1. "Cookies" (browser cookies)
A cookie is a small text file or package of information stored on the hard drive of your device (computer, mobile device, tablet) when you visit a website. Subsequently, the website server can recover or read the content of the cookie. Cookies help users to use the Internet pages efficiently and make available certain functionalities of these pages (for example, remembering user preferences such as language, settings, font, etc.). Allowing all cookies is not absolutely necessary for the website to work, but it may contribute to its better use. You can change cookie settings or refuse to accept browser cookies, other than those necessary for the site to function, by activating the appropriate setting in your browser.
On this website, cookies are in the following categories:
1.1. Strictly necessary – essential for the use of the site and for the provision of requested services. Thanks to these cookies, the site can work, and they support basic functions such as navigation between pages and access to secure parts of the site. This site cannot function properly without such cookies. These cookies are enabled by default, given their specifics.
1.2. Functionality cookies - enable the site to store information that changes the way the site behaves or looks, such as your preferred language or the region in which you are located.
1.3. Statistical cookies - help site owners learn how visitors interact with the sites by collecting and reporting anonymous information.
1.4. Marketing cookies - used to track visitors between different sites. Their purpose is to display ads that are relevant to and potentially attractive to the individual user, making them more valuable to ad publishers and third-party advertisers.
1.6. Changes to cookie settings
Most web browsers allow cookies to be placed on the end device by default. Browsers provide the possibility to control the cookies used through the settings of the respective browser.
More information about cookies can be found at www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org. You can also use the cookie management options for the browser you use (Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet, Opera, Apple Safari, etc.). You can also find information on the websites of other parties that use information from cookies, for example Google.
2. Flash cookies
Many websites use Adobe Flash Player to deliver videos and content to their users in the form of infographics. Adobe uses its own cookies, which cannot be controlled through your browser settings. They are used by the Flash Player program for the same purposes as other cookies, i.e. to save preferences or track users. Flash cookies work differently than cookies in your web browser. You can control how much information can be stored in this cookie, but you cannot choose what kind of information can be stored.
Some features of our website may work with such locally stored objects (Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from and on our website. More information on how to control such cookies can be obtained from Adobe.
3. Web Beacons
The pages of our website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also called clear gifs, pixel tags and single-pixel gifs) that allow the company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or are opened an email as well as for other statistics related to the website (for example, recording the popularity of certain content on websites and checking the integrity of the system and server).
We do not automatically collect personal information through the above methods, but we may, if necessary, tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or that you provide to us.
4. Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
On our website, as indicated above in the description of cookies used, some content or applications, including advertisements, are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website.
The information that is collected may be linked to your personal data, or information, including personal information, may be collected about your online activities over time and between different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based advertising or other content targeted to you.
We do not control the tracking technologies of these third parties or how they may be used. If you have any questions about advertising or other content targeted at you, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
5. How your information is used
We use the personal information we collect to operate, improve, and customize our website and services, including providing customer service, customizing our marketing, and detecting, preventing, and mitigating fraudulent or illegal activity. We may use your personal information as follows:
o provide you with our services;
o to fulfill any other purpose for which you have provided it;
o to operate, improve and customize the services we offer;
o for customer service, for security management, for problem detection, for the creation of archives and backup copies in connection with the provision of the services;
o to communicate with you by e-mail, by telephone or otherwise, as you have authorized us, to inform you about services, events, etc.;
o better understand how users access the Website and Services in order to improve the same and respond to user preferences, including language and location customization, personalized help and instructions, or providing other responses about users' use of the Services;
o help us develop our new services and improve existing services;
o provide users with advertising and direct marketing opportunities that are more relevant to them;
o evaluate the effectiveness of and improve advertising and other marketing and promotional activities in connection with the Services;
o for any other purposes with your consent.
6. Legal grounds for the processing of personal data
The grounds for processing personal data that we apply are those provided for in Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation), namely:
– consent – the data subject has consented to the processing of his personal data for one or more specific purposes; applies where there is no other reason and, to be valid, the consent must meet the requirements set out in the legislation;
– contractual basis – the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party, or to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to the conclusion of a contract;
– compliance with a legal obligation that applies to the controller;
– legitimate interest – processing is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests or those of a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject that require the protection of personal data, in particular where the subject the data is a child; the processing of the data for the purposes of advertising and for the improvement of our services is based on the legitimate interest of the administrator.
7. Disclosure of Information
We may disclose aggregate information about our users and information that does not identify anyone without limitation.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or that you provide as described in the personal data processing notice:
o For contractors, service providers and other third parties we use to support our business and who are contractually obligated to keep personal information safe and process it only for the purposes for which we disclose it;
o To achieve the purpose for which you provide the information;
o For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information;
o With your consent.