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Privacy Policy

The Privacy Policy outlines the principles of processing information about you, including personal data and cookies.

1. General Information

This policy applies to the website operating at the URL: eef.gg and esportseurope.org

The operator of the website and the Data Controller is: European Esports Federation Pulawska 300 Street 02-809 Warsaw, Poland

The contact email address of the operator is: office@eef.gg

The Operator is the Data Controller of your personal data concerning data voluntarily provided on the website.

The website uses personal data for the following purposes:

      • Handling inquiries through the form.

The website collects information about users and their behavior in the following ways:

      • Through data voluntarily entered in forms, which are entered into the Operator’s systems.
      • By storing cookies on end-user devices

2. Selected Data Protection Methods Used by the Operator

  • Login and personal data entry areas are protected at the transmission layer (SSL certificate). This ensures that personal data and login details entered on the website are encrypted on the user’s computer and can only be read on the target server.
  • The Operator periodically changes its administrative passwords.
  • The Operator regularly performs backups to protect data.
  • A key element of data protection is the regular update of all software used by the Operator to process personal data, which includes regular updates of software components.

3. Hosting

The website is hosted (technically maintained) on the servers of another company.

The hosting company ensures technical reliability by maintaining server logs, which may include:

  • Resources identified by a URL (addresses of requested resources – pages, files),
  • The time of the request,
  • The time of sending a response,
  • The client station name – identification performed by the HTTP protocol,
  • Information on errors that occurred during the HTTP transaction,
  • The URL address of the page previously visited by the user (referrer link) if the transition to the website was made via a link,
  • Information about the user’s browser,
  • Information about the IP address,
  • Diagnostic information related to the self-service ordering process through the site’s registrars,
  • Information related to the handling of emails sent to and from the Operator.

4. Your Rights and Additional Information on How Data is Used

In some situations, the Administrator has the right to transfer your personal data to other recipients if it is necessary to execute a contract with you or fulfill the Administrator’s obligations. This applies to the following groups of recipients:

  • The hosting company on an entrustment basis.

Your personal data is processed by the Administrator no longer than necessary to perform activities related to them as specified by separate regulations (e.g., accounting rules). For marketing data, the data will not be processed for more than 3 years.

You have the right to request from the Administrator:

  • Access to your personal data,
  • Rectification,
  • Deletion,
  • Restriction of processing,
  • Data portability.

You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data as specified in point 3.2 regarding the processing of personal data for the purpose of pursuing legitimate interests of the Administrator, including profiling, but the right to object cannot be exercised if there are legally justified grounds for processing, overriding your interests, rights, and freedoms, particularly the establishment, exercise, or defense of claims.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with the President of the Office for Personal Data Protection, ul. Stawki 2, 00-193 Warsaw.

Providing personal data is voluntary but necessary to operate the website.

Automated decision-making, including profiling, may be performed with respect to you to provide services under the concluded agreement and for the Administrator’s direct marketing purposes.

Personal data is not transferred to third countries within the meaning of data protection regulations, meaning they are not sent outside the European Union.

5. Information in Forms

The website collects information provided voluntarily by the user, including personal data if provided.

The website may record information about the connection parameters (time, IP address).

The website, in some cases, may save information facilitating the connection of data in the form with the user’s email address filling out the form. In such cases, the user’s email address appears inside the URL of the page containing the form.

Data provided in the form is processed for the purpose resulting from the function of the specific form, e.g., to process a service request or handle commercial contact, registration of services, etc. The context and description of the form clearly indicate what it is for.

6. Administrator’s Logs

Information about user behavior on the website may be subject to logging. These data are used for website administration.

7. Important Marketing Techniques

  • The Operator uses statistical analysis of website traffic via Google Analytics (Google Inc. based in the USA). The Operator does not provide personal data to the operator of this service, only anonymized information. The service is based on using cookies on the user’s end device. For information about the user’s preferences collected by the Google advertising network, the user can view and edit information derived from cookies using the tool: https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/
  • The Operator uses remarketing techniques that allow tailoring advertising messages to the user’s behavior on the website, which may give the impression that personal data is used to track the user, although no personal data is transferred from the Operator to advertising operators. The technological prerequisite for such activities is enabled cookies.
  • The Operator uses the Facebook pixel. This technology means that Facebook (Facebook Inc. based in the USA) knows that a specific person registered on it is using the website. In this case, it is based on data for which it is itself the controller; the Operator does not transfer any additional personal data from itself to Facebook. The service is based on using cookies on the user’s end device.
  • The Operator uses solutions that analyze user behavior by creating heat maps and recording behavior on the website. This information is anonymized before being sent to the service operator so that it does not know which physical person they relate to. In particular, passwords and other personal data are not recorded.
  • The Operator uses solutions that automate the functioning of the website concerning users, e.g., which may send an email to the user after visiting a specific subpage, provided that they have consented to receive commercial correspondence from the Operator.
  • The Operator may use profiling within the meaning of personal data protection regulations.

8. Information about Cookies

The website uses cookies.

Cookies are IT data, particularly text files, stored on the end-user’s device and intended for use with the website’s pages. Cookies usually contain the name of the website from which they originate, the time of storage on the end device, and a unique number.

The entity placing cookies on the end-user’s device and accessing them is the website operator.

Cookies are used for the following purposes:

  • Maintaining the session of the website user (after logging in), so that the user does not have to re-enter the login and password on each subpage;
  • Achieving the objectives set out above in the section “Important Marketing Techniques”;

Two main types of cookies are used within the website: “session” cookies and “persistent” cookies. “Session” cookies are temporary files stored on the user’s end device until they log out, leave the website, or disable the software (web browser). “Persistent” cookies are stored on the user’s end device for the time specified in the cookie parameters or until deleted by the user.

Web browsing software (web browser) usually allows storing cookies on the user’s end device by default. Website users can change settings in this regard. The web browser allows deleting cookies. It is also possible to automatically block cookies. Detailed information on this is provided in the help or documentation of the web browser.

Restrictions on the use of cookies may affect some of the functionalities available on the website pages.

Cookies placed on the end-user’s device may also be used by cooperating entities, particularly Google (Google Inc. based in the USA), Facebook (Facebook Inc. based in the USA), Twitter (Twitter Inc. based in the USA).

9. Managing Cookies – How to Express and Withdraw Consent in Practice?

If the user does not want to receive cookies, they can change the browser settings. We reserve that disabling cookies necessary for authentication processes, security, and maintaining user preferences may make it difficult, and in extreme cases, impossible to use the website.

To manage cookie settings, select the web browser you are using from the list below and follow the instructions:

  • Edge
  • Internet Explorer
  • Chrome
  • Safari
  • Firefox
  • Opera

Mobile devices:

  • Android
  • Safari (iOS)
  • Windows Phone
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