Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies only to the website owner’s online activities. It is valid for visitors to this website regarding the information they share and/or collect on this website. This policy does not apply to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website. 

This Privacy Policy is intended to inform you about how the website’s owner treats your personal data and how you can control your preferences and settings in this regard. 

1. Information we collect

The personal information you are asked to provide and the reasons why you are asked to provide it will be made clear to you at the point the website owner (for short ‘We’, ‘us’, ‘our’) asks you to provide your personal information. 

If you contact us directly (via phone or email), we may receive additional information about you, such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

2. How we use your information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including:

  • Provide, operate and maintain our website.
  • Improve, personalise, and expand our website.
  • Understand and analyse how you use our website.
  • Develop new products, services, features, and functionality.
  • Communicate with you, either directly or through partners (in case there are such), including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes:some text
    • Send you emails.
    • Find and prevent fraud.
3. What does this Privacy Policy govern, and on what legal basis? 

The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is a European privacy law that took effect on May 25, 2018. It regulates how individuals and organisations may collect, use, and retain personal data, which affects Squarespace and sites run and hosted on its platform, such as this one.  

Another of its goals is to guarantee our right to privacy, protect our personal data, and provide more security against the misuse of each of our personal information. The Regulation comes with a set of requirements that this website applies and which you can read here. Among them are: 

  • To inform you what data this website uses.
  • To inform you why it is being used.
  • To ask for your consent to use it in case we provide additional services based on this data, such as targeted advertising. 
  • To allow you to change your consent for various purposes through this site and have more freedom. 
  • To guarantee you the right to request correction of your data, its deletion, and to be "forgotten". In addition, we may provide you with downloadable data or transfer it if you notify us and identify yourself accordingly. 
  • To indicate all third parties/companies with whom this site shares your data. Please remember that the Internet is a global network, so we often use standardised services to register logins and track behaviour in an anonymous version, such as Google Analytics. 

All data that can be used to identify a user is considered personal data. These can be email, names, mobile phone, residential address, or IP address. 

4. Data collected from cookies

When a user uses this website and consumes content - reads information, watches videos, useс email, and others, among the data that help us understand how these services work best and make it even better for you are called 'cookies'. They are small text files that are sent from the webserver to the browser you are using and stored on your device so that the site can recognise them. 

Generally, there are two types of cookies - permanent and temporary or "session" cookies. A permanent cookie, or a stored cookie, is a cookie that is stored as a file on your computer or mobile device for a more extended period, i.e. until it expires or until the user deletes the cookie. Permanent cookies collect identifying information about the user, such as web surfing behaviour or user preferences for a specific website. Session cookies are cookies that last for a session. A session starts when a user launches a website or web app and ends when he/she leaves the website or closes his browser window. Session cookies contain information stored in a temporary memory location that is deleted after the session ends. Unlike other cookies, session cookies are never stored on the user’s device. 

Most cookies do not contain sensitive information about you or personal data that we can use to identify you directly. The purpose for which this site uses cookies is mainly to monitor your behaviour in the following areas:

  • Tracking sections of the pages you visit;
  • How much time do you spend on this site;
  • The content you have seen and/or interacted with;
  • When you visit this site and more.
5. E-newsletter data

In the future, this site may collect personal data from visitors related to their e-mail address in terms of subscribing to a newsletter. Through it, users of the site may receive updates and news at the request of their e-mail. 

6. To whom we share and disclose your personal information

The website owner does not grant the right to use, sell, disclose or share information about you (personal data within the meaning of the GDPR) with other individuals or unrelated companies except when it is necessary to provide you with services requested by you and when you have provided your permission.

7. Disclosure of your data to third parties 

Your personal data is disclosed only in the following cases: 

  • Only before state bodies, institutions, and persons to whom the website owner is obliged to provide personal data by law; 
  • Тo persons who, on assignment, maintain equipment, software, and hardware used for the processing of personal data; 
  • Тo partners who work on the assignment of the website’s owner on a contractual basis and help us provide our services and with whom we have agreements to maintain the confidentiality of information and protection of personal data. 

The website owner uses service providers to process personal data for some purposes, such as measuring and tracking user behaviour on sites, sending emails, embedding videos, streaming audio, etc. Some of these companies are (not exhaustive):

8. Protection measures 

The website owner collects, processes, and stores personal data in compliance with all legal requirements and applies adequate technical and organisational security measures, such as encryption and pseudonymisation, when necessary. 

9. Period in which your personal data is stored

Your personal data is stored for the period specified in applicable law, depending on the purpose for which it was collected. Without such a legal time limit, the website owner agrees to retain your personal information for a reasonable period based on additional criteria. The criteria for determining the term is in line with the owner’s desire to provide you with high-quality services and the normal development of our partnership. Without being exhaustive, here are the deadlines for which we store some of the data we process: 

  • Traffic data: According to the Bulgarian Law on Electronic Communications, traffic data is stored for six months;
  • Cookies: For the period of validity for which the respective cookie is saved. Find more information on the Privacy & Cookie Policy page.
10. Third-Party Privacy Policies
10.1. GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

  • The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
  • The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
  • The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data under certain conditions.
  • The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
  • The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
  • The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organisation or directly to you under certain conditions.
  • The right to lodge a complaint – You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of his or her habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement if the data subject considers that the processing of personal data relating to him or her infringes the Regulation.
10.2. CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

  • Request that a business that collects a consumer's personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
  • Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
  • Request that a business that sells a consumer's personal data, not sell the consumer's personal data.

We have one month to respond to your request. If you want to exercise any of these rights, please email us at office@punkt.studio. 

11. Children's Information

Another part of our priority is protecting children while they use the Internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, monitor, and guide their children's online activity.

This website does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately, and we will do our best efforts to remove such information from our records promptly.

If you have additional questions or require more information about the Privacy Policy, please contact us at office@punkt.studio. 

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