INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION

The publisher of the website: www.ab.pl (“the Website”) is AB S.A. (“the Company”), with its registered office in Magnice (55-040), ul. Europejska 4.

All rights to the Website, including to its text and graphics components, Website pages’ layout and other components are reserved, unless otherwise explicitly specified. Using the contents included in the Website does not mean acquiring by the users any rights on intangible goods to works or databases included therein. The User can use works and databases solely in the scope of permitted use, stipulated in the provisions of the Act of 4 February 1994 on Copyright and Related Rights (Journal of Laws no. 24, item 83, as amended), the Act of 27 July 2001 on the Protection of Databases (Journal of Laws no. 128, item 1402) and the Act of 16 April 1993 on Combating Unfair Competition (Journal of Laws no. 93.47.211, as amended). In particular, besides cases stipulated therein, it is forbidden to copy, modify, electronically or in any other manner transmit any part of the Website in full or in part for commercial purposes and without prior written consent of the Company.

PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION

While sending via the Website pages a question or while ordering subscription of documents and information regarding the Company, the User provides to the Company personal data, in particular, name and surname, email address or a telephone number. Without giving this personal data it is not possible to order a subscription or send a question by the User to the Company.

Given personal data is administered by AB S.A. with its registered office in Magnice (55-040), ul. Europejska 4.

Personal data is processed in compliance with the provisions of the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council (EU) 2016/679 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: GDPR) and other binding provisions.

Personal data given by the User is processed by the Company pursuant to Article 6 section 1 letter b of the GDPR in order to answer a question. In the case of a User subscribing to a newsletter, the personal data is processed on the grounds of a legally justified interest of the administrator (Article 6, section 1, letter f of the GDPR), in order to execute marketing activities comprising sending this newsletter by the Company. Data can be also processed in order to fulfil the Company’s obligations stipulated in legal provisions (Article 6, section 1, letter c of the GDPR) and in order to protect the Company’s rights including, in particular, asserting claims (a legally justified interest of the administrator – Article 6, section 1, letter f of the GDPR).

The Company processes the User’s personal data solely for the period necessary to achieve aims of processing thereof indicated in the Policy or fulfilling the Company’s obligations imposed by the law and, if the period of limitation of claims resulting from those purposes is longer – until the lapse of the period of limitation, at maximum.

Personal data recipients can be entities providing services to the benefit of the Company related with answers to the User’s questions or subscription, including IT services providers, as well as entities providing accounting, counselling and marketing services to the benefit of the Administrator.

Pursuant to the principles stipulated in the provisions regulating personal data protection, the User has the right to demand access to given data, rectification, removal or restriction of processing thereof, the right to transfer personal data and the right to make a complaint to the President of the Office for Personal Data Protection.

In the cases processing is executed on the grounds of a legally justified interest of the administrator (Article 6, section 1, letter f of the GDPR), the User has the right to object personal data processing, if it is justified by special situation of the Client or if the personal data is processed for the purposes of direct marketing.

The aforementioned rights (apart from the right to make a complaint to a supervisory body) can be exercised by the Client by sending a relevant demand to the address: rodo@ab.pl.

OTHER INFORMATION

In order to determine statistical data on users’ traffic and enable the users to use the contents of the Website, the Company uses the technology known as cookies, i.e. the information saved by the Website’s server on the User’s computer, which can be read by this server with each connection of this computer. The user can, at any time, switch off in their search engine the option of accepting cookies, which shall not cause any difficulties in using the contents of the Website.

The Company is not liable for the privacy protection policy of other websites both, the ones available for the users via links posted on the Website’s pages as well as the ones that include links to the Website.

COOKIES AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES

No information except included in cookie files is being collected by automated ways by the Service. This policy constitutes rules regarded to data processing while using Service’s cookies.

Cookies which are being stored on User’s end device may be used also by Company contractors like for example advertisers, reasearch companies or IT application providers.

Cookie files and their types

Cookie files (hereinafter „cookies”) constitute IT data, in particular text files, which are stored in the User’s end device and are designed to enable User to walk through the Service in a sufficient and comfortable way. Cookies usually contain origin website’s name, information about retention periods and last but not least an unique number.

Website is using two main types of cookies: „session cookies” and „persistent cookies”.

„Session cookies” are temporary files, which are stored in User’s end device until logging out, leaving website or switching off the application (web browser).

„Persistent cookies” are stored in User’s end device until the end of retention period described in cookie parameters or until deletion by the User.

How the Service uses cookies

Due to the purpose of cookies, the following types can be distinguished in Service:

• „Strictly necessary” cookies used primarily to provide Users with services and functionalities of the Website. Strictly necessary cookies also help the Service ensure the safety and reliability of the Website.
• „Functional” cookies used to facilitate the use of the Website, remembering and adapting the Website to the User’s choices, including in terms of language preferences.
• „Analytical” cookies, enabling the acquisition of information such as the number of visits or traffic sources on the Website. These are used to determine which pages are more and which are less popular. They help to determine how users navigate the Website by creating statistics on traffic on the Website. Such analyzes are carried out to constantly improve the structure and content of the Website. The information collected by analytical cookies is aggregated, so it is not intended to determine the User’s identity.

User’s consent

The Company cannot process personal data in regards to functional, analytic and targeting cookies unless User provides a consent for (separately) targeting, functional and analytic cookies. Consent form is available on the bottom of our website. Consent can be withdrawn any time by this form.

Company informs that switching off cookies may affect some functionalities available on the Website.

Third-party cookies

As part of the Website, external cookies are used to:

• collect information on the behavior of users on the Website’s pages and create statistics on this basis, eg. Google Analytics;