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Privacy Policy

The Privacy Policy below sets out the rules for storing and accessing data on Users' Devices when using the Service for the purpose of providing electronic services by the Administrator, as well as the rules for collecting and processing Users' personal data that they have provided personally and voluntarily through the tools available in the Service.

This Privacy Policy is an integral part of the Service Terms and Conditions, which define the rules, rights, and obligations of Users using the Service.

§1 Definitions

  • Service— the "BITOVO" website operating at https://bitovo.pl

  • External service — websites of partners, service providers, or service recipients cooperating with the Administrator

  • Service / Data Administrator— the natural person "Mikołaj Zemanek"

  • User — a natural person for whom the Administrator provides electronic services through the Service.

  • Device — an electronic device together with software through which the User accesses the Service

  • Cookies— text data collected in the form of files placed on the User's Device

  • GDPR — Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 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)

  • Personal data— means information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person ("data subject"); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, identification number, location data, an online identifier, or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person

  • Processing — means any operation or set of operations performed on personal data or sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure, or destruction;

  • Restriction of processing — means the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting their processing in the future

  • Profiling— means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyse or predict aspects concerning that natural person's performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location, or movements

  • Consent— consent of the data subject means any freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous indication of the data subject's wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her

  • Personal data breach — means a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data transmitted, stored, or otherwise processed

  • Pseudonymisation — means the processing of personal data in such a manner that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organisational measures to ensure that the personal data are not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person

  • Anonymisation— Anonymisation of data is an irreversible process of operations on data that destroys / overwrites "personal data", preventing identification or linking a given record to a specific user or natural person.

§2 Data Protection Officer

Pursuant to Art. 37 GDPR, the Administrator has not appointed a Data Protection Officer.

For matters relating to data processing, please contact the Administrator directly.

§3 Types of Cookies

  • Internal cookies— files placed on and read from the User's Device by the Service's IT system
  • External cookies— files placed on and read from the User's Device by the IT systems of External services
  • Session cookies — files placed and read during a single session of a given Device
  • Persistent cookies — files placed and read until they are manually deleted

§4 Data storage security

  • Cookie storage and read mechanisms— Mechanisms for storing, reading, and exchanging data between Cookies stored on the User's Device and the Service are implemented through built-in web browser mechanisms and do not allow retrieval of other data from the User's Device or data from other websites visited by the User, including personal data or confidential information. Transfer of viruses, trojans, and other worms to the User's Device is also practically impossible.

  • Internal cookies— Cookies used by the Administrator are safe for Users' Devices and do not contain scripts, content, or information that could threaten the security of personal data or the security of the Device used by the User.

  • External cookies — The Administrator takes all possible actions to verify and select service partners in the context of User security. The Administrator selects well-known, large partners with global public trust for cooperation. However, it does not have full control over the content of Cookies from external partners. The Administrator is not responsible, to the extent permitted by law, for the security of Cookies, their content, and the licensed use of Scripts installed in the service from External services. A list of partners is provided later in this Privacy Policy.

  • Cookie control

  • Threats on the User's side— The Administrator applies all possible technical measures to ensure the security of data stored in Cookies. However, it should be noted that ensuring the security of this data depends on both parties, including the User's activity. The Administrator is not responsible for interception of this data, impersonation of the User's session, or their deletion, as a result of conscious or unconscious activity of the User, viruses, trojans, and other spyware with which the User's Device may be or may have been infected. Users should follow principles that increase their cybersecurity to protect themselves against these threats.

  • Storage of personal data — The Administrator ensures that it makes every effort so that personal data voluntarily entered by Users is secure, access to it is limited and carried out in accordance with its purpose and processing objectives. The Administrator also ensures that it makes every effort to secure the data held against loss, by applying appropriate physical and organisational safeguards.

  • Password storage — The Administrator declares that passwords are stored in encrypted form, using the latest standards and guidelines in this regard. Decryption of passwords provided in the Service for account access is practically impossible.

§5 Purposes for which Cookies are used

  • Improving and facilitating access to the Service
  • Personalisation of the Service for Users
  • Enabling login to the service
  • Marketing, remarketing on external services
  • Ad serving services
  • Affiliate services
  • Running statistics (users, visit counts, etc.)
  • Serving multimedia services
  • Providing social networking services

§6 Purposes of personal data processing

Personal data voluntarily provided by Users is processed for one of the following purposes:

  • User account registration and maintenance services in the Service
  • Newsletter services (including sending advertising content with consent)
  • Commenting / liking posts without registration
  • Sharing content information on social networking services
  • Communication between the Administrator and Users
  • Handling inquiries submitted via the contact form
  • Ensuring the Administrator's legitimate interest

Data about Users collected anonymously and automatically is processed for one of the following purposes:

  • Running statistics
  • Remarketing
  • Serving ads tailored to Users' preferences
  • Operating affiliate programmes
  • Ensuring the Administrator's legitimate interest

§7 Cookies of External services

The Administrator uses javascript scripts and web components from partners in the Service, who may place their own cookies on the User's Device. Remember that in your browser settings you can decide which cookies are allowed to be used by individual websites. Below is a list of partners or their services implemented in the Service that may place cookies:

Services provided by third parties are outside the Administrator's control. These entities may at any time change their terms of service, privacy policies, data processing purposes, and methods of using cookies.

§8 Types of collected data

The Service collects data about Users. Some data is collected automatically and anonymously, and some data is personal data voluntarily provided by Users when signing up for individual services offered by the Service.

Anonymous data collected automatically:

  • IP address
  • Browser type
  • Screen resolution
  • Approximate location
  • Subpages opened in the service
  • Time spent on a given subpage
  • Operating system type
  • Previous subpage address
  • Referring page address
  • Browser language
  • Internet connection speed
  • Internet service provider

Data collected during registration:

  • First name / last name / nickname
  • Login
  • Email address
  • IP address (collected automatically)

Data collected when subscribing to the Newsletter service

  • First name / last name / nickname
  • Email address
  • Gender
  • IP address (collected automatically)

Data collected when adding a comment

  • First and last name / nickname
  • Email address
  • Website address
  • IP address (collected automatically)

Data collected via the contact form

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Message content
  • IP address and technical metadata (collected automatically by the form processor for spam protection)

Some data (without identifying data) may be stored in cookies. Some data (without identifying data) may be transferred to a statistics service provider.

§9 Access to personal data by third parties

As a rule, the only recipient of personal data provided by Users is the Administrator. Data collected as part of the services provided is not transferred or resold to third parties.

Access to data (most often on the basis of a data processing agreement) may be held by entities responsible for maintaining the infrastructure and services necessary to operate the service, namely:

  • Hosting companies providing hosting or related services for the Administrator
  • Companies through which the Newsletter service is provided
  • IT service and support companies performing maintenance or responsible for IT infrastructure maintenance
  • Providers of contact form submission and notification services (Formspree)
  • Companies intermediating in online payments for goods or services offered within the Service (in the case of purchase transactions in the Service)

Entrustment of personal data processing — Hosting, VPS, or Dedicated Server Services

In order to operate the service, the Administrator uses the services of an external provider: Vercel, whose website / privacy policy: https://vercel.com/legal/privacy-policy. All data collected and processed in the service is stored and processed in the provider's infrastructure. Access to data may occur as a result of maintenance work performed by the provider's personnel. Access to this data is governed by the agreement between the Administrator and the Provider.

Entrustment of personal data processing — Contact form (Formspree)

Messages sent via the contact form are processed by an external provider: Formspree, Inc. (USA), privacy policy: https://formspree.io/legal/privacy-policy. The provider receives the data entered in the form (name, email, message) and technical metadata used for spam protection. Data may be stored on servers outside the European Economic Area. The Administrator uses this provider on the basis of a data processing agreement and standard contractual clauses where required. Notifications are delivered to the Administrator's designated email address.

§10 Method of personal data processing

Personal data voluntarily provided by Users:

  • Personal data will not be transferred outside the European Union, except: (a) data published as a result of individual action by the User; (b) contact form submissions processed by Formspree, Inc. in the United States, on the basis of appropriate safeguards (including a data processing agreement and, where applicable, standard contractual clauses).
  • Personal data will not be used for automated decision-making (profiling).
  • Personal data will not be resold to third parties.

Anonymous data (without personal data) collected automatically:

  • Anonymous data (without personal data) will not be transferred outside the European Union.
  • Anonymous data (without personal data) will not be used for automated decision-making (profiling).
  • Anonymous data (without personal data) will not be resold to third parties.

§11 Legal bases for personal data processing

The Service collects and processes User data on the basis of:

  • Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 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)
    • Art. 6(1)(a)
      the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data...
    • Art. 6(1)(b)
      processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party...
    • Art. 6(1)(f)
      processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller...
  • Act of 10 May 2018 on the Protection of Personal Data (Journal of Laws 2018, item 1000)
  • Act of 16 July 2004 — Telecommunications Law (Journal of Laws 2004 No. 171, item 1800)
  • Act of 4 February 1994 on Copyright and Related Rights (Journal of Laws 1994 No. 24, item 83)

§12 Period of personal data processing

Personal data voluntarily provided by Users:

As a rule, the indicated personal data is stored only for the period of providing the Service within the Service by the Administrator. It is deleted or anonymised within up to 30 days from the end of the provision of services (e.g. deletion of a registered user account, unsubscribing from the Newsletter list, etc.)

Contact form inquiries: data is retained for the time necessary to handle the inquiry and establish or pursue any related business relationship, and no longer than 3 years from the date of submission, unless a longer period is required by law.

An exception is a situation that requires securing legally justified purposes for further processing of this data by the Administrator. In such a situation, the Administrator will store the indicated data, from the time of the User's request for deletion, for no longer than 3 years in the case of a breach or suspected breach of the service terms by the User

Anonymous data (without personal data) collected automatically:

Anonymous statistical data, not constituting personal data, is stored by the Administrator for the purpose of running service statistics for an indefinite period

§13 Users' rights related to personal data processing

The Service collects and processes User data on the basis of:

  • Right of access to personal data
    Users have the right to obtain access to their personal data, exercised upon request submitted to the Administrator

  • Right to rectification of personal data
    Users have the right to request from the Administrator without undue delay the rectification of personal data that is inaccurate or the completion of incomplete personal data, exercised upon request submitted to the Administrator

  • Right to erasure of personal data
    Users have the right to request from the Administrator without undue delay the erasure of personal data, exercised upon request submitted to the Administrator. In the case of user accounts, data deletion consists of anonymisation of data enabling User identification. The Administrator reserves the right to suspend the fulfilment of a deletion request in order to protect the Administrator's legitimate interest (e.g. when the User has breached the Terms and Conditions or the data was obtained as a result of correspondence).
    In the case of the Newsletter service, the User can independently delete their personal data using the link placed in each email message sent.

  • Right to restriction of processing of personal data
    Users have the right to restrict the processing of personal data in cases indicated in Art. 18 GDPR, including contesting the accuracy of personal data, exercised upon request submitted to the Administrator

  • Right to data portability
    Users have the right to obtain from the Administrator personal data concerning the User in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format, exercised upon request submitted to the Administrator

  • Right to object to processing of personal data
    Users have the right to object to the processing of their personal data in cases specified in Art. 21 GDPR, exercised upon request submitted to the Administrator

  • Right to lodge a complaint
    Users have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority responsible for personal data protection.

§14 Contact with the Administrator

The Administrator can be contacted in one of the following ways

  • Email address — kontakt@bitovo.pl

§15 Service requirements

  • Restricting the storage of and access to Cookies on the User's Device may cause some Service functions to malfunction.

  • The Administrator bears no responsibility for malfunctioning Service functions if the User restricts in any way the ability to store and read Cookie files.

§16 External links

The Service — in articles, posts, entries, or User comments — may contain links to external websites with which the Service owner does not cooperate. These links and the pages or files indicated under them may be dangerous for your Device or pose a threat to the security of your data. The Administrator is not responsible for content located outside the Service.

§17 Changes to the Privacy Policy

  • The Administrator reserves the right to make any changes to this Privacy Policy without the need to inform Users regarding the use of anonymous data or the use of Cookies.

  • The Administrator reserves the right to make any changes to this Privacy Policy regarding the processing of Personal Data, about which Users with user accounts or subscribed to the newsletter service will be informed by email within 7 days of the change. Continued use of the services means familiarisation with and acceptance of the introduced changes to the Privacy Policy. If the User does not agree with the introduced changes, they are obliged to delete their account from the Service or unsubscribe from the Newsletter service.

  • Changes to the Privacy Policy will be published on this subpage of the Service.

  • Changes take effect upon publication.