PRIVACY POLICY AND USE OF COOKIE FILES

Introduction

Welcome to the website http://burkova.com.ua/.

This website is managed by Irina Burkova, a patent attorney in Ukraine (hereinafter referred to as “we”). The website is created to provide information about the services in the field of intellectual property that we offer, to collect primary information for the provision of such services, to provide feedback to website visitors, and to serve users of our services (hereinafter referred to as “Services”).

This Privacy Policy (hereinafter referred to as the “Policy”) regulates your visit to the website http://burkova.com.ua/ and its pages, explaining how we collect, store, and disclose information that results from your visit to the website and inquiries for our services.

We use your data to provide and improve the Services. By using the website, you agree to the collection and use of information by this Policy.

Scope of this Policy

This Policy applies to “personal data and information” collected by us through this website. “Personal data and information” refer to data that personally identifies you individually or in combination with other information available to us. Examples of personal information include your name, email address, phone number, and other information you may provide when using our website.

We may use your data to send you newsletters, marketing or advertising materials, and other information that may interest you. You can opt out of receiving any or all of these messages from us by clicking the unsubscribe link or by sending an email to info@burkova.com.ua.

Usage Data

We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our service or when you access the service through a mobile device (“Usage Data”).

This usage data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

When you access the Service using a mobile device, this usage data may include information such as the type of mobile device you are using, your mobile device’s unique identifier, your mobile device’s IP address, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you are using, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Tracking of cookie data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and store certain information.

Cookies are files with a small amount of data that may contain an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies such as beacons, tags, and scripts are also used to collect and track information and to improve and analyze the performance of our website.

You can instruct your browser to reject all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some pages of our website.

Examples of cookies we use:

Session cookies: We use session cookies for the operation of our website.
Preference cookies: We use preference cookies to remember your preferences and other settings.
Security cookies: We use security cookies for security purposes.
Advertising cookies: Advertising cookies are used to provide you with advertisements that may be relevant to you and your interests.

Purposes of data use

We use the data we collect for various purposes:

to provide the Services and maintain our website;
to notify you of changes to our website;
to allow you to participate in interactive features of our website, if you choose to do so;
to provide customer support;
to collect analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Services;
monitor the use of our website;
detect, prevent and resolve technical problems;
to fulfil any other purpose for which you provide them;
to fulfil our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including billing;
to provide you with notices about your account and/or subscription, including expiration and renewal notices, email instructions, etc;
to provide you with news, special offers and general information about other products, services and events we offer that are similar to those you have already purchased or have inquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information;
in any other way we may describe when you provide information.

Data retention

We will retain your Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy. We will retain and use your Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable law), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data will generally be retained for a shorter period, unless the data is used to enhance the security or functionality of our Service, or if we are legally obligated to retain the data for a longer period.

Data transfer

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information constitutes your agreement to such transfer.

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and following this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your personal information will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of personal information

We reserve the right to disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, policyholders, professional advisors, agents, suppliers or subcontractors to the extent and for the purposes set out in this Policy.

We reserve the right to disclose your personal information:

where we are required to do so by law, in connection with any current or future legal process;
to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to other parties for fraud prevention or credit risk mitigation);
to certain individuals authorized by the Company to process Personal Data necessary for the performance of activities related to the provision of services through the Website (e.g., maintenance), who have undertaken to keep confidential or are required to comply with the relevant legal obligation to keep confidential (e.g., our employees or third parties with whom we have concluded relevant agreements for this purpose);
to public law organizations or governmental authorities to whom your Personal Data may be disclosed following applicable law or mandatory orders of such legal entities, institutions or authorities.

We will not disclose your personal information to third parties, except as specified in this Policy.

Data security

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Your rights to data protection

If you are a resident of Ukraine, you have the rights provided for by the Law of Ukraine “On Personal Data Protection”, namely

the right to know the sources of collection, the location of your data, the purpose of their processing, the location of the personal data controller;
to receive information on the conditions for granting access to personal data, including information about third parties to whom personal data is transferred;
to access, update or delete the information we have about you;
to protect their data from unlawful processing and accidental loss, destruction, or damage due to intentional concealment, failure to provide or untimely provision, as well as to protect against the provision of information that is inaccurate or discrediting the honour, dignity and business reputation of an individual;
other rights provided by law.

If you are a resident of the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights under the GDPR. – See more at https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj

We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete or limit the use of your personal data.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. Please note that we may not be able to provide access to the website without some of the necessary data.

If you have any questions or would like to exercise your rights, please contact us via email at info@burkova.com.ua or by other means indicated on this website.

Service Providers

We may hire third-party companies and individuals to assist us in providing our Services, to provide the Services on our behalf, to provide related services, or to analyze how our website and Services are used.

Such third parties have access to your personal information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are required not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Analytics

We may use third-party service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our website, such as Google Analytics.

Google Analytics is a web analytics service from Google that tracks and reports on website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the data collected to contextualize and personalize the advertising of its advertising network.

For more information about Google’s privacy practices, please visit the Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

We also encourage you to review Google’s data protection policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.

Links to other sites

Our website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click a third-party link, you will be directed to that third-party’s site.

We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy of each site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time.

We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will notify you by email and/or post a prominent notice on our Service before the changes become effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.

We recommend that you periodically review this Privacy Policy for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

Email: info@burkova.com.ua