Privacy Policy

The website www.peat.lt of Klasmann-Deilmann Ežerėlis UAB uses cookies. Below you can find out what a cookie is, what we use them for and how to remove them.

What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website places on your computer or mobile device when you visit that website. Cookies are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide useful information to the website owner.

How do we use cookies?
The www.peat.lt website uses Google Analytics – Google, Inc. (“Google”), a web analytics service provided by Google to help analyse how this website is used. Google Analytics uses cookies for this purpose.

The information about your use of the website generated by the cookie – standard web log information (including your IP address) and anonymous information about your visitor behaviour – is transmitted to and stored by Google, including on servers in the USA. The website anonymises your IP address before sending it to Google.

Under Google’s Privacy Shield Certification Scheme, Google declares that it complies with the requirements of the EU and US Privacy Shield Frameworks. Google may transfer the information collected by Google Analytics to third parties where required to do so by law or where those third parties process the information on Google’s behalf.

In accordance with the Google Analytics terms of service, Google will not associate the IP address of the data subject with any other data held by Google.

If you wish to opt-out of Google Analytics cookies, please download and install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. You can do this by opening this link:

“Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Extension

Cookies are also used in the comments module as a security mechanism and to record your vote in polls we publish.

Managing and deleting cookies in your browser
You can manage and/or delete cookies according to your preferences. You can delete any cookies already on your computer, or you can set your computer to not save cookies.

Available in most browsers:

  • check what cookies are stored and delete individual cookies;
  • block third-party cookies;
  • block cookies from specific websites;
  • block the sending of all cookies;
  • delete all cookies when you close your browser.

If you choose to delete cookies, please remember that any options you have set will also be removed. In addition, blocking cookies altogether will prevent many websites (including our website) from working properly. For these reasons, we do not recommend that you disable cookies when you use our website.

If you need more information about cookies, including instructions on how to delete them, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org (English language website).

Data protection
We process the data of all data subjects lawfully, transparently and fairly, for the purposes set out in advance and only to the extent necessary to achieve them. When processing your personal data, we comply with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (hereinafter referred to as the “GDPR”), the Law on Legal Protection of Personal Data of the Republic of Lithuania, as well as the requirements for the processing of personal data set out in other legal acts and recommendations and/or instructions of supervisory authorities.

Data controller details:
Klasmann-Deilmann Ežerėlis UAB
Code of the Register of Legal Entities: 136037197
Registered office address: Kauno g. 17, Ežerėlis, LT-53387 Kauno r.
Tel: +370 37 534260
El. E-mail: info@peat.lt

How do we collect information about you?
Information about you may be collected automatically. This is most often the case when you use websites operated by us. For more information about the cookies we use, see below.

What information (personal data) do we process about you?

  • Your name and contact details;
  • the information you provide when you call or write to us,
  • information needed to defend our institution’s interests before a court or other authority;
  • information about the device you are using;
  • information about your use of this Website (device information: the IP address, operating system version and settings of the device you are using to access the content; login information: the time and duration of your session and any information stored in cookies we have set on your device (see below for our cookie policy); location information: the device’s GPS signal or information about the nearest WiFi hotspots and cell towers that may be transmitted to us when you use our Website content).

For what purposes and on what grounds do we process your data?
The information provided above is processed for the following purposes:

  • fulfilling our obligations under applicable law;
  • pursuing our institution’s interests in court or before another authority;

Who do we pass your personal data to?

  • Without your prior written consent, we may transfer your personal data only in the following cases:
    • law enforcement and public authorities;
    • to other entities where required to do so by law or to protect our legitimate interests.

The recipients of your personal data (individual data controllers) are limited in their ability to use your data and cannot use this information for purposes other than for the purposes of their contract with us. You will be asked for your separate consent to receive their direct marketing offers.

We may also provide your data to data processors who provide services to us. Processors have the right to process your personal data only on the basis of a written contract between us and them, on our instructions and only to the extent necessary for the proper performance of their obligations under the contract. When we use processors, we take all necessary measures to ensure that our processors have put in place appropriate organisational and technical security measures and maintain the confidentiality of your personal data.

Other parties to whom we may disclose the information we hold about you where it is necessary to protect our legitimate interests or to comply with legal requirements that we may have to comply with include public authorities, pre-trial investigators, courts, etc.

For more information about the specific companies listed in this section to which your personal data may be provided, please contact us at the contact details provided in this Privacy Policy, in the privacy policies of other websites operated by us, or in the information notices provided to you.

What do we do to protect your personal data?
We have put in place reasonable and appropriate physical and technical measures to protect the information we collect for the purposes of providing content/services. However, please remember that while we take reasonable steps to protect your personal data, no website, online transaction, computer system or wireless connection is completely secure.

How long will we keep your personal data?
We set the retention periods for personal data in accordance with the requirements of the law, regulatory enactments and the instructions of the supervisory and/or other competent authority. In the absence of such requirements or instructions, we set retention periods on the basis of the public interest or our own legitimate interests, but no longer than 7 years from the moment of receipt of the data (unless, as mentioned above, longer retention periods are provided for by law).

After the expiry of the data retention periods, your data will be erased in a way that makes them unrecoverable or personalised in a way that makes it impossible to identify you.

What rights do you have?

Depending on the situation and the additional conditions set out in the GDPR, you have the following rights:

  • to know (be informed) about the processing of your data (right to know);
  • to know what we process about your data and how it is processed (right of access);
  • request the rectification or, taking into account the purposes of the processing of personal data, the completion of incomplete personal data (right to rectification);
  • request the erasure of personal data relating to you (“right to be forgotten”);
  • require us to restrict the processing of personal data relating to you (the right to restriction);
  • to request the transfer of the data provided to us (right to data portability);
  • to object at any time to the processing of your personal data where such processing is carried out in the public interest, in our legitimate interests or in the legitimate interests of a third party, and where personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, including profiling (right to object);
  • withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data, if the processing is based on consent.

We always strive to adequately safeguard your rights and to respond promptly to any possible violation of them, so if you have any questions about the processing of your personal data by us, please contact us first. Please also note that you have the right to lodge a complaint with the State Data Protection Inspectorate at any time.
We may prevent you from exercising the above rights where, in cases provided for by law, it is necessary to ensure the prevention, investigation and detection of criminal offences, breaches of official or professional ethics, as well as the protection of the rights and freedoms of the data subject or of other persons.

Final Provisions
Privacy Policy is reviewed and updated according to our needs, but at least once every two years, or in the event of a change in the legislation governing the processing of personal data. When we update our Privacy Policy, we will notify you of what we consider to be material changes by posting a notice on the Website or by other similar means. If you use our content and/or services after the posting of such notice, we will assume that you have accepted the new requirements set out in the updated Privacy Policy.