Privacy Policy

The privacy policy describes the rules by which we process information about you, including personal data and cookies, i.e. cookies.

1. General information

1. This policy applies to the Website operating under the url address: www.arenasdvisory.com
2. The website operator and Personal Data Administrator are companies from the Arena Group, i.e. Arena Tax sp.z o.o., Antareco sp.z o.o., Arena Digital S.A. Bukowińska 22B, 02-703 Warsaw
3. Operator’s e-mail contact address: rodo@arenaadvisory.com
4. The Operator is the Administrator of your personal data in relation to the data provided voluntarily on the Website.
5. The website uses personal data for the following purposes:

• Presentation of the user profile to other users
• Presentation of the proposal or information

6. The website gathers information about users and their behavior in the following ways:

• Through data voluntarily entered in forms that are entered into the Operator’s systems.
• By saving cookie files in end devices (so-called “cookies”).

2. Selected data protection methods used by the Operator

1. The places of logging in and entering personal data are protected in the transmission layer (SSL certificate). Therefore, personal data and login data entered on the website are encrypted on the user’s computer and can be read only on the target server.
2. User passwords are stored in a hash form. The hash function works one way – it is not possible to reverse its operation, which is now a modern standard in the field of keeping user passwords.
3. To protect data, the Operator regularly makes backup copies.
4. An important element of data protection is the regular update of all software used by the Operator to process personal data, which in particular means regular updates of programming components.

3. Hosting

The website is hosted (technically maintained) on the operator’s server: H88 S.A.

4. Your rights and additional information on how to use the data

1. In some situations, the Administrator has the right to transfer your personal data to other recipients, if it is necessary to complete the contract concluded with you or to fulfill the obligations incumbent on the Administrator. This applies to such groups of recipients:

• persons authorized by us, employees and co-workers who must have access to personal data in order to complete their duties,
• hosting company,
• mailing companies,
• companies supporting SMS messages,
• companies with which the Administrator cooperates in the field of own marketing,
• couriers,
• insurers,
• law firms and debt collectors,
• Banks,
• payment operators,
• public bodies.

2. Your personal data is processed by the Administrator for no longer than is necessary to complete related activities specified in separate regulations (e.g. on accounting). With regard to marketing data, the data will not be processed for more than 3 years.
3. You have the right to request from the Administrator:

• access to personal data concerning you,
• correcting them,
• deletion,
• processing restrictions,
• and data transfer.

4. You have the right to object to the processing indicated in point 3.3 c) to the processing of personal data for the purpose of exercising legally justified interests pursued by the Administrator, including profiling, however, the right to object cannot be exercised if there are valid legally justified grounds for processing, overriding interests, rights and freedoms, in particular the determination, exercise or defense of claims.
5. The Administrator’s actions may be subject to a complaint to the President of the Office for Personal Data Protection, ul. Stawki 2, 00-193 Warsaw.
6. Providing personal data is voluntary, but necessary to operate the Website.
7. In relation to you, actions may be taken involving automated decision making, including profiling, to provide services under the concluded contract and for direct marketing by the Administrator.
8. Personal data is not transferred from third countries within the meaning of the provisions on the protection of personal data. This means that we do not send them outside the European Union.

5. Information on the forms

1. The website collects information provided voluntarily by the user, including personal data, if provided.
2. The website may save information about connection parameters (time, IP address).
3. In some cases, the website may save information facilitating the connection of data in the form with the e-mail address of the user completing the form. In this case, the user’s email address appears inside the url of the page containing the form.
4. The data provided in the form are processed for the purpose resulting from the function of a specific form, e.g. to process the service request or business contact, service registration, etc. Each time the context and description of the form clearly indicates what it is used for.

6. Administrator logs

Information on user behavior on the website may be subject to login. These data are used to administer the site.

7. Important marketing techniques

The operator uses statistical analysis of website traffic through Google Analytics (Google Inc. based in the USA). The operator does not transfer personal data to the operator of this service, but only anonymized information. The service is based on the use of cookies on the user’s end device. In terms of information about user preferences collected by the Google advertising network, the user can view and edit information derived from cookies using the tool:

https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/

8. Information about cookies

1. The website uses cookies.
2. Cookie files (so-called “cookies”) are IT data, in particular text files, which are stored on the Website User’s end device and are intended for using the Website’s pages. Cookies usually contain the name of the website from which they originate, they save time on the end device and a unique number.
3. The entity placing the cookies on the Website User’s end device and accessing them is the Website operator.
4. Cookies are used for the following purposes:

• maintaining the Website user’s session (after logging in), thanks to which the user does not have to re-enter the login and password on each subpage of the Website;
• achieving the goals set out above in the “Important marketing techniques” section;

5. The Website uses two basic types of cookies: 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.
6. Software for browsing websites (web browser) usually by default allows storing cookies on the User’s end device. Website Users can change the settings in this regard. 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.
7. Restrictions on the use of cookies may affect some of the functionalities available on the Website.
8. Cookies placed on the Website User’s end device may also be used by entities cooperating with the Website operator, in particular the following companies: Google (Google Inc. based in the USA), Facebook (Facebook Inc. based in the USA), Twitter (Twitter Inc. based in the USA).

9. Managing cookie files – how to give and retract consent in practice?

1. If the user does not want to receive cookies, he can change the browser settings. We reserve that disabling cookies necessary for authentication processes, security, maintaining user preferences may make it difficult, and in extreme cases may prevent the use of websites
2. 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