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1. General Information

  1. This policy applies to the website functioning under the URL: charles-studio.pl
  2. The operator of the service and the Personal Data Administrator is: CHARLES-STUDIO KAROL KANIA, Sąsiedzka 74A/41, 93-330 Łódź
  3. Operator’s email contact address: info@charles-studio.pl
  4. The Operator is the Administrator of your personal data regarding the data voluntarily provided on the Website.
  5. The Service uses personal data for the following purposes:
    • Handling inquiries via forms
  6. The Service performs the function of collecting information about users and their behavior in the following way:
    1. By voluntarily entering data into forms, which are then entered into the Operator’s systems.
    2. By storing cookie files (so-called “cookies”) on end devices.

2. Selected Data Protection Methods Used by the Operator

  1. Places for logging in and entering personal data are protected in the transmission layer (SSL certificate). Thanks to this, personal data and login data entered on the website are encrypted on the user’s computer and can only be read on the target server.
  2. An essential 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 software components.

3. Hosting

  1. The Service is hosted (technically maintained) on the operator’s servers: cyberFolks.pl
  2. The hosting company, to ensure technical reliability, keeps logs at the server level. The following may be subject to logging:
    • resources specified by URL identifier (addresses of requested resources – pages, files),
    • time of request,
    • time of sending the response,
    • client station name – 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 (referer link) – in the case of entering the Service through a link,
    • information about the user’s browser,
    • IP address information,
    • diagnostic information related to the process of independently ordering services through registrars on the website,
    • information related to the handling of e-mail directed to the Operator and sent by the Operator.

4. Your Rights and Additional Information on Data Use

  1. In some situations, the Administrator has the right to transfer your personal data to other recipients if it is necessary to perform the contract concluded with you or to fulfill obligations incumbent on the Administrator. This applies to such recipient groups:
    • hosting company on the basis of entrustment
    • postal operators
  2. Your personal data processed by the Administrator will not be processed for longer than necessary to perform activities related to them specified by separate regulations (e.g., accounting regulations). In relation to marketing data, the data will not be processed for more than 3 years.
  3. You have the right to request from the Administrator:
    • access to your personal data,
    • their correction,
    • deletion,
    • processing restrictions,
    • and data transfer.
  4. You have the right to object to the processing indicated in point 3.2 against the processing of personal data for the purposes of legitimate interests pursued by the Administrator, including profiling, whereby the right to object cannot be exercised if there are important legitimate grounds for processing overriding your interests, rights, and freedoms, in particular the establishment, investigation, or defense of claims.
  5. You have the right to lodge a complaint with the President of the Office for Personal Data Protection, ul. Stawki 2, 00-193 Warsaw, against the actions of the Administrator.
  6. Providing personal data is voluntary but necessary to use the Service.
  7. Actions involving automated decision-making, including profiling, to provide services under the concluded contract and to conduct direct marketing by the Administrator, may be taken against you.
  8. Personal data are not transferred to third countries within the meaning of the regulations on the protection of personal data. This means that we do not transfer them outside the European Union.

5. Information in Forms

  1. The Service collects information voluntarily provided by the user, including personal data, if provided.
  2. The service may store information about connection parameters (time stamp, IP address).
  3. In some cases, the Service may save information facilitating the connection of data in the form with the user’s e-mail address filling out the form. In this case, the user’s e-mail address appears within the url address of the page containing the form.
  4. Data provided in the form is processed for the purpose resulting from the function of a specific form, e.g., to perform a service request or commercial contact, service registration, etc. Each time, the context and description of the form clearly inform what it is used for.

6. Administrator’s Logs

  1. Information about user behavior on the website may be subject to logging. This data is used to administer the website.

7. Significant Marketing Techniques

  1. The Operator uses statistical analysis of traffic on the website, through Google Analytics (Google Inc. based in the USA). The Operator does not transfer any personal data to the operator of this service, only anonymized information. The service is based on the use of cookies on the user’s end device. Regarding information about user preferences collected by the Google advertising network, the user can view and edit information resulting from cookies using the tool: https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/
  2. The Operator uses remarketing techniques, allowing to tailor advertising messages to the user’s behavior on the website, which may give the impression that the user’s personal data is used to track them, however, in practice, no personal data is transferred from the Operator to advertising operators. The technological condition for such actions is the enabled support of cookies.
  3. The Operator uses the Facebook pixel. This technology causes the Facebook service (Facebook Inc. based in the USA) to be aware that a particular person registered with it uses the Service. In this case, the data based on which it operates is data for which it is the administrator, and the Operator does not provide any additional personal data from itself to the Facebook service. The service is based on the use of cookies on the user’s end device.

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 Service User and are intended for using the Service’s websites. Cookies usually contain the name of the website they come from, the time of their storage on the end device, and a unique number.
  3. The entity placing cookies on the Service User’s end device and accessing them is the operator of the Service.
  4. Cookies are used for the following purposes:
    1. maintaining the user’s Service session (after logging in), thanks to which the user does not have to re-enter the login and password on every subpage of the Service;
    2. achieving the goals set out above in the section “Significant Marketing Techniques”;
  5. Within the Service, two main types of cookies are used: “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 closing the software (web browser). Persistent cookies are stored on the user’s end device for a specified period of time defined in the cookie parameters or until deleted by the user.
  6. The web browsing software (web browser) usually allows storing cookies on the user’s end device by default. Users of the Service can change their cookie settings. The web browser allows you to delete cookies. It is also possible to automatically block cookies Detailed information on this subject is provided in the help or documentation of the web browser.
  7. Limiting the use of cookies may affect some of the functionalities available on the Service’s websites.
  8. Cookies placed on the Service User’s end device may also be used by cooperating with the operator of the Service, in particular, it 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 their browser settings. We reserve that disabling cookies necessary for authentication processes, security, maintaining user preferences may hinder, and in extreme cases, prevent the use of www pages
  2. To manage cookie settings, select the web browser you are using from the list below and follow the instructions: