Terms and Conditions of Use

Version 2.0 · Effective date: 22 March 2026

Compliant with Law no. 365/2002, GEO no. 34/2014, Romanian Civil Code

Art. 1 — Provider Identity

This document constitutes the usage contract for the platform statusdosar.ro (hereinafter the "Platform"), operated by:

NOIDEEA S.R.L.

Tax ID: RO 48069626

Trade Registry No.: J40/8019/2023

Registered office: Calea Vitan no. 242, Building C2, Ground Floor, Office 17, Sector 3, Postal Code 031301, Bucharest, Romania

Email: contact@statusdosar.ro

DPO / Data Protection Email: dpo@statusdosar.ro

The Platform is a provider of information society services within the meaning of Law no. 365/2002 on electronic commerce and Directive 2000/31/EC.

Art. 2 — Definitions

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Platform / Service: The set of technical features available at statusdosar.ro, through which the User can query the status of court cases in Romania, based on public ECRIS data provided by the Ministry of Justice through portal.just.ro.
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ECRIS Data / Source Data: Public information about court cases, automatically retrieved from the ECRIS system of Romanian courts, managed exclusively by the Ministry of Justice. This data is the exclusive property of the courts and is not generated, produced, modified, or controlled in any way by the Provider.
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Public Information: Any data made available to the public by Romanian state authorities and institutions under the law, including ECRIS data.
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User / Client: Any natural person of at least 18 years of age or legal entity that accesses the Platform, with or without a registered account.
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Subscriber: A User who has purchased a paid subscription with access to premium features.
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Account: The personalized space created by the User, protected by authentication credentials.
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Subscription: The paid contract through which the Subscriber gains access to premium features for a fixed period.
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Free Trial Period: A period of up to 15 calendar days during which the User may access limited premium features free of charge, without payment obligations, prior to conversion to a paid subscription.
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Force Majeure: An external, unforeseeable, absolutely insurmountable and unavoidable event that prevents the fulfillment of contractual obligations, including, without limitation, failures of the Ministry of Justice's IT systems, cyber attacks, natural disasters, restrictive government decisions.
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Security Incident / Breach: Any unauthorized access, destruction, modification, disclosure, or accidental or unlawful loss of data processed by the Provider.

Art. 3 — Nature of Service and Fundamental Disclaimer

3.1. Technical public data aggregation service

The platform statusdosar.ro is exclusively a technical service for querying, aggregating and displaying public data from official Romanian state sources. The Provider acts as a technical intermediary (public data aggregator) within the meaning of Art. 12-15 of Law no. 365/2002 and Directive 2000/31/EC.

3.2. Does not constitute a legal service

WARNING — MANDATORY LEGAL DISCLAIMER:

The Status Dosar Platform does NOT constitute a legal service. The information provided does NOT represent legal advice, legal assistance, legal counsel or legal opinion within the meaning of Law no. 51/1995 on the organization and practice of the legal profession or Law no. 514/2003 on the organization and practice of the legal counselor profession.

The User has the sole obligation and responsibility to verify the correctness, timeliness and completeness of the information presented before using it for any legal, procedural, commercial, financial or other purpose. The Provider is not liable for any decision made by the User based on the information provided by the Platform.

3.3. Data quality and timeliness

The data displayed on the Platform is automatically retrieved from the official systems of the Ministry of Justice (ECRIS / portal.just.ro) and is provided "as is," without any guarantee of accuracy, completeness, timeliness, consistency or continuous availability. Data accuracy depends exclusively on third-party systems (Ministry of Justice), over which the Provider has no technical or legal control.

The Provider does not guarantee and cannot guarantee that: (i) the data is complete or correct; (ii) the data corresponds to the actual situation in a case; (iii) the data is updated in real time; (iv) there are no parsing, transmission or display errors. The User is obligated to verify the information directly on the official portal portal.just.ro and/or by consulting the competent court or a lawyer.

3.4. Infrastructure and technical partners

To provide the Services, the Provider uses the following suppliers and data sources:

  • Contabo GmbH (Germany) — hosting / cloud infrastructure;
  • Cloudflare, Inc. (USA) — CDN, DDoS protection and DNS;
  • Portal Just / ECRIS (portal.just.ro) — source of public court case data, managed by the Ministry of Justice of Romania;
  • ANAF (National Agency for Fiscal Administration) — API for validating tax data (CUI) of legal entities;
  • LibraPay S.R.L. (Romania) — online payment processing;
  • Resend, Inc. (USA) — transactional email services (notifications, alerts);
  • Google LLC — Google Analytics 4 for aggregate traffic statistics.

Relationships with these providers are governed by service contracts and, where applicable, Data Processing Agreements (DPA) pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR. Details in the Privacy Policy.

3.5. Nature of public information

All information provided by the Platform is public information, already available to the public on the courts portal (portal.just.ro), managed by the Ministry of Justice of Romania. The Provider does not create, modify or supplement this information. Liability for the accuracy and completeness of this information belongs exclusively to the Ministry of Justice and the courts.

Art. 4 — Access to the Platform and User Account

4.1. Access to basic features is free and does not require an account. Premium features require an account and active subscription.

4.2. By creating an account, the User confirms being at least 18 years old with full legal capacity, having read and fully accepting these Terms and Conditions, the Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy.

4.3. The User is fully responsible for: (i) the accuracy of data provided at registration; (ii) the confidentiality of authentication credentials; (iii) any activity conducted from their account, including by third parties who accessed the account due to the User's fault or negligence; (iv) immediately notifying the Provider at contact@statusdosar.ro in case of unauthorized access.

4.4. It is strictly prohibited to: share credentials; create multiple accounts to circumvent restrictions; access through bots or scripts without the Provider's written consent.

4.5. The Provider reserves the right to suspend or close any account, without notice, in case of fraudulent, abusive or non-compliant use.

Art. 5 — Free Trial Period

5.1. Upon account creation, the User receives a Free Trial Period of up to 15 (fifteen) calendar days, starting from the registration date, during which they may access a limited set of premium features.

5.2. The Free Trial Period is granted once per User, identified by email address and/or IP address. Creating multiple accounts to obtain repeated trial periods is prohibited and may result in account closure and other legal measures.

5.3. The Free Trial Period expires automatically after 15 days, after which access to premium features is blocked until a paid subscription is purchased. Expiration of the Free Trial Period does not generate any financial obligation for the User.

5.4. The Provider reserves the right to modify the duration, conditions or content of the Free Trial Period at any time, with at least 30 days' notice to Users.

Art. 6 — Subscriptions, Prices and Payments

6.1. Access to premium features after the Free Trial Period is available exclusively through a paid subscription. Prices and plans are displayed on the Platform and may be modified with 30 days' notice for active subscriptions.

6.2. The standard subscription duration is 1 month or 12 months as selected. The subscription renews automatically at the end of the current period for identical new periods, unless either Party notifies termination at least 30 days before expiry.

6.3. All prices are in RON (Romanian Leu) and include VAT pursuant to applicable Romanian tax legislation.

6.4. REFUND POLICY:

Amounts paid for Status Dosar subscriptions are NOT refundable, regardless of the reason for the request, except in cases expressly provided by law. No partial refunds are granted for unused periods.

Mandatory legal exceptions: (a) the 14-day right of withdrawal for consumers (Art. 9 GEO 34/2014), applicable only if the service has NOT started; (b) proven hidden defects; (c) culpable non-performance by the Provider. The Provider may grant credits or subscription extensions at its discretion, as a commercial gesture, without constituting a precedent or contractual obligation.

6.5. Consumer right of withdrawal (GEO 34/2014): Individual clients with consumer status have the right to withdraw from the contract within 14 calendar days from order registration, WITHOUT paying the subscription, provided that access to premium services has not started. The right of withdrawal is exercised by written notification to contact@statusdosar.ro. If the Client has explicitly requested and consented to the start of services within the 14-day period, the right of withdrawal is extinguished. The right of withdrawal does NOT apply to legal entities or professionals.

6.6. The tax invoice will be issued and transmitted electronically within 5 business days of payment.

Art. 7 — Limitation and Exclusion of Provider Liability

7.1. General principle

The Provider makes reasonable commercial efforts (best efforts) to provide the Services, without however guaranteeing a specific level of quality, performance or availability. The Provider does NOT guarantee and is NOT liable for:

  • The accuracy, completeness, timeliness, correctness or availability of information displayed on the Platform, these depending exclusively on third-party systems (Ministry of Justice — ECRIS / portal.just.ro);
  • Errors, omissions, delays or inaccuracies generated by the Ministry of Justice source systems;
  • Parsing, data transmission or display errors generated by technical processing of public data;
  • The absence of cases, hearings or decisions when these have not been published on portal.just.ro by the competent court;
  • Notifications or alerts not sent or sent late due to email or SMS server unavailability, User spam filters, or any other external technical factors;
  • Any legal, procedural, commercial, financial or other decision made by the User based on information provided by the Platform;
  • Losses or damages suffered by the User as a result of using or being unable to use the Platform.

7.2. Technical interruptions and IT incidents

The Provider is NOT liable for any damage caused by:

  • Failure or unavailability of own servers or infrastructure providers (hosting, CDN, cloud);
  • Cyber attacks (DDoS, hacking, phishing, ransomware) directed at the Platform or the Provider's infrastructure;
  • Loss, corruption or destruction of Platform databases due to technical failures, attacks or software errors;
  • Bugs, software errors or vulnerabilities of the Platform, third-party libraries or operating system;
  • Unauthorized access to the User's account due to the User's negligence (weak passwords, credential sharing, phishing);
  • Sabotage or malicious actions by Users who violate these Terms and Conditions;
  • Interruptions in the User's or network providers' internet or telecommunications services.

7.3. Explicit disclaimer for alerts and notifications

IMPORTANT:

Alerts and notifications sent via email or SMS are EXCLUSIVELY INFORMATIONAL in nature and do not constitute official procedural notices within the meaning of the Civil Procedure Code or other legal acts. Failure to send or late delivery of an alert does NOT exonerate the User from compliance with procedural deadlines. The User is obligated to personally and periodically check the status of their cases directly on portal.just.ro and/or through consultation with their lawyer or legal advisor. Status Dosar is NOT responsible for missing a court hearing, procedural right or any other legal damage caused by failure to send or delay of an alert.

7.4. Liability cap

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable Romanian law, the total cumulative liability of the Provider to any User or Subscriber, for any type of damage (direct, indirect, incidental, special, punitive or consequential), regardless of cause, shall in no case exceed the greater of: (i) the total amount actually paid by that Subscriber to the Provider in the 12 months preceding the damaging event, or (ii) the equivalent of 500 RON (five hundred lei).

This limitation applies regardless of whether the Provider was informed of the possibility of such damages.

7.5. Mandatory exclusions

The liability limitations and exclusions provided in Art. 7 do not apply in cases of: (i) proven willful misconduct or gross negligence of the Provider; (ii) bodily injury or death caused by the Provider's negligence; (iii) consumer rights that cannot be contractually excluded pursuant to GEO 34/2014 and Law 449/2003.

Art. 8 — User Obligations and Prohibitions

8.1. The User agrees to use the Platform exclusively for lawful purposes, in good faith, in accordance with these Terms and applicable Romanian and European legislation.

8.2. The following are expressly prohibited:

  • Scraping, crawling or any form of automated (robotic) data extraction, without the Provider's prior written consent;
  • Use of bots, scripts, automated programs or any other technical means for bulk data access;
  • Reproduction, distribution, sale, licensing or commercial use of data extracted from the Platform, without written consent;
  • Attempts at unauthorized access to the technical infrastructure, other Users' accounts or databases;
  • Vulnerability testing, DDoS attacks or any other cyber attack;
  • Introduction of malicious content (viruses, trojans, ransomware, malware);
  • Use of retrieved data for harassment, discrimination, stalking or harming any person;
  • Creation of profiles of natural persons for purposes other than those declared and permitted by GDPR;
  • Creation of multiple accounts to circumvent restrictions or repeatedly obtain the free trial.

8.3. Violation of any of the prohibitions in section 8.2 may result in: immediate access suspension; contract termination without damages payable by the Provider; damages claims for caused prejudice; notification of competent authorities (ANSPDCP, DIICOT, CERT-RO).

Art. 9 — Intellectual Property

9.1. All original elements of the Platform — source code, graphic design, user interface, database structure, aggregation algorithms, trademarks, logos — are the exclusive property of NOIDEEA S.R.L. and are protected by Law no. 8/1996 on copyright. The license granted to the User is exclusively for personal/internal use, non-transferable, non-sublicensable and non-commercial.

9.2. Public ECRIS data is not the Provider's property. However, the manner of organization, indexing and presentation of this data on the Platform constitutes an original creation of the Provider, protected by copyright.

Art. 10 — Service Availability

10.1. The Provider makes reasonable efforts to keep the Platform available, with a target availability of 99% monthly, without however guaranteeing 100% availability. Target availability does not include: (i) planned or emergency maintenance periods; (ii) force majeure unavailability; (iii) Ministry of Justice source system unavailability; (iv) external cyber attacks.

10.2. Planned maintenance will be announced at least 48 hours in advance, preferably outside peak hours (00:00 - 06:00). Emergency maintenance may be performed without prior notice.

10.3. The Provider does NOT guarantee real-time ECRIS data updates, these depending on the update frequency performed by the Ministry of Justice on portal.just.ro.

Art. 11 — Modification of Terms and Conditions

11.1. The Provider reserves the right to modify these Terms at any time. Substantial modifications will be notified to Subscribers by email at least 30 days before taking effect. Minor modifications (contact details, editorial corrections) take effect immediately upon publication on the Platform.

11.2. Continued use of the Platform after modifications take effect constitutes tacit acceptance of the new Terms. Subscribers who do not accept substantial modifications may terminate the contract without penalties, by notification sent to contact@statusdosar.ro before the effective date, with proportional refund of the subscription for the unconsumed period.

Art. 12 — Force Majeure

12.1. Neither Party is liable for non-performance or improper performance of contractual obligations if such is due to a force majeure event within the meaning of Art. 1351 Civil Code. The following constitute force majeure for the Provider in particular: (i) unavailability of the Ministry of Justice's IT systems (ECRIS / portal.just.ro); (ii) large-scale cyber attacks; (iii) internet infrastructure failures at national or international level; (iv) public authority decisions restricting online service operations.

12.2. The Party invoking force majeure shall notify the other Party within 5 calendar days of the event and shall take all reasonable measures to limit its effects.

Art. 13 — Applicable Law and Dispute Resolution

13.1. This Contract is governed exclusively by Romanian law. Applicable legislation primarily includes: the Civil Code; Law no. 365/2002 on electronic commerce; GEO no. 34/2014 on consumer rights; Law no. 8/1996 on copyright; GDPR and Law no. 190/2018.

13.2. Any dispute shall first be resolved amicably, within 30 days from written notification. In case of failure: (i) for consumers — the court at the consumer Client's domicile or the court at the Provider's registered office, at the consumer's choice; (ii) for legal entities / professionals — the courts at the Provider's registered office.

13.3. Alternative resolution: Consumers may use the EU ODR platform (ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr) or an accredited ADR body in Romania.

13.4. ANPC: Consumers may file complaints with the National Authority for Consumer Protection (ANPC) — anpc.ro. Head office: Bulevardul Aviatorilor nr. 72, Sector 1, Bucharest. Phone: 021-9551.

Art. 14 — Final Provisions

14.1. The nullity of any clause does not affect the validity of the others.

14.2. Waiver of a right does not constitute a permanent waiver.

14.3. These Terms constitute the entire agreement between the Parties, replacing any prior understanding.

Last updated: 22 March 2026

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