Privacy Policy
1. Privacy Overview
General Notes
The following notes provide a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data is all information that can be used to personally identify you. Detailed information on data protection can be found in our privacy policy listed below this text.
Data Collection on Our Website
Who is responsible for data collection on this website?
The data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find their contact details in the website’s imprint.
How do we collect your data?
On one hand, your data is collected when you provide it to us, for example, through a contact form.
Other data is collected automatically when you visit the website by our IT systems. These are primarily technical data (e.g., internet browser, operating system, or the time of page view). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.
What do we use your data for?
Some of the data is collected to ensure the error-free provision of the website. Other data may be used to analyze your user behavior.
What rights do you have regarding your data?
You have the right to obtain information about the origin, recipients, and purpose of your stored personal data at any time, free of charge. You also have the right to request the correction, blocking, or deletion of this data. For further questions about data protection, you can contact us at any time using the address provided in the imprint. You also have the right to file a complaint with the responsible supervisory authority.
Additionally, you have the right to request the restriction of processing your personal data under certain circumstances. Details can be found in the section “Right to Restrict Processing” in the privacy policy.
Analysis Tools and Third-Party Tools
When visiting our website, your browsing behavior may be statistically evaluated. This is mainly done with cookies and analytics programs. The analysis of your browsing behavior is usually anonymized; the browsing behavior cannot be traced back to you. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. Detailed information about this can be found in the following privacy policy.
You can object to this analysis. We will inform you about the options to object in this privacy policy.
2. General Notes and Mandatory Information
Privacy
The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the legal data protection regulations and this privacy policy.
When you use this website, various personal data is collected. Personal data is information that can be used to personally identify you. This privacy policy explains what data we collect and how we use it. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.
We point out that data transmission over the internet (e.g., when communicating via email) can have security vulnerabilities. A complete protection of data from third-party access is not possible.
Responsible Party
The responsible party for data processing on this website is:
Polish Academy of Canada
Alina Deja-Grygierczyk
Krasińskiego 36
42-690 Tworóg
Poland
Phone: 0048502634097
Email: alina@polish-academy-canada.com
The responsible party is the natural or legal person who alone or together with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g., names, email addresses, etc.).
Revocation of Your Consent to Data Processing
Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can revoke your consent at any time. A simple email to us is sufficient for this. The lawfulness of the data processing carried out up to the point of revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.
Right to Object to Data Collection in Special Cases and Direct Marketing (Art. 21 GDPR)
If the data processing is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. e or f GDPR, you have the right to object at any time, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to the processing of your personal data; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions. The respective legal basis for the processing can be found in this privacy policy. If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for processing that outweigh your interests, rights, and freedoms, or the processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims (objection according to Art. 21 (1) GDPR).
If your personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for such marketing purposes; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is related to such direct marketing. If you object, your personal data will no longer be used for direct marketing purposes (objection according to Art. 21 (2) GDPR).
Right to Lodge a Complaint with the Supervisory Authority
In case of violations of the GDPR, the affected individuals have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, particularly in the member state of their usual residence, workplace, or place of the alleged infringement. The right to complain exists without prejudice to other administrative or judicial remedies.
Right to Data Portability
You have the right to have data that we process automatically based on your consent or in fulfillment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a commonly used, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another responsible party, this will only be done if technically feasible.
SSL or TLS Encryption
For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or inquiries, that you send to us as the site operator, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the “http://” changing to “https://” in the browser’s address bar and the lock symbol in your browser bar.
If SSL or TLS encryption is enabled, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
Access, Blocking, Deletion, and Correction
You have the right to request information about your stored personal data at any time, free of charge, regarding its origin, recipients, and purpose of processing, and, if applicable, the right to have this data corrected, blocked, or deleted. For this and any further questions about personal data, you can contact us at any time using the address provided in the imprint.
Right to Restrict Processing
You have the right to request the restriction of processing your personal data. For this, you can contact us at any time using the address provided in the imprint. The right to restrict processing exists in the following cases:
- If you dispute the accuracy of your personal data stored with us, we usually need time to verify this. During the verification, you have the right to request the restriction of processing your personal data.
- If the processing of your personal data was unlawful, you can request the restriction of data processing instead of deletion.
- If we no longer need your personal data, but you need it to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims, you have the right to request the restriction of processing instead of deletion.
- If you have filed an objection according to Art. 21 (1) GDPR, a balancing of your and our interests must be carried out. As long as it is not clear whose interests outweigh, you have the right to request the restriction of processing your personal data.
If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, such data – except for its storage – may only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the European Union or a member state.
3. Data Collection on Our Website
Cookies
The websites use cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies help make our offering more user-friendly, effective, and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.
Most of the cookies we use are “session cookies.” These are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser the next time you visit.
You can set your browser to inform you about the use of cookies and allow cookies only in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or generally, and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If you deactivate cookies, the functionality of this website may be limited.
Cookies required for the execution of the electronic communication process or to provide certain functions you desire (e.g., shopping cart function) are stored based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies for the technically error-free and optimized provision of services. Other cookies (e.g., cookies for analyzing your surfing behavior) will be handled separately in this privacy policy.
Server Log Files
The provider of the pages collects and stores automatic information in so-called server log files that your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:
- Browser type and version
- Operating system used
- Referrer URL
- Hostname of the accessing computer
- Time of the server request
- IP address
This data is not merged with other data sources.
The collection of this data is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the technically error-free representation and optimization of their website, which requires the collection of server log files.
Contact Form
If you send us inquiries via the contact form, your details from the inquiry form, including the contact data you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We do not share this data without your consent
The processing of the data entered into the contact form is carried out exclusively based on your consent (Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR). You can revoke this consent at any time by sending us an informal message via email. The legality of the data processing carried out up until the point of revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.
The data you entered in the contact form will remain with us until you request its deletion, revoke your consent for storage, or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies (e.g., after your inquiry has been fully processed). Mandatory statutory provisions, especially retention periods, remain unaffected.
4. Social Media
Facebook Plugins (Like & Share Button)
Our pages integrate plugins from the social network Facebook, provided by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. You can recognize the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the “Like” button (“Gefällt mir”) on our page. An overview of the Facebook plugins can be found here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.
When you visit our pages, a direct connection is established between your browser and the Facebook server via the plugin. This allows Facebook to receive the information that you visited our page with your IP address. If you click on the Facebook “Like” button while logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our pages to your Facebook profile. This enables Facebook to assign your visit to our pages to your user account. We would like to point out that we, as the website provider, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Facebook. For more information, please refer to Facebook’s privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.
If you do not want Facebook to associate your visit to our pages with your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook account.
The use of Facebook plugins is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in maximizing visibility on social media.
5. Analysis Tools and Advertising
Google Analytics
This website uses features of the web analytics service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Google Analytics uses cookies. These are text files that are stored on your computer and allow an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
The storage of Google Analytics cookies and the use of this analysis tool are based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior to optimize both the web offering and advertising.
IP Anonymization
We have activated the IP anonymization feature on this website. This means that your IP address will be shortened by Google within EU member states or in other countries party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before being transmitted to the USA. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the website operator, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity, and provide other services related to website and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
Browser Plugin
You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser software; however, we point out that you may not be able to use all features of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google, as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
Opt-out of Data Collection
You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting your data by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set that prevents the collection of your data on future visits to this website: Disable Google Analytics.
For more information about how Google Analytics handles user data, please refer to Google’s privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.
Google reCAPTCHA
We use “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter referred to as “reCAPTCHA”) on our websites. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”).
The purpose of reCAPTCHA is to determine whether data input on our websites (e.g., in a contact form) is made by a human or by an automated program. To achieve this, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the website visitor based on various characteristics. This analysis starts automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For the analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various pieces of information (e.g., IP address, the duration of the website visit, or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis is forwarded to Google.
The reCAPTCHA analyses run entirely in the background. Website visitors will not be informed that an analysis is taking place.
The data processing is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting their web offerings from abusive automated spying and SPAM.
For more information about Google reCAPTCHA, as well as Google’s privacy policy, refer to the following links: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ and https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/android.html.
6. Plugins and Tools
Google Web Fonts
This site uses web fonts provided by Google to ensure uniform font display. When you visit a page, your browser loads the necessary web fonts into your browser cache to correctly display text and fonts.
For this purpose, the browser you are using must connect to Google’s servers. This allows Google to know that our website was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web Fonts is in the interest of a uniform and appealing presentation of our online offers. This constitutes a legitimate interest under Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR.
If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font from your computer will be used.
For more information about Google Web Fonts, refer to: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
Google Maps
This site uses the Google Maps service via an API. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
To use the features of Google Maps, it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence over this data transmission.
The use of Google Maps is in the interest of presenting our online offerings in an attractive manner and making it easy to locate the places we have listed on the website. This constitutes a legitimate interest under Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR.
For more information on how Google handles user data, refer to Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.de/intl/en/policies/privacy/.
