Privacy policy

I. Introduction

  1. The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us and we make every effort to protect it. This policy explains what we do with your personal data.
  2. By agreeing to the use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our site, you allow us to use cookies on each subsequent visit to our site.

 

II. Collection of personal data

The following types of personal data may be collected, stored and used:

  1. information about your computer, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;
  2. information about your visits to and use of this website, including referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths;
  3. information, such as your email address, that you provide when registering on our website;
  4. information you enter when you create a profile on our website – for example, your name, profile pictures, gender, birthday, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational details and employment details;
  5. information, such as your name and email address, that you provide to set up your subscription to our emails or newsletters;
  6. information you enter when using the services on our website;
  7. information that is generated when you use our website, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it;
  8. information about anything you purchase, services you use or transactions you make through our website, including your name, address, telephone number, email address and credit card details;
  9. information you publish on our website with the intention of publishing it on the Internet, including your username, profile pictures and the content of your posts;
  10. information contained in any correspondence you send to us by email or via our website, including communication content and metadata;
  11. any other personal data you submit to us.

Before you disclose another person’s personal information to us, you must obtain that person’s consent to disclose and process that personal information in accordance with this policy.

 

III. Use of your personal data

Personal data submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes set out in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal data for the following purposes:

  1. administer our website and business;
  2. personalize our website for you;
  3. enabling the use of services available on our website;
  4. sending goods purchased through our website;
  5. providing services purchased through our website;
  6. sending you statements, invoices and payment reminders and collecting payments from you;
  7. sending non-marketing commercial communications;
  8. sending you email notifications that you have requested;
  9. sending our e-mail newsletter if you have requested this (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive the newsletter);
  10. sending you marketing information about our business or the activities of carefully selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, if you have consented to this, by email or similar technology (you can let us know at any time if you no longer wish to receive communications marketing);
  11. providing third parties with statistical information about our users (but these third parties will not be able to identify any specific user from this information);
  12. dealing with inquiries and complaints made by or about you in relation to our website;
  13. ensuring the security of our website and preventing fraud;
  14. verifying compliance with the terms of use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our private messaging service);
  15. and other applications.

If you submit personal information for publication on our site, we will publish and otherwise use it in accordance with the license you grant us. Your privacy settings may be used to restrict the publication of your information on our website and may be adjusted using the on-site privacy controls.

We will not, without your express consent, pass on your personal data to third parties, or any other affiliated third parties, for direct marketing purposes.

 

IV. Disclosure of Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors as necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

We may disclose your personal data:

  1. to the extent required by law;
  2. in connection with actual or potential legal proceedings;
  3. to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including sharing information with others for anti-fraud purposes);
  4. the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or assets that we sell (or are considering selling);
  5. and any person who, in our reasonable opinion, may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of such personal data if, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority is reasonably likely to order disclosure of such personal data

Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy, we will not share your information with third parties.

 

V. International data transfers

  1. The information we collect may be stored and processed in any of the countries in which we operate and may be transferred between those countries in order to enable the information to be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
  2. The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries that do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States of America, Japan.
  3. Personal information that you post on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available via the Internet around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

 

VI. Security of personal data

  1. We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
  2. We will store all personal information you provide on our secure (password and firewall protected) servers.
  3. All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
  4. You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is potentially insecure and that the security of data transmitted in this manner is not guaranteed.
  5. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password you use to access our website; We will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).
  6. The administrator of the Customer’s personal data is Wood Republic Joanna Maciaszczyk-Rypinska, Maslakowa 23, 62-010 Wronczynek, Poland, VAT tax no. PL8272218680. Personal data may be shared with shipping companies for the purpose of transport service fulfillment. The personal data entrusted to us are stored and protected by Wood Republic in accordance with the principles specified in the applicable law and in line with the Privacy Policy.

 

VII. Amendments

This policy may be updated from time to time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page from time to time to ensure you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you about changes to this policy via email or the private messaging system on our website.

 

VIII. Your rights

The User may request access to his/her personal data that is stored.

Sharing such data may involve:

submitting an inquiry from the e-mail address assigned to a given user in our system;
providing appropriate proof of identity.

We may conceal personal data at your request, to the extent permitted by law.

You can instruct us at any time not to process your personal data for marketing purposes.

In practice, you will usually either expressly consent in advance to our use of your personal data for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with the opportunity to opt-out of sharing your personal data for marketing purposes.

 

IX. Third Party Websites

Our website contains hyperlinks to third party websites. We have no control over and are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

 

X. Information update

Please let us know if you need to correct or update the personal data we hold about you.

 

XI. Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The identification data is re-sent to the server each time the browser requests to open a page on the server. Cookies may be “persistent” or “session” cookies: persistent cookies will be stored by your web browser and will remain valid until their set expiry date, unless you delete them before their expiry date; a session cookie expires at the end of the user session when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies you, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

  1. The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which they are used are set out below:
    we use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to recognize your computer when you visit the website or use the shopping cart on the website / to improve the usability of our website / to analyze the use of the website / to administer the website / to manage the website / to prevent fraud and improve website security / to personalize the website for each user / to target advertising that may be of particular interest to specific users.
  2. Most browsers allow you to refuse cookies – for example:
    in Internet Explorer, you can block cookies using the available cookie override settings by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and then “Advanced”;
    in Firefox you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy”, selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu and unchecking “Accept cookies from websites”;
    in Chrome, you can block all cookies by opening the “Customize and control” menu, clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Content settings,” and then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading.
  3. Blocking all cookies will negatively impact your ability to use many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features of our website.
  4. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer – for example:
  1. cookies must be manually deleted in Internet Explorer;
  2. in Firefox you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom settings for history”, clicking “Show cookies”, then clicking “Delete all cookies”; 
  3. in Chrome you can delete all cookies by opening the ‘Customize and control’ menu, clicking ‘Settings’, ‘Show advanced settings’ and ‘Clear browser data’ and then selecting ‘Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data’ before clicking “Clear data “browsing”.
  4. Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.