1. General information

1. This policy applies to the website (the “Service”) operating at the URL: www.zerocodeninja.com
2. The Service operator and the personal data controller is: Mariusz Szczotka, Walerego Slawka 11/24
3. Operator’s contact email address: mariusz.szczotka@vp.pl
4. The Operator is the controller of your personal data with respect to the data you voluntarily provide in the Service.
5. The Service uses personal data for the following purposes:
   • Handling inquiries via the contact form
   • Presenting an offer or information
6. The Service obtains information about users and their behavior in the following ways:
   1. Through data voluntarily entered in forms, which is then stored in the Operator’s systems.
   2. Through storing cookies on end-user devices (“cookies”).

2. Selected data protection methods used by the Operator

1. The Operator periodically changes administrative passwords.
2. To minimize the risk of unauthorized access to data, the Operator uses complex passwords containing lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and special characters, with a minimum length of 8 characters.
3. An important element of data protection is regular updates of all software used by the Operator to process personal data, which in particular means regular updates of software components.
4. The Operator regularly performs backups to protect data.

3. Hosting

1. The Service is hosted (technically maintained) on the hosting provider’s servers: Hostinger
2. To ensure technical reliability, the hosting company maintains server-level logs. The logs may include:
   • resources identified by URL (addresses of requested resources – pages, files),
   • time of request arrival,
   • time of response dispatch,
   • client station name – identification via the HTTP protocol,
   • information about errors that occurred during HTTP transaction processing,
   • the URL of the page previously visited by the user (referrer link) – if the transition to the Service occurred via a link,
   • information about the user’s browser,
   • information about the IP address,
   • diagnostic information related to the process of ordering services via registrars on the website,
   • information related to handling email correspondence sent to and from the Operator.

4. Your rights and additional information about how data is used

1. Your personal data is processed by the Controller no longer than necessary to perform activities related to it as required by separate regulations (e.g., accounting). For marketing data, it will not be processed longer than 3 years.
2. You have the right to request from the Controller:
   • access to your personal data,
   • rectification,
   • erasure,
   • restriction of processing,
   • and data portability.
3. You have the right to object to processing referred to in section 3.3(c) with regard to processing of personal data for the purposes of legitimate interests pursued by the Controller, including profiling. The right to object may not be exercised where there are compelling legitimate grounds for processing overriding your interests, rights, and freedoms, in particular to establish, pursue, or defend claims.
4. You have the right to lodge a complaint with the President of the Personal Data Protection Office (UODO), ul. Stawki 2, 00-193 Warsaw, Poland.
5. Providing personal data is voluntary but necessary to use the Service.
6. Automated decision-making, including profiling, may be carried out in relation to you for the purpose of providing services under a contract and for the Controller’s direct marketing.
7. Personal data is transferred to third countries within the meaning of data protection regulations. This means we send it outside the European Union.

5. Information in forms

1. The Service collects information voluntarily provided by the user, including personal data, if provided.
2. The Service may record connection parameters (time stamp, IP address).
3. In some cases, the Service may record information facilitating linking form data with the email address of the user completing the form. In such a case, the user’s email address may appear within the URL of the page containing the form.
4. Data provided in the form is processed for the purpose resulting from the function of the specific form, e.g., handling a service request, sales contact, service registration, etc. Each time, the context and description of the form clearly indicates its purpose.

6. Administrator logs

1. Information about user behavior within the Service may be logged. This data is used for administering the Service.

7. Important marketing techniques

1. The Operator uses statistical traffic analysis via Google Analytics (Google Inc., based in the USA). The Operator does not provide personal data to the service provider, only anonymized information. The service is based on cookies stored on the user’s device. With regard to user preference information collected by Google’s advertising network, the user can view and edit information resulting from cookies using the tool: https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/
2. The Operator uses solutions that analyze user behavior by creating heatmaps and recording behavior on the website. This information is anonymized before being sent to the service provider so that it does not know which individual it concerns. In particular, entered passwords and other personal data are not recorded.

8. Information about cookies

1. The Service uses cookies.
2. Cookies are IT data, in particular text files, stored on the end-user’s device and intended for using the Service’s websites. Cookies usually contain the name of the website they come from, the storage time on the end-user’s device, and a unique number.
3. The entity placing cookies on the end-user’s device and accessing them is the Service operator.
4. Cookies are used for the following purposes:
   1. maintaining the user’s session (after logging in), so the user does not have to re-enter login and password on each subpage;
   2. performing the purposes specified above in section “Important marketing techniques.”
5. The Service uses two main types of cookies: “session cookies” and “persistent cookies.” Session cookies are temporary files stored on the end-user’s device until logout, leaving the website, or closing the browser. Persistent cookies are stored on the end-user’s device for the time specified in cookie parameters or until deleted by the user.
6. Web browsing software (internet browser) usually allows cookies to be stored on the end-user’s device by default. Users may change their cookie settings. The browser allows deleting cookies and may also block cookies automatically. Detailed information is available in the help or documentation of the browser.
7. Restrictions on the use of cookies may affect some functionalities available on the Service’s websites.
8. Cookies placed on the end-user’s device may also be used by entities cooperating with the Service operator, in particular: 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 want to receive cookies, they can change browser settings. Please note that disabling cookies necessary for authentication, security, and maintaining user preferences may hinder, and in extreme cases may prevent, the use of websites.
2. To manage cookie settings, select your browser from the list below and follow the instructions:
   • Edge
   • Internet Explorer
   • Chrome
   • Safari
   • Firefox
   • Opera

   Mobile devices:

   • Android
   • Safari (iOS)
   • Windows Phone