The personal data protection and cookie policy applied by the public institution „Mes darom” is set out on this page. We are committed to protecting the privacy of the visitors of this website; this policy sets out how your personal information will be handled. If you have any questions, please contact us by e-mail at komunikacija@mesdarom.lt
1. Subject and purpose of the Privacy Policy.
1.1. The Privacy Policy of VšĮ „Mes darom” has been prepared to implement the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (hereinafter – the Regulation).
1.2. The purpose of the Privacy Policy of VšĮ „Mes darom” is to establish the principles of personal data processing when using the services provided by VšĮ „Mes darom”, as well as to define your rights as a data subject and the obligations of VšĮ „Mes darom” as a data controller.
1.3. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy or with any of its individual terms, we will unfortunately not be able to give you the opportunity to use all or any of the services we provide.
1.4. In this Privacy Policy you will find all the information about which of your data we collect and process, what we use it for, how long we store it, and so on. This information is important, so we hope you will read it carefully.
1.5. Please note that the Privacy Policy may be amended, supplemented and updated. We publish the current version of the Privacy Policy on our website, indicating the date of the version provided.
2. Data controller
VšĮ „Mes darom” controls all personal data collected on this website. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or about the use of your personal information, please contact us.
3. Description of the personal data collected and processed by VšĮ „Mes darom”.
Your personal information that may be collected, stored and used:
3.1. Information about your visits to this website and your use of it (including your IP address, location, browser type and version, operating system type and version, referral source, length of visit, page views, website navigation path and use of services);
3.2. Information you provide when registering on the website;
3.3. Information you provide when subscribing to our newsletters or e-mail reminders;
3.4. VšĮ „Mes darom” may also provide, or begin to provide, other services. You will be informed about the personal data collected and processed while providing such services, their categories and the purposes of processing in the description of the specific service on the website www.mesdarom.lt or next to the specific online registration form.
3.5. VšĮ „Mes darom” also carries out various non-permanent educational projects. A description of the categories of data collected and processed during these projects and of the purposes of processing is provided in the rules of the specific project, which are published on the website www.mesdarom.lt.
4. Description of the legal bases for the processing of personal data by VšĮ „Mes darom”.
All of your personal information collected may be used for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy or for essential parts of this website. Your information may be used:
- For the administration of the website;
- To improve your browsing on the website by adapting the website to your needs;
- To give you access to the services provided on the website;
- To provide services;
- To send you general (non-marketing) promotional communications;
- To send you newsletters and other marketing communications related to our organisation or to other organisations that are selected responsibly and whose information, in our opinion, may be of interest to you (you may inform us at any time that you no longer wish to receive marketing information);
- To provide statistical information about our users to third parties (however, this information will not be used to identify individual users);
- To resolve problems or requests registered by you or related to you through this website.
6. Cases in which your personal data is provided to third parties.
6.1. Your personal information may be disclosed to our employees, officers, agents, suppliers or other subcontractors only for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. Your personal information may also be disclosed:
6.1.1. In exceptional cases, when required by law enforcement authorities;
6.1.2. In connection with ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
6.1.3. In order to establish, exercise or defend our rights (including providing information to third parties for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);
6.1.4. To a buyer (or prospective buyer) of our organisation or of a part of the organisation or its assets;
6.1.5. To any person who, in our opinion, may disclose the information to a court or other competent authority, in a case where, in our opinion, such court or other competent authority may order the disclosure of such information.
6.2. International data transfers
All information collected may be stored and used in any of the countries in which we operate, so that we can use the collected information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. The information you provide may be transferred to countries where the data protection law may not be equivalent to the laws of the European Economic Area, but those countries have personal data protection laws that the European Commission considers appropriate and adequate. You agree to such transfers of personal information.
6.3. The security of your personal data
We will take all steps necessary to prevent the loss, unauthorised use or alteration of your personal information. We will store all personal information you provide on secure servers (protected by passwords and a firewall). Data transmission over the internet is not secure, therefore we cannot guarantee the security of data transferred over the internet. You are responsible for keeping your user name and password confidential. We will never ask you for your password (except when logging in to this website).
7. The rights of the data subject and their exercise.
7.1. You may request all of the personal information collected about you. Such information will be provided only after you have been identified (for this we will usually use a copy of your identity document or a bill indicating your place of residence). We may withhold this personal information by order of a court. We set out your rights and the ways of exercising them in this Privacy Policy:
7.1.1. The right to rectification. If you notice that the information stored about you is incorrect, please inform us so that this information can be changed.
7.1.2. The right to erasure. Individuals have the right to request the erasure of the personal information collected in the following cases: when the personal information is no longer necessary for the purposes of collection mentioned above; when the individual does not consent to the provision of personal data; when the individual objects to the processing of the information and there is no legitimate overriding ground to continue the processing of the data; when the personal data has been processed unlawfully; when the personal data must be erased in order to comply with legal obligations.
The specific circumstances in which the organisation may refuse to erase personal data are as follows: when the individual seeks to test the limits of the right to freedom of expression and information; in order to comply with legal obligations or in the public interest; for public health purposes, for the benefit of society; for archiving purposes in the public interest: for scientific research, historical research or statistical purposes; for the purposes of the establishment or defence of legal claims.
7.1.3. The right to data portability. The right to data portability allows individuals to obtain and reuse their personal data for their own purposes across different services. It allows them to move or copy personal data easily from one IT environment to another in a safe manner, without hindrance. The right to data portability applies only: to personal data that the individual has provided to the data controller; where the transfer is based on the individual’s consent or on the performance of a contract; where the transfer is carried out by automated means.
7.1.4. The right to object. Individuals have the right to object to: processing based on legitimate interests or on a task carried out in the public interest/in the exercise of official authority (including profiling); direct marketing (including profiling); processing for the purposes of scientific and historical research and the collection of statistics.
Any objections must be submitted in writing to the data controller, who will examine the objection. You should indicate that you do not consent to the processing of your personal information and state substantial reasons for this. We emphasise that you will be given the opportunity to opt out of marketing communications at any time.
7.1.5. Rights related to automated decision-making. VšĮ „Mes darom” does not use any automated decision-making or profiling systems.
7.1.6. The right to lodge a complaint with the information commissioner. Individuals have the right to lodge a complaint regarding any process of collection and storage of personal data by VšĮ „Mes darom” and regarding related decisions, including the complaints themselves. Contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for more information on how to lodge a complaint.
8. Cookies
Cookies consist of small files, including unique identifiers, that web servers send to web browsers and that may then be sent back to the server each time the browser makes a request from the server.
Cookies may be used on web servers to identify and track users as they browse different pages of a website and as users return to the website.
Cookies may be „persistent” cookies or „session” cookies. A persistent cookie consists of a text file that a web server sends to a web browser, which is stored by the browser and which will remain valid until a set expiry date (unless the user deletes it before the expiry date). A session cookie will expire at the end of the user session, when the browser is closed.
Both persistent and session cookies are used on this website.
8.1. How we use cookies. Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you, but the personal information we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
We may use the information we obtain through cookies for the following purposes:
- To recognise your computer when you visit our website;
- To track your browsing and enable the use of certain features on our website;
- To improve the usability of the website;
- To analyse the use of our website;
- To administer this website;
- To personalise the use of the website, including the targeting of advertisements.
8.2. Blocking cookies
Most browsers allow you to block cookies. Ways to block cookies depending on the browser you use:
- In Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookies by clicking „Tools”, „Internet Options”, „Privacy” and selecting „Block all cookies” using the slider;
- In Firefox you can block all cookies by clicking „Tools”, „Options” and clearing the „Accept cookies from sites” box in the „Privacy” section.
Blocking all cookies may have a negative impact on the use of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use many of the features of this website.
8.3. Third-party cookies. When using our website, third-party cookies may also be sent. We use Google Analytics tools in order to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics tools generate statistical and other information about the use of the website in cookies that are stored on users’ computers. The information relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website.
8.4. Analytical and marketing cookies are used only with your consent. For statistical purposes we use Google Analytics / Google Site Kit in order to understand aggregated website traffic and its use. For marketing purposes we may use the Meta Pixel in order to evaluate campaign results and display more relevant communication on the Facebook and Instagram platforms. These tools may process technical information about your browser, device, time of visit, pages viewed and interactions on the website.
8.5. The providers of these third-party tools are Google and Meta respectively. More information about their data processing is provided in the Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy and in the Meta Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/.
8.6. We manage cookie consents on the website using the WPConsent tool. Your choice regarding non-essential cookies is stored so that the website remembers which cookie categories you have consented to. You can change your choice at any time by clicking the cookie settings button displayed on the website.
9. Organisational and technical measures applied.
9.1. We use various security technologies and procedures in order to protect your personal information from unauthorised access, use or disclosure.
9.2. The processors engaged for the provision of our services are reliable; we require them to use appropriate measures capable of protecting the confidentiality of your personal data and ensuring the security of your personal information.
9.3. Nevertheless, the security of the transmission of your information over the internet or mobile networks cannot be fully guaranteed and does not depend on our will, therefore any transmission of information to us by the indicated means is carried out at your own risk.
10. Validity of the Privacy Policy and amendments.
This Privacy Policy is valid from 22 February 2020. Updated on 10 July 2026. If we change this Privacy Policy, we will publish the updated version on this page, indicating the date of the update.