Privacy Policy

Thank you very much for your interest in our online store.

The Świat Kwiatów Marcin Sikora, with its seat at 56/58 Sulejkowska street, Suite 215, 04-157 Warszawa, tax identification number (NIP): 537-220-80-01 (the data controller of your personal information) respects your right to privacy. Here you will find our stance on collecting, processing, and using our users’ data. You can contact us through this contact form.

1. Access info and hosting

You can access our websites without providing your personal data. At every call of a webpage the server automatically stores only the so called server logs, e.g. the name of the requested file, your IP address, date and time of the call, the amount of sent data, the name of the internet service provider that sends the request, and files the website call.

That data is analysed solely for the purpose of proper functioning of the website and improving our offer. The above is – in the context of interest assessment – to protect our legitimate interests of the optimal presentation of our offer. All data is deleted within seven days after you have finished using our website.

Hosting services provided by an external provider

Within the scope of data processing we have commissioned an external service provider with hosting and website presentation services. All date that are collected, in the manner described herein, in the process of using our website or through the appropriate forms in the web shop are stored on servers of that external service provider. The processing on other servers takes place only within the scope set out herein.

The above mentioned service provider has its seat in the European Union or the European Economic Area.

2. Collecting and processing data for the purpose of the performance of an agreement and user account generation

We collect your personal data only when you provide it to us at your discretion by placing your order, contacting us (e.g. through a contact form or via e-mail), or creating your user account. Mandatory fields are marked as such because the data collected through them are necessary to perform the agreement, process the case you contacted us about, or create your user account. Without providing that data, you are not able to place an order, create a user account, nor contact us. The type of collected data is determined by the form that is used for entering the data. We use data that you provide us with to perform the agreement and answer your queries. After the performance of the agreement or deletion of your user account, the processing of your data will be reduced and after the end of the storing periods required by the tax regulations and the act on accounting that data will be deleted, unless you explicitly agree to further use of that data, or according to the valid law we reserve the right to further use of the date. In the latter case, we will inform you about that reservation in an appropriate statement. You can delete your user account at any given time. You can do it by sending a message to our address indicated in the “Our contact data and your rights” section or by using the appropriate function within your user account.

3. Transfering personal data

To perform the agreement, we transfer your data to a courier service company that is commissioned with the delivery, if it is necessary to deliver your order. Depending on the payment service provider you choose while completing your order, we transfer payer’s data collected for that purpose to the credit institution that processes the payment and possibly to the payment service provider chosen by you or us. Some payment service providers collect personal data on their own if you create a user account on their platform. In that event, you should log onto the payment service provider’s platform using your login details to complete the order. Please note that in such case the Privacy Policy of the given payment service provider applies.

Personal data transferred to courier service providers

Shall you grant your explicit consent to it during or after completing the order, we will pass your email address and phone number to the courier service company of your choice to let them contact you before the delivery to notify you about it or to agree the time and date of the delivery.

The above mentioned consent can be withdrawn anytime by sending a message to our address indicated in the “Our contact data and your rights” section or by sending a message directly to the contact address of a courier company provided below. After withdrawing your consent, we will delete your data, unless you explicitly agree to further use of your data for other purposes or we reserve the right to further use of the data in cases allowed by the. In the latter case, we will inform you about that reservation in an appropriate statement.

DHL EXPRESS (POLAND) SP. Z O.O.
2 Osmańska street
02-823 Warsaw, Poland

POCZTA POLSKA SPÓŁKA AKCYJNA
8 Rodziny Hiszpańskich street
00-940 Warsaw, Poland

INPOST SP. Z O.O.
28 Wielicka street
30-552 Cracow, Poland

DPD Polska Sp. z o.o.
15 Mineralna street
02-274 Warsaw, Poland

GLS Poland Sp. z o.o.
10 Tęczowa street, Głuchowo
62-052 Komorniki, Poland

4. E-mail-newsletter and advertising sent by e-mail.

Advertising sent by e-mail after subscribing to the newsletter

If you sign up to our newsletter we will use the data needed for the purpose of its distribution or provided to us by you separately to let us regularly send you our newsletter via an e-service upon your consent.

You can unsubscribe to our newsletter anytime by sending us a message with the appropriate notice or by using a link contained within the newsletter. After unsubscribing, we will delete your email, unless you explicitly agree to further use of your data for other purposes or we reserve the right to further use of the data in cases allowed by the. In the latter case, we will inform you about that reservation in an appropriate statement.

The newsletter is distributed by a service provider as a part of data processing that we commission it with and for which purpose we provide the said service provider with your email.

The above mentioned service provider has its seat in the European Union or the European Economic Area.

5. Integration with Trusted Shops Trustbadge

To present user reviews collected by the Trusted Shops review system, our website is integrated with the Trustbadge application supplied by Trusted Shops.

The above is – in the context of interest assessment – to protect our legitimate interests of the optimal presentation of our offer. Trustbadge and services advertised for that way belong to the offer of Trusted Shops GmbH, Subbelrather Str. 15C, 50823 Cologne, Germany.

If you use Trustbadge, the server automatically stores the so called server logs that contain e.g., the name of the requested file, your IP address, date and time of the call, the amount of sent data, the name of the internet service provider that sends the request (access info), and files the Trustbadge call. The above mentioned data is analysed in any way and is automatically overwritten within seven days after the end of your visit at the website.

Your other personal data is transferred to Trusted Shops only if you decide to use Trusted Shops services after placing the order, or you have already registered with the service before. In those cases, terms and conditions of the agreement entered into with Trusted Shops by you shall apply.

6. Cookies and web analytics

We use the so-called cookie files to increase the attractiveness of our website and to enable the use of certain functionalities that allow to display certain products, and to perform market research. The above is – in the context of interest assessment – to protect our legitimate interests of the optimal presentation of our offer. Cookies are small text files that are automatically stored at your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after a browser session ends, i.e. after it closes (the so-called session cokies). Other cookies are stored at your device and allow us to recognise your browser during the next visit at the website (persistent cookies). Their storage time is indicated in the cookie settings of your web browser. You can configure your browser the way that it provides you updates regarding the use of cookies and allows you to decide to accept or reject them in certain instances or completely. Different web browsers manage cookie settings in different manner. A help menu of a given browser contains the information on how to change cookie settings. This information is available under the following links:

Internet Explorer™ cookie settings
Safari™ cookie settings
Chrome™ cookie settings
Firefox™ cookie settings
Opera™ cookie settings

Please not that if you disagree to using cookies, the functionality of our website might be reduced.

Our website uses the so-called DoubleClick cookie files as a part of the Google Analytics package (see below). DoubleClick cookies allow to recognise your browser in the event of using other websites. Data generated automatically by the cookie files regarding your use of that website are sent to the Google server located in the United States of America and stored there. Due to the IP anonymising implemented on this website, your IP address is shortened before it is transferred within the EU member states or other countries that have signed the EEA agreement. The full IP address is transferred to a Google server located in the USA and shortened there only in exceptional cases. The anonymised IP address that your browser provides within the scope of Google Analytics is not linked to other Google data.

Google will use that data to prepare a website activity report and to provide other services connected with using the website. The above is – in the context of interest assessment – to protect our legitimate interests of the optimal and effective functioning of our website on the market. Google can pass that data to a third party if it is required by law or if the said third party processes that data on behalf of Google.

Google Double Click is a part of an offering of the Google LLC. (www.google.com).

Google LLC is headquartered in the USA and holds the EU-US-Privacy Shield certificate. The valid certificate can be accessed under that link. Under the agreement signed by the USA and the European Commission, the latter has confirmed the proper personal data protection level at companies that hold the Privacy Shield certificate.

You can deactivate DoubleClick cookies by clicking that link. You can also inquire about the use of cookies and the proper settings at the Digital Advertising Alliance website. You can configure your browser the way that it provides you updates regarding the use of cookies and allows you to decide to accept or reject them in certain instances or completely. Please not that if you disagree to using cookies, the functionality of our website might be reduced.

Using Google (Universal) Analytics for the purpose of web analytics

Our website uses Google (Universal) Analytics, a tool for web analytics supplied by the Google Inc. (www.google.com). The above is – in the context of interest assessment – to protect our legitimate interests of the optimal presentation of our offer. Google (Universal) Analytics uses methods that allow to analyse your use of the website, e.g. cookie files. The automatically collected information about your use of that website are usually transferred to the Google server located in the USA and stored there. Due to the IP anonymising implemented on this website, your IP address is shortened before it is transferred within the EU member states or other countries that have signed the EEA agreement. The full IP address is transferred to a Google server located in the USA and shortened there only in exceptional cases. The anonymised IP address that your browser provides within the scope of Google Analytics is in principle not linked to other Google data.

Google LLC is headquartered in the USA and holds the EU-US-Privacy Shield certificate. The valid certificate can be accessed under that link. Under the agreement signed by the USA and the European Commission, the latter has confirmed the proper personal data protection level at companies that hold the Privacy Shield certificate.

You can stop the registering by Google the data collected regarding your use of our website (including your IP address) by cookie files and processing that data by Google by downloading and installing a browser plugin that is available under this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=pl

7. Advertising with e-marketing tools

Google AdWords Remarketing

Google Adwords help us promote our website in search results and on websites that belong to third parties. That is why a so-called Remarketing cookie from Google is automatically left during each visit at our website at the device of each visitor. It allows to display adverts basing on your interests thanks to pseudonymous ID and basing on the websites you have visited. The above is – in the context of interest assessment – to protect our legitimate interests of the optimal and effective functioning of our website on the market.

Further processing of the data takes place only if you give Google your consent for linking the browsing and application use history with your account and to the use of your account data to personalise advertising displayed on web pages. In that event, if you are logged to Google services while visiting our website, Google will use your data together with the Google Analytics data to create and define target groups to be used in remarketing on various devices. For that purpose, Google links you persona data with the Google Analytics data to create those target groups.

The Google AdWords Remarketing service is a part of the Google LLC offering (www.google.pl). Google LLC is headquartered in the USA and holds the EU-US-Privacy Shield certificate. The valid certificate can be accessed under that link. Under the agreement signed by the USA and the European Commission, the latter has confirmed the proper personal data protection level at companies that hold the Privacy Shield certificate.

You can deactivate remarketing cookies by clicking that link. You can also inquire about the use of cookies and the proper settings at the Digital Advertising Alliance website.

8. Social media plugins

Using social media plugins

Our website uses the so-called social media plug-ins (“plugins”).
When you display our webpage that contains one of those plug-ins your browser directly connects with Facebook, Google, Twitter, or Instagram server. Plug-in content is transferred by the given service provider directly to your browser and integrated with the website. Thanks to that integration, service providers receive information that you browser has displayed our web page even if you do not have a user profile with the given service provider or are not logged into the service at that time. That information (together with your IP address) is sent directly by your browser to the server of a given service provider (some of those servers are located in the USA) and stored there. If you are logged to one of the social media platforms that service provider can directly link your visit on our website to your profile with the given platform. If you use a given plug-in, e.g. click the Like or Share button, the corresponding information will be sent directly to the server of a given service provider and stored there. That information will also be published on the given social media platform and displayed to users that belong to your contacts.

The purpose and scope of data storing; its further processing and use by the service providers; contact details; your rights in that regard; and the settings that ensure protection of your privacy have all been described in the service providers’ privacy policies.

http://www.facebook.com/policy.php
https://twitter.com/privacy
http://www.google.com/intl/de/+/policy/+1button.html

If you object to social media platforms assigning data collected during visiting our website directly to your profile in the given social media platform you must log out of that platform before visiting our website. You can also completely prevent loading plug-ins on the website by using special extensions for your browser, e.g. script blocking with “NoScript” (http://noscript.net/).

YouTube video plugins

Content from other service providers is integrated into this website. YouTube video plug-ins are provided by Google Inc (“Service Provider”). YouTube service is run and managed by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google“).

YouTube videos that are available at our website are subject to extended personal data protection. It means that YouTube does not collect, nor store any data of the people who visit the website, unless they play the video.
The purpose and scope of data storing; its further processing and use by the service providers; contact details; your rights in that regard; and the settings that ensure protection of your privacy have all been described in Google privacy policy.

9. Reminders on the possibility of posting reviews

Reminders about the possibility of posting reviews sent by Trusted Shops

If during or after completing an order you explicitly give consent to it, we will pass you e-mail address to Trusted Shops GmbH, Subbelrather Str. 15c, 50823 Cologne, Germany (www.trustedshops.pl) to allow sending you an email reminder about the possibility of posting a review of the purchase made in our shop.

You can do it by sending a message to our address indicated in the “Our contact data and your rights” section or directly in form of a statement sent to Trusted Shops.

10. Our contact data and your rights

You are entitled to obtain information about your personal data that we store, free of charge, as well as to correct it, limit its processing, delete it, or transfer it.

In the event of any questions regarding collecting, processing, and using of your personal data; correcting, blocking, or deleting of the data; and to withdraw granted consent or to object to the use of specific data, please contact the data controller: Swiat Kwiatów Marcin Sikora, 56/58 Sulejkowska street, suite no. 215, 04-157 Warsaw, Poland. You can also use the contact form: https://gardenseedsmarket.com/contact.html

You are also entitled to file a complaint with an appropriate governing and/or supervising body.

The right to file an objection

When we process the personal data in the manner described in this Privacy Policy – in the context of interest assessment – to secure our legitimate interests, you can object to such processing for that purpose, effective ex nunc. If the processing is used for direct marketing, you can exercise your right to file an objection at any given time. If the data is processes for some other purpose, you are entitled to file an objection only due to reasons related to your specific situation.

After you have made use of your right to file an objection, we will discontinue processing your personal data, unless we prove that there are substantial and legitimate reasons for further processing and that those reasons override your interests and rights; or when processing of data serves the purpose of pursuing, satisfying, or defending against claims.

The above provisions shall not apply when data is processed for the purposes of direct marketing. In that case we will discontinue using your persona data for that speficic purpose.