transferred only on the basis of the contractual data-protection safeguards offered by the providers, as permitted by law.

5. How long we keep data

• technical access data – the limited period set by the hosting provider for security purposes;
• cookies – the duration listed in the Cookie Policy;
• correspondence – as long as needed to reply, then deleted unless the law requires otherwise.

6. Your rights

Under Law no. 133/2011 you have the right:

• to be informed about the processing;
• of access to the data concerning you;
• of intervention – rectification, updating, blocking or deletion of data;
• to object to processing on justified, legitimate grounds;
• not to be subject to an individual decision based solely on automated processing;
• to withdraw your consent at any time (for example via Cookie settings in the website footer);
• to lodge a complaint with the National Center for Personal Data Protection (datepersonale.md) and to go to court.

To exercise your rights, write to us using the details in the Contacts section.

7. Security

The website is served only over an encrypted connection (HTTPS), the admin panel is password-protected, and our providers apply technical and organisational data-protection measures.

8. Minors

The website is not specifically aimed at children and we do not knowingly collect data from persons under 18.

9. Changes

We may update this policy when the website or the law changes. The date of the last update is shown at the top of the page.