Privacy Policy

1. General Information

1. This policy applies to the website operating at the URL: porada-zeeland.nl
2. The operator of the website and the data controller is: Porada Zeeland, CALSSTRAAT 00044, 4463XA GOES
3. Contact email address of the operator: info@porada-zeeland.nl
4. The operator is the data controller of your personal data in relation to the data provided voluntarily on the website.
5. The website uses personal data for the following purposes:
   • Running a newsletter
   • Running a comment system
   • Running online chat conversations
   • Presenting user profiles to other users
   • Handling inquiries via the contact form
   • Providing ordered services
   • Presenting offers or information
6. The website implements functions for obtaining information about users and their behavior in the following ways:
   1. Through voluntarily entered data in forms that are entered into the operator’s systems.
   2. By saving cookies on end devices (so-called “cookies”).

2. Selected Data Protection Methods Used by the Operator

1. Login and personal data entry sites are protected at the transmission layer (SSL certificate). This ensures that personal data and login data entered on the site are encrypted on the user’s computer and can only be read on the target server.
2. Personal data stored in the database are encrypted in such a way that only the operator with the key can read them. This protects the data in case the database is stolen from the server.
3. User passwords are stored in a hashed form. The hashing function is one-way – it is not possible to reverse it, which is a modern standard for storing user passwords.
4. The operator periodically changes its administrative passwords.
5. To protect data, the operator regularly backs up the data.
6. An important element of data protection is the regular updating of all software used by the operator to process personal data, which in particular means regular updates of programming components.

3. Hosting

1. The service is hosted (technically maintained) on the servers of the operator: seohost.pl
2. The hosting company, to ensure technical reliability, keeps logs at the server level. The following may be recorded:
   • Resources specified by URL identifier (addresses of requested resources – pages, files),
   • The time the request arrived,
   • The time the response was sent,
   • The name of the client’s station – identification performed by the HTTP protocol,
   • Information about errors that occurred during the execution of the HTTP transaction,
   • URL address of the page previously visited by the user (referrer link) – if the transition to the service occurred through a link,
   • Information about the user’s browser,
   • Information about the IP address,
   • Diagnostic information related to the self-ordering of services through recorders on the site,
   • Information related to email handling directed to the operator and sent by the operator.

4. Your Rights and Additional Information on How Data Are Used

1. In some situations, the administrator has the right to transfer your personal data to other recipients if this is necessary to perform a contract concluded with you or to fulfill obligations incumbent on the administrator. This applies to such groups of recipients:
   • The hosting company on a trust basis
   • Postal operators
   • Insurers
   • Legal offices and debt collectors
   • Banks
   • Payment operators
   • Public authorities
   • Comment system operators
   • Online chat solution operators
   • Authorized employees and collaborators who use the data to achieve the purpose of the site
   • Companies providing marketing services to the administrator
2. Your personal data are processed by the administrator no longer than necessary to perform related activities specified in separate regulations (e.g., on accounting). Regarding marketing data, the data will not be processed longer than for 3 years.
3. You have the right to request from the administrator:
   • Access to personal data concerning you,
   • Their correction,
   • Deletion,
   • Restriction of processing,
   • And data portability.
4. You have the right to object to the processing indicated in point 3.2 concerning the processing of personal data to perform legally justified interests pursued by the administrator, including profiling, while the right to object cannot be exercised if there are valid legally justified grounds for processing, overriding your interests, rights, and freedoms, in particular, establishing, pursuing, or defending claims.
5. Actions of the administrator may be subject to a complaint to the President of the Personal Data Protection Office, ul. Stawki 2, 00-193 Warsaw.
6. Providing personal data is voluntary but necessary to operate the service.
7. Actions involving automated decision-making, including profiling, may be undertaken with respect to you to provide services under the concluded agreement and for direct marketing by the administrator.
8. Personal data are not transferred from third countries within the meaning of data protection regulations. This means we do not send them outside the European Union.

5. Information in Forms

1. The service collects information provided voluntarily by the user, including personal data, if they are provided.
2. The service may record information about connection parameters (time designation, IP address).
3. The service, in some cases, may save information facilitating the linkage of data in the form with the email address of the user completing the form. In such a case, the user’s email address appears inside the URL of the page containing the form.
4. Data provided in the form are processed for the purpose resulting from the function of a specific form, e.g., for processing a service request or business contact, service registration, etc. Each time, the context and description of the form clearly inform what it is for.

6. Administrator Logs

1. Information about user behavior on the site may be logged. These data are used to administer the site.

7. Important Marketing Techniques

1. The operator uses statistical analysis of website traffic through Google Analytics (Google Inc. based in the USA). The operator does not transfer personal data to the operator of this service, but only anonymized information. The service is based on the use of cookies on the user’s end device. Within the scope of information about user preferences collected by the Google advertising network, the user can view and edit information derived from cookies using the tool: https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/
2. The operator uses remarketing techniques that allow adjusting advertising messages to the user’s behavior on the website, which may give the illusion that personal data are used to track the user, but in practice, no personal data are transferred from the operator to the advertising operators. The technological condition for such activities is enabled cookies.
3. The operator uses the Facebook pixel. This technology causes the Facebook service (Facebook Inc. based in the USA) to know that a given person registered within it uses the service. It is based in this case on data for which it is the administrator itself; the operator does not provide any additional personal data to the Facebook service. The service is based on the use of cookies on the user’s end device.
4. The operator uses a solution to examine user behavior by creating heat maps and recording behavior on the site. These information are anonymized before being sent to the service operator so that it does not know which physical person they concern. In particular, passwords and other personal data are not recorded.
5. The operator uses a solution that automates the operation of the site concerning users, e.g., that can send an email to the user after visiting a particular subpage, provided that the user has consented to receive commercialcorrespondence from the operator.

8. Information about Cookies

1. The service uses cookies.
2. Cookies (so-called “cookies”) are IT data, in particular, text files, which are stored in the end device of the user of the service and are intended for using the websites of the service. Cookies usually contain the name of the website they come from, the storage time on the end device, and a unique number.
3. The entity placing cookies on the end device of the service user and obtaining access to them is the operator of the service.
4. Cookies are used for the following purposes:
   1. Maintaining the session of the service user (after logging in), thanks to which the user does not have to re-enter the login and password on each subpage of the service;
   2. Achieving the goals set out above in the section “Important marketing techniques”;
5. The service uses two basic types of cookies: “session” cookies and “persistent” cookies. “Session” cookies are temporary files that are stored on the user’s end device until logging out, leaving the website, or turning off the software (web browser). “Persistent” cookies are stored on the user’s end device for the time specified in the parameters of the cookies or until they are deleted by the user.
6. Web browsing software (web browser) usually allows storing cookies on the user’s end device by default. Users of the service can change the settings in this regard. The web browser allows deleting cookies. It is also possible to automatically block cookies. Detailed information on this subject is contained in the help or documentation of the web browser.
7. Restrictions on the use of cookies may affect some functionalities available on the websites of the service.
8. Cookies placed on the user’s end device may also be used by entities cooperating with the operator of the service, in particular, this applies to companies: Google (Google Inc. based in the USA), Facebook (Facebook Inc. based in the USA), Twitter (Twitter Inc. based in the USA).

9. Managing Cookies – How to Express and Withdraw Consent in Practice?

1. If the user does not want to receive cookies, they can change the browser settings. We reserve that disabling cookies necessary for authentication processes, security, maintaining user preferences may make it difficult, and in extreme cases, may prevent the use of websites.
2. To manage cookie settings, select the web browser you are using from the list below and follow the instructions:
   • Edge
   • Internet Explorer
   • Chrome
   • Safari
   • Firefox
   • Opera

   Mobile devices:

   • Android
   • Safari (iOS)
   • Windows Phone