Privacy policy

Last updated: 12 October 2026.

Who is responsible

Piotr Olszewski is the publisher and data controller for this website. Contact: promptowy@gmail.com. Processing by the publisher is governed by Polish law and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This does not remove mandatory rights available to you in your country.

Contact and newsletter

If you email us, we receive your email address, any name you provide, the message and attachments. We use them to answer your enquiry, investigate corrections and manage correspondence. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in responding to readers, Article 6(1)(f) GDPR; where your enquiry concerns a contract, Article 6(1)(b) applies. Providing these details is voluntary, but we cannot reply without a contact address. Correspondence is kept for up to 12 months after the last message, unless a legal obligation or a dispute requires longer retention.

Contact is by email only. There is no contact form storing messages on the website. We do not operate an email newsletter or collect addresses for a newsletter. RSS feeds let you follow new articles without giving us your email address. If an email newsletter is introduced, this policy will be updated before subscriptions begin.

Hosting, security and first-party measurements

The website is hosted by Hostido in Poland and uses LiteSpeed Cache. Hosting server logs contain technical information associated with requests, such as the IP address, requested resource, date and browser information. They support delivery, security and fault diagnosis. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in running and protecting the website, Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. Hosting logs are subject to the provider’s retention and security settings; a specific fixed period has not been verified.

Our own WordPress tools count article views, currently active readers, reactions, page performance and visits with campaign parameters (UTM). We do not use Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Matomo, Clarity or Facebook Pixel. These first-party measurements are not used to build advertising profiles and their results are not sent to an external analytics provider. They support our legitimate interest in understanding readership and improving reliability. This description of first-party measurements does not cover Google’s separate advertising processing below.

The live counter uses a browser identifier stored locally and the article identifier. A live entry stops counting after 75 seconds without an update and is removed during the next counter update. The browser identifier remains in local storage until you clear site data. Reaction controls use an IP-derived identifier to limit abuse and duplicate votes: the rate limit expires after 1 hour and the duplicate-vote record after 1 year. The browser also remembers submitted reactions until site data is cleared. Aggregate article totals may remain with the article.

UTM statistics keep totals for the latest 40 recorded dates, not an individual browsing history. A session-storage flag avoids counting the same campaign visit repeatedly during a tab session. Performance measurements keep the latest 400 numeric samples per metric. Local storage and session storage can be removed through your browser’s site-data controls.

The performance measurement library is downloaded from unpkg.com. When requesting that file, the browser sends technical request information, including its IP address, to the CDN. Measurement results are sent only to this website.

Google AdSense and cookie choices

Advertising is provided through Google AdSense. The Google Funding Choices consent message lets you manage the purposes and advertising partners presented there. Where consent is required, the legal basis for that processing is Article 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may refuse optional consent or withdraw it through the privacy and cookie settings control. Withdrawal does not affect processing that was lawful before withdrawal. The consent message also identifies purposes for which a partner relies on legitimate interests and provides objection controls.

Google and the advertising partners shown in the consent message may receive information such as your IP address, page address, browser or device identifiers and information about ads viewed or clicked. They may store or read cookies and similar identifiers for the purposes described in that message. Cookie lifetimes and partner details are available in the consent settings and the provider’s information. Non-personalised ads can still involve technical processing; they do not mean that no data is processed.

Read how Google uses information from sites that use its services, Google’s privacy policy and Google’s advertising information. You can also manage Google’s advertising preferences in My Ad Center. Browser cookie controls are separate from the consent choices on this site.

Affiliate links and external content

Some links are affiliate links, including redirects using /recommends/ or /polecam/. We may receive a commission if you make a qualifying purchase. After you follow a link, the partner may use its own cookies and process data under its own privacy policy. External websites are responsible for their own processing. When an article loads externally hosted media, the provider can receive technical request information such as your IP address and the page address; consult that provider’s privacy information.

Recipients and international transfers

Relevant recipients include the hosting provider, the Google email service used for our contact address, and Google and the advertising partners identified in the consent message. Access is also possible where required by law. We do not sell a newsletter subscriber list because we do not maintain one.

Google services may process data outside the European Economic Area, including in the United States. Google describes its reliance on applicable adequacy decisions, the Data Privacy Framework and, where required, standard contractual clauses in its data transfer information. Information about the safeguards and how to obtain details is available there. Other advertising partners explain their transfers and retention in the policies linked from the consent message.

Your rights

Subject to the conditions in the GDPR, you can request access, correction, erasure, restriction and portability of your personal data. You may object to processing based on legitimate interests on grounds relating to your situation, and withdraw consent at any time. Send requests to promptowy@gmail.com. We may ask for information necessary to verify your identity. We normally respond within 1 month; if a lawful extension is needed, we explain it within that period.

You may complain to the Polish supervisory authority, UODO, or to the competent data protection authority in your country of residence or work. The publisher does not make automated decisions about you that produce legal or similarly significant effects. Google advertising personalisation, where chosen, is described separately above.