PRIVACY POLICY

Privacy Policy

• The Privacy Policy sets out the terms and conditions relating to the use of the website. By using this website in any way, its user accepts the terms and conditions set out in the Privacy Policy.

  • This Policy does not apply to third-party websites, mobile applications, or services that may link to the Sites or be linked to from the Sites. Please review the privacy policies on those websites and applications directly to understand their privacy practices.

• Protection of Personal Data

  • By using the website, the user agrees to the processing of personal data and the provisions of this Privacy Policy. 

  • Personal data may only be processed on the basis of information provided by the user of this service/website. The provision of information including personal data is voluntary. (This information includes, for example, name, e-mail address, IP address or telephone number and images of event participants. The purpose for which personal data is used is specified in each case on the website).

  • By using the website, the user provides us with personal data (directly or indirectly) and consents to this.

• Notification Of Collection

  • We might gather certain personal information to deliver our Websites, goods, and services: personal data; commercial data; demographic data; location data (derived from IP addresses); communications data; predictions from other data; internet and other network activities and employment; and sensitive personal data. We gather this identifiable information in order to deliver our products, services, and websites; interact with you; provide, upkeep, safeguard, and enhance our websites; customise materials and conduct advertising and marketing; adhere to laws and regulations; and for additional purposes. We might share or disclose your personal data to service providers and third parties.

  • We will keep the data you provide for as long as necessary in order to fulfil the purpose(s) for which it was obtained, as well as to meet our legal requirements, settle disputes, and uphold our agreements. Subject to relevant laws, we only gather sensitive personal information in order to offer our goods, services or websites.

  • For the purpose of providing you with more tailored and appropriate information, we collaborate with third-party marketing and analytics service providers, which may be regarded as a "sale" or "sharing" for targeted marketing purposes, according to applicable privacy legislation. We may sell or distribute your primary name and contact details, online activity information, commercial data, demographic data, video-watching history, geographic location data, sensitive personal data, and any other information you submit that includes cookies.

  • While we take precautions to protect your personal information, anything shared over the internet can never be completely secure. As a result, we are unable to ensure the absolute security of the personal information we process.

• Personal Information We Gather And The Sources Regarding That Data

  • We collect or process a number of types of personal data in the course of conducting our business:

    • Identifiers: that include name, contact information (such as email, phone number or physical address), as well as account username. When you engage with our Websites, we gather data directly from you, third parties such as social networking platforms, and data analytics and advertising vendors.

    • Commercial Data: purchase history, billing details, and any other personal information relating to your dealings with us. This information is gathered directly from you when you purchase anything from us, from analytics and advertising suppliers when you engage with our Websites, and from service providers, such as vendors that process payments on our behalf.

    • Financial data: that may include payment card or payment application information. When you purchase something from us, we gather this information directly from you through our service partners.

    • Location information, such as an IP address. This information is gathered directly from you, from data analytics and advertising companies, or from third parties such as social networking platforms. We do not gather accurate geolocation information by using GPS data.

    • Online or Other Networking Activity: hardware ID along with operating software; browser data; IP address; Internet or social media engagement; and data on how you utilise our websites. When you engage with our social media accounts or websites, or when you click on our ads on those sites, we acquire data from data analytics and advertising companies, as well as other parties such as social media platforms.

    • Communications material: that includes the contents of phone conversations, messages, and chats, as well as any audiovisual information given in your communications. This information is obtained directly from you when you engage us or interact with our websites.

    • Demographic information, such as gender or age. This information is gathered directly from you if you choose to supply it while contacting us or interacting with our Sites.

    • Sensitive personal data includes account login and password information obtained when you create an account to purchase items from our Websites.

    • Determinations from Other Corresponding Data: We derive additional information about your potential preferences, hobbies, interests, or other traits from any of the categories of personal data listed above. We do not utilise sensitive personal information to draw assumptions about you.

    • Social media activity: that includes conversations, photographs or video material, posts, and profile information such as follower count. We might acquire this information directly from social networking websites.

    • Audio, digital, video, or similar data taken at our events, recordings of customer service calls, and videos or images sent to us or posted on our social media accounts. This information is gathered entirely from you whenever you contact us, attend our events, or engage with particular aspects of our websites.

  • We may utilise any of the personal data listed herein for the subsequent purposes:

    • Fundamental business operations. That includes: delivering our websites and providing you with our products and services, processing payments, providing appointment reminders, and handling bookkeeping.

    • Protection: To secure our websites, networks, and business operations, as well as to prevent activity that may contradict our policies, be fraudulent, or unlawful.

    • Website, service, or product enhancements. We use your personal information for internal business objectives, such as improving and growing our websites, products and services.

    • Judicial adherence. To comply with legal proceedings such as summons or court orders, as well as the law itself.

    • Advertising and marketing. To send you marketing, personalise the advertising you see on our websites or other sites, and assess how effective those ads are.

  • How We Reveal the Information You Provide

    • Throughout our company's operations.

    • With suppliers of services, and vendors, through our commercial agreement with them.

    • For the purpose of looking into complaints or potential violations of law, to maintain the Websites' integrity, to satisfy your requests, or to assist in any legal inquiry.

    • We may disclose your personal data with your consent, such as when posting images or videos of events on our social media platforms.

    • Following a change of ownership, such as an acquisition or bankruptcy, your personal information may be examined and transferred with other company assets.

    • To provide a service to you or to reply to messages from you. 

    • To abide by the law and react to legal inquiries, including those from law enforcement and authorities.

    • To safeguard our rights, property, and consumers.

  • To tailor our advertisements and marketing activities, we collaborate with ad and analytics partners, advertising networks, and social media platforms. These collaborations may be deemed "sharing for targeted advertising purposes" under various regulations, even if no money is exchanged. For example, logging in to your account on a web page that contains cookies might be regarded as a "sale" or "sharing" of your personal data. Personal data we potentially "sell" or "share" comprises your basic name and contact information, online activity data, commercial data, and sensitive personal data. 

• Information Clause On Processing Of Personal Data

  • In accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individual 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, hereinafter GDPR and also "RODO"), we inform you that:

    • The administrator of the Personal Data is "iLINGUA," with the registration name TK COMPANY.

    • Personal data will be processed in order to collect statistical data on the traffic of this website on the basis of IP addresses and on the basis of previously given consent.

    • The data may be processed by automated means and will not be profiled.

    • Personal data will be retained for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes specified and kept for the period necessary to comply with the data archiving provisions applicable to the Administrator.

      • In connection with the processing of personal data, the user has the following rights:

        • the right of access to personal data, including the right to obtain a copy of that data,

        • the right to request the rectification (amendment) of personal data,

        • the right to request the erasure of personal data (so-called right to be forgotten),

        • the right to request the restriction of the processing of personal data,

        • the right to data portability,

        • the right to object to the processing of your data,

        • the right to withdraw the consent given; withdrawal of consent does not affect the compatibility of the processing carried out on the basis of consent before its withdrawal.

  • In the event of becoming aware of unlawful processing of personal data, the data subject shall have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority competent for personal data protection.

  • For technical reasons, based on relevant contracts, personal data may be transferred to entities providing IT services to the Controller.

  • Personal data may be transferred to public authorities and to entities performing public tasks or acting on behalf of public authorities, to the extent and for the purposes that result from the provisions of generally applicable law.

  • Personal data may be provided to third parties whose technical solutions and/or services are used by the Administrator in order to ensure the correct and full functioning of the website.

• Cookies Files

  • Our websites use cookies. To provide you with the best possible experience of using our site. Some cookies are essential.

    • By continuing to use our website you agree to the use of cookies.

    • If you do not agree to the use of cookies please stop using this website and leave it.

  • You can change the settings of your browser at any time and disable the storage of cookies.

  • If you would rather not have your personal information gathered through the use of cookies, most browsers have a simple procedure which enables you to automatically reject cookies or be given the option of declining or recognising the transmission to your computer of a specific cookie (or cookies) from a specific website.

  • To prevent confusion, the ability to opt out of cookies does not imply that we or third-party advertising providers would use cookies without your permission where this permission is necessitated by law. Please be aware that the policy does not include the gathering and use of data by such third-party websites and marketing businesses.

  • On our website, we use cookies of a technical nature in order to improve the functioning of the website or because they are necessary for the functioning of the website or to obtain statistical data on how the website is used.

  • Visitor data is processed anonymously and will not be used to transmit, or process, personal data.

  • Cookies are small text files which are sent to your device when you visit a website. Cookies contain, among other things, the address of the website from which they originate, the settings made by the user of the website, and the data entered in forms. The cookie mechanism does not collect any personal data or any confidential information from the website user's device. By using our website, you consent to the use of cookies.

  • The Website uses two main types of cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies.

    • "Session" cookies are temporary files that are stored on the User's terminal equipment until the User logs out, leaves the website or switches off the software (web browser).

    • "Permanent" cookies are stored on the User's terminal equipment for the time specified in the parameters of the cookies or until they are deleted by the User.

  • This website collects information utilising cookies (session, permanent and third-party cookies).

    • The collection of cookies supports the correct functioning of the website and serves statistical purposes.

    • The following types of cookies are used on this website:

      • "essential" cookies to enable the use of our website;

      • "performance" and "analytical" cookies, allowing us to collect information about the use of the websites;

      • "functional" cookies, which make it possible to "remember" the User's chosen settings and personalise the User's interface.

      • security cookies;

• Protection And Information Warrant

  • We safeguard the data we gather through the Websites with a mix of physical, technological, and administrative measures. While we make these efforts to protect your information, we are unable to ensure the confidentiality or safety of the systems, networks, servers, equipment, and databases that we operate or that others run on our behalf. As a result, we cannot guarantee or assure the safety of any data you communicate to us, and you acknowledge that any data you provide to us is at your own risk. If we discover a security system breach, we may endeavour to alert you electronically so that you may take necessary precautions. 

  • Through your usage of the websites or supplying personal information to us, you consent that we may contact you electronically about security, privacy, and administrative matters related to your utilisation of the Websites. If there is a security breach, we may notify you via our Websites. In some cases, we may also send you an email at the email address you supplied to us. Depending on where you reside, you may have the legal right to obtain notification in writing of a breach of security. If you make an account on our Websites, you are liable for keeping your password secure at all times.

  • Accessing your account allows you to view and update your personal information. You are liable for any activity that occurs while signed into the account you are using.

  • We will keep your personal information for as long as necessary to complete the purposes for which it was acquired, as well as to meet our legal requirements, settle disagreements, and uphold our agreements.

• Third-Party Tools And Content

  • This website may contain buttons, tools or content directing to third-party services, including Facebook, Google, YouTube, among others. The use of third-party applications may result in the transmission of data to external parties. The controller of personal data does not receive information from external companies about the purpose and scope of the data collected as well as the use of the data and is not responsible for the actions taken by third parties in relation to the data flow. The most commonly used services of external parties:

    • Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland - Google Analytics; Google Ads Conversions; Google AdSense.
      The analytics mechanism of Google Inc. web services, enables, among other things, the preparation of reports on the use of the website.

    • Meta, Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland - Facebook/Instagram, WhatsApp (WhatsApp Messenger) plug-in. The plugin connects the user to a Fanpage-type profile on Facebook's server. Facebook can then obtain information about the IP address of the user visiting the website.

    • Microsoft, Microsoft Central and Eastern Europe Headquarters, Konrad-Zuse-Str.1, 85716 Unterschleißheim, Germany - We partner with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve and market our products/services. Website usage data is captured using first and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies to determine the popularity of products/services and online activity. Additionally, we use this information for site optimization, fraud/security purposes, and advertising.

    • Payment processing:

      • SumUp Limited, a company limited by guarantee, registered in Ireland under number 505893, with its registered office at Block 8, Harcourt Centre, Charlotte Way, Dublin 2, Ireland D02 K580. SumUp Limited is an authorised Electronic Money Institution (licence number C195030, issued 27 October 2020) regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland.

      • PayPal - in the European Economic Area (EEA), PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A. is the controller of the Personal Data that is collected and processed once it is obtained in connection with the User's visit to PayPal's website, registration and application process and further use of the services. PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A. is a credit institution (or bank) authorised and supervised by the Luxembourg Financial Sector Supervisory Commission, Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (or CSSF). Registered office of the CSSF: 283, Route d'Arlon, L-1150 Luxembourg.PayPal is listed in this register under number B00000351, but can also be searched by name. Number in the commercial register: R.C.S. Luxembourg B 118 349.

  • For details on the collection and use of data by external parties, as well as your rights in this regard and how to protect your privacy, please refer to the privacy policies of these parties.

  • Please be advised that these cookie providers, such as advertising companies, may gather personal data about your visit to the Sites or other websites to enable them to market products or services to you, to monitor which ads have been served to your browser and which webpages you were viewing when such ads were delivered. If you are based in the European Economic Area or another country which requires express consent for the use of certain kinds of cookies and similar technologies, we will comply with such consent requirements.

• Your Possibilities and Rights Concerning Personal Information

  • Your Account: Please log into your account and modify the data you provide. 

  • Email and SMS Marketing: If you provide your consent, we can communicate with you via email, SMS, or text message about products, services, promotions, and exclusive deals You can decide to opt out of receiving these promotional communications at any given moment by contacting us. 

  • Do not track and opt out of choice signals: Your internet browser or device might support the "Do Not Track" capability. irrespective of whether a Do Not Track signal is received, the personal information gathering and disclosure practices, as well as the options available to you, may continue to function per this privacy policy.

• Copyright Law

  • The entire content of the website, as well as the mechanisms and software used on the website are protected by Polish, European and international copyright law. The user of the website shall not, without the consent of the owner/administrator of the website, have the right to resell or exploit for commercial or non-commercial purposes the website and its content. The use of this website in a manner that would violate the aforementioned terms and conditions or any applicable laws or regulations, or in a manner that causes or may cause damage to the website, interruption or disruption of service is prohibited.

• Selection of Law And Forum

  • These Terms were created in Poland, European Union and shall be interpreted in accordance with Polish and European Union legislation, without regard for conflict of laws grounds.

• Final Provisions

  • The Administrator has the right to make changes to the Privacy Policy, but the Users' rights will not be restricted. (Information about the changes made will appear in the form of an announcement available on the Website).

  • Matters not covered by this Privacy Policy shall be governed by the provisions of the RODO/GDPR and national law.

• Contact Us

  • If you have any questions, comments or concerns about this Policy, please contact us!