Privacy Policy describes the principles of processing information about you, including personal data and cookies.
1. General Information
- This policy applies to the Website, operating under the URL: britishwe.com
- The operator of the site and the Data Controller is BRITISHWE MUHAMMED HAYDAROV, sole proprietorship, VAT ID: 5842817827, ul. Pomorska 16, Gdańsk 80-333. Contact address: education@britishwe.com.
- The Operator is the Administrator of your personal data in relation to data voluntarily provided in the Website.
- The Website uses personal data for the following purposes:
- Newsletter operation
- Comment system operation
- Online chat conversations
- Handling inquiries through forms
- Scheduling online lessons
- Execution of ordered services
- Debt collection
- Presentation of offers or information
- The Website performs the functions of obtaining information about users and their behavior in the following way:
- By voluntarily entering information in forms, which are entered into the Operator’s systems.
- By saving cookie files (so-called “cookies”) in end-users’ devices.
2. Selected data protection methods used by the Operator
- Login and personal data entry areas are secured at the transmission layer (SSL certificate). As a result, personal data and login information entered on the site are encrypted on the user’s computer and can only be read on the target server.
- Personal data stored in the database is encrypted in such a way that only the Operator holding the key can read it. This protects the data in the event of a database theft from the server.
- User passwords are stored in a hashed form. The hashing function works unidirectionally – it is not possible to reverse its operation, which is the current standard for storing user passwords.
- Two-factor authentication is used in the service, which provides an additional form of protection for logging into the Service.
- The Operator periodically changes its administrative passwords.
- To protect data, the Operator regularly performs backups.
- An important element of data protection is the regular updating of all software used by the Operator for processing personal data, especially regular updates of programming components.
3. Hosting
- The Website is hosted (technically maintained) on the servers of the operator: cyberFolks.pl
4. Your rights and additional information about the use of data
- In some situations, the Administrator has the right to transfer your personal data to other recipients, if it is necessary to perform the contract concluded with you or to fulfill the obligations incumbent on the Administrator. This applies to the following groups of recipients:
- hosting company on the basis of entrustment
- payment operators
- online chat solution operators
- authorized employees and associates who use the data to achieve the purpose of the site
- companies providing marketing services for the Administrator
- Your personal data processed by the Administrator no longer than is necessary to perform the activities related to them specified by separate regulations (e.g., on accounting). Regarding marketing data, it will not be processed for more than 3 years.
- You have the right to request from the Administrator:
- access to personal data concerning you,
- their rectification,
- deletion,
- processing restriction,
- and data portability.
- You have the right to object to the processing indicated in point 3.3 c) against processing personal data for the purpose of carrying out the legally justified interests pursued by the Administrator, including profiling, provided that the right of objection cannot be exercised in case of the existence of valid legally justified grounds for processing, overriding your interests, rights and freedoms, in particular for establishing, pursuing or defending claims.
- Complaints to the Administrator’s actions can be submitted to the President of the Personal Data Protection Office, ul. Stawki 2, 00-193 Warsaw.
- Providing personal data is voluntary, but necessary for the Service operation.
- In relation to you, actions consisting of automated decision-making, including profiling, may be undertaken in order to provide services within the framework of the concluded contract and for the Administrator to conduct direct marketing.
- Personal data is transferred to third countries within the meaning of data protection regulations. This means that we transmit them outside the European Union.
5. Information in forms
- The Website collects information voluntarily provided by the user, including personal data, if they are provided.
- The Website may save information about connection parameters (time stamp, IP address).
- In some cases, the Website may save information facilitating the linking of data in the form with the email address of the user filling out the form. In such a case, the user’s email address appears within the URL of the page containing the form.
- Data provided in the form are processed for the purpose resulting from the function of a specific form, e.g., to carry out the service request handling process or business contact, service registration, etc. Each time the context and description of the form clearly inform what it is used for.
6. Administrator’s Logs
- Information on users’ behavior in the service may be subject to logging. These data are used to administer the service.
7. Significant Marketing Techniques
- The operator uses statistical analysis of website traffic through Google Analytics (Google Inc. based in the USA). The operator does not transmit personal data to this service provider, only anonymized information. The service relies on the use of cookies in the user’s end device. Users can view and edit information about their preferences collected by the Google advertising network using cookies at: https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/
- The operator employs remarketing techniques to match advertising messages to the user’s behavior on the site. This might give the impression that user’s personal data is used for tracking, but in practice, no personal data is transferred from the Operator to the advertisers. The technological condition for such activities is the enabled support of cookies.
- The operator uses the Facebook Pixel. This technology means that Facebook (Facebook Inc. based in the USA) knows that a person registered on it is using the Service. It is based on data for which Facebook itself is the administrator. 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 implements a solution to examine user behavior by creating heat maps and recording behavior on the site. These informations are anonymized before being sent to the service operator so they do not know to whom they pertain. Specifically, recordings do not include entered passwords or other personal data.
- The operator applies a solution to automate the operation of the Service in relation to users, e.g., sending an email to a user after visiting a specific subpage, if they have agreed to receive commercial correspondence from the Operator.
8. Information about Cookies
- The Service uses cookies.
- Cookies (“ciasteczka”) are computer data, particularly text files, stored in the end user’s device of the Service and are intended for use with the Service’s websites. Cookies usually contain the name of the website they come from, the duration of their storage on the end device, and a unique number.
- The entity placing cookies on the end user’s device of the Service and accessing them is the Service operator.
- Cookies are used for the following purposes:
- Maintaining the Service user’s session (after logging in), so that the user does not have to re-enter the login and password on every subpage of the Service;
- Fulfilling the objectives specified above in “Significant Marketing Techniques”.
- Within the Service, two main types of cookies are used: “session” (session cookies) and “permanent” (persistent cookies). “Session” cookies are temporary files stored in the end user’s device until logging out, leaving the website, or disabling the software (web browser). “Permanent” cookies are stored in the end user’s device for the time specified in the cookie file parameters or until they are deleted by the user.
- Web browsing software (web browser) usually allows storing cookies in the end user’s device by default. Service Users can change settings in this area. The web browser allows for the deletion of cookies. It is also possible to automatically block cookies. Detailed information on this subject can be found in the help or documentation of the web browser.
- Limitations on the use of cookies can affect some functionalities available on the Service’s websites.
- Cookies placed in the end user’s device of the Service may also be used by entities cooperating with the Service operator, especially including companies: Google (Google Inc. based in the USA), Facebook (Facebook Inc. based in the USA), Twitter (Twitter Inc. based in the USA).
9. Managing Cookies – How to Express and Withdraw Consent?
- If the user does not want to receive cookies, they can change the settings of their browser. We note that disabling the support of cookies necessary for authentication processes, security, maintaining user preferences may hinder and in extreme cases may prevent the use of www websites.
- To manage cookie settings, select from the list below the internet browser you use and follow the instructions: Mobile devices: