§1. General provisions
Key definitions
- The website at https://parusdesign.pl/, hereinafter referred to as parusdesign.pl or the Site.
- The graphic studio parus design, hereinafter referred to as parus design or parus.
- The administrator and owner of the site Sebastian Szumała, hereinafter referred to as the Administrator.
- You, the person visiting and using the site, hereinafter referred to as the User.
- Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, hereinafter referred to as GDPR.
Applicability
- The privacy policy fulfills the information obligation arising from the GDPR and other legal regulations, i.e., the Act on Providing Services by Electronic Means of 18 July 2002 and the Telecommunications Law of 16 July 2004.
- The provisions of the Privacy Policy come into effect on the date of publication, i.e., 2 July 2022.
- Any changes to the Privacy Policy will be communicated by the Administrator at https://parusdesign.pl/polityka-prywatnosci/.
§2. Personal data
Data processing
- The Administrator of the site and personal data is the Administrator.
- Contact with the Administrator:
- email address: czesc@parusdesign.pl,
- phone number: +48 507-679-646.
- Using the Site is completely anonymous until the User provides personal data. Providing personal data is always voluntary and based on the User’s will.
- Personal data is processed:
- In accordance with applicable law.
- In accordance with the Privacy Policy.
- In accordance with the GDPR.
- Every User has the right to access their data, the right to rectify, delete, and restrict processing, the right to object to the processing method, and the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority.
- The principles and scope of exercising the rights indicated in point 1.4 are specified in Articles 16-21 of the GDPR.
- The Administrator reserves the right to process User data after consent withdrawal only if necessary to pursue potential claims, enforce rights in court, or if required by law.
- The Administrator has the right to share the User’s personal data with authorized entities, e.g., law enforcement agencies, when mandated by law.
- The Administrator guarantees secure data processing and the implementation of systems preventing breaches, including using secure passwords, secure https protocol, and SSL certificates protecting the user during communication with the Site.
- The Administrator may store User data for up to 10 years from the time of submission for record-keeping and advertising campaigns or until the User requests withdrawal and/or deletion of data.
Data recipients
- The Administrator may entrust the processing of User data to subcontractors of the services offered to provide services on behalf of the Administrator. Depending on the processing purpose, User data is entrusted to:
- PROSERWER Michał Kalenik – for storing User data on the server: in databases, in the Website's IT system, and on the Administrator's email accounts.
- Asana, Inc. – for managing the Administrator’s projects, necessary to provide services to the User.
- Google LLC – for storing data, data backups, and data sets, including services such as Google Analytics, Google Drive, Keep Notes, Google Sheets, and Google Docs.
- Facebook, Inc. – for using remarketing tools (including Facebook Pixel), including the ability to target ads, e.g., to the User’s email addresses.
- Useme sp. z o.o. – for managing service agreements concluded with the Administrator, issuing contracts and invoices.
- Infakt Sp. z o.o. – for managing the Client database, issuing contracts and invoices.
Purposes and activities of data processing
- Filling out the contact form – to establish contact with the User, present the Administrator’s offer, and archive the conversation with the User to demonstrate its course if necessary. Providing data is voluntary but required to process the inquiry through the Website and fulfill the above purposes.
- Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(a) and (f) GDPR.
- Processing the inquiry is based on the User’s consent.
- The User has the right to withdraw consent without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
- Contract conclusion and invoicing – to fulfill the subject of contracts and obligations arising from legal provisions. Providing data is a necessary condition for concluding the contract.
- Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.
- Marketing purposes – based on voluntary consent to provide data for marketing purposes, to deliver the Administrator’s marketing content to the User, including advertising content.
- Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
- The User has the right to withdraw consent without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
- Comments – When leaving a comment under a blog post available on the Website, the User consents to the collection of data required by the comment form fields, as well as IP address and browser data, to protect the Website against malicious spam software.
§3. Cookie Policy
- The Website uses cookies, i.e., small files with strings of characters (letters and numbers) stored on the User’s end device (e.g., computer, laptop, smartphone, tablet).
- On the User’s first visit to the Website, an intrusive popup is displayed, fulfilling the information obligation about the use of cookies.
- The User consents to the use of cookies on the Site by accepting their use through the “Ok” button or by ignoring the message.
- Using the Site with cookies enabled means consent to their use.
- Every User can disable cookies in their web browser. However, cookies are essential for the proper functioning of the Site, and disabling them may cause technical difficulties in using the Site, for which the Administrator is not responsible.
- The User has the right and option to delete cookies while using the site or after leaving it, using the functions provided by the browser.
- Some cookies are automatically deleted after the browser session ends (session cookies), while others are stored on the User’s device and allow recognition of the User’s system and browser on subsequent visits (persistent cookies).
- Cookies can be read by the Site’s IT system (so-called first-party cookies) and by third-party systems (so-called third-party cookies).
- First-party cookies are used to ensure the User can use the Site properly and without errors.
- Other categories of cookies used include: security, performance, functional, and advertising cookies.
- The service uses functionalities provided by third parties, which use third-party cookies to deliver services on the Site. These services include:
- Google Analytics – a service provided by Google LLC, used to create statistics and analyze them to optimize the Site. Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
- Facebook Pixel – a service provided by Facebook, Inc. to deliver ads through the Facebook social media platform.
- The Site may include social media plugins: Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Pinterest.
- Viewing Site subpages containing a plugin means the Site communicates with social media servers, and the plugin content is delivered to the User’s browser. The plugin integration sends information to the social media service that the Site was viewed from the User’s browser, even if the User does not have a profile on the social media platform or is not logged in on the device, and this information is sent to the social media server.
- If the User is logged into the social media service, the service can directly associate the visit to the Site with the User’s profile on the social media platform. If the logged-in User uses the plugin to share/react to content on the Site, the relevant information will also be sent directly to the social media server.
- Information provided to social media services may be processed by them, including being published on these services and shown to contacts/friends of the User. The purposes, scope of data collection, processing methods, and use of User data, as well as contact options and User rights, are described in the privacy policies of the service providers: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/legal/FB_Work_Privacy
- If the User does not consent to linking their visit to the Site with their social media profile, they should log out of active social media sessions before visiting the Site. Web browsers also offer plugins and extensions that block tracking activities by social media services.
Last updated: 27.02.2026