Privacy Policy and Protection of Personal Data: PARENTLIK.eu

1. General

The use of the web pages and services provided on this website, owned by PARENTLIK.eu (hereinafter “the Company”, “we” or “us”), requires your agreement to this Privacy Policy on the Protection of Personal Data. Please read this page carefully before using our services. If you do not agree, please do not use the website or its content.

We may update this policy from time to time to reflect changes in legislation or industry developments. Please check this page periodically. Continued use of the website after any changes means you accept the updated policy.

We take the protection of your personal data very seriously and always aim to make the use of our services secure. This policy explains what data we collect, why we use it, and how we protect it.

2. Our Commitments

  • We collect and process your personal data only when strictly necessary.
  • We will never sell, rent, distribute, or otherwise disclose your personal data.
  • If you are under 16, you must have your parents’ or legal guardians’ consent before using the services of this website.

3. Data Controller and Applicable Legislation

PARENTLIK.eu is the data controller. This website and our internal systems are designed to comply with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR) and applicable national data protection law.

4. Key Definitions

  • Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
  • Data subject is any natural person whose personal data we collect and process.

5. Processing Principles

Our policy is based on lawfulness, fairness, transparency, purpose limitation, data minimisation, accuracy, storage limitation, integrity, and confidentiality.

6. Legal Basis for Processing

We process data based on your consent, our legitimate interests, the performance of a contract, or legal obligations. You can withdraw your consent at any time (for example, by unsubscribing from a newsletter).

7. Personal Information We Collect and Why

7.1 Website traffic monitoring

Like most websites, we use Google Analytics (GA) to monitor user activity. We use this data to determine how many people use our website, to understand how they find and use our pages, and to see how they move through the site.

GA records data such as your approximate location, device, browser, and operating system. It also records your IP address, which could potentially be used to identify you, but Google does not give us access to it. We consider Google a third-party data processor that complies with European legislation.

7.2 Contact forms and email links

If you contact us through a contact form or an email link, the data you provide will not be stored by this website or passed to any third-party data processor listed in Section 14. Instead, it is sent to us as an email using the SMTP protocol. Our SMTP servers are protected by TLS (sometimes known as SSL), so the email content is encrypted before it is sent over the internet. It is decrypted only on our local computers and devices.

7.3 Facebook Pixel

We use the Facebook Pixel to measure the effectiveness of our advertising. This data is anonymous to us but may be processed by Facebook in accordance with its own privacy policy.

7.4 Social sharing

The website includes sharing buttons for Facebook, Instagram, and email. We have no insight into the data transmitted to these social networks when you use them.

7.5 Registration, user records and service improvement

Where you register or use features that require it, we process your data to maintain user records on our platform, to maintain records of experts or service providers whose services are published on it, and to improve our services. You can use the general parts of the website without registering.

8. Cookies

8.1 What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file that a website places in your web browser, either temporarily for the duration of your visit or, in some cases, for longer periods depending on the cookie type. Cookies serve various functions, such as distinguishing you from other visitors or remembering your preferences, and most websites use them to improve your experience.

Each cookie is unique to your browser and contains anonymous information. It usually includes the name of the domain it came from, its “lifespan”, and a value (usually a randomly generated unique number).

8.2 Types of cookies

  • Session cookies: Temporary cookies that stay in your browser’s cookie file only during your visit and are deleted when you close the browser.
  • Persistent cookies: Cookies that remain on your device after you close the browser, sometimes for a year or more depending on the cookie’s lifespan. They are used when the website needs to recognise you across several visits (for example, to remember your username or preferences).
  • First-party cookies: Cookies set by the website you are visiting. They may assign you a unique identifier to track your navigation and are often used for visit management and recognition.
  • Third-party cookies: Cookies set by third parties, such as social networks, to track your visits across the various websites where they advertise. The website operator has no control over these cookies.

8.3 Cookies on this website and how to manage them

We use cookies to improve visitors’ experience of the website. Disabling or refusing cookies may significantly affect how the website works. You can manage or delete cookies through your browser settings. For more information on controlling or deleting cookies, visit www.aboutcookies.org.

Google Analytics cookies: These are performance and analytics cookies that let us collect anonymous information about how visitors use the website, such as the number of visitors, the time and duration of access, and how they navigate between pages. This helps us improve how the website works. The information is transferred to and stored on Google’s servers in accordance with Google’s privacy policy. For more information, see https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245. You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. If you opt out, your visit will not be counted in our statistics, and the website’s operation will not be affected.

Video provider cookies (Google/YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion, etc.): These providers may place cookies on your device if you watch embedded videos on our website. If you disable them, you may not be able to view the embedded videos.

Social network cookies: Third-party social networks may place cookies on your device if you choose to share content from our website using the embedded “Share” buttons. If you disable them, the “Share” function will not be available.

Facebook Pixel: See Section 7.3.

9. Website Security

All traffic (file transfers) between this website and your browser is encrypted and transmitted via HTTPS using SSL/TLS.

10. Your Rights as a Data Subject

You have the right to information, access, rectification, erasure (“right to be forgotten”), restriction of processing, data portability, and the right to object. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your national data protection supervisory authority. To exercise your rights, contact us at: [your contact email].

11. Data Accuracy

You are responsible for the accuracy of the data you provide. If your data changes, please notify us in writing without delay.

12. Data Storage, Retention and Security

All data is stored securely, and access is restricted to those who need it to perform their duties and legal obligations. Data is kept for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose of processing and for an additional 5 years afterwards, unless the law requires otherwise.

13. Personal Data Breaches

A breach includes loss, theft, or unauthorised access to data, as well as situations where a high risk of breach existed because procedures were not followed. We keep a breach record. In the event of a breach, we will notify the competent supervisory authority within 72 hours and inform affected data subjects without undue delay where required, particularly if personal data stored in an identifiable form has been compromised. This applies to breaches of our own database and those of our third-party processors.

14. Third-Party Data Processors

We use a number of third-party processors to process personal data on our behalf, including Google (Google Analytics) and Meta/Facebook (Facebook Pixel). They have been carefully selected to comply with the legislation referred to in this policy.

15. Contact

PARENTLIK.eu
Email: info@parentlink.e