Privacy Policy

Last update: December 2023
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1. General Information
This policy applies to the Website, which operates under the url: chessengeria.eu
The operator of the website and the Administrator of personal data is: Dariusz Domagała administrator of the website chessengeria.eu and the sole owner, as well as the author of the entries.
Operator's contact e-mail address: chessengeria@gmail.com
The Operator is the Administrator of your personal data with regard to the data provided voluntarily on the Website.
The Website uses your personal data for the following purposes:
- Conducting the newsletter
- Running a commenting system
- Running an online forum
- Presenting user profiles to other users
- Handling queries via the form
- Ordered services fulfillment
- Presentation of offers or information
The Website performs the function of obtaining information on the users and their behaviour in the following manner:
Through voluntary data entered in the forms, which are entered into the Operator's systems.
By storing cookie files (so-called "cookies") in the end devices.

​2. Selected data protection methods used by the Operator
The login and entry points for personal data are protected in the transmission layer (SSL certificate). This ensures that the personal and login data entered on the website are encrypted on the user's computer and can only be read on the target server.
The operator periodically changes its administrative passwords.
In order to protect the data, the provider regularly makes backup copies.
An important element of data protection is the regular updating of any software used by the Operator to process personal data, which in particular means regular updates of the programming components.

​3. Hosting
The Website is hosted (technically maintained) on the Operator's server: wix.com

​4. Your rights and additional information on how your data will be used
In certain situations, the Administrator has the right to transfer your personal data to other recipients if this is necessary for the performance of a contract concluded with you or for the fulfilment of obligations incumbent on the Administrator. This applies to such groups of recipients:
- hosting company on the basis of entrustment
- banks
- payment operators
- comment system operators
- companies providing marketing services to the Administrator
Your personal data will be processed by the Administrator no longer than it is necessary for the performance of related activities specified in separate regulations (e.g. on accounting). With regard 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 personal data concerning you,
- have them rectified,
- erasure,
- restriction of processing,
- and to data portability.
You have the right to object, with regard to the processing indicated in point 4, to the processing of personal data for the purposes of carrying out the legitimate interests pursued by the Administrator, including profiling, with the proviso that the right to object cannot be exercised if there are valid legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, in particular the establishment, assertion or defence of claims.
Providing personal data is voluntary, but necessary to operate the Service.
Activities involving automated decision-making, including profiling for the purpose of providing services under the concluded agreement and for the purpose of direct marketing by the Administrator, may be undertaken in relation to you.

​5. information in forms
The Service collects information voluntarily provided by the user, including personal data, if provided.
The site may save information about connection parameters (time stamp, IP address).
The Service, in some cases, may save information to facilitate linking the data in the form with the e-mail address of the user completing the form. In such a case, the user's e-mail address appears inside the url of the page containing the form.
The data provided in the form is processed for the purpose resulting from the function of a particular form, e.g. to perform the process of service request or business contact, service registration, etc. Each time the context and description of the form informs in a clear way what it is used for.

​6. Administrator's logs
The information about users' behavior on the website may be subject to logging. These data are used to administer the service.

​7. Important marketing techniques
The Operator uses statistical analysis of site traffic through the tools Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Google Ads, Google Analytics. The operator does not transmit personal data to the operator of this service, only anonymized information. The service is based on the use of cookies on the user's terminal device. With regard to the information on user preferences collected by the Google Ads network, the user can view and edit the information resulting from the cookies using the following tool: https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/

​8. information about cookies
The Website uses cookies.
Cookies (so-called "cookies") are computer data, in particular text files, which are stored in the final device of the Service User and are designed to use the websites of the Service. Cookies usually contain the name of the website from which they come, the time of storing them on the terminal equipment and a unique number.
The operator of the Website is the entity placing cookies on the Website User's terminal equipment and accessing them.
Cookies are used for the following purposes: maintaining a session of the Website user (after logging in), thanks to which the user does not have to re-enter login and password on each subpage of the Website;
for the purposes specified above under "Important marketing techniques";
There are two main types of cookies used within the Website: "session" (session cookies) and "persistent" cookies (persistent cookies). "Session" cookies are temporary files that are stored in the User's terminal equipment until logging out, leaving the website or switching off the software (web browser). "Permanent" cookies are stored on the User's end device for the time specified in the parameters of cookies or until they are deleted by the User.
Web browsing software (Internet browser) usually allows by default to store cookies on User's end device. Users of the Website can change their settings in this regard. Internet browser makes it possible to delete cookies. It is also possible to block cookies automatically. Detailed information on this subject can be found in help or documentation of a web browser.
Restrictions on the use of cookies may affect some of the functionality available on the Website.
Cookies placed in the Service User's end device can also be used by entities cooperating with the Service Operator, in particular this concerns companies: Google (Google Inc. based in the USA), Facebook (Facebook Inc. based in the USA), Twitter (Twitter Inc. based in the USA).
More information at the url: https://www.aboutcookies.org/.

​9. Managing cookies - how to give and withdraw consent in practice?
If you do not want to receive cookies, you can change your browser settings. We stipulate that disabling cookies necessary for authentication processes, security, maintenance of user preferences may hinder, and in extreme cases may make it impossible to use the websites.