Version of 20 October 2026. Other languages: Русский · Română. Terms of Use: read.
This policy explains what data we collect about you on g-connect.pro, why we need it, who sees it and how you can control it. It is written under Law No. 195/2024 of the Republic of Moldova on personal data protection, which applies from 23 August 2026, Law No. 284/2004 on electronic commerce and other applicable rules.
1. Who is responsible for your data
Controller: G-STUDIO DPS S.R.L., Republic of Moldova, Chișinău, str. Meșterul Manole 7. We decide why and how your data is processed.
For any question about data, write to info@g-connect.pro or call +373 78 932 008.
2. What data we process
- Account. Email address, password (stored only as an irreversible hash, we cannot see it), first and last name, phone, specialization, country and city.
- Email confirmation and password recovery. When you sign up or ask for a new password, we send a message with a link to your email. For this we keep the time your email was confirmed, the time of the last password change and the one-time codes from the links. We do not keep the codes themselves, only their irreversible hash. The confirmation link is valid for 24 hours and the new password link for 1 hour; each works once.
- Profile. Description, experience, skills and a photo, if you upload one.
- Requests and messages. Name, email, phone and the text of your message.
- Newsletter subscription. Email address, the date and text of your consent, the subscription confirmation.
- Waiting list. Your email address, the page language and the consent record, if you asked to hear when the platform opens. Details in section 9.
- Reports and moderation. Reports about photos and profiles, moderators’ decisions, warnings and blocks. We do not tell other members who filed a report.
- Technical data. IP address, browser type, date and time of the request. To prevent abuse, the site itself stores a hash of the IP address, not the address. Server logs are kept by the hosting provider.
- Visit statistics. Only if you allowed them in the cookie banner: which pages you opened, where you came from, device type, country. Details in section 8.
- Advertising and promotion orders. Name or company name, email, phone, what was ordered and for how long, the amount, the invoice number and the payment mark. Advertising requests sent through the form on the Advertising on G-Connect page are kept as requests and messages.
- Statistics of our own banners. Only the number of views and clicks per banner per day. No cookies are set for this, and the IP address and browser details are not stored.
- Google ads. Only if you allowed them in the cookie banner: the data goes to Google itself, details in section 8.
We do not ask for data about health, political views, religion or other special categories. Please do not put them in your profile or messages.
3. Why we process data and on what basis
- Creating an account and signing in. This is needed to perform the terms of use you accepted when you registered.
- Email confirmation and account recovery. Basis: performing the terms of use and our legitimate interest in protecting accounts, including preventing sign-up with someone else’s address.
- Showing your profile to other members. Basis: performance of the terms of use and your consent. You decide what to show when you fill in your profile.
- Photo. Only with your separate consent, which you give when uploading. You can withdraw it at any time.
- Replying to requests and messages. Basis: your request and your consent to the processing of data for contact.
- Newsletter by email. Only with your consent. We ask you to confirm the subscription through the link in the email. You can unsubscribe with one click.
- Emails about the platform opening (waiting list). Only with your consent, details in section 9.
- Visit statistics. Only with your consent, given in the cookie banner. Without consent the statistics script is not loaded.
- Advertising and promotion orders. Basis: performance of the contract (the order) and the legal obligation to keep accounting records.
- Google ads. Only with your consent, given in the cookie banner. Without consent the Google script is not loaded.
- Counting views and clicks on our banners. Basis: our legitimate interest in reporting to advertisers. Counting works without cookies and without data that could identify a visitor.
- Protecting the site, fighting spam and abuse, moderation. Basis: our legitimate interest in running the platform safely.
- Complying with the law and answering requests from public authorities. Basis: legal obligation.
Consent is voluntary. You can withdraw it as easily as you gave it. Withdrawal does not make the earlier processing unlawful.
Email and password are required to register: without them an account cannot be created. You give the other details voluntarily, but without them some features of the platform will not be available.
4. Who receives your data
- Other members of the platform. Only what you chose to publish in your profile. Visitors without an account see brief information: role, city, key skills. Details are available to registered members.
- Companies and specialists to whom you yourself sent a request.
- Providers that keep the site running, such as hosting and email delivery. They process data on our behalf and only for that purpose.
- Public authorities, where the law requires it.
We do not sell your data and do not pass it on for advertising. We give advertisers only the total number of views and clicks on their banners. If you allowed Google ads, your browser itself sends Google data about your device and visit (section 8).
5. Transfers outside Moldova
The site is hosted by Namecheap, Inc. (USA). Servers may be located outside the Republic of Moldova. We transfer only what the site needs to work, and on the terms that the personal data protection law requires. The visit statistics server (stats.g-connect.pro) is located in the European Economic Area. If you allowed Google ads, the data goes to Google, including to servers outside the European Economic Area, on Google’s terms.
6. How long we keep data
- Account and profile: while the account exists. After you delete the account, we remove the data from our working system. Copies in backups disappear when the backups are overwritten on their regular schedule.
- One-time codes from emails (email confirmation, new password): deleted automatically, usually within an hour after the link expires, and immediately when the account is deleted. The time of email confirmation and of the last password change is kept while the account exists.
- Log of emails sent by the site (recipient, subject, time, delivery result; without the message text and without the link): 90 days.
- Requests and messages: up to 12 months after we finish handling them.
- Subscription: until you unsubscribe. After that we keep the record of consent and unsubscription for another 12 months, to show that we acted lawfully.
- Photos: until you delete them or while the account exists. A photo rejected by a moderator is deleted immediately. We re-encode the uploaded file and do not keep the original.
- Reports, moderators’ decisions, the log of warnings and blocks: 12 months.
- Visit statistics: no longer than 24 months.
- Advertising and promotion orders, invoices: for the period required by accounting law.
- Statistics of our own banners: daily totals without personal data, as long as they are needed for reports to advertisers.
- Technical logs: for the limited time needed for site security.
- Waiting list: until the platform launches and for up to 12 more months after the launch email, or until you unsubscribe. After you unsubscribe the record is kept for up to 12 months (section 9).
7. Photos and moderation
A photo appears on the platform only with your consent, given when you upload it. The file is kept in private storage, does not open through a direct link and is shown only to signed-in members. We remove metadata from the file, including location data.
Moderators may review photos. If three different members report the same photo, it is hidden automatically until it is reviewed. A person makes the decision. This is a temporary measure, not a final decision.
For breaking the rules we apply: a warning, a 10-day block, a 30-day block and a permanent block. Details are in the Terms of Use. If you disagree with a measure, write to info@g-connect.pro.
8. Cookies, local storage and visit statistics
Cookies and browser storage (localStorage, sessionStorage) keep small records on your device. Necessary records always work: without them the site cannot remember your language, your sign-in and your choice. Visit statistics and Google ads are turned on only if you allow them.
On your first visit the site shows a banner. «Necessary only» keeps only the necessary records. «Accept all» also turns on statistics and Google ads (the «Google ads» category appears in the banner only when Google ads are enabled on the site). Under «Customize» you can choose each category separately. You can change your choice at any time with the «Cookie settings» button at the bottom of every page.
| Name and where it is stored | Purpose | Duration | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| gc_lang (cookie and local storage) | Remembers the interface language you chose | Cookie 1 year, in storage until you clear the browser | Necessary |
| gc_consent (cookie and local storage) | Remembers your cookie choice (statistics, Google ads) and the version of the rules it applies to | 6 months | Necessary |
| gc_token, gc_user_id (local storage) | Sign-in marker, so that you stay signed in | The token is valid for up to 30 days. Signing out or clearing the browser removes it | Necessary |
| gc-guide, gc-motion (local storage) | Your «Hide Basilisa» and «Skip animation» settings | Until you press the button again or clear the browser | Necessary |
| gc-v4-loader (session storage) | The intro on the home page is shown once | Until the tab is closed | Necessary |
| WordPress technical cookies (wordpress_logged_in_…, wordpress_test_cookie, wp-settings-…) | Sign-in of administrators and signed-in users, admin settings | Until you sign out, wp-settings up to 1 year | Necessary |
| Umami statistics script | Counting page visits | Sets no cookies, records on the server are kept up to 24 months | Statistics, only with consent |
| Google AdSense script and cookies (only when Google ads are enabled) | Showing Google ads, counting views, fraud protection | Names and durations are set by Google | Google ads, only with consent |
Visit statistics. We use Umami, open-source software. It runs on our own server stats.g-connect.pro in the European Economic Area, and the data does not go to the software developer or to advertising networks. The script loads only after you consent. If your browser sends the Do Not Track signal, the script does not send data.
What is recorded: the address of the page you opened, the address of the page you came from, device type, browser and operating system, screen size, browser language, country (from the IP address, sometimes also region and city). Instead of a name or email, an anonymised visit identifier is used. According to the Umami developer’s documentation, the script sets no cookies, and the IP address is used only at the moment of the request, to determine the country and build this identifier, and is not stored.
Basis: your consent. Withdrawing it is just as simple: «Cookie settings», then «Necessary only», or untick «Visit statistics» and press «Save choice». From the next page you open, the statistics script is no longer loaded. We cannot find and delete records already collected for an individual visitor, because they contain nothing that identifies you. They are deleted in the general way, no later than 24 months.
Google ads. If Google AdSense ads are enabled on the site, the cookie banner has a «Google ads» category. It is off until you turn it on. Without consent the Google script is not loaded, and ad places show only our own banners or nothing. With consent, your browser loads the Google script, and Google may set its own cookies and use device identifiers to show ads, limit repetition, count views and fight fraud. Google processes this data as an independent controller under its own rules: how Google uses cookies in advertising. Before showing Google ads to visitors from the European Economic Area, we will connect a consent management platform certified by Google and update this policy. You can withdraw consent with the «Cookie settings» button: from the next page the Google script is not loaded. Cookies Google has already set can be deleted in your browser settings.
Our own banners. Views and clicks on the banners we place ourselves are counted without cookies. The site receives the banner number and a signed page marker. To stop inflated figures, the IP address and browser details are used at the moment of the request as a hash, which is kept for no longer than a day and then deleted. The database keeps only the number of views and clicks per banner per day.
We do not use other advertising trackers, external fonts or maps. If we decide to add anything else, we will ask for your consent first and update this policy.
9. Waiting list
Until the platform opens, you can leave your email on the site to hear about the opening.
- What data. Your email address, the page language, the consent record with the version of its text, and the time of consent. If you unsubscribe, also the time you did so. We do not store your IP address: to stop abuse we use its hash, which is kept for no more than a day.
- Why. To send you one or more emails about the platform launch. We do not use this address for other mailings.
- Legal basis. Your consent, which you give by ticking the box in the form (Law No. 284/2004 on electronic commerce and Law No. 195/2024 on personal data protection). The box is not ticked in advance. You do not need to confirm the address by a separate email. If someone left your address without your knowledge, unsubscribe through the link in the email or write to us.
- How long we keep it. Until the platform launches and for up to 12 more months after the launch email, or until you unsubscribe. After you unsubscribe we keep the address and the unsubscribe record for up to 12 months, so that we do not write to you again by mistake and can show that we acted with consent. Then the record is deleted automatically.
- How to unsubscribe. Through the link in any email (on the page that opens, press Unsubscribe) or by writing to info@g-connect.pro. You can also ask us to delete the address straight away.
- Who receives the data. The hosting provider Namecheap, Inc., whose servers run the site and the mailbox the emails are sent from (section 5). The address is not passed to anyone else.
10. How we protect data
The site runs over HTTPS. Passwords are stored only as irreversible hashes. After a password change, all previous sign-ins to the account end. A limited group of people can access data, and only as far as their work requires. Photos are kept in private storage. If a security breach occurs that puts your rights at risk, we will notify the National Center for Personal Data Protection within 72 hours, and you personally if the risk is high.
11. Your rights
You have the right to:
- find out what data of yours we process and get a copy;
- correct inaccurate data;
- ask for your data to be erased;
- restrict processing;
- receive your data in a portable format;
- object to processing, including to marketing messages, at any time and without giving a reason;
- withdraw consent;
- not be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing that significantly affects you.
To exercise a right, write to info@g-connect.pro. We may ask you to confirm your identity. The reply is free of charge. We reply within one month. If the request is complex, we may extend this by a further two months and will tell you so within the first month.
If you believe we are violating your rights, you can file a complaint with the National Center for Personal Data Protection of the Republic of Moldova (CNPDCP): MD-2004, Chișinău, str. Serghei Lazo 48, phone (022) 820 801, centru@datepersonale.md, datepersonale.md. You may also go to court.
12. Age
The platform is intended for people aged 18 and over. We do not knowingly collect data of minors. If we learn that a minor created an account, we will delete their data.
13. Automated decisions
We do not profile and we do not make decisions that significantly affect you based solely on automated processing. The only automated measure is the temporary hiding of a photo after three reports, described in section 7. A person reviews it.
14. Changes to this policy
We publish the new version on this page and show the date. If the rules on cookies and statistics change, the cookie banner appears again and asks you to choose again. We tell registered members about significant changes by email.
Questions about data: info@g-connect.pro, +373 78 932 008.