Privacy policy

1. Who processes your data

The data controller is UAB „Kvapai ir spalvos“ (brand METHOD), company code 303028844, VAT code LT100008194617, Rastinėnų g. 27, Rastinėnai, LT-14211 Vilnius District, Lithuania.

For questions regarding personal data, please write to info@method.lt.

2. What data we collect

We collect data only when you submit it yourself through the forms on this website.

Manufacturing inquiry form

• company or brand name and email address;
• project information: manufacturing model, product category, market, preliminary quantities, current situation and project description.

Corporate gift inquiry form

• company name and email address;
• gift requirements: who the gifts are for, quantity, budget, date, personalisation preferences and selected gift ideas.

We ask that you do not include gift recipients' names, addresses or any other personal data in the form.

Contact form

• name, email address and message text.

Submitted together with an inquiry

• the address of the page from which the inquiry was submitted;
• the time and text of your consent to data processing;
• your IP address – only temporarily, for up to 10 minutes, in order to limit the number of automated requests. It is not stored with the inquiry.

3. Why we process data and on what legal basis

• To respond to your inquiry and prepare a quote. Legal basis – your consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR) and steps taken at your request prior to entering into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR).
• To protect the website against abuse. Legal basis – our legitimate interest in ensuring the security of the service (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).
• To understand how visitors use the website (visitor statistics). Legal basis – your consent given in the cookie banner (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR). See Section 7.

We do not use data for direct marketing or for automated decision-making.

4. How long we keep data

We keep inquiry data for 24 months from the last correspondence. If we enter into a contract, related data is retained for the periods required by law. If you withdraw your consent, the data is deleted unless its retention is required by law.

5. Who may receive your data

We do not sell data. It may only be processed, on our instructions, by service providers that help operate the website:

• website hosting provider – Vercel Inc. (USA);
• content management system (WordPress) hosting provider – UAB „Interneto vizija“ (serveriai.lt, Lithuania);
• email service provider – UAB „Interneto vizija“ (serveriai.lt, Lithuania);
• visitor statistics provider – Google Ireland Limited (Google Analytics), only with your consent.

Vercel Inc., Mapbox Inc. (see Section 6) and Google may process data outside the European Economic Area – in the USA. In such cases, the safeguards provided for in the GDPR apply: the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework or standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission.

6. Third-party content on the website

• The map on the “Contact” page is displayed via Mapbox (Mapbox Inc., USA). When you open the page, your IP address and browser information are transmitted to the map service provider.
• Links to other websites (e.g. our brands, YouTube) lead to pages managed by the operators of those websites.

7. Cookies

The website does not use strictly necessary cookies. Your choice in the cookie banner is stored only in your browser.

Visitor statistics (Google Analytics). To understand which pages are useful and what to improve, we use Google Analytics 4 (Google Ireland Limited). It is enabled only when you click “Accept” in the cookie banner – until then, the Google script is not loaded and no cookies are set.

• Cookies: _ga and _ga_*, valid for up to 2 years.
• Data collected: pages visited, time and duration of the visit, device and browser type, approximate location (country, city) based on IP address.
• Advertising and personalisation features are disabled – we do not use the data for advertising.

You can withdraw your consent at any time by clicking “Cookies” at the bottom of the page and selecting “Decline” – statistics will then no longer be sent and Google Analytics cookies will be deleted.

Map. The embedded map on the “Contact” page may use its own technologies in accordance with the Mapbox privacy policy.

8. Your rights

You have the right to:

• access your data and obtain a copy of it;
• request the rectification of inaccurate data;
• request the erasure of your data or the restriction of its processing;
• receive the data you have provided and transmit it to another controller;
• object to the processing of your data on the basis of legitimate interest;
• withdraw your consent at any time – this does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before the withdrawal.

Please submit your request by email to info@method.lt. We will respond within one month at the latest.

If you believe that your data is being processed unlawfully, you may lodge a complaint with the State Data Protection Inspectorate (L. Sapiegos g. 17, LT-10312 Vilnius, vdai.lrv.lt).

9. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy, for example when website features or service providers change. The latest version is always published on this page, and the date of the last update is shown at the top.