Privacy policy

I. Personal data 

We publish this document to explain why we collect and process personal data in the course of our business:

1. What is personal data?

It is any information that makes it possible to tell one person apart from others without much effort. Such information may describe the person directly (a name and surname, an identification number, sometimes even an e‑mail address or an online account), or indirectly. It may relate, for example, to their characteristics, health, views, place of residence, habits, race or religion.

2. What personal data do we mean in our case?

We process data provided to us by our Clients, Contractors and Employees in connection with the use of our services, cooperation with us or employment.

3. What does processing data mean?

Processing means any operation we can perform on personal data – both active use,  such as  collection,  retrieval, recording, combining, modification or disclosure, and passive use, such as storage, restriction, erasure or destruction.

4. Who is the Data Controller (that is, who decides how the data is processed and secured)?

The controller of your data is ODLEWNIA ŻELIWA LISIE KĄTY Sławomir i Bogusław Mioduszewscy Sp.J., ul. Lisie Kąty 7, 86‑302 GRUDZIĄDZ, Poland, REGON: 870325145, VAT no.: 8761009243

5. On what legal basis and for what purpose do we process your data?

Every processing of your data must rest on an appropriate legal basis compliant with the applicable law.  That basis may be your consent to the processing, or other provisions allowing it, set out in 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 (referred to as the „GDPR”), or in various national acts such as statutes or regulations.

We may process your data for several different purposes, for example:

• You can share your data with us by sending an e‑mail; we then process it on the basis of the consent you give automatically the moment you send us your data (e.g. an e‑mail address). Your consent is voluntary – remember that you can withdraw it at any time. In that case we will immediately delete all the information you provided, unless you have become our Client.
• If you are our Client or a person interested in using the services we provide, we process your data in connection with the contract concluded with you or in preparation for concluding such a contract. This always happens with your knowledge and consent. When you express the intention to enter into a contract, you know what personal data will be needed to sign it, and once it is signed you know what data you have provided or will provide at a later date,
• We may also process your data because we have to ensure the security of our IT network and information. This happens when you use our IT infrastructure or connect to it, for example by visiting our website or sending us messages. This is our legitimate interest.
• If you are interested in working with us, your data is processed in the form of the application or CV you send. This happens with your knowledge and written consent, which you may withdraw at any time. In that case we will not consider your application and will immediately delete all the data you provided. Once you are employed by us, the further rules of data processing and the mandatory scope of its transfer and storage are set out in labour law.

6. Who do we pass your data to?

In accordance with the applicable law, we may pass your data to entities processing it on our behalf, such as a postal operator, an accounting office, IT service providers or other subcontractors of our services indicated in the contract concluded with you. We are also obliged to make it available at the request of entities authorised to do so under other legal provisions (e.g. courts or law enforcement authorities). Disclosure will only take place if they submit a request to us, indicating the legal basis that entitles them  to make such a demand.

We do not envisage transferring your data to third countries or international organisations, that is outside the economic area of the European Union. Within the European Union, thanks to the GDPR, you are guaranteed an identical level of protection of your data in all member states.  The text of the GDPR is available at:

http://eur‑lex.europa.eu/legal‑content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L:2016:119:TOC

7. How long will we process your data?

We take great care to limit both the scope of the data we collect and the time we process it to the necessary minimum. To that end we systematically review the paper and electronic documents we hold, removing those that are no longer needed. Remember that the processing time of your data, depending on the basis on which we obtained it, may be determined by separate legal provisions beyond our control, which may oblige us to store your data regardless of your will or wish. Labour law, social insurance law and accounting regulations are examples.

If you used our services in person and we concluded a contract to that effect, then in accordance with accounting regulations we will hold your data in the financial and accounting documentation created as a result and process it for 5 consecutive calendar years from the date of purchase or conclusion of the contract.

If the data we hold were to be used for a purpose other than the one for which it was obtained, we will always inform you about it and you will be able to object.

8. What rights do you have in relation to your data?

If we process your personal data, you always have the right to:

• request access to the data – within the limits of Article 15 of the GDPR,
• have it rectified – within the limits of Article 16 of the GDPR,
• request its erasure – within the limits of Article 17 of the GDPR,,
• or restrict the processing – within the limits of Article 18 of the GDPR,
• object to the processing of the data – within the limits of Article 21 of the GDPR,
• data portability, including obtaining a copy of it – within the limits of Article 20 of the GDPR.

All these rights are discussed in detail in Articles 15 to 21 of the GDPR, the text of which is available at:

http://eur‑lex.europa.eu/legal‑content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L:2016:119:TOC

You may also withdraw your consent to the processing of personal data; in that case we will immediately delete your personal data, unless a legal obligation requires us to continue processing it.  For example, if you request the removal of your e‑mail address because you no longer want the newsletter, we will immediately delete it  from the mailing database.

If you consider that we have in any way – which of course we do not want – infringed your rights or failed to keep your personal data secure, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority, which in Poland is currently the President of the Personal Data Protection Office.

9. Automated decision‑making and information about profiling.

We do not take any decisions based on your data that would be automated, that is, made without human involvement. Nor do we take any action aimed at profiling you.

10. How do we protect your data?

To keep your data secure we apply the organisational and technical measures required by law. At our premises we have installed the necessary physical safeguards to prevent unauthorised persons from accessing the data. Our employees hold the required authorisations and may process data only to a limited extent, that is only as far as is necessary for the proper performance of their duties.

11. Protecting the privacy of minors

Our website does not monitor or verify information about the age of users, senders or recipients of messages. Contact details from visitors (such as telephone numbers and e‑mail addresses of users) are used to fulfil orders or to send information about our company.

Minors should not send any information, place orders or subscribe to services provided by our company without the consent of their parents or legal guardians. We will require such consent whenever we learn that a user is a minor (a „child”) within the meaning of national data protection law.

II. Cookies

1. What are cookies and what are they for?

Cookies are text files saved on your device and used by the server to recognise that device when it connects again. Cookies are read every time you „enter” and „leave” the website. Cookies do not serve to establish your identity, only that of your device – among other things so that, once the browser you use  has been recognised,  the image displayed is matched as closely as possible to the technical capabilities of the equipment (e.g. its resolution) or its type (a „stationary” –  desktop or mobile version).

Cookies are most often used for counters, polls, online shops, pages requiring a login, advertising and monitoring visitor activity. Cookies also make it possible, among other things, to remember your interests and adapt websites to them in terms of the content displayed and the advertising shown.

Practically all services operating on the Internet use cookies today – search engines, information pages, blogs, online shops, government websites, magazines and newspapers, and so on. Our website uses them too.

More information about cookies can be found at: www.allaboutcookies.org

2. What do cookies do?

In general they work on the following principles:

• they identify the data of the computer and browser used to view websites – they make it possible, for example, to find out whether a given computer has already visited the site,
• data obtained from „cookies” is in no way combined with users’ personal data obtained, for example, during registration on a service,
• they are harmful neither to you nor to your computers or smartphones – they do not affect the way they work,
• they do not cause configuration changes in end devices or in the software installed on those devices,
• the default parameters of „cookies” allow the information they contain to be read only by the server that created them,
• based on your behaviour on the websites you visit, they send information to servers thanks to which the page displayed is better matched to individual preferences.

3. What types of cookies are there?

The following types of cookies occur:

• „Session cookies” are temporary files stored in the browser’s memory until its session ends (that is, until the browser is closed). These files are mandatory for some applications or features to work correctly. Once the browser is closed they should be removed automatically from the device on which you viewed the site,
• „Persistent cookies” make it easier to use frequently visited sites (for example they remember a favourite colour scheme or the menu layout on your favourite pages). These files are stored in an appropriate folder for a longer time, which you can control in the settings of the browser you use. Every time you visit the site, the data from these cookies is sent to the server. This type of cookie is sometimes called „tracking cookies”,
• „Third party cookies” are files usually coming from advertising servers, search servers and so on, cooperating with the owner of a given site. Thanks to them the advertising displayed is matched to your preferences and habits, which in return often allows part of the service’s content to be used free of charge. They are also used to count „clicks” on advertisements, user preferences and so on,

4. Do you have to consent to our use of cookies?

Remember that you can manage „cookies” yourself. This is possible, for example, in the web browsers you use (the mechanism is usually enabled by default). In the most popular browsers you can:

• accept the handling of „cookies”, which will let you make full use of the options offered by websites,
• manage cookies at the level of individual sites chosen by you,
• define settings for different types of „cookie”, for example accepting persistent files as session ones and so on,
• block or delete cookies.

Information on how to enable and disable cookies in the most popular browsers can be found under the following links:

1) Google Chrome

2) Internet Explorer

3) Mozilla Firefox

4) Opera

5) Safari

Leaving your browser settings unchanged means you consent to our use of cookies.  Blocking them or disabling the handling of some of their types may, however, prevent you from using the full functionality of the site or disturb its correct operation.

5. What do we use cookies for?

Both session cookies and persistent cookies are used within the site. We use them for the following purposes:

• creating statistics, which makes it possible to improve the content of the pages, their structure and content,
• maintaining the session of the site’s User.

For the site to display correctly the following information is collected: the name and version of the web browser, language settings, the date and time the request was sent to the server, the IP from which the request was sent, and the requested URL.  This data is collected in order to allow the site to work properly.

A web analytics tool – Google Analytics – is used to create statistics; it  collects data and uses its own cookies in accordance with Google’s Privacy Policy, available at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

Google collects on its servers the data obtained from placing cookies on devices  and uses this information to create reports and provide other services relating to Internet traffic and use. Google may also pass this information to third parties if required to do so by law, or where those parties process such information on Google’s behalf.

Data collected by our site is not disclosed or made available to third parties, except for the relevant law enforcement authorities entitled to conduct criminal proceedings initiated at our request. This will happen only if you take action that is unlawful or harmful to us.