Privacy Policy

Data controller

We care about the privacy of each visitor of our websites and the protection of their personal data. Therefore, with this privacy policy (hereinafter – Privacy Policy), we inform you about what data we collect on our website www.cofmos.com (hereinafter – Website), why we collect it and what we do with it.

The controller of personal data collected through the Website is UAB „Gustum“, legal entity code 302780146, Vilnius, Dūmų str. 1 (hereinafter – Cofmos or Data controller).

The terms used in this Privacy Policy comply with the definitions of the General Data Protection Regulation.

What personal data and why we process? Purposes of data processing, legal basis and retention periods

When you visit the Website, or contact us by e-mail, mail or phone, we collect contact information about you, information necessary for processing your order, executing the concluded purchase contract, also information provided in your claim or request provided by e-mail. Therefore, when contacting us, please limit yourself only to the information that is necessary to fulfil your request.

Purposes of data processing by us:

• Provision of relevant information and direct marketing – Cofmos has a legitimate interest to inform its customers about the innovations introduced, offered goods or services, promotions, changes in operations. Thus, Cofmos uses your e-mail address in order to provide you with the said relevant information. However, if you believe that providing the received information is irrelevant to you and violates your interests, please inform us immediately. Also, when creating an account on the Website, you can order a Cofmos news subscription (Newsletter). You can withdraw your consent to the Newsletter at any time by informing us by e-mail at [email protected].

The said data (your e-mail address) will be processed for the specified purposes for 5 years from the moment you provided us your personal data or until you state that you do not agree to receive information from Cofmos.

• Communication and administration of your inquiries. You can contact us directly by e-mail with a request, complaint or inquiry. The information you send through this channel will be used for the purpose to respond to your request. Therefore, Cofmos will process the data obtained on the basis of your own request (consent) or Cofmos legitimate interest to provide quality customer service and complaints administration. The data obtained about you in the specified way will be processed until the fulfilment of your request and stored for 1 year after such fulfilment.
• Customer registration. You can shop on our Website both after registering and creating your account, and without registration. We will process the data necessary for the creation and administration of the user account on the legal basis of our legitimate interest, i.e. in order to get to know your customer and create a circle of loyal customers. You have the right to object to such processing of personal data by naming your violated rights. For those who shop without registration, we will ask to provide the data that is necessary to process the order and the purchase contract, thus, we will process this data on the legal basis of contract execution. Account data will be stored for 5 (five) years from the last active actions performed by the person on the website (login, registration and/or other active actions). Data on the purchases made are provided in the account and will be stored for at least 5 years.
• Conclusion and execution of the purchase contract. For this purpose, we ask you to provide your full name, exact address and delivery address (if different), contact details (phone number, e-mail address), as well as additional notes regarding the delivery of the order. When you pay for the goods, Cofmos will also receive your payment information (payer, bank account, bank name). All personal data obtained within order placement procedure will be processed in order to conclude and fulfil an online purchase and sale contract with you and will be stored for 10 (ten) years from your last purchase on our Website. You must provide data for this purpose, otherwise we will not be able to provide you with the opportunity to shop on the Website.
• Ensuring the smooth operation of the Website. For this purpose, we process your personal data with a legal interest in monitoring the quality of our web services, creating and improving the content we provide, and ensuring the smooth operation and security of the Website. The data is processed on the basis of our legitimate interest, i.e. to ensure smooth operation of the Website. Necessary cookies are used for this purpose. The data is stored during the session or for a maximum of several years (depending on the cookie used). You have the right to object to such data processing and to visit our Website anonymously. More information about managing cookies can be found in the cookies section below.
• Collection and processing of statistical data, determination of visitor flows. For this purpose, we process your personal data with a legal interest in monitoring the quality of our services, the demand of our web services, creating and improving the content we provide, and ensuring the security of the website. Data is collected with the help of non-necessary cookies and similar technologies. The data is stored during the session or for a maximum of several years (depending on the cookie used). You have the right to object to such data processing and to visit our website anonymously. More information about managing cookies can be found in the cookies section below.

How do we collect information about you?

Your personal data, i.e. any information about you that allows us to identify you is obtained in various ways:

– You can provide information yourself (for example, by calling us, writing by e-mail, ordering a newsletter, or contacting us in other ways yourself);

– information about you can be collected automatically (when you visit our Website, with the help of cookies and similar technologies).

Recipients of data

Your data is not used or provided for commercial purposes to any third parties. We use your data only for the purpose of being able to properly carry out our activities, fulfil product orders, and provide you with information.

We may disclose information about you to our intermediaries, suppliers or subcontractors if and to the extent this is necessary in order to fulfil our obligations, e.g. to payment service providers, Website hosting service providers, courier services, servers and their maintenance service providers, e-mail postal service providers, etc. Please contact us directly for a complete list of recipients.

In addition, we may disclose information about you:

– if it is mandatory according to legislation (e.g. Tax authority, pre-trial investigation officers, other supervisory authorities);

– in order to defend your rights or interests (including providing your data to third parties, such as lawyers, debt collection companies, bailiffs).

To which countries are your personal data transferred?

Your data processing (including storage) by us takes place only within the territory of European Economic Area.

Security of your personal data

Your personal data will be processed in accordance with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation, the Law on Legal Protection of Personal Data of the Republic of Lithuania and other legal acts. When processing your personal data, we implement organizational and technical measures that ensure the protection of personal data against accidental or illegal destruction, alteration, disclosure, as well as against any other illegal processing.

It must always be noted that data transmission over the Internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee completely secure data transmission over Internet networks.

Cookies

When you visit our Website, we want to provide content and features that are tailored to your needs. Cookies are required for this. A cookie is information that a web server sends to a web browser and that is stored in the browser. This information is sent every time the browser requests to open a page from the server. This allows the web server to identify and track your web browser, helps us to recognize you as a previous visitor to a certain website, save your history of visiting the website and adapt the content accordingly. Also, cookies help ensure the smooth operation of websites, allow you to monitor the duration and frequency of visiting websites and collect statistical information about the number of website visitors. By analysing this data, we can improve our websites and make them more convenient for you to use.

We may use the following cookies on the Website:

1) Strictly necessary cookies that are required for the Website to function properly. They are used because we have a legitimate interest in ensuring the Website works, so you cannot control them yourself.

2) Session cookies, which allow the User to be recognized during one visit to the Website, so that all page changes or options are remembered when travelling from one page to another. These cookies allow you to move quickly and easily through the many pages of the Website, so that you do not have to reprocess the information each time you visit a new location. Session cookies are temporary and are deleted as soon as the browser is closed or the website is logged out.

3) Functional cookies that remain on the User’s computer for a set period of time after the end of the browsing session, so they can capture certain User options or actions when the Website is visited again.

4) Target cookies used by other organizations through the Website. The Website uses Google Analytics cookies to analyse Website traffic. Google Analytics anonymously collects information about the number of visitors, the location from which the Website was used, and which parts of the Website were browsed by visitors.

With the help of the settings of the browser that you use, you can configure your browser to accept all Cookies, to reject all Cookies or to be notified when a Cookie is being downloaded. If you do not want Personal Data to be collected with the help of Cookies, follow the procedure available in many browsers that allows you to refuse the use of cookies. To learn more about how to manage cookies, visit: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/. You can find more information about Google Analytics cookies and their settings at http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Please note that after changing the settings for the use of cookies, some functions of the Website may not work.

In addition to the cookies used by the Data Controller, our websites may allow third parties to set and access cookies on your computer or other device. In such case, the use of cookies is subject to the privacy policies of such third parties. Social network accounts are subject to the cookie policy of the respective social network.

Data on the specific cookies we currently use on our Website, their purpose, validity and type are presented in the table below:

Cookie	Domain	Description	Duration	Type
pll_language	.cofmos.com	Polylang sets this cookie to remember the language the user selects when returning to the website and get the language information when unavailable in another way.	1 year	Functional
_ga_*	.cofmos.com	Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views.	1 year 1 month 4 days	Analytics
_ga	.cofmos.com	Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors.	1 year 1 month 4 days	Analytics
soundestID	.cofmos.com	This cookie is set by the provider Omnisend. This cookie is used for determining if a visitor is new to the website or the visitor had visited before.	session	Analytics
omnisendSessionID	.cofmos.com	This cookie is set by the provider Omnisend. This cookie is used for setting a unique ID for the session. The cookie collects information on visitor behaviour on the website for statistical purposes.	30 minutes	Analytics
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary	.cofmos.com	Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie records the user consent for the cookies in the “Necessary” category.	1 year	Necessary
cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary	.cofmos.com	GDPR Cookie Consent plugin sets this cookie to record the user consent for the cookies in the “Necessary” category.	1 year	Necessary
_gid	.cofmos.com	Google Analytics sets this cookie to store information on how visitors use a website while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the collected data includes the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.	1 day	Analytics
_gat_gtag_UA_*	.cofmos.com	Google Analytics sets this cookie to store a unique user ID.	1 minute	Analytics

 

What are your rights?

You, as a subject of personal data, depending on the circumstances, have the following rights:

– submit a request to provide with information on whether data related to you is being processed, and if such data is being processed, you have the right to access your personal data and the following information: purposes of data processing; categories of relevant personal data; data recipients or categories of data recipients to whom your personal data has been or will be disclosed; where possible, the expected period of retention of personal data or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period;

– demand correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data related to you;

– demand that we delete your personal data. Nevertheless, this right is not absolute and can be justified when there is at least one of the following reasons: (i) the personal data are no longer necessary to achieve the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed; (ii) you have decided to withdraw your consent to process your personal data, when your personal data is processed exclusively on the basis of consent and there is no other basis for processing your personal data; (iii) your personal data was processed illegally; (iv) our data must be deleted when we are required to do so;

– to demand that the processing of your personal data be restricted when one of the following cases applies: You dispute the accuracy of the data for a period during which we can verify the accuracy of your personal data; The processing of your personal data is unlawful and you do not consent to the deletion of your data and instead request the restriction of its use; we no longer need your data for processing purposes, but you need it in order to assert, enforce or defend legal claims. When the processing of your personal data is restricted, we can process your data, except for storage, only after receiving your consent or in order to assert, fulfil or defend legal claims and/or protect your or another person’s rights, or for reasons of public interest;

– withdraw your consent to process your personal data, when personal data is processed exclusively on the basis of your consent;

– request that we forward your processed personal data to another data controller or to you yourself, when this is technically possible;

– file a complaint with us or the State Data Protection Inspectorate if you believe that your rights as a subject of personal data are and/or may be violated.

We make it possible for you to exercise these rights in a convenient way. You can do this by writing to us at [email protected].

We may not provide you with the conditions to exercise the rights listed above, when, in cases provided by law, it is necessary to ensure the prevention, investigation and detection of violations of official or professional ethics, as well as the protection of the rights and freedoms of the data subject or other persons.

Third party websites

Our website may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policy and its implementation on third-party websites. Therefore, we encourage you to always check how data is handled on other websites.

Responsibility

You are responsible for the confidentiality of your password and user data and for any actions (data transmission, service order placed, etc.) that are performed on our Website after logging in using your login data. You may not disclose your password to third parties. If the services provided on our website are used by a third person who has logged in using your login data, we consider that you have logged in. If you lose your login data, you must notify us immediately by e-mail. You must change your password periodically.

You are responsible for ensuring that the data you provide to us is accurate, correct and complete. If the data provided by you changes, you must immediately inform us about it by changing the relevant data in the registration form or, if the data is not specified in the registration form, by informing us about it by e-mail. In no case will we be liable for any damage caused to you due to the fact that you have provided incorrect or incomplete personal data or have not informed us when they have changed.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We may update or change this Privacy Policy at any time. Such updated or modified Privacy Policy will be effective upon its posting on our Website. If significant changes to the Privacy Policy are made, we will notify you on the Website. Nevertheless, you should regularly check the current version of the Privacy Policy and make sure that you are satisfied with it.

Contact information

If you have any questions regarding the terms of this Privacy Policy, please contact us at the contact details below:

UAB „Gustum“

Company code: 302780146

Registration address: Dūmų str. 1, Vilnius

Email: [email protected].

We will respond to received requests, complaints or demands in writing in accordance with the procedure and deadlines established by legal acts. We try to provide you with information as soon as possible, but no later than within 30 days of receiving your request.

If, after receiving a request, complaint or demand, we have doubts about the identity of the applicant, we have the right to ask for the identity document of the applicant or to prove their identity in another way.

If we are unable to provide you with the necessary information and (or) you have claims regarding the way your personal data is processed, you have the right to apply to the State Data Protection Inspectorate by submitting a complaint.