GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)
Introduction. Applicable law: REGULATION (EU) 2016/679 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (“GDPR”) hereinafter referred to as the Regulation.
The website www.staicut.art is owned by Stăicuț Magdalena Simona and operated by Stăicuț Magdalena Simona, Romanian citizen and by Stăicuț Cristina Ioana, Romanian citizen, both domiciled in Bucharest, Romania (full address and PIN on request), tel: +4 0742.32.88.32, e-mail: ask@staicut.art [Staicut Art®], who have the capacity of personal data operators – “Operators“.
Protecting your personal data and protecting your privacy is extremely important to us. Thus, STAICUT ART® has developed this Privacy Statement (the “Statement“) to inform you about how STAICUT ART® collects, stores, uses and processes the personal data and information that you provide to us through this website.
Last updated: September 1, 2026
Purpose of the Statement. This Statement describes how STAICUT ART® uses the personal data and information (hereinafter referred to as “Personal Data“) that it collects through this website, also accessible through mobile devices such as a mobile phone or tablet (hereinafter referred to as the “Website“). Personal data is data that personally identifies you, either alone or in combination with other information available to us. Examples of Personal Data include: your first and last name, postal address, email address or information you provide when using our website and/or completing and submitting the Contact Form.
Your consent. By using this website you accept the practices described in this Statement (including the Cookie Policy available on this Website). If you do not agree with this Statement or the Cookie Policy, please DO NOT use this website. We reserve the right to make changes to this Statement or Cookie Policy at any time. Any changes will be posted in this Statement or in the Cookie Policy, and substantial changes will generally apply only to activities and information collected after the changes are made. Please return to this section regularly and read this Statement as well as the Cookie Policy regularly to ensure that there have been no changes and that you are aware of how your data may be used.
What categories of Personal Data do we collect through our Website? Personal data is what allows us to know who you are and to identify you. This type of data can be collected: when you contact us via the Contact Form, register to receive our emails, send us feedback, notifications, complaints or request customer support.
STAICUT ART® collects through the Website the following categories of Personal Data:
- Identification data, such as: your name and surname, identification data of the devices through which you access our Website, such as the IP address;
- Contact data, such as home address, e-mail address, telephone number;
- Professional data: name and address of the commercial company, position held within it, professional e-mail address.
For example, when submitting the Contact Form, the data we process are the following: first and last name, email address, and phone number.
This data may be stored in our database, either because of the artwork or related product of interest to you or for which we correspond, or because we think you may be interested in receiving materials from us, about our activity, artworks and related products. This allows us to effectively manage our relationship with you, improve our Website and the services we offer you, and identify things of interest to you that we can send you.
Non-personal data refers to information that is eminently statistical in nature, and that does not identify or allow the identification, by itself, of a specific individual or entity, and that depends on your visit to the Website. For example, this information may include the domain from which you access the Internet, the date and time you access the Website, and the Internet address of the website from which you were redirected to this Website. This information is used in aggregate form to make the Website more useful and attractive to its users.
Cookies and similar technologies.
We use “cookies” and other web technologies to collect information and support certain features of our Website. “Cookies” provide us with information about how visitors use our website – which pages they visit, which links they use and how long they stay on each page.
For example, we may use these technologies to:
- analyze and improve the effectiveness of our advertising programs and campaigns;
- to support the features and functionality of our Website – for example, to save you from re-entering information that is already in our database or to suggest settings you have made during previous visits to our Website and personalize your experience when using our Website,
- process information about you when you interact with our Website. This information allows us to infer your preferences, attraction to certain artworks or products, and to analyze how you interact with certain content.
In general, the information we collect using these web technologies does NOT personally identify you.
If you do not want to receive cookies, you can set your browser to reject cookies or to alert you when a cookie is placed on your computer. You can also delete our cookies as soon as you leave the website. Although you are not required to accept our cookies to visit our Website, if you set your browser to reject our cookies, you will not be able to use all the features and functionality of our Website. Please read the Cookie Policy on this Website (https://www.staicut.art/politica-de-cookie-uri) for more details and how you can delete them.
Information we collect from our partners and other sources.
We may also obtain information about you from other sources and link it to the information about you that we process, such as: data shared with social networks: information that is shared by us through social networks such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube or WhatsApp that you used through our Website.
In particular, when you share your experience on our Website with other customers, you use a social network and share information about yourself with that social network and with us. These communications are governed by the privacy policies of the social networks to which we direct you, which we ask you to read carefully.
How does STAICUT ART® use personal data? In general, we use the personal data we collect from our Website:
- to provide the artworks, related products and information you request from us;
- for security or fraud prevention purposes or to fulfill other legal obligations;
- to contact you about special offers or to provide you with information that we believe would be of interest to you, in those situations where you have given us your consent to do so;
- to provide and manage the services requested by you for personalized assistance in choosing the artworks and related products offered by STAICUT ART® including through remote communication means;
- to enable you to take advantage of our programs and events created especially for you;
- to promote the image of STAICUT ART®, creators of unique artworks, their artworks and related products.
In this sense, we use your personal data for direct marketing purposes. Before using it in this way, we will ask for your consent to use your data in this way.
What does STAICUT ART® rely on when processing personal data?
There are several legal grounds on which we rely when we request and process your personal data, such as:
Pursuant to your consent:
- to use personal data for direct marketing purposes, regarding artworks and related products, offers, promotions, advantages and to send you information that may be of interest to you. Before we use it in this way (or before we allow our creators to do so), we will ask for your consent to use your data in this way. If at any time you wish to be removed from our direct marketing mailing lists, please email or write to us using the contact details on this page. For this purpose, please provide your full name, postal address and email address so that we can find you on our mailing lists. Once we have the information we need, we will remove you from those lists. Please allow us a reasonable amount of time to fulfill your request;
- to receive information messages through the chosen means of communication (e-mail and/or SMS) regarding the online and offline events you have signed up for or can sign up for. If at any time you wish to stop receiving such messages, you can request to unsubscribe by selecting the unsubscribe button on the main page of the electronic message or by replying with UNSUBSCRIBE to the received sms;
- in situations where you send us notices, feedback, complaints or request customer support, in order to manage and respond to your requests.
In order to conclude or execute a contract to which you are a party
We use your data to manage the contracts and services subscribed and to fulfill our contractual obligations, in particular for the following purposes:
- Manage bookings for online and offline events offered. Participation in any of the events is optional and will not be conditional on participation in any other similar event.
- To offer and manage customized customer services for choosing the artworks and related products offered, information you requested through the Website or through remote communication means;
Pursuant to our legitimate interests:
- to permanently ensure a professional and efficient customized customer service;
- to ensure a personalized experience when using our Website;
- to display personalized advertising when you visit the Website;
- to contact you regarding information and notifications regarding your use of the Website;
- to provide us with feedback;
- to better understand your individual needs and interests;
- to improve the content, functionality and use of our Website;
- to improve our artworks and related products;
- to improve our marketing actions, programs and promotional campaigns.
Based on the need to comply with our legal obligations.
- for the purpose of fulfilling legal obligations regarding the archiving of documents and information;
- in order to fulfill the legal reporting and information obligations to the authorities and/or institutions, or other public bodies, in which case the disclosure of personal data is required, according to the applicable legislation;
- in order to comply with any laws, regulations or practices applicable to the company.
How does STAICUT ART® disclose Personal Data?
To service providers. We share Personal Data with companies and organizations that perform services on our behalf (for example companies that provide us with support services, data storage services and web hosting services) or that help us market and promote our artworks and related products (such as media agencies). These recipients of Personal Data have contractual obligations to use the Personal Data we share with them only to perform services for our benefit and to take commercially reasonable steps to protect the privacy and security of your Personal Data.
To social networks. When you access through the Website social networks through buttons or links available in this regard, your identification data is shared with them, more precisely they are automatically communicated to these social networks. This mode of use is governed by the terms and conditions of use of that social network, which we invite you to read.
Depending on the locations of their servers, or those of the proxies, used to store the data, it is possible that certain personal data may be transferred, as the case may be, to other member states of the European Union or the European Economic Area, including to: Ireland (to Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, for example, if you contact us through this account). In this regard, to become aware of the conditions of data processing by this particular provider of STAICUT ART®, we recommend that you also access the following address: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.
Within STAICUT ART®. We may share the personal data we collect through our Website within STAICUT ART® with all approved and individually listed creators on the Website for cross-marketing or other purposes. If you do not want us to disclose your Personal Data to a specific member of STAICUT ART®, you can opt-out at any time by sending an email to ask@staicut.art.
In case of an enterprise transfer. Personal data may be transferred to a company (a legal entity) that has taken over the ownership and / or use of the Website or one of the creators, as a result of a sale. If such a transfer takes place, the use by the acquiring company, respectively by the new natural person, will have to fully comply with this Statement and the privacy preferences you have expressed to us.
To comply with applicable laws and protect our rights and the rights of others. We may disclose Personal Data when in good faith we believe that the disclosure is in response to a legal requirement, a court order, or a subpoena. We may also disclose Personal Data for the purpose of preventing or investigating a possible crime, such as fraud or identity theft; to enforce our Terms and Conditions of Use or other agreements, or to protect our rights or property or the safety of our users or others.
Aggregate Information. We may share aggregate demographic or study information with others, but this information is in anonymized form and does not contain Personal Data. The aggregate information we share may include anonymous information that is captured through the use of cookies and other similar tracking technology, as explained in the section titled “cookies and similar technologies.”
As described in a Personal Data protection or privacy notice. We reserve the right to disclose your Personal Data as described in an additional personal data protection or privacy notice posted on the web page (or web area) where you provide that information. By providing your Personal Data on that web page you consent to the disclosure of that data as described in that personal data protection or privacy notice.
As described in an auto-targeting agreement. We reserve the right to disclose your Personal Data as described in any auto-targeting agreement to which you have agreed.
Your choices
In general
We respect your right to make choices about how we collect, use and disclose your personal data. In most cases, we will ask you to indicate your choices at the time we collect that data. We will also include a link through which you can opt out of newsletters or commercial communications that we send you, so that you can inform us if you do not wish to receive these communications from us in the future.
Sharing of Personal Information
Please re-read the section entitled “To whom does STAICUT ART® disclose personal data?” to find out who we share your Personal Data with and what choices you have, as applicable.
What are your rights in relation to your Personal Data and how can you exercise these rights
We strive to maintain a high level of transparency in relation to the processing of Personal Data that we carry out. Regarding the Personal Data that we process as described in this Statement, you have the following rights:
Right of access. You have the right to obtain from us a confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you is being processed and, if so, access to that data and the following information: (a) the purposes of the processing; (b) the categories of data concerned; (c) recipients or categories of recipients to whom the data has been or will be disclosed, in particular recipients from third countries or international organizations; (d) where possible, the period for which the data is expected to be stored or, if this is not possible, the criteria used to establish this period; (e) the right to request from us the rectification or deletion of the data or the restriction of the processing of the data relating to the data subject or the right to oppose the processing; (f) the right to file a complaint with a supervisory authority; (g) if the data is not collected from you, any available information regarding its source; STAICUT ART® provides, upon request, a copy of the personal data that is the subject of processing.
The right to rectification. You have the right to obtain, without undue delay, the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you. Taking into account the purposes for which the data were processed, you have the right to obtain completion of personal data that is incomplete, including by providing an additional statement.
The right to data deletion (“the right to be forgotten”). You have the right to obtain from us the confirmation of the deletion of personal data concerning you without undue delay, if, for example, the personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or processed or you withdraw consent or you exercise, at any time, the right of opposition, regarding the processing for direct marketing purposes, to the extent that it is related to the respective direct marketing.
The right to data portability. You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and readable format and you have the right to transmit this data to another controller without hindrance from us, if the processing is based on your consent or the need to perform a contract.
The right to restriction of processing. You have the right to obtain the restriction of processing if: (a) you dispute the accuracy of the data – the restriction will apply for a period that allows us to verify the accuracy of the data; (b) the processing is unlawful and You object to the deletion of the personal data, requesting instead the restriction of its use; (c) the operator no longer needs the personal data for the purpose of processing, but you request them for establishing, exercising or defending a right in court; or (d) you have objected to processing for reasons related to your particular situation, processing based on legitimate interest – the restriction will apply for a period that allows the operator to check whether the legitimate rights of the operator prevail over those of the data subject .
The right to opposition. At any time, you have the right to object, for reasons related to your particular situation, when you are notified that the processing would be necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by STAICUT ART® or when the processing would be necessary for the fulfillment by STAICUT ART® of a task that serves a public interest. In case of justified opposition, STAICUT ART® will no longer process the respective data, except for situations expressly provided by law. When you have given your consent to the processing of your data for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object to the processing for these purposes at any time. According to the law, the withdrawal of consent will not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out by STAICUT ART® before the withdrawal of consent.
The right to file a complaint. If you consider that the rights, you benefit from, as a data subject, have been violated, you can always address, with a complaint or notification in this regard, the National Authority for the Supervision of the Processing of Personal Data, based in 28-30, G-ral. Gheorghe Magheru Blvd., Sector 1, Postal code 010336, Bucharest, Romania (fax: +40 318 059 602, email: anspdcp@dataprotection.ro). You can also bring legal action before the competent courts.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, you may contact us at any time, free of charge, by emailing us at: ask@staicut.art. We will respond to you within a reasonable time, as soon as possible after receiving and studying your request.
After analyzing the purposes for which it was collected, we will without delay change/update/correct data that we are informed about or find to be either inaccurate, incomplete, irrelevant or confusing. If we modify/update/correct the data, and they have been disclosed to some recipients in the meantime, we will notify the respective recipients of such modification/update/rectification in the cases expressly provided by law in this regard.
In the event that we reject your request to amend/update/rectify your Personal Data, we will let you know the reasons for our refusal and the ways in which you can appeal this.
How long does STAICUT ART® store Personal Data?
We intend to process accurate and up-to-date Personal Data. We do not want to store and will not store your Personal Data for longer than it is necessary for the purposes relevant to the use of our website. The required storage period depends on the purposes for which the Data was collected and therefore there is no standard storage period. Thus, the storage period may vary depending on the circumstances or the applicable situation. For other legal reasons, for example in the context of court litigation or disputes, it may be necessary to keep Personal Data beyond the storage term originally stated when we collected that Data. In any case, in these situations we will no longer actively process the Personal Data for the purposes for which we originally collected them.
If you have communicated materials to us through your personal account or the Website, which have entered the public space, STAICUT ART® cannot control their use or withdrawal, with the exception of materials published on the STAICUT ART® Website or from the accounts managed by STAICUT ART® on social networks, respectively by the (identifiable) third parties to whom STAICUT ART® has individually transferred these materials, regarding which the persons concerned can request at any time their deletion/removal.
If you would like to know more information about the storage period of your Personal Data, as well as your rights in relation to the deletion of this data, please contact us using the contact details on this page, upper section.
How does STAICUT ART® protect personal data?
STAICUT ART® maintains a comprehensive data security system, including commercially reasonable administrative, physical and technological safeguards to protect your Personal Data against unauthorized access, unauthorized use and destruction, alteration or disclosure unauthorized or accidental. Although we take commercially reasonable security measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the confidentiality of Personal Data collected by us, we cannot guarantee the security of information provided over the Internet or stored in our databases.
Links to other websites
This Website contains hyperlinks to websites that are not managed by STAICUT ART®. These hyperlinks are provided for your reference and convenience only and do not imply any promotion of third-party websites or any association with their operators. STAICUT ART® does not control these websites and is not responsible for their content. Your access and use of these websites it is solely at your own risk.
Children
Our website is not directed at or intended for children under the age of 16. We do not use the Website to intentionally solicit data from or for the purpose of offering products to children under the age of 16. If you are under the age of 16, please do not provide us with your personal data. If we find that a person under the age of 16 has provided personal data through our website, we will make every effort to remove that information from our databases.
Applicable law. Jurisdiction
This Statement is governed by the Romanian law. The competent courts in Bucharest will resolve any dispute or litigation related to this Statement.
Questions about our privacy practices and the protection of Personal Data
If you have any questions about this Statement or about our privacy practices and the protection of Personal Data, please contact our operators by email at the email address: ask@staicut.art.