Right to object to the processing of personal data
Every person whose personal data is processed has a right to control the processing of his/her personal data (Article 32 paragraph 1 of the Act). It is expressed for instance by the possibility of objecting to the processing of personal data for marketing purposes or to the transfer of data to another controller.
Right to demand the rectification of personal data
On the grounds of Article 32 paragraph 6 of the Act on the Protection of Personal Data every person has a right to demand the data to be completed, updated, rectified, temporally or permanently suspended or erased, in case they are not complete, outdated, untrue or collected with the violation of the Act, or in case they are no longer required for the purpose to which they have been collected.
The right to obtain information
Every person has a right to control the processing of his/her personal data which can be exercised for instance by demanding to obtain information concerning the processing of his/her data.
The electronic mail address – urgently needed data
The e-mail address has become data which is highly protected by the owner. The persons who are carelessly giving their e-mail address are vastly experiencing the flood of spam such as the unsolicited commercial information into their mailbox. The e-mail address is a valuable asset for marketing companies and the entities that gather and trade the Internet users profiles. E-mail often becomes a subject of trade or a way of direct or targeted influence on consumers, especially in connection with other information concerning the owner of the e-mail address such us: interests, habits, health condition, financial standing, atc.
Presently, many companies are established which specialize in user profiles trading. The full profile of a person can be bought for a dozen or so dollars.
When using an open and flexible electronic mail system it is useful to make sure that the e-mail address is not transferred to unauthorized bodies and that does not become a profile carrier or a means of privacy violation. It is worth ensuring that e-mail address is not included in various data bases from which spam messages are sent on a large scale. Below you will find a few principles that allow proper protection of your own address and the addresses of other people with whom you correspond.