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Privacy notice

Privacy and Cookie Policy

In this privacy notice, we, UAB MerkinÄ—s muilo fabrikas, legal entity code 305211812 (hereinafter referred to as “MerkinÄ—s fabrikas” or “we”), provide information about how we process your personal data when you visit our website and use our services. This Privacy and Cookie Policy does not apply when you browse the websites of other companies by accessing the website of UAB MerkinÄ—s muilo fabrikas.

In this notice, you will find answers to the following questions:

  • How we use your data;

  • To whom and when we provide your data;

  • How long we store your data;

  • What rights you have in relation to your data;

  • How we use cookies;

  • What else you should pay attention to;

  • Other relevant information related to the Privacy and Cookie Policy.

If you have any questions or you wish to exercise any of your rights specified in this notice, you can contact us by e-mail: info@merkinesfabrikas.lt.

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HOW DO WE USE YOUR DATA?

We process information about your use of our website. Data on the use of our website may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, duration of visit to the website, pages viewed, browsing paths, as well as information about the periods and frequency of use of the services. We collect this data with the help of cookies or similar technologies to better understand your use of the website and its services. We process this data on the basis of your consent.

We process your data for the purpose of providing lawful services. Service data may include your name, contact details, payment details and any information related to the provision of services that you provide yourself and/or we obtain from public sources. These data are stored for 2 (two) years from the date of submission of the data until the end of the project “VIETOS KULTŪROS VERSLUMO SKATINIMAS – MERKINÄ–S DVARVIETÄ–” (April 2024).

For the purposes of providing and administering the services, we process your personal data of special categories only with your explicit consent and/or to assert, exercise or defend your legal claims.

WHAT KIND OF DATA IS STORED

For the purpose of communicating with you, we process your name, e-mail address, telephone number and the content of your communication. We process this data on the basis of consent and store it for 2 (two) years from the last day of communication with you and for the period until 30 January of the following year, if you are not our customer. If you are a customer, we retain this information until the date of termination of the lawful services and until 30 January of the following year.

For the purpose of organising events and evaluating them, we process your registration data (name, surname, e-mail address, telephone number). We process this data on the basis of your consent and destroy such data after 30 (thirty) days have passed after the event.

We may process your personal data in publicity announcements, including, but not limited to, leaflets, visual presentations and social media networks for the purpose of informing the public about our activities. For this purpose, we may process your name, your expert opinion and/or other insights on a subject being discussed, photograph. These data are stored for 2 (two) years from the date of submission of the data until the end of the project “VIETOS KULTŪROS VERSLUMO SKATINIMAS – MERKINÄ–S DVARVIETÄ–” (April 2024).

We process information in order to maintain relationships with our partners and service providers. For this purpose, we process the name, contact details, job duties and content of interaction of our partners, service providers and/or their representatives and employees. We process these data for the purposes of performance of the contract with our partners and service providers, and store such data until the date of termination of the contract with service providers and/or partners.

We may process your personal data referred to in this notice when it is necessary for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether arising under a judicial, administrative or other out-of-court procedure. For this purpose, we process your personal data on the basis of a legitimate interest, namely to protect and safeguard our rights, your rights and the rights of others.

In addition to the specific purposes set out in this section of the notice, we may also process your personal data when such processing is necessary to comply with our legal obligations, as well as to protect the vital interests of you or other natural persons.

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TO WHOM AND WHEN DO WE PROVIDE YOUR DATA?

We may disclose your personal data to other service providers for the purposes of providing specific services to the extent necessary for the provision of such services (for example, website hosting service providers, server providers and persons performing maintenance of such servers, e-mail service providers). Through subcontractors, we take all necessary measures to ensure that our data processors have implemented appropriate organisational and technical security measures and maintain the confidentiality of personal data.

In addition to the specific cases of possible disclosure of your personal data referred to in this section of the notice, we may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary to comply with our legal obligations, as well as when necessary to protect the vital interests of you or other natural persons.

The persons referred to in this section may also be established outside the Republic of Lithuania, the European Union or the European Economic Area. In the event that we transfer your personal data to such persons, we will take all necessary measures required by law to ensure that your right to privacy continues to be properly protected.

If it became necessary to send your personal data to countries outside the European Economic Area, we would ensure that one of the following security measures is applied:

  • the contract signed with the data recipient would be based on the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission;

  • the recipient would be located in a country recognised by the European Commission as applying adequate data protection standards.

  

SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS

We may also have accounts on social media.

We recommend that you read third-party privacy notices and contact service providers directly if you have any questions about how they use your personal data.

 

YOUR RIGHTS

In this section of the notice, we give you an overview of the rights you have under data protection law. As the exercise of some rights is complicated, in this notice we present only the main aspects of these rights. We invite you to get acquainted with relevant legislation and the guidelines of supervisory authorities so that you have detailed information about these rights.

Your main rights under data protection legislation are as follows:

  • the right of access;

  • the right to rectification;

  • the right to erasure;

  • the right to restrict the processing of personal data;

  • the right to object to the processing;

  • the right to data portability;

  • the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority;

  • the right to withdraw your consent.

The right of access to data. You have the right to obtain from us confirmation whether we process personal data relating to you and, in the case of such processing, you have the right to access the personal data processed and certain additional information. This additional information includes the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data, the recipients of the data. Unless this would violate the rights and freedoms of others, we will provide you with a copy of your personal data at your request. We will provide the first copy free of charge, but for additional copies we may ask for a reasonable fee to cover administrative costs.

Right to rectification. You have the right to have your inaccurate personal data corrected and incomplete data completed, depending on the purposes of the processing.

In certain cases, you have the right to request the erasure of your personal data. These situations include situations where: (i) personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or processed; (ii) you withdraw your consent and there are no other legal grounds for processing the data; (iii) you do not agree to the processing of data on the basis of the provisions of the relevant legal acts; (iv) the data are processed for the purpose of direct marketing; (v) the processing of data is unlawful. However, we point out that in certain cases you will not be able to exercise this right due to the applicable exceptions. Such exceptions shall include cases where the data are necessary: (i) to exercise freedom of expression and information; (ii) to comply with our legal obligations; (iii) to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

In certain cases, you have the right to restrict the processing of personal data. These situations include situations where: (i) you contest the accuracy of the data; (ii) the processing is unlawful, but you do not want such data to be deleted; (iii) we no longer need personal data, but you need such data for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims; (iv) you have objected to the processing on grounds of public interest or legitimate interest, until the validity of your objection shall be assessed. In case of restriction of the processing of your data, we will continue to store your data, but will not continue to process it, except: (i) with your consent; (ii) to assert, exercise or defend legal claims; (iii) the protection of the rights of others; (iv) for purposes of an important public interest.

You have the right to object to the processing of personal data based on your specific situation, in cases where we process your personal data for purposes of the public interest or on the basis of our or third parties’ legitimate interest. If you object to such processing of your personal data, we will no longer process your relevant personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms. We will also be able to further process such data for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims.

In the event that you believe that we are processing your personal data in violation of data protection legislation, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the State Data Protection Inspectorate, which has its registered office at L. Sapiegos g. 17, Vilnius, Lithuania, https://vdai.lrv.lt/lt/.  

In cases where the legal basis for the processing is your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawal of consent will not affect the lawfulness of the processing of your data prior to the withdrawal.

 

ABOUT COOKIES

Our website uses cookies, which may also be placed on your computer when you visit our website.

Normally, cookies do not contain any information that can identify the user, but your personal data we process may be associated with information obtained and stored by cookies.

Our service providers also use cookies, which may also be placed on your computer when you visit our website.

You can delete all cookies stored on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent cookies from being stored. Please note that if cookies are disabled, you may lose the ability to use many of the features necessary for the website to function properly. For more information about cookies, please visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org/ or https://www.aboutcookies.org/. On these websites, you can find detailed information from independent sources about cookies and ways to disable them with the help of your browser and how to remove the cookies that are already on your computer. In order to remove cookies from your mobile phone, you should find the relevant information in your phone’s user instructions.

Most web browsers give users the right to refuse or delete cookies. The means to do this may vary depending on the specific browser and its specific version. Relevant information on how to block or delete cookies can be accessed at the websites of the browser providers, such as Chrome; Firefox; Internet Explorer; Safari.

 

THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

The website may contain links to and from the websites of partners, information sources, and related persons. Please note that the websites of other persons that you access when selecting links on this site have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility for these privacy policies. We recommend that you familiarise yourself with the privacy notices of other websites before submitting any of your personal data on such websites.

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DATA UPDATE

Please inform us if your personal information we process needs to be corrected or updated.

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CHANGES TO THE NOTICE

Any changes to this notice will be published on our website.

 

Valid from 1 August 2022.

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