Privacy Policy at Native Speak
Last updated March 13, 2025
In connection with obligations arising due to the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), hereinafter referred to as: “GDPR”, below we present the privacy policy, in which you will find basic information regarding the use of personal data on the website www.nativespeak.pl.
This privacy policy for NATIVE SPEAK (“we,” “us,” or “our”), describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share (“process”) your information when you use our services (“Services”), such as when you:
- Visit our website at http://www.nativespeak.pl, or any website of ours that links to this privacy notice
- Engage with us in other related ways, including taking our lessons, participating in our workshops, events.
THE ADMINISTRATOR of your personal data is NATIVE SPEAK, Leborska 3B, Gdansk 80-386.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our Services, when you participate in activities on the Services, or otherwise when you contact us. Submitting personally identifiable information through our website is voluntary, but by doing so, you are giving your permission to use the information for the stated purpose. Not providing certain information may result in the inability to provide you with a service you desire.
Personal Information Provided by You may include the following: names, phone numbers, email addresses, personal interests, any other data that’s necessary for providing invoices (on your request), financial transactions or other services.
If you choose to provide us with PII on our website, through such methods as completing a web form or sending us an email, we will use that information to help us provide you the information or service you have requested, or to respond to your message. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent. We process your information only when we have a valid legal reason to do so.
Personal Information includes also photos and films. During our workshops, random photography and filming of the creative process may take place. The purpose of taking photos and videos is for storing memories, sharing on our website / social media platforms, or promoting our services. When individuals (the participants) are identifiable in the images/films, we will seek out consent to use them for our purposes, as defined by GDPR.
Consent must be documented when storing or managing personal data. The featured individual also has the right to withdraw their consent. Individuals have the right also to be erased (unpublishing and deleting all their personal data upon request).
GDPR
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR require us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on in order to process your personal information. As such, we may rely on the following legal bases to process your personal information:
- Consent. We may process your information if you have given us permission (i.e., consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time.
- Performance of a Contract. We may process your personal information when we believe it is necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations to you, including providing our Services or at your request prior to entering into a contract with you.
- Legal Obligations. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, such as to cooperate with a law enforcement body or regulatory agency, exercise or defend our legal rights, or disclose your information as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
- Vital Interests. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of a third party, such as situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person.
IF YOU SEND US E-MAIL
You may choose to provide us with personal information when sending us an email with a comment or question. We may use the information provided to improve our service to you or to respond to your request. Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, we do not share your email with any other outside organizations.
THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES AND APPLICATIONS
We may link to social networks and other third-party websites. We may use social networking websites to interact with international audiences. Social networking websites are used to publicize our events and engage with current or future users of our services.
We also may use web analytics technologies to measure the number of visitors to our websites and to help make our websites more useful to visitors. We do not use third-party websites to solicit and collect PII from individuals. We do not collect or store any PII collected by any third-party website, and no PII will be disclosed, sold or transferred to any other entity outside the Native Speak, unless required for law enforcement purposes or by statute.
We may link to Google Form in order to communicate with our audience.
We may use various types of online surveys to collect opinions and feedback from a random sample of visitors. We may use limited-time surveys for specific purposes, which are explained at the time they are posted.
Our website may have links to other websites. When you follow a link to another site, you are no longer on our site and are subject to the privacy policies of the external sites.
COOKIES (Information Collected for Tracking and Customization)
We do not collect any information from cookies.
A cookie is a small text file that a website transfers to your computer to allow it to remember specific information about your session while you are connected. Your computer will only share the information in the cookie with the website that provided it, and no other website can request it.
If you do not wish to have session or persistent cookies stored on your machine, you can turn cookies off in your browser. You will still have access to all information and resources on our website. However, turning off cookies may affect the functioning of many popular websites. Be aware that disabling cookies in your browser will affect cookie usage at all other websites you visit as well.
HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements).
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible, then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?
We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification.
We have organizational and technical processes and procedures in place to protect your personal information. However, no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information.
HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US
If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may email us at contact@nativespeak.pl or contact us by post at: NATIVE SPEAK, Lęborska 3b, Gdańsk 80-386, Poland