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A formal piece of information at the beginning – the administrator of the site is
Natalia Podatki w Holandii
T.a.v Natalia Dawiec
Stoomloggerweg 8
3133KT Vlaardingen
This privacy policy has been constructed in the form of questions and answers. The choice of this form was dictated by the care for the clarity and readability of the information presented to you. Below you will find the table of contents of this policy corresponding to the questions we answer in turn.
1: Who is the administrator 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 did we get your personal data from?
5: Is your data safe?
6: For what purposes do we process your personal data?
User account – details
Orders – details
Complaints and withdrawals from the contract – details
Newsletter – details
Comments and opinions about products – details
Correspondence service – details
Tax and accounting obligations – details
Archive – details
Own marketing – details
Analysis, statistics, optimization – details
7: How long will we store your personal data?
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 regarding 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: What third-party cookies are used?
Google Analytics – details
Google Tag Manager – details
Google AdWords – details
Google AdSense – details
17: Do we track your behaviors on our website?
18: Do we direct targeted ads to you?
§ 19: How can you manage your privacy?
20: What are server logs?
21: Is there anything else you should know?
If you have any doubts related to the privacy policy, you can contact us at any time by sending a message to ………..@………….
1: Who is the administrator of your personal data?
The administrator of your personal data is
Natalia Podatki w Holandii
T.a.v Natalia Dawiec
Stoomloggerweg 8
3133KT Vlaardingen
2: Who can you contact regarding the processing of your personal data?
As part of the implementation of personal data protection in our organization, we have decided not to appoint a personal data protection inspector because it is not mandatory in our situation. In matters related to the protection of personal data and broadly understood privacy, you can contact us at the e-mail address info@nataliapodatki.nl
3: What information do we have about you?
Depending on the purpose, we may process the following information about you:
name and surname, residential address, business activity address, tax identification number (NIP), e-mail address, phone number, data contained in correspondence addressed to us, bank account number, IP address, image (profile photo).
We have described the scope of processed data precisely in relation to each purpose of processing. Information in this regard can be found in the further part of this policy.
§ 4: Where did we get your personal data from?
In most cases, you provide it to us yourself. This happens when:
you register a user account, you place an order, you send a complaint or withdraw from the contract, you sign up for the newsletter, you add a comment or an opinion about a product, you contact us.
Additionally, some information about you may be automatically collected by the tools we use:
the mechanism of the website and the newsletter system collect your IP address, the website mechanism collects information about the products you viewed, the details of the orders placed, including those unfinished, the newsletter system mechanism collects information about your activity in relation to the content sent to you as part of the newsletter, such as opening messages, clicking on links, etc., Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel collect a number of information about how you use our website.[WW1]
5: Is your data safe?
We care about the security of your personal data. We have analyzed the risks associated with individual data processing processes, and then implemented appropriate data security and personal data protection measures. We continuously monitor the state of our technical infrastructure, train our staff, review the procedures applied, and introduce necessary improvements. If you have any questions about your personal data, we are at your disposal at the address info@nataliapodatki.nl
6: What are the purposes of processing your personal data?
There are more than one reasons. Below is a list of them, followed by a more detailed discussion. We have also assigned the appropriate legal bases for processing to each purpose.
- User account registration and maintenance – Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR,
- Order processing – Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR,
- Handling complaints or withdrawal from contracts – Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR,
- Newsletter distribution – Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR,
- Handling comments or reviews about a product – Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR,
- Correspondence management – Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR,
- Fulfilling tax and accounting obligations – Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR,
- Creating an archive for potential defense, claims establishment or pursuit, as well as for identifying returning customers [WW2] – Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR,
- Own marketing – Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR,
- Analysis, statistics, and optimization – Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.[WW3]
User Account – Details When setting up a user account, you must provide data necessary to create an account: an email address and a password. Providing this information is voluntary but necessary to create an account.
During account data editing, you may provide additional data, especially those that can be used when placing orders, such as your name and surname, residential or business address, tax identification number, phone number. You may also set up your avatar, e.g., a profile picture including your likeness.
If you create an account through integration with a social media account, based on your prior authorization, we will access certain data collected within your social media account (name and surname, email address, profile picture).
Additionally, our system used for user account management saves your IP address used when registering a user account.
Moreover, we utilize the integration of Google Analytics with the user account mechanism. In this way, the data collected by Google Analytics tracking code about your use of our website is assigned to your user account. This includes information such as:
We analyze such information about you to optimize our websites in terms of user experience, effectiveness, and conversion, which constitutes our legally justified interest mentioned in Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
You can modify the information about you provided to us in connection with the registration of a user account at any time. However, in the case where you have created an account using integration with a social media account, the data obtained from this social media service cannot be modified.
The data provided by you in connection with the creation of an account is processed to provide you with an electronic service that allows you to use the user account. This service is provided based on the contract concluded under the terms described in the regulations, which means that in this respect, the legal basis for processing your personal data is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.
Data will be stored for the duration of the user account’s existence. At any time, you can decide to delete your account, but this will not lead to the deletion of information about your orders placed using the account. Order data is stored in our archive until the expiration of the limitation period for claims from the contract / for the entire period of the website’s operation due to the need to identify returning customers, recreate their purchase history, granted discounts, etc., which constitutes our legally justified interest mentioned in Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
Orders – Details When placing an order, you must provide data necessary to fulfill the order. Depending on the order details, the data catalog may vary. For example, if you order physical products, we need to know the address to deliver the order. If you request a VAT invoice for a company, we need to know the tax identification number and the business address. Providing this information is voluntary but necessary to place an order.
Additionally, our system used for handling the ordering process, records your IP address used when placing an order.
Each order is recorded in our database, which means that your personal data assigned to the order is accompanied by information about the order, such as ordered products, chosen payment method, chosen delivery method, payment deadline.
Data collected in connection with the order is processed to perform the contract concluded by placing the order (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR), issue an invoice (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR in connection with regulations governing invoice issuance), consider the invoice in accounting documentation, and fulfill other tax and accounting obligations (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR in connection with regulations governing tax and accounting obligations) and for archival purposes for potential defense, claims establishment or pursuit, as well as identifying returning customers, which constitutes our legally justified interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
Order data will be processed for the time necessary to fulfill the order, and then until the expiration of the limitation period for claims from the contract. Additionally, after this period, data may still be processed by us for archival purposes for potential defense, claims establishment or pursuit, as well as identifying returning customers. Remember also that we are obliged to keep accounting documentation, which may contain your personal data, for the period required by law.
Complaints and Withdrawal from Contracts – Details If you submit a complaint or withdraw from a contract, you provide personal data contained in the content of the complaint or the statement of withdrawal, which includes name and surname, residential address, phone number, email address, bank account number. Providing this data is voluntary but necessary to submit a complaint or withdraw from a contract.
Data provided to us in connection with the submission of a complaint or withdrawal from the contract is used to carry out the complaint procedure or the withdrawal procedure, and then for archival purposes, which constitutes our legally justified interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
Data will be processed for the time necessary to carry out the complaint procedure or withdrawal procedure. Complaint documents will be stored until the expiration of warranty rights. Statements of withdrawal from the contract will be stored with accounting documentation for the period required by law.
Newsletter – Details By signing up for the newsletter, you provide us with your name and email address. Providing this data is voluntary but necessary to sign up for the newsletter.
Additionally, our system used for handling the newsletter records your IP address used when signing up for the newsletter, determines your approximate location, the email client you use to handle emails, and tracks your actions taken in connection with the messages sent to you. In this regard, we also have information about which messages you opened, in which messages you clicked on links, etc.
The data provided by you in connection with signing up for the newsletter is used to send you the newsletter, and the legal basis for their processing is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) expressed during signing up for the newsletter. As for the processing of information that does not come from you but has been automatically collected by our mailing system, we rely on our legally justified interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) in analyzing 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 found in each message sent as part of the newsletter or simply by contacting us. Despite unsubscribing from the newsletter, your data will still be stored in our database to identify returning subscribers and potentially defend claims related to sending you the newsletter, particularly to demonstrate the fact of your consent to receive the newsletter and the moment of its withdrawal, which constitutes our legally justified interest mentioned in Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
You can modify your data provided for 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 Reviews about Products – Details When adding a comment or review about a product, you must provide at least a username, which will be assigned to the comment or review (the name may contain personal data, such as your first or last name) and an email address. Providing this data is voluntary but necessary to add a comment or review. You can also add your avatar (may contain your likeness, e.g., a photo) and provide your website address, but this is not mandatory.
Data provided in connection with adding a comment or review will be processed to publish the comment or review on the site. The basis for processing is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a)) resulting from submitting the form used to publish the comment or review. You can withdraw consent at any time, requesting the removal of the comment or review.
Your comment or review will be publicly available on the site for as long as it is accessible on the Internet unless you request the removal of the comment or review earlier. At any time, you can also modify the content of the comment, as well as modify the data assigned to it as the person who added the comment or review.
Correspondence Management – Details By contacting us, you naturally provide us with your personal data contained in the content of the correspondence, especially the email address and name and surname. Providing this data is voluntary but necessary to make contact.
In this case, your data is processed to contact you, and the basis for processing is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, i.e., our legally justified interest. The legal basis for processing after the contact has ended is also our justified purpose in archiving correspondence for the future possibility of demonstrating certain facts (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
Order-related data will be processed for the duration necessary to fulfill the order, and then until the expiration of the limitation period for claims under the concluded contract. Furthermore, after this period, data may still be processed by us for archival purposes for potential needs of defense, establishment, or pursuit of claims, as well as for identifying returning customers. Remember also that we are obligated to retain accounting documentation, which may contain your personal data, for the period required by law.
Complaints and Withdrawals from Contracts – Details If you submit a complaint or withdraw from a contract, you provide personal data contained in the complaint or the withdrawal statement, which includes your name and surname, residential address, phone number, email address, and bank account number. Providing this data is voluntary but necessary to submit a complaint or withdraw from the contract.
Data provided to us in connection with the submission of a complaint or withdrawal from the contract are used for the purpose of carrying out the complaint procedure or withdrawal procedure, and then for archival purposes, which constitutes our legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR).
Data will be processed for the time necessary to carry out the complaint procedure or withdrawal procedure. Complaint documents will be stored until the expiration of the warranty rights period. Withdrawal statements will be stored along with accounting documentation for the period required by law.
Newsletter – Details By signing up for the newsletter, you provide us with your name and email address. Providing this data is voluntary but necessary to subscribe to the newsletter.
Additionally, our system used for managing the newsletter records your IP address used when signing up, determines your approximate location, the email client you use, and tracks your actions taken in connection with the messages sent to you. Therefore, we also have information about which messages you opened, in which messages you clicked on links, etc.
Data provided by you in connection with the newsletter subscription are used to send you the newsletter, and the legal basis for their processing is your consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR) expressed during the subscription. Regarding the processing of information not provided by you but automatically collected by our mailing system, we rely on our legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR) in analyzing the behavior of newsletter subscribers to optimize mailing activities.
You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time by clicking on the dedicated link in each message sent as part of the newsletter or simply by contacting us. Despite unsubscribing, your data will still be stored in our database for the purpose of identifying a returning subscriber and any defense of claims related to sending you the newsletter, in particular to demonstrate the fact of your consent to receive the newsletter and the moment of its withdrawal, which constitutes our legitimate interest, as referred to in Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR.
You can modify your data provided for 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.
Product Comments and Opinions – Details When adding a comment or opinion about a product, you must provide at least a username, which will be assigned to the comment or opinion (the name may contain personal data, such as first or last name), and an email address. Providing this data is voluntary but necessary to add a comment or opinion. You may also add your avatar (which may contain your image, e.g., a photo) and provide the address of your website, but this is not mandatory.
The data provided in connection with adding a comment or opinion will be processed for the purpose of publishing the comment or opinion on the website. The basis for processing is your consent (Article 6(1)(a)) resulting from submitting the form used to publish the comment or opinion. You can withdraw your consent at any time, requesting the deletion of your comment or opinion.
Your comment or opinion will be publicly available on the website for the duration of its availability on the Internet unless you request the removal of the comment or opinion earlier. You can also modify the content of the comment, as well as modify the data assigned to it as about the person who added the comment or opinion.
Correspondence Handling – Details By contacting us, you naturally provide us with your personal data contained in the content of the correspondence, in particular your email address and name. Providing this data is voluntary but necessary to establish contact.
Your data in this case are processed for the purpose of contacting you, and the basis for processing is Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR, i.e., our legitimate interest. The legal basis for processing after the end of the contact is also our justified purpose of archiving correspondence for future proof of certain facts (Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR).
The content of the correspondence may be archived, and we are unable to unequivocally determine when it will be deleted. You have the right to request the history of correspondence you have conducted with us (if it has been archived), as well as to request its deletion, unless its archiving is justified due to our overriding interests, e.g., defense against potential claims from you.
Tax and Accounting Obligations – Details If we issue an invoice on your behalf, it becomes part of the accounting documentation, which will be stored for the period required by law. Your personal data in such a situation are processed for the purpose of fulfilling the tax and accounting obligations incumbent on us (Article 6(1)(c) of the GDPR in connection with the regulations governing tax and accounting obligations).
Archive – Details In the description of each purpose of personal data processing provided above, we have indicated the retention periods for personal data. These periods are often related to archiving specific data by us for future proof of certain facts, reconstruction of the course of cooperation with the client, exchanged correspondence, defense, establishment, or pursuit of claims. We base this on our legitimate interest, as referred to in Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR.
Own Marketing – Details On our website, we use a mechanism for recovering abandoned carts. If you start the order process but do not complete it, our system will record this fact in order to take action to encourage you to finalize the order. These actions may include, in particular, sending you an email encouraging you to finalize the order or displaying targeted advertising while browsing the Internet.
Our site may also collect information about your activity and display targeted ads to you while browsing the Internet based on this. However, if you are not a registered user, the information used for this purpose does not constitute personal data. Only when combined with your personal data collected in the user account do they take on the character of personal data.
The above actions are carried out based on our legitimate interest, as referred to in Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR, consisting of marketing our own products.
Analysis, Statistics, Optimization – Details We collect statistical information about user behavior when browsing our websites, such as clicks on links, transitions between sub-pages, time spent on individual pages, etc. This information is analyzed to optimize our pages in terms of user experience, effectiveness, and conversion. In most cases, information processed in this way does not constitute personal data. The exception is when you are a registered user. Then we can combine this information with other data collected in your user account.
The above actions are carried out based on our legitimate interest, as referred to in Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR, consisting of optimizing our websites.
7: How Long Will We Store Your Personal Data?
The retention periods for data have been specified separately in relation to each purpose of processing. You can find this information in the details dedicated to each separate processing purpose.
8: Who Are the Recipients of Your Personal Data?
We risk saying 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. External service providers who participate in processing your personal data include:
- Hosting provider, who stores data on the server,
- Cloud computing service provider, where backup copies containing your personal data are stored,
- Mailing system provider, where your data is stored if you are a newsletter subscriber,
- CRM system provider, where we store your data to improve customer service and for archival purposes,
- Invoicing system provider, where your data is stored for the purpose of issuing invoices,
- Accounting office, which processes your data visible on invoices,
- Courier companies, which process your data as necessary to deliver your order,
- Law firm, which gains access to data if necessary to provide legal assistance on our behalf,
- Technical support service provider, who gains access to data if technical work involves areas where personal data is located,
- Other subcontractors, who gain access to data if the scope of their activities requires such access.
Your personal data may also be transferred to tax offices as necessary to fulfill tax and accounting obligations. This particularly concerns all declarations, reports, statements, and other accounting documents that contain your personal data.
Furthermore, if necessary, your personal data may be made available to entities, authorities, or institutions authorized to access data under legal provisions, such as police, security services, courts, prosecutors.
Moreover, we use tools that collect a range of information about your use of our website. This includes, in particular, the following information:
- Information about the operating system and internet browser you use,
- Visited pages,
- Time spent on the site,
- Transitions between individual sub-pages,
- Clicks on specific links,
- The source from which you came to our site,
- Your age range,
- Your gender,
- Your approximate location limited to the city.
- Your interests determined based on online activity.
These pieces of information, in our assessment, do not constitute personal data themselves. Since these pieces of information are collected through external tools we use, they are also processed by the tool providers based on their terms and privacy policies. Essentially, this information is used to provide and improve services, manage them, develop new services, measure the effectiveness of advertisements, protect against fraud and abuse, and personalize content and ads displayed in various services, sites, and applications. We have tried to describe the details in this regard in the further part of this policy, in the explanations dedicated to individual tools.
9: Do We Transfer Your Data to Third Countries or International Organizations?
Yes, some of the operations for processing your personal data may involve transferring them to third countries.
We transfer your personal data to third countries in connection with using tools that store personal data on servers located in third countries, especially in the USA. Providers of these tools guarantee an adequate level of personal data protection through appropriate compliance mechanisms provided by the GDPR, particularly 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 framework of the following tools:
Both Rocket Science Group LLC and Google Ireland Limited ensure an adequate level of personal data protection by using compliance mechanisms envisaged by the GDPR, particularly by joining the Privacy Shield program. Below are links to the Privacy Shield program participation confirmations, where you can learn about the processing of personal data by these entities.
- Privacy Shield Participant – Rocket Science Group LLC
- Privacy Shield Participant – Google Ireland Limited
We also remind you that we use external tools that may collect anonymous information about you. We have already mentioned this several times in this policy, including in response to the previous question. Providers of these tools often use servers located around the world, particularly in the United States of America (USA), to store the collected information.
10: Do We Use Profiling? Do We Make Automated Decisions Based on Your Personal Data?
We do not make decisions based solely on automated processing, including profiling, that would have legal effects on you or similarly significantly affect you.
Yes, we use tools that may take specific actions based on information collected through tracking mechanisms, but we believe these actions do not significantly 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 may, for example, direct personalized advertisements to you based on previous actions you have taken on our site or suggest products that may interest you. This is referred to as behavioral advertising. We encourage you to deepen your knowledge about behavioral advertising, especially regarding privacy issues. Detailed information, along with the ability to manage settings in the area of behavioral advertising, can be found here: Your Online Choices.
We emphasize that within the tools we use, we do not have access to information that would allow your identification. The information we are talking about here, in particular, includes:
- The information indicated above is not combined with your personal data in our databases. This information is anonymous and does not allow us to identify you. This information is stored on servers of individual tool providers, and these servers are often located worldwide.
The exception to the anonymous nature of the information mentioned above occurs when you have a user account. Then this information may be combined with your data collected in the user account. However, even then, we do not make decisions based solely on automated processing, including profiling, that would have legal effects on you or similarly significantly affect you. We believe that actions regarding directing advertisements to you based on your activity on our site and taking optimization actions do not significantly affect you. Therefore, in this regard, we rely on our legitimate interest, as referred to in Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR.
11: What Rights Do You Have Regarding the Processing of Your Personal Data?
The GDPR grants you the following potential rights related to the processing of your personal data:
- The right of access to your data and to receive a copy of it,
- The right to rectification (correction) of your data,
- The right to erasure of data (if you believe there is no basis for us to process your data, you can request that we delete it),
- The right to restrict data processing (you can request that we limit the processing of data only to its storage or to perform actions agreed upon with you, if in your opinion we have incorrect data or process it without a basis),
- The right to object to data processing (you have the right to object to the processing of data based on a legally justified interest; you should indicate a special situation which, in your opinion, justifies us stopping the processing covered by the objection; we will stop processing your data for these purposes unless we demonstrate that the bases for processing by us are overriding your rights or that your data is necessary for us to establish, pursue, or defend claims),
- The right to data portability (you have the right to receive from us in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format personal data that you have provided to us based on a contract or your consent; you can instruct us to send this data directly to another entity),
- The right to withdraw consent for the processing of personal data if you have previously expressed such consent,
- The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (if you find that we process data contrary to the law, you can file a complaint about this to the President of the Personal Data Protection Office or another appropriate supervisory authority).
The rules related to the exercise of the above rights have been described in detail in Articles 16 – 21 of the GDPR. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with these regulations. From our side, it is necessary to clarify that the above rights are not absolute and will not be available to you in relation to all data processing activities.
We emphasize that one of the rights mentioned above always applies to you – if you believe that in processing your personal data we have violated data protection regulations, you have the possibility to file a complaint with the supervisory authority (President of the Personal Data Protection Office).
You can also always contact us with a request to provide you with information about what data we hold about you and for what purposes we process it. Simply send a message to the email address info@nataliapodatki.nl. However, we have made every effort to ensure that the information you are interested in is comprehensively presented in this privacy policy. You can also use the above email address for any questions related to the processing of your personal data.
12: Do We Use Cookies and What Exactly Are They?
Our website, like almost all other websites, uses cookies.
Cookies are small text files stored on your terminal device (e.g., computer, tablet, smartphone) that can be read by our IT system (own cookies) or third-party IT systems (third-party cookies). Cookies can store and retain certain information, which IT systems can then access for specific purposes.
Some of the cookies we use are deleted at the end of the internet browser session, i.e., after it is closed (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, for example, consult this material: Wikipedia – HTTP Cookie.
13: On What Basis Do We Use Cookies?
We use cookies based on your consent, except in situations where cookies are necessary for the proper provision of electronic services to you.
Cookies that are not necessary for the proper provision of electronic services remain blocked until you express your consent to our use of cookies. During your first visit to our site, we display a message asking for your consent along with the possibility of managing cookies, i.e., deciding which cookies you agree to and which you want to block.
Regarding your consent to cookies, we adopt the variant according to which you express such consent through the settings of your internet browser or additional software supporting the management of cookies. We assume that you consent to all cookies used by us that are not blocked by your browser or additional software that you use.
Remember that disabling or limiting the handling of cookies can prevent the use of some of the functions available on the site and cause difficulties in using our site, as well as many other websites that use cookies. For example, if you block cookies from social media plugins, buttons, widgets, and social functions implemented on our site may be unavailable to you.
14: Can You Disable Cookies?
Yes, you can manage cookie settings within your internet browser. You can block all or selected cookies. You can also block cookies from specific sites. At any time, you can also delete previously saved cookies and other site and plugin data.
Internet browsers also offer the possibility of using incognito mode. You can use it if you do not want information about visited pages and downloaded files to be saved in your browsing and download history. Cookies created in incognito mode are deleted when all windows of this mode are closed.
There are also browser plugins available that allow control over cookies, such as Ghostery (https://www.ghostery.com). Additional software, especially antivirus packages, etc., may also provide the option to control cookies.
Moreover, online tools are available that allow control over certain types of cookies, especially collective management of behavioral advertising settings (e.g., www.youronlinechoices.com/, www.networkadvertising.org/choices).
We also give you the ability to control cookies directly from our site. We have implemented a special mechanism for managing cookies, allowing you to block those cookies you do not want.
Remember that disabling or limiting the handling of cookies can prevent the use of some of the functions available on our site and cause difficulties in using our site, as well as many other websites that use cookies. For example, if you block cookies from social media plugins, buttons, widgets, and social functions implemented on our site may be unavailable to you.
15: For What Purposes Do We Use Our Own Cookies?
Our own cookies are used to ensure the proper functioning of various mechanisms of the site, such as maintaining the session after logging into the account, remembering recently viewed products, and products added to the cart.
Own cookies also store information about your defined cookie settings made from the cookie management mechanism.
Our own cookies are also used to support the mechanism for recovering abandoned carts.
16: What Third-Party Cookies Are Used?
The following third-party cookies are used on our site:
- Google Analytics,
- Google Tag Manager,
- Google AdWords,
- Google AdSense,
- Facebook Custom Audiences,
- Social networking tools cookies from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest,
- Disqus,
- Hotjar,
- SoundCloud,
- YouTube.
Details concerning individual third-party cookies have been described below.
Google Analytics – Details We use the Google Analytics tool provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. We base these activities on our legitimate interest, which involves creating statistics and analyzing them to optimize our websites.
To use Google Analytics, we have implemented a special tracking code of Google Analytics in the code of our site. The tracking code uses cookies from Google LLC related to the Google Analytics service. At any time, you can block the Google Analytics tracking code by installing a browser add-on provided by Google: Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Google Analytics automatically collects information about your use of our site. The information collected in this way is most often transmitted to Google servers, which can be located all over the world, and stored there.
Due to the activated IP address anonymization, your IP address is shortened before being forwarded. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to Google servers and shortened there. The anonymized IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is generally not combined with other Google data.
We emphasize that within Google Analytics, we do not collect any data that would allow your identification. Therefore, the data collected as part of Google Analytics do not constitute personal data for us. The information we have access to within Google Analytics includes, in particular:
- Information about the operating system and internet browser you use,
- Subpages you view within our site,
- Time spent on our site and its subpages,
- Transitions between individual subpages,
- The source from which you came to our site.
Additionally, within Google Analytics, we use the following Advertising Features:
- In the context of Advertising Features, we also do not collect personal data. The information we have access to includes, in particular:
- Your age range,
- Your gender,
- Your approximate location limited to the city,
- Your interests determined based on online activity.
Google Analytics and Google Analytics 360 services have obtained the ISO 27001 independent security standard certification. ISO 27001 is one of the most widely recognized standards worldwide and attests to the compliance with relevant requirements by the systems that handle Google Analytics and Google Analytics 360.
If you are interested in details related to Google’s use of data from sites and apps that use Google services, we encourage you to review this information: Google’s Privacy & Terms – 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, which enables the management of tags, i.e., small code fragments that allow us to control user traffic and behavior, gather information about the effectiveness of advertisements, and undertake actions aimed at improving our website. Google Tag Manager does not collect any information that would enable your identification. However, this tool triggers other tags, which in turn may collect data.
Google AdWords – Details We utilize the remarketing features available within the Google AdWords system operated by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. These activities are carried out based on our legitimate interest in marketing our own products or services. During your visit to our website, a Google remarketing cookie is automatically placed on your device, which collects information about your activity on our site. Thanks to the information gathered in this way, we can display advertisements to you within the Google network based on your behavior on our site. For instance, if you view a certain product, this fact will be recorded by the remarketing cookie, enabling us to direct an advertisement about that product or any other we deem appropriate to you. This advertisement will be displayed to you within the Google network as you use the internet and browse other websites, etc.
We emphasize that we, using Google Ads, do not collect any data that would allow your identification. Any combination of data in such a way that they take on the character of personal data may be performed by Google, but in this respect, we no longer bear responsibility, as Google carries out these actions based on the agreement you have as a user of Google services.
Using Google AdWords, we are only able to define the audience groups we would like our advertisements to reach. Based on this, Google decides when and how to present our advertisement to you.
Further processing of information takes place only when you have consented to Google combining your browsing history with your account and using information from your Google account to personalize the advertisements displayed on websites. In such a situation, Google will use your data to create and define lists of target groups for remarketing purposes across different devices. For this purpose, Google temporarily combines collected information with other data it possesses to create target groups.
If you do not wish to receive personalized advertisements, you can manage your advertisement settings directly on the Google site: https://adssettings.google.com/.
If you are interested in the details related to the use of data by Google from websites and applications that use Google services, we encourage you to familiarize yourself with this information: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Google AdSense – Details We display advertisements on our pages within the Google AdSense network operated by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. These activities are carried out based on our legitimate interest in monetizing the content we publish.
Our site, in connection with displaying advertisements within the AdSense network, contains advertising tags that instruct your web browser to send a request for advertising content from Google servers. Along with the advertising content, the server also sends a cookie file. Cookies are used to display advertisements based on your previous visits to our site or other websites. AdSense also uses cookies to improve the quality of ads, often including targeting ads based on topics that interest you, improving campaign effectiveness reports, and avoiding ads you have already seen.
We emphasize that we, using Google AdSense, do not collect any data that would allow your identification. Any combination of data in such a way that they take on the character of personal data may be performed by Google, but in this respect, we no longer bear responsibility, as Google carries out these actions based on the agreement you have as a user of Google services.
Further processing of information takes place only when you have consented to Google combining your browsing history with your account and using information from your Google account to personalize the advertisements displayed on websites. In such a situation, Google will use your data to create and define lists of target groups for remarketing purposes across different devices. For this purpose, Google temporarily combines collected information with other data it possesses to create target groups.
If you do not wish to receive personalized advertisements, you can manage your advertisement settings directly on the Google site: https://adssettings.google.com/.
If you are interested in the details related to the use of data by Google from websites and applications that use Google services, we encourage you to familiarize yourself with this information: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Facebook Custom Audiences – Details Within the Facebook Ads system provided by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA, we use the Custom Audiences function to target specific user groups with targeted advertising messages. These activities are carried out based on our legitimate interest in marketing our own products or services.
To target personalized ads to you based on your behavior on our site, we have implemented the Facebook Pixel within our site, which automatically collects information about your use of our site. The information collected in this way is most often transmitted to Facebook’s servers, which may be located worldwide, particularly in the United States of America (USA).
Information collected via the Facebook Pixel is anonymous, i.e., it does not allow us to identify you. Depending on your activity on our pages, you may fall into a certain audience group, but we do not identify individual persons belonging to these groups.
However, we inform you that Facebook may combine the collected information with other information about you gathered while you use the Facebook service and use it for its own purposes, including marketing. Such actions by Facebook are no longer dependent on us, and you can find information about them directly in Facebook’s privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation. You can also manage your privacy settings from your Facebook account. Here you will find useful information in this regard: https://www.facebook.com/ads/settings.
Social Networking Tools – Details On our website, we use plugins, buttons, and other social networking tools, collectively referred to as “plugins,” provided by social networking services such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest.
Displaying our website containing a plugin from a given social network service, your browser transmits information about the visit to the administrator of that social network. Since the plugin is a part of the social network service embedded in our site, the browser sends information about the request to download content from that social network service to our site.
Plugins collect certain information about you, such as your user ID, the visited website, date and time, and other information related to your web browser.
Social network service administrators use some of this information to personalize your viewing conditions of our site. For example, when you visit a page with a “Like” button, the social network service 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 service 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 information collected by plugins is subsequently used by social network service administrators. You can find details in the terms and privacy policies of individual social network services.
Social network service plugins collect and transmit information to the administrators of these services even when you browse our site without being logged into your account on the social network service. However, the browser sends a more limited set of information in this case.
If you are logged into one of the social network services, the administrator of the service can directly assign the visit to our site to your profile in the given social network service.
If you do not want social network services to assign data collected during visits to our website directly to your profile in the given service, you must log out of the service before visiting our site. You can also completely prevent the loading of plugins on the site by using appropriate extensions for your browser, e.g., script blocking.
Additionally, the use of some plugins may involve publishing certain information within your social network profiles. For example, information about clicks on the “Like” button may be available on your timeline on Facebook. Naturally, if you share any content in your social media using plugins embedded on our site, such sharing will be visible in your profile.
For details related to the processing by social network service administrators of information collected by plugins, in particular the purpose and scope of data collection and their further processing and use by administrators, as well as the possibility of contact and your rights in this regard and the ability to make settings to protect your privacy, you can find everything in the privacy policies of individual service providers:
Disqus – Details On our website, we use the Disqus comment system operated by an external entity, Disqus, Inc., 717 Market St San Francisco, CA 94103, USA.
When you view a page containing comments managed by the Disqus system, Disqus sends one or more cookies to your device, identifying your web browser. Disqus cookies are responsible for the proper functioning of the comment system, particularly facilitating the login process. Disqus cookies also collect information about how you use our site (e.g., subpages you visit, links you click) to analyze your activity and personalize content displayed within the Disqus system, including advertisements.
If Disqus displays advertisements, it uses technologies supporting this process, such as Google, Polymorph, ServeBid, which may set cookies for marketing personalization, linking ads to subsequent activities, and limiting how often individual ads are displayed to you.
Remember, you use the Disqus commenting system as its own user, based on the terms and conditions and privacy policy of Disqus. Disqus is an independent entity from us, providing electronic services to you. You can find details regarding the use of the Disqus system, including privacy protection, in the documents provided directly by Disqus:
- Terms of Service: Disqus Terms of Service
- Privacy Policy: Disqus Privacy Policy
Hotjar – Details We use the Hotjar tool to better understand your needs and optimize our site in terms of your experiences with it, which constitutes our legally justified interest. The tool is provided by an external entity, 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 the playback of video recordings of their movement on our site, as well as generating so-called heat maps. Within the Hotjar tool, we do not have access to information that would allow us to identify you, as Hotjar does not record the process of filling out forms. Information we have access to within Hotjar includes, in particular:
- Information about the operating system and internet browser you use
- Subpages you view within our service
- Time spent on our site and its subpages
- Transitions between individual subpages within our service
- The source from which you come to our service
- Places you click with the mouse
To use Hotjar, we have implemented a special tracking code of Hotjar in the code of our site. The tracking code uses cookies from Hotjar Limited. The information collected within cookies is stored by Hotjar in the form of an anonymized user profile. Neither Hotjar nor we use this information to identify you.
You can object to the creation of your user profile by Hotjar, the storage of information about your use of our site by Hotjar, and the use of Hotjar cookies here: Hotjar Opt-Out
If you are interested in the details related to data processing within Hotjar, we encourage you to familiarize yourself with Hotjar’s privacy policy: Hotjar Privacy Policy
SoundCloud – Details Our pages embed SoundCloud widgets that allow you to play recordings available on the SoundCloud service directly from our pages. The operator of the SoundCloud service is SoundCloud Limited, Rheinsberger Str. 76/77, 10115 Berlin, Germany.
When you visit a page with an embedded SoundCloud widget, SoundCloud receives certain information, including information about the visited site and interactions with the widget. SoundCloud and the widget can recognize you, especially using cookie technology. SoundCloud uses the information collected in this way to ensure the proper and secure functioning of the widget, analyze and optimize the services provided by SoundCloud, and for personalization and advertising purposes.
Remember, by playing recordings available on SoundCloud, you are using electronic services provided by SoundCloud. SoundCloud is an independent entity from us, providing electronic services to you. You can find details regarding the use of SoundCloud, including privacy protection, in the documents provided directly by SoundCloud:
- Terms of Use: SoundCloud Terms of Use
- Privacy Policy: SoundCloud Privacy Policy
- Cookie Policy: SoundCloud Cookie Policy
YouTube – Details Our pages embed YouTube widgets that allow you to play videos available on the YouTube service directly from our pages. The YouTube service is operated by Google LLC.
Videos are embedded on the page in privacy-enhanced 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 video, YouTube saves cookies on your device and receives information that you played the video from a specific webpage, even if you do not have a Google account or are not currently logged in. If you are logged into your Google account, then this service provider can directly link the visit to our site to your account. The purpose and scope of data collection and their further processing and use by Google, as well as the possibility of contact and your rights in this regard and the ability to make settings to protect your privacy, are described in Google’s privacy policy.
If you do not want Google to link 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 the loading of plugins on the page by using appropriate extensions for your browser, e.g., script blocking.
Information collected within cookies related to videos embedded on our pages from the YouTube service is used by Google to ensure the proper and secure functioning of the widget, analysis, and optimization regarding the services provided by YouTube, as well as for personalization and advertising purposes.
Remember, by playing recordings available on the YouTube service, you are using electronic services provided by Google LLC. Google LLC is an independent entity from us, providing electronic services to you. You can find details regarding the use of YouTube, including privacy protection, in the documents provided directly by YouTube:
- Terms of Service: YouTube Terms of Service
- Privacy Policy: Google Privacy Policy
17: Do We Track Your Behaviors on Our Website?
Yes, we use tools like Google Analytics, Google AdWords, Hotjar, and Facebook Custom Audiences, which involve collecting information about your activities on our site. These tools have been detailed in the section devoted to third-party cookies, so we will not repeat that information here.
18: Do We Direct Targeted Advertisements to You?
Yes, we use Facebook Ads and Google Ads, through which we can direct advertisements to specific target groups defined based on various criteria such as age, gender, interests, profession, employment, and activities previously undertaken on our site. These tools have been detailed in the section devoted to third-party cookies, so we will not repeat that information here.
19: How Can You Manage Your Privacy?
The answer to this question can be found in many places of this privacy policy when describing individual tools, behavioral advertising, consent to cookies, etc. However, for your convenience, we have collected this information again in one place. Below you will find a list of options for managing your privacy:
- Cookie settings within your web browser,
- Browser plugins supporting cookie management, e.g., Ghostery,
- Additional software managing cookies,
- Incognito mode in your web browser,
- Behavioral advertising settings, e.g., youronlinechoices.com,
- Google Analytics Opt-Out,
- Google Ads Settings,
- Facebook Ads Settings,
- Hotjar Opt-Out
20: What Are Server Logs?
Using the website involves sending queries to the server on which the site is stored. Each query directed to the server is recorded in the server logs.
Logs include, among others, your IP address, server date and time, information about your web browser and operating system. Logs are saved and stored on the server.
Data recorded in 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 used for site administration, and their content is not disclosed to anyone except persons authorized to administer the server.
21: Is There Anything Else You Should Know?
As you can see, the subject of personal data processing, the use of cookies, and the management of privacy in general is quite complicated. We have made every effort to ensure that this document provides you with as comprehensive knowledge as possible on important issues for you. If anything is unclear to you, you want to learn more, or simply want to talk about your privacy, write to us at info@nataliapodatki.nl