Privacy Policy

If you ended up here, it’s a sure sign that you value your privacy. We understand this perfectly, which is why we have prepared this document for you, where you will find the rules for processing personal data and the use of cookies in connection with the use of the website controlbyte.tech and academy.controlbyte.tech.

Formal information at the beginning – the administrator of the site is:

CONTROLBYTE AUTOMATION SPÓŁKA Z OGRANICZONĄ ODPOWIEDZIALNOŚCIĄ

e-mail: contact@controlbyte.tech

If you have any doubts related to the privacy policy, you can contact us at any time by sending a message to contact@controlbyte.tech.

Short version – the most important information

We care about your privacy, but also about your time. That’s why we have prepared a shortened version of the most important privacy protection rules for you.

• By creating a user account through the website, placing an order, subscribing to the newsletter, making a complaint, withdrawing from the contract or simply contacting us, you provide us with your personal data, and we guarantee that your data will remain confidential, safe and will not be shared with any third parties without your explicit consent.
• We entrust the processing of personal data only to trusted and reliable entities providing services related to the processing of personal data.
• We use Google Analytics analytical tools, which collect information about your visits to the site. You have the option to decide whether we will also be able to use marketing functions as part of the Google Analytics service.
• We provide the possibility of using social functions, such as sharing content on social networking sites. Using these functions involves the use of cookies from social network administrators such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIN.

If the above information is not enough for you, you will find further details below.

Personal data

The administrator of your personal data within the meaning of personal data protection regulations is:

The purposes, legal basis and period of processing of personal data are indicated separately for each purpose of data processing (see: description of individual purposes of processing personal data below).

Rights. The GDPR grants you the following potential rights related to the processing of your personal data:

• the right of access to personal data,
• the right to rectify personal data,
• the right to delete personal data,
• the right to limit the processing of personal data,
• the right to object to the processing of personal data,
• the right to data portability,
• the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority,
• the right to withdraw consent to the processing of personal data, if you have given such consent.

The principles related to the implementation of the indicated rights have been described in detail in Art. 16–21 GDPR. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with these regulations. For our part, we find it necessary to explain to you that the above rights are not absolute and will not be available to you in relation to all activities of processing your personal data.

We emphasize that one of the rights indicated above is always available to you – if you believe that we have violated the regulations on the protection of personal data during the processing of your personal data, you have the possibility to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority (President of the Office for Personal Data Protection).

Trusted data processing entities

For the proper functioning of the website, just like almost every other website operator, we use services of external entities. Below is a list of data processors to whom we transfer your data:

• Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland – for the purposes of Google Analytics and social functions.
• GetResponse S.A., Grunwaldzka Avenue 413, Gdańsk (80-309), KRS: 0000942075, NIP: 9581468984 – for the purpose of the mailing system (newsletter).

All entities to whom we entrust the processing of personal data guarantee the use of appropriate measures for the protection and security of personal data required by law.

Purposes and activities of processing

User account

When creating a user account, you must provide your email address and define a password for the account. Providing data is voluntary, but necessary to create an account. As part of editing the user profile, you can provide further data about yourself, i.e. name and surname, billing address and shipping address. Providing these data is voluntary.

The data provided in the user profile is processed for the purpose of providing the service of maintaining the user account on the terms described in the regulations. The legal basis for data processing is the necessity of processing for the performance of the contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).

Orders

When placing an order, you must provide personal data necessary to complete the order: name and surname, billing address, shipping address. Providing the above data is necessary to complete the order. Failure to provide them makes it impossible to complete the order.

The legal basis for processing is the necessity of processing for the performance of the contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) and legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR) for tax and accounting purposes.

Newsletter

If you want to receive the newsletter, you must provide your email address in the appropriate form. Providing data is voluntary, but necessary to send the newsletter. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time.

The legal basis for data processing is consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). Data will be processed until you unsubscribe from the newsletter.

Complaints and withdrawal from the contract

In the complaint or withdrawal from the contract procedure, you must provide personal data indicated in the complaint form or withdrawal declaration. Providing data is voluntary, but necessary for the complaint or withdrawal procedure.

The legal basis for processing is a legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR). The data will be processed for the time necessary to implement the complaint procedure or the withdrawal procedure.

E-mails and contact forms

By contacting us via e-mail, including sending an inquiry via the contact form, you naturally provide us with your e-mail address as the sender’s address. In addition, you can also include other personal data in the content of the correspondence. The legal basis for processing is the legitimate interest of the administrator (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR), consisting in conducting correspondence with users of the website.

Cookies

The website uses cookies. These are small text files sent by a web server and stored on the user’s end device. When the browser reconnects to the website, it sends the website the file in which it saved the user’s visit. Cookies usually contain the domain name of the website they come from, the storage time on the end device and a unique number.

The website uses two types of cookies: session cookies – stored on the user’s end device and remaining there until the end of the browser session, and permanent cookies – stored on the user’s end device for a time specified in the parameters of the cookies or until they are deleted by the user.

The website uses the following types of cookies: necessary, security, performance, functional, and advertising cookies.

In many cases, the software used for browsing websites allows cookies to be stored on the user’s end device by default. Users of the website can change cookie settings at any time in the web browser settings.

Server logs

Information on some of your behaviors is subject to logging in the server layer. These data are used only to administer the website and to ensure the most efficient service of the hosting services provided. Browsed resources are identified by URL addresses.

In addition, the following may be saved: inquiry receipt time, response sending time, name of the client station (HTTP protocol), information about errors during the HTTP transaction, URL of the previously visited page (referrer link), information about your browser, and IP address information.

The above data is not associated with specific people browsing the website and is used only for server administration purposes.

Providing data

The data is provided to external entities only within legally permitted limits. The data that allows to identify you is provided only with your consent or is entrusted to reliable entities providing services related to the processing of personal data.

Your data will be processed within the European Economic Area, but can also be transferred to a country outside the EEA, provided that the appropriate level of protection is ensured, including in particular through: cooperation with entities processing personal data in countries for which an appropriate decision has been issued by the European Commission, the use of standard contractual clauses issued by the European Commission, or application of binding corporate rules approved by the competent supervisory authority.