Regulations of cooperation with the Carbon Poster website.
Hello!
We run a website and sell posters on carbon fiber sheets. We cooperate in this area with artists who provide us with their works in return for a commission on sales.
Below you will find the regulations in which we described the rules of cooperation with us. We have tried to describe everything simple and clear so that you would not have a problem understanding. We are very happy to cooperate with you, thanks for being with us!
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the Service, we are at your disposal at artists@carbonposter.com.
§ 1
Definitions
For these Regulations, the following terms are used:
1) Artist - a natural person with full legal capacity, a legal person or a handicapped legal person,
2) Graphics - works created by the Artist,
3) Website - website available at https://carbonposter.com/,
4) Services - services provided by the Artist consisting in creating Graphics,
5) Regulations - these regulations, available at https://carbonposter.com/pages/terms-and-conditions,
6) Administrator - NEWAY Group limited liability company, ul. Fryderyka Chopina 16, 18-300 Zambrów, whose registration files are kept by the District Court in Białystok, 12th Commercial Division, NIP: 7231638746, KRS: 0000863085, share capital PLN 22,000.00.
§ 2
Cooperation
1. The Regulations define the terms of the cooperation agreement between the Administrator and the Artist. The contract is concluded with the creation of an account on the Website, following § 3 paragraph 1. Under the concluded cooperation agreement, the Artist undertakes to provide the Services, and the Administrator undertakes to pay the remuneration described in § 6 of the Regulations.
2. Graphics are used to create and sell posters on the Website.
3. The artist is not a party to sales contracts concluded via the Website. Therefore, he does not have any obligations related to the handling of orders placed on the Website.
4. As part of the cooperation, the Artist may receive an individual discount code that he may share on his social media. To obtain it, the Artist must contact the Administrator by sending a message to the following address: artists@carbonposter.com. The Artist is entitled to carry out information, promotional, marketing, or any other activities using a discount code, with the subject to that the Artist's actions may not violate the Regulations, law, and good manners, in particular, the Artist may not send out unsolicited commercial information, conduct aggressive practices marketing.
5. The Artist declares that this cooperation is related to the economic activity conducted by the Artist and that the artist will settle the income obtained under this contract as part of his business activity.
6. In the case of providing false data specified in § 6 sec. 6 or violation of § 4 sec. 6 of the Regulations, the Administrator may terminate the cooperation agreement with immediate effect. In the case of such termination of the contract by the Administrator, a contractual penalty will also be charged from the Artist in the amount of the due but not yet paid remuneration.
§ 3
Use of the Website
1. Creating an account on the Website is done by completing a separate account registration form. Registration of the User's account leads to the conclusion of a cooperation agreement with the Administrator, referred to in § 2 paragraph. 1. The contract is concluded for an indefinite period, and the Artist may terminate it at any time by deleting the user's account, with the subject to that the mere deletion of the user's account is not tantamount to the termination of the license described in § 5. To delete the account, the Artist must contact the Administrator by sending a message to the following address: artists@carbonposter.com.
2. Creating an account and using all the functions of the Website is free of charge.
3. As part of the account, the Artist may add his profile picture and his description. By adding photos, the Artist declares to the Administrator that he has full rights and is entitled to dispose of the added photos, and the added photos do not violate any rights of third parties, in particular copyrights or personal rights. Adding a photo on the Website is understood as consent to use the photo on the Website. If the photo includes an image, adding the photo is considered the Artist's consent to disseminate his image on the Website.
4. If claims are submitted to the Administrator regarding infringement of copyright or related rights in related to the Administrator's use of the content indicated in paragraph 3 above, the Artist undertakes to provide the Administrator with any assistance to defend against these claims, as well as reimburse the Administrator for any costs incurred with claims, in particular court costs, remuneration for legal assistance provided to the Administrator, costs of representation by a professional attorney and the amounts of compensation or indemnity paid, also based on a settlement.
5. As part of the account, the Artist may, in particular, verify the sales reports indicated in § 6 sec. 3 of the Regulations, share Graphics, add profile photos, and self-descriptions. Detailed information on the functions of the user account is described on the Website.
6. The use of the account and all functions of the Website takes place as part of the services provided electronically by the Administrator to the Artist. These services are provided under the cooperation agreement referred to in § 2 paragraph. 1 of the Regulations. The use of these services is not possible anonymously. When using the services, it is forbidden to provide illegal content, in particular via the forms available on the Website
7. Any complaints related to the functioning of the Website may be submitted by the Artist via e-mail to the e-mail address artists@carbonposter.com. In the complaint, the Artist should provide data allowing him to be identified as a user of the Website, as well as the type and date of the irregularity related to the functioning of the Website. The administrator will respond to the complaint within 30 days of its receipt.
8. The Administrator reserves the right to develop, modify, update and change the Website. In the event of modifications negatively assessed by the Artist, he may delete the account on the Website, following § 3 paragraph. 1
9. The Administrator is not liable to the Artist for incorrect operation of the Website for reasons resulting from:
1) interruptions in the delivery of the service or unavailability that will be independent of the Administrator or resulting from events that the Administrator could not foresee,
2) problems on the part of telecommunications operators, providers of telecommunications links and electricity,
3) dangers related to the use of the network on the part of the Administrator, such as hacking attacks, infecting the system with viruses or similar events,
4) force majeure.
10. The Administrator is not responsible for the impossibility or difficulties in using the Website, resulting from reasons attributable to the Artist, in particular for the Artist's loss or possession by third parties (regardless of the method) of his password.
11. The Administrator is not liable for damages caused by the actions or omissions of the Artist, in particular for using the Website by him in a manner inconsistent with applicable law, contract, or accepted customs.
12. Regardless of the above exclusions of liability, any potential liability of the Administrator is limited to the amount of remuneration due to the Artist for the last accounting month.
§ 4
Provision of Services and uploading Graphics
1. The Artist undertakes to provide the Services in a professional, reliable manner, following the applicable industry standards and the Administrator's justified expectations.
2. The Parties may make additional arrangements for the provision of Services using distance communication. The artist undertakes to follow any additional guidelines received from the Administrator.
3. The services provided are to lead to the production of Graphics suitable for their use in the poster production process, which is produced by the Administrator.
4. The Graphics created as part of the provision of the Services are sent by the Artist to the Administrator via the Website's mechanisms.
5. To send Graphics, the Artist must log in to his account and complete the form available in the "Product Design" tab. Each submission of the Graphics via the Website by the Artist is treated as making it available for publication on the Website and means granting a license under the conditions described in § 5.
6. Graphics must have a resolution of not less than 5906 x 8858 px, 300 DPI, and may not contain watermarks, signatures, or other artist's markings. If the Artist sends Graphics, where he wants to expose a carbon fiber structure, he should send the Graphics in PNG format. If the graphic is meant to be printed in full size, it can be in PNG or JPG format. The Administrator reserves the right to reject Graphics or to remove them immediately from the Website, in particular if they infringe the rights of third parties, applicable law, or the provisions of the Regulations. The artist may not object to it, nor make any claims on this account. The Administrator will contact the Artist and explain the reasons for rejecting or removing the Graphics from the Website.
7. If the Graphics meets the technical requirements and is not rejected by the Administrator according to sec. 7 above, the Administrator will approve its addition on the Website within 2 business days of its submission by the Artist via the Website.
8. By submitting Graphics, the Artist declares and guarantees the Administrator that they are free from legal defects, and the use of the Graphics by the Administrator on the terms set out in the Regulations will not require any additional approvals, licenses, or permits and does not infringe any third party copyrights.
9. In the case of submitting claims to the Administrator regarding infringement of copyright or related rights in connection with the Administrator's use of Graphics, the Artist undertakes to provide the Administrator with any assistance to defend against these claims, as well as reimburse the Administrator for any costs incurred in relation with the claims, in particular, court costs, remuneration for legal assistance provided to the Administrator, costs of representation by a professional attorney and the amounts of compensation or redress paid, also based on a settlement.
10. The Artist may at any time remove his Graphics from the Website, thereby terminating the license, following the deadline specified in § 5 sec. 6. To remove the Graphic from the Website, the Artist must contact the Administrator by sending a message to the following e-mail address: artists@carbonposter.com.
§ 5
License
1. As soon as graphics is sent via the Website following § 4 sec. 5 of the Regulations, the Artist grants the Administrator a non-exclusive license to use the Graphics in the following fields of use:
1) saving Graphics on disks or in the memory of electronic devices, including the storage of Graphics in the cloud or on servers,
2) reproducing the Graphics by any technique, in particular the use of Graphics to print posters,
3) placing multiple digital copies of Graphics on the market,
4) sale of posters using Graphics,
5) using Graphics for advertising, promotional, merchandising, and informational purposes related to the Administrator's activities, in particular disseminating Graphics or their fragments via social networks, websites, blogs, landing pages, etc.,
6) disseminating Graphics via the Internet.
2. The administrator is entitled to grant further licenses (sub-licenses).
3. The Artist undertakes not to use his moral rights to the Graphics in a manner aimed at preventing the achievement of the Administrator's business goal, i.e. the promotion and sale of posters produced with the use of Graphics.
4. The license is unlimited territorially, which means that the Administrator may use the Graphics for the purposes specified in sec. 1 above, on the areas of usage worldwide.
5. The Artist's right to create Graphics and label the Graphics with his name will be exercised on the Website by placing the Artist's name and last name or nickname next to the product using his Graphics. The method of marking the Artist as the author depends on what information he previously posted on his account on the Website.
6. The artist grants the Administrator a license for an indefinite period. The Artist may terminate the license for each Graphic with a 90-day notice period. Notice of license terms may be submitted by sending an e-mail to artists@carbonposter.com. In his statement, the Artist must indicate against which the Graphic Designer terminates the license.
7. The expiry, finish, or termination of the license does not deprive the Administrator of the possibility of selling previously produced posters using Graphics.
§ 6
Remuneration
1. For the provision of Services, the Artist is entitled to a commission of 15% of the net price of the posters sold using Graphics. The commission is calculated on the sale price of a specific poster. This means that if a promotional campaign is active or the buyer uses a discount code, the basis for calculating the commission fee is lower. The shipping fee is not included in the price used for calculating the commission. The commission fee is calculated from the net selling price, but the amount of the commission calculated in this way is a gross amount.
2. The commission fee is settled based on the sales reports visible in the Artist's account. In case of doubts as to the correctness of the determination of the amount of remuneration, the Artist may raise his objections to the Administrator, who will take action to clarify the situation.
3. The commission becomes due upon the expiration of 20 days after the product is delivered to the customer, provided that the buyer does not effectively withdraw from the contract.
4. The commission payable to the Artist is paid upon exceeding $50 in commissions, by the 10th of the following month in which the required threshold is reached. If the required threshold is not reached within 6 months from the date of the last sale, the Artist has the right to request a withdrawal of funds accumulated in the account.
5. For granting the Administrator a license to use the Graphics, the Artist is entitled to a one-time remuneration of $0.1 for each Graphic added by the Artist and sold in the Service. The condition for the payment is the sale of at least one Graphics Design within 12 months, after its addition. The remuneration shall be paid within 12 months from the occurrence of the circumstances described in this paragraph.
6. The Artist authorizes the Administrator to issue VAT invoices on his behalf in the scope of remuneration settlements described in paragraph 1 and sec. 4 above. The artist is obliged to provide the Administrator with the information necessary for the correct issuance of the invoice (company, tax identification number, address of the registered office or place of business), in particular, he is obliged to provide the data visible in the invoice and notify whether he is exempt from VAT. An artist running a business outside the territory of the Republic of Poland, but within the European Economic Area, is also required to provide his VAT-EU number. The Administrator may also request the Artist to provide a tax residence certificate.
7. The basis for the settlement of remuneration is the invoice indicated in sec. 6 above. The value corresponds to the remuneration resulting from the sales report referred to in paragraph 3 above. The remuneration is paid to the Artist's bank account.
8. The Artist may request payment of remuneration through PayPal operated by PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A. (R.C.S. Luxembourg B 118 349
9. If the Artist benefits from transaction-related exemptions or personal VAT exemption, the issued invoice does not include the VAT amount.
10. In the case of an Artist who does not benefit from VAT exemption, the gross amount on the invoice must correspond to the value of the remuneration following paragraph 3 above.
11. The administrator may suspend the payment of remuneration to the Artist until reliable, truthful data indicated in section 6 above or the delivery of a residence certificate referred to in sec. 6 above.
12. Because the Administrator retains the right to sell copies produced also after the termination or expiry of the license, following § 5 sec. 7 of the Regulations, the remuneration related to this sale will be settled until all posters using Graphics are sold out.
§ 7
Personal data and cookies
1. The Administrator of the Artist's personal data is the Administrator.
2. The Artist's personal data are processed for the following purposes and based on the following legal grounds:
1) conclusion and implementation of a cooperation agreement between the Artist and the Administrator - art. 6 sec. 1 letter b GDPR,
2) implementation of tax and accounting obligations - art. 6 sec. 1 letter c GDPR,
3) defense, investigation, or determination of claims related to the contract, which is a legitimate interest pursued by the Administrator - art. 6 sec. 1 letter f GDPR,
4) disseminating the Artist's image on the Website - art. 6 sec. 1 letter a GDPR.
3. The following entities may participate in the processing of personal data as processors: hosting provider, software suppliers in which personal data are processed, subcontractors accessing personal data related to the performance of their duties, or the services they have been entrusted with. All processing entities are related to the Administrator with personal data processing entrustment agreements and guarantee an appropriate level of personal data protection.
4. Personal data may be transferred to law offices to provide the Administrator with legal assistance if such assistance requires access to personal data. Also, personal data may be transferred to tax offices to the extent necessary to perform tax, settlement, and accounting obligations, and to entities, authorities, or institutions authorized to obtain access to data based on legal provisions, such as the police, security services, courts, public prosecutor's offices.
5. The Artist's personal data is stored in the Administrator's database all the time he conducts business to ensure the possibility of recreating the cooperation, which, however, the Buyer may object to, demanding that his data be deleted from the Administrator's database. If such objection is submitted before the expiry of the limitation period for claims, the Administrator will have an overriding interest in storing the Artist's data until the expiry of the limitation period for claims. Accounting documentation containing the Artist's personal data is kept for the period required by law. If the limitation period for civil law claims, criminal records, or penalties under administrative law would expire after the end of the business, the data will be deleted after this period.
6. Artist's rights related to the processing of personal data: the right to request the Administrator to access personal data, rectify it, delete it, limit processing, the right to object to the processing, the right to transfer data, the right to withdraw consent to the processing of personal data, the right to file a complaint to the President of the Personal Data Protection Office.
7. Providing personal data by the Artist is voluntary, but necessary to join the cooperation program
8. The website uses cookies technology. Own cookies are used for the proper functioning of the Website and statistical purposes.
9. Details related to personal data and cookies are described in the privacy policy available at https://carbonposter.com/pages/privancy-policy.
§ 8
Final Provisions
1. The Administrator reserves the right to make changes to the Regulations. Artists will be informed about any change to the Regulations by sending a message to the e-mail address assigned to the account, specifying the date from which the changes come into force, not shorter than 7 days from the delivery of the message to the Artist. If the amended Regulations are not accepted, the Artist may delete the account. By continuing to use the account after the amendments come into force, you accept the amended Regulations. Removal of a user account is not tantamount to the termination of the license described in § 5.
3. The law applicable to the Regulations and the cooperation agreement referred to in § 2 sec. 1 of the Regulations is the Polish law.
4. Any disputes related to participation in the cooperation program will be considered by the Polish common court having jurisdiction over the place of permanent business activity by the Administrator.
5. These Regulations are valid from March 8, 2021.
6. All archival versions of the Regulations are available for download in .pdf format - links can be found below the Regulations.
Privacy policy for artists
If you came here, it is a sure sign that you value your privacy. We understand it, that's why we give into your hands a document in which you can find in one place the principles of personal data processing and the use of cookies and other tracking technologies to cooperate with us and with the use of website https://carbonposter.com/.
Formal information on the beginning - the administrator is NEWAY Group, a limited liability company, ul. Fryderyka Chopina 16, 18-300 Zambrów, whose registration files are kept by the District Court in Białystok, 12th Commercial Division, NIP: 7231638746, KRS: 0000863085, share capital PLN 22,000.00.
Below you will find the list of contents of this policy corresponding to the questions to which we answer one by one.
# 1: Who is the administrator of your personal data?
# 2: Who can you contact regarding the processing of your personal data?
# 3: What information do we have about you?
# 4: Where do we get your personal data from?
# 5: Is your data safe?
# 6: For what purposes do we process your personal data?
# 7: How long will we keep your personal data?
# 8: Who are the recipients of your personal data?
# 9: Do we transfer your data to third countries or international organizations?
# 10: Do we use profiling? Do we make automated decisions based on your personal data?
# 11: What rights do you have to the processing of your personal data?
# 12: Do we use cookies and what are they exactly?
# 13: On what basis do we use cookies?
# 14: Can you disable cookies?
# 15: For what purposes do we use our own cookies?
# 16: What third-party cookies are used?
# 17: Do we track your behavior on our website?
# 18: Do we target targeted advertising at you?
# 19: How can you manage your privacy?
# 20: What are server logs?
# 21: Is there anything else you should know?
# 22: Could this privacy policy be subject to change?
In case of any doubts related to the privacy policy, you can contact us at any time by sending a message to the address odo@carbonposter.com.
# 1: Who is the administrator of your personal data?
The administrator of your personal data is NEWAY Group limited liability company, ul. Fryderyka Chopina 16, 18-300 Zambrów, whose registration files are kept by the District Court in Białystok, 12th Commercial Division, NIP: 7231638746, KRS: 0000863085, share capital PLN 22,000.00.
# 2: Who can you contact regarding the processing of your personal data?
As part of the implementation of personal data protection in our organization, we decided not to appoint a personal data protection officer because in our situation it is not mandatory. In matters related to the protection of personal data and broadly understood privacy, you can contact us at the e-mail address odo@carbonposter.com.
# 3: What information do we have about you?
Depending on the purpose, we may process the following information about you :
- first name and last name,
- home address,
- business address,
- nip number,
- e-mail address,
- phone number,
- data contained in correspondence addressed to us,
- bank account number,
- image (profile photo),
- information contained in the invoices issued in association with the cooperation agreement.
We have described the scope of the processed data precisely for each processing purpose. Information in this regard can be found in the further part of this policy.
# 4: Where do we get your personal data from?
In most cases, you pass them on to us yourself. This happens when:
- you conclude a contract with us,
- you contact us.
# 5: Is your data safe?
We care about the security of your personal data. We have analyzed the risks associated with individual data processing processes, and then implemented appropriate security and personal data protection measures. We monitor the condition of our technical infrastructure on an ongoing basis, train our staff, observe the procedures applied, and introduce necessary improvements. If you have any questions regarding your personal data, we are at your disposal at odo@carbonposter.com.
# 6: For what purposes do we process your personal data?
There are more than one of these cells. Below is a list of them, followed by a more detailed discussion. We have also assigned the appropriate legal bases for processing to individual purposes.
- conclusion and implementation of a cooperation agreement - art. 6 sec. 1 letter b GDPR,
- handling correspondence - art. 6 sec. 1 letter f GDPR,
- fulfillment of tax and accounting obligations - art. 6 sec. 1 letter c GDPR,
- creating an archive for the possible need to defend, establish or pursue claims, as well as to ensure the possibility of restoring cooperation - art. 6 sec. 1 letter f GDPR.
Conclusion and implementation of a cooperation agreement - details
to conclude a cooperation agreement, it is necessary to create an account on the website. For this purpose, you must provide, in particular, your first name, last name, business information. The data is voluntary but necessary to agree.
As part of editing your account details, you can also set your avatar, e.g. a profile picture including your image.
The data provided by you in the registration form are processed to perform the agreement on participation and settlement in cooperation. Details of the principles of our cooperation are described in the service and terms for the artists. The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is Art. 6 sec. 1 letter b GDPR.
Your data collected in connection with cooperation with us will be kept for the life of the service to ensure the traceability of cooperation, which is our legitimate interest, as referred to in Article. 6 sec. 1 letter f GDPR. If the limitation period for civil law claims, criminal records, or penalties under administrative law would expire after the end of the business, the data will be deleted after this period.
Correspondence handling - details
By contacting us, you naturally provide us with your personal data contained in the correspondence, in particular your e-mail address and name, and last name. Providing data is voluntary, but necessary to make contact.
In this case, your data is processed to contact you, and the basis for processing is art. 6 sec. 1 lit. f RODO, that's our legally legitimate interest. The legal basis for processing after the end of contact is also our justified purpose in the form of archiving correspondence to ensure the possibility of proving certain facts in the future (Article 6 (1) (f) of the GDPR).
The content of the correspondence may be archived and we are not able to clearly determine when it will be deleted. You have the right to request a history of correspondence with us (if it was subject to archiving), as well as request its removal unless its archiving is justified due to our overriding interests, e.g. defense against potential claims on your part.
Tax and accounting obligations - details
If we issue an invoice, it is included in the accounting documentation, which will be kept for the period of time required by law. In such a situation, your personal data is processed to fulfill our tax and accounting obligations ( Article 6 (1) (c) of the GDPR with the provisions governing tax and accounting obligations).
Archive - details
As part of the description of the individual purposes of personal data processing, which are listed above, we have indicated the dates of personal data storage. These terms are often related to the archiving of certain data by us to ensure the possibility of proving certain facts in the future, reconstructing the course of cooperation, exchanged correspondence, defense, establishing or pursuing claims. In this regard, we rely on our legitimate interest, referred to in art. 6 sec. 1 letter f GDPR.
# 7: How long will we keep your personal data?
The data storage periods have been indicated separately for each purpose of processing. You will find this information under the details for each separate processing purpose.
# 8: Who are the recipients of your personal data?
We risk saying that modern business is not able to do without services provided by third parties. We also use such services. Some of these services are related to the processing of your personal data. The following processors are involved in the processing of personal data :
- the hosting provider that stores the data on the server,
- supplier of the invoicing system in which your data is stored to issue an invoice,
- an accounting office that processes your data visible on invoices,
- service provider in the field of maintenance, which accesses the data, where activities related to technical areas in which there are personal data,
- other subcontractors who gain access to data, if the scope of their activities requires such access.
Personal data may be transferred to law offices if there is a need to use legal assistance that requires access to personal data.
Your personal data may also be transferred to tax offices to the extent necessary to fulfill tax, accounting, and accounting obligations. It concerns in particular all declarations, reports, statements, and other accounting documents in which your personal data is located.
Also, if necessary, your personal data may be made available to entities, bodies, or institutions authorized to obtain access to data based on legal provisions, such as the police, security services, courts, prosecutor's offices.
What's more, we use tools that collect a lot of information about you related to the use of our website. It concerns, in particular, the following information:
- information about the operating system and the web browser you use,
- bystanders viewed,- time spent on the site,
- transitions between individual subpages,
- clicks on individual links,
- the source from which you go to our site,
- the age range you are in,
- Your gender
- Your approximate location is limited to the town.
- Your interests are based on your online activity.
This information is not, in our opinion, personal data in itself. Since this information is collected by external tools that we use, this information is also processed by tool providers on the terms resulting from their regulations and privacy policies. Basically, this information is used to provide and improve services, manage them, develop new services, measure the effectiveness of advertisements, protect against fraud and abuse, as well as personalize the content and advertisements displayed on individual websites, sites, and applications. We have tried to describe the details in this regard in the further part of this policy, as part of the explanations related to individual tools.
#9 Do we transfer your data to third countries or international organizations?
No, we do not transfer your data to third countries or international organizations.
# 10: Do we use profiling? Do we make automated decisions based on your personal data?
We do not make decisions about you based solely on automated behavior, including profiling, solely on automated processing, including profiling, which would have legal effects on you or similarly significantly affect you.
Yes, we use tools that can take specific actions depending on the information collected as part of the tracking mechanisms, but we believe that these actions do not have a significant impact on you, because they do not differentiate your situation, do not affect the terms of the contract that can be concluded with us, etc.
By using certain tools, we can, for example, direct personalized advertisements to you based on your previous actions taken on our website or suggest products that may be of interest to you. I am talking about the so-called behavioral advertising. We encourage you to learn more about behavioral advertising, in particular regarding privacy issues. Detailed information, including the ability to manage your behavioral advertising settings, can be found here: http://www.youronlinechoices.com.
We emphasize that as part of the tools we use, we do not have access to information that would allow your identification. The information we are talking about here is, in particular:
- information about the operating system and the web browser you use,
- bystanders viewed,
- time spent on the site,
- transitions between individual subpages,
- the source from which you go to the page on,
- the age range you are in,
- Your gender
- Your approximate location limited to the city,
- Your interests are based on your online activity.
We do not combine the information indicated above with your personal data, which is in our databases. This information is anonymous and does not allow us to identify you. This information is stored on the servers of the suppliers of individual tools, and these servers can most often be located all over the world.
# 1 1: What rights do you have about the processing of your personal data?
The GDPR grants you the following potential rights related to the processing of your personal data:
- the right to access your data and receive and copies,
- the right to rectify (correct) your data,
- the right to delete data (if in your opinion there are no rights for us to process your data, you can request that we delete it),
- the right to limit data processing (you can request that we limit the processing of data only to their storage or performance of activities agreed with you, if, in your opinion, we have incorrect data or we process it unjustifiably),
- the right to object to the processing of data (you have the right to object to the processing of data based on legitimate interest; you should indicate a special situation that, in your opinion, justifies the termination of the processing covered by the objection; we will stop processing your data for these purposes, unless we prove, that the areas for data processing by us override your rights or that your data is necessary for us to establish, assert or defend claims),
- the right to data portability (you have the right to receive from us, in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format, personal data that you provided to us based on a contract or your consent; you can commission us to send this data directly to another entity),
- the right to withdraw consent to the processing of personal data, if you have previously given such consent,
- the right to complain about the supervisory body (if you find that we are processing data unlawfully, you can file a complaint with the President of the Personal Data Protection Office or another competent supervisory authority).
The rules related to the implementation of the above-mentioned rights are described in detail in Art. 16 - 21 GDPR. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with these regulations. For our part, we consider it necessary to explain to you that the above-mentioned rights are not absolute and you will not be entitled to all activities related to the processing of your personal data.
We emphasize that you always have one of the rights indicated above - if you believe that we have violated the provisions on the protection of personal data while processing your personal data, you have the option to complain of the supervisory organization (the President of the Office for Personal Data Protection).
You can also always ask us to provide you with information about what data we have about you and for what purposes we process it. Just send a message to odo@carbonposter.com. However, we have made every effort to ensure that the information you are interested in is comprehensively presented in this privacy policy. You can also use the e-mail address provided above if you have any questions related to the processing of your personal data.
# 12: Do we use cookies and what are they exactly?
Our website, like almost all other websites, uses cookies.
Cookies are small files stored on your terminal device (eg. Computer, tablet, smartphone) that can be read by our ICT system (own cookies) or the third parties' ICT systems (third-party cookies). The cookie file can be recorded and stored specific information, which then ICT systems can nd access for specific purposes.
Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the web browser session, i.e. after closing it (so-called session cookies). Other cookies are stored on your end device and allow us to recognize your browser the next time you visit the website (persistent cookies).
If you want to learn more about cookies as such, you can see, for example, this material: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie.
# 13: On what basis do we use cookies?
We use cookies based on your consent, except when cookies are necessary for the proper provision of electronic services to you.
As far as your consent to cookies is concerned, we accept the variant according to which you express such consent through the settings of your web browser or additional software supporting the management of cookies. We assume that you agree to all cookies used by us that are not blocked by your browser or any additional software you use.
Remember that exclude or limit the use of cookies may prevent you from using parts of the features available on our site and cause difficulties in our use of its service, as well as many other websites that use cookies. For example, if you block cookies from social plug-ins, buttons, widgets, and social functions implemented on our website may not be available to you.
# 14: Can you disable cookies?
Yes, you can manage cookie settings within your web browser. You can block all or selected cookies. You can also block cookies from specific websites. You can also delete previously saved cookies and other websites and plug-in data at any time.
Web browsers also offer the option of using incognito mode. You can use it if you do not want information about visited pages and downloaded files to be saved in your browsing and download history. Cookies created in Incognito mode are deleted when all Incognito windows are closed.
There are also browser plug-ins to control cookies, such as Ghostery (https://www.ghostery.com). The option to control cookies may also be provided by additional software, in particular anti-virus packages, etc.Also, there are tools available on the Internet that allow you to control some types of cookies, in particular for collective management of behavioral advertising settings (e.g. www.youronlinechoices.com/, www.networkadvertising.org/choices ).
Remember that exclude or limit the use of cookies may prevent you from using parts of the features available on our site and cause difficulties in our use of its service, as well as many other websites that use cookies. For example, if you block cookies social plugins, buttons, widgets, and social networking features implemented in our service may not be for you available.
# 15: For what purposes do we use our own cookies?
Own cookies are used to ensure the proper functioning of individual website mechanisms, such as maintaining a session after logging into the account.
# 16: What third-party cookies are used?
The following third party cookies are used on our website :
- Google Analytics,
- Yandex Metrica,
- Google Tag Manager,
- Google Ad Words,
- Google AdSense,
- Facebook Custom Audiences,
- social tools cookies,
- PrivyApp,
- TikTok,
- YouTube.
Details on individual third-party cookies are described below.
Google Analytics - details
We use the Google Analytics tool provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. We carry out activities in this area based on our legitimate interest, consisting of the creation of statistics and their analysis to optimize our websites.
To use Google Analytics, we have implemented a special Google Analytics tracking code in the code of our website. The tracking code uses Google LLC cookies for the Google Analytics service. You can block the Google Analytics tracking code at any time by installing the browser add-on provided by Google: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
- Google Analytics automatically collects information about your use of our website. The information collected in this way is most often transferred to the servers. Google can be located and stored anywhere in the world.
- Due to the IP anonymization activated by us, your IP address is shortened before forwarding. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address sent to Google servers and shortened there. The anonymized IP address provided by your browser as part of Google Analytics is, as a rule, not combined with other Google data.
- We emphasize that as part of Google Analytics we do not collect any data that would allow your identification. Therefore, the data collected as part of Google Analytics is not personal data for us. The information we have access to as part of Google Analytics is in particular:
- information about the operating system and the web browser you use,
- subpages that you browse as part of our website,
- time spent on our website and its subpages,
- transitions between individual subpages,
- the source from which you go to our website.
Also, as part of Google Analytics, we use the following Advertising Functions:
- demographic and interest reports,
- remarketing,
- advertising reporting functions, user-ID.
As part of the Advertising Functions, we also do not collect personal data. The information we have access to is, in particular:
- the age range you are in,
- Your gender
- Your approximate location limited to the city,
- Your interests are based on your online activity.
Google Analytics and Google Analytics 360 services have been certified by the independent security standard ISO 27001. ISO 27001 is one of the most recognized standards in the world and certifies compliance with the relevant requirements by systems that support Google Analytics and Google Analytics 360.
If you are interested in details related to Google's use of data from websites and applications that use Google services, we encourage you to read this information: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Yandex Metrica - details
As part of our website, we use the functions of Yandex Metrica, the provider of which is YANDEX LLC, 16 Lva Tolstogo St., Moscow 119021, Russia, represented in the EEA by Yandex Oy, Moreenikatu 6, 04600 Mantsala, Finland. We carry out activities in this area based on our legitimate interest, consisting of the creation of statistics and their analysis to optimize our websites.
Yandex Metrica automatically collects information about your use of our website. Yandex Metrica registers every visitor to our website and allows you to play a video recording of their traffic on our website, as well as generate the so-called heat maps. The information collected in this way is most often transferred to Yandex Metrica servers, which can be located all over the world and stored there.
To use Yandex Metrica, we have implemented a special Yandex Metrica tracking code in the code of our website. The tracking code uses cookies. You can block the Yandex Metrica tracking code at any time by installing the Yandex.Metrica Blocker browser add-on available at this address: https://yandex.com/support/metrica/general/opt-out.html
We emphasize that as part of Yandex Metrica, we do not collect any data that would allow your identification. Therefore, the data collected as part of Yandex Metrica is not personal data for us. The information we have access to within Yandex Metrica is, in particular:
- information about the operating system and the web browser you use,
- time spent on our website and its subpages,
- Your approximate location,
- the source from which you go to our website,
- pages viewed on our website,
- information about your traffic on our website.
If you are interested in details related to the use of data from websites and applications by Yandex Metrica, we encourage you to read this information: https://yandex.com/legal/metrica_agreement/.
Google Tag Manager - details
We use the Google Tag Manager tool provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA and enabling tag management, i.e. small code fragments, thanks to which we can control user traffic and behavior, collect information on the effectiveness of advertising, and
take actions to improve our website. Google Tag Manager
does not collect any information that allows your identification, however, this tool triggers other tags, which in turn may collect data.
Google Ad Words - details
We use remarketing functions available as part of the Google AdWords system operated by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. We carry out activities in this area based on our legitimate interest, consisting in the marketing of our own products or services.
When you visit our website, a Google cookie remarketing file is automatically left on your device, which collects information about your activity on our website. Thanks to the information collected in this way, we can display advertisements to you within the Google network, depending on your behavior on our website. For example, if you display a product, information about this fact will be recorded by the remarketing cookie file, which will allow us to send you an advertisement regarding that product or any other that we deem appropriate. This advertisement will be displayed to you within the Google network while you use the Internet, browse other websites, etc.
We emphasize that when we use Google Ads, we do not collect any data that would allow your identification. Any compilation of data in such a way that they acquire the nature of personal data may be made on the part of Google, but in this respect, we are no longer responsible for it, because Google carries out these activities based on a contract concluded with you as a user of Google services.
By using Google Ad Words, we are only able to define the target groups we would like our ads to reach. On this basis, Google decides when and how to present our advertisement to you.
Further processing of the information takes place only if you have given your consent to Google to link your browsing history with your account and to use the information from your Google account to personalize the advertisements displayed on websites. In this case, Google will use your data to create and define lists of target groups for remarketing purposes on various devices. To this end, Google temporarily combines the collected information with the other held data, to create target groups.
If you do not want to receive personalized ads, you can manage your ad settings directly on the Google site: https://adssettings.google.com/.
If you are interested in details related to Google's use of data from websites and applications that use Google services, we encourage you to read this information: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Google AdSense - details
Display advertising on our websites within the network of Google Ad Sense supported by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. We carry out activities in this area based on our legitimate interest, consisting of the monetization of the content we publish.
Our website, in connection with the display of advertisements on it as part of the AdSense network, contains advertising tags that instruct your web browser to send a request for advertising content from Google's servers. Along with the advertising content, the server also sends a cookie. Cookies are used to display advertisements based on your previous visits to our website or other websites. AdSense also uses cookies to improve ad quality. Often uses include Targeting your ads based on topics that interest you, improving your campaign performance reports, and skipping the ads you've already seen.
We emphasize that when using Google Ad Sense, we do not collect any data that would allow your identification. Any compilation of data in such a way that they acquire the nature of personal data may be made on the part of Google, but in this part, we are no longer responsible for it, because Google carries out these activities based on a contract concluded with you as a user of Google services.
Further processing of the information takes place only if you have given your consent to Google to link your browsing history with your account and to use the information from your Google account to personalize the advertisements displayed on websites. In this case, Google will use your data to create and define lists of target groups for remarketing purposes on various devices. To this end, Google combines the temporarily collected information with other data it holds to form target groups.
If you do not want to receive personalized ads, you can manage your ad settings directly on the Google site: https://adssettings.google.com/.
If you are interested in details related to Google's use of data from websites and applications that use Google services, we encourage you to read this information: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Facebook Custom Audiences - details
As part of the Facebook Ads advertising system provided by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA, we use Custom Audience Groups to target targeted advertising messages to specific groups of users. We carry out activities in this area based on our legitimate interest, consisting in the marketing of our own products or services.
To send you personalized ads in terms of your behavior on our website, we have implemented Pixel Facebook as part of our website, which automatically collects information about your use of our website. The information collected in this way is most often transferred to Facebook servers, which may be located all over the world, in particular in the United States of America (USA).
The information collected as part of Facebook's Pixel is anonymous, i.e. it does not allow us to identify you. Depending on your activity on our websites, you may reach a specific group of recipients, but we do not identify individual people belonging to these groups in any way.
However, we would like to inform you that Facebook may combine the collected information with other information collected about you as part of your use of Facebook and use it for its own purposes, including marketing. Such Facebook activities are no longer dependent on us, and you can search for information about them directly in Facebook's privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation. You can also manage your privacy settings from your Facebook account. Here you will find useful information in this regard: https://www.facebook.com/ads/settings.
Facebook Connect and social tools - details
Our website uses plugins, buttons, and other social media tools, hereinafter jointly referred to as "plugins", provided by social networking sites such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or others.
Facebook Connect cookies are loaded regardless of whether you click on any buttons related to the Facebook website embedded on our website. In the scope of other social networking sites, the use of cookies may be activated only after clicking on the button related to the given social networking site.
By displaying our website containing a plug-in of a given social network, your browser sends information about the visit to the administrator of this social network. Since the plug-in is a part of the social network embedded in our website, the browser sends information about the request to download the content of the given social network to our website.
The plugins collect certain information about you, such as user ID, website visited, date and time, and other information about the web browser.
Social network administrators use some of this information to personalize the viewing conditions of our website. For example, when you visit a page with a "Like" button, the administrator of the social networking site needs to know who you are to show you which of your friends also like our page.
The information collected by the plugins may also be used by the administrators of social networking sites for their own purposes, such as, for example, improving their own products, creating user profiles, analyzing and optimizing their own activities, advertising targeting. We have no real influence on how the information collected by the plugins is then used by the administrators of social networks. You can look for details in this regard in the regulations and privacy policies of individual social networking sites.
Plugins social networking sites collect and transmit the information to the administrators of these sites even when viewings our party without being logged in to your account in the social network. However, then the browser sends a more limited set of information.
If you have logged in to one of the social networking sites, the website administrator will be able to directly assign a visit to our site to your profile on a given social networking site.
If you do not want social networks to assign the data collected during your visit to our website directly to your profile on a given website, you must log out of this website before visiting our website. You can also completely prevent the loading of plugins on the website by using appropriate extensions for your browser, e.g. blocking scripts.
Also, the use of some plugins may involve the publication of certain information as part of your social profiles. For example, information about clicking the "Like" button may be available on your Facebook timeline. Of course, if you share some content on your social media using plugins embedded on our website, this sharing will naturally be visible in your profile.
Regarding the details of the processing by the administrators of social networking information collected by the plug, in particular, about the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing of that and exploited that by administrators, as well as the possibility of contact and your rights in this respect and the ability to make the settings to ensure the protection of your privacy, you can find everything in the privacy policies of individual service providers:
PrivyApp - details
As part of our website, we use the PrivyApp tool provided by Privy, Inc.
201 South St, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA 02111.
To ensure the correct operation of all functions, PrivyApp uses cookies on our website. Thanks to cookies, PrivyApp can display pop-ups and other functions provided by this system.
PrivyApp also provides us with an insight into the statistics of how many people have interacted with the displayed notification. We use this information to better analyze the traffic on our website. However, we would like to point out that the information collected by the PrivyApp system does not constitute personal data for us and does not allow us to identify you. We rely on our legitimate interest in this regard.
If you would like to learn more about the use of cookies by PrivyApp, we encourage you to read the materials available here: https://www.privy.com/privacy-policy.
TikTok - details
Materials from the TikTok website are embedded on our website. Within the scope of their operation, TikTok systems, the provider of which is TikTok Inc., Attn: TikTok Legal Department 10100 Venice Blvd, Suite 401, Culver City, CA 90232, USA, use cookies.
Cookies are used to correctly display materials directly from the TikTok platform. The data collected in cookies does not allow us to identify you, and therefore they are not personal data.
If you are interested in the details of cookies and privacy policy, please read the information available here: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/privacy-policy?lang=en
YouTube - details
Our pages are embedded with YouTube widgets that allow you to play recordings available on YouTube directly from our pages. YouTube is operated by Google LLC.
Videos are embedded on the website in privacy protection mode. Based on the information provided by YouTube, this means that no cookies are stored on your device, and Google does not collect any information about you until you play the recording.
When you play the recording, YouTube saves cookies on your device and receives information that you have played the recording from a specific website, even if you do not have a Google account or are not logged in at the moment. If you are logged in to your Google account, this service provider will be able to directly assign the visit to our website to your account. The purpose and scope of data collection and their further processing and use by Google, as well as the possibility of contact and your rights in this regard and the possibility of making settings to protect your privacy, are described in the Google privacy policy.
If you do not want Google assigned with the data collected during video playback directly to your profile before you play a video, you must log out of the email your account. You can also completely prevent the loading of plugins on the website by using appropriate extensions for your browser, e.g. blocking scripts.
The information collected as part of cookies related to YouTube videos embedded on our websites is used by Google to ensure the proper and safe functioning of the widget, to analyze and optimize the services provided by YouTube, as well as for personalization and advertising purposes.
Remember that while playing the recordings available on YouTube, you are using the services provided electronically by Google LLC. Google LLC is an autonomous, independent entity providing electronic services to you. Details on the rules of using YouTube, including privacy protection, can be found in documents provided directly by YouTube:
- regulations: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms,
- privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.
# 17: Do we track your behavior on our website?
Yes, we use Google Analytics, Google AdWords, and Facebook Custom Audiences, which collect information about your activity on our website. These tools are described in detail in the third-party cookie question, so we will not repeat this information here as well.
# 18: Do we target targeted advertising at you?
Yes, we use Facebook Ads and Google Ads, in which we can target specific target groups defined based on various criteria such as age, gender, interests, profession, job, activities previously undertaken as part of our website. These tools are described in detail in the third-party cookie question, so we will not repeat this information here as well.
# 19: How can you manage your privacy?
The answer to this question can be found in many places in this privacy policy when describing individual tools, behavioral advertising, cookie consent, etc. However, for your convenience, we have collected this information once again in one place. Below you will find a list of options for managing your privacy.
- cookie settings within the web browser,
- browser plugins supporting the management of cookies, e.g. Ghostery,
- additional cookie management software,
- incognito mode in a web browser,
- behavioral advertising settings, e.g. youronlinechoices.com,
- Google Analytics Opt-out: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout,
- Google Ads Settings: https://adssettings.google.com/,
# 20: What are server logs?
Using the website involves sending queries to the server on which the website is stored. Each query directed to the server is saved in the server logs.
Logs include Your IP address, server date and time, information about the web browser and operating system you use. Logs are saved and stored on the server.
The data stored in the server logs are not associated with specific people using the website and are not used by us to identify you.
The server logs are the only auxiliary material used to administer the website, and their content is not disclosed to anyone except those authorized to administer the server.
# 21: Is there anything else you should know?
As you can see, the subject of personal data processing, the use of cookies, and privacy management, in general, is quite complicated. We have made every effort to ensure that this document provides you with as much knowledge as possible on issues important to you. If anything is unclear to you, you want to know more, or just talk about your privacy, please write to us at odo@carbonposter.com.
# 22: Could this privacy policy be subject to change?
Yes, we can modify this privacy policy, in particular, due to technological changes and changes in the law. If you are a registered user, you will receive a message about any changes to the privacy policy. Also, all archived versions of the privacy policy are linked below.
