This Privacy Policy sets out the rules for storing and accessing information on the User’s devices using cookies, used for the implementation of services provided electronically requested by the User, by Tropical Tadeusz Ogrodnik, based in Chorzów /41-507/ at ul. Opolska 25.

The User’s personal data is processed in accordance with the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council (EU) 2016/679 of 27.04.2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data on the free movement of such data and the repeal of Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (Official Journal of the EU L119 of 4.05.2016) hereinafter RODO.

The controller shall exercise special care to protect the interests of data subjects, and in particular shall ensure that the data it collects are processed lawfully; collected for specified, legitimate purposes and not subjected to further processing incompatible with those purposes; substantively correct and adequate in relation to the purposes for which they are processed; and stored in a form that allows the identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary to achieve the purpose of the processing.

All words, phrases and acronyms appearing on this Site and beginning with a capital letter (e.g. Administrator, Service, Device) shall be understood as defined in Section I of this Privacy Policy.

I. Definitions

1. Tropical Tadeusz Ogrodnik, based in Chorzow /41-507/ at ul. Opolska 25 e-mail address: tropical@tropical.pl
(2) Cookies – means computer data, in particular small text files, recorded and stored on the devices through which the User uses the Website.
(3) Administrator’s Cookies – means cookies placed by the Administrator, related to the provision of electronic services by the Administrator through the Service.
4. External Cookies – means cookies placed by the Administrator’s partners, through the website of the Service.
5. Device – means an electronic device through which the User accesses the Service.
6. User – means an entity to whom, in accordance with the Regulations and legal regulations, electronic services may be provided or with whom an Agreement for the provision of electronic services may be concluded.

II. Types of cookies used

1 The cookies used by the Administrator are safe for the User’s Device. In particular, it is not possible through this route for viruses or other unwanted software or malware to enter the Users’ Devices. These files allow us to identify the software used by the User and customize the Service individually for each User. Cookies usually contain the name of the domain from which they originate, the time they are stored on the Device and the assigned value.
2 The administrator uses two types of cookies:
a. Session cookies: are stored on the User’s Device and remain there until the session of a given browser ends. The stored information is then permanently deleted from the Device’s memory. The mechanism of session cookies does not allow the collection of any personal data or any confidential information from the User’s Device.
b. Persistent cookies: they are stored on the User’s Device and remain there until deleted. Ending the session of a given browser or turning off the Device does not remove them from the User’s Device. The mechanism of persistent cookies does not allow the collection of any personal data or any confidential information from the User’s Device.
(3) You have the ability to restrict or disable access of cookies to your Device. If you use this option, the use of the Website will be possible, except for functions that by their nature require cookies.

III. The purposes for which cookies are used

1 The Administrator uses Custom Cookies for the following purposes:

a. Service configuration
– to recognize the Service User’s device and its location and appropriately display the website, tailored to his/her individual needs;
– font size, website design, etc.
b. Realization of processes necessary for full functionality of websites
– adapting the content of the Website’s pages to the User’s preferences and optimizing the use of the Website’s pages. In particular, these files allow to recognize the basic parameters of the User’s Device and appropriately display the website, tailored to its individual needs;
c. Analysis and research and audience audit
– creation of anonymous statistics, which help to understand how the Service’s Users use the Service’s websites, which allows to improve their structure and content;
d. Ensure the safety and reliability of the service

(2) The service administrator uses External cookies for the following purposes:
a. collection of general and anonymous statistical data via Google Analytics tools [cookie administrator: Google Inc. based in the USA].
b. the use of interactive features to popularize the site via the social network facebook.com [cookie administrator: Facebook Inc. with headquarters in the USA or Facebook Ireland with headquarters in Ireland]

IV. Possibilities to determine the conditions for storing or accessing cookies

(1) The User may independently and at any time, at his own discretion, change the settings for cookies, specifying the conditions for storing and accessing by cookies to the User’s Device. Changes to the settings referred to in the preceding sentence can be made by the User through the settings of the Internet browser or through the configuration of the service. These settings can be changed, in particular, in such a way as to block the automatic handling of cookies in the settings of your web browser or inform about their placement on your device each time. Detailed information about the possibility and methods of handling cookies is available in the settings of your software (web browser).
(2) The user can delete cookies at any time using the available functions in the web browser he uses.
Restricting the use of cookies, may affect some functions / services available on the Website.