PRIVACY POLICY
1. INTRODUCTION
The Polish E-sports Association (hereafter referred to as “STEP," “we," and/or “us”) is committed to protecting your personal information and will comply with all relevant data protection laws and regulations. The Data Controller of your personal data is the Polish Esports Association with its registered office at: ul. Solipska 3, lok 5, 02-482 Warszawa.
This Privacy Policy («Policy») describes how and why we collect, handle, and use any information you provide to us when you use the website step.org.pl(«Website»).
We strongly advise you to carefully read our Privacy Policy before using this website. If you disagree with the terms of this Policy and are unwilling to provide us with the personal information we request, please refrain from using this website.
2. THE PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT
We may collect the following information:
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Your first and last names, and email addresses.
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Any messages you submit via the contact form on the «Get in touch» page.
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Details such as traffic information, location data, and other communication data (including IP address and browser type).
The purpose of processing is to maintain contact with you.
We shall retain your personal data on a lawful basis for the duration of the relevant retention term. Thus, such information will be handled within a reasonable time frame, subject to the provisions of relevant anti-money laundering procedures and any other applicable legal requirements the basis of processing is art. 6 (1) f of the General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter “GDPR”), which constitutes the legitimate interest of the Data Controller.
3. THE USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Your personal information is used in the following ways:
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To provide services of STEP.
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To communicate within the scope of STEP’s services.
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To address your questions and comments.
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To monitor the website's dynamics, use, and the quality of the provided services.
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To determine the level of interest in our services.
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To improve the quality of our services and the website.
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To notify you of special promotions and services which may be of interest to you.
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To settle disputes.
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To resolve bugs and errors on the website.
We reserve the right to share (disclose) personal data with any of STEP’s business partners (regardless of their geographical location) and affiliated companies for the reasons set out above. We guarantee that these businesses are aware of and comply with the regulations governing the processing of personal data and the provisions of this Policy and GDPR. Additionally, the business partners mentioned above and we may occasionally engage third parties to handle personal data for the aforementioned purposes, provided that such processing is governed by a legally established contractual agreement. If authorized or required by law, your personal information may be provided to the relevant government executive or regulatory body.
Personal data may be used to send promotional materials and to keep you informed about new STEP products and services. By accepting this Policy, you consent to our using your personal data for the aforementioned purposes. However, you do have the option to reject receiving such promotional materials.
4. RIGHTS DESTINED
You are entitled to the following rights:
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Personal data access. You may contact us to obtain information about the data we have collected about you and how we are processing it.
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Right to revoke permission. Where we have processed your personal data with your consent, you have the right to revoke that consent at any time.
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Object to or limit the use of your personal data. If you feel that your personal data is being used illegally, you may contact us to request that such processing be halted or ceased. To unsubscribe from marketing communications, use the unsubscribe link included in the email.
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Right to erasure. You have the right to request that we delete your personal data if there is no compelling reason to retain it.
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Right to data portability - The right to data portability allows individuals to obtain and reuse their personal data for their own purposes across different services. It allows them to move, copy or transfer personal data easily from one IT environment to another in a safe and secure way, without affecting its usability.
5. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
We reserve the right to update this Policy at any time. This Privacy Policy becomes effective on December 1, 2023.
6. COOKIES
How we use cookies?
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When operating our Website or generally supporting our Service we may use cookies and similar technologies. Specifically, we use these technologies for general analysis of our Website traffic, for marketing analytics and for direct marketing purposes as well as to provide multilingual content to our users. You have control over the use of cookies via settings of your internet browser, where you can disable cookies at any time and via our cookies bar, where you can grant consent for the use of cookies where such consent is required by ePrivacy laws.
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You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.
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You can change the settings for cookies in your web browser.
7. FURTHER CONTACT
You may contact us with any questions, comments, or concerns about this Policy or our use of your personal data. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you wish to use any of the above rights. Kindly email us at contacts@step.org.pl.