Privacy policy
This policy explains what data the Maru Expert online baking school collects about you, why it is needed, who it is shared with and how to have it deleted.
The data controller is self-employed entrepreneur Katsiaryna Kurbatava (NIP 8992971388), Republic of Poland — hereinafter the “School”. For anything about your data: [email protected].
What data we collect
What you give us: your name, email address and phone number at checkout; a password (stored encrypted — neither we nor anyone else can read it); the text of a review, if you sent one.
What appears as you study: which lessons you opened; homework and photos sent to your tutor; correspondence with the tutor and with support; dates and amounts of payments, the chosen format, the state of an instalment plan; IP address, country, browser and device when you sign in.
We do not have your card details. The card number is entered on the payment system's page and never reaches us — we only see that the payment went through, the amount and the last digits of the card on the receipt.
Why the data is needed
— to open access to the course and recognise you at sign-in;
— to take payment, work out instalments and the returning-student discount, and issue a receipt;
— to write to you about your studies: payment confirmation, sign-in link, newly opened lessons, a reply from your tutor;
— to review homework and give feedback;
— to send news about courses and new materials — one click unsubscribes, and it does not affect your access;
— to show students' reviews, if you sent one;
— to count overall site traffic.
Who we share data with
Only those without whom the service does not work, and only as much as they need:
— payment systems Stripe, bePaid, YooKassa — your name, email and the amount, to process the payment;
— Brevo (Sendinblue) — your email and name, to send the message;
— Vimeo — the video lessons are hosted there, and playing them passes the technical details of your request to the service;
— Telegram — if you joined the private group of a course;
— Google — anonymous traffic statistics, if you accepted analytics cookies.
We do not sell data and do not pass it on for anyone else's advertising. Data goes to public authorities only on a lawful request.
Homework
Photos and descriptions of work sent to a tutor are seen by the tutor and the school's administration. For teaching purposes a piece of work may be shown to other students anonymously — without your name and without any link to you. Publication with your name attached happens only with your separate consent.
Cookies
Technical cookies keep you signed in and stop the checkout from losing your order — the site does not work without them. Analytics cookies are switched on only with your consent in the banner on your first visit; declining breaks nothing.
You can change your mind at any time by clearing the site's cookies in your browser.
How long we keep it
Account data is kept while the account exists. Payment records are kept for as long as accounting law requires.
Homework is kept for the duration of your access to the course and for a year afterwards. Sign-in records are kept for no longer than two years.
Your rights
As the data is processed in Poland, you have the rights given by the General Data Protection Regulation: to access your data, to have it corrected or erased, to restrict or object to processing, to receive your data in a portable format, and to withdraw consent at any time.
Write to [email protected] from the address your account is registered to. We reply within 30 calendar days. If our answer does not satisfy you, you may complain to the Polish data protection authority (UODO).
Deleting your account closes access to the courses; how a refund is handled in that case is set out in the refund policy.
How we protect the data
The site runs over HTTPS, passwords are stored as irreversible hashes, and access to the database is limited to those who need it for their work. Nobody can promise absolute security on the internet, but we do what is within our power.
Changes to this policy
A new version is published on this page and takes effect on publication. If the changes are significant, we will let you know by email.
Details
Self-employed entrepreneur Katsiaryna Kurbatava
NIP 8992971388, Republic of Poland
E-mail: [email protected]