Privacy Policy

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This Privacy Policy aims to inform you how [Your Company/Website Name] (hereinafter 'we', 'us') collects, uses, processes, and protects your personal data when you visit our website ([Your Website URL]) and use our services. We are committed to protecting your data and act in accordance with applicable data protection laws, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union.

1. Data Controller Details

2. Types of Data We Collect

When you visit our website and use our services, we may collect the following types of data:

Directly Provided Data: When you fill out contact forms, subscribe to newsletters, or register on our website, we may collect your name, email address, and other relevant data.

Automatically Collected Data:

- Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, operating system, time zone settings, and other technical information about your device.

- Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, including pages visited, clicks, time spent on the page, and navigation paths. We collect this data using cookies and similar technologies.

3. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies (e.g., web beacons, pixel tags) to improve user experience, analyze website operation, and support marketing activities.

What are Cookies? Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit our website.

Types of Cookies:

- Strictly Necessary Cookies: Essential for the basic functions of the website to operate.

- Performance Cookies: Help us understand how visitors use the website, e.g., which pages are most popular.

- Functional Cookies: Allow the website to remember your chosen settings (e.g., language).

- Marketing/Targeting Cookies: Used to track visitors across websites to display relevant advertisements.

Cookie Consent: When you first visit our website, a cookie consent banner will appear, allowing you to accept, reject, or customize the use of cookies. You also have the option to change your cookie settings in your browser at any time.

4. Purpose and Legal Basis for Data Usage

We process your data for the following purposes and on the following legal bases:

Operating our website and providing our services: Legal basis: Performance of a contract or legitimate interest (ensuring the proper functioning of the website).

Communicating with you: Legal basis: Consent (e.g., newsletter subscription) or legitimate interest (responding to contact requests).

Analyzing and developing our website: Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager: We use these services to understand how our visitors use our website. Google Analytics collects anonymized data about your website activity and helps us optimize user experience and content. Google Tag Manager allows us to manage and deploy measurement and marketing tags used on our website. Your IP address is anonymized (by truncating the last byte) for Google Analytics. Data is transferred to Google LLC. Legal basis: Consent (acceptance of analytical cookies) or legitimate interest (developing our website).

Fulfilling legal obligations: Legal basis: Legal obligation.

Security measures and fraud prevention: Legal basis: Legitimate interest.

5. Data Transfer to Third Parties

We may share your data with the following third parties:

- Google LLC: For providing analytical and tag manager services (see point 5). Data transfer outside the EU/EEA (USA) may occur based on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and/or Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs).

- [Mention any other providers, e.g., payment service provider, newsletter service provider]: Only to the extent strictly necessary for providing our services.

- In case of legal obligation: When required by law or to comply with official requests.

We have concluded data processing agreements with all third parties, ensuring the adequate protection of your data.

6. Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. These measures include data encryption, access control, and regular security audits.

7. Your Rights

Under GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your data:

- Right to Access: You can request information about your processed personal data.

- Right to Rectification: You can request the correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.

- Right to Erasure ('Right to be Forgotten'): You can request the deletion of your data under certain conditions.

- Right to Restriction of Processing: You can request the restriction of data processing in certain cases.

- Right to Data Portability: You can request to receive your data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, or to have it transmitted directly to another controller.

- Right to Object: You can object to data processing, especially for direct marketing purposes.

- Right to Withdraw Consent: You can withdraw your consent to data processing at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

- Right to Complain: If you believe your data protection rights have been violated, you can lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority.

To exercise your rights, please contact us at [email address].

9. Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will publish notifications of any significant changes on our website. We encourage you to regularly review this page for the latest information.