Last modification date: 26.03.2024

The privacy policy describes the rules for processing information about you, including personal data and cookies.

1. General Information

This policy applies to the website operating under the address www.polmic.pl. The operator of the website and the data administrator is

Polish Composers' Union

Rynek Starego Miasta 27, 00-272 Warsaw

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

• newsletter management,
• correct functioning of the site,
• proper presentation of information.

The website gathers information about users and their behavior in the following ways:

• through voluntarily entered data in forms that are entered into the operator's systems,
• through saving cookies (so-called "cookies") on end devices.

2. Selected data protection methods used by the operator

The places where personal data is entered are protected at the transmission layer (SSL certificate). Thanks to this, the personal data entered on the website is encrypted on the user's computer and can only be read on the target server. To protect data, the operator regularly performs backups. An important element of data protection is the regular updating of all software used by the operator to process personal data, including the regular updating of software components.

3. Hosting

The website is hosted (technically maintained) on servers of a company cooperating with the operator. The hosting company, to ensure technical reliability, maintains logs at the server level. The logs may include:

• resources specified by a URL identifier (addresses of requested resources – pages, files),
• time of the request,
• time the response was sent,
• name of the client station – identified through the HTTP protocol,
• information about errors that occurred during the HTTP transaction,
• URL of the previously visited page (referer link) – in cases where the user accessed the site via a link,
• information about the user’s browser,
• IP address information,
• diagnostic information related to the process of ordering services independently through recorders on the site,
• information related to handling email directed to the operator and sent by the operator.

4. Your rights and additional information about how the data is used

In certain situations, the administrator has the right to transfer your personal data to other recipients if it is necessary to fulfill the administrator’s obligations. This applies to such groups of recipients:

• the hosting company based on the entrustment principle,
• authorized employees and associates who use the data to achieve the purpose of operating the website,
• companies providing marketing services for the administrator,
• public authorities as required by law.

Your personal data processed by the administrator is not processed longer than necessary for the activities related to them, as specified by separate regulations. With regard to marketing data, the data will not be processed longer than 3 years.

You have the right to request from the administrator:

• access to your personal data,
• rectification of the data,
• deletion,
• restriction of processing,
• data portability.

You have the right to object to the processing referred to in section 3.2 regarding the processing of personal data to fulfill legitimate interests pursued by the administrator, except when there are valid legitimate grounds for processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms.

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

Providing personal data is voluntary but necessary to use the website.

Personal data is not transferred to third countries within the meaning of data protection regulations. This means that we do not transfer them outside the European Union.

5. Information in forms

The website collects information voluntarily provided by the user, including personal data, if provided.

The website may save information about the connection parameters (time stamp, IP address).

The website may, in some cases, save information that facilitates linking data in the form with the email address of the user filling out the form. 

The data provided in the form is processed for the purpose resulting from the function of the specific form, i.e., solely for sending the newsletter.

6. Administrator's logs

Information about user behavior on the website may be subject to logging. These data are used for website administration.

7. Important marketing techniques

The operator uses statistical analysis of website traffic via Google Analytics (Google Inc., based in the USA). The operator does not provide personal data to the operator of this service but only anonymized information. The service is based on the use of cookies on the user’s end device. In the scope of information about user preferences collected by Google's advertising network, the user can view and edit information derived from cookies using the tool: https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/

8. Information about cookies

The website uses cookies.

Cookies (so-called "cookies") are IT data, in particular, text files, which are stored on the user's end device and are intended for using the website pages. Cookies usually contain the name of the website from which they originate, the duration 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 operator of the website.

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

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

9. Managing cookies – how to practically express and withdraw consent?

If the user does not wish to receive cookies, they may change the browser settings. We reserve that disabling cookies necessary for the proper operation of the website may hinder, and in extreme cases prevent, the use of the website.