Data Protection Information

Your personal data is processed by Markpresso Kancelaria Patentowa Anna Kawalec with the permanent place of business in Warsaw (00-033) ul. Górskiego 5/2, who control the personal data. Personal data is provided voluntarily by the user and is used for the purpose of presenting you with a comprehensive offer of services provided by patent and trademark attorneys, responding to your inquiry and handling your case. 

The recipients of your data may be entities providing us with IT and financial-accounting services, the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland and other offices to which your data are transferred under the provisions of law. Your data will be processed while fulfilling the purpose for which it was collected, and also until the statute of limitations for any claims that may relate to you, or if the processing of personal data is necessary for the assertion of claims or defence against the claims of the opposing party, which constitutes a legally justified interest of the Data Controller.

Every person who has made their personal data available has the right to access its content and the ability to correct, update, complete, as well as to demand that processing of the personal data be discontinued and to object to the processing of the personal data. The aforementioned actions can be performed by sending an appropriate statement to the following email address: markpresso@markpresso.pl.

Note

The content presented on this website is for informational purposes only and should not be treated as comprehensive legal advice.

Privacy policy

This privacy policy defines the principles for the processing and protection of the data of users of the website: markpresso.pl (the “Website“). The service provider of the website you are using is Anna Kawalec running business under the company name Markpresso Kancelaria Patentowa Anna Kawalec with the permanent place of business in Warsaw (00-033) ul. Górskiego 5/2 (the “Controller“). Data subjects whose personal data are processed in accordance with this policy may contact the Controller by letter to the Controller’s permanent place of business or by email at markpresso@markpresso.pl. Through the Website, Users may:

1. browse the content on the Website,
2. contact the Controller using the contact form,
3. subscribe to the Controller’s newsletter, if the Controller decides to provide such a service.

The Controller shall not transfer your data to unauthorised parties and, in the event of finding any irregularities or threats caused by persons who do not observe the applicable legal regulations, cooperates with the authorities competent for prosecution of the infringements. In order to explain precisely the principles applied by the Controller in the collection and processing of personal data, this Privacy Policy has been developed.

Your data is stored in a secure manner, using physical, technical and administrative security measures. However, it should be kept in mind that the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure and, despite taking any reasonable data protection measures, the Controller is not able to guarantee the full security of the information transmitted by you via the Internet.

The information included on the Website is checked in terms of accuracy. The Controller reserves the right to introduce changes to the content of the Website as well as to this policy.

Information on personal data processing for the needs of provision of the Website

Personal data collection through the Website

Personal data of Website Users shall be collected and processed depending on the way of using the Website by the User. The User’s personal data may be collected and processed in connection with:

1. ensuring a possibility of browsing the content of the Website in an optimised manner,
2. ensuring a possibility that the Controller can be contacted effectively via the contact form available on the Website,
3. acquiring statistical and analytical data concerning the User and the User’s activities on the Website,
4. provision of a newsletter service by the Controller as a service for the delivery of content by electronic means,
5. defending the Controller against potential Users’ claims arising from the provision of services by electronic means, as referred to in this policy,
6. legal obligations imposed on the Controller by the generally applicable legal provisions regarding the compliance of the personal data processing resulting from the applicable principle of accountability of the Controller’s actions in the scope of protection of the Users’ personal data.

Purposes and grounds for personal data processing

Users’ data are processed pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46/EC, hereinafter referred to as the “GDPR”). Website Users’ data shall be processed:

1. to ensure the correct operation of the Website, i.e. to display the content of the Website, including in the language version of the Website selected by the User, to maintain the session on this Website and to ensure security as part of the due  performance of the agreement for the provision of services by electronic means, i.e. the provision of the content of the Website to the User (legal basis set out in Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR),
2. to ensure that the Controller may be contacted effectively via the contact form contained on the Website, which represents a legitimate interest of the Controller (legal basis set out in Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR),
3. to provide the Controller with the opportunity to acquire data of a statistical and analytical nature, provided that the User consents to the provision of such content to the Controller (legal basis set out in Article 6(1)(c) of the GDPR),
4. to ensure the possibility of providing the service of delivering content electronically in the form of a newsletter (legal basis set out in Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR),
5. to ensure the possibility of defending against potential claims raised against the Controller in connection with the provision of the electronically provided services referred to in this policy, which constitutes the Controller’s legitimate interest (legal basis set out in Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR),
6. to fulfil legal obligations imposed on the Controller by the generally applicable legal regulations regarding the compliance of the personal data processing resulting from the applicable principle of accountability of the Controller’s actions in the scope of protection of the Users’ personal data (legal basis set out in Article 6(1)(c) of the GDPR).

Information on personal data recipients and transfer of data to a third country

Personal data of Website Users may be disclosed to other entities only for purposes related to the provision of the Website functionality and the performance of the service provided electronically referred to herein, including to bodies authorised by law.

The Controller entrusts the processing of Users’ data to entities hosting the Website, administering the Website, as well as to entities providing ICT services, legal services, advertising agencies cooperating with the Controller in order to provide the services provided electronically referred to in this policy, and providers of newsletter tools and cookie plug-ins.

If the User agrees, the Controller will share its personal data with the provider of the Google Analytics service that the Controller uses. The service provider is Google Inc. Data Centre Gordon House Barrow Street, Dublin 4 Ireland 

Period of personal data storage

User’s data collected in connection with the Website browsing by the User shall be processed in accordance with the table on the use of cookies (presented below), however, no longer than until the content of the cookies is cleared in the browser used by the User.

The data of Users to whom the electronic services referred to in this policy are provided, as well as the data processed in connection with the defence against potential claims against the Controller in connection with the provision of these services, shall be processed until the statute of limitations for claims arising from the service provided.

Users’ data processed on the basis of the consent shall be processed until the consent is withdrawn or until the purpose of the consent granted is exhausted, whichever comes first.

Users’ data processed in connection with the fulfilment of legal obligations imposed on the Controller shall be processed until such obligations have been fulfilled and subsequently for 5 years counting from the end of the year in which the obligation was or should have been fulfilled.

Rights of data subjects

We inform that every data subject:

1. has the right of access to the content of the data, the right to rectification of the data, the right to erasure of the data, the right to restrict the processing of the data,
2. has the right to data portability where the processing is based on the consent given by the data subject or on the necessity of the processing for the performance of a contract where the data subject is a party,
3. has the right to object to the data processing where the processing of personal data is based on the so-called legitimate interest of the controller,
4. has the right to withdraw the consent to data processing at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent before its withdrawal. The consent can be withdrawn by sending a request to the address: markpresso@markpresso.pl
5. the right to lodge a complaint to the supervisory authority, i.e. the President of the Office for Personal Data Protection ul. Stawki 2, 00-193 Warsaw.

Information whether the provision of the data is a legal/contractual requirement and the consequences of failing to provide the data

The provision of personal data is voluntary but necessary for the use of the Website in the way chosen by the User as well as the potential use of the services provided electronically. Wherever the Controller asks for the consent for personal data processing, the failure to provide the consent will result in the Controller ceasing to collect such data.

Browsing the website and subpages

Browsing the Website involves disclosing your IP address and personal data collected through session cookies to the Controller. On their basis, it is possible, among others, to determine the country and the telecommunications operator through which the User connects to the Website. The data collected automatically by the Website includes the User’s IP address, computer and connection information, browser type and version, the browser plug-in types and versions, the operating system and the language in which the User browses the Website.

Security of collected data

Personal data and other data of a non-personal nature collected through the Website shall be stored on a secure server and can only be accessed by authorised personnel trained in the scope of data protection and IT system security, as well as obliged to keep strict confidentiality. Personal data shall be processed maintaining technical and organisational measures ensuring the protection of the data processed in accordance with the requirements set out in the data protection legislation. Data security measures are adapted to the requirements of the GDPR.

Personal data of Website Users will be processed mainly within the territory of the European Union, but may also be processed by entities outside the European Union. An adequate level of personal data protection, including through the application of appropriate safeguards, shall be ensured by the application of the standard data protection clauses adopted by the European Commission as referred to in Article 46(2)(c) of the GDPR.

Complaints related to the functioning of the Website, questions and technical support

In order to obtain information regarding the services or technical support provided to Users, the User may send an enquiry directly to the technical support staff to the e-mail address markpresso@markpresso.pl. A response to the enquiry (complaint) will be sent by electronic mail to the address provided in the enquiry (complaint) immediately, but no later than within 14 days of its sending by the User.

Cookies

Some elements of the Website may use cookies. These are small files stored in the User’s browser. They enable the storage of additional data associated exclusively with the User. Such files enable the identification of the User, allow the website to be customised for the User, and speed up certain operations. Cookies may only be stored for the duration of a visit to the website (session) or for the specific period of time.

Some of the cookies collected by the Google Analytics tool accumulate statistical or analytical data about the User’s visit on the Website. The collection of such data is only possible with the User’s consent.

The Website uses the following cookies:

The Website uses the following cookies with the user’s consent via the Google Analytics tool:

The User may restrict the Controller’s access to cookies at any time. To that end, the User should modify settings of its browser. The Controller stipulates that the change of the settings may lead to malfunctions of the Website on the device the User is currently using and, in extreme cases, even to complete disabling the use of the Website.

The User may disable cookies by changing the browser settings. Most commonly, the relevant option can be found in the privacy or settings tab of the relevant programme. Below you will find information on how the cookie settings can be changed in the most popular web browsers: 

1. for Mozilla Firefox at: https://support.mozilla.org/pl/kb/blokowanie-ciasteczek,
2. for Internet Explorer at: http://windows.microsoft.com/pl-pl/windows-vista/block-or-allow-cookies,
3. for the Microsoft Edge browser at: https://privacy.microsoft.com/pl-PL/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy,
4. for the Google Chrome browser at: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=pl
5. for the Opera browser at: https://help.opera.com/pl/latest/security-and-privacy/
6. for the Safari browser at: https://support.apple.com/pl-pl/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac