§1 Definitions
- Service – the online service “abt-services.pl” operating at https://abt-services.pl
- External Service – internet services of partners, service providers, or service recipients cooperating with the Administrator
- Service / Data Administrator – The Administrator of the Service and Data Administrator (hereinafter referred to as the Administrator) is “ABT Services Sp. z o.o.”, operating at: ul. Bydgoska 2, 59-220 Legnica, with the tax identification number (NIP): 691-256-80-87, with the National Court Register (KRS) number: 0001025426, providing electronic services via the Service
- User – a natural person for whom the Administrator provides services electronically via the Service.
- Device – an electronic device along with software through which the User gains access to the Service
- Cookies – text data collected in the form of files placed on the User’s Device
- GDPR – 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)
- Personal data – means information about an identified or identifiable natural person (“data subject”); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person
- Processing – means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;
- Restriction of processing – means marking stored personal data with the aim of limiting their processing in the future
- Profiling – means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyse or predict aspects concerning that natural person’s performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements
- Consent – consent of the data subject means any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her
- Personal data breach – means a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed
- Pseudonymisation – means the processing of personal data in such a manner that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organisational measures to ensure that the personal data are not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person
- Anonymisation – Anonymisation of data is an irreversible process of data operation which destroys/overwrites “personal data” preventing identification, or association of a given record with a specific user or natural person.
§2 Data Protection Officer
Under Art. 37 of the GDPR, the Administrator has not appointed a Data Protection Officer. For matters related to data processing, including personal data, please contact the Administrator directly.§3 Types of Cookies
- Internal Cookies – files placed and read from the User’s Device by the Service’s IT system
- External Cookies – files placed and read from the User’s Device by the IT systems of External Services. Scripts of External Services that may place Cookies on User’s Devices have been consciously placed in the Service through scripts and services made available and installed in the Service
- Session Cookies – files placed and read from the User’s Device by the Service or External Services during one session of a given Device. After the session ends, the files are removed from the User’s Device.
- Persistent Cookies – files placed and read from the User’s Device by the Service or External Services until they are manually deleted. Files are not automatically deleted after the Device’s session ends unless the User’s Device is configured to delete Cookie files after the Device’s session ends.
§4 Data storage security
- Mechanisms for storing and reading Cookie files – The mechanisms for storing, reading, and exchanging data between Cookies saved on the User’s Device and the Service are implemented through the built-in mechanisms of web browsers and do not allow for downloading other data from the User’s Device or data from other websites visited by the User, including personal data or confidential information. The transfer of viruses, Trojan horses, and other worms to the User’s Device is also practically impossible.
- Internal Cookies – Cookies used by the Administrator are safe for the User’s Devices and do not contain scripts, content, or information that may threaten the security of personal data or the security of the device being used by the User.
- External Cookies – The Administrator takes all possible actions to verify and select service partners in the context of User security. The Administrator cooperates with known, large partners with global social trust. However, he does not have full control over the content of Cookies coming from external partners. The Administrator is not responsible for the security of Cookie files, their content, and lawful use of scripts installed in the service from External Services to the extent permitted by law. The list of partners is provided in the further part of the Privacy Policy.
- Cookie control
- The User may at any time independently change the settings for saving, deleting, and accessing data saved by Cookies from any website
- Information on how to disable Cookies in the most popular computer browsers is available at: how to disable cookies or from one of the indicated providers:
- The User may at any time delete any Cookies saved so far using the User’s Device tools through which the User uses the Service.
- Threats on the User’s side – The Administrator uses all possible technical measures to ensure the security of the data placed in Cookies. It should be noted, however, that ensuring the security of these data depends on both parties, including the User’s activity. The Administrator is not responsible for intercepting these data, impersonating the User’s session, or deleting the data, as a result of the User’s conscious or unconscious activity, viruses, Trojan horses, and other spyware that may infect the User’s Device. Users should take care of their Cybersecurity when using the Internet.
- Personal data storage – The Administrator ensures that all efforts are made to process the personal data entered voluntarily by Users safely, access to them is limited and carried out in accordance with their purpose and processing objectives. The Administrator also ensures that all efforts are made to protect the data held from their loss by applying appropriate physical and organizational safeguards.
§5 Purposes for which Cookies are used
- Improving and facilitating access to the Service
- Personalizing the Service for Users
- Conducting statistics (users, number of visits, types of devices, connection, etc.)
- Providing social services
§6 Purposes of processing personal data
Personal data voluntarily provided by Users are processed for one of the following purposes:- Implementation of electronic services:
- Communication of the Administrator with Users regarding the Service and data protection
- Ensuring the legally justified interest of the Administrator
- Conducting statistics
- Ensuring the legally justified interest of the Administrator
§7 Cookies of External Services
In the Service, the Administrator uses javascript scripts and web components of partners, who may place their own cookies on the User’s Device. Remember, in your browser settings, you can decide about the allowed cookies that can be used by individual websites. Below is a list of partners or their services implemented in the Service, which may place cookies:
- Social / joint services: (Registration, Login, content sharing, communication, etc.)
- Statistics:
- Other services:
§8 Types of collected data
The Service collects data about Users. Part of the data is collected automatically and anonymously, and part of the data is personal data provided voluntarily by Users during registration to various services offered by the Service. Anonymous data collected automatically:- Browser type
- Screen resolution
- Approximate location
- Subpages of the service opened
- Time spent on a particular subpage of the service
- Type of operating system
- Address of the previous subpage
- Referrer page address
- Browser language
- Email address
- Email address
§9 Access to personal data by third parties
As a rule, the only recipient of personal data provided by Users is the Administrator. Data collected as part of the services provided are not transferred or sold to third parties. Access to data (most often on the basis of a Data Processing Agreement) may be granted to entities responsible for maintaining the infrastructure and services necessary to run the service, e.g.:§10 Method of processing personal data
Personal data voluntarily provided by Users:- Personal data will not be transferred outside the European Union, unless they were published as a result of individual action by the User (e.g., entering a comment or post), which will make the data available to any person visiting the service.
- Personal data will not be used for automated decision-making (profiling).
- Personal data will not be sold to third parties.
- Anonymous data (without personal data) may be transferred outside the European Union.
- Anonymous data (without personal data) will not be used for automated decision-making (profiling).
- Anonymous data (without personal data) will not be sold to third parties.
§11 Legal basis for the processing of personal data
The Service collects and processes Users’ data based on:- 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)
- art. 6 para. 1 lit. a the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes
- art. 6 para. 1 lit. b processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract
- art. 6 para. 1 lit. f processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party
- Act of 10 May 2018 on the Protection of Personal Data (Journal of Laws 2018, item 1000)
- Act of 16 July 2004 Telecommunications Law (Journal of Laws 2004 No. 171, item 1800)
- Act of 4 February 1994 on Copyright and Related Rights (Journal of Laws 1994 No. 24, item 83)
§12 Period of processing personal data
Personal data provided voluntarily by Users: As a general rule, the indicated personal data are stored only for the period of providing the Service within the Service by the Administrator. They are deleted or anonymized within a period of up to 30 days from the moment of termination of the service provision (e.g., deletion of a registered user account, unsubscribing from the Newsletter list, etc.) An exception is a situation that requires securing legally justified purposes of further processing these data by the Administrator. In such a case, the Administrator will store the indicated data, from the time of the request for their deletion by the User, no longer than for a period of 3 years in case of violation or suspicion of violation of the service regulations by the User Anonymous data (without personal data) collected automatically: Anonymous statistical data, not constituting personal data, are stored by the Administrator for the purpose of keeping statistics of the service for an indefinite period§13 Rights of Users related to the processing of personal data
The Service collects and processes Users’ data based on:- Right of access to personal data Users have the right to access their personal data, carried out on request to the Administrator
- Right to rectification of personal data Users have the right to demand from the Administrator immediate rectification of personal data that are incorrect or/and completion of incomplete personal data, carried out on request to the Administrator
- Right to deletion of personal data (“right to be forgotten”) Users have the right to demand from the Administrator the immediate deletion of their personal data, carried out on request to the Administrator. In the case of user accounts, the deletion of data consists of anonymizing data that enables the identification of the User. The Administrator reserves the right to suspend the implementation of the request for deletion of data in order to protect the legally justified interest of the Administrator (e.g., when the User has committed a breach of the Terms and Conditions or data were obtained as a result of conducted correspondence). In the case of the Newsletter service, the User has the option to independently delete their personal data using the link provided in every email message sent.
- Right to restriction of processing of personal data Users have the right to restrict the processing of personal data in the cases indicated in Art. 18 GDPR, e.g., questioning the correctness of personal data, carried out on request to the Administrator
- Right to data portability Users have the right to receive from the Administrator personal data concerning the User in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, carried out on request to the Administrator
- Right to object to the processing of personal data Users have the right to object to the processing of their personal data in the cases specified in Art. 21 GDPR, carried out on request to the Administrator
- Right to lodge a complaint Users have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority dealing with the protection of personal data.
§14 Contact with the Administrator
You can contact the Administrator in one of the following ways:- Postal address – ABT Services Sp. z o.o., ul. Bydgoska 2, 59-220 Legnica
- Email address – office@abt-services.pl
- Telephone – +48 606 501 975
- Contact form – available at: /contact
§15 Service Requirements
- Limiting the saving and access to Cookies on the User’s Device may result in incorrect operation of some of the Service’s functions.
- The Administrator bears no responsibility for improperly functioning Service functions in case the User limits in any way the possibility of saving and reading Cookie files.
§16 External links
In the Service – articles, posts, entries, or comments of Users may contain links to external websites with which the service owner does not cooperate. These links and the pages or files indicated under them may be dangerous for your Device or pose a threat to the security of your data. The Administrator is not responsible for the content found outside the Service.§17 Changes to the Privacy Policy
- The Administrator reserves the right to make any changes to this Privacy Policy without the need to inform Users about it in the scope of using and processing anonymous data or the use of Cookies.
- The Administrator reserves the right to make any changes to this Privacy Policy in the scope of processing Personal Data, about which Users with user accounts or subscribed to the newsletter service will be informed via email within 7 days from the change of provisions. Further use of the services means getting acquainted with and accepting the introduced changes to the Privacy Policy. In the case where the User does not agree with the introduced changes, they are obliged to delete their account from the Service or unsubscribe from the Newsletter service.
- Introduced changes to the Privacy Policy will be published on this subpage of the Service.
- The introduced changes become effective upon their publication.