Center for development and policies is committed to protecting your privacy and being transparent about what information we may hold about you.

Information we may collect

We may collect and process the following personal data about you:

Personal data that you provide by filling in forms on our Site. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services and might include:

  • First name
  • Last name
  • Email
  • Telephone number

We may also ask you for:

  • Information when you report a problem with our Site.
  • Information relating to your area of expertise as a result of communicating with us.
  • Information that we obtain from you when you are taking part in an event or making a donation

If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.

We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.

We may also collect information about your usage of the Site (see the section below entitled Cookies we use), which may include:

  • Traffic data
  • Location data
  • Weblogs and other communication data
  • The resources that you access, such as articles or our library catalogue

How your personal information may be used

We may use information held about you in the following ways:

  • to enhance content on our Site and its technical performance
  • to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes
  • to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so
  • to invite you to events ran by us or our co-partners
  • to notify you about changes to our service
  • to carry out in-house research and analysis, marketing statistics or equal opportunities monitoring
  • to monitor customer traffic patterns, Site usage and related Site information in order to optimize your use of our Site; data collected in this way will be aggregated and anonymized

Legitimate interest:

We may process your personal data relying on legitimate interests basis for certain business purposes which we believe will benefit not only us but also our supporters and people who we identify as potential supporters of the Center for development and policie.

Those carefully considered and specific purposes might for example include the following:

  • inviting potential speakers and participants in a business / professional capacity to our meetings or events.
  • engaging with individuals holding relevant policy-making positions, hand-picked experts, corporate professional individuals, journalists and those working in other relevant sectors in a business / professional capacity.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your devices when you visit our website via internet browsers. Our use of cookies is to primarily help enhance your user experience and improve the efficiency of our website.

What cookies do we use?

Essential cookies – These make our websites work and provide the basic functions of the website.

Performance cookies – Performance cookies also allow us to see if there are any technical issues on our websites and if you are experiencing any issues using our websites. We use Analytics cookies to help us understand how you use our services. They also allow us to look at usage statistics and performance.

Changes to our privacy notice

We keep our privacy notice under regular review. This privacy notice was last reviewed and updated on 24 August 2022.

Any changes we may make to our privacy notice in the future will be posted on this page.

By continuing to use our site, you shall be deemed to have accepted such changes.

Contact us

If you have any questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy notice you can email us admin@cdpbg.org  or write to:

Data Protection Officer
Center for development and policies
16 Lavele Str. Floor 1
Sofia 1000