Privacy and cookies policy

EWA LITKE-BAK personal data protection policy V1.0 on 1 September 2023

 

At EWA LITKE-BAK, we take the protection of our customers’ privacy and personal data seriously.

In this policy, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to Ewa Litke-Bak.

This Privacy Policy is in place to protect the personal data of all customers of EWA LITKE-BAK (“Customer(s)”). As a Customer, you must be aware that your personal data is collected and maintained by EWA LITKE-BAK and that you have provided your free, specific, informed and unambiguous consent by ticking a non-pre-ticked checkbox after being provided with sufficient notice about the processing.

When you become a Customer, we will as a minimum process your name, address, place of residence, telephone number and your email address, bank account number, gender and date of birth, language choice, channel through which you became a Customer, profile if our form/survey was completed.

We may process data about your use of our website (“usage data“). The usage data may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths. The source of the usage data is Google Analytics (https://www.google.com/analytics). This usage data may be processed for the purposes of analysing the use of the website. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest, namely monitoring and improving our website and services.

We may process information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our newsletters (“notification data“). The notification data may be processed for the purposes of sending you the relevant notifications and/or newsletters. The legal basis for this processing is your consent or the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract.

With your explicit consent, we may also collect information you may give about yourself including health-related data, your financial status (previously purchased services or products and whether these have been paid), feedback that you may have given.

We may only process your personal data including sensitive personal data if there is a legal basis for it, mainly in order to provide you with our services and keep you informed.

Financial transactions relating to our services will be handled by our payment services provider Stripe Express (https://stripe.com/), unless you choose to pay by bank transfer. We will share transaction data with our payment services providers only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing your payments, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds. You can find information about the payment services providers’ privacy policies and practices at https://stripe.com/en-be/privacy.

STORAGE OF PERSONAL AND CUSTOMER INFORMATION

We will store your data for as long as it is necessary for the purposes for which your data is collected, processed, and/or stored and only for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes (e.g. to maintain our website and its Customer area, to organise events and activities and send event invitations, to arrange travel accommodation etc.), and we will not further process the data in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes., which is therefore a specified, explicit, and legitimate purpose.

Personal data shall be treated securely and only utilised by EWA LITKE-BAK or its staff for the above-mentioned purpose. We will retain your data so long as is necessary for the purposes for which we process your data and for no longer than legally permitted. Any material regarding Customers which is communicated externally, including to the public, will be anonymised.

EWA LITKE-BAK recognises the right to the protection of personal data and ensures the application of the current EU and Belgium legal frameworks (EU Regulation 2016/679; the Belgium “DPA Act” of 3 December 2017 and the “Framework Act” of 30 July 2018).

By signing up for a course, event of activity of EWA LITKE-BAK, the Customer acknowledges to have read, understood, and accepted this Privacy Policy.

You have several rights concerning our processing of data about you:

  • You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. If you choose to withdraw your consent, it does not affect the legality of our processing of your personal data based on your previously announced consent and up until the time of withdrawal. Therefore, if you withdraw your consent, it will only have effect from that time.
  • You have the right to access the data we process about you, as well as other data.
  • You have the right to have inaccurate data about you rectified.
  • In exceptional cases, you have the right to have data about you erased before the time of our general erasure.
  • In certain cases, you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. If you have the right to have the processing restricted, we may in future only process the data – apart from storage – with your consent, or for the purpose of establishing, asserting or defending legal claims, or protecting a person or important public interest.
  • In certain cases, you have the right to object to our otherwise lawful processing of your personal data.
  • In certain cases, you have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, as well as to have that personal data transferred from one controller to another without hindrance.

You can read more about your rights at The Belgian Data Protection Agency’s if you are unhappy with the way we process your personal data. The Belgian Data Protection Agency’s contact details can be found at https://www.dataprotectionauthority.be.

COMPLAINT TO The Belgian Data Protection Agency’s

You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Belgianń Data Protection Agency if you are not satisfied with the way we process your personal data. The Belgian Data Protection Agency’s contact details can be found at https://www.dataprotectionauthority.be.

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any questions about our processing of your data, you can always contact us in the following ways:

EWA LITKE-BAK

(23 Avenue Heydenberg, 1200 Woluwe Saint Lambert)

By Phone: +32 478415537

By Email: hello@ewalitke.com

CHANGES AND VERSION

This version of the Privacy Policy is effective 1st September 2023.

We may change this privacy policy at any time to comply with applicable law and our practices for the processing of personal data. As long as you are a Customer, you will receive a notification if we change our privacy policy.

 

EWA LITKE-BAK cookies policy V1.0 on 1 September 2023

 

A cookie is the equivalent of a small text file that is automatically deposited on the user’s terminal (computer hard disk, tablet, smartphone or any other similar device) through the user’s browser.

Cookies have different functions and collect and store different types of information, such as the language preferences of visitors or statistics about visitors to a website and they also ensure the proper functioning of the website.

`Some of these cookies are therefore necessary to enable you to access our website in an optimal way. They are automatically installed on your computer, without us being able to ask you for your permission. Some cookies are only stored if you give your consent.

We may use following types of cookies.

  1. Cookies that are necessary for navigation and so-called “functional” cookies

For these cookies, your consent is not required. These are the following cookies:

– Authentication cookies,
– Security cookies.

These cookies are required to enable the visit to our website and facilitate the use of certain parts of it. They are used to:
– navigate between different sections within the website and to help you return to previous pages;
– fill in forms;
– personalise the services by remembering your preferences (language, currency, location, navigation data, etc.);
– avoid you repeating your choices each time you visit our website;
– collect the information you provide in online forms;
– to establish statistics (e.g. number of individual visitors);
– analyse website usage and the popularity of our pages.

Your browser settings allow you to control these cookies, but if you reject these cookies, some areas of our website may not function properly or function at all. We accept no responsibility in this regard.

  1. Third-party cookies
    Third-party cookies are subject to your consent. We do not ourselves use any cookies subject to your consent. However, third parties may place cookies on your receiving terminal when you browse our website, subject to your consent.
    These third-party cookies (hereinafter “third-party cookies”) are as follows:
    – audience measurement cookies
    – advertising cookies; and
    – social network sharing cookies.

These third-party cookies are placed on your device via our website by third parties. 
The purposes of cookies and the consequences of refusing them vary according to the families of cookies involved.

Third-party cookies are subject to your prior consent.
Advertising cookies allow us to:
– prevent you from being confronted, repeatedly, with the same advertisements
– measure the effectiveness of our various marketing actions and advertising
– personalise the advertising on our website.
If you reject these cookies, the advertising placed on our website will still be present, but it will no longer be personalised. This simply means that the services you receive on our website will not be based on your assumed interests. In addition, you may still receive behavioural advertisements from other companies, if you have not declined their cookies. Cookies for audience measurement are used to improve the content and operation of our website through the use of Google Analytics.
1. Social network sharing cookies allow you to share our content with your network and friends and to track your browsing on other websites and profile your interests.
2. If you do not accept social network sharing cookies, you may not be able to use, or even view, the sharing tools.

How do you give your consent and can you withdraw your consent?
The storage of certain cookies on your terminal is essentially subject to your prior and explicit consent. A banner on the home page relating to cookie management allows you to express your consent to our cookie management.
You can express and modify your consent at any time and free of charge in various ways:
1. By changing your browser settings.
You can configure your browser so that cookies are not saved on your computer or you can delete the cookies already saved.
These settings may modify your Internet browsing and the conditions governing your access certain services requiring the use of cookies.
The configuration procedures are specific to each browser. They are described in the help menu of your browser, which will explain how to modify your cookie preferences.

For Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/fr-FR/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies

For Safari: http://help.apple.com/safari/mac/9.0/#/sfri11471

For Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=fr&hlrm=en&answer=95647

For Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/Activer%20et%20d%C3%A9sactiver%20les%20cookies

For Edge: https://privacy.microsoft.com/fr-fr/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy

For other browsers: please refer to your browser’s help section or go to its publisher’s website.
You can also set your browser to send a code telling websites that you do not want to be tracked, using the “Do Not Track” option:

For Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/fr-fr/internet-explorer/use-tracking-protection#ie=ie-11

For Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11952

For Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/114836

For Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-turn-do-not-track-feature

  • With regard to Google Analytics. Our website uses the services of Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to analyse your use of our website. The information collected is generally transmitted to and stored on a Google server in the USA.
  • If you choose to have your IP address anonymised on this website, it will be truncated within the countries or states that have signed the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the United States, where it will be abbreviated. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating the user’s use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website use and internet navigation. The IP address transmitted by your browser for the purposes of Google Analytics will not be linked to other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser.

However, we would like to point out that if you deactivate this function by anonymising your IP address, you may not be able to use certain functions of this website. You can prevent the data generated by the cookie from being sent to Google (including your IP address) and the data from being processed by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=fr

Google’s privacy policy can be found at: http://www.google.com/intl/fr/policies/privacy/

Google Analytics: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

  • With regard to other third-party cookies:

Our website contains links to other websites. The content of the present Privacy Policy applies only to our own website. It is your responsibility to consult the data protection information of the websites to which these links refer.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/cookies

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/cookies

Instagram: https://help.instagram.com/cookie_settings