Privacy Policy

 Disclaimer

Lukas Bauer Strategy Consulting respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store and protect personal data when you visit www.bauer-strategy.com, contact us, enquire about our services or work with us.

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1. Who is responsible for your data?

The controller of your personal data is:

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Lukas Bauer Strategy Consulting

ul. Toruńska 12

61-045 Poznań, Poland

NIP: 7792601858

Email: lukas@bauer-strategy.com

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For questions about this Privacy Policy or the processing of your personal data, please contact us at the email address above.

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2. What data we collect

Depending on how you interact with us, we may process:

• Your name, professional role, company name and business contact details.

• Your email address, telephone number and postal address.

• The content of messages, enquiries, meeting requests and correspondence you send to us.

• Information relevant to a potential or active consultancy, coaching or interim-leadership engagement.

• Contractual, invoicing, payment and tax-related information where you become a client or supplier.

• Technical information generated when you use the website, such as IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, date and time of access, and cookie preferences.

3. Why we use your data

We process personal data only where we have a lawful basis to do so. An overview of the types of data collected as well as purpose and rationale can be found in the table below..

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4. Where we obtain data

We receive personal data directly from you when you email us, submit a website contact form, request information or enter into an engagement with us.

We may also receive limited professional contact information from publicly available sources, professional networks, referrals, clients or business partners where this is relevant to a legitimate business relationship. If we obtain your data from another source, we will provide the information required by law.

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5. Who receives your data

We do not sell, rent or trade personal data. We may share personal data only where necessary with trusted service providers who support our business and act under appropriate contractual safeguards, including:

• Website-hosting, domain, email and IT-service providers; our website is hosted on WIX

• Cloud-storage, document-management and communications providers

• Professional advisers, such as accountants, legal advisers, insurers and auditors.

• Banks, payment providers and tax authorities.

• Public authorities or other parties where disclosure is required by law or necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

These parties may process personal data only for the relevant purpose and in accordance with our instructions or their own legal obligations.

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6. International transfers

Some service providers may process personal data outside the European Economic Area or store it on systems accessible from outside the EEA. Where this occurs, we will ensure that the transfer is lawful and that appropriate safeguards are in place, such as an adequacy decision, the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses, or another transfer mechanism recognised under the GDPR.

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7. How long we keep data

We keep personal data only for as long as necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including to meet legal, accounting, tax, contractual and reporting requirements. Our usual retention periods are:

• General enquiries not resulting in an engagement: up to 24 months after our last meaningful contact.

• Client and engagement records: for the duration of the relationship and thereafter for the period necessary to manage potential claims and meet legal obligations.

• Invoices, accounting and tax documentation: for the period required by applicable Polish tax and accounting laws.

• Marketing-consent records: until you withdraw consent or we no longer use the relevant contact details for marketing.

• Website logs and security records: for a limited period appropriate to security, troubleshooting and legal requirements.

We may retain information for longer where necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims, or to comply with a legal obligation.

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8. Your rights

Subject to the conditions and limitations set out in the GDPR, you have the right to:

• Request access to your personal data.

• Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.

• Request deletion of your data in certain circumstances.

• Request restriction of processing in certain circumstances.

• Object to processing based on our legitimate interests.

• Receive personal data you provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, where applicable.

• Withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal.

• Lodge a complaint with the Polish supervisory authority.

To exercise any of these rights, email lukas@bauer-strategy.com. We may need to confirm your identity before responding to a request.

The Polish supervisory authority is:

President of the Personal Data Protection Office / Prezes Urzędu Ochrony Danych Osobowych (UODO)

ul. Stanisława Moniuszki 1A

00-014 Warsaw, Poland

www.uodo.gov.pl

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9. Marketing communications

We will not send you marketing emails or other electronic marketing communications unless we have a lawful basis to do so. Where consent is required, we will ask for it clearly and separately.

You can opt out of marketing communications at any time by using the unsubscribe option in the relevant communication, where available, or by emailing lukas@bauer-strategy.com with the subject line “Unsubscribe.”

Withdrawing marketing consent will not affect service-related communications, such as replies to an enquiry, contractual correspondence or invoices.

10. Cookies and similar technologies

Our website, hosted via WIX, may use cookies and similar technologies. Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website.

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We use:

• Strictly necessary cookies, which are required for the website to operate, maintain security or remember essential preferences. These do not require consent where they are strictly necessary for the service you request.

• Optional cookies, such as analytics, performance, preference or marketing cookies. We will use these only where you have given prior consent through our cookie banner or preference centre.

You can change or withdraw your optional-cookie preferences at any time through the website’s cookie settings, where available. You can also manage cookies through your browser settings. Disabling some cookies may affect website functionality.

11. Automated decision-making

We do not use your personal data to make decisions based solely on automated processing, including profiling, that produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you.

12. Security

We use reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful loss, misuse, unauthorised access, alteration or disclosure.

If we become aware of a personal-data breach that creates a risk to individuals’ rights and freedoms, we will take the steps required by applicable law, including notification to the relevant authority and, where required, affected individuals.

13. Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to third-party websites, platforms or resources. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content or security of those third-party services. Please read their privacy notices before providing them with personal data.

14. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our services, website technologies or legal obligations. The latest version will always be available on this website, with the “Last updated” date shown at the top.

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