1. General Information

This policy applies to the website operating at the following URL: lasergiftcrafts.eu. The website operator and personal data administrator is Łukasz Ziach, located at 2 Glynndale Court, Williamstown, Co Galway, F45 E306. The operator’s contact email address is: laserdesignsireland@gmail.com.

The operator is the administrator of your personal data with respect to data voluntarily provided on the website. The website uses personal data for the following purposes:

• Handling inquiries via the contact form
• Preparation, packaging, and shipping of goods
• Provision of ordered services
• Presentation of offers or information

The website collects information about users and their behaviors through the following methods:

• Voluntarily provided data entered into forms, which are stored in the operator’s systems.
• Storing cookies in users’ end devices.

2. Selected Data Protection Methods Used by the Operator

The sites for logging in and entering personal data are protected by SSL encryption, ensuring that personal data and login details entered on the site are encrypted on the user’s computer and can only be read on the target server.

The operator periodically changes administrative passwords and regularly backs up data to protect it. An essential element of data protection is the regular updating of all software used by the operator for processing personal data, including regular updates of software components.

3. Hosting

The website is hosted (technically maintained) on the servers of https://seohost.pl/. The hosting company, for technical reliability, maintains logs at the server level. The following may be recorded:

• Resources specified by URL identifiers (addresses of requested resources – pages, files),
• Time of request arrival,
• Time of response dispatch,
• Name of the client station – identification performed by the HTTP protocol,
• Information about errors that occurred during the HTTP transaction,
• URL of the previously visited page (referer link) if the transition to the website occurred via a link,
• Information about the user’s browser,
• IP address information,
• Diagnostic information related to the self-ordering process through on-site recorders,
• Information related to the handling of email correspondence sent to and from the operator.

4. Your Rights and Additional Information on Data Usage

In certain situations, the administrator has the right to transfer your personal data to other recipients if it is necessary to perform the agreement concluded with you or to fulfill the administrator’s obligations. This includes the following groups of recipients:

• Hosting companies based on a data processing agreement,
• Couriers,
• Postal operators,
• Payment operators,
• Authorized employees and collaborators using the data to achieve the purpose of the website,
• Companies providing marketing services to the administrator.

Your personal data processed by the administrator will not be kept longer than necessary to perform related activities specified by separate regulations (e.g., on accounting). Regarding marketing data, data will not be processed longer than 3 years.

You have the right to request:

• Access to your personal data,
• Correction,
• Deletion,
• Limitation of processing,
• Data portability.

You have the right to object to the processing of personal data as specified in point 3.2, in cases of processing for the purposes of legitimate interests pursued by the administrator, including profiling. The objection cannot be upheld if there are legally justified grounds for processing, superior to your interests, rights, and freedoms, in particular for the establishment, exercise, or defense of claims.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with the President of the Office for Personal Data Protection, ul. Stawki 2, 00-193 Warsaw.

Providing personal data is voluntary but necessary for the operation of the website. Automated decision-making processes, including profiling, may be applied to you for the provision of services under the concluded agreement and for the direct marketing conducted by the administrator.

Personal data are not transferred to third countries within the meaning of data protection regulations, meaning they are not sent outside the European Union.

5. Information in Forms

The website collects information provided voluntarily by the user, including personal data, if entered. The website may record information about connection parameters (time, IP address). In some cases, the website may store information facilitating the linking of data in the form with the user’s email address filling out the form. In such a case, the user’s email address appears within the URL of the page containing the form.

The data provided in the form are processed for the purpose resulting from the function of the specific form, such as the service request handling process or commercial contact, registration of services, etc. Each time the context and description of the form clearly inform what it is used for.

6. Administrator’s Logs

User behavior information on the website may be logged. This data is used to administer the website.

7. Important Marketing Techniques

The operator uses statistical traffic analysis tools, such as Google Analytics (Google Inc., based in the USA). The operator does not transmit personal data to the operator of this service, only anonymized information. The service uses cookies in the user’s end device. For information on user preferences collected by the Google advertising network, the user can view and edit information derived from cookies using the tool: https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/.

The operator uses remarketing techniques to tailor advertising messages to the user’s behavior on the website, which may give the impression that the user’s personal data is being used to track them. However, in practice, no personal data is transferred from the operator to advertising operators. The technological condition for such actions is enabled cookies.

The operator uses Facebook Pixel. This technology means that Facebook (Facebook Inc., based in the USA) knows that a registered person is using the website. It is based on data for which it is the administrator; the operator does not provide any additional personal data to Facebook. The service is based on using cookies in the user’s end device.

The operator uses solutions that examine user behavior by creating heat maps and recording behavior on the site. This information is anonymized before being sent to the service operator so that they do not know which natural person it concerns. In particular, recorded are not passwords and other personal data.

The operator uses solutions automating the operation of the website concerning users, e.g., sending an email to a user after visiting a specific subpage, provided that the user has consented to receive commercial correspondence from the operator.

8. Information on Cookies

The website uses cookies. Cookies are IT data, in particular text files, stored in the user’s end device and intended for the use of the website’s pages. Cookies usually contain the name of the website they come from, the time of storage on the end device, and a unique number.

The entity placing cookies on the user’s end device and accessing them is the website operator.

Cookies are used for the following purposes:

• Maintaining the user’s session on the website (after logging in), thanks to which the user does not have to re-enter their login and password on each subpage of the website;
• Achieving the purposes described above in the “Important Marketing Techniques” section.

The website uses two primary types of cookies: “session” cookies and “persistent” cookies. “Session” cookies are temporary files stored on the user’s end device until they log out, leave the website, or turn off the software (web browser). “Persistent” cookies are stored on the user’s end device for a time specified in the cookie parameters or until they are deleted by the user.

Web browsing software (web browser) usually allows cookies to be stored on the user’s end device by default. Users of the website can change the settings in this regard. The web browser allows the removal of cookies. It is also possible to block cookies automatically. Detailed information on this is contained in the help or documentation of the web browser.

Restrictions on the use of cookies may affect some functionalities available on the website.

Cookies placed in the user’s end device may also be used by cooperating entities with the website operator, in particular, this applies to 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 in Practice?

If the user does not want to receive cookies, they can change the browser settings. However, disabling cookies necessary for authentication, security, and user preference maintenance processes may hinder, and in extreme cases, prevent the use of websites.

To manage cookie settings, select the web browser you are using from the list below and follow the instructions:

• Edge
• Internet Explorer
• Chrome
• Safari
• Firefox
• Opera

Mobile devices:

• Android
• Safari (iOS)
• Windows Phone