Last Updated October 17, 2024
Terms and Conditions
I. General Terms
- Terms and Conditions – these terms and conditions
- Service – the internet service "Whitegard", operating at the address https://www.whitegard.com
- Service Provider – the company "Whitegard sp. z o.o." with its registered office at: Księcia Janusza 66, 01-452 Warsaw, Poland, Tax ID: PL5223192737,
- Service User – any individual who accesses the Service and uses the services provided via the Service by the Service Provider.
- Electronic Communication – Communication between parties via email and contact forms available on the website.
II. General Provisions
- The Terms and Conditions define the rules of functioning and usage of the Service and specify the rights and obligations of the Service Users and the Service Provider related to the use of the Service.
- The subject of the Service Provider's services is to provide free tools in the form of the Service, enabling Service Users to access content in the form of entries, articles, audiovisual materials, or web applications and electronic forms.
- Any content, articles, and information that have the characteristics of guidance or advice published on the Service are only a general set of information and are not directed to individual Service Users. The Service Provider is not responsible for their use by Service Users.
- The Service User assumes full responsibility for the manner of using the materials made available within the Service, including using them in accordance with applicable law.
- The Service Provider does not guarantee the suitability of the materials posted on the Service.
- The Service Provider is not responsible for any damages incurred by Service Users of the Service or third parties in connection with the use of the Service. All risks related to the use of the Service, especially the use and application of information placed on the Service, are borne by the Service User using the Service.
III. Terms of Use of the Service
- Use of the Service by each Service User is free and voluntary.
- Service Users are required to read the Terms and Conditions and other documents constituting its integral part and must accept its provisions in full to continue using the Service.
- Service Users may not use any personal data obtained from the Service for marketing purposes.
- Technical requirements for using the Service:
- A device with a display that allows viewing web pages,
- Internet connection,
- Any web browser that displays web pages according to the standards and provisions of the W3C Consortium and supports web pages available in HTML5,
- JavaScript enabled,
- Cookie support enabled
- To ensure the security of the Service Provider, Service Users, and other Service Users using the Service, all Service Users using the Service should follow the generally accepted principles of safe internet use.
- It is prohibited to perform actions personally or using software that:
- Decompile and analyze source code without written consent,
- Cause excessive load on the Service server without written consent,
- Attempt to detect security vulnerabilities of the Service and server configuration without written consent,
- Attempt to upload or inject code, scripts, or software that may harm the Service software, other Service Users, or the Service Provider,
- Attempt to upload or inject code, scripts, or software that may track or steal data of Service Users or the Service Provider,
- Attempt to damage, block the operation of the Service, or prevent the achievement of the Service's purpose.
- If a Cybersecurity incident or GDPR violation is detected or there is a potential possibility of occurrence, Service Users should report it to the Service Provider immediately to quickly resolve the problem/threat and secure the interests of all Service Users of the Service.
IV. Newsletter Service Terms
- Service Users can use the Service without subscribing to the Newsletter.
- Subscribing to the Newsletter service is voluntary.
- Subscribing to the Newsletter service is free.
- Technical requirements for the Newsletter service:
- Having an individual email account.
- Terms of the Newsletter service:
- Providing an individual email account in the electronic form,
- Verifying the provided email account by activating the link sent to it,
- Agreeing to receive email notifications.
- Scope of the Newsletter service:
- Notifying about new updates, posts, competitions, and other promotional activities related to the Service's services,
- Notifying about promotional activities of the Service's partners (Marketing messages).
- Unsubscribing from the Newsletter service:
- Each Service User subscribed to the Newsletter service can independently unsubscribe from the service.
- Service Users can do this via the link provided in each sent email.
- Unsubscribing from the Newsletter service results in the removal of the provided email address from the Service Provider's database.
V. Terms of Communication and Provision of Other Services on the Service
- The Service provides services and tools enabling Service Users to interact with the Service in the form of:
- Contact form
- The Service provides contact details in the form of:
- Email address
- Contact phone number
- If a Service User contacts the Service Provider, the personal data of the Service Users will be processed in accordance with the "Privacy Policy", which is an integral part of the Terms and Conditions.
VI. Collecting Data about Service Users
To properly provide services by the Service, secure the legal interest of the Service Provider, and ensure compliance with applicable law, the Service Provider, through the Service, collects and processes some data about Users.
To properly provide services, the Service uses and stores some anonymous information about the Service User in cookies.
The scope, purposes, methods, and principles of data processing are available in the appendices to the Terms and Conditions: „GDPR Complience Information” and „Privacy Policy„, which are an integral part of the Terms and Conditions.
- Data collected automatically:
For the proper functioning of the Service and for statistics, we automatically collect some data about the Service User. These data include:- IP address
- Browser type
- Screen resolution
- Approximate location
- Pages visited within the Service
- Time spent on each page
- Type of operating system
- Previous page address
- Referring site address
- Browser language
- Internet connection speed
- Internet service provider
- Anonymous demographic data based on Google Analytics data:
- Gender
- Age
- Interests
The above data is obtained through the Google Analytics script and is anonymous.
- Data collected when subscribing to the newsletter:
Email address
VII. Copyright
- The owner of the Service and the copyrights to the Service is the Service Provider.
- Some data posted on the Service is protected by copyrights belonging to companies, institutions, and third parties not affiliated with the Service Provider, and is used under obtained licenses or based on a free license.
- Under the Act of February 4, 1994, on copyright, it is prohibited to use, copy, reproduce in any form, and store in search engine systems, except for Google, Bing, Yahoo, NetSprint, DuckDuckGo, Facebook, and LinkedIn, any articles, descriptions, photos, and all other content, graphic materials, videos, or audio found on the Service without written consent or consent provided via Electronic Communication from their legal owner.
- According to the Act of February 4, 1994, on copyright, simple press information, understood as mere information without commentary and evaluation by the author, is not protected. The author understands this as the possibility of using information from the texts posted on the Service, but not copying the entire or parts of the articles unless indicated in the particular material shared on the Service.
VIII. Changes to the Terms and Conditions
- All provisions of the Terms and Conditions may be changed unilaterally by the Service Provider at any time, without giving reasons.
- Changes to the Terms and Conditions take effect immediately after their publication.
- It is considered that any Service User continuing to use the Service after changes to the Terms and Conditions accepts them in full.
IX. Final Provisions
- The Service Provider will make every effort to ensure the Service's services are offered continuously. However, it does not bear any responsibility for disruptions caused by force majeure or unauthorized interference by Service Users, third parties, or external automated programs.
- The Service Provider reserves the right to change any information posted on the Service at any chosen time, without the need to notify Service Users using the Service's services.
- The Service Provider reserves the right to temporarily, entirely, or partially disable the Service to improve it, add services, or perform maintenance without prior notification to Service Users.
- The Service Provider reserves the right to permanently disable the Service without prior notification to Service Users.
- The Service Provider reserves the right to assign all or part of its rights and obligations related to the Service without the consent and possibility of objections from the Service Users.
- The current and previous Terms and Conditions of the Service are available on this subpage below the current Terms and Conditions.
- In all matters related to the Service's operation, contact the Service Provider using one of the following contact forms:
- Using the contact form available on the Service
- Sending a message to the email address: [email protected]
- By calling the phone number: +48 888 883 043