1.General Information This policy concerns the website www, operating at the url: blueleafblast.co.uk The operator of the service and the Data Controller is: Sebastian Kojtek 1 Lyme Road Cottages Axminster EX135BG Operator’s email contact address: contact@blueleafblast.co.uk The Operator is the Data Controller of your personal data in relation to data voluntarily provided on the Service. The Service utilizes personal data for the following purposes: Managing newsletters Conducting online chat conversations Handling inquiries via forms The Service performs the function of obtaining information about users and their behavior in the following ways: Through voluntarily entered data in forms, which are entered into the Operator’s systems. By saving cookie files (so-called “cookies”) on end devices.
2. Selected Data Protection Methods Used by the Operator
Places where personal data is entered and logged in are protected at the transmission layer (SSL certificate). This ensures that personal data and login data entered on the website are encrypted on the user’s computer and can only be read on the destination server.
Personal data stored in the database is encrypted in such a way that only the Operator possessing the key can read it. This protects the data in case the database is stolen from the server.
User passwords are stored in hashed form. The hashing function works one-way – it is not possible to reverse its operation, which is currently the standard for storing user passwords.
Two-factor authentication is used on the website, providing an additional form of login protection to the Service.
The Operator periodically changes its administrative passwords.
To protect data, the Operator regularly performs backups.
An essential element of data protection is the regular updating of all software used by the Operator to process personal data, which includes regular updates to programming components.
3. Hosting
The Service is hosted (technically maintained) on servers by another company.
The hosting company maintains server logs to ensure technical reliability. The following may be subject to logging:
resources specified by the URL identifier (requested resource addresses – pages, files),
time of the request,
time of sending the response,
client station name – identification carried out by the HTTP protocol,
information about errors that occurred during the HTTP transaction,
URL address of the page previously visited by the user (referer link) – in case the transition to the Service occurred through a link,
information about the user’s browser,
IP address information,
diagnostic information related to the process of independently ordering services through registrars on the website,
information related to the handling of email addressed to the Operator and sent by the Operator.
4. Your Rights and Additional Information on Data Usage
In some situations, the Administrator has the right to transfer your personal data to other recipients if it is necessary to perform the contract concluded with you or to fulfill the obligations incumbent on the Administrator. This applies to such groups of recipients:
hosting company on the basis of entrustment
authorized employees and associates who use data to achieve the purpose of the website’s operation
companies providing marketing services on behalf of the Administrator
Your personal data processed by the Administrator will not be stored for longer than is necessary to perform the activities related to them specified in separate regulations (e.g., accounting regulations). In relation to marketing data, the data will not be processed for longer than 3 years.
You have the right to request from the Administrator:
access to your personal data,
their rectification,
deletion,
restriction of processing,
and data portability.
You have the right to object to the processing referred to in point 3.2 with regard to the processing of personal data for the purpose of pursuing the legitimate interests pursued by the Administrator, including profiling, however, the right to object cannot be exercised if there are compelling legitimate grounds for the processing, overriding your interests, rights and freedoms, in particular the establishment, investigation or defense of claims.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with the President of the Office for Personal Data Protection, ul. Stawki 2, 00-193 Warsaw, Poland.
Providing personal data is voluntary but necessary for the operation of the Service.
Actions involving automated decision-making, including profiling, may be taken against you in order to provide services under the concluded agreement and for the purpose of direct marketing conducted by the Administrator.
Personal data are transferred from third countries within the meaning of personal data protection regulations. This means that we send them outside the European Union.
5. Information in Forms
The Service collects information voluntarily provided by the user, including personal data, if they are provided.
In some cases, the Service may store information facilitating the association of data in the form with the user’s email address filling out the form. In this case, the user’s email address appears inside the url address of the page containing the form.
Data provided in the form is processed for the purpose resulting from the function of a specific form, e.g. to process a service request or sales contact, registration of services, etc. Each time the context and description of the form clearly informs what it is used for.
6. Administrator’s Logs
Information about user behavior on the website may be subject to logging. This data is used for website administration purposes.
7. Significant Marketing Techniques The Operator uses statistical analysis of website traffic through Google Analytics (Google Inc. based in the USA). The Operator does not transfer any personal data to the operator of this service, only anonymized information. The service is based on the use of cookies in the user’s end device. With regard to information about user preferences collected by the Google advertising network, the user can view and edit information resulting from cookies using the tool: https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/ The Operator uses remarketing techniques, allowing for tailoring advertising messages to the user’s behavior on the website, which may give the impression that the user’s personal data is used to track them, but in practice, no additional personal data is transferred from the Operator to the advertisers. The technological condition for such activities is the enabled cookie support. The Operator uses the Facebook pixel. This technology causes the Facebook service (Facebook Inc. based in the USA) to know that a particular person registered in it is using the Service. In this case, it is based on data for which it is the administrator, the Operator does not transfer any additional personal data from itself to the Facebook service. The service is based on the use of cookies in the user’s end device. The Operator uses solutions automating the operation of the Service with respect to users, e.g. may send an email to the user after visiting a specific subpage, provided they have consented to receive commercial correspondence from the Operator.
8. Information about Cookie Files
The Service uses cookie files.
Cookies (so-called “cookies”) are IT data, in particular text files, which are stored in the end device of the Service User and are intended for using the Service’s websites. Cookies usually contain the name of the website they come from, the time of their storage on the end device, and a unique number.
The entity placing cookies on the end device of the Service User and accessing them is the operator of the Service.
Cookies are used for the following purposes within the Service:
maintaining the user’s session on the Service (after logging in), thanks to which the user does not have to re-enter their login and password on each subpage of the Service;
achieving the goals set out above in the section “Significant marketing techniques”;
Two basic types of cookies are used within the Service: “session” cookies and “persistent” cookies. Session cookies are temporary files that are stored on the user’s end device until logging out, leaving the website, or turning off the software (web browser). “Persistent” cookies are stored on the user’s end device for the time specified in the cookie parameters or until they are deleted by the user.
Web browsing software (web browser) usually allows cookies to be stored on the user’s end device by default. Service users can change these settings. The web browser allows you to delete cookies. It is also possible to automatically block cookies. Detailed information on this subject is provided in the help or documentation of the web browser.
Limitations on the use of cookies may affect some functionalities available on the Service’s websites.
Cookies placed on the user’s end device of the Service User may also be used by entities cooperating with the operator of the Service, in particular, this applies to companies: Google (Google Inc. based in the USA), Facebook (Facebook Inc. based in the USA), Twitter (Twitter Inc. based in the USA).
9. Managing Cookies – How to Express and Withdraw Consent in Practice? If the user does not want to receive cookies, they can change their browser settings. Please note that disabling the necessary cookies for authentication processes, security, and maintaining user preferences may make it difficult, and in extreme cases may prevent the use of websites.
To manage cookie settings, select the web browser you use from the list below and follow the instructions:
Edge Internet Explorer Chrome Safari Firefox Opera
Mobile devices:
Android Safari (iOS) Windows Phone