The operator of the www.kartingas.lt website, the Lithuanian Karting Federation, company code 191976944, registered address Žemaitės St. 6, LT-01134 Vilnius, is committed to protecting your information and complies with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other laws protecting your information.
This notice answers the most important questions about how we collect, use, and store information about you on this website. If you have any questions or if any part of this notice is unclear, we are ready to assist you as described in the final section of this notice.
Please note that any reference to “we”, “us”, or “our” in this notice refers to our organization as specified in Section 1 of this notice.
1. Who is responsible for protecting your information?
The entity responsible for protecting your information is the operator of the www.kartingas.lt website, the Lithuanian Karting Federation, company code 191976944, registered address Žemaitės St. 6, LT-01134 Vilnius.
2. Why do we collect information?
We provide public access to the www.kartingas.lt website (hereinafter – the “Website”) and our Facebook and Instagram social media profiles (hereinafter – the “Social Media Profiles”), which we maintain, improve, and secure.
By browsing our Website and Social Media Profiles, you enter into an agreement with us under which you are granted access to the content of the Website and Social Media Profiles and agree to comply with the terms of use established by applicable law, including, but not limited to, copyright requirements and the personal data protection and privacy terms set out in this notice.
We need to collect, use, and store information about you in order to:
- manage, improve, and optimize our Website and its user experience;
- respond to enquiries and suggestions from Website visitors and provide technical support;
- understand browsing trends, assess the size of our audience and usage patterns, and understand the needs and preferences of our users;
- increase awareness of the Website through marketing activities;
- improve the performance and appearance of the Website and develop new features and functionality;
- comply with legal obligations, resolve any disputes that may arise with you or third parties, and exercise our rights arising from agreements concluded between you and us or between us and third parties;
- protect our rights and property related to the Website.
3. What information do we collect?
When you browse the Website, we may use technologies such as analysis of requests sent by your browser to the Website, cookies, and similar technologies that automatically collect:
- Usage data: when you access the Website, we may automatically collect certain information about your access to and use of the Website (e.g. referring and exit URLs, content and pages accessed on the Website, dates and times of access, etc.);
- Device information: when you access the Website, we may automatically collect information about your device and internet connection (e.g. IP address, type of computer or mobile device used, operating system version, device identifier, browser type, language, etc.);
- Information about your consent to cookies: when you visit our Website, you are asked to consent to the placement of cookies on your device.
Please note that this data is anonymous and does not allow us to determine your exact identity.
When you contact us on your own initiative using the email addresses provided on the Website or through the Website’s functionality, we collect the following information:
- identification data (name, surname, company, etc.);
- contact details (email address, etc.);
- any other information you voluntarily provide that you consider relevant in the context of your enquiry or proposal;
- our response to your enquiry.
Please note that, in order to respond properly to your enquiry, we may ask you to provide additional information that we consider necessary.
4. Does the Website use cookies?
When you access the Website, we may send one or more cookies – small text files containing a string of letters and numbers. We may use both session cookies and persistent cookies.
A session cookie disappears when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains after you close your web browser and may be used during subsequent visits to the Website.
Cookies are a technical means of automatically collecting the technical browsing information specified in Section 3 of this notice.
We use the following types of cookies:
- Session cookies. We use session cookies to enable you to use our Website;
- Analytics cookies. We use analytics cookies to view statistics relating to visits to our Website or Social Media Profiles, identify topics that interest you, and provide high-quality information that is most relevant to you;
- Marketing cookies. We use marketing cookies to increase our visibility and to display advertisements that are more relevant to your interests.
The cookies we use include:
Google Analytics
- Purpose: monitoring Website traffic;
- Retention period: 2 years;
- Data used: anonymous data and a unique identifier assigned by the cookie.
Facebook Pixel
- Purpose: monitoring Website traffic and displaying advertisements on Facebook;
- Retention period: 1 month;
- Data used: a unique identifier assigned by the cookie.
cookiesLKF
- Purpose: remembering whether you have consented to the use of cookies;
- Retention period: 30 days;
- Data used: a unique identifier assigned by the cookie.
Persistent cookies can be removed through your web browser settings. Please refer to your browser’s user guide for instructions on how to change your cookie settings.
5. Do we collect sensitive personal information?
We do not collect sensitive information about you.
6. What information do I need to provide on the Website and why?
As a Website visitor, you are not required to provide us with any information. All technical information is collected automatically using standard web browsing technologies, such as analysis of requests sent by your browser to the Website, cookies, and similar technologies.
If you send us an enquiry using the contact email addresses provided on the Website, you should provide:
- identification data (name, surname, company, etc.);
- contact details (email address, etc.);
- the subject and content of your enquiry.
You may also voluntarily provide additional information that you consider relevant to your enquiry or proposal to enter into an agreement (e.g. an employment agreement).
If you do not provide certain information that we require in order to properly respond to your enquiry, we may ask you to provide it.
7. Why are we allowed to collect information about me?
We lawfully collect information about you because:
- we need your information to provide access to the Website, i.e. to fulfil our agreement and allow you to browse our Website at your request, as well as to respond to proposals you submit on your own initiative regarding the conclusion of agreements with us (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation);
- we are required to retain personal data submitted with an enquiry that you send to us on your own initiative in accordance with applicable laws (Article 6(1)(c) of the General Data Protection Regulation);
- we need your information to comply with our legal obligations, resolve any disputes that may arise with you or other parties, and enforce our rights arising from agreements concluded between you and us or between us and third parties (Article 6(1)(c) of the General Data Protection Regulation);
- we need your information to improve our Website and its user experience, protect the Website against unauthorized access, monitor Website traffic, and carry out marketing activities by displaying advertisements that are relevant and of interest to you (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
8. What information about me is collected from other sources?
We do not collect any information about Website visitors from other sources.
9. Will the collected data be transferred outside the European Economic Area?
No.
10. Who will you share my personal data with?
We may disclose your personal data to:
- our service providers or contractors, to the extent reasonably necessary to provide, maintain, develop, and secure access to the Website.
We may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary to comply with legal obligations applicable to us or for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in administrative or out-of-court procedures.
11. How long will the information collected about me be stored?
Technical information automatically collected about a visitor’s device(s) and browsing activity is stored for the periods specified in the cookie information provided in Section 4.
All other information will be stored in accordance with the General Index of Document Retention Periods approved by the Chief Archivist of Lithuania or for the limitation period applicable to the relevant relationship, whichever period is longer.
12. What rights do I have?
You have the following rights regarding the protection of your personal data. Please note that these rights may be subject to restrictions or conditions established by law:
- the right to request access to the information we hold about you;
- the right to request correction of the information we hold about you;
- the right to object to data processing based on our legitimate interests where the relevant data is processed solely on the basis of our legitimate interests and such processing, in the specific circumstances, disproportionately restricts your rights, freedoms, or legitimate interests.
You may request that the information we hold about you be deleted:
- where the data is processed solely on the basis of our legitimate interests, you object to such processing, and such processing, in the specific circumstances, disproportionately restricts your rights, freedoms, or legitimate interests, except where such processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims;
- where your data is processed unlawfully.
You may request that access to the information we hold about you be restricted or that its deletion be restricted:
- where you request the correction of inaccurate data – for the period required to correct the identified inaccuracies;
- where you object to processing based on our legitimate interests – until your objection has been reviewed and we have made a decision regarding further processing;
- where we no longer need the personal data, but you require it for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims;
- where data is processed without a legal basis and you do not wish for it to be deleted.
You also have the right to:
- request the export of your data;
- lodge a complaint with the State Data Protection Inspectorate.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights listed above, please contact us as specified in Section 14. Please note that these rights may be subject to conditions and exceptions established by law.
13. Will my personal data be used for automated decision-making or profiling?
No.
