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Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Darko Slivar ("we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, stores, and protects personal information when you visit darkoslivar.com, contact us, join a waitlist, enquire about a cooking workshop, or propose a collaboration.

1. Who Is Responsible for Your Data

Darko Slivar is the data controller responsible for the personal information collected through this website.

Contact details

You can use the email address above for questions about this Privacy Policy or to exercise your data-protection rights.

2. Personal Information We Collect

We collect only the information reasonably needed to operate the website, respond to visitors, and provide the services described on it.

Information you provide directly

Depending on how you use the website, you may provide:

  • Your name and email address.

  • The subject and content of a message.

  • Information included in a workshop, media, podcast, television, partnership, or collaboration enquiry.

  • Your email address when joining the Coming Soon waitlist or requesting updates.

  • Any other information you voluntarily include in a message to us.

Please do not submit health information, payment-card details, identification documents, or other sensitive personal information through the website forms.

Technical and usage information

When you visit the website, limited technical information may be processed to deliver and secure the site and understand general usage. This can include pages viewed, referral source, browser type, device type, operating system, approximate country, and similar technical details.

Framer's built-in analytics is designed to operate without cookies or persistent identifiers and does not provide us with information that directly identifies individual visitors.

3. Why We Use Your Information

We process personal information only when we have a valid legal basis under applicable data-protection law.

Responding to enquiries

We use contact, workshop, and collaboration submissions to read your message, reply to you, discuss your request, and take steps you ask us to take before entering into an agreement. The legal basis is taking steps at your request before a contract and our legitimate interest in communicating with people interested in our work.

Managing workshops and collaborations

If an enquiry develops into a workshop, appearance, partnership, or other professional arrangement, we may use the supplied information to plan, administer, and fulfil that arrangement. The legal basis is performance of a contract or taking steps before entering into one.

Sending waitlist and project updates

When you join a waitlist or request updates, we use your email address to send the information you requested. The legal basis is your consent. You can withdraw consent at any time by using an unsubscribe option, when available, or emailing contact@darkoslivar.com.

Operating and protecting the website

We may process limited technical information to maintain website performance, prevent spam or misuse, diagnose problems, and protect the website and its visitors. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in operating a secure and reliable website.

Meeting legal obligations

We may process or retain information when necessary to comply with applicable laws, accounting requirements, lawful requests, or to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

4. Forms and Email Communications

Information entered into a website form is sent to us or to the service configured to deliver or manage the submission. We use form information only for the purpose stated beside the form or for a closely related purpose that you would reasonably expect.

Submitting an enquiry does not automatically add you to a marketing list. We will send promotional or waitlist emails only when you have requested them or otherwise given valid consent.

5. Cookies and Analytics

Framer analytics

This website may use Framer's built-in, privacy-focused analytics to understand general website activity. According to Framer, this analytics system does not use cookies or persistent identifiers and does not store information that identifies an individual visitor.

Non-essential cookies

We do not intentionally place non-essential advertising or behavioural-tracking cookies through the standard website setup. If a third-party analytics, advertising, video, or similar service that uses non-essential cookies is added, we will update this policy and request consent before those cookies are placed where required by law.

You can also manage or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking essential browser storage may affect some website functions.

6. Who May Receive Your Information

We do not sell or rent personal information.

We may share information only when necessary with:

  • Framer, which provides website hosting, forms, analytics, security, and related website infrastructure.

  • Email, form-delivery, cloud-storage, or communication providers used to receive and manage enquiries.

  • Professional advisers or service providers where access is necessary and subject to appropriate confidentiality and data-protection obligations.

  • Public authorities, courts, regulators, or law-enforcement bodies when disclosure is legally required.

Each service provider may process only the information needed to perform its service, subject to its contractual and legal obligations.

7. International Data Transfers

Some technology providers may process information outside Croatia or the European Economic Area. When personal information is transferred internationally, we rely on an approved legal safeguard where required, such as an adequacy decision, Standard Contractual Clauses, or another lawful transfer mechanism.

You may contact us if you would like more information about the safeguards relevant to your information.

8. How Long We Keep Information

We retain personal information only for as long as necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.

Enquiries

Contact, workshop, and collaboration enquiries are normally retained for up to 24 months after the last meaningful communication, unless the enquiry results in an ongoing professional relationship or a longer period is reasonably needed for legal purposes.

Waitlist information

Waitlist and email-update information is retained until you unsubscribe, withdraw consent, the relevant project ends, or the mailing list is discontinued.

Business and legal records

Information connected to a completed service, agreement, invoice, or legal matter may be retained for the period required by applicable Croatian or European law.

When information is no longer needed, we delete it or anonymise it where reasonably possible.

9. Your Data-Protection Rights

Subject to the conditions and limits in applicable law, you may have the following rights:

Access and information

You may ask whether we process your personal information and request a copy of it.

Correction

You may ask us to correct information that is inaccurate or incomplete.

Erasure

You may ask us to delete your personal information when there is no valid reason to keep processing it.

Restriction

You may ask us to restrict how we process your information in certain circumstances.

Data portability

Where applicable, you may ask to receive information you provided in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format or have it sent to another controller.

Objection

You may object to processing based on legitimate interests. You may object to direct marketing at any time.

Withdrawal of consent

When processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing that was lawful before consent was withdrawn.

To exercise a right, email contact@darkoslivar.com. We may ask for information reasonably necessary to confirm your identity. We will respond without undue delay and generally within one month, subject to any lawful extension.

10. Complaints

Please contact us first if you have a privacy concern so we can try to resolve it.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Croatian supervisory authority:

Croatian Personal Data Protection Agency (AZOP)

11. Automated Decision-Making

We do not use personal information collected through this website to make decisions based solely on automated processing that produce legal or similarly significant effects.

12. Children's Privacy

This website is intended for a general audience and is not directed specifically at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children through the website. If you believe a child has submitted personal information, please contact us so we can review and, where appropriate, delete it.

13. External Websites and Purchase Links

The website may link to external cookbook retailers, social-media platforms, event services, or other third-party websites. When you follow an external link, the third party controls its own collection and use of information. Its privacy policy and terms apply to your activity on that service.

We encourage you to review the privacy information provided by any external website before submitting personal information or completing a purchase.

14. Data Security

We use reasonable technical and organisational measures intended to protect personal information against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, loss, or misuse. No online service or method of electronic transmission can be guaranteed completely secure.

15. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when the website, its services, or applicable legal requirements change. The revised version will be posted on this page with a new “Last updated” date. Material changes may also be communicated through another appropriate method.

16. Contact Us

For privacy questions, requests, or concerns, contact:

Darko Slivar

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