Terms and conditions of use

Processing of personal data | Information about cookies

The terms and conditions contain information about how you may use the content on the website, how we process your personal data, and what cookies are used on the website. References below to “Skanska”, “us” or “we” refer to Skanska Property Romania S.R.L. and Skanska Construction Romania S.R.L. (the providers of this website). Skanska’s website and these terms and conditions of use are provided in accordance with Romanian law.

Copyright and other intellectual property rights

Information about copyright and trademarks

All rights to the content on the website, such as text, graphics, logos, images, video clips, audio files, and programs belong to Skanska or third parties and are protected by Romanian and international intellectual property law. All rights are reserved.

The content on the website is provided as a service to you and may only be used in accordance with the terms and conditions set out below. By downloading material from the website you accept the terms and conditions.

Unauthorized use or distribution of the content of the website may violate copyright and/or other Romanian or international law and may be subject to legal action.

Use of Skanska's trademarks

Skanska’s trademarks and brands may only be used in accordance with these terms and conditions or after you have obtained Skanska's written approval. Use of Skanska’s trademarks in advertising and marketing of Skanska’s products and services requires prior written approval.

Use of the content on the website

The website and its content may not be modified, transmitted, reproduced, published, licensed, transferred, sold or used for any other commercial purpose without Skanska’s prior written approval.

As you familiarize yourself with the content of the website, Skanska allows you to make temporary copies of content on this website, where necessary. You may also print as much content from the website as is reasonable for personal use and link to our website. Any other use of the information on the website is prohibited.

When making copies of the information on the website, you may not modify the information or delete information about copyright or Skanska’s name.

Disclaimer

The information on the website is general and should not be used as the single and sole reason for deciding on important issues. We are constantly working to ensure that the website is accurate, complete and up to date, but there is always a risk, for example, that typos, external influences, and technical errors result in misleading information. This means that Skanska cannot guarantee and does not accept liability that the information is always correct, complete, and up to date.

If Skanska provides a link to a third-party website, this link is only intended to assist the user and Skanska does not accept liability for the content or accuracy of the information on such a website.

Material from users

Except any and all personal data regarding yourself or any other natural person, all material and communications transmitted to or posted on this website in connection with your use of features on the website will be considered confidential. Skanska has the right to use such material for commercial or non-commercial purposes.

When using the website, you may not provide any material or information that is illegal, may be perceived as offensive, constitutes marketing or may otherwise be perceived as inappropriate. Such content will be removed from the website and we also reserve the right to terminate services on the website that you may have joined.

In the event that material and communications sent to us via the website contain personal data, the details set out in Processing of personal data, below, shall apply.

Miscellaneous

Skanska may change these terms and conditions of use at any time, and may choose to display or remove posts and content on the website and/or close down the website. If the terms and conditions of use change, you will be informed of this in advance and we will not affect further the rights that your legislation gives you regarding personal data relating to you.

Processing of personal data

Introduction

Your privacy is important to us and we strive for a high level of protection in all processing of personal data. Within the EU/EEA, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies from May 2018[1].

In accordance with applicable data protection legislation, Skanska Property Romania S.R.L. and Skanska Construction Romania S.R.L., are responsible for the processing of your personal data as set out below. If you have any questions about this information, or if you wish to exercise any of your rights as set out below, please contact Skanska via the contact details listed under the Contact information below.

[1] Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament 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 and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation).

The personal data we process

The term ‘personal data’ refers to such information which, directly or indirectly, may refer to you as an individual. Examples of such data are identification details (such as name and sure name, image, personal ID number, address, contact person or work phone number, title/function, employer, and/or other identification details), competition and/or survey entries, selections made, behavior or IP address.

Personal data processing refers to any action that we or a third party that we have engaged take with the personal data, such as, but not limited to, collection, registration, correction, storage, and erasure.

The purpose of processing personal data

Personal data shall only be processed for specified purposes and will not be subsequently processed for any purpose that goes beyond these purposes.

At Skanska, we process personal data that you have given us for the purpose of administering inquiries and agreements from/with you/your employer, as well as providing information and services in connection with such inquiries and agreements. For example, this concerns recruitment, registration of interest for leasing offices spaces in our development projects, or subscriptions to our newsletters which you have ordered, sending links to surveys, conducting tender/procurement processes, paying invoices, archiving documents, or providing information to public institutions/authorities, according to applicable laws.

Images of yourself will be processed when you enter Skanska premises, with the purpose of ensuring the security of our goods and personnel, according to applicable legislation. Also, name and contact details will be processed in case it is mentioned as contact details for emergencies by our employees.

If you are a worker/visitor in our construction sites, your personal data will be processed when you enter it (images, name, sure name, details from ID), report a health and safety breach (phone number), or when you are subject of an internal/external investigation following a health and safety norms breach.

Your personal data will also be used, among others, for sending information and materials regarding our products and services and follow-up. In the event that you do not wish to receive information and materials and/or any offers, please contact us via the contact details listed under the Contact information below. We will use personal data also when you will submit one of our surveys or questionnaires.

When being in a business relationship with us or under negotiation process, representing us in front of public authorities or public institutions and, more generally, when acting as an intermediary to third parties for Skanska, your personal data will be processed in order for Skanska to conduct ethics due-diligences. Furthermore, if you are the beneficial owner of a company, Skanska will process your personal data (name and sure name and date of birth, if the name and sure name are not enough) for the purpose of complying with any anti-money laundering and anti-corruption national and international laws.

If necessary, we will process your personal data for settling disputes: this involves making claims and defenses before courts or other public authorities or dispute resolution entities.

More, personal data will be processed during the investment or divestment processes of our projects and/or assets, for performing due diligences and risk assessments for the purpose of acquiring or selling assets or shares.

We also process your personal data for improving our visitors’ browsing experience on our website: retain user preferences and browsing habits to provide relevant information for subsequent site visits; adapting the website to visitor’s device analyzing and solving problems the visitor’s device encounters when accessing the website.

Finally, personal data is also processed for statistical purposes to see how users use the website and to analyze search behavior, as well as to display content customized for you. Such data is, however, only processed in aggregated form or in a form that cannot identify you as an individual. Data is also processed indirectly in connection with the development, testing, and administration of the IT systems underlying our website.

When using features on our website that allow you to post information or other material on it, please note that such information may also contain personal data. In the event that your information contains data about other individuals, you may only post such data which you have received their consent to provide.

Legal basis for processing personal data

Also, for the transmission of communications about our products and services (marketing), we process the data based on your consent.

We can also process data for the fulfillment of obligations imposed by law, such as archiving obligations and on-demand communication of certain information to public authorities.

If we were to process your personal data for any purpose which, according to applicable legislation, requires your consent, we will obtain your consent before commencing with such processing.

Storage of your personal data

The data we collect in accordance with the above is deleted when the purposes of the processing have been completed or when the applicable legislation allows it to.

Security for the protection of personal data

Skanska continuously tries to ensure the highest level of protection for your personal data and safeguards your personal data with a high level of security and has to this end taken appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, amendment, dissemination, or destruction. We are constantly working on improving our security measures.

Such security measures include: adopting dedicated policies; minimize processing; restricting access to data; testing and auditing our systems; backing up; training our staff; introducing provisions in our contracts with suppliers to force them to ensure a high level of protection of personal data that we provide access to, etc.

Disclosure and transfer of personal data

As a rule, we will not divulge your data to other companies or individuals in any state (including Romania). In certain situations, however, it is necessary to do so, as described below.

We may appoint external partners to perform tasks on our behalf, such as providing IT and archiving services or helping with marketing, events organizers, payroll, HR and medical services providers, travel agencies, CCTV surveillance, administration of press releases, and other communication on our websites and social media channels, data analysis or statistics.

The performance of these services may mean that our partners, both within and outside the EU/EEA, are able to gain access to your personal data. Companies that process personal data on our behalf must always sign an agreement with us so that we are able to ensure a high level of protection of your personal data even with our partners.

Special safeguards are taken with regard to partners outside the EU/EEA, such as signing agreements that include the standardized model clauses for data transfers adopted by the EU Commission and which are available on the EU Commission’s website or complying with any other applicable legal requirements.

Skanska may also disclose your personal data to third parties, for example, the police or other public authorities, if it concerns criminal investigations or if we are otherwise required to disclose such data by law or public authority decision.

We may also disclose data to accountants, auditors, lawyers and other external consultants, under confidentiality, for example for due diligence or audits (internal or external). Also, your personal data may be disclosed to possible investors or sellers in the market, for the purpose of acquiring or selling assets. We may disclose to individuals, agents, or courts in Romania or in another State - for the establishment, exercise, or defenses of a right of ours or of another person in court. If we transfer all or part of our shares or our assets or our business, we can divulge your data to (potential) purchasers.

Skanska will not disclose or transfer your personal data to any extent other than described in this section and if otherwise, it will inform you of such.

When is this information notice applicable?

This information about the processing of personal data applies to data about you that Skanska processes within the scope of our website and is also a general information notice for our partners, collaborators, consultants, suppliers, subcontractors, official authorities, and employees/collaborators of such.

Our website may sometimes contain links to external websites or services that we do not control.

When you interact with us as an employee, supplier, consultant, or otherwise than visitor to our site, we will provide you with yet another relevant information notice before we begin processing your data in that quality.

If you follow a link to an external website, you are encouraged to review the principles for processing personal data and information about cookies that apply to the website in question. This information notice does not cover data processing by other companies, individuals, authorities, or institutions that we refer to on our site or to companies and individuals advertising our services and products through cookies or other technologies.

Your rights and how you can exercise them

Under the applicable data protection legislation, you are entitled to access the personal data that is processed about you, to have erroneous personal data corrected, to request that Skanska shall stop processing and delete your personal data, to request that the processing of your personal data is restricted, to exercise your right to data portability, to withdraw consent to particular processing (where such consent has been obtained)

You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data that is necessary for the performance of a task which is of public interest, results from the exercise of public authority with which we are invested or necessary for our legitimate interests or that of a third party. You also have the right to object to the processing for the purpose of direct marketing. You also have the right to object to your processing for scientific or historical research purposes or for statistical purposes, unless that processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest. You can exercise this right in the ways listed below.

To the extent that you have given your consent for a processing activity, you may also withdraw your consent at any time, which will not affect the lawfulness of processing before such withdrawal.

In order to exercise any of the above rights, please contact Skanska using the contact details below. You may use the same contact details to ask us questions about your rights or other information in this notice or any other matter concerning your processing of data by us.

You are also entitled, at any time, to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority, namely the National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing, if you consider that your personal data has been processed in contravention of applicable data protection legislation. Contact information of the supervisory authority can be found on this link. You may also lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority operating out of the country in which your habitual residence or place of work exists, or where the alleged infringement of your personal data processing took place.

Form for requests regarding your personal data at Skanska, on the Skanska Romania website.

Form for requests regarding your personal data at Skanska, on the Skanska Group website.

Contact details

Skanska Property Romania S.R.L. and Skanska Construction Romania S.R.L. are independent data controllers for the processing of your data.

If you have any questions about how Skanska processes your personal data, please contact us by e-mail or by post.

Skanska Property Romania S.R.L. / Skanska Construction Romania S.R.L.
Green Court Bucharest

Data Protection Manager: 

No automated decision-making process

 We carefully handle our data through our specialist staff. Under the current circumstances, you will not be subject to our sole decision based on the automatic processing of your data (including the creation of profiles) that will have legal effects on you or affect you in a similar way to a significant extent.

¹ Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament 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 and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation).