Cookies

What is a cookie

Cookies are tiny text files sent by the visited web pages. Such files are stored on the user’s computer, smartphone or other device. They allow us to store information about your preferences – the web page ‘remembers’ you so that it can react appropriately when you visit us again. By using cookies, it is possible to store or access information already stored on the device used to display this website (e.g. laptop, smartphone, etc.). 

Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to make a user’s experience more efficient.

 

Why we uses cookies

By using cookies, the website administrator (i.e. CDBP Sp. z o.o. with its registered office in Warsaw, Pl. Piłsudskiego 3, 00-078 Warsaw) can ensure the technical proper functioning of the website, adapt the content to the user’s preferences, but also collect statistical data on website traffic and conduct marketing activities.

 

We use a cookie that we can classify:

1. in terms of their “life”: session and permanent, where:
   • session files – remain on the user’s device until leaving the website or turning off the software (web browser);
   • persistent files remain on the device for the time specified in the file parameters or until they are manually deleted by the user.
2. in terms of the purpose of their use for necessary, preferential, statistical and marketing purposes, where:
   • necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
   • preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.
   • statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
   • marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.
3. in terms of whose cookie is, “our” and “third party”, where third party cookies are cookies set by our social media, advertising and analytics partners that may combine this data with others provided to them by the user; or collected while using their services. Third party cookies are optional.

Cookie management and deletion:

You may withdraw your consent and delete cookies from the device at any time. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

Withdrawal of consent is possible through Cookiebot mechanism:

Additionally, most browsers offer you the ability to accept or decline all cookies. You can also easily change the cookie settings in your browser settings. Please note that if you disable all cookies from colliers.com, this may cause the website to be difficult to use or may prevent you from using certain features of our website altogether.

The management and deletion of cookies varies depending on the browser used. For details, use the browser Help feature or visit the following website http://www.allaboutcookies.org, which explains step-by-step how to manage and delete cookies in most browsers.

The information about individual browsers can be found on the following pages:

• Google Chrome
• Microsoft Edge
• Mozilla Firefox
• Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Opera
• Apple Safari

To opt out of Google Analytics across all websites, please visit:

http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

If you have any further questions about the cookies used on the Colliers International website, please feel free to contact us – poland@colliers.com.

 

Usage data 

Even without the installation of cookies, the administrator of the website may access the following data showing how the website is used (hereinafter: “other usage data”): 

1. 1. ID assigned to the device of the visitor; 
   2. ID of the telecommunication network terminal; 
   3. ICT system (type of device, operating system, web browser) used by the Internet user; 
   4. information about the start, end and extent of each use of the website. 

The data are not associated with individual website visitors. To ensure the highest quality of service, from time to time we analyse log files to see, for example, which pages are visited most frequently or what web browsers are used, and to check the page structure for errors.

 

Personal data protection

Information accessed by us is in principle general (statistical) in nature. Nevertheless, the concept of ‘personal data’ in the GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) also covers information on identifiable persons. As provided for by the GDPR, to determine whether a natural person is identifiable, account should be taken of all the means reasonably likely to be used (such as singling out), either by the controller or by another person, to identify the natural person directly or indirectly. To ascertain whether means are reasonably likely to be used to identify the natural person, account should be taken of all objective factors, such as the costs of and the amount of time required for identification, taking into consideration the available technology at the time of the processing and technological developments.

Therefore, information obtained through cookies and usage data may constitute personal data within the meaning of GDPR. If the above information is classified as ‘personal data’, then the controller of your personal data is CDBP Sp. z o.o. with its registered office in Warsaw, Pl. Piłsudskiego 3, 00-078 Warsaw. Even if we are unsure whether a particular category of information is personal data, we introduce mechanisms to protect such information as if it were personal data. You can contact the controller at the following address for all personal data protection issues: DaneOsoboweCDBP@colliers.com

Whereas if you give your consent then any information collected in that way will be used in order to find out about the preferences of users of our website so that such findings may be used to improve the quality of website display. In this case, the basis for data processing is Article 173(2) of the Telecommunications Act (Journal of Laws of 2004, No 171/1800), in conjunction with Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR. As stated in Article 174 of the Telecommunications Act, the provisions on the protection of personal data apply to obtaining the consent of the subscriber or end-user.

You have the right to access the data, including to obtain a copy of the data, the right to data portability, the right to rectify and erase the data, and the right to restrict their processing. Due to the limited identifiability of the data (the data are to a large extent statistical in nature), in accordance with Article 11(2) of the GDPR, the exercise of the indicated rights may depend on the provision of additional information to identify the data and verify the identity of the requester. 

You have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority (President of the Personal Data Protection Office (UODO)). 

Personal data will be deleted or anonymized not later than upon the expiry of the statute of limitation for potential claims related to the use of the website (not later than two years after the date of fixation), or earlier if you raise an effective objection. Data are given freely but their provision is necessary for the above purposes.