General conditions
1. This Privacy Policy informs about the methods of protecting the personal data of Users of the “Polish Places in Great Britain” mobile application, hereinafter referred to as the “Application”, the sole owner of which is the Polish Catholic Mission in England and Wales.
2. The Application is based on uploading provision-free photos and information regarding Polish symbols found in Great Britain, including churches, monuments, graves, commemorative plaques, and also subsequent updates of the map with additional Polish places
3. The Administrator of the Application Users personal data is the author of this mobile application, hereinafter referred to as the “Administrator”. Contact with the Administrator occurs through sending an electronic correspondence to the e-mail address: kontakt@polskiemiejscawwielkiejbrytanii.co.uk
4. The Application does not collect, store, or process the Users personal data, with the exceptions subjected to the section below.
5. If the User downloads the Application, in order to post a photo/photos on it, it is necessary to register the User in advance providing his/her data: name, surname, and e-mail address; which is tantamount to expressing consent to the use of the above-mentioned photo/photos via the Application. Providing personal data is voluntary, but necessary to achieve the purposes for which they were or will be collected.
6. A User who has registered and consented to the processing of his personal data may only post a photo/photos for which he has the right to use and distribute, provided that there is no violation of the rights of third parties claiming the right to this “publication”.
7. The Administrator is entitled to not accepting and not uploading on the Application any photos violating the Application’s concept and goals. In such a case, the Administrator will immediately contact the User and inform about the lack of consent to the content provided.
8. Legal Entities taking care of Users personal data are only individuals who act under the Administrator’s authorization or on the basis of a data entrustment agreement. The data is secured against being made available to unauthorized bodies.
9. Personal data can be transferred only to the necessary extent. This information will be received only by the crucial entities providing high-quality services offered by the Administrator, especially IT services and cooperative parties. The Entity processing personal data on the basis of an agreement entrusting the processing of personal data acts only at the request of the Administrator and ensures data security within the limits of the authorization granted.
10. All Users’ personal data stored in the Administrator’s database of a given Application are stored and properly protected against unauthorized access. Personal data are processed on the basis of the consent expressed by the User through voluntarily installing the above-mentioned Application on a mobile device, by downloading the Application via Google Play or App Store, visiting the website, and using it to read the content posted there.
11. Users’ personal data are not being sold or made available to third parties, nor subjected to profiling, i.e. automated data processing in order to assess and determine the personal characteristics or needs of Users.
12. Geolocation services used by the Application are used to determine the User’s location in order to provide him with the most adequate information. The Application informs the User about the continuing usage of geolocation data during installation. The acquired data is used to present information adjusted to the User’s current location. The Application does not track or record (and does not transmit to any servers) the User’s location while using the Application. Location data is downloaded only when using the associated messaging feature is required.
13. The content of the Application is the property of the Data Administrator and is legally protected.
14. The Administrator declares that the Application is free from content violating the rights of third parties or applicable law, in particular from containing information causing or constituting a threat to the privacy or security of any person, containing information promoting illegal activities or offensive behavior, which constitutes a threat, is inappropriate, defamatory or slanderous, encouraging racism, persecution on ethnic, cultural or religious grounds, is promoting or facilitating criminal activities, violating the rights of third parties, including intellectual property rights or constituting any other form of infringement of legal rights.
15. The Administrator ensures diligence to protect the User’s data when using the Application and to comply with recognized international safety standards. A relevant policies, procedures, and training covering data protection, confidentiality, and security have been implemented. The Administrator checks regularly the measures implemented to ensure their adequacy to secure the holded data.
16. If the User does not accept the principles of the Privacy Policy, please do not install the Application or uninstall it. The Application permanently deleted from the mobile device is tantamount to Application use termination.II. Purposes and legal basis for data processing.
1. The Administrator processes only those categories of personal data, which are necessary to achieve the purposes of the Application.
2. The source of personal data processed by the Administrator are only the Users who, after installing the Application, provided their personal data in order to post a photo/photos.
3. The legal basis for the processing of personal data is:
a. a necessity to perform the contract or to take action before concluding the contract,
b. a necessity to fulfill legal obligations imposed on the Administrator, or
c. legally justified interest of the Administrator, which is to establish, pursue, or defend claims until their limitation period expires or until the appropriate proceedings are completed, if they were initiated during this period, or
d. consent to the processing of personal data for specific purposes of the Application, when other legal bases for the processing of personal data do not apply.
4. The Administrator does not transfer personal data to a third country or international organization within the meaning of provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
5. The Administrator does not disclose personal data to third parties without the explicit consent of the data subject. Personal data, without the consent of the data subject, may be made disclosed only to public law entities, i.e. authorities and administration (e.g. tax authorities, law enforcement authorities, and other entities authorized by generally applicable law).
6. The User whose personal data is processed by the Personal Data Administrator has the right to:
a. being informed about the processing of personal datab. access to their personal data
c. correcting, supplementing, updating, and rectifying personal
d. deletion of data (right to be forgotten)
e. processing restrictions
f. data transfer
g. object to the processing of personal datah. the right to withdraw consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal,
i. not being subject to profiling,
j. submit a complaint to the supervisory authority, taking into account the rules of using and exercising relevant rights arising from the provisions of the GDPR.
7. An individual, who wants to exercise his rights referred to in the section above, should send a Report to the e-mail address provided in section 3 of the General Terms and Conditions.
8. The content of the Report has to include:
a. data of the person or persons concerned by the Report,
b. the event being the reason for the Report,
c. presentation of the applicant’s requests and the legal basis for these requests,
d. indication of the expected way of resolving the matter.
III. Personal data storage period
1. Personal data is processed for the period necessary to achieve the purposes indicated in section 2 of the General Terms and Conditions.
2. Personal data may be processed for a longer period, if such a right or obligation imposed on the Administrator results from specific legal provisions, from the legitimate interest of the Administrator, or when the service we provide is continuous, in particular until any claims expire, or expiry of the archiving obligation arising from legal provisions, including the obligation to store accounting documents.
3. In the case of processing personal data based on the consent expressed by the User, your data will be stored until the consent is withdrawn. It is possible to withdraw consents expressed in the Application at any time. Withdrawal of consent to processing will not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out before its withdrawal.
4. In the case of data processing based on the legal interest of the Administrator, the Administrator will stop processing the data, if the User successfully objects to the processing of data.
IV. Eligible rights
1. If the Administrator decides that during the use of the Application safety of personal data has been breached by the User, leading to accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, modification, unauthorized disclosure, or unauthorized access to personal data transfer, stored or otherwise processed, including the User utilizing a photo/photos for which he/she does not have the rights to use and dispose of, the Administrator will take appropriate legal steps.
2. In the situation referred to in the section above the Administrator reports the breach to the supervisory authority in order to prevent or limit the negative effects of the breach, such as physical damage, property or non-property damage to natural persons, such as loss of control over one’s personal data. or restriction of rights, discrimination, identity theft or falsification, reputation damage, breach of confidentiality of personal data protected by professional secrecy or any other significant economic or social damage.
3. The Administrator reports a personal data protection breach to the supervisory authority unless the breach is unlikely to result in a risk of violating the rights and freedoms of natural persons. The supervisory authority competent for the proper processing of personal data is the public authority competent for the User, in accordance with geolocation. If the breach may affect data subjects in more than one EU Member State, the Administrator shall report such breach to the supervisory authority with appropriate territorial and treaty competencies.
V. Cookie files.
he Application uses cookies for functional purposes.VI. Exemption of the liability.
1. The Data Administrator is not responsible for the Users’ actions or omissions, resulting in the Data Administrator processing the personal data provided by them within this Privacy Policy provisions and specifications.
2. The Data Administrator reserves the right to introduce changes, withdraw, or modify the functions or properties of the Application, as well as to cease operations, transfer rights to the Application, and perform any legal actions permitted by applicable law.
3. In order to ensure that this Privacy Policy continuously fulfills the current requirements imposed by law, the Administrator reserves the right to make changes to it at any time. The above also applies in cases when the Privacy Policy requires changes to cover new or changed products or services of the Application.
4. The date specified below is the date of validity of the Privacy Policy in the latest version.
25/03/2024