The following Privacy Policy sets out the rules for storing and accessing data on the Devices of Users using the Service for the purposes of providing services electronically by the Administrator, as well as the rules for collecting and processing the personal data of Users, which has been provided by them personally and voluntarily through the tools available in the Service.
The following Privacy Policy sets out the rules, rights and obligations of Users using the Service.
§1 Definitions
- Service – the website "tesserakt.dev" operating at the address https://tesserakt.dev/
- External service – websites of partners, service providers or service recipients cooperating with the Administrator
- Service Administrator / Data Administrator – the Administrator of the Service and the Data Administrator (hereinafter the Administrator) is the company "Tesserakt sp. z o.o.", operating at the address: ul. Cechowa 44B, 30-614 Kraków, with the assigned tax identification number (NIP): 6832091507, with the assigned National Court Register (KRS) number: 0000642152, providing services electronically through the Service
- User – a natural person for whom the Administrator provides services electronically 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 about an identified or identifiable natural person ("data subject"); an identifiable natural person is a person who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular on the basis of an identifier such as a name and surname, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of a natural person
- Processing – means an operation or a set of operations performed on personal data or sets of personal data in an automated or non-automated manner, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or modification, 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 in order to limit their future processing
- Profiling – means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal factors 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 movement
- Consent – the consent of the data subject means a voluntary, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of will by which the data subject, by means of a statement or an explicit affirmative action, agrees to the processing of personal data concerning them
- Personal data breach – means a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, modification, unauthorised disclosure of or unauthorised access to personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed
- Pseudonymisation – means the processing of personal data in such a way that they 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 preventing their attribution to an identified or identifiable natural person
- Anonymisation – Anonymisation of data is an irreversible process of operations on data that destroys / overwrites "personal data", making it impossible to identify or link a given record with a specific user or natural person.
§2 Data Protection Officer
Pursuant to Art. 37 GDPR, the Administrator has not appointed a Data Protection Officer.
In matters concerning the processing of data, including personal data, please contact the Administrator directly.
§3 Types of Cookies
- Internal cookies – files placed and read from the User's Device by the Service's ICT system
- External cookies – files placed and read from the User's Device by the ICT systems of External services. Scripts of External services that may place Cookies on Users' Devices have been knowingly placed in the Service through scripts and services made available and installed in the Service
- Session cookies – files placed and read from the User's Device by the Service during a single session of a given Device. After the session ends, the files are deleted from the User's Device.
- Persistent cookies – files placed and read from the User's Device by the Service until they are manually deleted. The files are not deleted automatically after the Device session ends, unless the User's Device configuration is set to delete Cookie files after the Device session ends.
§4 Security of data storage
- Mechanisms for storing and reading Cookie files – The mechanisms for storing, reading and exchanging data between Cookie files saved on the User's Device and the Service are implemented through built-in web browser mechanisms and do not allow the retrieval of other data from the User's Device or data from other websites that the User has visited, including personal data or confidential information. The transfer to the User's Device of viruses, Trojans and other worms is also practically impossible.
- Internal cookies – the Cookie files used by the Administrator are safe for Users' Devices and do not contain scripts, content or information that could endanger 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. For cooperation, the Administrator selects well-known, large partners with global public trust. However, it does not have full control over the content of Cookie files originating from external partners. To the extent permitted by law, the Administrator is not responsible for the security of Cookie files, their content or their use in accordance with the licence by Scripts installed in the service that originate from External services. The list of partners is provided later in this Privacy Policy.
- Cookie control
- The User may at any time independently change the settings concerning the saving, deletion and access to data of saved Cookie files for each website
- Information on how to disable Cookie files in the most popular desktop browsers is available from one of the indicated providers:
- The User may at any time delete any Cookie files saved so far using the tools of the User's Device through which the User uses the services of the Service.
- Risks on the User's side – The Administrator applies all possible technical measures to ensure the security of the data placed in Cookie files. It should be noted, however, that ensuring the security of this data depends on both parties, including the User's activity. The Administrator does not take responsibility for the interception of this data, impersonation of the User's session or their deletion as a result of the User's conscious or unconscious activity, viruses, Trojans and other spyware with which the User's Device may be or may have been infected. In order to protect themselves against these threats, Users should follow the principles of safe use of the Internet.
- Storage of personal data – The Administrator ensures that it makes every effort to ensure that the personal data processed, voluntarily entered by Users, is secure, and that access to it is restricted and carried out in accordance with its intended purpose and the purposes of processing. The Administrator also ensures that it makes every effort to secure the data it holds against loss, through the use of appropriate physical and organisational safeguards.
§5 Purposes for which Cookies are used
- Improving and facilitating access to the Service
- Personalising the Service for Users
- Marketing, Remarketing in external services
- Ad serving services
- Affiliate services
- Keeping statistics (users, number of visits, types of devices, connection, etc.)
- Serving multimedia services
- Providing social services
§6 Purposes of personal data processing
Personal data voluntarily provided by Users is processed for one of the following purposes:
- Provision of electronic services:
- Newsletter services (including sending advertising content with consent)
- Services for sharing information about content posted in the Service on social media or other websites.
- The Administrator's communication with Users on matters related to the Service and data protection
- Ensuring the Administrator's legitimate interest
Data about Users collected anonymously and automatically is processed for one of the following purposes:
- Keeping statistics
- Remarketing
- Serving ads tailored to Users' preferences
- Handling affiliate programmes
- Ensuring the Administrator's legitimate interest
§7 Cookies of External services
The Administrator uses in the Service javascript scripts and web components of partners that may place their own cookies on the User's Device. Remember that in your browser settings you can decide for yourself which cookies may be used by individual websites. Below is a list of partners or their services implemented in the Service that may place cookies:
- Multimedia services:
- Social / combined services: (Registration, Login, content sharing, communication, etc.)
- Content sharing services:
- Keeping statistics:
Services provided by third parties are beyond the Administrator's control. These entities may at any time change their terms of service, privacy policies, the purpose of data processing and the ways in which cookies are used.
§8 Types of data collected
The Service collects data about Users. Some of the data is collected automatically and anonymously, and some of the data is personal data voluntarily provided by Users while subscribing to the individual services offered by the Service.
Anonymous data collected automatically:
- IP address
- Browser type
- Screen resolution
- Approximate location
- Subpages of the service opened
- Time spent on the relevant subpage of the service
- Type of operating system
- Address of the previous subpage
- Address of the referring page
- Browser language
- Internet connection speed
- Internet service provider
Data collected when subscribing to the Newsletter service
- Name / surname / nickname
- E-mail address
- IP address (collected automatically)
Some of the data (without identifying data) may be stored in cookie files. Some of the 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 the data (most often under a data processing agreement) may be held by entities responsible for maintaining the infrastructure and services necessary to run the service, i.e.:
- Hosting companies providing hosting or related services for the Administrator
Entrusting the processing of personal data - Hosting, VPS or Dedicated Server Services
In order to run the service, the Administrator uses the services of an external hosting, VPS or Dedicated Server provider - DigitalOcean, LLC. All data collected and processed in the service is stored and processed in the service provider's infrastructure located in Poland. There is a possibility of access to the data as a result of maintenance work carried out by the service provider's staff. Access to this data is governed by the agreement concluded between the Administrator and the Service provider.
§10 Method of processing personal data
Personal data voluntarily provided by Users:
- Personal data will not be transferred outside the European Union, unless it has been published as a result of an individual action by the User (e.g. entering a comment or post), which will make the data available to any person visiting the service.
- 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 be transferred outside the European Union.
- Anonymous data (without personal data) may be used for automated decision-making (profiling). The profiling of anonymous data (without personal data) does not produce legal effects or similarly significantly affect the person whose data is subject to automated decision-making.
- Anonymous data (without personal data) will not be resold to third parties.
§11 Legal bases for the processing of personal data
The Service collects and processes Users' 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 their personal data for one or more specific purposes
- Art. 6(1)(b) processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract
- Art. 6(1)(f) processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the administrator or by a third party
- the Act of 10 May 2018 on the Protection of Personal Data (Journal of Laws 2018, item 1000)
- the Act of 16 July 2004 Telecommunications Law (Journal of Laws 2004 No. 171, item 1800)
- the Act of 4 February 1994 on Copyright and Related Rights (Journal of Laws 1994 No. 24, item 83)
§12 Period of processing of personal data
Personal data voluntarily provided by Users:
As a rule, the indicated personal data is stored only for the period of the provision of the Service within the Service by the Administrator. It is deleted or anonymised within a period of up to 30 days from the moment the provision of services ends (e.g. deletion of a registered user account, unsubscribing from the Newsletter list, etc.)
An exception is a situation that requires the safeguarding of the legitimate purposes of 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 its deletion, for no longer than a period of 3 years in the event of a breach or suspected breach of the provisions of the service regulations by the User
Anonymous data (without personal data) collected automatically:
Anonymous statistical data, which does not constitute personal data, is stored by the Administrator for the purpose of keeping service statistics for an indefinite period
§13 Users' rights related to the processing of personal data
The Service collects and processes Users' data on the basis of:
The right of access to personal data
Users have the right to obtain access to their personal data, exercised upon a request submitted to the Administrator
The right to rectification of personal data Users have the right to request the Administrator to promptly rectify personal data that is incorrect and/or to supplement incomplete personal data, exercised upon a request submitted to the Administrator
The right to erasure of personal data
Users have the right to request the Administrator to promptly erase personal data, exercised upon a request submitted to the Administrator. In the case of user accounts, the deletion of data consists in the anonymisation of data enabling the identification of the User. The Administrator reserves the right to suspend the performance of a request to erase data in order to protect the Administrator's legitimate interest (e.g. where the User has committed a breach of the Regulations or the data was obtained as a result of correspondence). In the case of the Newsletter service, the User has the ability to independently delete their personal data using the link included in each e-mail message sent.
The right to restrict the processing of personal data
Users have the right to restrict the processing of personal data in the cases indicated in Art. 18 GDPR, including contesting the correctness of personal data, exercised upon a request submitted to the Administrator
The right to data portability
Users have the right to obtain from the Administrator the personal data concerning the User in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, exercised upon a request submitted to the Administrator
The right to object to the processing of personal data|
Users have the right to object to the processing of their personal data in the cases specified in Art. 21 GDPR, exercised upon a request submitted to the Administrator
The right to lodge a complaint
Users have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority dealing with the protection of personal data.
§14 Contact with the Administrator
The Administrator can be contacted in one of the following ways
- E-mail address – [email protected]
- Contact form – available at: https://tesserakt.dev/
§15 Service requirements
- Restricting the saving and access to Cookie files on the User's Device may cause some functions of the Service to malfunction.
- The Administrator bears no responsibility for malfunctioning functions of the Service if the User restricts in any way the ability to save and read Cookie files.
§16 External links
In the Service – articles, posts, entries or User comments – there may be links to external websites with which the owner of the service 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 bears no responsibility 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 about it, to the extent of the use and utilisation of anonymous data or the use of Cookie files.
- The Administrator reserves the right to make any changes to this Privacy Policy regarding the processing of Personal Data, of which it will inform Users who have user accounts or are subscribed to the newsletter service, by e-mail within 7 days from the change of provisions. Further use of the services means becoming familiar with and accepting the changes made to the Privacy Policy. In a case where the User does not agree with the changes made, they are obliged to delete their account from the Service or unsubscribe from the Newsletter service.
- The changes made to the Privacy Policy will be published on this subpage of the Service.
- The changes made enter into force upon their publication.
