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How the See the Sea Foundation processes personal data.
At See the Sea we only collect the data you give us yourself, and we use it solely to reply to your message, handle your application, or send you the newsletter you sign up for. Here is how, in line with the GDPR.
The controller of your personal data is the See the Sea Foundation, based in Gdynia, Poland, registered in the Polish National Court Register under KRS 0001198729, NIP 5862423008, REGON 542952749. We have not appointed a data protection officer. For any data matters, write to info@seetheseaproject.com.
We process the data you share when you contact us:
We process your data on the basis of your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) when you sign up for the newsletter or submit an application, and on the basis of our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) in communicating, answering enquiries and running the foundation's statutory activities. Providing your data is voluntary, but without it we cannot reply to your message or handle your application.
We use trusted tool providers who process data on our behalf under data processing agreements: Google Ireland Limited (Google Forms, Sheets and email), our newsletter platform provider, and our website hosting provider. Some of them may process data outside the European Economic Area, on the basis of Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission. We do not sell your data or share it with others for marketing.
We keep correspondence and applications for as long as needed to deal with your matter, and afterwards only as long as justified (for example for evidentiary purposes). A newsletter email is kept until you withdraw your consent, that is, unsubscribe.
You have the right to access your data, to rectify, erase or restrict its processing, to object, to data portability, and to withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal. To exercise these rights, write to info@seetheseaproject.com. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the President of the Polish Personal Data Protection Office (UODO, ul. Stawki 2, 00-193 Warsaw).
Some of our work, including the Baltic Research Programme, is aimed at students who may be minors. In that case consent to the processing of data is given by a parent or legal guardian, which is why the form asks for their email address.
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We may update this policy when our tools or the law change. The current version is always available on this page.
Last updated: 7 June 2026.