Cookie Policy for Using the Website

UAB “Celltechna” (hereinafter referred to as the “Company”, or “we”), undertakes to ensure the security of personal information and protection of the rights of visitors (hereinafter referred to as “Visitors”) on the occasion of their visit to our Website  (hereinafter referred to as “Website”) and its content.

When visiting the Website, the Company or the Company’s authorized service providers use various technologies for data retention in order to make the Visitors’ use of the Website more convenient and safer and the services offered to be more relevant to the Visitors.

This Cookie Policy is designed to introduce visitors and provide them with more information on technologies used on the website and ways the Company uses these technologies.

1. GENERAL INFORMATION ON COOKIES

We use cookies on our Website.  They allow you to customize the functioning of the Website, as well as facilitate browsing and use of our Website.

What are cookies?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information (few kilobytes in size only) that your web browser places on your computer, tablet, or smartphone when you visit our website. They allow the Website to store data such as:
– login data (IP address of the logging device, logging time, location of a device you log in to (city));

– browser type;

– demographic data (age group, gender);

– details of how you browse the Website (which menu items you visit, what products you are interested in).

The Objectives of Using Cookies

We use cookies to:
– ensure the efficient and secure functioning of the Website; we use cookies to support our security features to detect and identify instances of misconduct on our Website;

– improve the performance of the Website; by monitoring and tracking the use of cookies, we can improve the performance of the Website and electronic services, develop existing services, and improve the functionality; analyze performance when you are directed to our Website from other sites or devices;

– recognize returning Website Visitors; cookies enable us to show relevant information to Visitors; cookies also help regular visitors to avoid re-registration or re-filling each time they visit the Website – analyze your habits so that the Website would be more convenient, efficient and would conform to your needs and expectations, for example, ensuring that you easily find all the relevant information you are looking for;

– measure the flows of information and data being sent to our Website; we use cookies for the compilation of statistics relating to the number of users who have visited the Website and the usage of electronic services;

 – targeted marketing, advertising; cookies enable us to collect information so that only relevant advertisements and content is displayed for the browser by creating different target groups; we use cookies to determine what advertising might be the most relevant to you both on and off our Website.

2. COOKIES USED ON THE WEBSITE

During the course of any visit to our Website, the long-term (persistent) cookies, may be created which remain on your computer (browser) after your sign-out and will be read by us each time you return to our Website; they remain valid and are not deleted after you finish browsing our Website, and/or short-term (session) cookies, which expire and are deleted after you finish browsing our Website.

All cookies used by us may be only used with the prior consent from you. You may express your consent by clicking “I agree” after seeing the cookie policy notification on the top of our Website.

However, we note that accepting of necessary and analytical cookies is a compulsory condition of using our Website. If you choose not to receive our cookies we cannot guarantee that you will be able to access all or parts of our Website.

We recite below the main types of cookies used on the Website according to their types, collected data, and duration of storage.

2.1. Cookies Used by the Company

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are required for the proper operation of our Website and include, for example, cookies that enable storage of information filled by you during the browsing session, enable you to access secure areas of our Website. Our Website would not function as smoothly as it should and it would be impossible to provide certain Website services without these cookies.

Functional cookies

 With the use of these cookies, Visitors can avoid changing their settings every time they visit the Website. These cookies also enable to remember your preferences and settings when you return to our Website (such as language or time zones). These cookies enable Visitors to avoid changing settings every time they visit the Website. Functional cookies also remember the changes you have made, including other instances, such as when you leave a comment on a Website. Functional cookies do not track your Internet usage or your behavior on other websites.

Analytical cookies

Analytical cookies tell us whether a Visitor has visited the Website before. These anonymous cookies help us track the number of users who visited our Website and the frequency of their visits. These cookies collect information about how Visitors use a website and help improve the overall performance of the Website. For example, analytical cookies may be used to track which websites you visit most often and help us to keep track of certain issues on the Website, etc.

Advertising and targeting cookies

These cookies record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed previously. We will use this information to serve you with interest-based ads only. Advertising and targeting cookies enable us to know if you have already seen a specific ad or specific type of ad, as well as the length of time elapsed since you saw it. We may use the cookies set by another entity to provide you with more targeted advertising. They are also used to ensure that Visitors are exposed to certain advertisements only a certain number of times and enable us to measure the efficiency of advertising.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use, the purposes for which we use them and their validity in the table below:

Name of the cookieDescription/TypeMoment of creationDurationData used/collected
PHPSESSIDA standard cookie that is used to maintain a user session. Strictly necessary cookieAccessing the websiteBy closing the website windowUnique ID
p_popup_uhA cookie is used to track and store information on pop-up ads that have been viewed and hidden by the user.Accessing a website for the first time1 YearUnique ID

3. RECRUITMENT 

You can submit your personal information on the Company’s Website to join the Company’s team. We will process this information on your consent expressed by submitting this data. We will store such information until the position is open, unless you specifically agree with longer storage periods.

When evaluating your candidacy, we may address your former employers for information about your qualifications, professional skills, and business characteristics. Information from your current employer may only be collected with your consent.

If, after considering your candidacy, we will choose a candidate who is more qualified to meet our requirements, we may request your individual consent for storing your data collected at the time of selection and use it for the purpose of conducting other recruitments and contacting you accordingly.

If we obtain such consent, we will process your personal data mentioned above for no longer than two years from the date of consent. Once you have provided such consent, you are entitled to withdraw it at any time. If you exercise the right to withdraw consent, we will take actions to delete your personal data without any undue delay.

4. SHAREHOLDERS, OTHER DATA SUBJECTS

The Company processes the personal data of its shareholders, management as well as information on ultimate beneficial owners to fulfill its legal obligations, laid down in applicable company law, securities market, financial accounting, anti-money laundering laws and related legal requirements.

The Company also processes the personal data of different categories of data subjects (clients, business partners, suppliers, other counterparties as well as their employees and agents), interacting with the Company in several different ways for the purposes of conclusion, performance, administration, support of contractual arrangements, creation, development, improvement of business and related legal interests of the Company, defending itself from statements of claims, exercise of its rights and interest as well as fulfillment of obligations imposed on the Company by applicable legal acts.

5. WEBSITE

Each time you visit our Website, our Website automatically collects and manages the following technical data: IP address, date and time of access, the name and URL of the webpage that connects to the Website, visitor’s device operating system data, information of the visitor’s internet provider, visitor’s geo-location data, language settings, information about the browser, other relevant technical information.

The Company also collects and manages the technical data of the visitors using the cookies.  To learn more about cookies and processing of personal data, see the Company’s Cookie Policy.

We would like to inform that certain technical details of your visit (IP address, cookies, technical information of the browser you use, other information related to your browsing activity and site-specific browsing information) can be transmitted or made available for browsing, analysis, and related purposes to the legal entities, operating both within the European Economic Area (hereinafter – “EEA”), and outside EEA (e.g., we use the Google Analytics services). Please note that personal data stored in non-EEA countries may be subject to less protection than in EEA countries, but we will carefully consider the conditions under which such data will be processed and stored after transfer to such entities. 

We may also use Facebook, Google, as well as other marketing tools. You should carefully read the privacy policy of these service providers.  More information on the targeted advertising, as well as your opt-out rights and other rights, you will find o the respective websites of these service providers – 
https://lt-lt.facebook.com/policies/ads#;
https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.   

6. DATA PROCESSORS. DATA RECIPIENTS 

The Company uses the services provided by third parties (such as third-party data centres, servers, website design, administration services, online traffic and website analysis, statistics, direct marketing services, mailers, messengers, etc.) that may require access to your personal data to the appropriate extent. In this case, the Company ensures that the data processors comply with the obligations of confidentiality and adequate personal data protection.

7. DATA RETENTION 

Your personal data is generally stored for no longer than legally required or necessary for the purposes we have collected it. Your personal data processed for the purposes of direct marketing will be stored for no longer than 2 years from the date of your most recent consent (if we have received a separate consent) or the date of completion or expiration of the relevant contract (as the case may be). 

Your personal data will be deleted within a reasonable time after the specified deadline.

Longer periods of personal data retention may be applied where:

  • there is a reasonable suspicion of an unlawful act which is a subject to the investigation;
  • your data is necessary for the proper resolution of the dispute, complaint or claim;
  • it is required by applicable laws or other legal acts.

8. YOUR RIGHTS

You have the following rights, subject to requirements and conditions set out by applicable legal acts:

  • the right of access to the personal data;
  • the right to rectify inaccurate or incorrect data; 
  • the right to erasure (right to be forgotten); 
  • the right to the restriction of processing;
  • the right to data portability;
  • the right to object to the processing of personal data; 
  • the right to file a complaint with the State Data Protection Inspectorate (for more information see www.vdai.lrv.lt).

The Company recommends contacting us before a formal complaint is submitted to find the appropriate solution to the problem.

Upon receipt of your request and after successful consideration thereof, we shall inform you without undue delay, but in any case, no later than within one month after the receipt of your request, information about the actions that we have taken. Depending on the complexity and number of requests, we have the right to extend the said one-month period for another two months.

If your request is submitted electronically, we will also provide you with an answer by electronic means, except where this is not possible or if you ask you to respond in a different way. 

9. HOW TO CONTACT US? 

If you have any questions regarding this Policy or if you have any requests related to the processing of your personal data, you can contact us:

By email contact@biocity.lt 
Phone: +370 5 2107013
Our details as a data controller:
Name: Celltechna UAB
Legal entity number: 303055791
Address: S. Žukausko g. 21, LT-08234 Vilnius, The Republic of Lithuania

10. FINAL PROVISIONS

This Privacy Policy may be updated by the Company from time to time. The Company will inform you about the updates by submitting a new version of the Privacy Policy on the website. 

This Privacy Policy applies from 2023.11.15

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