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General Privacy & Cookie Policy

The website www.sbmonde.com takes great importance to the protection of personal information of our users. The website’s privacy protection rules describe how CORTEX MEDIA d.o.o. collects, processes and stores your personal information. Please note that the processing of collected personal information is based on one of the legal bases of processing in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 and the Law on the Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation NN 42/2018.

Please read the following carefully to understand what we do with your personal information.

WHEN WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU

We do not intend to collect any personal information about you, however, personal information might be collected from you:

  • when you contact us or ask for any information from us (for example if you email us at info@sbmonde.com,
  • when you contact us through Instagram YouTube, or other similar technologies),
  • or when you visit our website

WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

We may collects personal information about you wich you provide to us, such as your contact details (name, surname, address, phone number, mobile phone number, e-mail address)

We may collect personal information about you when you interact with our website, like your interests, information about your socioeconomic and sociodemographic status, network identifiers and current contact details collected from third parties such as marketing agencies.

We may also keep a record if you contact us with a complaint or question.

WHAT WE DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may use your personal information to do the following things:

  • to provide you with the information and services you have asked for,
  • to ensure that you can see and use the website without any problems, and protect the security and integrity of the website,
  • to help you and to help us give you a good service,
  • to protect your personal information and to prevent someone from copying your details,
  • to analyze your use of the website,
  • to take precautions against liability,
  • to follow the law and/or respond to judical process.

LEGAL BASIS FOR USING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will only use your personal information where we have a legal reason to do so. The legal reason will depend on why we have your personal information. In almost every case the legal reason will be one of the following:

  • Where we need to understand our customers, promote our service and work effectively to provide you with this website and other services, as long as in each case this is done in a way which does not harm your privacy and other rights.
  • Where we need to use your personal information in order to follow the law.

HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will not process your personal information longer than is necessary and provided for in the individual processing, which is determined by the legal regulations of the Republic of Croatia.

SECURITY

We take steps to protect the confidentiality, security, and integrity of your personal information and will try to stop anyone else form being able to use it if they’re not supposed to.

GIVING YOUR INFORMATION TO OTHERS

We may give your personal information to:

  • companies or other organizations we have engaged to provide services on our behalf such as web hosting companies, postal service providers, analytics service providers, event management services and information technology providers,
  • companies or other organizations for which you have asked us or agreed to share your personal information with them. Merchants and our partners where this is necessary to provide you with a product or service,
  • professional advisors (such as lawyers and accountants),
  • any law enforcement agency, court, government authority or any third party where we believe this is necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation or to protect our rights, the rights of a third party or individual personal safety or otherwise to detect, prevent or any another way of considering cases of fraud, security and safety issue,
  • any third party that purchases or transfers to us all or a substantial part of our assets and business. If such a sale or transfer occurs, we will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the entity to which we provide your personal information uses it in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

YOUR RIGHTS AND HOW CAN YOU EXERCISE THEM

Regarding the processing of personal information, below is a list of rights you can exercise:

Right to access data

You have the right to receive confirmation from CORTEX MEDIA d.o.o. on whether personal information relating to you is processed and if such personal information is processed, access to personal information and the following information: purpose of processing, categories of personal information in question, recipients or categories of recipients to whom personal information has been disclosed or will be to be disclosed, the stipulated period in which personal information will be stored, the existence of the right to request the correction or deletion of personal information from the data controller or to limit the processing of personal information.

Right to correction

If we process your incomplete or incorrect personal information, you can request their correction or addition at any time.

Right to deletion

You can request the deletion of your personal information if the purpose for which it was collected no longer exists, if it is an illegal processing, if the processing disproportionately affects your protected legitimate interests, or if the data processing relies on your consent, which you have withdrawn. However, you must take into account the possible existence of other reasons that could be against the complete deletion of your data, such as statutory storage obligations, ongoing procedures, establishment, realization or defense of legal claims, etc.

Right to restriction of processing

You have the right to request a restriction of the processing of your infotmation if you dispute the accuracy of your information, during the period that allows us to check the accuracy of the information, if the processing of your information is illegal, but you have refused the deletion and instead request a restriction of the use of the information, if for us the intended purpose of the information is no longer necessary, and you still need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims, or if you have objected to information processing.

Right to information portability

Information that you have given us and that we process on the basis of your consent or for the purpose of executing a contract, and their processing is carried out by automated means, we will hand over to you at your request in a structured, common and machine-readable format. If it is technically feasible, we can transfer them directly to another data controller, depending on your request.

The right to complain

If you believe that your rights have been violated and that your personal information is being used inappropriately, you can submit a written complaint. CORTEX MEDIA d.o.o. in such a situation, it will no longer process personal information unless it proves that there are legitimate reasons for processing that go beyond the interests, rights and freedoms of the information subject or to establish, exercise or defend legal claims. Furthermore, if personal information is processed for the purposes of direct marketing, you have the right at any time to object to the processing of personal information relating to you for the purposes of such marketing, which includes profiling to the extent related to such direct marketing. Specifically, the right to object would not be possible if the processing of personal information is necessary for taking actions before concluding a contract or for the performance of an already concluded contract.

The right to opt out of legal decisions during automatic decision-making and profiling.

The use of automated processing for decision-making will only be used if the need for the following arises: – a decision based on an algorithm is necessary (ie there is no other way of achieving the same goal) for the conclusion or execution of a contract with an individual whose data is processed by an algorithm – the individual has given his express consent for a decision based on the algorithm.

If you have questions or doubts about how we use your personal data or you want access to information that we have about you or you want to exercise the right to object or any other right in relation to your personal information, please contact us so that we can clarify all possible questions. You can exercise all the above-mentioned rights by sending an email to info@sbmonde.com or by post to CORTEX MEDIA d.o.o., Marticeva 10, 10000 Zagreb. If you have an objection to the way we use your personal data, we hope that you will contact us first. However, apart from directly to us, you can also send your complaint to the Agency for the Protection of Personal information in writing to the address: AZOP, Marticeva 14, 10000 Zagreb or to the email address: azop@azop.hr. The Personal Information Protection Agency is responsible for implementing and fulfilling all rights and obligations in the field of personal information protection in the Republic of Croatia.

OTHER WEBSITE AND SOCIAL NETWORKS

Our Website may contain links to other websites that are not under our control and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. If you access other websites through available links, the operators of those websites may collect your information and use it in accordance with their privacy policies. Their privacy policies may differ from ours. Our Website may also provide you with the opportunity to share or track information about S. B. Monde, the writer, the Website itself, the products and/or services available through the Website using third-party social networking tools (such as active fields on the screen: “share”, “like” or “follow”). We offer this option to generate interest in our Website among members of your social networks and allow you to share and follow opinions, news and recommendations about the Website with your contacts. However, you should be aware that sharing personal information with a social network may result in data collection by the social network provider and the data may be publicly available, including through Internet search engines. You should always carefully read the privacy policy of the website you access or social network through which you share information to understand their privacy practices.

UPDATING THE PRIVACY POLICY OF THE WEBSITE

If during the development of our website and the implementation of new legal requirements, new technologies, or in order to improve our services, there are changes in the way we use your personal information, we will clearly and visibly publish the same on the website. Therefore, we recommend that you periodically read this privacy policy. If you do not agree with the changes made, please do not use the website.

COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

We use cookies to make sure our website works for you and to improve our website.

Cookies are small files stored on your computer. They hold small amounts of information about you and how you use the website so that we can remember any choices you make, make sure our website is showing you the right content and to make sure our website works well for you. These cookies also give us information to decide how we can make our website even better.

Cookies on our website are generally divided into the following categories:

  • Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas. These cookies are session cookies that are erased when you close your browser.
  • Analytical/Performance Cookies: These allow us to recognize and count the number of users on the website and understand how such users navigate through the website (e.g., when and which pages are visited, in what order the pages are visited, how long a user may stay on a particular page, and where a user is located). This helps to improve how the website works, for example, by ensuring that users can find what they are looking for easily.  These cookies are session cookies which are erased when you close your browser. For example, we use Google Analytics for this process. For more information about Google Analytics, please visit google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ and www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html. You can opt-out of Google Analytics’ collection and use of data generated by your use of the website by going to http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. 

PREVENTING COOKIES

If you do not agree to their use, you can easily delete (or prevent) cookies on your computer or mobile device using the settings of the browser you are using. You can find more information about managing cookies on the pages of the browser you are using or at www.allaboutcookies.org.

Since the purpose of cookies is to improve and enable the use of our websites and their processes, please note that by preventing or deleting cookies, you may disable the functioning of these features or cause them to work and look differently in your browser.

CHANGES TO THIS GENERAL PRIVACY AND COOKIES POLICY 

This General Privacy and Cookies Policy (“Privace Policy”) is effective as of the date below and will remain in effect until a new policy supersedes it. The most recent version of the Policy will be reflected by the “last updated” date noted at the bottom of the page. We may change this Policy at any time so please check back regularly to keep informed of updates. If any big changes occur, we will let you know on our website. This General Privacy and Cookies Policy was last updated in May 2023.