What are cookies?

Cookies are understood as IT data, in particular text files, stored in users’ end devices intended for the use of websites. These files allow to recognize the user’s device and properly display the website tailored to his individual preferences. Cookies usually contain the name of the website they come from, the storage time on the end device and a unique number.

What do we use cookies for”?

Cookies are used to adapt the content of websites to the user’s preferences and to optimize the use of websites. They are also used to create anonymous, aggregated statistics that help to understand how the user uses websites, which allows improving their structure and content, excluding personal user identification.

What cookies do we use?

There are, as a rule, two types of “cookies” – “session” and “permanent”. The first of them are temporary files that remain on the user’s device until logging out of the website or turning off the software (web browser). “Permanent” files remain on the user’s device for the time specified in the parameters of “cookies” or until they are manually deleted by the user. Cookies used by the website operator’s partners, in particular website users, are subject to their own privacy policy. Cookies can be distinguished in detail due to:

• Types of cookies due to the necessity to provide the service,
• Due to the time for which the cookie will be placed on the user’s end device,
• Due to the origin – the website administrator who manages cookies,
• Due to the purpose they serve,

Types of cookies due to interference with the user’s privacy. Do cookies contain personal data?

Personal data collected using “cookies” may be collected only in order to perform specific functions for the user. Such data is encrypted in a way that prevents access by unauthorized persons. Deleting “cookies” By default, the software used for browsing websites allows by default to place “cookies” on the end device. These settings can be changed in such a way as to block the automatic handling of “cookies” in the web browser settings or inform about their every transfer to the user’s device. Detailed information on the possibilities and ways of handling cookies is available in the software (web browser) settings.

Restricting the use of “cookies” may affect some of the functionalities available on the website.