Potus Group

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

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

§1 Definitions

Service - the website "potusgroup.com" operating at https://www.potusgroup.com.
External Service - websites of partners, service providers or service 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 "POTUS GROUP SPÓŁKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIA", conducting business at the address: Świętokrzyska 30/63, 00-116 Warsaw, with assigned tax identification number (NIP): 9512379585, with assigned KRS number: 0000481911, providing services electronically through the Service.
User - a natural person for whom the Administrator provides electronic services through the Service.
Equipment - an electronic device with software through which the User accesses the Service.
Cookies - text data collected in the form of files placed on the User's Device.
RODO - 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 on the basis of an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of the natural person.
Processing - means an operation or set of operations performed on personal data or sets of personal data by automated or non-automated means, such as collection, recording, organizing, structuring, storing, adapting or modifying, retrieving, viewing, using, disclosing by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, matching or linking, limiting, deleting or destroying;
Processing Limitation - means the marking of stored personal data to limit its future processing.
Profiling - means any form of automated processing of personal data that involves the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal factors of an individual, in particular to analyze or forecast aspects of that individual's performance, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location or movement
Consent - consent of the data subject means a voluntary, specific, informed and unambiguous demonstration of will by which the data subject, in the form of a statement or explicit affirmative action, consents to the processing of personal data concerning him/her.
Personal data breach - means a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, modification, unauthorized disclosure of or unauthorized access to personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed.
Pseudonymization - means the processing of personal data in such a way that they can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is stored separately and is covered by technical and organizational measures that prevent its attribution to an identified or identifiable natural person
Anonymization - Data anonymization is an irreversible process of data operations that destroys / overwrites "personal data" making it impossible to identify, or link, a particular record to a specific user or individual.

§2 Data Protection Officer

Pursuant to Article 37 of RODO, the Administrator has not appointed a Data Protection Officer.

For 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 ICT system.
External cookies - files placed and read from the User's Device by the ICT systems of External Services. The scripts of External Services that may place Cookies on User Devices have been knowingly placed on the Website through scripts and services made available and installed on the Website
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. When the session ends, the files are deleted from the User Device.
Permanent cookies - files posted and read from the User Device by the Service or External Services until they are manually deleted. The files are not deleted automatically after the end of the Device session unless the configuration of the User Device is set to delete cookies after the end of the Device session.

§4 Data storage security

Cookie Storage and Reading Mechanisms - The mechanisms for storing, reading and exchanging data between Cookies stored on the User Device and the Website are implemented through the built-in mechanisms of web browsers and do not allow other data to be retrieved from the User Device or data of other websites visited by the User, including personal data or confidential information. It is also virtually impossible to transfer viruses, Trojan horses and other worms to the User Device.
Internal cookies - the cookies used by the Administrator are safe for the Users' Devices and do not contain scripts, content or information that may compromise the security of personal data or the security of the Device used by the User.
External cookies - The Administrator makes all possible efforts to verify and select service partners in the context of Users' security. The Administrator selects well-known, large partners with global public trust for cooperation. However, it does not have full control over the content of cookies from external partners. The Administrator is not responsible for the security of Cookie files, their content and their use in accordance with the license by the Scripts installed on the site, coming from external Services, as far as the law allows. The list of partners is provided later in the Privacy Policy.
Control of Cookies.
- The user can at any time, independently change the settings for the storage, deletion and access to data stored cookies by each 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 designated providers:
- The User may at any time delete any cookies stored to date using the tools of the User's Device through which the User uses the services of the Website.
Danger on the side of the User - The Administrator uses all possible technical measures to ensure the security of the data placed in the Cookie files. However, it should be noted that ensuring the security of this data depends on both parties including the activities of the User. The Administrator is not responsible for the interception of this data, impersonation of the User's session or its 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, in order to protect themselves from these threats, should follow the Safe Internet Use Policy ).
Personal Data Storage - The Administrator assures that it makes every effort to ensure that the processed personal data voluntarily entered by Users is secure, access to it is limited, and is carried out in accordance with its purpose and the purposes of processing. The Administrator also ensures that it makes every effort to secure the data in its possession against loss, through the use of appropriate physical as well as organizational safeguards.

§5 Purposes for which Cookie files are used

Improving and facilitating access to the Website.
Personalization of the Service for Users
Marketing, Remarketing in external services.
Ad serving services
Affiliate services
Maintenance of statistics (users, number of visits, types of devices, links, etc.).
Serving multimedia services.
Provision of community services

§6 Objectives of personal data processing

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

Realization of electronic services:
- Newsletter services (including sending advertising content with consent).
- Services of sharing information about the content posted on the Website on social networks or other sites.
Communication of the Administrator with Users on matters related to the Service and data protection.
Ensuring the legitimate interest of the Administrator.

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

Conducting statistics.
Remarketing
Serving ads tailored to Users' preferences.
Serving affiliate programs.
Ensuring the Administrator's legitimate interest.

§7 Cookies of External Services

The Administrator uses javascript scripts and web components of partners on 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 particular websites. Below is a list of partners or their services implemented on the Website that may place cookies:

Media Services:
Social/connected services:
(Registration, Login, content sharing, communication, etc.).
Ad serving services and affiliate networks:
- Google Adsense.
Statistics maintenance:
- Google Analytics.
Other services:
- Google Maps.

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

§8 Types of data collected

The Website collects data about Users. Part of the data is collected automatically and anonymously, and part of the data is personal data voluntarily provided by Users when signing up for particular services offered by the Website.

Anonymous data collected automatically:

IP address.
Browser type.
Screen resolution.
Approximate location
Subpages of the website opened.
Time spent on relevant sub-page of the website.
Type of operating system.
Address of the previous subpage
Address of the referring page
Browser language
Internet connection speed.
Internet service provider

Data collected during registration:

First name / last name / nickname
Email address.
Interests
Social profile addresses.
Website addresses
IP address (collected automatically).
Other ordinary data

Data collected when signing up for Newsletter service:

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

Part of the data (without identifying data) may be stored in cookies. Part of the data (without identifying data) may be transferred to a statistical 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 the data (most often on the basis of the Data Processing Entrustment Agreement) may have entities, responsible for maintaining the infrastructure and services necessary for the operation of the service, i.e.:

Companies through which the Newsletter service is provided.

§10 Method of processing personal data

Personal data provided voluntarily by Users:

Personal data will not be transferred outside the European Union, unless they are 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 any person visiting the service.
Personal data will not be used for automated decision-making (profiling).
Personal data will not be resold to third parties.

Anonymized 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 resold to third parties.

§11 Legal grounds for processing personal data

The Service collects and processes Users' 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).
- Article 6(1)(a). the data subject has consented to the processing of his/her personal data for one or more specified purposes
- article 6(1)(b) processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party, or to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract
- Article 6(1)(f) processing is necessary for the purposes of legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party
Act of May 10, 2018 on the protection of personal data (Journal of Laws 2018 item 1000).
Act of July 16, 2004. Telecommunications law (Dz.U. 2004 No. 171 item 1800)
Act of February 4, 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 are kept 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 provision of services (e.g. deletion of a registered user account, unsubscribing from the Newsletter list, etc.).

The exception is the situation that requires securing the legitimate purposes of further processing of such data by the Administrator. In such a situation, the Administrator will keep the indicated data, from the time of the User's request for deletion, no longer than for a period of 3 years in case of violation or suspected violation of the provisions of the regulations of the service by the User.

Anonymous data (without personal data) collected automatically:

Anonymous statistical data, which do not constitute personal data, are stored by the Administrator for the purpose of keeping statistics of the service for an indefinite period of time.

§13 Users' rights related to the processing of personal data