WHAT IS PERSONAL DATA?
Personal data is any information relating to a natural person whose identity has been or can be established (respondent), for example name and surname, address, date of birth and the like.
WHAT IS PERSONAL DATA PROCESSING?
Personal data processing is a procedure or set of procedures that Ministry of Justice and Public Administration or a certain court, in the performance of their duties and powers, conduct in relation to the personal data of a certain natural person, such as collecting, storing, finding data, etc.
HOW IS PERSONAL DATA PROCESSED?
Ministry of Justice and Public Administration and courts of the Republic of Croatia process personal data in accordance with:
Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons regarding the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (hereinafter: General Data Protection Regulation)
Law on Implementation of the General Regulation on Data Protection (Official Gazette, No. 42/18)
Law on Protection of Natural Persons in Relation to the Processing and Exchange of Personal Data for the Purposes of Prevention, Investigation, Detection or Prosecution of Criminal Offenses or Execution of Criminal Sanctions (Official Gazette 68/18), transposing into Croatian legislation Directive (EU) 2016/680 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 by competent authorities for the purposes of the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties, and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Council Framework Decision 2008/977/JHA (OJ L 119/89, of 04/05/2016).
Law on Courts
Book of Rules for Courts
Criminal Procedure Law
Civil Procedure Law
WHY DOES MINISTRY OF JUSTICE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND COURTS PROCESS PERSONAL DATA AND WHAT IS THE LEGAL BASIS FOR THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA?
Ministry of Justice and Public Administration and courts process your personal data in the performance of duties and powers as stipulated by the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia and the laws.
The basis for the processing of personal data in this case is the execution of a task of public interest and the exercise of the official authority of the manager of processing. What personal data is collected and processed is prescribed by the Law on Courts, the Book on Rules for Courts, Criminal Procedure Law, the Civil Procedure Law and other procedural laws.
In addition to these cases, the courts of the Republic of Croatia may, to fulfil their legal obligations, process personal data in recruitment procedures.
For the purpose of protecting legitimate interests, the courts of the Republic of Croatia may process personal data when recording entries into the court buildings or in video surveillance of the court buildings.
Also, Ministry of Justice and Public Administration and courts respect the privacy of website visitors. No personal data is collected about visitors, except in cases when a visitor himself sends the data by e-mail to. In cases where the identity of the visitor / sender is known, his data is used only for the purpose for which the sender sent it. Nevertheless, a visitor who transmits personal data electronically should take into consideration the limitations of modern information and communication technologies in terms of security and protection of privacy of personal data. The data that is collected, in case the sender submits it himself, is the following: name, surname and e-mail address.
For the purpose of maintaining the security of the system and analysing the performance of the web system, the Ministry of Justice and Administration collects technical data on visitors who are not personally identified by them. The data that is collected serves to improve the work to make the visit to this website as pleasant, functional and practical as possible. The processing of this data is necessary for the legitimate interests of the manager of processing (improvement of the website and user experience for users as well as data protection), within the meaning of Article 6 (1) (f) of the General Regulation. These tasks and powers are prescribed by the provisions of the General Regulation and the Act on the Implementation of the General Regulation. The collected personal data will not be used for automatic decision-making, including profile creation.
PROVIDING PERSONAL DATA FOR USE
Ministry of Justice and Public Administration and courts, in performing its duties and powers prescribed by the Constitution and law, may have a legal obligation to forward personal data to other state and judicial bodies (courts, law enforcement agencies and other state bodies), and the processing of personal data may include their international transfer – to European and international institutions. The legal obligation may arise from national law or European Union law.
We may forward your data collected through the website (technical data on visitors) for use to providers of information and communication solutions and services that act as those who perform the processing. A contract has been concluded with those who conduct the processing, which prescribes in detail the treatment of personal data, so the providers are not able to process your personal data without our order nor forward it on to third parties.
SECURITY OF PERSONAL DATA
Ministry of Justice and Public Administration and courts collect and process personal data in a way that ensures adequate security and confidentiality in their processing and enables an effective application of data protection principles, reduction of data volume, scope of their processing, storage period and their availability.
Ministry of Justice and Public Administration and courts, take all available technical and organizational protection measures to prevent accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized use, disclosure, inspection, or access to data.
TIME PERIOD OF PERSONAL DATA STORAGE
Ministry of Justice and Public Administration and courts process personal data until the purpose of processing personal data is fulfilled. After the cessation of the purpose for which personal data collected, it is no longer used, and it remains in the storage system and is stored in accordance with the regulations on the storage of archives material.
WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA?
The rights relating to the processing of personal data include the right to access one's own personal data, the right to correct one's own personal data, the right to delete one's own personal data, the right to restrict the processing of one's personal data and the right to object. These rights are stipulated in detail by the General Regulation, the Act on the Implementation of the General Regulation on Personal Data Protection and the Act on the Protection of Natural Persons in Relation to the Processing and Exchange of Personal Data for the Purposes of Prevention, Investigation, Detection or Prosecution of Criminal Offenses or Execution of Criminal Sanctions.
Likewise, and considering the purpose for which personal data is processed, these rights are not absolute, but are subject to the General Regulation and statutory restrictions.
ENSURANCE OF RIGHTS
If you have questions regarding the processing of your personal data or wish to exercise any of your rights related to the processing of personal data that Ministry of Justice and Public Administration or a certain court collects, you can contact the Personal Data Protection Officer of the Ministry of Justice and Public Administration (for the main site of the Portal) or the Personal Data Protection Officer of a certain court (for data that collects a certain court).
In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation, the manager of processing must respond to the request within one month.
WHO SUPERVISES THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA?
In case of suspicion of violation of privacy and legality of processing, you have the right to file a complaint to the supervisory body:
• Agency for Personal Data Protection
• Selska cesta 136
• 10000 Zagreb
• e-mail: azop@azop.hr
• Web: www.azop.hr/
USE OF COOKIES
The official website www.sudovi.hr uses the so-called cookies, namely the mandatory cookies that cannot be turned off, i.e. that are required for the functioning of the website.
Cookies are small files that are temporarily stored on the user's hard drive, which allows our website to identify the user's computer during the next visit to the Courts Portal.
These tools may collect and store technical data such as the IP address of the user and / or visitor, mobile device identifier, browser data, etc., but do not identify the person.
The cookies that are stored are used for analytical and statistical purposes and for the functioning of all features of the website and a better user experience. These cookies can be permanent cookies that remain stored on the user's computer even after the visit, and temporary cookies that are stored only during the visit to the site.
Depending on the settings on the user's Internet browser, cookies may be accepted automatically. If the user does not agree to their use, cookies can be easily deleted and / or permanently disabled at any time on a computer or mobile device using the settings of the browser used by the user.
For more information on managing cookies, visit the pages of the browser you are using. Please note that the purpose of cookies is to improve and enable the use of the website www.sudovi.hr, and by preventing or deleting cookies, the features of the Courts Portal may be disabled or cause a different operation and appearance in your browser.
In order to collect data on website traffic, the Ministry of Justice and Public Administration uses Google Analytics, i.e. the information for which it generates a cookie about your use of our website (including your IP address) and transmits it to Google (more information at: http://www.google.com/privacy.html.)
How to accept or reject cookies?
A user may block the use of some or all the cookies we use on our website, but this may affect its functionality.
By selecting the settings, the user can select or reset the cookie settings at any time. Additionally, users may accept or decline some or all cookies by adjusting their browser settings. The following links provide information on how to change settings for some of the most commonly used web browsers: Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, Opera. Some browsers allow you to browse the Internet anonymously, limiting the amount of data placed on the user's computer and to have persistent cookies placed on the user's device deleted automatically when the visit of the site is finished. There are also many third-party applications that a user can add to the browser to block or manage cookies. In addition, the user can also delete cookies that were previously placed on his browser by selecting the option to delete the browsing history and to turn on the option to delete cookies. More detailed information on cookies and managing browser settings can be found at www.allaboutcookies.org.
MODIFICATIONS OF PRIVACY POLICY
Privacy policy is regularly updated in order to be accurate and up-to-date. All changes are published in a timely manner on the website www.sudovi.hr in accordance with the principle of transparency.