I. General information.

1. Definitions of terms used:

a. administrator (personal data administrator) – a natural or legal person, public authority, entity or other body which alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data;

b. electronic mail address – an indication of the information and communication system which makes it possible to communicate by electronic means, in particular an e-mail address;

c. commercial information – any information intended directly or indirectly to promote the goods, services or image of the trader or professional person, whose right to exercise the profession is subject to the fulfilment of requirements set out in separate acts, with the exclusion of information enabling communication by means of electronic communication with a specific person and information about goods and services not serving to achieve the commercial effect desired by the entity that orders its dissemination, in particular without remuneration or other benefits from other entities;

d. Civil Code – Act of 23 April 1964 Civil Code (Journal of Laws No. 16, item 93, as amended);

e. message – any information exchanged or communicated between named individuals using publicly available data communication services;

f. consumer – a natural person within the meaning of Article 22¹ of the Civil Code, i.e. a natural person making a legal transaction with an entrepreneur which is not directly connected with his/her economic or professional activity;

g. operator – the owner of the website;

h. privacy policy – a document posted on the website to inform users of the website about what personal data is collected about them and how it will be used, hereinafter referred to as the “policy”;

i. entrepreneur – in accordance with the Act of 6 March 2018 the Entrepreneurs’ Law (i.e. Journal of Laws of 2024, item 236 as amended.), a natural person, a legal person, an organisational unit that is not a legal person and to which a separate act grants legal capacity, performing in its own name a business activity (including a partner in a civil partnership within the scope of his/her business activity), using or able to use through the service the services provided by the operator for the purpose related to his/her business or professional activity, or a proxy of the entrepreneur;

j. data processing – any operation or set of operations which is performed upon personal data or sets of personal data, whether or not by automatic means, such as collection, recording, organisation, organisation, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction, whether or not by computer systems;

k. service (website) – the website (page) owned and operated by the operator, located at https://adwokat-kazmierczak.pl;

l. ICT system – a set of cooperating IT devices and software, ensuring processing and storage, as well as sending and receiving data via telecommunication networks by means of a telecommunication terminal device appropriate for a given type of network, within the meaning of the Act of 16 July 2004. – Telecommunications Law (Journal of Laws of 2014, item 243, as amended);

m. provision of services by electronic means – performance of a service provided at a distance without the simultaneous presence of the parties, through the transmission of data at the individual request of the recipient of the service, sent and received by means of equipment for electronic processing, including digital compression, and storage of data, which is entirely transmitted, received or transmitted via a telecommunications network within the meaning of the Act of 16 July 2004. – Telecommunications Law;
n. means of electronic communication – technical solutions, including ICT devices and software tools cooperating with them, enabling individual communication at a distance using data transmission between ICT systems, in particular electronic mail;

o. services – activities which are performed through the service by the service provider for the benefit of the service recipients on the basis of the terms and conditions;

p. service provider – an operator of a website who, in the course of his commercial or professional activity, provides services electronically on the basis of contracts concluded with the customer;

q. recipient of the service – a natural person, a legal person or an organisational unit without legal personality, who uses the service provided by the operator (service provider) electronically on the basis of an agreement concluded with it by means of electronic communication;

r. user – a person using the service who is a natural person, legal person or organisational unit without legal personality, even if they have not concluded a contract with the service provider;

s. user terminal equipment – a device through which the user accesses an ICT network, e.g.: desktop computer, laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc;

t. image – the recognisable and current likeness of an individual providing personal data when using the site;

u. registered office – the main place of business activity of the entrepreneur or the seat of a branch of a foreign entrepreneur performing business activity in the territory of the Republic of Poland;

v. dataset – a structured set of personal data accessible according to specific criteria, whether that set is centralised, decentralised or dispersed on a functional or geographical basis.

2. This document, hereinafter referred to as “Terms and Conditions”, defines the types and scope of services provided by electronic means, the conditions for the provision of services by electronic means, the complaint procedure, the operator’s liability, the rules for the use of the website located at https://adwokat-kazmierczak.pl, the rules for the use of services provided through it, as well as the rules for the protection of users’ personal data to the extent not regulated in the Privacy Policy or the Cookie Policy.

3. The operator of the website, and at the same time the service provider, is Joanna Kaźmierczak running a sole proprietorship registered in CEIDG under the name Kancelaria Adwokacka adw. Joanna Kaźmierczak, REGON: 365128160, NIP: 7272691996, hereinafter referred to as the website operator.

4. The service’s mission is to:

a. the promotion of the provider’s business activities,
b. enabling a person interested in the provider’s activities to communicate with the provider,
c. direct marketing of its own products, including services,
d. conducting surveys,
e. collection of statistical information for direct marketing purposes.

5. The administrator of the personal data processed in connection with the use of the service in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons in relation to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46/EC is Joanna Kaźmierczak, running a sole proprietorship registered in CEIDG under the name Kancelaria Adwokacka adw. Joanna Kaźmierczak, REGON: 365128160, NIP: 7272691996. The administrator of personal data may contractually entrust the processing of data collected within the framework of the services to other entities on the basis of Article 28(3) of the aforementioned Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016, of which he will immediately notify the user via the service.

6. By making the service available on the Internet in accordance with the Act of 18 July 2002 on the provision of services by electronic means (Journal of Laws No. 144, item 1204, as amended), hereinafter referred to as the “Act on the provision of electronic services”, the operator of the service undertakes to provide electronic services in accordance with the principles described in the Regulations.

7. By using the service, the service user or user confirms that he/she has read the Terms and Conditions and confirms that he/she accepts them fully and without reservation, at the same time undertaking to unconditionally comply with their provisions. Failure to accept any of the provisions of the Terms and Conditions by the user or service recipient should be tantamount to resignation from the use of the service and the services provided through it.

8. These Terms and Conditions are available to service users free of charge through the service in a form that allows them to download, record, print and reproduce them in the ordinary course of business.

9. The Terms and Conditions constitute a model contract defining the provisions of service agreements concluded through the service.

10. The content of the website is not an offer within the meaning of the Civil Code, but merely an invitation to make an offer or to enter into negotiations.

11. In matters not covered by the Regulations, the provisions of Polish law shall apply, in particular:

a. Act of 23 April 1964 Civil Code (Journal of Laws No. 16, item 93, as amended),
b. Act of 18 July 2002 on the provision of services by electronic means (Journal of Laws No. 1444, item 1204, as amended),
c. Act of 4 February 1994 on copyright and related rights (Journal of Laws, i.e. 2016, item 666, as amended).

12. Polish law shall apply to the settlement of disputes and the interpretation of the contract. All contracts concluded through the service shall be governed by Polish law.

13. Any disputes shall be settled by the competent court according to the applicable legislation.

14. These Terms and Conditions are subject to protection under copyright law, i.e. the Act on Copyright and Related Rights of 4.02.1994 (Journal of Laws No. 24, item 83 as amended). Reproduction of the content of the Terms and Conditions without the author’s consent constitutes an infringement of the website operator’s copyright.

15. The regulations shall enter into force on 6 May 2024.