Privacy Policy
1. In accordance with 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 (General Data Protection Regulation, hereinafter “GDPR”), we kindly inform you that the administrator of your personal data is EU Shields Sp. z o. o. NIP: 7011085601, REGON: 521873940 with its registered office at Al. Jerozolimskie 123a, Warsaw (02-017).
2. To exercise your rights, you can contact the administrator via email at: office@eu-shields.com.
3. We collect and process the following personal data:
3.1. Name and surname or company name, phone number, email address – when filling out the contact form, you will be asked to provide this data in order to send an inquiry.
3.2. IP address – information resulting from general principles of Internet connections, such as the IP address (and other information contained in system logs), is used by the server administrator for technical purposes.
3.3. Cookies – our website uses Cookies technology to customize the service to your individual needs. Users can consent to have entered data remembered and reused during subsequent visits to the website. Owners of other websites will not have access to this data. If you do not agree to personalize the website, we suggest disabling cookies in your web browser’s settings.
4. We do not store confidential data.
5. Your personal data will be processed for the following purposes:
5.1. to fulfill the concluded agreement (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR Dz. Urz. UE. L 2016 No 119), as well as based on separate non-obligatory consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). The legal basis for data processing is the performance of the concluded agreement and your consent.
5.2. for marketing, offering, sending newsletters based on a separate non-obligatory consent;
5.3. for tax and accounting purposes (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR);
5.4. for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims based on a legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR);
5.5. for the establishment and maintenance of business relationships (Art. 6(1)(b) or (f) GDPR);
5.6. for data archiving (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
6. Your personal data may be transferred to third parties for the purpose of processing them to the extent necessary to perform and settle the concluded agreement, for which separate consent is not required.
7. Your personal data will not be transferred outside the European Economic Area.
8. The retention period of your personal data depends on its purpose and the type of consent given:
8.1. Data obtained with your consent will be processed until the consent is withdrawn. In other cases, data will only be processed to achieve the purposes for which they were collected. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of data processing carried out based on the consent before its withdrawal. To withdraw consent or provide any other instructions regarding the processing of personal data, please send an email to: office@eu-shields.com.
8.2. Data processed for the purpose of establishing, asserting, or defending against claims arising from our business activities will be processed until the claims expire under the applicable law.
8.3. Data processed in connection with the issuance and storage of invoices and other accounting documents will be processed for a period of 5 years from the end of the tax year in which the transaction occurred, unless the regulations governing the data retention period for this purpose change.
8.4. Data processed to perform a contract will be processed until its completion, and data processed to establish business relationships will be processed until the contract is concluded.
9. We inform you that you have the right to:
9.1. access your data in accordance with Article 15 of the GDPR;
9.2. rectify your data in accordance with Article 16 of the GDPR;
9.3. request the erasure of your data in cases specified in Article 17(1) of the GDPR, with exceptions listed in Article 17(3) of the GDPR;
9.4. request the restriction of processing in cases specified in Article 18 of the GDPR;
9.5. data portability in cases specified in Article 20 of the GDPR.
9.6. object to the processing of personal data concerning you when it is based on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR and there are grounds related to your particular situation.
9.7. lodge a complaint with the President of the Personal Data Protection Office.
10. We take due care to protect your rights and freedoms in connection with the processing of your data. We ensure that the data is processed:
10.1. lawfully, fairly, and in a transparent manner to you – “lawfulness, fairness, and transparency”;
10.2. for specific, explicit, and legitimate purposes, and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes – “purpose limitation”;
10.3. adequate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which it is processed – “data minimization”;
10.4. accurate, and where necessary, kept up to date – “accuracy”;
10.5. kept in a form which permits your identification for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data is processed – “storage limitation”;
10.6. processed in a manner that ensures its security, including protection against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction, or damage, using appropriate technical or organizational measures – “integrity and confidentiality.”
COOKIE FILES
1. What are Cookies?
1.1. On this website, like almost every other website, we use cookies.
1.2. Cookies are small pieces of information consisting of a series of letters and numbers. They enhance the user’s experience by allowing the website to remember their preferences and personalize web pages. They are not dangerous, do not modify configuration settings on end devices such as computers, smartphones, or tablets, do not affect the software installed on these devices, and cannot be used to transmit viruses. Importantly, users can disable them entirely or in part through their internet browser settings.
1.3. Cookies are typically divided into session cookies, which are automatically deleted when the internet browser is closed, and persistent cookies, which remain in the browser’s memory for a longer time, even after it is closed.
1.4. It’s also worth noting the distinction between first-party cookies and third-party cookies. The former are installed on the user’s end device by the administrator of the website, in this case, by us, and can be read by us. In contrast, third-party cookies are read by the teleinformatics systems of those third-party entities, excluding the administrator of the particular internet service.
2. We inform you that: 2.1. We are the administrators of the internet service conducted at https://eu-shields.pl. We place our own cookies on your end device, and we can read them. 2.2. We do not automatically collect any data, including personal data, other than through “cookies.” 2.3. During your first visit to the service, we will display information about the use of cookies, encouraging you to make an informed decision regarding your cookie settings.
3. To manage cookie settings, select your internet browser from the list below and follow the instructions:
4. If you do not change your cookie settings, it means you accept the default browser settings. We would like to emphasize that disabling cookies may make it difficult or, in some cases, impossible to use our service and other websites.
THIRD-PARTY COOKIES
1. Google Analytics Cookies
1.1. We use the Google Analytics tool provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, to create statistics and analyze our website for optimization.
1.2. Google Analytics automatically collects information on how you use our website. The information collected in this way is often transferred to servers in the United States and stored there.
1.3. Google LLC is based in the USA and uses technical infrastructure located in the USA, where the GDPR and other EU regulations do not apply. Nevertheless, in order to operate legally in EU countries, including Poland, Google LLC has joined the EU-US Privacy Shield program to ensure an adequate level of data protection required by European regulations. Under the agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has confirmed an adequate level of data protection for companies holding the Privacy Shield certificate.
1.4. You can prevent the registration of data collected by Google Analytics cookies regarding your use of our website and the processing of this data by Google by installing a browser plugin available at the following address: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
2. Additionally, please note that by displaying our website, which contains plugins from external social media services (LinkedIn), your browser will establish a direct connection with the servers of the administrators of these social media services. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly by the respective administrator to your browser and integrated with the website. As a result, the administrators mentioned above receive information that your browser has displayed our website, even if you do not have a profile with that administrator or are not currently logged in with them. This information (along with your IP address) is transmitted directly by your browser to the server of the respective service provider (some servers are located in the USA) and stored there. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the privacy policies of the individual external administrators. If you do not want social media services to associate data collected during your visits to our website directly with your profile on that service, log out of that service before visiting our website. You can also completely prevent the loading of plugins on the website by using appropriate extensions for your browser, such as script blockers.
3. Using this service, as well as any other, involves sending queries to the server hosting the website. Each such query is logged by the server. Logs include, among other things, your IP address, the time of the query, and the time of sending the response, as well as information about your web browser. We do not link this data to any personal data of yours, nor do we use it to identify any individuals.
