Privacy Statement

Privacy Statement
This privacy statement is designed to serve those who are concerned about how their personal information is used on the internet. Personal data, as defined by the Personal Data Protection Act, are data that can be used independently or with other personal information to identify, contact or find an individual, or to identify an individual. Please read carefully our Privacy Policy to understand how we collect, use, protect or otherwise process your personal information on our website.

WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE COLLECT FROM THE VISITORS TO OUR WEBSITE?
When signing up for the newsletter, we store your email address and name you used for registration, which does not necessarily correspond to your real name. We are not responsible for incorrectly entered data such as wrong email address or incorrectly entered name.

WHEN DO WE COLLECT DATA?

We collect data when signing up for our newsletter.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR DATA?

Your personal data that we collect when signing up for our newsletter and browsing our website is used for the following:
• delivery of service information for which you have registered
• website visit analytics

HOW CAN YOU REQUEST DELETION OF YOUR DATA?
At the bottom of the email notification there is an unsubscribe link or you can send us an email from the address you used for registration in our system and request deletion. The email address to which you can send the request is listed at the bottom of the web page.

HOW DO WE PROTECT VISITORS’ DATA?
Our website is regularly monitored to avoid security leaks and known system vulnerabilities to make your visit as safe as possible. We regularly use malware scanning and we are compliant with the PCI-DSS standard.
Your personal information is kept behind a secured network and are available only to a limited number of authorised persons who are obliged to keep these information secret.
Your communication towards our website is secured with an advanced SSL certificate with 256-bit encryption.
You can check your connection security in SSL Checker.

DO WE USE COOKIES?

Yes. Cookies are small files that the website or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive via web browser (if you allow it), which allows page system or service provider to recognise your browser and keep and remember certain information. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on your previous or current activity on the website and allow us to provide better service. Cookies are also used to help collect comprehensive traffic information on our website and interaction to offer you a better user experience and tools in the future.
Note: By using cookies, our system does not allow any authentication of the actual user.

We use cookies for:
• understanding and storing user preferences for future visits,
• collection of comprehensive traffic information and interactions on our website to provide better user experience and tools in the future.

We may also use trusted third-party services to track this information for our needs. You can set notifications on your computer every time a cookie has been sent or you can choose to disable all cookies. This can be done through your web browser settings (such as Internet Explorer). Each browser is different so check your browser’s Help menu to learn the best way to change your cookies settings.
If a user disables cookies in their browser:
If you decide to disable cookies, some features will not be available. This will exclude some of the features that make your user experience on our website more effective and some of our services will not work properly.

PUBLISHING TO THIRD PARTIES
We do not sell, rent or transfer any personal information to the third party.

THIRD PARTY LINKS

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party information or services on our website. Third party websites have separate and independent privacy policies, therefore, we are not responsible for the content and activities on their websites. Nevertheless, we want to protect the integrity of our website and any feedback on such pages is welcome.

COMMENTS
When visitors write a comment on our website, we collect the information displayed in the comments box, as well as visitor’s IP address and the user agent string to detect spam better.
It is possible that an anonymous string created from your email address (also called hash) is provided to the Gravatar service to verify that you are using it. Gravatar services privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment has been approved, your profile picture is publicly visible in the context of your comment.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

Along with suppliers (third party), such as Google, we use their cookies (Google Analytics cookies) to compile information about user’s interaction with the services of our website.
We agree to the following:
• users can visit our website anonymously,
• once we’ve created privacy policies, we will add a link to them to our homepage or to the first significant page after entering our website,
• our link to Privacy Statement includes the word “privacy” and can be easily found on the page listed above.
Website users will be notified of any changes to our privacy policy on our website on the Privacy Statement page. Users can update their personal information via email, speaking to us or submitting a request.

HOW DOES OUR WEBSITE DEAL WITH SIGNALS THAT CANNOT BE TRACKED?

We respect signals that cannot be monitored, and we do not track, set cookies or use for advertising if the “Do Not Track” (DNT) header is set.

DOES OUR WEBSITE ALLOW MONITORING THIRD PARTY BEHAVIOUR?
It’s important to note that we allow third-party behaviour to be tracked.

SPAM PROTECTION

The Personal Data Protection Act and the Electronic Communications Act are laws that define rules for commercial emails, establish commercial message requests, grant recipient the right to stop receiving such emails, and list severe penalties for breaking the law. We collect your email address for the following:
• sending information, answering questions, and/or any requests or questions,
• potentially sending additional information about our business

In accordance with the legal regulations, we agree to the following:
• we will not use fake or misleading topics or email addresses,
• we will identify the message as an advertisement in an acceptable manner,
• we will include physical address of our branch offices or headquarters,
• we will respond rapidly to non-inclusion/unsubscribe requests,
• we will allow users to unsubscribe from the newsletter via a link at the bottom of every newsletter sent.

CONTACT US
If there are any questions regarding this Privacy Statement, you can contact us at the following address:
Tourism Board of the Town of Mali Lošinj
Priko 42
51 550 Mali Lošinj
losinj@visitlosinj.hr
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