1. General Information

This policy applies to the Website operating at the URL: boldandpanache.com

The Website operator and Personal Data Controller is: NATALIA MALARSKA la folie studio projektowe, ul. Antoniego Bohdziewicza 25, 01-685 Warsaw

Operator’s contact email address: contact@boldandpanache.com

The Operator is the Controller of your personal data in relation to data voluntarily provided on the Website.

The Website uses personal data for the following purposes:

• Running a newsletter
• Operating a comment system
• Operating an online forum
• Conducting online chat conversations
• Operating a classified ads system
• Presenting user profiles to other users
• Displaying user advertisements
• Handling inquiries through forms
• Preparation, packaging, and shipping of goods
• Performance of ordered services
• Debt collection
• Presenting offers or information

The Website performs the function of obtaining information about users and their behavior in the following ways:

• Through data voluntarily entered in forms, which are entered into the Operator’s systems
• By storing cookies (so-called “cookies”) on end devices

2. Selected Data Protection Methods Used by the Operator

Login areas and personal data entry points are protected at the transmission layer (SSL certificate). Thanks to this, personal data and login credentials entered on the website are encrypted on the user’s computer and can only be read on the destination server.

An important element of data protection is the regular updating of all software used by the Operator for processing personal data, which in particular means regular updates of programming components.

3. Hosting

The Website is hosted (technically maintained) on the servers of: lh.pl

The hosting company maintains server-level logs to ensure technical reliability. The following may be recorded:

• Resources identified by URL (addresses of requested resources – pages, files)
• Query arrival time
• Response sending time
• Client station name – identification performed by HTTP protocol
• Information about errors that occurred during HTTP transaction execution
• URL address of the page previously visited by the user (referrer link) – if access to the Website occurred through a link
• Information about the user’s browser
• Information about IP address
• Diagnostic information related to the self-ordering process of services through recorders on the website
• Information related to handling email directed to and sent by the Operator

4. Your Rights and Additional Information About Data Use

In certain situations, the Controller has the right to transfer your personal data to other recipients if this is necessary to perform a contract with you or to fulfill obligations incumbent on the Controller. This applies to the following groups of recipients:

• Hosting company on an entrustment basis
• Couriers
• Postal operators
• Insurers
• Law firms and debt collectors
• Banks
• Payment operators
• Public authorities
• Comment system operators
• Online chat solution operators
• Authorized employees and collaborators who use data to fulfill the website’s purpose
• Companies providing marketing services on behalf of the Controller

Your personal data is processed by the Controller for no longer than is necessary to perform activities related to them as specified by separate regulations (e.g., on accounting). With regard to marketing data, data will not be processed for longer than 3 years.

You have the right to request from the Controller:

• Access to your personal data
• Rectification
• Deletion
• Restriction of processing
• Data portability

You have the right to object to the processing indicated in section 3.2 regarding the processing of personal data for the purpose of executing legitimate interests pursued by the Controller, including profiling, provided that the right to object cannot be exercised if there are valid legally justified grounds for processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, in particular the establishment, pursuit, or defense of claims.

You may file a complaint against the Controller’s actions to the President of the Personal Data Protection Office, ul. Stawki 2, 00-193 Warsaw.

Providing personal data is voluntary but necessary for the operation of the Website.

Automated decision-making activities, including profiling, may be undertaken in relation to you in order to provide services under the concluded contract and for the Controller to conduct direct marketing.

Personal data is not transferred from third countries within the meaning of personal data protection regulations. This means we do not send it outside the European Union.

5. Information in Forms

The Website collects information provided voluntarily by the user, including personal data, if provided.

The Website may store information about connection parameters (time designation, IP address).

In some cases, the Website may store information facilitating the linking of form data with the email address of the user filling out the form. In such cases, the user’s email address appears within the URL of the page containing the form.

Data provided in the form is processed for the purpose resulting from the function of the specific form, e.g., to process a service request or business contact, register services, etc. Each time, the context and description of the form clearly inform what it serves.

6. Administrator Logs

Information about user behavior on the website may be logged. This data is used for website administration purposes.

7. Important Marketing Techniques

The Operator uses statistical analysis of website traffic through Google Analytics (Google Inc. headquartered in the USA). The Operator does not transfer 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, users can view and edit information resulting from cookies using the tool: https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/

The Operator uses Facebook Pixel. This technology means that Facebook (Facebook Inc. headquartered in the USA) knows that a person registered on it uses the Website. In this case, it is based on data for which it is the controller itself; the Operator does not transfer any additional personal data to Facebook. The service is based on the use of cookies on the user’s end device.

The Operator uses solutions automating the Website’s operation in relation to users, e.g., able to send an email to the user after visiting a specific subpage, provided they have consented to receiving commercial correspondence from the Operator.

8. Information About Cookies

The Website uses cookies.

Cookies are IT data, in particular text files, that are stored on the User’s end device and are intended for use with the Website’s web pages. Cookies typically contain the name of the website they come from, the time they are stored on the end device, and a unique number.

The entity placing cookies on the Website User’s end device and accessing them is the Website operator.

Cookies are used for the following purposes:

• Maintaining the Website user’s session (after logging in), thanks to which the user does not have to re-enter their login and password on each subpage of the Website
• Achieving the purposes specified above in the “Important Marketing Techniques” section

Within the Website, two basic types of cookies are used: “session cookies” and “persistent cookies.” Session cookies are temporary files stored on the User’s end device until logging out, leaving the website, or shutting down the software (web browser). Persistent cookies are stored on the User’s end device for the time specified in the cookie parameters or until they are deleted by the User.

Web browsing software (web browser) usually allows cookies to be stored on the User’s end device by default. Website Users can change settings in this regard. The web browser allows cookies to be deleted. Automatic blocking of cookies is also possible. Detailed information on this is contained in the help or documentation of the web browser.

Restrictions on the use of cookies may affect some functionalities available on the Website’s web pages.

Cookies placed on the Website User’s end device may also be used by entities cooperating with the Website operator, in particular this applies to companies: Google (Google Inc. headquartered in the USA), Facebook (Facebook Inc. headquartered in the USA), Twitter (Twitter Inc. headquartered in the USA).

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

If a user does not want to receive cookies, they can change their browser settings. We reserve that disabling cookies necessary for authentication processes, security, and maintaining user preferences may hinder, and in extreme cases may make it impossible to use the websites.

To manage cookie settings, select your web browser from the list below and follow the instructions:

• Edge
• Internet Explorer
• Chrome
• Safari
• Firefox
• Opera

Mobile devices:

• Android
• Safari (iOS)
• Windows Phone