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Privacy Policy

1. General information

  1. This policy applies to the website operating at the url: https://etapano.com/
  2. The operator of the service and the Controller of personal data is: Mariusz Fituła, ul. Armii Krajowej 7/45, 67-200 Głogów, Poland
  3. The operator's contact email address: etapanomf@gmail.com
  4. The Operator is the Controller of your personal data with respect to data provided voluntarily on the Website.
  5. The Website uses personal data for the following purposes:
    • Handling enquiries submitted through the contact form
    • Provision of the requested services
    • Presentation of an offer or information
  6. The Website collects information about users and their behaviour in the following ways:
    1. Through data entered voluntarily into forms, which is then entered into the Operator's systems.
    2. By storing cookie files on end devices.

2. Selected data protection methods applied by the Operator

  1. Login pages and pages where personal data is entered are protected at the transmission layer (SSL certificate). As a result, personal data and login credentials entered on the website are encrypted on the user's computer and can only be read on the destination server.
  2. User passwords are stored in hashed form. The hash function works one way — it cannot be reversed, which is the current standard for storing user passwords.
  3. The Operator periodically changes their administrative passwords.
  4. In order to minimise the risk of unauthorised access to data, the Operator uses complex passwords containing lower and upper case letters, digits and special characters, no shorter than 8 characters.
  5. An important element of data protection is the regular updating of all software used by the Operator to process personal data, which in particular means regular updates of programming components.
  6. In order to protect data, the Operator regularly performs security backups.

3. Hosting

  1. The Website is hosted (technically maintained) on a server operated by: netcup GmbH, based in Germany. DNS services and domain registration are provided by Cloudflare, Inc.
  2. For the purpose of technical reliability, the hosting company keeps logs at server level. The following may be recorded:
    • resources identified by URL (addresses of requested resources — pages, files),
    • time the request was received,
    • time the response was sent,
    • client station name — identification performed by the HTTP protocol,
    • information about errors that occurred during the HTTP transaction,
    • the URL of the page previously visited by the user (referer link) — where the Website was reached through a link,
    • information about the user's browser,
    • information about the IP address,
    • diagnostic information related to the process of ordering services independently through registrars on the website,
    • information related to handling email correspondence addressed to the Operator and sent by the Operator.

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

  1. In some situations the Controller has the right to transfer your personal data to other recipients where this is necessary to perform a contract concluded with you or to fulfil obligations resting on the Controller. This applies to the following groups of recipients:
    • the hosting company on an entrustment basis
    • postal and email operators
    • public authorities
  2. Your personal data is processed by the Controller no longer than is necessary to carry out the related activities specified by separate regulations (e.g. on accounting). With regard to marketing data, data will not be processed for longer than 3 years.
  3. You have the right to request from the Controller:
    • access to personal data concerning you,
    • its rectification,
    • erasure,
    • restriction of processing,
    • and data portability.
  4. You have the right to object to the processing indicated in point 3.3 c) with regard to the processing of personal data for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Controller, including profiling, whereby the right to object may not be exercised where there are valid legitimate grounds for processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, in particular the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
  5. A complaint against the Controller's actions may be lodged with the President of the Personal Data Protection Office, ul. Stawki 2, 00-193 Warsaw, Poland.
  6. Providing personal data is voluntary but necessary for the operation of the Website.
  7. Actions consisting of automated decision-making, including profiling, may be taken in relation to you for the purpose of providing services under the contract concluded and for the purpose of direct marketing carried out by the Controller.
  8. Some data may be transferred to third countries within the meaning of personal data protection regulations, in particular to the United States, in connection with the use of external services supporting the operation of the Website. Such transfers take place on the basis of Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission.

5. Information in forms

  1. The Website collects information provided voluntarily by the user, including personal data where it is provided.
  2. The Website may record information about connection parameters (time stamp, IP address).
  3. In some cases the Website may record information making it easier to link the data in a form with the email address of the user completing the form. In such a case the user's email address appears within the url of the page containing the form.
  4. Data provided in a form is processed for the purpose arising from the function of the particular form, e.g. in order to handle a service request or commercial contact, service registration, etc. In each case the context and description of the form clearly informs what it is used for.

6. Administrator logs

  1. Information about user behaviour on the website may be logged. This data is used for the purpose of administering the website.

7. Significant marketing techniques

  1. The Operator carries out statistical analysis of website traffic using an analytics tool installed on the Operator's own server. Data is not transferred to third parties. The tool does not use cookies or other identifiers allowing a user to be recognised on subsequent visits. Only aggregate data is collected: the address of the page visited, the referring page address, country, device type and browser.
  2. The Operator may apply profiling within the meaning of personal data protection regulations

8. Information about cookies

  1. The Website uses cookies.
  2. Cookies are IT data, in particular text files, which are stored on the end device of the Website User and are intended for the use of the Website's pages. Cookies usually contain the name of the website they come from, the time they are stored on the end device and a unique number.
  3. The entity placing cookies on the end device of the Website User and accessing them is the operator of the Website.
  4. Cookies are used for the following purposes:
    1. maintaining the Website user's session (after logging in), so that the user does not have to re-enter their login and password on every subpage of the Website;
    2. achieving the purposes set out above in the "Significant marketing techniques" section;
  5. Two main types of cookies are used within the Website: "session" cookies and "persistent" cookies. "Session" cookies are temporary files stored on the User's end device until logging out, leaving the website or switching off the software (web browser). "Persistent" cookies are stored on the User's end device for the time specified in the cookie parameters or until they are deleted by the User.
  6. Web browsing software (web browser) usually allows cookies to be stored on the User's end device by default. Website Users may change these settings. The web browser makes it possible to delete cookies. It is also possible to block cookies automatically. Detailed information on this subject is contained in the help or documentation of the web browser.
  7. Restrictions on the use of cookies may affect some of the functionality available on the Website's pages.

9. Managing cookies — how to give and withdraw consent in practice?

  1. If a user does not wish to receive cookies, they may change their browser settings. We note that disabling cookies necessary for authentication, security and maintaining user preferences may hinder, and in extreme cases may make it impossible, to use websites
  2. To manage cookie settings, select from the list below the web browser you use and follow the instructions:

    Mobile devices:

Affiliate links

The service contains links to partners where you can book accommodation or other travel services. If you use such an offer, we receive a commission from the partner — the price you pay stays the same.

Clicking a link takes you to the partner's website, which has its own privacy policy and cookies. We do not pass your data to them — the partner only recognises that you came from our site, based on an identifier in the address.

The current intermediary is LeadStar (LeadStar sp. z o.o.), working with Booking.com among others.

Visit statistics

Our server records information about page requests: date, page address, browser type and referring source. We use this to count page views and see where visitors come from. Nothing is stored on your device, which is why these statistics do not require consent. We do not keep IP addresses — they are replaced by an irreversible hash that changes daily. Separately, and only with your consent, we run the Umami analytics described above.