Privacy Policy

I. Introduction

1.1. Tax Compass EOOD, registered with the Bulgarian Commercial Register under unified identification code: 207502192 (“Tax Compass”) is a company whose highest priority is to ensure to individuals online privacy rights of the highest level of respect and protection, and to align those rights with the rights assured to a citizen in the offline world.

1.2. Tax Compass has developed the website taxcompass.bg in order to provide online information about and access to its services. Some of the services provided through the website require a client or a visitor to submit personal data as name, address, e-mail address and/or telephone number, as well as links to websites containing personal data about him/her. Please read the following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to understand how Tax Compass will handle the processing of data of clients and visitors of this website.

1.3. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of visitors to our website as well to the privacy of our clients using our web-based services. Therefore, all personal data will be processed in accordance with the data protection principles and rules set out in the EU and Bulgarian legislation, such as: 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 on the free movement of such data (GDPR)  and the Bulgarian Data Protection Law where relevant. For the purposes of the present Privacy Policy the term Data Subject refers to the legal term “data subject” as defined in GDPR.

1.4. The information provided only applies to the web site taxcompass.bg and does not concern any web sites that may be visited by any user via unrelated external links.

1.5. This Privacy Policy only applies to services offered by taxcompass.bg.

II. Data Controller

Tax Compass is the data controller for the personal data of all individuals using the website taxcompass.bg and Tax Compass’s web-based services. If you have any questions in relation to this policy please contact us at: office@taxcompass.bg.

III. Purpose of the Processing

3.1. Tax Compass will only use the information you provide to it by using the website in order to perform a request for tax advice or assistance and to analyze what are the conditions under which an individual may receive it, as well as to perform any necessary conflict checks thereof.

3.2. No personal data resulting from the access to the website or the web-based services is either communicated or disseminated. We will only disclose your information where you have given your consent or where we are required to do so by law, or where it is necessary for the purpose of, or in connection with legal proceedings or in order to exercise or defend legal rights.

IV. Categories of processed personal data

4.1. In order to perform a request for tax advice or assistance we will need to process the following personal data you provide us by using the website: name, address, e-mail address and/or telephone number, as well as links to websites containing personal data about you. Sending e-mail messages containing your personal data to this website is therefore based on your free, explicit, and voluntary consent to do so.

4.2. When you visit this website information systems and software procedures relied upon to operate it might acquire personal data as part of their standard functioning. This data category might include your IP addresses and/or the domain names of the computers used by any user connecting with the website, the URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) addresses of the requested resources, the time of such requests, the method used for submitting a given request to the server, returned file size, a numerical code relating to server response status (successfully performed, error, etc.), and other parameters related to the user’s operating system and computer environment.

4.3. Such information is not collected in order to relate it to identified data subjects, and is only used to extract anonymous statistics on website use as well as to check its functioning; the data entries are erased immediately after being processed. The data might be used to establish liability in case computer crimes are committed against the website; except for this circumstance, any data on web contacts is currently retained for no longer than seven days. 

V. Cookies

5.1. By default and unless specifically agreed to, Tax Compass does not place any cookies on your computer or mobile device. No personal data concerning users is acquired by the website in this regard.

5.2. No cookies are used to transmit personal information, nor are so-called persistent cookies or user tracking systems implemented.

5.3. Use of the so-called session cookies – which are not stored permanently on the user’s computer and disappear upon closing the browser – might be enabled after acquiring the user’s consent, and shall be exclusively limited to the transmission of session ID’s – consisting of server-generated casual numbers – as necessary to allow secure, effective navigation.

5.4. These so-called session cookies that might be used by this website with the user’s consent make it unnecessary to implement other computer techniques that are potentially detrimental to the confidentiality of user navigation, whilst they do not allow acquiring the user’s personal identification data.

VI. Information Security

6.1. Specific security measures are implemented to prevent the data from being lost, used unlawfully and/or inappropriately and accessed without authorisation.

6.2. Tax Compass works with leading EU experts in data security to protect taxcompass.bg and our users from unauthorized access to, or malicious alteration, disclosure or destruction of personal information under our control.

6.3. Personal data is processed for no longer than is necessary to achieve the purposes for which it has been collected.

6.4. In particular:

6.4.1. We monitor our information collection, storage and processing practices, including physical security measures, to guard against malicious access to our systems.

6.4.2. We enforce rigid policies on: Data Protection and Retention; Business Continuity; Disaster Recovery; other statutory Operational risks; and restrict access to personal information to Tax Compass’s employees and contracting parties who need to be aware of that information in order to process it for us, and who are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to meet these obligations. By undertaking the above security measures, Tax Compass puts its best efforts to prevent its servers from being attacked or compromised.

VII. Data Protection Rights

7.1. All individuals that have access to and use the services available at taxcompass.bg are entitled at any time to be informed of the type and origin of personal data we hold on them, verify their accuracy, or else request that such data be supplemented, updated, blocked from being visible or rectified.

7.2. You are also entitled to request erasure, anonymisation or blocking of any data that is processed in breach of the law as well as to object in all cases, on legitimate grounds, to processing of the data. All requests should be emailed to office@taxcompass.bg.

VIII. Compliance and Cooperation

The present Privacy Policy has been created in compliance with the relevant EU privacy and personal data protection legislation. Upon receiving formal written notice from an individual, we will strive to get in touch to resolve the issue concerned. If a plausible outcome could not be achieved directly with the individual, we will support the work of the appropriate regulatory authorities, including national data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the processing of personal data. To provide the best possible protection for the individuals, Tax Compass will follow and will implement on a regular basis the practical guides and opinions issued by relevant EU bodies and national data protection authorities.

IX. Amendments to the Privacy Policy

Tax Compass reserves the right to amend at any time this Privacy Policy in order to incorporate any relevant changes in the rules and regulations affecting the privacy rights of the individuals. This page will always contain the latest version of our Privacy Policy.

X. Definitions

10.1. For the purposes of the present Privacy Policy visitor shall mean: any individual browsing through the website without submitting any particular request for legal service or assistance.

10.2. For the purposes of the present Privacy Policy client shall mean: any individual using the website to submit a particular request for legal service or assistance.