Last updated: March 15, 2024

COOKIES USAGE

1. What are cookie files and what they are for?

Cookies are text files that are stored on your device and used by a server to recognize your device when you reconnect. Cookies are downloaded at every "entry" and "exit" from a page. Cookies are not used to determine your identity, only your device for instance they can recognize the browser you are using and then they influence your display image so that, it is best suited to the technical capabilities of your equipment (e.g. its resolution) or its type ("desktop" version - desktop or mobile).

Cookies are most often used in the case of meters, opinion polls, online stores, websites that require login, advertisements and to monitor the activity of visitors. Cookies also allow recognizing your interests and adapting websites to them in terms of displayed content and matching ads.

Cookies are currently used by virtually all websites operating on the Internet - search engines, information pages, blogs, online stores, webpages of magazines and newspapers, etc. and so does our website.

More information about cookies you can find at: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/

2. What do cookies do?

Generally they work on the following basis:

  • identify computer and browser data used for browsing websites - they allow, for example, to find out whether a given computer has already visited the website,
  • data obtained from "cookies" are in no way combined with personal data of users obtained, for example during registration on websites,
  • they are not harmful to you or your computers or smartphones - they do not affect how they work,
  • they do not cause any configuration changes in the end devices, or in the software installed on these devices,
  • the default parameters of "cookies" allow to read information contained in them only by the server that created them,
  • on the basis of your behavior on the websites visited, they provide information to the servers, thanks to which the displayed pages are better suited to your individual preferences.

3. What types of cookies can we distinguish?

There are following types of cookies:

  • session cookies are temporary files stored in the browser's memory until the session is terminated (i.e. until the browser is closed). These files are sometimes mandatory to ensure proper work of some applications or functionalities. After closing the browser they should be automatically removed from the device on which you watched the page,
  • persistent cookies facilitate the use of frequently visited websites (for example, remember your favorite color scheme or menu layout on your favorite websites). These files are stored in the appropriate folder for a long time, which you can adjust in the settings of your browser. Each time you visit a website, the data from these cookies is transferred to the server. This type of cookie in English is often called tracking cookies.
  • "third party cookies" - are files usually originating from advertising servers and search servers etc., cooperating with the owner of a given page. Thanks to them, the displayed ads are tailored to your preferences and habits, which in return often allows you to use part of the website content free of charge. With their help, "clicks" are also counted on ads, user preferences etc.

4. Do you have to agree on our cookies usage?

Please remember that you have a right to manage "cookies" yourself. This is enabled, for example, by the internet browsers you use (usually the mechanism is enabled by default). In the most popular browsers you can:

  • accepting "cookies" service, which will allow you to take full advantage of the options offered by websites,
  • cookies management at the level of individual, selected sites,
  • adjusting the settings for different types of "cookies", for example, accepting persistent files as session ones, etc.,
  • blocking or deleting cookies.

Information on the possibility of including and disabling cookies in the most popular browsers can be found at the following link:

Leaving your browser settings unchanged means you agree on our use of cookies. Blocking or disabling some of their types may stop you from using the full functionality of the website or disrupt the website proper functioning.

5. How do we use cookies?

On our website we both use session cookies and permanent cookies. We use them for:

  • creating statistics, which allow improving the content of our pages and their structure,
  • maintaining user's session.

In order to display the page correctly, the following information is collected: name and version of your web browser, language settings, date and time of sending the request to the server, IP from which the request was sent, the requested URL. This data is collected in order to enable the website to be properly handled.

In order to create statistics we use a web analytics tool called Google Analytics. It collects data and uses its own cookies in accordance with the Google Privacy Policy available at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

Google collects on its servers data obtained from the placement of cookies on various devices and uses this information to create reports and provide other services related to monitoring the internet users’ movement and their actions on the Internet. Google may also transfer this information to third parties if it is obliged to do so by law or if such entities process such information on behalf of Google.

The data collected by our website is not disclosed or made available to third parties with the exception of the competent law enforcement authorities entitled to conduct criminal proceedings in connection to our request for intervention. This will only happen if you undertake some illegal or harmful action against us.