GDPR Policy and Cookie Policy

A. Introduction

The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains what we will do with your personal information.

By consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website, you allow us to use cookies each time you visit our website.

B. Collection of Personal Information

The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:

  • Information about your computer, including IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system.
  • Information about your visits and use of this website, including referral source, visit duration, page views, and website navigation paths.
  • Information such as your email address, which you enter when registering on our website.
  • Information that you enter when creating a profile on our website—such as your name, profile pictures, gender, birth date, marital status, interests and hobbies, educational details, and employment details.
  • Information such as your name and email address, which you enter to set up subscriptions to our emails and/or newsletters.
  • Information that you enter while using the services on our website.
  • Information that is generated while using our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it.
  • Information relating to any purchases, services used, or transactions you make through our website, including your name, address, phone number, email address, and credit card details.
  • Information that you post on our website with the intention of publishing it online, which may include your username, profile pictures, and the content of your posts.
  • Information contained in any communications that you send to us by email or through our website, including the communication content and metadata.
  • Any other personal information that you send to us.

Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.

D. Use of Your Personal Information

Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information to:

  • Administer our website and business.
  • Personalize our website for you.
  • Authorize the use of services available on our website.
  • Send products purchased through our website.
  • Supply services purchased through our website.
  • Send statements, invoices, and payment reminders to you, and collect payments from you.
  • Send non-marketing commercial communications.
  • Send you email notifications you have specifically requested.
  • Send you our newsletter by email, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive the newsletter).
  • Send you marketing communications related to our business or the businesses of carefully selected third parties that we think may be of interest to you, by mail or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications).
  • Provide third parties with statistical information about our users (those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information).
  • Deal with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website.
  • Keep our website secure and prevent fraud.
  • Verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website private messaging service).
  • Other uses.

If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the permission you grant us.

Privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.

Without your explicit consent, we will not supply your personal information to any third party for their or any other third party’s direct marketing.

E. Disclosure of Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this includes our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company, and all its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

  • To the extent that we are required to do so by law.
  • In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings.
  • To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).
  • To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling.
  • To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

F. International Data Transfers

The information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.

Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available via the internet around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section F.

G. Retaining Personal Information

This Section G sets out our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.

Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

  • To the extent that we are required to do so by law.
  • If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings.
  • To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).

H. Security of Your Personal Information

We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.

We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure servers (protected by password and firewall).

All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology.

You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).

I. Amendments

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.

J. Your Rights

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; the provision of such information will be subject to the following:

  • Supplying sufficient evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a notary plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).

You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

K. Third-Party Websites

Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third-party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

L. Updating Information

Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

M. Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

The types of cookies we use include:

  1. Necessary Cookies – Essential for website functionality.
  2. Performance Cookies – Helps us improve website performance.
  3. Functional Cookies – Provides additional personalized features.
  4. Marketing Cookies – Used for ad targeting.

For any inquiries related to this policy or for requesting data deletion, please contact our GDPR representative

ESSENCE PATH ROMANIA SRL (CUI 50125361, J12/2441/2024), located in Romania, Cluj, Str. Pădurii 70, respects the privacy and data protection rights of its users. This policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you use our services and visit our website.

For any information related to data processing, please contact our GDPR representative: