Terms and Conditions

Welcome to my digital portfolio - itoma.website. My name is Ionuț Toma, I'm a Romanian freelance web designer and I made these terms and conditions ("Terms", "Terms and Conditions") to govern your use of my website, located at www.itoma.website (the "Website"). By accessing or using the Website, you agree to be bound by these Terms and all applicable laws and regulations. If you disagree with any part of these Terms, you may not access or use the Website. 

Data Protection 

I am committed to protecting the privacy of my website users and complying with all applicable data protection laws and regulations, including the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 ("GDPR"). This section outlines how I collect, use, and store your personal data. 

• Information I Collect: I may collect various types of information when you use my Website, including:

  • Personal data you provide directly, such as name, email address, phone number, and contact information.

  • Information collected automatically, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, and browsing activity on the Website.

• Use of Your Information: I may use your personal data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and improve the Website and its functionalities.

  • To personalize your experience on the Website.

  • To send you marketing communications (with your consent).

  • To comply with legal and regulatory obligations.

• Legal Basis for Processing: I process your personal data based on the following legal grounds:

  • Consent: You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

  • Contract: Processing is necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations to you.

  • Legal obligation: I may need to process your data to comply with legal requirements.

  • Legitimate interests: I may process your data for our legitimate interests, such as improving the Website or sending you marketing communications (but only with your consent).

• Data Retention: I will retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined above, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

• Your Data Protection Rights: You have various rights regarding your personal data under the GDPR, including:

  • The right to access your personal data.

  • The right to rectification of inaccurate data.

  • The right to erasure of your data.

  • The right to restrict the processing of your data.

  • The right to data portability.

  • The right to object to the processing of your data.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact me using the information provided below.

Privacy Policy

This website leverages Google Sites platform.  My website's privacy practices are aligned with the ones described in Google's Privacy Policy. 

Cookies

The website uses cookies to help personalize your online experience. Since my website is built with Google Sites, these cookies are similar to the ones described in Google's Cookie Policy.  By accessing itoma.website, you agreed to use the required cookies.

A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

Additionally, I may use cookies to collect, store, and track information for statistical or marketing purposes to operate my website. The required Cookies are necessary for the operation of my website. These cookies do not require your consent as they always work. Please keep in mind that by accepting required Cookies, you also accept third-party Cookies, which might be used via third-party provided services if you use such services on my website, for example, a video display window provided by third parties and integrated into my website.

Third-Party Links and Services 

My Website may contain links to third-party websites and services. I am not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties. I recommend that you review the privacy policies of any third-party website or service you visit. 

License

Unless otherwise stated, itoma.website and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights for all material on itoma.website. All intellectual property rights are reserved. You may access this from itoma.website for your own personal use subjected to restrictions set in these terms and conditions.

You must not:

• Copy or republish material from itoma.website

• Sell, rent, or sub-license material from itoma.website

• Reproduce, duplicate or copy material from itoma.website

• Redistribute content from itoma.website

This Agreement shall begin on the date hereof.

Parts of this website offer users an opportunity to post and exchange opinions and information in certain areas of the website. itoma.website does not filter, edit, publish or review Comments before their presence on the website. Comments do not reflect the views and opinions of itoma.website, its agents, and/or affiliates. Comments reflect the views and opinions of the person who posts their views and opinions. To the extent permitted by applicable laws, itoma.website shall not be liable for the Comments or any liability, damages, or expenses caused and/or suffered as a result of any use of and/or posting of and/or appearance of the Comments on this website.

itoma.website reserves the right to monitor all Comments and remove any Comments that can be considered inappropriate, offensive, or causes breach of these Terms and Conditions.

You warrant and represent that:

• You are entitled to post the Comments on our website and have all necessary licenses and consents to do so;

• The Comments do not invade any intellectual property right, including without limitation copyright, patent, or trademark of any third party;

• The Comments do not contain any defamatory, libelous, offensive, indecent, or otherwise unlawful material, which is an invasion of privacy.

• The Comments will not be used to solicit or promote business or custom or present commercial activities or unlawful activity.

You hereby grant itoma.website a non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, edit and authorize others to use, reproduce and edit any of your Comments in any and all forms, formats, or media.

Hyperlinking to my Content

The following organizations may link to my Website without prior written approval:

• Government agencies;

• Search engines;

• News organizations;

• Online directory distributors may link to my Website in the same manner as they hyperlink to the Websites of other listed businesses; and

• System-wide Accredited Businesses except soliciting non-profit organizations, charity shopping malls, and charity fundraising groups which may not hyperlink to my Website.

These organizations may link to my home page, to publications, or to other Website information so long as the link: (a) is not in any way deceptive; (b) does not falsely imply sponsorship, endorsement, or approval of the linking party and its products and/or services; and (c) fits within the context of the linking party's site.

I may consider and approve other link requests from the following types of organizations:

• commonly-known consumer and/or business information sources;

• dot.com community sites;

• associations or other groups representing charities;

• online directory distributors;

• internet portals;

• accounting, law, and consulting firms; and

• educational institutions and trade associations.

I will approve link requests from these organizations if I decide that: (a) the link would not make me look unfavorably to myself or to my accredited businesses; (b) the organization does not have any negative records with me; (c) the benefit to me from the visibility of the hyperlink compensates the absence of itoma.website; and (d) the link is in the context of general resource information.

These organizations may link to my home page so long as the link: (a) is not in any way deceptive; (b) does not falsely imply sponsorship, endorsement, or approval of the linking party and its products or services; and (c) fits within the context of the linking party's site.

If you are one of the organizations listed in paragraph 2 above and are interested in linking to my website, you must inform me by sending an e-mail to tomitzu@proton.me. Please include your name, your organization name, contact information as well as the URL of your site, a list of any URLs from which you intend to link to my Website, and a list of the URLs on my site to which you would like to link. Wait 2-3 weeks for a response.

Approved organizations may hyperlink to my Website as follows:

• By use of my corporate name; or

• By use of the uniform resource locator being linked to; or

• Using any other description of my Website being linked to that makes sense within the context and format of content on the linking party's site.

No use of itoma.website's logo or other artwork will be allowed for linking absent a trademark license agreement.

Content Liability

I shall not be held responsible for any content that appears on my Website. You agree to protect and defend me against all claims that are raised on your Website. No link(s) should appear on any Website that may be interpreted as libelous, obscene, or criminal, or which infringes, otherwise violates, or advocates the infringement or other violation of, any third party rights.

Reservation of Rights

I reserve the right to request that you remove all links or any particular link to my Website. You approve to immediately remove all links to my Website upon request. I also reserve the right to amend these terms and conditions and its linking policy at any time. By continuously linking to my Website, you agree to be bound to and follow these linking terms and conditions. These Terms and Conditions were last updated on 31 March 2024. 

Removal of links from my website

If you find any link on my Website that is offensive for any reason, you are free to contact and inform me at any moment. I will consider requests to remove links, but I am not obligated to or so or to respond to you directly.

I do not ensure that the information on this website is correct. I do not warrant its completeness or accuracy, nor do I promise to ensure that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up to date.

Disclaimer

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, I exclude all representations, warranties, and conditions relating to my website and the use of this website. Nothing in this disclaimer will:

• limit or exclude my or your liability for death or personal injury;

• limit or exclude my or your liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

• limit any of my or your liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or

• exclude any of my or your liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

The limitations and prohibitions of liability set in this Section and elsewhere in this disclaimer: (a) are subject to the preceding paragraph; and (b) govern all liabilities arising under the disclaimer, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort, and for breach of statutory duty.

As long as the website and the information and services on the website are provided free of charge, I will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.

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