Privacy Policy describes the rules for processing information about you, including personal data and cookies.

1. General Information

  1. This policy applies to the website operating at the URL: kates-diary.pl
  2. The operator of the website and the Data Controller is: European Consulting Katarzyna Hajduk, ul. Krośnieńska 25/1, 35-505 Rzeszów
  3. Contact email address of the operator: kates@kates-diary.pl
  4. The Operator is the Administrator of your personal data in relation to data voluntarily provided on the website.
  5. The website uses personal data for the following purposes:
    • Managing the newsletter
    • Operating the classified ads system
    • Handling inquiries via the contact form
    • Presenting offers or information
  6. The website collects information about users and their behavior in the following ways:
    1. Through voluntarily submitted form data, which is entered into the Operator’s systems.
    2. By storing cookies on the user’s device.

2. Selected Data Protection Methods Used by the Operator

  1. Login areas and data entry fields are protected by transmission encryption (SSL certificate). This ensures that personal data and login credentials entered on the website are encrypted on the user’s device and can only be read on the target server.
  2. User passwords are stored in hashed form. The hashing function is one-way and cannot be reversed, which represents the modern standard for secure password storage.
  3. The Operator regularly performs backups for data protection purposes.
  4. An essential element of data protection is the regular updating of all software used by the Operator to process personal data, including the regular updating of programming components.

3. Hosting

  1. The website is hosted (technically maintained) on servers of the operator: a third-party hosting company.
  2. The hosting company maintains server logs to ensure technical reliability. Recorded data may include:
    • Resources identified by URL (requested pages and files),
    • Time the request was received,
    • Time the response was sent,
    • Client station name – identified via HTTP protocol,
    • Error information during HTTP transactions,
    • URL of the previously visited page (referrer), if arriving via a link,
    • Information about the user’s browser,
    • Information about IP address,
    • Diagnostic information related to self-service orders on the website,
    • Email correspondence sent to or from the Operator.

4. Your Rights and Additional Information on Data Usage

  1. In certain cases, the Administrator may transfer your personal data to other recipients if necessary to execute a contract with you or to fulfill obligations imposed on the Administrator. This includes the following recipients:
    • Hosting company under a data processing agreement
    • Payment operators
    • Authorized employees and collaborators who use data to fulfill the website’s functions
  2. Your personal data processed by the Administrator will not be kept longer than necessary to perform related tasks defined by law (e.g., accounting purposes). Marketing data will not be processed for more than 3 years.
  3. You have the right to request from the Administrator:
    • Access to your personal data,
    • Correction of your personal data,
    • Deletion of your personal data,
    • Restriction of processing,
    • Data portability.
  4. You have the right to object to processing referred to in point 3.2, including processing of personal data for legitimate interests pursued by the Administrator, including profiling. However, this right cannot be exercised if there are overriding legally justified grounds for processing that prevail over your rights.
  5. You have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your personal data violates applicable law.
  6. Providing your data is voluntary, but necessary to use certain services of the website. Refusal to provide data may result in limited access to some services.
  7. The Operator ensures appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, modification, disclosure, or destruction.

5. Information in Forms

  1. The website collects information voluntarily provided by the user, including personal data, if such data is provided.
  2. The website may record information about connection parameters (timestamp, IP address).
  3. In some cases, the website may store information facilitating the association of form data with the email address of the user completing the form. In such cases, the user’s email address appears within the URL of the page containing the form.
  4. Data provided in forms is processed for the purpose resulting from the function of the specific form, e.g. to handle a service request, commercial contact, service registration, etc. Each time, the context and description of the form clearly indicate its purpose.

6. Administrator Logs

  1. Information about user behavior on the website may be logged. This data is used for website administration purposes.

7. Essential Marketing Techniques

  1. The Operator uses statistical analysis of website traffic via Google Analytics (Google Inc., based in the USA). The Operator does not transfer personal data to the service provider, only anonymized information. The service is based on the use of cookies stored on the user’s device. Regarding information about user preferences collected by Google’s advertising network, users can view and edit cookie-based information using the tool available at: https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/

8. Information About Cookies

  1. The website uses cookies.
  2. Cookies are IT data, in particular text files, stored on the end device of the website user and intended for use on the website’s pages. Cookies usually contain the name of the website they originate from, the duration of storage on the end device, and a unique number.
  3. The entity placing cookies on the user’s end device and accessing them is the website operator.
  4. Cookies are used for the following purposes:
    1. Maintaining the user session after logging in, so the user does not need to re-enter login and password on each subpage;
    2. Achieving the purposes described above in the section “Essential Marketing Techniques”.
  5. The website uses two main types of cookies: “session cookies” and “persistent cookies”. Session cookies are temporary files stored on the user’s device until logout, leaving the website, or closing the browser. Persistent cookies are stored on the user’s device for the time specified in the cookie parameters or until deleted by the user.
  6. Web browsers usually allow cookies to be stored on the user’s device by default. Website users can change cookie settings. Browsers allow cookies to be deleted and automatically blocked. Detailed information is available in the browser’s help or documentation.
  7. Restrictions on the use of cookies may affect some functionalities available on the website.
  8. Cookies placed on the user’s device may also be used by entities cooperating with the website operator, in particular companies such as: Google (Google Inc., USA), Facebook (Facebook Inc., USA), Twitter (Twitter Inc., USA).

9. Managing Cookies – How to Give and Withdraw Consent in Practice

  1. If the user does not wish to receive cookies, they may change browser settings. Please note that disabling cookies essential for authentication, security, and user preference maintenance may hinder or, in extreme cases, prevent the use of the website.
  2. To manage cookie settings, select your browser from the list below and follow the instructions:

    Mobile devices: