Privacy Policy – Sneakers Joint

Good morning!

If you have arrived here, it is a reliable sign that you value your privacy. We understand this very well, so we are putting in your hands a document, in which you will find in one place the rules for processing personal data and the use of cookies and other tracking technologies in connection with the operation of the https://sneakersjoint.com store.

Formal information to start – the administrator of the store is JMKI – Jeremi Krzyzaniak, 53a Przestrzenna Street, Lodz 93-424, NIP: 729 272 84 84, REGON: 381904835.

This privacy policy is structured in the form of questions and answers. The choice of this form was dictated by the concern for clarity and legibility of the information presented to you. Below you will find a table of contents of this policy corresponding to the questions we answer in turn.

# 1: Who is the controller of your personal data?

# 2: Who can you contact regarding the processing of your personal data?

# 3: What information do we have about you?

# 4: Where do we get your personal information from?

# 5: Is your data safe?

# 6: For what purposes do we process your personal data?

# 7: How long will we keep your personal information?

# 8: Who are the recipients of your personal data?

# 9: Do we transfer your data to third countries or international organizations?

# 10: Do we use profiling? Do we make automated decisions based on your personal data?

# 11: What rights do you have in relation to the processing of your personal data?

# # 12: Do we use cookies and what are they actually?

# 13: On what basis do we use cookies?

# 14: Can you disable cookies?

# # 15: For what purposes do we use our own cookies?

# # 16: Which third party cookies are used?

# 17: Do we track your behavior within our store?

# 18: Are we targeting you with targeted ads?

19: How can you manage your privacy?

# 20: What are server logs?

# 21: Is there anything else you should know?

# 22: Can this privacy policy change?

If you have any concerns about the privacy policy, you can contact us at any time by sending an email to [email protected]

# 1: Who is the controller of your personal data?

The administrator of your personal data is JMKI – Jeremi Krzyzaniak, 53a Przestrzenna St., Lodz 93-424, NIP: 729 272 84 84, REGON: 381904835

# 2: Who can you contact regarding the processing of your personal data?

As part of the implementation of data protection in our organization, we have decided not to appoint a data protection officer due to the fact that it is not mandatory in our situation. For matters related to data protection and privacy in the broadest sense, you can contact us by email at [email protected]

# 3: What information do we have about you?

Depending on the purpose, we may process the following information about you:

name,
residential address,
business address,
tax ID number,
adres e-mail,
phone number,
data contained in correspondence addressed to us,
details of the orders placed,
bank account number,
IP address,
image (profile photo),
activity in relation to the newsletters sent.

We have described the scope of data processing precisely for each processing purpose. Information in this regard can be found later in this policy.

# 4: Where do we get your personal information from?

In most cases, you give them to us yourself. This happens when:

You register a user account,
you place an order in the store,
You send complaints or withdraw from the contract,
you sign up for the newsletter,
Add a comment or feedback on the product,
you contact us.

In addition, some information about you may be automatically collected by the tools we use:

The mechanism of the store and the newsletter system collect your IP address,
The mechanism of the newsletter system collects information about your activity with regard to the content sent to you within the newsletter, such as opening messages, clicking on links, etc.

# 5: Is your data safe?

We care about the security of your personal data. We have analyzed the risks involved in the various processes of processing your data, and then implemented appropriate security and data protection measures. We constantly monitor the state of our technical infrastructure, train our staff, look at the procedures in place, and make the necessary improvements. If you have any questions about your personal data, we are at your service at [email protected]

# 6: For what purposes do we process your personal data?

These targets are more than one. Below is a list of them, followed by a more detailed discussion. We have also assigned to each purpose the corresponding legal basis for processing.

Registration and maintenance of a user account – Article 6(1)(b) of the DPA,
Order processing – Article 6(1)(b) of the RODO,
Handling of complaints or withdrawal from the contract – Article 6(1)(f) RODO,
newsletter mailing – Article 6(1)(a) of the RODO,
handling comments or product reviews – Article 6(1)(a) of the RODO,
Handling of correspondence – Article 6(1)(f) RODO,
Fulfillment of tax and accounting obligations – Article 6(1)(c) RODO,
To create an archive for the possible need to defend, establish or assert claims, as well as to identify a returning customer – Article 6(1)(f) of the DPA,
Self-marketing – Article 6(1)(f) RODO.

User account – details

When you create a user account, you will need to provide the data necessary to create an account: email address and password. Providing data is voluntary, but necessary to create an account.

Within the framework of editing your account data, you can provide your further data, in particular, data that can be used for placing orders, such as your name, address of residence or place of business, Tax ID number, telephone number.

If you create an account through integration with a social network account, based on your prior authorization, we will gain access to certain data collected within the social network account (name, email address, profile picture).

In addition, our system used for user accounts records your IP number, which you used when registering a user account.

You can modify the information about you provided to us in connection with the registration of a user account at any time. However, in a situation where you have created an account using an integration with a social network account, the data retrieved from that social network cannot be modified.

The data provided by you in connection with the creation of an account is processed in order to provide you with an electronic service consisting of providing you with the possibility of using a user account. This service is provided on the basis of an agreement concluded under the terms and conditions described in the regulations, which means that in this regard the legal basis for the processing of your personal data is Article 6(1)(b) of the RODO.

The data will be kept for the duration of your account. At any time you can decide to delete your account, however this will not lead to the removal of information about your orders placed using your account from our database. Order data is kept in our archive for the entire period of the store’s operation due to the fact that we provide the possibility of identifying a returning customer, reconstructing his/her purchase history, granted discounts, etc., which is our legitimate interest referred to in Article 6(1)(f) of the RODO.

Orders – details

When placing an order in the store, you need to provide the data necessary to process the order. Depending on the details of your order, the catalog of data may be different. For example, if you are ordering physical products, we need to know the address where we will deliver the order to you. If you are requesting a VAT invoice for a company, we need to know the VAT number and business address. Providing data is voluntary, but necessary to place an order.

In addition, our system used to handle the order process records your IP number, which you used to place the order.

Each order is saved in our database, which means that your personal information assigned to the order is also accompanied by information about the order, such as the products ordered, the selected payment method, the selected delivery method, the date of payment.

Data collected in connection with an order, is processed for the purpose of executing the contract concluded by placing the order (Art. 6(1)(b) RODO), issuing an invoice (Art. 6(1)(c) RODO in connection with the regulations governing the issuance of invoices), including the invoice in the accounting records and fulfilling other tax and accounting obligations (Art. 6(1)(c) RODO in connection with the provisions governing tax and accounting obligations) and for archival purposes for the possible need to defend, establish or assert claims, as well as to identify a returning customer, which is our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) RODO).

Order data will be processed for the time necessary to process the order, and then until the expiration of the statute of limitations for claims under the contract. In addition, after the expiration of this period, the data may still be processed by us for archival purposes for the possible need to defend, establish or assert claims, as well as to identify a returning customer. Remember also that we are required to keep accounting records, which may contain your personal data, for the period required by law.

Complaints and withdrawals – details

If you make a complaint or withdraw from the contract, you provide personal data contained in the body of the complaint or withdrawal statement, which includes name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, bank account number. Providing data is voluntary, but necessary to make a complaint or withdraw from the contract.

The data provided to us in connection with the filing of a complaint or withdrawal from the contract is used for the purpose of the complaint procedure or withdrawal procedure, and then for archival purposes, which is our legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f) RODO).

Data will be processed for the time necessary for the complaint procedure or withdrawal procedure. Complaint documents will be stored until the expiration of warranty rights. Statements of withdrawal will be stored along with accounting records for the period required by law.

Newsletter – details

By signing up for the newsletter, you provide us with your name and email address. Providing data is voluntary, but necessary to subscribe to the newsletter.

In addition, our system used for the newsletter, records your IP number you used when signing up for the newsletter, determines your approximate location, the mail client you use for email, and tracks your actions taken in connection with messages sent to you. As such, we also have information about which messages you opened, within which messages you clicked on links, etc.

The data you provide to us in connection with signing up for the newsletter is used for the purpose of sending you the newsletter, and the legal basis for its processing is your consent (Article 6(1)(a) RODO) given when signing up for the newsletter. As for the processing of information that does not come from you, but is collected automatically by our mailing system, we rely in this regard on our legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f) RODO) to analyze the behavior of newsletter subscribers in order to optimize mailing activities.

You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time by clicking on the dedicated link included in each message sent as part of the newsletter or by simply contacting us. Despite opting out of the newsletter, your data will continue to be stored in our database for the purpose of identifying the returning subscriber and for the possible defense of claims related to the sending of the newsletter to you, in particular for the purpose of proving the fact that you gave your consent to receive the newsletter and when you withdrew it, which is our legitimate interest referred to in Article 6(1)(f) of the RODO.

You can modify your information provided for the purpose of receiving the newsletter at any time by clicking on the appropriate link visible in each message sent as part of the newsletter or simply by contacting us.

Comments and product reviews – details

When adding a comment or opinion about a product, you must provide at least a username that will be assigned to the comment or opinion (the name may include personal information, such as first or last name) and an e-mail address. Providing this data is voluntary, but necessary to add a comment or opinion. You can also add your avatar (which can include your image, such as a photo) and provide your website address, but this is not mandatory.

Data provided in connection with the addition of a comment or opinion will be processed for the purpose of publishing the comment or opinion on the site. The basis for processing is your consent (Article 6.1.a) resulting from the submission of the form used to publish the comment or opinion. You can revoke your consent at any time by requesting that the comment or opinion be deleted.

Your comment or opinion will be publicly available on the site for the duration of its availability on the Internet, unless you request the removal of the comment or opinion beforehand. You can also modify the content of the comment at any time, as well as modify the data assigned to it as about the person who added the comment or opinion.

Mail handling – details

When you contact us, you naturally provide us with your personal data contained in the body of your correspondence, in particular your e-mail address and name. Providing the data is voluntary, but necessary to make contact.

Your data is processed in this case for the purpose of contacting you, and the basis for processing is Article 6(1)(f) RODO, i.e. our legitimate interest. The legal basis for post-contact processing is also our legitimate purpose of archiving correspondence for the purpose of ensuring that we can prove certain facts in the future (Article 6(1)(f) RODO).

The content of your correspondence may be subject to archiving and we are not in a position to clearly determine when it will be deleted. You have the right to request the history of the correspondence you have had with us (if it was subject to archiving), as well as to request its deletion, unless its archiving is justified by our overriding interests, such as defense against potential claims on your part.

Tax and accounting obligations – details

If we issue an invoice to you, it becomes part of your accounting records, which will be kept for the period of time required by law. Your personal data in such a situation is processed in order to fulfill our tax and accounting obligations (Article 6(1)(c) of the RODO in connection with the provisions governing tax and accounting obligations).

Archive – details

As part of the description of the various purposes for processing personal data above, we have indicated the time limits for storing personal data. These time limits are often related to our archiving of certain data for the purpose of ensuring that we can prove certain facts in the future, reconstruct the course of cooperation with the customer, exchanged correspondence, defense, establishment or assertion of claims. In this regard, we rely on our legitimate interest as referred to in Article 6(1)(f) of the RODO.

Self-marketing – details

As part of our store, we use an abandoned cart recovery mechanism. In a situation where you start the ordering process but do not complete it, our system will note this fact in order to take actions to induce you to finalize your order. These actions may include, in particular, sending you an email with an incentive to finalize your order or displaying a targeted advertisement while you are browsing the Internet.

We carry out the activities described above based on our legitimate interest referred to in Article 6(1)(f) of the DPA in marketing our own products. You may object to the activities conducted in this way at any time.

# 7: How long will we keep your personal information?

Data retention periods are indicated separately for each processing purpose. You will find this information within the details dedicated to each separate processing purpose.

We draw your attention to the fact that we have adopted a model of storing your order data for the entire period of operation of our online store. We conclude that this works to your advantage, as you can reconstruct your purchase history at any time, and additionally benefit from discounts, if we provide any for our regular customers. However, if you do not want your order data to be stored for such a long time, you can object to its storage for the described purpose at any time. However, we would like to inform you that we see our overriding interest in storing your order data until the expiration of the statute of limitations for claims under the sales contract concluded with us.

# 8: Who are the recipients of your personal data?

We would venture to say that modern business cannot do without services provided by third parties. We also use such services. Some of these services involve the processing of your personal data. Third-party service providers that are involved in the processing of your personal data are:

The hosting provider that stores the data on the server,
A cloud service provider that stores backups that may contain your personal information,
the provider of the mailing system where your data is stored if you are a newsletter subscriber,
provider of the CRM system where we store your data to improve the customer service process and for archival purposes,
provider of an invoicing system that stores your data for invoicing purposes,
The accounting office that processes your data shown on invoices,
a maintenance service provider who accesses the data if the technical work carried out concerns areas where personal data is located,
other subcontractors who gain access to the data if the scope of their activities requires such access.

All the entities listed above process your data on the basis of personal data processing entrustment agreements with us and guarantee an adequate level of personal data protection.

Your data is shared with courier companies to the extent necessary to deliver your order. These companies become independent administrators of your personal data.

If the need arises, your data may be shared with a legal advisor or attorney bound by professional secrecy. The need may arise from the need for legal assistance requiring access to your personal information.

Your personal data may also be transferred to the tax authorities to the extent necessary for the performance of tax and accounting duties. This includes, in particular, all declarations, reports, statements and other accounting documents containing your personal data.

In addition, if necessary, your personal data may be shared with entities, authorities or institutions entitled to access the data under the law, such as police, security services, courts, prosecutors.

Moreover, we use tools that collect a range of information about you related to your use of our store. This includes, in particular, the following information:

Information about the operating system and web browser you are using,
REVIEWED POST,
time spent on the site,
Transitions between different subpages,
clicks on individual links,
The source from which you go to our site,
The age group you are in,
Your gender,
Your approximate location limited to localities.
Your interests are determined by your online activities.

This information in itself does not, in our opinion, have the nature of personal data. Since the information is collected by third-party tools we use, the information is also processed by the tool providers under the terms of their terms of service and privacy policies. Generally, this information is used to provide and improve services, manage services, develop new services, measure the effectiveness of advertisements, protect against fraud and abuse, and personalize the content and advertisements displayed on individual services, sites and applications. We have tried to describe the details in this regard later in this policy, within the explanations devoted to each tool.

# 9: Do we transfer your data to third countries or international organizations?

Yes, part of the processing operations of your personal data may involve their transfer to third countries.

We transfer your personal data to third countries in connection with the use of tools that store personal data on servers located in third countries, in particular in the United States. The providers of these tools guarantee an adequate level of personal data protection through the relevant compliance mechanisms provided for by the RODO, in particular by joining the Privacy Shield program or using standard contractual clauses.

The storage of personal data on servers located in third countries occurs within the following tools:

MailChimp mailing system, whose provider is Rocket Science Group LLC, 675 Ponce de Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA – in terms of your name, email address, IP address and statistical information related to your responses to the messages we send,

Rocket Science Group LLC shall ensure an adequate level of protection of personal data by applying the compliance mechanisms provided for by the RODO, in particular through the use of standard contractual clauses.

We would also like to remind you at this point that we use third-party tools that may collect information about you that is anonymous to us. We have mentioned this several times within this policy, including in response to a previous question. The providers of these tools often use servers located around the world, particularly in the United States of America (USA), to store the information they collect.

# 10: Do we use profiling? Do we make automated decisions based on your personal data?

We do not make decisions with respect to you that are based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which would produce legal effects with respect to you or similarly materially affect you.

Yes, we do use tools that may take certain actions depending on the information collected through tracking mechanisms, but we believe that these actions do not materially affect you, as they do not differentiate your situation as a customer, do not affect the terms of the contract you may enter into with us, etc.

Using certain tools, we can, for example, target you with personalized advertisements based on previous actions you have taken on our site or suggest products that may interest you. We are talking here about so-called behavioral advertising. We encourage you to learn more about behavioral advertising, particularly with regard to privacy issues. You can find detailed information, along with the ability to manage your behavioral advertising settings, here: http://www.youronlinechoices.com.

We emphasize that within the tools we use, we do not have access to information that would allow us to identify you. The information we are talking about here is, in particular:

Information about the operating system and web browser you are using,
REVIEWED POST,
time spent on the site,
Transitions between different subpages,
The source from which you go to our site,
The age group you are in,
Your gender,
Your approximate location limited to localities,
Your interests are determined by your online activities.

We do not collate the information indicated above with your personal information that is in our databases. This information is anonymous and does not allow us to identify you. This information is stored on the servers of the providers of the various tools, and these servers can most often be located around the world.

# 11: What rights do you have in relation to the processing of your personal data?

The RODO grants you the following potential rights related to the processing of your personal data:

The right to access your data and receive a copy of it,
The right to rectify (amend) your data,
The right to erasure (if, in your opinion, there is no basis for us to process your data, you can request that we erase it),
The right to restrict data processing (you can request that we restrict processing of your data to storage or to carry out activities agreed with you if you believe we hold inaccurate data or process it inappropriately),
The right to object to processing (you have the right to object to processing on the basis of a legitimate interest; you should indicate the particular situation that you think justifies us stopping the processing covered by the objection; we will stop processing your data for these purposes unless we demonstrate that the grounds for our processing override your rights or that your data are necessary for us to establish, assert or defend claims),
The right to data portability (you have the right to receive from us in a structured, commonly used machine-readable format the personal data you have provided to us under a contract or your consent; you can have us send this data directly to another entity),
The right to withdraw consent to the processing of personal data, if you have previously given such consent,
The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (if you find that we are processing your data unlawfully, you can file a complaint about it with the President of the Office for Personal Data Protection or any other competent supervisory authority).

The rules related to the exercise of the rights indicated above are described in detail in Articles 16 – 21 of the RODO. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with these provisions. For our part, we deem it necessary to explain to you that the rights indicated above are not absolute and you will not be entitled to them in relation to all processing activities of your personal data.

We emphasize that one of the rights indicated above is always available to you – if you consider that we have violated data protection regulations in the processing of your personal data, you have the opportunity to file a complaint with the supervisory authority (President of the Office for Personal Data Protection).

You can also always request that we provide you with information about what data we have about you and for what purposes we process it. All you need to do is send an email to [email protected]. However, we have made every effort to ensure that the information of interest to you is comprehensively presented in this privacy policy. You can also use the e-mail address provided above if you have any questions about the processing of your personal data.

# # 12: Do we use cookies and what are they actually?

Our store, like almost all other websites, uses cookies.

Cookies are small text information stored on your terminal device (e.g. computer, tablet, smartphone), which can be read by our ICT system (our own cookies) or by third-party ICT systems (third-party cookies). Cookies may record and store certain information, which can then be accessed by ICT systems for specific purposes.

Some cookies we use are deleted when your browser session ends, i.e. when you close it (so-called session cookies). Other cookies are retained on your terminal device and allow us to recognize your browser the next time you visit the site (persistent cookies).

If you want to learn more about cookies as such, you can read, for example, this resource: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie.

# 13: On what basis do we use cookies?

We use cookies based on your consent, except when cookies are necessary for the proper provision of an electronic service to you.

Cookies that are not necessary for the proper provision of the electronic service remain blocked until you agree to our use of cookies. When you visit our site for the first time, we display a message asking for your consent along with the option to manage cookies, i.e. decide which cookies you agree to and which you want to block

Please note that disabling or restricting cookies may prevent you from using some of the features available in our store and cause difficulties in using our store, as well as many other websites that use cookies. For example, if you block the cookies of social networking plug-ins, the buttons, widgets and social features implemented in our store may not be available to you.

# 14: Can you disable cookies?

Yes, you can manage your cookie settings within your web browser. You can block all or selected cookies. You can also block cookies of specific sites. You can also delete previously saved cookies and other site and plug-in data at any time.

Web browsers also offer the possibility to use incognito mode. You can use it if you don’t want information about the pages you visit and files you download to be saved in your browsing and download history. Cookies created in incognito mode are deleted when you close all windows in this mode.

There are also browser plug-ins available to control cookies, such as Ghostery (https://www.ghostery.com). The option to control cookies may also be provided by additional software, in particular anti-virus packages, etc.

In addition, there are tools on the Internet that allow you to control certain types of cookies, in particular to collectively manage behavioral advertising settings (e.g. www.youronlinechoices.com/, www.networkadvertising.org/choices).

We also give you the ability to control cookies directly from our store. We have implemented a special mechanism for managing cookies, which allows you to block those cookies that you do not want.

# # 15: For what purposes do we use our own cookies?

Custom cookies are used to ensure the proper functioning of the various mechanisms of the store, such as maintaining the session after logging into the account, remembering the last browsed products and products added to the shopping cart.

Custom cookies also store information about your defined cookie settings made from the cookie management mechanism.

Proprietary cookies are also used to support the abandoned cart recovery mechanism.

# # 16: Which third party cookies are used?

The following third-party cookies operate within our store:

Google Analytics,
Google Tag Manager,
Google AdWords,
Google AdSense,
Facebook Custom Audiences,
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIN, Pinterest (social media tool cookies),
Disqus,
Hotjar,
SoundCloud,
YouTube.
Google reCAPTCHA

Details of individual third-party cookies are described below.

Google Analytics – details

We use the Google Analytics tool provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. We perform these activities based on our legitimate interest in creating statistics and analyzing them in order to optimize our websites.

In order to use Google Analytics, we have implemented a special Google Analytics tracking code in the code of our website. The tracking code uses cookies from Google LLC regarding the Google Analytics service. You can block the Google Analytics tracking code at any time by installing a browser add-on provided by Google: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Google Analytics automatically collects information about your use of our website. The information collected in this way is mostly transmitted to Google’s servers, which may be located around the world and stored there.

Due to the IP address anonymization activated by us, your IP address is shortened before being passed on. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to Google’s servers and only shortened there. The anonymized IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics is, as a rule, not combined with other Google data.

We emphasize that within the framework of Google Analytics we do not collect any data that would allow us to identify you. Accordingly, the data collected as part of Google Analytics is not personal to us. The information we have access to within Google Analytics is, in particular:

Information about the operating system and web browser you are using,
The sub-pages you browse within our store,
time spent in our store and on its sub-sites,
Transitions between different subpages,
The source from which you go to our store.

In addition, we use the following Advertising Functions within Google Analytics:

As part of the Advertising Functions, we also do not collect personal information. The information we have access to is, in particular:

The age group you are in,
Your gender,
Your approximate location limited to localities,
Your interests are determined by your online activities.

Google Analytics and Google Analytics 360 services have been certified to the independent ISO 27001 security standard. ISO 27001 is one of the most widely recognized standards in the world and certifies that the systems that support Google Analytics and Google Analytics 360 meet the relevant requirements.

If you are interested in details related to Google’s use of data from sites and applications that use Google services, we encourage you to read this information: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Google Tag Manager – details

We use the Google Tag Manager tool provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA and allows us to manage tags, which are small pieces of code through which we are able to

control user traffic and behavior, collect information on the effectiveness of ads and

Take action to improve our store. Google Tag Manager

does not collect any personally identifiable information about you, however, the tool triggers other tags that may in turn collect data.

Google AdWords – details

We use remarketing functions available within the Google AdWords system operated by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. We perform activities in this regard based on our legitimate interest in marketing our own products or services.

When you visit our website, a Google remarketing cookie is automatically left on your device, which collects information about your activity in our store. Thanks to the information collected in this way, we are able to display ads to you within the Google network depending on your behavior in our store. For example, if you display a certain product, this information will be noted by a remarketing cookie, which will make it possible for us to target you with an ad for that product or any other ad we deem appropriate. This advertisement will be displayed to you within the Google network when you use the Internet, browse other websites, etc.

We emphasize that we, using Google Ads, do not collect any data that would allow you to be identified. The possible compilation of data in such a way that it acquires the character of personal data may be carried out on Google’s part, but to this extent we are no longer responsible, since Google carries out these activities on the basis of the agreement concluded with you as a user of Google services.

We, using Google AdWords, are only able to define the audience groups we would like our ads to reach. Based on this, Google decides when and how it will present our advertisement to you.

Further processing of information takes place only if you have given your consent to Google to link your browsing history to your account and to use information from your Google account to personalize the ads that are displayed on the websites. In such a situation, Google will use your data to create and define target group lists for remarketing purposes on different devices. For this purpose, Google temporarily combines the information it collects with other data it has to create targeting groups.

If you do not want to receive personalized ads, you can manage your ad settings directly on Google’s website: https://adssettings.google.com/.

Google AdSense – details

We display advertisements on our sites within the Google AdSense network operated by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. We perform activities in this regard based on our legitimate interest in monetizing the content we publish.

Our website, in connection with the display of ads on it within the AdSense network, contains ad tags that issue a command to your web browser to send a request for advertising content from Google’s servers. Along with the advertising content, the server also sends a cookie. Cookies are used to display ads based on your previous visits to our site or other websites. AdSense also uses cookies to improve the quality of ads. Common uses include targeting ads based on topics of interest to you, improving campaign performance reports and skipping ads you’ve already seen.

We emphasize that we, using Google AdSense, do not collect any data that would allow you to be identified. The possible compilation of data in such a way that it acquires the character of personal data may be carried out on Google’s part, but in this respect we are no longer responsible, since Google performs these activities on the basis of the agreement concluded with you as a user of Google services.

If you do not want to receive personalized ads, you can manage your ad settings directly on Google’s website: https://adssettings.google.com/.

Facebook Custom Audiences – details

As part of the Facebook Ads system provided by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA, we use the Custom Audience Groups feature to target specific groups of users with targeted advertising messages. We perform activities in this regard based on our legitimate interest in marketing our own products or services.

In order to target you with ads personalized to your behavior in our store, we have implemented the Facebook Pixel within our website, which automatically collects information about your use of our website. The information collected in this way is mostly transmitted to Facebook’s servers, which may be located all over the world, particularly in the United States of America (USA).

The information collected as part of Facebook Pixel is anonymous, i.e. it does not allow us to identify you. Depending on your activity on our pages, you may end up in a specific audience, but we do not in any way identify individuals belonging to these groups.

However, we would like to inform you that Facebook may combine the information it collects with other information about you collected through your use of Facebook and use for its own purposes, including marketing. Such actions by Facebook are no longer up to us, and you can look for information about them directly in Facebook’s privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation. From your Facebook account you can also manage your privacy settings. Here you will find useful information in this regard: https://www.facebook.com/ads/settings.

Social media tools – details

Our website uses plug-ins, buttons and other social media tools, collectively referred to as “plug-ins”, provided by social networks such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIN, Twitter, Pinterest.

When you view our website containing a plug-in of a particular social network, your browser sends information to the administrator of that social network about your visit. Since the plug-in is a fragment of a social network embedded in our website, your browser sends information about the request to download the content of a particular social network to our website.

The plug-ins collect certain information about you, such as your user ID, the site you visited, the date and time, and other browser information.

Social network administrators use some of this information to personalize the viewing conditions of our site. For example, when you visit a page with a “Like” button, the social network administrator needs information about who you are to show you which of your friends also like our page.

Information collected by plugins may also be used by social network administrators for their own purposes, such as improving their own products, creating user profiles, analyzing and optimizing their own activities, and targeting advertisements. We have no real influence on how the information collected by the plugins is then used by the social network administrators. You can look for details in this regard in the rules and privacy policies of individual social networks.

Social network plug-ins collect and transmit information to the administrators of these sites even when you browse our site without being logged into your social network account. Then, however, the browser sends a more limited set of information.

If you have logged in to one of the social networks, the site administrator will be able to directly attribute your visit to our site to your profile on the respective social network.

If you do not want social networks to attribute the data collected during your visit to our website directly to your profile on a particular site, then you must log out of that site before visiting our site. You can also completely prevent plug-ins from loading on the site by using the appropriate extensions for your browser, such as script blocking.

In addition, the use of certain plug-ins may involve the publication of certain information within your social profiles. For example, information about clicks on the “Like” button may be available on your Facebook timeline. Of course, if you share some content on your social media using plugins embedded on our site, that sharing will naturally show up on your profile.

As for details related to the processing by social network administrators of information collected by plug-ins, in particular the purpose and scope of data collection and its further processing and use by the administrators, as well as the possibility of contacting you and your rights in this regard and the possibility of making settings to ensure the protection of your privacy, you will find everything in the privacy policies of the individual service providers:

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation,
Twitter – https://twitter.com/en/privacy,
LinkedIN – https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy,
Instagram – https://www.facebook.com/help/instagram/155833707900388,
Pinterest – https://policy.pinterest.com/pl/privacy-policy.

Disqus – details

Our site uses the Disqus commenting system operated by a third party, i.e. Disqus, Inc., 717 Market St San Francisco, CA 94103, USA.

When you view a page containing comments hosted by the Disqus system, Disqus sends one or more cookies to your device that identify your web browser. Disqus cookies are responsible for the proper functioning of the comment system, in particular, they improve the login process. Disqus cookies also collect information on how you use our site (e.g., the sub-pages you visit, the links you click on) in order to analyze your activity and personalize the content displayed to you within the Disqus system, including advertisements.

If Disqus displays ads, it uses technologies to support this process, such as Google, Polymorph, ServeBid, which can set cookies for personalizing marketing, linking ads to subsequent activity, limiting how often individual ads are shown to you.

Please note that you are using the Disqus comment system as its own user, subject to the Disqus Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Disqus is an independent entity, independent of us, providing electronic services to you. You can look for details on the Disqus system’s terms of use, including privacy protection, in documents provided directly by Disqus:

regulations:https://help.disqus.com/en/articles/1717102-terms-of-service#publisher-terms-of-service-agreement,
privacy policy: https://help.disqus.com/en/articles/1717103-disqus-privacy-policy.

Hotjar – details

We use the Hotjar tool to better understand your needs and to optimize our website for your user experience, which is our legitimate interest. The tool is provided by a third party entity, i.e. Hotjar Limited, Level 2, St Julian’s Business Centre, 3, Elia Zammit Street, St Julian’s STJ 1000, Malta.

Hotjar records every visitor to our site and allows us to play a video recording of their traffic on our site, as well as generate so-called heat maps. Within the Hotjar tool, we do not have access to information that allows us to identify you, as Hotjar does not record the process of filling out forms.

In order to use Hotjar, we have implemented a special Hotjar tracking code in the code of our site. The tracking code uses cookies from Hotjar Limited. The information collected through cookies is stored by Hotjar as part of a pseudonymous user profile. Neither Hotjar nor we use this information to identify you.

You may object to Hotjar’s creation of your user profile, Hotjar’s storage of information about your use of our site, and Hotjar’s use of cookies here: https://www.hotjar.com/legal/compliance/opt-out.

If you are interested in details related to Hotjar’s data processing, we encourage you to read Hotjar’s privacy policy: https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy.

SoundCloud – details

SoundCloud widgets are embedded on our pages allowing you to play recordings available on SoundCloud directly from our pages. SoundCloud is operated by SoundCloud Limited, Rheinsberger Str. 76/77, 10115 Berlin, Germany.

When you visit a site with an embedded SoundCloud widget, SoundCloud receives certain information, including information about the site you visited and your interactions with the widget. SoundCloud and the widget may recognize you, in particular using cookie technology. SoundCloud uses the information it collects in this way to ensure that the widget functions properly and securely, to analyze and optimize the services SoundCloud provides, and for personalization and advertising purposes.

Please note that by playing recordings available on SoundCloud, you are using SoundCloud’s electronic services. SoundCloud is an independent, third-party provider of electronic services to you. You may refer to the documents provided directly by SoundCloud for details on SoundCloud’s terms of use, including privacy protection:

regulations: https://soundcloud.com/terms-of-use,
privacy policy: https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy,
polityka cookies: https://soundcloud.com/pages/cookies.

YouTube – details

YouTube widgets are embedded on our pages, allowing you to play recordings available on YouTube directly from our pages. YouTube is operated by Google LLC.

Videos are embedded on the site in privacy mode. Based on information provided by YouTube, this means that no cookies are stored on your device, nor does Google collect any information about you until you play the video.

When you play a recording, YouTube saves cookies on your device and receives information that you played the recording from a specific website, even if you do not have a Google account or are not logged in at the time. If you are logged into a Google account, this service provider will be able to directly associate your visit to our site with your account. The purpose and scope of data collection and their further processing and use by Google, as well as the possibility of contacting us and your rights in this respect and the possibility of making settings to ensure your privacy are described in Google’s privacy policy.

If you do not want Google to attribute the data collected during video playback directly to your profile, you must log out of your account before playing the video. You can also completely prevent plug-ins from loading on the site by using the appropriate extensions for your browser, such as script blocking.

The information collected as part of the cookies associated with YouTube videos embedded on our pages is used by Google to ensure the correct and safe functioning of the widget, analysis and optimization for the services provided by YouTube, as well as for personalization and advertising purposes.

Please note that by playing recordings available on YouTube, you are using services provided electronically by Google LLC. Google LLC is an independent, third-party provider of electronic services to you. You can look for details on YouTube’s terms of use, including privacy protection, in documents provided directly by YouTube:

regulamin: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms,
privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Google reCAPTCHA – details

Google reCAPTCHA In order to protect against abuse of our online forms, as well as to protect against spam, we use the Google reCAPTCHA service on some of the forms on this website. By verifying manual input, this service prevents automated software (so-called bots) from taking abusive actions on the website. This serves under Article 6(1), sentence 1, letter f of the DPA to protect our overriding legitimate interest within the framework of the balance of interests related to the protection of our website from abuse and the uninterrupted display of our online service. Google reCAPTCHA is a service, offered by Google Ireland Limited, a company registered and operating under the laws of Ireland with its registered office at Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland(www.google.pl). With respect to the transfer of information to Google’s servers in the United States and its storage there, the U.S. company Google LLC is certified by EU-US-Privacy Shield. The current certificate can be viewed here Under an agreement between the United States and the European Commission, the latter has stated the due level of data protection provided by companies certified under the Privacy Shield. Google reCAPTCHA uses, via embedded code, so-called Java script, as part of its ongoing verification, methods to analyze your use of our website, such as cookies. The automatically collected information on the use of this website including your IP address is generally transmitted to a Google server in the United States and stored there. In addition, certain other cookies stored by Google services on your browser are analyzed by Google reCAPTCHA. The loading or storage of personal data, entered in the fields of the respective form, is not practiced. Further information on Google’s data protection policy can be found at www.google.com/policies/privacy/. You can prevent the collection of data generated by the Java script or cookies and related to your use of our website (including your IP address), as well as the processing of this data by Google, by blocking the Java script or cookies in your browser settings. Please note that this may, however, limit certain functions during your use of our website.

For more information, please visit this link: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=pl

# 17: Do we track your behavior within our store?

Yes, we use Google Analytics, Google AdWords, Hotjar and Facebook Custom Audiences tools that involve collecting information about your activities on our site. These tools are described in detail under the question on third-party cookies, so we will not repeat that information here either.

# 18: Are we targeting you with trafficked ads?

Yes, we use Facebook Ads and Google Ads, where we can target ads to specific groups defined based on various criteria such as age, gender, interests, occupation, job, activities previously undertaken on our site. These tools were described in detail under the question on third-party cookies, so we will not repeat this information here as well.

# 19: How can you manage your privacy?

The answer to this question can be found in many places in this privacy policy when describing specific tools, behavioral advertising, cookie consent, etc. Nevertheless, we have once again gathered this information in one place for your convenience. Below you will find a list of options for managing your privacy.

cookie settings within your web browser,
Browser plug-ins that support cookie management, e.g. Ghostery,
Additional software that manages cookies,
incognito mode in the web browser,
behavioral advertising settings, such as youronlinechoices.com,
A mechanism for managing cookies from within our website,
Google Analytics-Abmeldung
HotJar Opt-out
Google Adsense Opt-out
Facebook Ads Unsubscribe

# 20: What are server logs?

Using the store involves sending queries to the server on which the store is stored. Each query directed to the server is recorded in the server logs.

The logs include, among other things, your IP address, the date and time of the server, information about your web browser and the operating system you are using. Logs are saved and stored on the server.

The data stored in the server logs are not associated with specific individuals using the site and are not used by us to identify you.

Server logs are only auxiliary material for the administration of the site, and their contents are not disclosed to anyone except those authorized to administer the server.

# 21: Is there anything else you should know?

As you can see, the topics of personal data processing, the use of cookies and the management of privacy in general are quite complex. We have done our best to ensure that this document provides you with the most far-reaching knowledge on the issues that are important to you. If anything is unclear to you, you want to learn more or just talk about your privacy, please email us at [email protected]

# 22: Can this privacy policy change?

Yes, we may modify this privacy policy, in particular due to technological changes on the part of our store and changes in legislation. If you are a registered user of the store, you will receive a message about any change in the privacy policy. In addition, all archived versions of the privacy policy are linked below.