PRIVACY POLICY

Welcome to the Privacy Policy of our law firm.

This document contains information about our processing of your personal data when:

– you visit the website www.gaworlegal.pl, including each of its sub-sites (hereinafter this website and its sub-sites are collectively referred to as the ‘Site’),

– you contact us, including via the contact form on the Site, in person, by telephone, by post or by email, via WhatsApp,

– you are a subscriber to our newsletter.

1. Who is the Administrator of your Personal Data?

1.1 The administrator of your personal data processed in accordance with this Privacy Policy is Gawor Kancelaria Prawna Kinga Gawor with its registered office in Kraków, address: ul. Zakopiańska 238/5, 30-435, Krakow (hereinafter: ‘Administrator’).

1.2 In matters concerning your personal data, you can contact the Administrator by e-mail: info@gaworlegal.pl.

2. What is the purpose of data processing and the legal basis?

2.1 We will process your personal data for the following purposes:

– responding to messages addressed to us via contact forms, or to messages sent to our contact details (email, sms, WhatsApp) – based on our legitimate interest as personal data controller,

– to improve the functioning of the Website and its security – based on our legitimate interest as a personal data controller,

– the investigation and defence of claims, before and outside the courts and administrative authorities – based on our legitimate interest as personal data controller,

– the dispatch of a newsletter – based on our legitimate interest in being able to provide interested persons with information on important legal events, changes in legislation, the activities of the Law Firm, including organised webinars and live events. You have expressed your interest in this information by signing up to our newsletter.

– direct marketing of products or services – based on our legitimate interest in the event that we have an existing business relationship, and in the event that we only intend to establish such a relationship based on your consent (from the time of your consent for a period not exceeding the time until its withdrawal),

– to comply with the legal obligations incumbent on the Firm and on the individual legal advisers and advocates providing services within its scope – based on the provisions of national and European Union law imposing such obligations, including those regulating the provision of services by legal advisers and advocates and their obligations towards clients, the professional self-government or public authorities,

– data archiving and back-up – in connection with the obligation imposed on us as a data controller to properly secure the data and based on our legitimate interest as a personal data controller.

3. Scope of processing of your data when you contact us

When you contact us using the contact form available on our pages, the e-mail addresses or telephone numbers provided, or traditionally by post, or in person, as well as in situations where we have the right to contact you (e.g. In situations when we have the right to contact you (e.g. for marketing purposes or when you are a client of the Law Firm), we will process such personal data which you provide to us or which are necessary for us to respond to your messages (including identification and contact details, as well as the IP address in the case of using the contact form on our Website), or which we have in our possession in connection with the relationship between us or which we have collected from publicly available sources. We process this data because it is necessary for the fulfilment of our obligations under the aforementioned legislation or for the fulfilment of the law firm’s legitimate interests, viz:

– responding to a message sent to us and further contacting you,

– direct marketing of our own and third party products and services,

– archiving and backing up data in connection with the obligation imposed on us as data controller to properly secure the data).

4. Scope of processing of your data when you use our Site 

When you use our Site we record data such as your IP address, the type and version of device and browser you are using, the cookie choices you have made, or how you use the Site. In most cases, we will not be able to identify you as a user and this data will be anonymous to us. If, however, we are able to link it to you, which may be the case when we have additional data from another source (e.g., we record such data when you contact us via a contact form on our Site), it may become your personal data. We process this data on the basis that it is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us, in particular:

1. saving data from forms in order to maintain your session and facilitate your use of the Site,

2. to adapt the way the Website is displayed and to personalise it,

3. to analyse the behaviour on the Site in order to improve the functioning of the Site and to protect against abuse.

5. What is the processing period?

Your personal data will be processed for the following periods:

– for the purposes of contacting you – from the date of collection until we have completed correspondence on the matter on which you have made contact,

– for the purposes of sending the newsletter – until you object, unless we stop issuing the newsletter sooner,

– for marketing purposes – for the duration of the relationship between us or until you withdraw your consent, if you have given it to us,

– for the purpose of asserting and defending against claims – for no longer than the period of limitation of the claims,

– for the purposes of fulfilling obligations imposed by law – for a period no longer than is necessary to demonstrate that these obligations have been properly performed by the Firm,

– for the purpose of improving the functioning, security of the Website – for as long as the data is necessary for this purpose

– for the purpose of archiving and backup – for the period determined in accordance with the Firm’s backup and archiving policy.

However, in each case, we will process your data for no longer than until you make an effective objection to its processing (where the basis for processing is our legitimate interest), or for no longer than the withdrawal of your consent where this is the legal basis for processing.

6. Who is the recipient of the data?

We will exercise due diligence in selecting the entities to which we will transfer your data and, in the case of such selected entities, we will require them to protect your data with appropriate technical and organisational measures. Your personal data may be disclosed to:

– to third parties providing services to us that are needed for the purposes for which we process your data (e.g. IT services, accounting, electronic communications, data hosting, marketing, recruitment,),

– entities related to the Firm, in particular subcontractors of the Firm,

– Recipients to whom disclosure is required by applicable law or by order of a court or other authority,

– to other recipients, if you have given your consent or if the transmission of data to them is necessary to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of others.

7. Transfer of personal data to third countries

Whenever your personal data is transferred outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) to countries which do not provide the same or an adequate level of protection for personal data as is required by the laws in force in Poland, we will ensure that this is done on a valid legal basis and using the legally required safeguards.

8. Links to Third Party Sites

The Site contains links to third-party websites. Visitors to these sites are subject to different rules than those described here with regard to the processing of personal data, as well as who is the controller of the data processed there. We recommend reading the rules applicable to the processing of personal data published by the administrators of these sites.

9. Social media plug-ins

The Site includes social media plug-ins. When using the Site, the IP address of your device and the identifier of the browser you are using are transmitted to these social media providers. Through this integration, these providers receive information that your browser has viewed our Site, even if you do not have a profile with the respective provider or are not currently logged in with them. Tapping into social media plug-ins additionally establishes a direct connection to the servers of these media providers, who may collect other data from your device. Please note that we have no influence on what data is collected by social media when you click on their buttons. You can find more information regarding the purpose and scope of the data collected by these providers and how your personal data is processed, used, protected, including what rights you have in this connection and the options you can choose to protect your privacy directly on the pages of the providers of these social media sites.

10. What rights do you have?

You are entitled to the following rights:

– The right to be informed, to access your data and to receive a copy of your data. You have the right at any time to request information about your personal data that we hold or to which we have access. Upon your request, a copy of your personal data being processed will be provided to you free of charge. For sending further copies of your data, we have the right to request a fee to cover the reasonable costs of handling such a request.

– Right to rectification of personal data. We take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal data is correct, complete and up to date. If it is necessary to amend this data, we ask that you notify us.

– Right to data portability. You have the right to request the transfer of your personal data in a structured, commonly used machine-readable format, as well as to request that your data be sent to another controller, where the processing of your personal data is based on your consent.

– Right to withdraw consent.  Whenever your data is processed on the basis of your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, whereby the withdrawal of consent will not affect the lawfulness of the processing prior to your withdrawal of consent.

– The right to erasure and to restrict processing. In the cases indicated in the data protection legislation, you have the right to request the erasure of your personal data. However, this right is not absolute – there may be situations where we are still entitled to process your personal data. You can also request that we restrict further processing of your data.

– The right to object to processing. In the cases indicated in the legislation, you have the right to object to further processing of your data where the basis for the processing of your personal data is our legitimate interest.

– The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. You have the right to lodge a complaint to the supervisory authority dealing with the protection of personal data – as a rule, this will be the President of the Office for Personal Data Protection.

With regard to each of the rights indicated below, you can contact us using our contact details. 

However, we would like to point out that in some situations it may not be possible to exercise the above-mentioned rights, including, in particular, in the case of personal data obtained and processed by a legal adviser or advocate in connection with the provision of legal assistance or in connection with the professional secrecy applicable to legal advisers and advocates.

11. Cookie policy

The website uses cookies. Cookies are small text information stored on the user’s terminal device (e.g. computer, tablet, smartphone) that can be read by the Administrator’s ICT system. Cookies allow the Administrator to:

1. ensure the proper functioning of the Website,

2. Improve the speed and safety of use of the Site,

3. Improve the functions available on the Website,

4. Use analytical tools

5. use marketing tools,

Consent to cookies

When you visit the Site for the first time, a notice is displayed about the Administrator’s use of cookies. Accepting and closing this information means that the user consents to the use of cookies in accordance with the provisions of this Privacy Policy. You can always withdraw your consent by deleting the cookies and changing the cookie settings of your browser.

3 Own cookies

Cookies can be divided into own and third-party cookies. As far as proprietary cookies are concerned, the Administrator uses them in order for the Website to function properly.

4.Google Analytics code

The Administrator uses cookies to keep track of the Site’s statistics, such as the number of visitors, the type of operating system and browser used to browse the Site, the time spent on the Site, the sub-pages visited, etc. The Administrator uses the Google Analytics tool in this regard. The information collected in this regard is completely anonymous and does not allow the user to be identified. Cookies from Google LLC concerning the Google Analytics service are used for this purpose.

The use of Google Analytics services involves the implementation of a tracking code provided by Google in the code of the website. This code is based on cookies, but may also use other tracking technologies.

5.Facebook conversion pixel

The Administrator uses Facebook’s marketing tools to target advertising to you on this website. For this purpose, a Pixel tool provided by Facebook is implemented in the code of the Website, which remembers the user’s visit. Facebook cookies are used for this purpose.

6.Co-administration

The administrator of the data processed for the purposes of statistics collected within the Facebook platform is Kinga Gawor conducting business activity under the name Gawor Kancelaria Prawna Kinga Gawor, ul. Zakopiańska 238/5, 30-435 Krakow, NIP 6821582012, e-mail: biuro@gaworkancelaria.pl hereinafter referred to as Administrator and Facebook Ireland Limited, with registered office at 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2 Ireland, hereinafter referred to as Joint Administrator. The data is processed on the basis of co-administration by the aforementioned entities. 

7.Server Logs

The use of the Site involves sending requests to the server on which the Site is stored. Each query sent to the server is recorded in the server logs. The logs include, but are not limited to, the IP address, date and time of the server, information about the Internet browser and the operating system used by the user. The logs are saved and stored on the server. The data stored in the server logs are not associated with specific users of the Site and are not used by the Administrator to identify a user.

12 Amendment of the Privacy Policy 

1 The Privacy Policy shall be reviewed by the Administrator on an ongoing basis and amended as necessary.

2. the current version of the Privacy Policy has been adopted and is effective as of 01.01.2025.

LEGAL NOTICE

Disclaimer

Any material on the Site is provided for informational purposes only and is not to be taken as legal advice on any particular matter. Gaworlegal is not responsible for any statement contained in the content of this Site. Visitors to this Site should seek individual legal advice on matters relating to their rights and obligations.