Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy sets out the rules for storing and accessing data on Users’ Devices when using the Website for the purpose of providing electronic services by the Administrator, as well as the rules for collecting and processing Users’ personal data that they have provided personally and voluntarily through the tools available on the Website.

This Privacy Policy is an integral part of the Website’s Terms and Conditions, which set out the rules, rights and obligations of Users of the Website.

§1 Definitions

  • Website – the “BeeClear” website operating at https://beeclear.pl
  • External website – websites of partners, service providers or service recipients cooperating with the Administrator
  • Website / Data Administrator – the Website Administrator and Data Administrator (hereinafter the Administrator) is a natural person providing services electronically through the Website
  • User – a natural person for whom the Administrator provides services electronically through the Website.
  • Device – an electronic device together with software, through which the User accesses the Website
  • Cookies – text data collected in the form of files placed on the User’s Device
  • GDPR – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 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)
  • Personal data – means information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“data subject”); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person
  • Processing – means an operation or set of operations performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;
  • Restriction of processing – means the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting its processing in the future
  • Profiling – means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyse or predict aspects concerning that natural person’s performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements
  • Consent – the consent of the data subject means any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her
  • Personal data breach – means a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed
  • Pseudonymization – means the processing of personal data in such a way that the data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organisational measures ensuring that it cannot be attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person
  • Anonymization – Anonymization is an irreversible data operation process that destroys / overwrites “personal data”, making it impossible to identify a given record or link it to a specific user or natural person.

§2 Data Protection Officer

Pursuant to Article 37 of the GDPR, the Administrator has not appointed a Data Protection Officer.

In matters relating to data processing, including personal data, please contact the Administrator directly.

§3 Types of Cookies

  • Internal Cookies – files placed and read on the User’s Device by the Website’s IT system
  • External Cookies – files placed and read on the User’s Device by the IT systems of External websites. Scripts of External websites that may place Cookie files on the User’s Device have been deliberately placed on the Website through scripts and services made available and installed on the Website
  • Session Cookies – files placed and read on the User’s Device by the Website during a single session of the given Device. Once the session ends, the files are deleted from the User’s Device.
  • Persistent Cookies – files placed and read on the User’s Device by the Website until they are manually deleted. The files are not automatically deleted when the Device session ends, unless the User’s Device is configured to delete Cookie files when the Device session ends.

Within the Website, the following types of cookie files are used depending on how necessary they are for providing the services:

  • Necessary cookie files, enabling the use of services available within the website, in particular authentication cookie files used for services requiring authentication;
  • Cookie files used to ensure security, in particular used to detect authentication abuse;
  • Performance cookie files, enabling the collection of information on how the websites are used;
  • Functional cookie files, enabling the “remembering” of settings chosen by the user and personalization of the user interface;
  • Advertising cookie files, enabling the delivery of advertising content to users tailored to their interests.

§4 Data storage security

  • Cookie storage and reading mechanisms – The mechanisms for storing, reading and exchanging data between Cookies saved on the User’s Device and the Website are implemented through built-in web browser mechanisms and do not allow the retrieval of other data from the User’s Device or data from other websites visited by the User, including personal data or confidential information. Transferring viruses, trojan horses or other worms to the User’s Device is also practically impossible.
  • Internal Cookies – the Cookie files used by the Administrator are safe for Users’ Devices and do not contain scripts, content or information that could threaten the security of personal data or the security of the Device used by the User.
  • External Cookies – the Administrator takes all possible steps to verify and select website partners in terms of User security. The Administrator selects well-known, large partners with global public trust for cooperation. However, it does not have full control over the content of Cookie files originating from external partners. To the extent permitted by law, the Administrator is not liable for the security of Cookie files, their content or the use, in accordance with the license, by Scripts installed on the website and originating from External websites. A list of partners is provided later in this Privacy Policy.
  • Control of Cookie files
  • Risks on the User’s side – the Administrator uses all possible technical measures to ensure the security of data placed in Cookie files. However, it should be noted that ensuring the security of this data depends on both parties, including the User’s own actions. The Administrator is not responsible for the interception of this data, impersonation of the User’s session, or their deletion as a result of the User’s conscious or unconscious actions, viruses, trojan horses and other spyware with which the User’s Device may be or may have been infected. To protect against these threats, Users should follow the rules of safe internet use.
  • Storage of personal data – the Administrator ensures that it makes every effort so that personal data voluntarily provided by Users is secure, access to it is limited, and it is processed in accordance with its intended purpose and processing purposes. The Administrator also ensures that it makes every effort to protect the data it holds against loss, through the use of appropriate physical and organizational safeguards.
  • Improving and facilitating access to the Website
  • Personalization of the Website for Users
  • Marketing, remarketing on external websites
  • Ad serving services
  • Affiliate services
  • Keeping statistics (users, number of visits, types of devices, connection, etc.)
  • Serving multimedia services
  • Providing social media services

§6 Purposes of processing personal data

Personal data voluntarily provided by Users is processed for one of the following purposes:

  • Provision of electronic services:
    • Services for sharing information about content posted on the Website on social media or other websites.
  • Communication by the Administrator with Users on matters related to the Website and data protection
  • Securing the Administrator’s legitimate interest

Data about Users collected anonymously and automatically is processed for one of the following purposes:

  • Keeping statistics
  • Remarketing
  • Serving advertisements tailored to Users’ preferences
  • Handling affiliate programs
  • Securing the Administrator’s legitimate interest

On the Website, the Administrator uses javascript scripts and web components from partners, who may place their own cookie files on the User’s Device. Remember that in your browser settings you can decide for yourself which cookie files are permitted to be used by individual websites. Below is a list of partners or their services implemented on the Website that may place cookie files:

Services provided by third parties are beyond the Administrator’s control. These entities may at any time change their terms of service, privacy policies, purpose of data processing, and the way cookie files are used.

§8 Types of data collected

The Website collects data about Users. Some of the data is collected automatically and anonymously, and some is personal data voluntarily provided by Users when signing up for individual services offered by the Website.

Anonymous data collected automatically:

  • IP address
  • Browser type
  • Screen resolution
  • Approximate location
  • Website subpages opened
  • Time spent on a given subpage of the website
  • Type of operating system
  • Address of the previous subpage
  • Referring page address
  • Browser language
  • Internet connection speed
  • Internet service provider

Some data (excluding identifying data) may be stored in cookie files. Some data (excluding identifying data) may be transferred to a statistical services provider.

§9 Access to personal data by third parties

As a rule, the sole recipient of personal data provided by Users is the Administrator. Data collected in connection with the services provided is not transferred or resold to third parties.

Access to data (most often based on a Data Processing Agreement) may be granted to entities responsible for maintaining the infrastructure and services necessary to run the website, i.e.:

  • Hosting companies providing hosting or related services for the Administrator

Entrustment of personal data processing – Hosting, VPS or Dedicated Server Services

To run the website, the Administrator uses the services of an external hosting, VPS or Dedicated Server provider – . All data collected and processed on the website is stored and processed in the service provider’s infrastructure located within the borders of the European Union. Access to this data may be possible as a result of maintenance work carried out by the service provider’s staff. Access to this data is governed by an agreement concluded between the Administrator and the Service Provider.

§10 Method of processing personal data

Personal data voluntarily provided by Users:

  • Personal data will not be transferred outside the European Union, unless it has been published as a result of an individual action by the User (e.g., posting a comment or entry), which will make the data accessible to anyone visiting the website.
  • Personal data will not be used for automated decision-making (profiling).
  • Personal data will not be resold to third parties.

Anonymous data (excluding personal data) collected automatically:

  • Anonymous data (excluding personal data) will be transferred outside the European Union.
  • Anonymous data (excluding personal data) will not be used for automated decision-making (profiling).
  • Anonymous data (excluding personal data) will not be resold to third parties.

The Website collects and processes User data based on:

  • Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 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)
    • Art. 6(1)(a)
      the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes
    • Art. 6(1)(b)
      processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party, or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract
    • Art. 6(1)(f)
      processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party
  • The Act of 10 May 2018 on the Protection of Personal Data (Journal of Laws 2018, item 1000)
  • The Act of 16 July 2004, Telecommunications Law (Journal of Laws 2004, No. 171, item 1800)
  • The Act of 4 February 1994 on Copyright and Related Rights (Journal of Laws 1994, No. 24, item 83)

§12 Period of processing personal data

Personal data voluntarily provided by Users:

As a rule, the specified personal data is stored only for the period the Service is provided within the Website by the Administrator. It is deleted or anonymized within 30 days from the moment the provision of services ends (e.g., deletion of a registered user account, unsubscribing from the Newsletter list, etc.)

An exception applies to a situation requiring the safeguarding of legitimate purposes for the Administrator’s further processing of this data. In such a situation, the Administrator will store the specified data, from the time the User requests its deletion, for no longer than 3 years in the event of a breach or suspected breach of the website’s terms and conditions by the User

Anonymous data (excluding personal data) collected automatically:

Anonymous statistical data, not constituting personal data, is stored by the Administrator for the purpose of keeping website statistics for an indefinite period

§13 Users’ rights relating to the processing of personal data

The Website collects and processes User data based on:

  • Right of access to personal data
    Users have the right to obtain access to their personal data, exercised upon request submitted to the Administrator
  • Right to rectification of personal data
    Users have the right to request that the Administrator promptly rectify personal data that is inaccurate and/or complete incomplete personal data, exercised upon request submitted to the Administrator
  • Right to erasure of personal data
    Users have the right to request that the Administrator promptly erase personal data, exercised upon request submitted to the Administrator. In the case of user accounts, the deletion of data consists of anonymizing the data that allows identification of the User. The Administrator reserves the right to withhold fulfillment of a data deletion request in order to protect the Administrator’s legitimate interest (e.g., when the User has breached the Terms and Conditions, or the data was obtained as a result of ongoing correspondence).
    For the Newsletter service, the User may independently delete their personal data using the link included in every email sent.
  • Right to restriction of processing of personal data
    Users have the right to restrict the processing of personal data in the cases specified in Art. 18 of the GDPR, including challenging the accuracy of personal data, exercised upon request submitted to the Administrator
  • Right to data portability
    Users have the right to receive, from the Administrator, personal data concerning the User in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format, exercised upon request submitted to the Administrator
  • Right to object to the processing of personal data
    Users have the right to object to the processing of their personal data in the cases specified in Art. 21 of the GDPR, exercised upon request submitted to the Administrator
  • Right to lodge a complaint
    Users have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority responsible for personal data protection.

§14 Contacting the Administrator

The Administrator can be contacted in one of the following ways

  • Email address – marcintymek(at)gmail.com

§15 Website requirements

  • Restricting the storage of and access to Cookie files on the User’s Device may cause certain functions of the Website to malfunction.
  • The Administrator is not liable for malfunctioning Website features in the event that the User restricts, in any way, the ability to save and read Cookie files.

The Website – in articles, posts, entries or Users’ comments – may contain links to external websites with which the Website Owner does not cooperate. These links, as well as the pages or files they point to, may be dangerous for your Device or pose a threat to the security of your data. The Administrator is not liable for content located outside the Website.

§17 Changes to the Privacy Policy

  • The Administrator reserves the right to make any changes to this Privacy Policy without the need to inform Users, with regard to the use of anonymous data or the use of Cookie files.
  • The Administrator reserves the right to make any changes to this Privacy Policy with regard to the processing of Personal Data, of which it will inform Users who hold user accounts or are subscribed to the newsletter service, via email, within 7 days of the change to the provisions. Continued use of the services means that the User has read and accepted the changes introduced to the Privacy Policy. In the event that the User does not agree with the changes introduced, the User is obliged to delete their account from the Website or unsubscribe from the Newsletter service.
  • Changes introduced to the Privacy Policy will be published on this subpage of the Website.
  • The changes introduced take effect upon their publication.

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