Privacy Policy

1.The data controller — who we are

The website precedentia.md is administered by SCALELAW SOLUTIONS SRL (IDNO 1025600064372), which acts as the controller of the personal data collected and processed through the Precedentia platform:

This Policy informs you, in accordance with Art. 12–13 of Law No. 195/2024 on personal data protection, about the data we process, the purposes and legal bases of the processing, recipients, transfers abroad, retention periods and your rights. Free access without an account does not involve the collection of personal data, except for minimal technical data (the IP address, for security and access-limiting purposes).

2.What data we collect — two distinct categories

2.1. CATEGORY A — data of platform users

The legal bases correspond to Art. 6(1) of Law No. 195/2024: (a) consent, (b) performance of the contract, (c) legal obligation, (f) legitimate interest. The legitimate interests pursued are the security of the Platform, the prevention of abuse and of automated data extraction, and the aggregated, cookie-free measurement of traffic.

Provision of data: the email address and password (or the Google account) are necessary to conclude the contract — without them the account cannot be created. Payment data are necessary to make a payment. Texts sent to the AI assistant are optional; without them, the only thing you cannot use is the AI assistant. You are under no legal obligation to provide us with data.

2.2. CATEGORY B — personal data contained in court decisions

The indexed decisions of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ), the Constitutional Court and the ECtHR may, by their nature, contain the following categories of personal data of the parties to litigation:

2.3. Minimum age

The Platform is intended for legal professionals and law students and is not directed at children. Under the Terms and Conditions, the minimum age for creating an account is 16. We do not knowingly collect data of children under 14 (Art. 8 of Law No. 195/2024); if we learn that such an account has been created, we close it and delete the data.

2.4. Automated decision-making

We do not take decisions based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you. The AI assistant's responses are informative in nature and do not constitute decisions concerning you.

3.Free access without an account — minimal data

Users who access the Platform without creating an account do not provide personal data. In this case, the Platform processes only:

• IP address — for security, abuse prevention and limiting the number of searches per session; the IP address is anonymised for analytics purposes;
• Minimal technical data — browser type, screen resolution — for compatibility purposes;
• Essential technical cookies — for the proper functioning of the Platform (details in the Precedentia Cookie Policy).

These minimal technical data are processed on the basis of the legitimate interest of SCALELAW SOLUTIONS SRL in operating a secure and functional platform. They are not used for profiling anonymous users.

4.Processing of data from court decisions — legal basis and justification

4.1. Applicable legal basis

The processing of personal data contained in the court decisions indexed by Precedentia is based on:

4.2. Publicity of judicial acts — a fundamental principle

The publicity of judicial acts is a fundamental constitutional and procedural principle, recognised in:

• Art. 117 of the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova — court hearings are public;
• The Civil Procedure Code and the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Moldova — court decisions are public acts;
• The Rules of Court of the European Court of Human Rights — ECtHR judgments are public and accessible through the HUDOC database;
• The open justice principle — access to case law is essential for legal certainty and for democratic oversight of the judiciary.

4.3. Safeguards applied — protection of data subjects in decisions

Although the processing is legally justified, SCALELAW SOLUTIONS SRL applies the following additional safeguards to protect the natural persons whose data appear in the indexed decisions:

• We do not combine data from decisions with other data sources (social networks, public registers) to create profiles of natural persons;
• We do not use data from decisions for marketing, commercial profiling or any other purpose incompatible with the purpose of legal research;
• We do not permit the mass extraction of personal data from decisions (scraping) — in accordance with the Acceptable Use Policy;
• Decisions containing sensitive data of minors are displayed according to the anonymisation already applied by the courts upon publication;
• We respond to de-indexing requests in accordance with the procedure in Section 9.

4.4. ECtHR judgments — special regime

Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights are accessed through the official HUDOC API of the Council of Europe, which makes these documents available for public access and redistribution in accordance with its terms of use. ECtHR judgments are partially anonymised by the Court — Precedentia respects the level of anonymisation applied by the source.

5.Purpose of processing — why we process data

6.Data retention period

Indexed court decisions are not "user data" and are not subject to erasure at the user's request. The procedure for de-indexing decisions at the request of the data subjects named in those decisions is described in Section 9.

7.Rights of platform users (category A)

Users who hold a Precedentia account or who have provided personal data enjoy:

• The right of access — a copy of the data processed about you;
• The right to rectification — correction of inaccurate data;
• The right to erasure — deletion of the account and associated data;
• The right to restriction of processing — under the conditions provided by law;
• The right to data portability — your data in a structured format;
• The right to object — to processing based on legitimate interest;
• Withdrawal of consent — at any time, as easily as you gave it: consent for the AI assistant is withdrawn with one click from Profile › Privacy; consent given when creating the account is withdrawn by requesting closure of the account. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before the withdrawal;
• The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing;
• The right to lodge a complaint with the National Center for Personal Data Protection (CNPDCP) (Section 14).

8.Rights of persons whose data appear in decisions (category B)

8.1. Limits of the right to erasure for data in decisions

The right to erasure (the right to be forgotten) does not apply automatically to data in court decisions, for the following legal reasons:

• Court decisions are public acts issued in the exercise of public authority — erasing them would contravene the principle of publicity of judicial acts and could constitute an impermissible interference with the administration of justice;
• Case law has normative value — judicial precedents are essential for legal certainty and cannot be suppressed at an individual's request;
• The data are processed for a public-interest purpose — an exception to the right to erasure recognised by the GDPR and Law No. 195/2024.

8.2. The right to de-indexing — when it applies

Although erasure is not possible as a general rule, SCALELAW SOLUTIONS SRL examines de-indexing requests on a case-by-case basis. De-indexing may be granted in exceptional situations, including where:

• The decision contains data of an identifiable minor, published without the anonymisation required by law;
• The decision contains medical data or other sensitive data whose publication was not necessary and whose continued display causes harm disproportionate to the public interest;
• The decision was published in error or contains personal data included through judicial error;
• The court that issued the decision has subsequently ordered the anonymisation or withdrawal of the document from public circulation.

8.3. Procedure for requesting de-indexing

8.4. The right to object for data in decisions

Data subjects may object to the processing of their data contained in decisions on grounds relating to their particular situation. SCALELAW SOLUTIONS SRL will examine the objection taking into account:

• The nature of the data involved (ordinary vs. special categories);
• The specific harm invoked as against the public interest in access to case law;
• The existence of alternative technical measures (e.g. exclusion from indexing without deletion from the source).

9.Sharing data with third parties

SCALELAW SOLUTIONS SRL does not sell or rent user data. Data may be shared with third parties only in the following situations:

9.1. Technical service providers

9.2. Exceptional situations

• Legal obligations — at the request of the competent authorities, in accordance with the law;
• Defence of the legal rights of SCALELAW SOLUTIONS SRL;
• Corporate reorganisation — users are notified in advance.

10.International data transfers

The Platform's server and database are located in Vilnius, Lithuania (European Union). Some recipients are established outside the Republic of Moldova. Transfers take place as follows:

• Anthropic PBC (USA) — texts sent to the AI assistant, which may contain personal data. The transfer takes place on the basis of your explicit consent (Art. 49(1)(a) of Law No. 195/2024), requested through a separate checkbox before the first use of the assistant, and for the performance of the contract (Art. 49(1)(b)). Risks: the USA may not ensure a level of data protection equivalent to that of the Republic of Moldova, and US authorities may have access to the data under their legislation. You can use the rest of the Platform without the AI assistant;
• Google Ireland Ltd. / Google LLC (EU / USA) — only if you choose to sign in with Google, at your request (Art. 49(1)(b));
• Umami Software, Inc. (USA) — technical traffic data, without cookies and without storing the IP address, on the basis of the provider's contractual safeguards;
• Hostinger International Ltd. (Lithuania, EU) — server hosting and transactional email;
• All providers that receive personal data process them as processors, on the basis of data processing agreements. A copy of the applicable safeguards may be requested at info@applexium.com.

Users in the European Union enjoy all GDPR rights, to the extent that the processing falls within its scope.

11.Data security

• Transmission of data over encrypted connections (HTTPS / TLS);
• Passwords stored using bcrypt / Argon2 algorithms;
• Access to data restricted exclusively to authorised personnel;
• Traffic monitoring to detect unauthorised access and scraping;
• Anonymisation of IP addresses for analytics purposes.

In the event of a security incident affecting user data, we will notify the National Center for Personal Data Protection (CNPDCP) within 72 hours and the affected users as soon as possible.

12.Cookies and similar technologies

The Platform uses only strictly necessary cookies. We do not set analytics, advertising or profiling cookies, which is why we do not ask for your consent to cookies: on your first visit we only display an informational notice. Full details are in the Precedentia Cookie Policy. In brief:

13.Changes to the Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to update this Policy to reflect legislative, technical or operational changes. Significant changes will be communicated by email and/or by a prominent notice on the Platform at least 14 days before they take effect.

14.Supervisory authority and complaints

If you consider that the processing of your personal data infringes the applicable legislation, you have the right to lodge a complaint with:

• CNPDCP — National Center for Personal Data Protection
• Address: str. Serghei Lazo nr. 48, MD-2004, Chișinău, Republic of Moldova
• Email: centru@datepersonale.md | Tel: (022) 820 801
• Website: https://datepersonale.md

Persons in the EU may also lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority of their Member State.

15.Contact — requests concerning personal data

For any question or request concerning the processing of personal data:

• Email: info@applexium.com (subject: "DATE PERSONALE PRECEDENTIA — [tipul solicitarii]")
• For de-indexing of decisions: subject "DEZINDEXARE HOTĂRÂRE PRECEDENTIA"
• Phone: +373 78 76 87 65
• Registered office: MD-2069, mun. Chișinău, Calea Ieșilor 67, of. 9; office address for correspondence: str. Mihai Viteazul 2a, Chișinău
• Platform: https://precedentia.md

We undertake to respond to any request within no more than 30 calendar days.

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