PRIVACY POLICY OF THE ONLINE SHOP
GROWSHOP.ORG
§ 1
GENERAL PROVISIONS
1. The Data Controller of personal data collected through the online shop Growshop.org is Jan Walczak conducting business activities under the company EuroTrade Jan Walczak, registered in the Central Registration and Information on Business of the Republic of Poland conducted by the minister responsible for the economy, place of conducting business activities and address for service: ul. Stanisławowska 47, 54-611 Wrocław, Tax Identification Number (NIP): 6671048534, National Business Registry Number (REGON): 527800600, email address: info@growshop.org, phone number: +31 684 580 632, hereinafter referred to as the "Administrator" and also the "Service Provider".
2. Personal data collected by the Administrator through the website are processed in accordance with the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council (EU) 2016/679 of April 27, 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 referred to as GDPR.
3. All words or expressions written in capital letters in the content of this Privacy Policy should be understood in accordance with their definition contained in the Terms and Conditions of the online shop Growshop.org.
§ 2
TYPE OF PROCESSED PERSONAL DATA, PURPOSE, AND SCOPE OF DATA COLLECTION
1. PROCESSING PURPOSE AND LEGAL BASIS. The Administrator processes the personal data of the Service Recipients of Growshop.org in the case of:
1. Account registration in the Shop, to create an individual account and manage this Account, on the basis of Art. 6 par. 1 lit. b) of GDPR (performance of the contract for the provision of electronic services in accordance with the Shop Terms and Conditions),
2. placing an order in the Shop, to perform the sales contract, on the basis of Art. 6 par. 1 lit. b) of GDPR (performance of the sales contract).
3. subscribing to the Newsletter for the purpose of sending commercial information electronically. Personal data are processed after expressing a separate consent, on the basis of Art. 6 par. 1 lit. a) of GDPR.
2. TYPE OF PROCESSED PERSONAL DATA. The Service Recipient provides, in the case of:
1. Account: first and last name, login, address, email address.
2. Order: first and last name, address, Tax Identification Number (NIP), email address, telephone number.
3. Newsletter: first and last name, email address.
3. PERSONAL DATA RETENTION PERIOD. The personal data of the Service Recipients are stored by the Administrator:
1. in the case where the basis for data processing is the performance of a contract, as long as it is necessary for the performance of the contract, and after that time for the period corresponding to the period of limitation of claims. Unless a specific provision provides otherwise, the limitation period is six years, and for claims for periodic performances and claims related to business activities - three years.
2. in the case where the basis for data processing is consent, as long as the consent is not revoked, and after revoking the consent for a period of time corresponding to the period of limitation of claims that the Administrator can raise and which can be raised against him. Unless a specific provision provides otherwise, the limitation period is six years, and for claims for periodic performances and claims related to business activities - three years.
4. During the use of the Shop, additional information may be downloaded, in particular: the IP address assigned to the Service Recipient's computer or the external IP address of the Internet service provider, domain name, browser type, access time, operating system type.
5. Upon expressing a separate consent, based on Art. 6 par. 1 lit. a) of GDPR, data may also be processed for the purpose of sending commercial information electronically or making telephone calls for direct marketing purposes – in connection with Art. 10 par. 2 of the Act of July 18, 2002, on Providing Services by Electronic Means or Art. 172 par. 1 of the Act of July 16, 2004 – Telecommunications Law, including those directed as a result of profiling, provided the Service Recipient has given appropriate consent.
6. Navigation data may also be collected from Service Recipients, including information about links and references they decide to click or other actions taken in the Shop. The legal basis for such activities is the legitimate interest of the Administrator (Art. 6 par. 1 lit. f of GDPR), which consists in facilitating the use of services provided electronically and improving the functionality of these services.
7. Providing personal data by the Service Recipient is voluntary.
8. The Administrator takes special care to protect the interests of the data subjects, and in particular ensures that the data collected by him are:
1. processed in accordance with the law,
2. collected for designated, lawful purposes and not subjected to further processing incompatible with those purposes,
3. substantively correct and adequate in relation to the purposes for which they are processed and stored in a form enabling the identification of persons they concern, no longer than it is necessary to achieve the purpose of processing.
§ 3
SHARING OF PERSONAL DATA
1. The personal data of the Service Recipients are transferred to service providers used by the Administrator in the operation of the Shop, in particular to:
1. entities performing the delivery of Products,
2. payment system providers,
3. the accounting office,
4. the hosting provider,
5. providers of software enabling business operations,
6. entities providing the mailing system,
7. providers of software necessary for running an online shop.
2. Service providers referred to in point 1 of this paragraph to whom personal data are transferred, depending on contractual arrangements and circumstances, either are subject to the Administrator's instructions as to the purposes and methods of processing these data (processors) or independently determine the purposes and methods of their processing (administrators).
3. The personal data of the Service Recipients are stored exclusively in the European Economic Area (EEA), subject to §5 point 5 and §6 of the Privacy Policy.
§ 4
THE RIGHT TO CONTROL, ACCESS THE CONTENT OF OWN DATA, AND CORRECT THEM
1. The person to whom the data relate has the right to access the content of their personal data and the right to rectify, delete, limit processing, the right to data portability, the right to object, the right to withdraw consent at any time without affecting the legality of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
2. Legal bases of the Service Recipient's request:
1. Access to data – Art. 15 of GDPR.
2. Rectification of data – Art. 16 of GDPR.
3. Deletion of data (the right to be forgotten) – Art. 17 of GDPR.
4. Restriction of processing – Art. 18 of GDPR.
5. Data portability – Art. 20 of GDPR.
6. Objection – Art. 21 of GDPR
7. Withdrawal of consent – Art. 7 par. 3 of GDPR.
3. To exercise the rights referred to in point 2, you can send an appropriate email message to: info@growshop.org.
4. In the situation of the Service Recipient exercising the right resulting from the above rights, the Administrator fulfills the request or refuses to fulfill it immediately, but no later than within a month after receiving it. However, if - due to the complex nature of the request or the number of requests - the Administrator will not be able to fulfill the request within a month, he will fulfill it within the next two months informing the Service Recipient in advance within a month from receiving the request - about the intended extension of the deadline and its reasons.
5. If it is found that the processing of personal data violates the provisions of the GDPR, the person to whom the data relates has the right to lodge a complaint with the President of the Personal Data Protection Office.
§ 5
"COOKIES" FILES
1. The Administrator's website uses "cookies".
2. The installation of "cookies" is necessary for the proper provision of services on the Shop's website. The "cookies" contain information necessary for the proper functioning of the website, and they also give the possibility to compile general statistics of website visits.
3. Two types of "cookies" are used within the website: "session" and "permanent".
1. "Session" cookies are temporary files that are stored in the Service Recipient's end device until logging out (leaving the page).
2. "Permanent" cookies are stored in the Service Recipient's end device for the time specified in the parameters of the "cookies" or until they are deleted by the Service Recipient.
4. The Administrator uses own cookies to better understand how Service Recipients interact with the content of the page. Files collect information about how the Service Recipient uses the website, the type of page from which the Service Recipient was redirected, and the number of visits and the time of the Service Recipient's visit on the website. This information does not record specific personal data of the Service Recipient but is used to compile statistics on the use of the page.
5. The Administrator uses external cookies to collect general and anonymous static data via analytical tools of Google Analytics (external cookie administrator: Google Inc. based in the USA).
6. Cookies may also be used by advertising networks, especially the Google network, to display ads tailored to the way the Service Recipient uses the Shop. For this purpose, they may keep information about the Service Recipient's navigation path or the time spent on a given page.
7. The Service Recipient has the right to decide on the access of "cookies" to their computer by previously selecting them in their browser window. Detailed information on the possibility and ways of handling "cookies" is available in the software settings (web browser).
§ 6
ADDITIONAL SERVICES RELATED TO THE USER'S ACTIVITY IN THE SHOP
1. The Shop uses so-called social plugins ("plugins") of social networking sites. Displaying the growshop.org website containing such a plugin, the Service Recipient's browser will establish a direct connection to the servers of Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter.
2. The content of the plugin is transferred by the given service provider directly to the Service Recipient's browser and integrated with the page. Through this integration, the service providers receive information that the Service Recipient's browser has displayed the growshop.org page, even if the Service Recipient does not have a profile with the given service provider or is not currently logged in. This information (including the IP address of the Service Recipient) is sent by the browser directly to the server of the given service provider (some servers are located in the USA) and stored there.
3. If the Service Recipient logs into one of the above-mentioned social networking sites, then this service provider will be able to directly assign the visit to the growshop.org page to the Service Recipient's profile in the given social networking site.
4. If the Service Recipient uses a given plugin, e.g., by clicking the "Like" button or the "Share" button, then the corresponding information will also be sent directly to the server of the given service provider and stored there.
5. The purpose and scope of data collection and their further processing and use by service providers, as well as the possibility of contact and the rights of the Service Recipient in this area and the possibility of making settings ensuring the protection of the Service Recipient's privacy have been described in the privacy policy of service providers:
1. https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
2. https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875?helpref=page_content
3. https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies
6. If the Service Recipient does not want social networking sites to assign data collected during visits to the growshop.org page directly to his profile in a given service, then before visiting the growshop.org page, he must log out of this service. The Service Recipient can also completely prevent the loading of plugins on the page by using the appropriate extensions for the browser, e.g., blocking scripts using "NoScript".
7. The Administrator uses remarketing tools on his website, i.e., Google AdWords, this is associated with the use of cookies by Google LLC regarding the Google AdWords service. Within the mechanism for managing cookie settings, the Service Recipient has the option to decide whether the Service Provider will be able to use Google AdWords (external cookie administrator: Google Inc. based in the USA) in relation to him.
§ 7
FINAL PROVISIONS
1. The Administrator applies technical and organizational measures to ensure the protection of the processed personal data appropriate to the threats and category of data protected, and in particular, protects the data against their disclosure to unauthorized persons, taking by an unauthorized person, processing in violation of existing regulations, and change, loss, damage, or destruction.
2. The Administrator provides appropriate technical means to prevent the unauthorized persons from obtaining and modifying personal data sent electronically.
3. In matters not regulated by this Privacy Policy, the provisions of GDPR and other relevant provisions of Polish law shall apply accordingly.