Privacy Policy

The following Privacy Policy defines the rules for storing and accessing data on Users’ Devices using the Service for the purpose of providing electronic services by the Administrator and the rules for collecting and processing personal data of Users that have been provided by them personally and voluntarily through tools available in the Service.

The following Privacy Policy is an integral part of the Service Terms and Conditions, which defines the rules, rights and obligations of Users using the Service.

§1 Definitions

• Service – the website “Naster Future Energy” operating at https://www.naster.pl/
• External Service – websites of partners, service providers or recipients cooperating with the Administrator
• Service / Data Administrator – The Administrator of the Service and the Data Administrator (hereinafter referred to as the Administrator) is the company “Naster S.A.”, operating at: ul. Montażowa 3, 43-300 Bielsko Biała, with assigned tax identification number (NIP): 9372673065, providing electronic services via the Service
• User – a natural person for whom the Administrator provides electronic services via the Service.
• Device – an electronic device with software through which the User gains access to the Service
• Cookies – text data collected in the form of files placed on the User’s Device
• GDPR – 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 (General Data Protection Regulation)
• Personal data – means information about an identified or identifiable natural person (“data subject”); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of the natural person
• Processing – means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;
• Restriction of processing – means the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting their processing in the future
• Profiling – means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyse or predict aspects concerning that natural person’s performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements
• Consent – consent of the data subject means any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her
• Personal data breach – means a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed
• Pseudonymisation – means the processing of personal data in such a manner that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organisational measures to ensure that the personal data are not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person
• Anonymisation – Data anonymisation is an irreversible process of data operations that destroys / overwrites “personal data” preventing the identification, or linking of a given record to a specific user or natural person.

§2 Data Protection Officer

Pursuant to Art. 37 of the GDPR, the Administrator has not appointed a Data Protection Officer.

In matters concerning data processing, including personal data, please contact the Administrator directly.

§3 Types of Cookies

• Internal Cookies – files placed and read from the User’s Device by the Service’s IT system
• External Cookies – files placed and read from the User’s Device by the IT systems of External Services. Scripts of External Services that may place Cookies on the User’s Devices have been consciously placed in the Service through scripts and services made available and installed in the Service
• Session Cookies – files placed and read from the User’s Device by the Service or External Services during a single session of a given Device. After the session ends, the files are removed from the User’s Device.
• Persistent Cookies – files placed and read from the User’s Device by the Service or External Services until they are manually deleted. The files are not automatically deleted after the end of the Device session unless the configuration of the User’s Device is set to delete Cookies after the Device session ends.

§4 Data Storage Security

• Mechanisms for storing and reading Cookie files – The mechanisms for storing, reading and exchanging data between Cookies saved on the User’s Device and the Service are implemented through built-in mechanisms of web browsers and do not allow the downloading of other data from the User’s Device or data from other websites visited by the User, including personal data or confidential information. The transfer of viruses, Trojan horses and other worms to the User’s Device is also practically impossible.
• Internal Cookies – The Cookies applied by the Administrator are safe for the Users’ Devices and do not contain scripts, content or information that may threaten the security of personal data or the security of the Device used by the User.
• External Cookies – The Administrator makes every possible effort to verify and select service partners in the context of User security. The Administrator cooperates with well-known, large partners with global public trust. However, it does not have full control over the content of Cookies from external partners. The Administrator is not liable for the security of Cookies, their content and the license-compliant use by Scripts installed in the service, coming from External Services, to the extent permitted by law. The list of partners is provided later in the Privacy Policy.
• Cookie Control
  • The User can at any time independently change the settings for saving, deleting and accessing the data of saved Cookie files by any website
  • Information on how to disable Cookies in the most popular computer browsers is available at: how to disable cookies or from one of the indicated providers:
    • Managing cookies in the Chrome browser
    • Managing cookies in the Opera browser
    • Managing cookies in the FireFox browser
    • Managing cookies in the Edge browser
    • Managing cookies in the Safari browser
    • Managing cookies in the Internet Explorer 11 browser
  • The User may at any time delete any Cookie files saved to date using the tools of the User’s Device through which the User uses the Service’s services.
• Risks on the User’s side – The Administrator applies all possible technical measures to ensure the security of data placed in Cookie files. However, it should be noted that ensuring the security of this data depends on both parties, including the User’s activity. The Administrator is not responsible for the interception of this data, impersonation of the User’s session or their deletion, as a result of the User’s conscious or unconscious activity, viruses, Trojan horses and other spyware with which the User’s Device may be or has been infected. Users should follow the rules of safe internet use to protect themselves from these threats.
• Storage of personal data – The Administrator ensures that it makes every effort to ensure that the processed personal data voluntarily provided by Users is secure, access to them is limited and carried out in accordance with their purpose and the purposes of processing. The Administrator also ensures that it makes every effort to secure the data it holds against loss, through the application of appropriate physical and organizational safeguards.
• Password storage – The Administrator declares that passwords are stored in an encrypted form, using the latest standards and guidelines in this regard. Decryption of the account access passwords provided in the Service is practically impossible.

§5 Purposes for which Cookies are used

• Streamlining and facilitating access to the Service
• Personalization of the Service for Users
• Enabling Login to the service
• Marketing, Remarketing on external services
• Advertising serving services
• Affiliate services
• Keeping statistics (users, number of visits, types of devices, link, etc.)
• Serving multimedia services
• Providing social services

§6 Purposes of personal data processing

Personal data voluntarily provided by Users is processed for one of the following purposes:

• Implementation of electronic services:
  • User account registration and maintenance services in the Service and related functionalities
  • Newsletter services (including sending advertising content with consent)
  • Commenting / liking posts in the Service without the need to register
  • Services for sharing information about content placed in the Service on social media or other websites.
• Communication of the Administrator with Users on matters related to the Service and data protection
• Ensuring the legally justified interest of the Administrator

Data about Users collected anonymously and automatically is processed for one of the following purposes:

• Keeping statistics
• Remarketing
• Serving advertisements tailored to Users’ preferences
• Operating affiliate programs
• Ensuring the legally justified interest of the Administrator

§7 External Services Cookies

The Administrator uses javascript scripts and web components of partners in the Service, who may place their own cookies on the User’s Device. Remember that in your browser settings you can decide for yourself about the allowed cookies that can be used by individual websites. Below is a list of partners or their services implemented in the Service that may place cookies:

• Multimedia services:
  • YouTube
• Social / combined services:
  (Registration, Login, content sharing, communication, etc.)
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Google+
• Newsletter services:
  • MailChimp
• Advertising serving services and affiliate networks:
  • MyLead
• Keeping statistics:
  • Google Analytics

Services provided by third parties are beyond the control of the Administrator. These entities may at any time change their terms of service, privacy policies, purpose of data processing and methods of using cookies.

§8 Types of Data Collected

The Service collects data about Users. Some data is collected automatically and anonymously, and some data is personal data provided voluntarily by Users when signing up for individual services offered by the Service.

Anonymous data collected automatically:

• IP address
• Browser type
• Screen resolution
• Approximate location
• Opened subpages of the service
• Time spent on the relevant subpage of the service
• Type of operating system
• Address of the previous subpage
• Referrer page address
• Browser language
• Internet connection speed
• Internet service provider

Data collected during registration:

• First name / last name / nickname
• Login
• E-mail address
• IP address (collected automatically)

Data collected when signing up for the Newsletter service

• First name / last name / nickname
• E-mail address
• IP address (collected automatically)

Data collected when adding a comment

• First and last name / nickname
• E-mail address
• Website address
• IP address (collected automatically)

Part of the data (without identifying data) may be stored in cookie files. Part of the data (without identifying data) may be transferred to the statistics service provider.

§9 Access to personal data by third parties

As a rule, the only recipient of personal data provided by Users is the Administrator. Data collected as part of the services provided are not transferred or resold to third parties.

Access to data (most often on the basis of a Data Processing Entrustment Agreement) may be held by entities responsible for maintaining the infrastructure and services necessary to run the service, i.e.:

• Hosting companies, providing hosting or related services for the Administrator
• Companies through which the Newsletter service is provided
• IT maintenance and support companies performing maintenance or responsible for maintaining the IT infrastructure

Entrustment of personal data processing – Newsletter

In order to provide the Newsletter service, the Administrator uses the services of a third party – the MailChimp service. Data entered in the newsletter sign-up form is transferred, stored and processed in the external service of this provider.

Please note that the indicated partner may modify the indicated privacy policy without the consent of the Administrator.

Entrustment of personal data processing – Hosting, VPS or Dedicated Server Services

In order to run the service, the Administrator uses the services of an external hosting, VPS or Dedicated Server provider – LH.pl. All data collected and processed in the service is stored and processed in the provider’s infrastructure located in Poland. Access to data is possible as a result of maintenance work carried out by the provider’s staff. Access to this data is regulated by the agreement between the Administrator and the Service Provider.

Entrustment of personal data processing – Website operation services

To operate the service, the Administrator uses the services of an external service provider – Repulse. The staff of the indicated entity has access to data entered by users during registration and editing of the user account and/or data related to the Newsletter service. Access to this data is regulated by the agreement between the Administrator and the Service Provider.

§10 Method of processing personal data

Personal data provided voluntarily by Users:

• Personal data will not be transferred outside the European Union, unless they have been published as a result of an individual action of the User (e.g. entering a comment or entry), which will make the data available to every person visiting the service.
• Personal data will not be used for automated decision making (profiling).
• Personal data will not be sold to third parties.

Anonymous data (without personal data) collected automatically:

• Anonymous data (without personal data) will be transferred outside the European Union.
• Anonymous data (without personal data) will not be used for automated decision making (profiling).
• Anonymous data (without personal data) will not be sold to third parties.

§11 Legal bases for personal data processing

The Service collects and processes User data on the basis of:

• 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 (General Data Protection Regulation)
  • art. 6(1)(a)
    the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes
  • art. 6(1)(b)
    processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract
  • art. 6(1)(f)
    processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party
• Act of 10 May 2018 on the protection of personal data (Journal of Laws 2018, item 1000)
• Act of 16 July 2004 Telecommunications Law (Journal of Laws 2004 No. 171, item 1800)
• Act of 4 February 1994 on Copyright and Related Rights (Journal of Laws 1994 No. 24, item 83)

§12 Period of personal data processing

Personal data provided voluntarily by Users:

As a rule, the indicated personal data is stored only for the period of providing the Service within the Service by the Administrator. They are deleted or anonymized within a period of up to 30 days from the termination of the service provision (e.g. deletion of a registered user account, unsubscribing from the newsletter list, etc.)

An exception is the situation which requires securing the legally justified purposes of further processing of this data by the Administrator. In such a situation, the Administrator will store the indicated data, from the time of requesting their deletion by the User, for no longer than 3 years in the event of a violation or suspected violation of the service regulations by the User.

Anonymous data (without personal data) collected automatically:

Anonymous statistical data, not constituting personal data, is stored by the Administrator for the purpose of keeping service statistics for an indefinite period.

§13 User rights related to the processing of personal data

The Service collects and processes User data on the basis of:

• Right of access to personal data
  Users have the right to obtain access to their personal data, exercised upon request submitted to the Administrator
• Right to rectification of personal data
  Users have the right to request the Administrator to immediately rectify personal data that is incorrect and / or to complete incomplete personal data, exercised upon request submitted to the Administrator
• Right to erasure of personal data
  Users have the right to request the Administrator to immediately delete personal data, exercised upon request submitted to the Administrator. In the case of user accounts, data deletion involves anonymizing data enabling the identification of the User. The Administrator reserves the right to suspend the request for data deletion in order to protect the legally justified interest of the Administrator (e.g. when the User has violated the Terms and Conditions or the data was obtained as a result of correspondence).
  In the case of the Newsletter service, the User can delete their personal data themselves using the link placed in each e-mail message sent.
• Right to restriction of processing of personal data
  Users have the right to restrict the processing of personal data in the cases indicated in Art. 18 of the GDPR, e.g. questioning the accuracy of personal data, exercised upon request submitted to the Administrator
• Right to data portability
  Users have the right to obtain from the Administrator, personal data concerning the User in a structured, commonly used machine-readable format, exercised upon request submitted to the Administrator
• Right to object to the processing of personal data
  Users have the right to object to the processing of their personal data in the cases specified in Art. 21 of the GDPR, exercised upon request submitted to the Administrator
• Right to lodge a complaint
  Users have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority dealing with the protection of personal data.

§14 Contact to the Administrator

You can contact the Administrator in one of the following ways

• Postal address – Naster S.A., ul. Montażowa 3, 43-300 Bielsko Biała
• E-mail address – biuro@naster.pl
• Phone call – +48 32 610 04 99
• Contact form – available at: https://www.naster.pl/kontakt

§15 Service Requirements

• Restricting the recording and access to Cookie files on the User’s Device may cause incorrect operation of some functions of the Service.
• The Administrator does not bear any responsibility for incorrectly functioning functions of the Service if the User restricts in any way the possibility of saving and reading Cookie files.

§16 External links

In the Service – articles, posts, entries or User comments may contain links to external websites with which the Owner of the service does not cooperate. These links and the pages or files indicated under them may be dangerous for your Device or pose a threat to the security of your data. The Administrator is not responsible for the content located outside the Service.

§17 Changes to the Privacy Policy

• The Administrator reserves the right to make any changes to this Privacy Policy without the need to inform Users about it regarding the application and use of anonymous data or the use of Cookies.
• The Administrator reserves the right to make any changes to this Privacy Policy regarding the processing of Personal Data, about which Users with user accounts or subscribed to the newsletter service will be informed via e-mail within 7 days of the change of provisions. Continued use of the services means familiarization and acceptance of the introduced changes to the Privacy Policy. In the case where the User does not agree with the introduced changes, they are obliged to delete their account from the Service or unsubscribe from the Newsletter service.
• Introduced changes to the Privacy Policy will be published on this subpage of the Service.
• The introduced changes come into force upon their publication.