A. Introduction
1. The administrator of personal data is amiSter S.A. with its registered office in Piekary Śląskie (41-940) at ul. Pod Lipami 29, entered into the register of entrepreneurs kept by the District Court in Katowice, under KRS number: 0001234971, NIP: PL6452504914, tel.: +48 512 908 458, e-mail address: [email protected] (hereinafter: the Administrator).
2. The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we make every effort to protect it. This Privacy Policy (hereinafter referred to as the “Policy”) explains how we process your data.
3. Consenting to the use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy during your first visit to our website allows us to use cookies during every subsequent visit to our website.
B. Processing of Personal Data
The following personal data may be processed:
1. information about your computer, including IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system;
2. information about your visits to and use of this website, including referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths;
3. information such as first name, last name, and e-mail address that you provide during registration or when filling out a contact form on our website;
4. information entered while using the services on our website;
5. information generated while using our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
6. information contained in correspondence sent to us via e-mail or through our website, including communication content and metadata;
7. information that you send to us via attached files, e.g., CV documents, cover letters, etc.;
8. any other personal data that you send to us.
Data is collected only to an adequate, necessary, and essential extent in relation to the purposes for which it is processed. The Administrator does not process special categories of personal data. Providing data is voluntary but necessary for the provision of services.
Before you disclose the personal data of another person to us, you must obtain that person’s consent for both the disclosure and the processing of that personal data.
C. Use of Your Personal Data
Personal data submitted to us via our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website.
We may use your personal data for the purpose of:
1. administering our website;
2. personalizing our website for you;
3. enabling the use of services available on our website;
4. sending e-mail notifications that you have requested;
5. sending our e-mail newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive the newsletter);
6. sending marketing information regarding our business or the activities of carefully selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by e-mail or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);
7. providing third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information);
8. dealing with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
9. ensuring the security of our website and preventing fraud;
10. verifying compliance with the terms and conditions of use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our private messaging service);
11. and other uses.
The above data processing takes place based on Art. 6(1) of the GDPR.
If you submit personal data for publication on our website, we will process it in accordance with the purpose you have specified.
Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the site.
We will not, without your express consent, provide your personal data to third parties, or any other related third parties, for the purpose of direct marketing.
D. Disclosure of Personal Data
We may disclose the user’s personal data to our authorized employees, officers, representatives, suppliers or subcontractors, insurers, law firms, auditors, accounting offices, or entities personally or capitally related to the Administrator, insofar as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy and in accordance with the principles and applicable regulations regarding the protection of personal data.
We may disclose your personal data:
1. to the extent that it is required by law;
2. in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal and out-of-court proceedings;
3. in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention);
4. to persons who, in our reasonable opinion, may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of such personal data where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of such personal data. Except as provided in this Policy, we will not provide your information to third parties.
E. Principles of Data Processing
1. Data is processed in accordance with generally applicable regulations (including: Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC [GDPR] and the Act of 10 May 2018 on the protection of personal data, Journal of Laws of 2018, item 1000).
2. Personal data that we process will be stored for no longer than necessary, i.e., no longer than the period provided for by law (for statistical or tax purposes) or the limitation period for potential claims of the Administrator.
3. The Administrator may process personal data for further purposes if consent is obtained. In situations where data is processed based on consent, you have the right to withdraw consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
4. Your consent to the processing of personal data will allow us to process your personal data for the purpose of:
1) contact via the contact form,
2) saving data in cookies, collecting data from websites and mobile applications,
3) organizing promotional campaigns and competitions,
4) processing optional data for the performance of a service or order,
5) sending information to you in the form of a newsletter and other commercial information directly to your terminal devices.
5. Providing personal data is voluntary, although some data may be necessary for the purpose of contacting the Administrator, using services, or concluding and performing contracts with the Administrator.
6. The Administrator will not process data in an automated manner resulting in a decision that produces legal effects or similarly significantly affects you – including through profiling.
F. International Data Transfers
1. Personal data may be transferred to a third country. Data transfer outside the territory of the European Economic Area will take place in accordance with the GDPR regulations.
2. Personal data that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available via the Internet around the world.
G. Security of Personal Data
1. We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of the personal data processed.
2. We will store all personal data you provide on our secure servers (password- and firewall-protected).
3. The user acknowledges that the transmission of information over the Internet is inherently insecure, and the security of data sent this way is not guaranteed.
H. Policy Amendments
This Policy may be updated from time to time by posting a new version on our website. You should check the page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes made.
I. Your Rights
We guarantee the fulfillment of all your rights resulting from the General Data Protection Regulation, i.e.:
1) the right to access, rectify, and delete your data – if your data is incorrect or incomplete, or is no longer necessary for the Administrator, or you withdraw your consent for processing,
2) the right to restrict the processing of your data – for the period of clarification, correction, or filing an objection – we will not delete your data, but only restrict its processing,
3) the right to data portability,
4) the right to object to the processing of your personal data,
5) the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in connection with the processing of your personal data – the President of the Personal Data Protection Office (PUODO).
You may at any time object to the processing of your data for direct marketing purposes if the processing takes place in connection with the legitimate interest of the administrator.
J. Third-Party Websites
Our website contains hyperlinks to and details of third-party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
K. Cookies
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal data that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. {CHOOSE THE APPROPRIATE PHRASE: We use only session cookies / only persistent cookies / both session and persistent cookies on our website.}
1. The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which they are used are set out below:
a. we use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to recognize a computer when a user {INCLUDES ALL USES FOR WHICH COOKIES ARE USED ON YOUR SITE: visits the website / tracks users as they navigate the website / enables the use of a shopping cart on the website / improves the website’s usability / analyzes the use of the website / administers the website / manages the website / prevents fraud and improves the security of the website / personalizes the website for each user / targets advertisements which may be of particular interest to specific users / describe purposes};
2. Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies—for example:
a. in Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking “Tools,” “Internet Options,” “Privacy,” and then “Advanced”;
b. in Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” “Privacy,” selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu, and unticking “Accept cookies from sites”; and
c. in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Content settings,” and then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading.
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
1. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer—for example:
a. in Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
b. in Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” and “Privacy,” then selecting “Use custom settings for history,” clicking “Show Cookies,” and then clicking “Remove All Cookies”; and
c. in Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Clear browsing data,” and then selecting “Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data” before clicking “Clear browsing data.”
2. Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.