Privacy Policy

This privacy policy describes the rules for dealing with personal data and the methods of using cookies and other technologies on the website www.ministryofriddles.com


In matters related to the protection of personal data and broadly understood privacy – you can contact us at the following e-mail address: contact@ministryofriddles.com.

Providing personal data, as well as consent to their processing, are completely voluntary. All personal data provided to us are processed only to the extent and for the purpose for which you have given your consent.

It is extremely important for us to respect the privacy of every person who visits our websites and uses our services. Any information collected about you will only be used to perform the service you have ordered and to improve the quality of our services. We achieve the above goals through the appropriate use and protection of information.

Remember that you have the right to update or (completely) delete your personal data at any time. You can do it yourself or by using our help, which we will gladly provide – you can contact us by sending an email to contact@ministryofriddles.com.

Information on the privacy and cookie policy on www.ministryofriddles.com.

What is GDPR?

From May 25, 2018, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016, applies, which introduces new issues in the field of customer rights.

Who is the administrator of your personal data?

The administrator of personal data of ministryoffriddles.com (hereinafter the Administrator), i.e. responsible for ensuring the security of your personal data, is:

Bielik Sp. z o.o., ul. Wagonowa 6, 52-609 Wrocław, NIP: 8943137248, REGON: 382350089.

For each cause of data processing, there have been indicated separate purposes, legal bases and the period of personal data processing (described in detail below).

Below, we have listed the rights that you have in connection with the processing of your personal data by us:

  1. the right to request access to your personal data, rectification, deletion or limitation of processing,
  2. the right to object to the processing,
  3. the right to transfer data,
  4. the right to withdraw consent to the processing of personal data for a specific purpose, if you have previously given such consent,
  5. the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority in relation to the processing of personal data by us.

Importantly, the above-mentioned rights can be exercised in accordance with the principles described in art. 16 – 21 GDPR by contacting us at the following e-mail address: contact@ministryofriddles.com.

However, in a situation where the implementation of a given right would be in conflict with the legitimate purpose of data processing, we may refuse to exercise some of the rights indicated above (for example we may refuse to delete your personal data contained in your order until the expiry of the limitation period for claims under the contract concluded via the store).

Providing your personal data is always voluntary, but necessary to create an account in the store, place an order, subscribe to the newsletter, contact us, withdraw from the contract, submit a complaint or add a comment on the blog.

On our part, we guarantee the confidentiality of all personal data provided to us. We ensure that all security and personal data protection measures required by the provisions on the protection of personal data are taken.

The collected personal data is collected and stored with due diligence and is adequately protected against access by unauthorized persons.

Your data may be processed by entities whose services we use to process data and provide you with services or fulfil orders. These are our subcontractors, in other words, recipients of personal data:

  1. AttHost Sp. z o.o., al. March. Józefa Piłsudskiego 35, office 6, input No. 2, 09-402 Płock – in order to store personal data on the server, including the mailbox server,
  2. Rocket Science Group, 675 Ponce de Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308 – in order to use the MailChimp mailing system used to send the newsletter,
  3. Google LLC. – in order to use the G suite external mail server service,
  4. Stripe, Inc., 510 Townsend Street San Francisco, CA 94103, USA – for the purposes necessary to process payments related to the conclusion and performance of the sales contract,
  5. persons who may potentially gain access to your personal data when providing website technical support services to me,
  6. accounting offices providing financial and accounting services,
  7. entities providing IT services and IT software

We may transfer your personal data to public authorities fighting against fraud and abuse.

Where do we get your data from?

You provided them to us when creating an account and subscribing to the newsletter.

What are the purpose and legal basis for the processing of your personal data by www.ministryofriddles.com?

Due to the fact that you have registered on the www.ministryofriddles.com website as a Customer and accepted the Regulations, we process your personal data in particular to perform the contract concluded with you, including:

  • to provide support for your account, transactions and solve technical problems;
  • for the purposes of using our services, available on the www.ministryofriddles.com website, such as the sale of e-books and electronic games,
  • to handle inquiries and notifications that you send to us (e.g. via a form or via email);
  • to contact you for purposes related to the provision of services;
  • to process your data for tax and accounting purposes.

We also process your personal data for the purposes indicated below, based on the legitimate interest of www.ministryofriddles.com, which is:

  • providing payment services;
  • securing purchased products by means of an electronic watermark, which enables the identification of the buyer of a computer file, which is an electronic book.

securing purchased products by means of an electronic watermark, which enables the identification of the buyer of a computer file, which is an electronic book.

* saving data in cookies and collecting data from websites;

* organization of promotional campaigns and competitions in which you can take part.

* sending newsletters.

Importantly, you can withdraw your consent to the processing of personal data at any time. You can do this by sending an email to contact@ministryofriddles.com. We will process your personal data until you withdraw your consent.

In order to be able to conclude and perform the contract concluded with you, i.e. to provide you with our service, it is necessary that you provide us with the following personal data:

  • your email address, login and password,
  • if you want to receive an invoice for the service – information for the invoice, i.e. company data, tax identification number and its address.

Importantly, providing your data is voluntary.

In case that you do not provide us with the above personal data, unfortunately, we will not be able to conclude a contract with you, which means that you will not be able to use the www.ministryofriddles.com website.

It is clear to us that you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data. The right of objection has been in force since May 25, 2018. You can do it when:

  • the processing of your personal data takes place on the basis of a legitimate interest or for statistical purposes, and the objection is justified by the specific situation in which you have found yourself.

How long is your personal data stored by us?

We store your personal data for the duration of the contract concluded with you, as well as after its termination. We do it:

  • as part of the fulfilment of obligations resulting from legal provisions, in particular, tax and accounting law;
  • for statistical and archiving purposes,
  • for a maximum period of 10 years from the date of completion of the contract.

Is your data transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area?

No.

Do we process your personal data automatically (including through profiling) in a way that affects your rights?

No.

User’s account

In order to create a user account, you must provide the data that is necessary to set up an account – i.e. e-mail address, name and surname, address, telephone number. Importantly, providing this data is voluntary, but necessary to create an account.

The data provided to us in connection with the creation of an account are processed in order to set up and maintain an account on the basis of a contract for the provision of electronic services concluded through account registration (Article 6 (1) (b) of the GDPR)

The data provided by you needed to set up an account will be processed for the duration of the account. In a situation where you decide to delete your account – we will also delete the data contained therein. It is important that deleting an account does not delete information about orders placed by you using the account.

Be aware that you can change or rectify the data contained in your account at any time, you may also decide to delete your account. You also have the right to transfer the data referred to in art. 20 GDPR.

Newsletter

Through our website, you can subscribe to the newsletter – you will then gain access to information about new products, promotions, products and services related to the website. If you want to subscribe to the newsletter, you must provide us with your personal data and e-mail address via the newsletter subscription form. Importantly, providing this data is voluntary, but necessary to subscribe to the newsletter.

Your data processed for the purposes of sending the newsletter will be processed for the duration of the newsletter operation. However, you can change your data at any time or opt-out of receiving it, which will delete your data from the database. You also have the right to transfer the data referred to in art. 20 GDPR.

The legal basis for the processing of your personal data in the case of the newsletter is your consent expressed by selecting the appropriate consent when subscribing to the newsletter.

Orders

To place an order in our store, you must provide the data necessary to complete the order – i.e. name and surname, billing address, e-mail address, telephone number.

Importantly, providing this data is voluntary, but necessary to place an order.

The data provided to us in connection with the order are processed in order to fulfil the order (Article 6 (1) (b) of the GDPR), issue an invoice (Article 6 (1) (c) of the GDPR), include the invoice in our accounting documentation (Article 6 (1) (c) of the GDPR) and for archival and statistical purposes (Article 6 (1) (f) of the GDPR).

As for the time of data processing – data about orders will be processed for the time necessary to perform the order, and later until the expiry of the limitation period for claims under the contract. What’s more, after this deadline, it is possible that the data will still be processed by us for statistical purposes. Due to the obligation imposed on us, we will store invoices with your personal data for a period of 5 years from the end of the tax year in which the tax obligation arose.

Importantly, in the case of order data, you cannot rectify this data after the order has been completed and you cannot object to the processing of data or demand the deletion of data until the expiry of the limitation period for claims under the contract. You also cannot object to data processing or request the deletion of data contained in invoices. Only after the expiry of the limitation period for claims under the contract, you can object to the processing of your data by us for statistical purposes, as well as you can request the removal of your data from my database.

Invoices

If the customer requests an invoice with the placed order, we process your personal data to the extent necessary to issue an invoice. In this case, the legal basis for the processing of your personal data is the fulfilment of the legal obligation to issue an invoice.

All invoices issued by us are included in the accounting documentation, which is directly related to the fact that your data will be processed as part of this documentation for the period of time required by law.

Complaints and withdrawal from the contract

By submitting a complaint or withdrawing from the contract, you provide us with the personal data contained in the complaint document or declaration of withdrawal from the contract. This content includes your name and surname, home address, telephone number, e-mail address, bank account number. Importantly, providing this data is voluntary, but necessary to submit a complaint or withdraw from the contract. The data provided to us in connection with the submission of a complaint or withdrawal from the contract are used only for the purpose of the complaint procedure or the procedure for withdrawing from the contract (Article 6 (1) (c) of the GDPR). These data will be processed for the time necessary to implement the complaint procedure or the withdrawal procedure. Complaints and statements of withdrawal from the contract may also be archived by us for statistical purposes.

Importantly, in the case of data contained in the complaint or declaration of withdrawal from the contract, you cannot rectify the data. You also cannot object to data processing and demand the deletion of data until the expiry of the limitation period for claims under the contract. However, after the expiry of the limitation period for claims under the contract, you can object to our processing of your data for statistical purposes and you can request the removal of your data from our database.

Importantly, in accordance with Article 38, the right to withdraw from a contract concluded outside the business premises or at a distance is not available to the consumer in relation to contracts: for the supply of digital content that is not recorded on a tangible medium, if the performance began with the consumer’s express consent before the expiry of the deadline to withdraw from the contract and after informing the entrepreneur about the loss of the right to withdraw from the contract. After downloading the e-book (digital content), the consumer loses the right to withdraw from the contract.

Contact

When you want to contact us via e-mail – you naturally provide us with your e-mail address as the sender’s address. It is important that providing data is voluntary, but necessary to make contact.

In this case, your data is processed in order to contact you. The basis for processing is Art. 6 sec. 1 lit. a GDPR, i.e. your consent resulting from initiating contact. The legal basis for processing after the end of contact is the justified purpose of archiving correspondence for the purpose of showing its course in the future (Article 6 (1) (f) of the GDPR).

The content of e-mail correspondence may be archived. We are not able to clearly say when it will be removed. However, you have the right to request a history of correspondence with us. It may also demand its removal – although archiving the history may be justified due to our overriding interest, e.g. defence against potential claims on your part.

Cookies

ministryofriddles.com, pursuant to Art. 173 and 174 of the Act of July 16, 2004, Telecommunications Law (Journal of Laws of July 16, 2004, as amended), informs that the Website uses the file technology, the so-called “Cookies”.

We use cookies based on your consent, except when cookies are necessary for the proper provision of electronic services to you.

Cookies are small information text files sent by the ministryofriddles.com server with information stored in the memory, the so-called “End devices” (devices used by the user to browse the web, for example, phones, laptops, tablets). Each cookie contains information that is only readable for that particular page and is unique to your browser. Cookies do not allow the collection of personal and address data or confidential information of the user.

Importantly, for cookies to work, they must always be accepted by the user’s browser and not removed from the disk. By changing the settings of the computer or device that you use to visit ministryofriddles.com, you can delete or block cookies. Remember that most web browsers have their permission to use cookies set by default.

Consent to cookies

The first time you visit ministryofriddles.com, you will be informed about the use of cookies. If you accept it and close it, you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with the provisions of this privacy policy.

You can of course always withdraw such consent by deleting cookies and changing cookie settings in your browser. However, it is important that disabling cookies may cause difficulties in using the website, as well as from many other websites that use cookies.

Cookies can be divided into own and external, i.e. from third parties. We use our own cookies for the proper operation of the ministryofriddles.com website, in particular, we are talking about the correct operation of the basket and the ordering process, about determining whether you are logged in, remembering your login and noting the fact that you have accepted the regulations.

Cookies can also be divided into session and persistent. The first of them are stored on your device only until the end of the browser session. This means that after the session is over, the stored information is permanently deleted from the device memory. Importantly, the session cookies mechanism does not allow the collection of any personal data or any information from your device. In the case of persistent cookies – they remain on the device until they are deleted, which means that closing the browser or turning off the device does not delete them. Importantly, the session cookies mechanism also does not allow the collection of any personal data or any information from your device.

What is the purpose of collecting cookies?

Simply put – the information stored in cookies on the user’s device makes it easier for the user to use the ministryofriddles.com website and allows us to target personalized ads to you. They are used, for example, to maintain a session after logging into the account, remembering recently viewed products and products added to the basket.

Third-party cookies may also be posted and used on the website, in particular by advertisers, ad server system operators and operators of systems analyzing and reporting viewership.

The following third party cookies are used on our website ministryofriddles.com:

  • Google Analytics – activities consisting of creating statistics and their analysis in order to optimize our website;
  • Google AdWords, Google AdSense, – activities to display personalized advertisements
  • Facebook Pixel – actions aimed at targeting you with personalized ads in terms of your behaviour on our website
  • Facebook, Instagram, Google, Pinterest, Youtube (social tools cookies) – to connect your visit to our website with social tools; if you have logged in to one of the social networking sites, this service provider will be able to directly assign the visit to our website to your profile in a given social networking site (for example, if you use a given plug-in by clicking the “Like” or “Share” button, the relevant information will also be sent directly to the server of a given service provider and stored there);

The scope of data collection and their processing and use by given service providers is described in the privacy policy of individual service providers below:

Server logs

Using our website involves sending inquiries to the server on which the ministryofriddles.com website is stored.

Each query addressed to the server is saved in the server logs. Logs include User’s IP address, server date and time, information about the web browser and operating system used by the User. Importantly, the logs are saved and stored on the server.

The data stored in the server logs is not associated by us with specific people using the website and are not used by us to identify the User.

The server logs are only supplementary and are used to administer the Website, and their content is not disclosed to anyone except those authorized to administer the server.

Final Provisions

As administrators of the ministryofriddles.com website, we reserve the right to change the rules of the privacy policy. Users will be informed about changes to the privacy policy at least 7 (seven) days in advance. Each new version of the Privacy Policy will be published on a new date.

 If you have any doubts as to the rules of the Privacy Policy, please contact us through email at contact@ministryofriddles.com.