Cookies Policy

Last updated: 31 August 2025

Welcome on www.leap.bg

The Association of the Bulgarian Leaders and Entrepreneurs is a non-profit organization registered in Bulgaria under number 176119022. It carries out its activity on the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria and its address is: Sofia 1700, 2 Ivan Radoev Str. Our contact details for the purposes of this Policy are as follows: Ms. Kremena Dervenkova, email address: gdpr@ablebulgaria.org hereby aim to inform you about how we, as a data controller, receive and process information about users during their visit on our website leap.bg (“the website”, “the site”).

We respect your right to privacy and strengthen our commitment to provide protection of your personal data, and therefore the present Cookies Policy (“the Policy”) is intended to comply with the requirements of the applicable European and national legislation.

We use cookies to improve the functionality of our website, to offer you a better user experience and an improved and personalized internet service tailored to your preferences. When you visit our website for the first time, you will be required to consent to our use of certain cookies under the terms and conditions described in this Policy.

We reserve the right to amend and update this Policy from time to time and the current version will always be available on our website. The date of the last update will be indicated at the top of this Policy.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that our website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the website and it enables the website to remember your actions and preferences over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the Website or browse from one page to another.

Cookies are an essential component for the proper functioning of the website aiming to ensure its security, efficiency, and usefulness, and to help us review anonymized statistics about the site navigation (for example, number of visits, most visited sections of the website, etc.).

Whenever you visit our website, we collect information that your browser sends to us, i.e. “log data”, depending on your settings. The log data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP address”), browser type, browser version, pages of our website that you visit, time and date of your visit, time spent on the website or its pages and other statistics. Cookies do not require personal information to be used and most often cannot identify Internet users. Personal data collected with cookies is usually stored only to facilitate certain user navigation functions or to provide a browsing experience per user preferences. This data is encrypted in a way that significantly reduces the risk of unauthorized access to it.

Types of cookies on our website

This site uses cookies from Google to deliver its services and to analyze traffic. Information about your use of this site is shared with Google.

Our website uses the following types of cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies – these cookies are essential and necessary for the website to function properly and ensure its security features and services such as navigating between pages. The website cannot perform properly and smoothly without these necessary cookies, which are automatically activated and cannot be switched off in our systems. Therefore, we only inform you about these cookies and do not require your consent for their use.

• Analytics cookies – we use these purely for internal purposes as these cookies collect statistics about site visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our website. They help us to see how visitors use and interact with our website as an anonymous user. The data gathered does not identify you directly and is not shared with any third parties or used for any other purpose. If disabled, we will not be able to monitor the site’s performance which may result in poorly designed content and slow site performance.

We use Google Analytics (GA) service provided by Google which uses cookies to analyze internet traffic. We process the information collected by GА about your visit on our website which may include information about your location, the Internet protocol (IP) address, click stream to, through and from our site (including date and time), page interaction information, etc. Please note that this information is stored by Google and Google may transfer it to third parties if required by law. For more information check Google Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Please refer constantly to Google website for changes or updates to these terms and to the information collected by Google Analytics. You can opt-out of these cookies at any time by managing your preferences of the cookies on our cookie banner without affecting your ability to visit the website.

In addition, our website uses external services that use third-party cookies and display content from external providers, such as YouTube. To view this third-party content, you will need to accept their terms and conditions including their cookie policies which we have no control over. YouTube sets cookies to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video.

Our website uses persistent and session cookies. Persistent cookies are saved on your computer for a period and that are not deleted automatically when you quit your browser, unlike the session cookies which are deleted when you quit your browser.

Settings, removal and block of cookies

Our website visitors can manage their preferences for the use of cookies through the options on the cookie banner as follows:

• “Accept” option – by selecting it, you agree to our use of all types of cookies including but not limited to the purposes of Google Analytics, as described above in this Policy.

• “Reject” option – by selecting this option, you can disable the cookies on our website except those that are strictly necessary for site operation. Please note that rejecting some of the cookies may result in limited functionality of some of our services.

You can set your browser to refuse, remove or block cookies already stored on your computer anytime, without affecting the use of most features on the website. You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing history of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited. Note that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, site preferences, etc.). You can adjust the cookies’ preferences by using the tools provided by most of the browsers – usually found in the browser’s “Options”, “Tools” or “Preferences” menu, through which you can customize the use of cookies.

For more information about cookies, refer to www.allaboutcookies.org or visit www.youronlinechoices.eu for more information about online privacy.