Shimoda – sole proprietorship for Internet services (hereinafter referred to as “Shimoda”) follows the principles below in order to protect your privacy:
- We do not collect more information than is necessary.
- We do not use your data for purposes that have not been stated.
- We do not retain your data for longer than necessary.
- We never sell, lend, distribute, or publicly disclose your personal data.
- We do not share your data with third parties.
- We do not use any automated data processing, automated decision-making, or profiling.
- We do not transfer your personal data to another country or to an international organisation.
- We also make sure that your data is stored securely.
Shimoda collects only a limited amount of information about you, only as much as is necessary for us to respond to your request.
This website, as well as our business and information systems, has been designed to comply with the following national and EU legal framework regarding data protection and user privacy:
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679)
- Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications (Directive 2002/58/EC)
- Personal Data Protection Act (Official Gazette No. 103/03, 118/06, 41/08, 130/11, 106/12)
and will be continuously updated in accordance with the relevant national and EU legal and regulatory framework governing data protection and privacy.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on 04 June 2026.
How and what data do we collect?
Although you may use our website without providing any personal data, once you contact us through our contact form or directly via our email address, Shimoda collects certain information about you.
The information you provide in the form (personal information such as your name, email address, and company/organisation) or send by direct email message will be processed and stored so that we can contact you and respond to your request. If you are under 16 years of age, you must provide the consent of a parent or guardian before submitting personal data.
In addition to the above, we also collect information on visits to our website through the Google Analytics service. For this purpose, we require your consent, which you can give by clicking the link in the cookie banner. If you do not confirm your consent in this way, this means that no data will be collected in your case.
Data Controller
The data controller of this website and your personal data is Shimoda – obrt za Internet usluge, with its registered office at:
Shimoda – obrt za Internet usluge
Kresimira Filica 33
42000 Varaždin
Croatia
What is the purpose and legal basis for collecting data?
The sole purpose and legal basis for processing your personal data is to take the most appropriate steps in response to your request prior to entering into any business relationship, or for the performance of a contractual relationship between you and Shimoda, if such a relationship has already been established.
How long will your data be stored?
We will respond to your enquiry submitted through our contact form or directly to our email address.
As long as we have ongoing communication for the purpose of establishing a business relationship, we will continue to store and use your personal data necessary to establish that relationship, as well as for the duration of our contractual relationship. If there is no further communication between you and Shimoda, we will delete all your personal data after 6 months.
Of course, you have the right at any time to request that the processing and storage of all your personal data cease.
Information Security
When Shimoda collects information about you, we ensure that your personal data is protected against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to personal data that is transmitted, stored, or otherwise processed. This is achieved through appropriate technical measures.
Shimoda has implemented all necessary security measures to protect the personal data you share with us, including physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards.
If you choose to contact us through the contact form on our website or directly by email, none of the data you disclose will be stored on this website, nor will it be transferred to or processed by any third party. Instead, the data is collected and delivered by email.
Our email (SMTP) servers are protected by the TLS protocol (sometimes known as SSL), which means that the email content is encrypted using SHA-2, 256-bit cryptography before being transmitted over the internet. The email content is decrypted on our local computers and devices.
About Our Hosting
This website is hosted by a trusted service provider within the EU. All traffic (file transfers) between this website and your browser is encrypted and transmitted over HTTPS.
Your Rights
You are free to contact us at any time for the purpose of:
- ACCESSING all personal data that Shimoda has collected about you,
- CORRECTING the personal data that Shimoda holds about you,
- DELETING all personal data that Shimoda has collected about you,
- RESTRICTING the processing of your personal data by Shimoda,
- OBJECTING to the processing of your personal data by Shimoda, or
- REQUESTING the personal data that Shimoda holds about you for the purpose of transferring it to a third party.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights listed above, or if you have any questions about the collection, processing, and storage of personal data by Shimoda, please feel free to:
- send an enquiry via the contact form on our website, or
- send an email to email@shimoda.hr
and we will respond free of charge within no more than 48 hours.
Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority
You have the right at any time to lodge a complaint directly with the competent supervisory authority, in particular in the EU country of your habitual residence, place of work, or the place of the alleged infringement, if you believe that our processing of your personal data is not lawful, using the following contact details:
AGENCIJA ZA ZAŠTITU OSOBNIH PODATAKA (AZOP)
Selska cesta 136
HR – 10 000 Zagreb
Telefon: +385 1 4609 000
Fax: +385 1 4609 099
E-mail: azop@azop.hr
Web: www.azop.hr