Cookie Policy

Vilnius City Municipality uses cookies on its website www.zaliasvilnius.lt. Below is information on what a cookie is and for what purposes we use cookies and how to remove them.

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

The website www.zaliasvilnius.lt uses a web analytics service of Google Analytics – Google, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as “Google”) that helps you analyse how the website is used. For this purpose, Google Analytics uses cookies.

Information obtained by cookies about the use of the website, i.e. standard web log information (including your IP address) and anonymous information about visitor behaviour, transmitted to Google and stored by Google on the servers in the USA. Before sending your IP address to Google, the website anonymises it.

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

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

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

Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Extension

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

Managing and deleting cookies in your browser

You can manage and/or delete cookies according to your preferences. You can delete all your cookies that are already on your computer, or set cookies not to be saved.

Most browsers allow to:

• 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 note that any options you have set will also be deleted. In addition, full blocking of cookies will prevent proper functioning of many websites (including our website). For these reasons, we do not recommend disabling cookies when you use our website.

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

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 General Data Protection Regulation No 2016/679 (hereinafter referred to as the “GDPR”), the Republic of Lithuania Law on Legal Protection of Personal Data, as well as the personal data processing requirements set out in other legislation and the recommendations and/or guidance of supervisory authorities.

Budgetary Institution Vilnius City Municipal Administration
Legal entity registration number: 188710061
Address of the registered office: Konstitucijos pr. 3, LT-09601 Vilnius
Tel. 8 5 2112000
E-mail savivaldybe@vilnius.lt

Information about you may be collected automatically. This usually happens in the cases when you use websites operated by us. More information about the cookies we use are listed below.

• Your name and contact details;
• the information you provide when you call or write to us,
• information necessary to defend our institution’s interests before a court or another authority;
• information about the device you are using;
• information about your use of this Website (device information: IP address, the operating system version and the 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 the cookies that we have set on your device (see the cookie policy below); the location information: the device’s GPS signal or information about the nearest WiFi hotspots and mobile towers, which can be transmitted when you use our website content).

The information provided above is processed for the following purposes:

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

To whom do we transfer your personal data?

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

The ability of the recipients of your personal data (individual data controllers) to use your data is limited, they may not use this information for purposes other than the purposes of their contract with us. To receive their direct marketing offers, you will be requested for your separate consent.

We may also provide your data to processors who provide services to us.

Data processors are entitled to process your personal data only on the basis of a written contract, made between us and them, on the basis of, and in accordance with, our instructions and only to the extent necessary for proper performance of the obligations set out in the contract. When using processors, we take all necessary measures to ensure that our processors have implemented appropriate organisational and technical security measures and maintain the confidentiality of your personal data.

Other parties to whom we may disclose the information we possess about you when necessary to protect our legitimate interests or comply with legal requirements imposed on us by public authorities, pre-trial investigation officers, courts, etc.

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

We have put reasonable and appropriate physical and technical measures in place to protect information we collect for the purposes of providing content/services. However, please remember that although we take reasonable steps to protect your personal data, none of the websites, online transaction, computer system or wireless connection is completely secure.

We set the retention periods for personal data in accordance with the requirements of laws, regulations and the instructions of the supervisory and/or other competent authorities. If such requirements or instructions are not set, we set the time limits for data retention taking into account the public interest or our own legitimate interests, but not longer than 7 years from the moment of receipt of the data (unless, as mentioned above, longer periods for data retention are set out in the legislation).

After the expiry of the data retention periods, your data will be erased in such a way that it cannot be reproduced, or are personalised in such a way that you cannot be identified.

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

• right to know (be informed) about the processing of your data (right to know);
• right to access to your data processed by us and how it is processed (the right to access);
• right to rectification or, depending on the purposes of the processing of the personal data, supplementing of incomplete personal data (right to rectification);
• right to erasure of personal data concerning you (right to be forgotten);
• right to restriction of the processing of personal data concerning you (right to restriction);
• right to request for portability of your data provided to us (right to data portability);
• right to object to the processing of your personal data where such processing it is carried out in the public interest, for the purposes of our legitimate interests or those of a third party and where personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes, including profiling (right to object);
• right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data where the processing is based on consent.

We always strive to properly safeguard your rights and promptly respond to any potential violation of the exercise of the rights and, therefore, in case of any question regarding our processing of your personal data, please contact us first. Please also note that in all cases you have the right to lodge a complaint with the State Data Protection Inspectorate at any time.

We may not allow you to exercise the above rights where, in the cases provided for in the laws, it is necessary to ensure the investigation of criminal offences, prevention, investigation and detection of breaches of official or professional ethics, as well as the protection of the rights and freedoms of the data subject or of other persons protection.

The Privacy Policy is reviewed and updated according to our needs, but at least as often as once every two years, or in the event of an amendment in the legislation governing the processing of person data. When we update our Privacy Policy, we will inform you of what we consider to be material changes by publishing a notice on the Website or by other similar means. If you use our content and/or services following the publication of such a notice, we will consider that you have agreed to the new requirements set out in the updated Privacy Policy.