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As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The submission contains ALL of the elements below:
-- text manuscript (min. 25 and max. 40 thousand characters incl. spaces)
-- the title of the article in English and in Polish (max 120 characters incl. spaces)
-- bibliography formatted in Chicago Humanities style (see instructions below)
-- abstracts in English and in Polish (min. 600 and max. 800 characters incl. spaces)
-- key words in English and in Polish (max. 75 characters incl. spaces)
-- author’s bio in English and in Polish (min. 600 and max. 800 characters incl. spaces)
-- author’s ORCID number
-- author’s affiliation
-- written permissions and licenses for copyrighted material (e.g.: images) -- as an additional file
-- in the case of open-license or owned materials, a declaration concerning the type of the license and the source of the graphic as an additional file
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics (not underlining, not boldface); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end, and have been submitted as additional files. The graphics are high resolution (min. 300 dpi) for titles published both online and in print.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
The article contains all elements of content and has NOT been anonymized: the preparation of the text for double blind reference is the responsibility of the Issue Editor.
In your additional documentation all licenses and copyright-related permits are included in writing.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) information clause for the representatives, employees and collaborators of the Contracting Parties of the University of Silesia in Katowice

On the basis of Article 13(1) and (2) or Article 14(1) and (2) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27th April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), hereinafter referred to as “GDPR”, we inform you about the manner and purpose for which we process your personal data, as well as your data protection rights, as follows:

Personal data controller
The controller of your personal data is the University of Silesia in Katowice. You can contact the controller of your personal data in the following way:

1) by post, to the address: ul. Bankowa 12, 40-007 Katowice
2) by e-mail: administrator.danych@us.edu.pl

Data protection officer
A data protection officer may be contacted by you on all matters concerning the processing of your personal data and the exercise of rights related to the processing of the data, in the following way:

1) by post, to the address: ul. Bankowa 12, 40-007 Katowice
2) by e-mail: iod@us.edu.pl

The purposes of data processing and the legal basis for the processing
The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is, according to Article 6 (1) (c), (e) and (f) of GDPR:

1) the need to use your personal data during the period preceding the conclusion of the Agreement (for the purpose of a letter of intent) and during the period of performance of the Agreement (for the purpose of its execution by the representatives of the Contracting Parties) and for the purpose of its implementation and coordination by the natural persons indicated as contacts, who are employees or collaborators of the contracting parties;

2) fulfilling legal obligations imposed on the controller, in particular those arising from accounting and tax regulations, as well as from the archiving obligation, in accordance with the applicable law;

3) performance of public tasks assigned to higher education institutions, i.e. carrying out scientific activities, provision of research services and transfer of knowledge and technologies to the economy, resulting from Article 11, Paragraph 1(3) of the Act of 20th July 2018, Law on Higher Education and Science [Prawo o szkolnictwie wyższym i nauce];

4) in order to establish, seek or defend against any claims related to performance of the agreement representing a legitimate interest of the administrator.

Provision of personal data is a necessary requirement to undertake actions preceding conclusion of the Agreement (making a letter of intent) and performance of the Agreement (its execution by the representatives of the parties and ensuring its proper implementation by the natural persons indicated in the content of the said documents as contacts for the purposes of the Agreement’s coordination. Failure to provide personal data will make it impossible to achieve the aforementioned objective.

Personal data can also be obtained directly from a data subject if you voluntarily make your personal data available to the University of Silesia in Katowice within the framework of mutual cooperation based on a Letter of Intent and/or agreement.

Categories of personal data and sources of their acquisition (refers to acquisition of personal data from sources other than a data subject)
The Party to the letter of intent and/or Agreement shall provide the University of Silesia in Katowice with personal data of its representatives, employees and collaborators – indicated in the content of the document(s), or other contact details necessary for the implementation of the agreement, in particular: name and surname, company e-mail, company telephone number, function/position and work place.

Period of personal data storage
The controller will store personal data for the period of time required to document activities involving your participation which are related to activities undertaken before conclusion of the Agreement and during its performance, as well as after the termination or expiry of the Agreement, for the period specified in accounting and tax regulations. These periods may be extended if it is necessary to establish, assert or defend against claims arising from the performance of this agreement, until any possible claims are time-barred. The documentation will be archived in accordance with applicable laws.

Data Recipients
We may share your data with entities rendering postal or courier services, public authorities or entities that are entitled to obtain personal data on the basis of applicable law as well as other entities cooperating with us, to the extent necessary and for the purpose compliant with the performance of the contract.

Rights related to processing of personal data
You have the following rights related to the processing of your personal data:

1) the right to access your personal data;

2) the right to demand rectification of inaccurate personal data and supplementation of incomplete personal data;

3) the right to demand deletion of your personal data. data; This right does not apply, in particular, if the processing of the data is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation requiring such processing under the applicable law or to perform a public task;

4) the right to request limitation of your personal data processing;

5) the right to object to the processing of your personal data, due to your specific situation, in cases when we process your data due to our legitimate interest, including direct marketing or performance of a public task. NOTE: as regards processing for direct marketing purposes, you may object at any time regardless of your specific situation;

6) the right to transfer your personal data, i.e. the right to receive personal data from us, in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. You may transfer this data to another data controller or request that we transfer your data to another data controller. However, we will only do so if such transfer is technically possible. You have the right to transfer your personal data only in respect to the data which we process automatically, i.e. in electronic form, on the basis of an agreement with you or on the basis of your consent;
7) the right to lodge a complaint to the supervisory authority dealing with personal data protection, i.e. the President of the Personal Data Protection Office [Prezes Urzędu Ochrony Danych Osobowych];
8) your data will not be subject to automated decision-making, including profiling.

Author Guidelines

Interested in submitting to Er(r)go. Theory - Literature - Culture? We recommend that you review the About the Journal page for the journal's section policies. Please, read the following Useful Documents and Guidelines for Authors carefully; do make sure that you have all the necessary documents at hand. Note: for instructions concering the formatting of texts in Polish, please change the language interface of this website. Also, when submitting a text, Authors are requested to ented the "List of co-authors" tab, then to click "Add co-author" (even if there is only one author) and then to fill in the form with detailed data (ORCID, affiliation, biography). Please do not skip this step when submitting your contribution.

Useful documents:

Formatting instructions for Contributors of texts in English
The layout of the first page of the article (PDF)
How to format your bibliography for the OJS system?
MS Word template of the first page (download!)
The Er(r)go Code of Ethics and Malpractice Statement (alternative: bilingual PDF; the text in English follows the text in Polish)

GUIDELINES for AUTHORS

Themes
Culture and its products; the ontology of artefacts; methodologies of literary and cultural research; critical theory; comparative literary studies; trends and tendencies in culture/literature; interdisciplinary relations; liminal spaces between culture, literature, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, etc.; transformations of paradigms; trends and contexts; literary-theoretical and cultural syntheses – and related areas.

Editorial policy
Except for commissioned texts, or new (first) translations, Er(r)go does not accept texts previously published. Reprints are admissible in thematic issues if a given text is particularly important from the point of view of the overall conception of the issue. Submissions undergo the procedure of double-blind peer review, the outcome of which decides about the qualification of the text for publication.

Mandatory documents required in the submission file

text manuscript (min. 25 and max. 40 thousand characters incl. spaces)
the title of the article in English and in Polish (max 120 characters incl. spaces)
bibliography formatted in Chicago Humanities style (see instructions below)
abstracts in English and in Polish (min. 600 and max. 800 characters incl. spaces)
key words in English and in Polish (max. 75 characters incl. spaces)
author’s bio in English and in Polish (min. 600 and max. 800 characters incl. spaces)
author’s ORCID number
author’s affiliation
written permissions and licenses for copyrighted material (e.g.: images) -- as an additional file
in the case of open-license or owned materials, a declaration concerning the type of the license and the source of the graphic as an additional file

Language standards
Submissions, including abstracts, must meet the world-wide standards of academic English (educated native speaker proficiency level).

Disclaimer
The Editors reserve the right to introduce modifications that would not affect the merit of the study to the texts submitted to Er(r)go. Incomplete submissions, or submissions missing metadata will be rejected. The Editors also reserve the right to reprint texts submitted to the journal in anniversary or special issues of the Er(r)go .

Text formatting
1. Editable documents (DOC, DOCX or RTF – not: PDF) should be submitted to our OJS system. In order to do this, please visit the journal’s website (www.errgo.pl), log in to the system as “Author” and follow the on-screen instructions.

2. Texts in English should be prepared in accordance with the Chicago style

spacing: double space
margins: 3 cm (left, right, top and bottom)
font: Times New Roman, font size: 12 points
paragraph indent: 1.25 cm
justification: left and right
article title: maximum 120 characters including spaces
motto: max. 250 characters incl. spaces, exclusively under the main title, font size: 10 points
subsection headers: maximum 70 characters including spaces; headers unnumbered
blockquote: minimum three lines or 50 words, single-spaced, no quotation marks
block indent: 1.25 cm, one empty line between the main text and the text of the quote (top and bottom), font size: 10 points. Do not italicize blockquotes.
quotations within the blockquote: double quotation marks (“Text” )
in-text quotations: maximum three lines – double quotation marks
quotations within in-text quotations: single quotation marks (“Text ‘text’ text.”)
special use of words: double quotation marks (“Text” )
emphasis: only italics (not: s p a c e d, not: bold)
ellipsis: […]
commas and periods: within quotation marks (“Text ‘text’ text.”)
footnote number: after the period and/or quotation mark (“Text ‘text’ text.” 1)

3. All of the graphic material (figures, illustrations, diagrams, etc.) to be included in the text should be submitted via OJS as “additional files.” The minimum resolution of illustrations is 300 dpi. All graphics must be supplied with appropriate written licenses for print and online use, issued by the copyright owner or, in the case of open-license or owned materials, a declaration concerning the type of the license and the source of the graphics.

4. Footnotes need to be prepared in accordance with the Chicago Humanities style, as follows:

A book
Name Surname of the author, Title, trans. Name Surname of the translator (place of publication: publisher, year of publication), pages.

A chapter in a collective volume
Name Surname of the author, “Title of the Chapter,” in: Title of the Collection, ed. by Name Surname of the editor(s) (place of publication: publisher, year of publication), pages.

An article in a periodical
Name Surname of the author, “Title of the Article,” Title of the Periodical, volume, issue (year), pages.

An online article, an online forum entry, an online periodical article
Name Surname of the author, “Title of the Article,” Title of the Periodical, volume, issue (year), page (if available), http://www.xxx.xxxx.xxx (access date in the dd/mm/yyyy format).

An encyclopaedia/dictionary entry
“Title of the Entry,” in: Title of the Source, edited by Name Surname of the editor (place of publication: publisher, year of publication), pages.

An online encyclopaedia/dictionary entry
“Title of the Entry,” in: Title of the Source, http://www.xxx.xxxx.xxx (access date in the dd/mm/yyyy format).

A poem or a chapter in a book by a single author
Name Surname of the author, “Title of the Chapter,” in: Name Surname of the author, Title of the Book (place of publication: publisher, year of publication), pages.

Film
The Title of the Motion Picture, dir. Name Surname of the director, Name of the producer or distributor, country, year of release.

Quotation after a different author
Name Surname of the author of the quoted text, Title of the Book, trans. Name Surname of the translator (place of publication: publisher, year of publication), pages, quoted in: Name Surname of the quoting author, Title of the Book, trans. Name Surname of the translator (place of publication: publisher, year of publication), pages.

Following footnotes to the same text
Surname of the author, shortened “Title of the Article” or of a Book, pages.

5. Examples

A book
Jean Baudrillard, The Ecstasy of Communication, trans. Bernard and Caroline Schutze, edited by Sylvere Lotringer (New York: Semiotext(e), 1988), 30–31.

A chapter in a collective volume
Robert Cieślak, “Od Grünewalda do Bacona. Gra o tożsamość w poezji Tadeusza Różewicza,” in: Ponowoczesność a tożsamość, edited by Bożena Tokarz and Stanisław Piskor (Katowice: Wydawnictwo OK SPP, 1997), 86.

An article in a periodical
Ewa Szczęsna, “Tożsamość hybrydyczna,” Er(r)go , 9, 2 (2004), 10–11.

An online article, an online forum entry, an online periodical article
Artur Wolski, “Nauka i przemyślenia,” Forum Akademickie 1 (2006), http://forumakademickie.pl/fa/2006/01/nauka-i-przemyslenia (12.02.2007).

An encyclopaedia/dictionary entry
“Rozum,” in: Słownik synonimów, edited by Andrzej Dąbrówka, Ewa Geller, Ryszard Turczyn (Warszawa: Wydawnictwo MCR, 1993), 115–116.

An online encyclopaedia/dictionary entry
“Absolut,” in: Powszechna Encyklopedia Filozofii, http://www.ptta.pl/pef/pdf/a/absolut.pdf (10.10.2007).

A poem or a chapter in a book by a single author
Maria Korusiewicz, “Vermeer (1658),” in: Majolika (Katowice: Wydawnictwo Śląsk, 2012), 5.

Film
The Pillow Book, dir. and screenplay Peter Greenaway, Lions Gate Films, France–the Netherlands–United Kingdom, 1996.

Quotation after a different author
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Rzeźnia numer pięć, trans. Lech Jęczmyk (Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Da Capo, 1996), 14, quoted in: Jolanta Misiarz, “Jeszcze kilka słów na temat masakry. Filozofia egzystencjalna w Rzeźni numer pięć,” in: Szkice o literaturze i kulturze amerykańskiej, edited by Teresa Pyzik (Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2001), 71.

Footnotes to the same text
Vonnegut, Rzeźnia numer pięć..., 132.

6. We do not use: “ibid./ibidem” ; “op. cit.” ; “idem.”

7. We use “See:” only when it is our intention to extend the information provided in the text. The abbreviation “Cf.” is to be used only when our intention is to provide a contrastive or comparative juxtaposition of the information offered in our text with information offered in other sources.

8. For emphasis use italics. Do not use bold typeface, do not use underscore, do not use CAPITAL LETTERS. Do not use any non-standard symbols or ornamental graphics.

9. If you anticipate the inclusion of quotations in languages using non-European fonts or requiring the right-to-left text directon, please consult the Er(r)go editors at the time of submisson.

10. Bibliography should be formatted in accordance with the Chicago Manual of Style:

A book
Surname, Name. Title. Translated by Name Surname of the translator, page range. Place of publication: Publisher, year of publication.
Example: Saunders, George. Lincoln w bardo. Translated by Michał Kłobukowski. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Znak, 2018.

A chapter in a collective volume
Surname, Name. “Title of the Chapter.” In: Title of the Collection, edited by Name Surname of the editor, page range. Place of publication: Publisher, year of publication.
Example: Taylor, Nik. “Anthropomorphism and the Animal Subject.” In Anthropocentrism: Humans, Animals, Environments, edited by Robert Boddice, 265–281. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011.

An article in a periodical
Surname, Name. “Title of the Article.” Title of the Periodical, volume number, issue number (year of publication), page range.
Example: Beardsworth, Alan, and Alan Bryman. “The Wild Animal in Late Modernity. The Case of the Disneyization of Zoos.” Tourist Studies, 1, 1 (2001), 83–104.

An online article, an online forum entry, an online periodical article
Surname, Name. “Title of the Article.” Title of the Periodical, volume number, issue number (year of publication). https://www.xxx.xxxx.xxx (access date: dd.mm.rrrr).
Example: Sankaran, Chitra. “Apocalyptic Vision in the Laotian Short Story ‘The Roar of a Distant War’ by Viliya Ketavong.” Journal of Ecocriticism, 8, 1 (2018). https://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/joe/article/view/1692 (12.05.2019).

An encyclopaedia/dictionary entry
“Title of the entry.” In: Title of the Encyclopaedia or a Dictionary, edited by Name Surname of the editor, page range. Place of publication: Publisher, year of publication.
Example: “Rozum.” In: Słownik synonimów, edited by Andrzej Dąbrówka, Ewa Geller, and Ryszard Turczyn, 115–116. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo MCR, 1993.

An online encyclopaedia/dictionary entry
“Title of the entry.” In: Title of the Encyclopaedia or a Dictionary. https://www.xxx.xxxx.xxx (access date dd.mm.rrrr).
Example: “Accelerometer.” In: Encyclopaedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/technology/accelerometer (10.02.2021).

A poem or a chapter in a book by a single author
Surname, Name. “Title of the Poem.” In: Title of the Book, page range. Place of publication: Publisher, year of publication.
Example: Snyder, Gary. “The Elwha River.” In: Mountains and Rivers Without End, 32–38. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 1996.

Film
Title of the Film, dir. Name Surname of the director, Name of the producer or distributor, country, year of release.
Example: The Pillow Book, dir. and screenplay Peter Greenaway, Lions Gate Films, France–The Netherlands–United Kingdom, 1996.

CONTACT
Correspondence should be sent to: errgo@us.edu.pl

To submit a text
In order to submit a text, the Author needs to register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, he or she can simply log in and begin the five-step process of text submission. Do remember to provide all the necessary metadata (abstract in English and in Polish, discipline, keywords, affiliation, ORCID number, bio in English and Polish, and the licensing documentation confirming your rights to use copyrighted material). To access all of the available issues of Er(r)go at no cost whatsoever you DO NOT NEED to register or log in. However, should you wish to register as a Reviewer or Author, please make sure that you provide all your data, including your affiliation, your academic degree and your ORCID number. Prospective Contributors are kindly asked to consult the CFP page HERE.
Note: The Editors warmly encourage Authors to contribute texts both directly related to the announced theme of the issue and those conforming to the overall thematic orientation of the journal (for the "Varia" section). Simultaneously, we wish to remind the Contributors that the condition of the admission of the text for subsequent stages of the editorial process is meeting the journal's requirements concerning the completeness of metadata: please fill in all of the fields of your submission form and attach the scans of the applicable licenses and permissions to use copyrighted material. The character count of a research article in Er(r)go is min 25 to max 40 thousand characters including spaces. Please, note that submissions with incomplete metadata will be rejected.

CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR TEXT.

Importantly, the Author is fully responsible for the contents of the article. According to the "Quod scripsi, scripsi" principle, the article published in the journal, whether electronically or in print, cannot be retracted or corrected. Because each article is automatically forwarded to numerous databases and is identified with a unique DOI, the text cannot be altered in any way.

Author's Responsibilities and Obligations

Authors shall present original research.
Authors shall offer honest and precise descriptions of their research procedures.
Authors shall present reliable and intersubjectively verifiable data.
Authors shall provide full and honest list of references, crediting all other researchers and other authors whose work has made the submission possible.
Authors shall never submit contributions including fradulent data or misrepresented statements.
Authors shall offer an impartial, methodologically sound, discussion of the data.
Upon request, Authors shall provide raw data for assessment of the Editorial Board supported by an expert in the field represented by the contribution, and shall be prepared to make the data available publically if necessary (if laws allow it and individual, including proprietary and confidentiality rights, are not imperiled).
Authors shall submit only and exclusively original work, duly quoting and properly crediting work of others, including works belonging to the canon of the discipline that have influenced the overall orientation of the research presented.
Authors shall NEVER submit plagiarized work, be it a plagiarism based on uncredited translation, uncredited citation or reference to someone else's unpublished work, or ideas knowingly harvested from others, including students, whose unpublished work remains THEIRS.
Submitting Authors agree that plagiarism and fraud are not only crimes, but also the most degrading acts in the space of academia, and therefore shall take special care that no part of their work should leave any doubt in terms of academic honesty.
Authors shall properly cite their sources, credit their mentors and other authors, and document their data with reliable and verifiable source references.
Authors shall not submit material published previously elsewhere, except by explicit invitation of the Editors, who see the reprint of already copyrighted material as important to the overall concept of the issue.
Submitting the same paper to a number of journals shall be considered unethical, therefore Authors shall not submit contributions considered for review in Er(r)go elsewhere.
Submitting material to Er(r)go, Authors retain the rights to the published material.
If their work is accepted and published, Authors retain the right to the published material, permitting the use of their work under the provisions of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Authorship shall be limited to Individuals who made a significant contribution to the study submitted to Er(r)go, whether in terms of data, conception, methodology, or execution of research. All individuals who did perform work substantial to the contribution shall be given proper credit as co-authors irrespective of their status in the academic hierarchy, assistants and students being thus no exception.
No uninvolved individuals shall be listed among the Authors or Co-Authors of the submission.
All Authors shall disclose instance of the conflict of interest to the Editors, especially financial or other substantive interests that might influence the results of research or interpretation of data.
Authors shall report any fundamental errors or inacurracies that could not have been verified by referees or editors to the Editors, requesting an erratum.

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The author warrants that the article is original, written by stated author/s, has not been published before, contains no unlawful statements, does not infringe the rights of others, is subject to copyright that is vested exclusively in the author and free of any third party rights, and that any necessary written permissions to quote from other sources have been obtained by the author/s.

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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) information clause for the representatives, employees and collaborators of the Contracting Parties of the University of Silesia in Katowice

On the basis of Article 13(1) and (2) or Article 14(1) and (2) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27th April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), hereinafter referred to as “GDPR”, we inform you about the manner and purpose for which we process your personal data, as well as your data protection rights, as follows:

Personal data controller

The controller of your personal data is the University of Silesia in Katowice. You can contact the controller of your personal data in the following way:

1) by post, to the address: ul. Bankowa 12, 40-007 Katowice

2) by e-mail: administrator.danych@us.edu.pl

Data protection officer

A data protection officer may be contacted by you on all matters concerning the processing of your personal data and the exercise of rights related to the processing of the data, in the following way:

1) by post, to the address: ul. Bankowa 12, 40-007 Katowice

2) by e-mail: iod@us.edu.pl

The purposes of data processing and the legal basis for the processing

The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is, according to Article 6 (1) (c), (e) and (f) of GDPR:

1) the need to use your personal data during the period preceding the conclusion of the Agreement (for the purpose of a letter of intent) and during the period of performance of the Agreement (for the purpose of its execution by the representatives of the Contracting Parties) and for the purpose of its implementation and coordination by the natural persons indicated as contacts, who are employees or collaborators of the contracting parties;

2) fulfilling legal obligations imposed on the controller, in particular those arising from accounting and tax regulations, as well as from the archiving obligation, in accordance with the applicable law;

3) performance of public tasks assigned to higher education institutions, i.e. carrying out scientific activities, provision of research services and transfer of knowledge and technologies to the economy, resulting from Article 11, Paragraph 1(3) of the Act of 20th July 2018, Law on Higher Education and Science [Prawo o szkolnictwie wyższym i nauce];

4) in order to establish, seek or defend against any claims related to performance of the agreement representing a legitimate interest of the administrator.

Provision of personal data is a necessary requirement to undertake actions preceding conclusion of the Agreement (making a letter of intent) and performance of the Agreement (its execution by the representatives of the parties and ensuring its proper implementation by the natural persons indicated in the content of the said documents as contacts for the purposes of the Agreement’s coordination. Failure to provide personal data will make it impossible to achieve the aforementioned objective.

Personal data can also be obtained directly from a data subject if you voluntarily make your personal data available to the University of Silesia in Katowice within the framework of mutual cooperation based on a Letter of Intent and/or agreement.

Categories of personal data and sources of their acquisition (refers to acquisition of personal data from sources other than a data subject)

The Party to the letter of intent and/or Agreement shall provide the University of Silesia in Katowice with personal data of its representatives, employees and collaborators – indicated in the content of the document(s), or other contact details necessary for the implementation of the agreement, in particular: name and surname, company e-mail, company telephone number, function/position and work place.

Period of personal data storage

The controller will store personal data for the period of time required to document activities involving your participation which are related to activities undertaken before conclusion of the Agreement and during its performance, as well as after the termination or expiry of the Agreement, for the period specified in accounting and tax regulations. These periods may be extended if it is necessary to establish, assert or defend against claims arising from the performance of this agreement, until any possible claims are time-barred. The documentation will be archived in accordance with applicable laws.

Data Recipients

We may share your data with entities rendering postal or courier services, public authorities or entities that are entitled to obtain personal data on the basis of applicable law as well as other entities cooperating with us, to the extent necessary and for the purpose compliant with the performance of the contract.

Rights related to processing of personal data

You have the following rights related to the processing of your personal data:

1) the right to access your personal data;

2) the right to demand rectification of inaccurate personal data and supplementation of incomplete personal data;

3) the right to demand deletion of your personal data. data; This right does not apply, in particular, if the processing of the data is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation requiring such processing under the applicable law or to perform a public task;

4) the right to request limitation of your personal data processing;

5) the right to object to the processing of your personal data, due to your specific situation, in cases when we process your data due to our legitimate interest, including direct marketing or performance of a public task. NOTE: as regards processing for direct marketing purposes, you may object at any time regardless of your specific situation;

6) the right to transfer your personal data, i.e. the right to receive personal data from us, in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. You may transfer this data to another data controller or request that we transfer your data to another data controller. However, we will only do so if such transfer is technically possible. You have the right to transfer your personal data only in respect to the data which we process automatically, i.e. in electronic form, on the basis of an agreement with you or on the basis of your consent;

7) the right to lodge a complaint to the supervisory authority dealing with personal data protection, i.e. the President of the Personal Data Protection Office [Prezes Urzędu Ochrony Danych Osobowych];

8) your data will not be subject to automated decision-making, including profiling.

No. 49 (2024)
Published: 2024-12-30

ISSN: 1508-6305
eISSN: 2544-3186

10.31261/errgo

Publisher

University of Silesia Press | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego i Wydawnictwo Naukowe "Śląsk"

Licence CC

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