Lycamobile respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you:

This privacy policy is provided in a layered format so you can choose the specific areas in which you are particularly interested.

Alternatively, you can find a summary here.

We, Lycamobile SRL (“Lycamobile”), operate in Romania. We provide electronic communication services including national and international calls, texts and data to customers. When we say, “we”, “us” or “our” in this policy, we are referring to the relevant Lycamobile entity responsible for processing your data.

Personal Data is any information about you from which you can be identified. It does not include data where your identity has been removed (it’s called anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

We also process your personal data to derive information so that we can make personalised offers to you. The derived information does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. However, if we combine or connect the derived information with your personal data, it can directly or indirectly identify you. So, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy policy.

Where we need to collect personal data by law and you fail to provide that data when requested including updating data records or verifying the data, we may not be able to provide you with the products or services. We may also have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

We use different methods to collect data from you and about you through:

Indirect interactions via our independent distributors, wholesalers and retailers.

Direct interactions. You may give us your personal data by filling in forms on our website or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise.

Your personal data is collected when you do the following:

Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies. Please see our Cookie Policy for further details.

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to, most commonly, in the following circumstances:

We have set out below, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are, where appropriate.

Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful basis depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data.

You will receive marketing communications from us either if you have consented to receive them or you have purchased products or services from Lycamobile, and in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.
You will also receive marketing communications from other Lyca entities if you have consented to receive such communications on their Lyca products or services.

You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by Contacting our Customer Services Department:

We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out:

• Other Lyca affiliated entities under common control (hereinafter “Lyca entities”) who provide ancillary services such as call centre support for the fulfilment of your orders and clarification any of your queries.
• Other Lyca entities where you have chosen to receive marketing communications from them on other Lyca products and services other than Lycamobile.
• External third parties who provide IT technical support services, data centre services and call centre support.
• Regulators and judicial authorities who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.

If a change happens to our business where we may choose to sell, transfer or merge parts of our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy policy.

Where applicable, we require all external third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

Some of our service providers are based outside the European Economic Area (EEA) so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA.

Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring that the following safeguard is implemented so that there is no detriment to you.

Specifically, Lycamobile uses call centres operated by an associated company and they are based in Morocco and Philippines.

Lycamobile uses a technical services provider which is based in India.

We use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe. For further details, see European Commission: Model contracts for the transfer of personal data to third countries.

We will take steps to ensure your privacy rights are at least as compliant with the requirements of EU law, including requiring appropriate security measures from such third parties, set out in a contract between us, to protect your personal data.

Please contact the dedicated protection helpline if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the EEA.

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those staff members or other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a strict duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable supervisory authority of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal requirements.

Details of retention periods for different aspects of your personal data are available in our Data Retention Policy which you can request from us by Contacting our Customer Services Department.

In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case, we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data which are as follows:

• Access to your personal data - This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.


• Correction of your personal data - This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.


• Erasure of your personal data - This enables you to ask us to delete personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law.
  
  Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.


• Object to processing of your personal data – This right can be exercised where we are relying on a legitimate interest and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.


• Restriction of processing your personal data - This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
• Transfer of your personal data -This enables you to ask us to transfer your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
  
  Note, however, that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please send your request to mydata@lycagroup.com

No fee usually required

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

What we may need from you

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

Time limit to respond

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

You may contact our Customer Services Department on 151 from any Lycamobile Account or +40 377 881276 from another telephone.

You may also e-mail the Customer Services Department at cs@lycamobile.ro or by completing the online enquiry form at https://www.lycamobile.ro/en/contactus.

For compliance questions in relation to this policy, we have appointed a data protection officer (DPO). So, if you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact our data protection team at DPO@Lycagroup.com.

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the relevant data protection supervisory authority.

We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns first before you approach the supervisory authority, so please do contact us in the first instance.

Changes to the policy

We have updated our privacy policy to reflect the changes in data protection laws. Historic versions are archived here