The privacy policy describes the principles we apply in processing information about you, including personal data and cookies.
1. General information
- This policy applies to the website operating at the URL address: kaszubopedia.pl.
- The website Operator and personal data administrator is Instytut Kaszubski, Straganiarska 20-220, 80-837 Gdańsk.
- The Operator’s e-mail address: kontakt@kaszubopedia.pl.
- The Operator is the administrator of your personal data in relation to data provided voluntarily on the website.
- The website uses personal data for the following purpose:
- handling inquiries made via the provided form.
- The website performs the function of obtaining information about users and their behaviour through data voluntarily entered on the forms and entered into the Operator’s systems, by saving cookies on the end device.
2. Selected data protection methods used by the Operator
- The sites of logging in and entering personal data are protected in the transmission layer (SSL certificate). Thanks to this, personal data and login details entered on the website are encrypted on the user’s computer and can only be read on the target server.
- User passwords are stored in hashed form. The hashing function works in one direction-it is impossible to reverse its operation, which is currently the modern standard for storing user passwords.
- The Operator periodically changes its administrative passwords.
- In order to protect data, the Operator regularly makes backup copies.
- An important element of data protection is the regular update of all software used by the Operator to process personal data, which in particular means regular updates of programming components.
3. Hosting
- The website is hosted (technically maintained) on the Operator’s servers: cyberFolks.pl
4. Your rights and additional information about how your data is used
- In some situations, the Administrator has the right to transfer your personal data to other recipients if it is necessary to execute the contract concluded with you or to fulfil the obligations of the Administrator. This applies to the following groups of recipients:
- banks – in order to make a donation.
- Your personal data processed by the Administrator for no longer than is necessary to perform related activities specified in separate regulations (e.g. accounting). With respect to marketing data, the data will not be processed for longer than 3 years.
- You have the right to request from the Administrator:
- access to your personal data,
- correction thereof,
- deletion,
- processing restrictions,
- and data transfer.
- You have the right to object to the processing indicated in point 3.3 c) to the processing of personal data for the purposes of legitimate interests pursued by the Administrator, including profiling, but the right to object will not be possible if there are valid legally justified grounds for processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms in particular the establishment, exercise or defence of claims.
- You may complain about the Administrator’s actions to the President of the Personal Data Protection Office, ul. Stawki 2, 00-193 Warsaw.
- Providing personal data is voluntary, but necessary to operate the website.
- Activities involving automated decision-making may be undertaken in relation to you, including profiling in order to provide services under the concluded contract and for the purpose of conducting direct marketing by the Administrator.
- Personal data is not transferred from third countries within the meaning of the provisions on the protection of personal data. This means that we do not send them outside the European Union.
5. Information contained in the forms
- The website collects information provided voluntarily by the user, including personal data (name and surname, e-mail address), if provided.
- The website may save information about connection parameters (time stamp, IP address).
- In some cases, the website may save information that makes it easier to link the data in the form with the e-mail address of the user completing the form. In this case, the user’s email address appears inside the URL of the page containing the form.
- Data provided in the form are processed for the purpose resulting from the function of a specific form, e.g. in order to process a service request or sales contact, register services, etc. Each time, the context and description of the form clearly inform what it is used for.
- The website allows you to make a donation, but it does so via the Przelewy24.pl form and payment system.
- In order to make a donation, it is necessary to provide your name and surname, residential address and e-mail address. This data is processed within the Przelewy24.pl website
6. Administrator Logs
- Information about user behaviour on the website may be subject to logging. These data are used to administer the website.
7. Information about cookies
- The website uses cookies.
- Cookies are IT data, in particular text files, which are stored on the Website User’s end device and are intended to facilitate using the User’s websites. Cookies usually contain the name of the website they come from, their storage time on the end device and a unique number.
- The entity that places cookies on the Website User’s end device and obtains access to them is the Website Operator.
- Cookies are used for the following purposes:
- maintaining the Website user’s session (after logging in), thanks to which the user does not have to re-enter the login and password on each subpage of the Website.
- The Website uses two basic types of cookies: “session cookies” and “persistent cookies”. “Session” cookies are temporary files that are stored on the User’s end device until logging out, leaving the website or turning off the software (web browser). “Permanent” cookies are stored on the User’s end device for the time specified in the cookie parameters or until they are deleted by the User.
- Website browsing software (web browser) usually allows cookies to be stored on the User’s end device by default. Website users may change settings in this regard. The web browser allows you to delete cookies. It is also possible to automatically block cookies. Detailed information on this subject can be found in the help or documentation of your web browser.
- Restrictions on the use of cookies may affect some functionalities available on the Website.
- Cookies placed on the Website User’s end device may also be used by entities cooperating with the Website Operator, in particular the following companies: Google (Google Inc. with its registered office in the USA), Facebook (Facebook Inc. with its registered office in the USA), Twitter (Twitter Inc. based in the USA).
9. Cookies management – how to express and withdraw consent in practice?
- If the user does not want to receive cookies, he or she can change the browser settings. We stipulate that disabling the use of cookies necessary for authentication processes, security, and maintaining user preferences may make it difficult, and in extreme cases, impossible to use the websites.
- To manage cookie settings, select the web browser you use from the list below and follow the instructions:
- Mobile devices: