Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 2025-12-13

1. Who We Are

Our website address is: https://www.leszekchrzastowski.com. For the purposes of data protection laws, the Data Controller is Leszek Chrzastowski. You can contact us regarding your privacy at: info@leszekchrzastowski.com

2. What Personal Data We Collect and Why

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

• Gravatar: An anonymised string created from your email address (a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact Forms

If you contact us via a form on our website, we retain your name and email address for customer service purposes, but we do not use the information submitted for marketing purposes unless you explicitly opt-in.

Cookies

We use cookies to improve your experience.

• Comments: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These last for one year.
• Login: If you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. “Remember Me” persists for two weeks.
• Editing: If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie indicating the post ID will be saved in your browser. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded Content

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to collect anonymous data about visitor behavior. This helps us understand how the site is used. You can read Google’s privacy policy here: https://policies.google.com/privacy

3. Who We Share Your Data With

We do not sell or trade your personal data. However, data may be shared with the following third parties for technical operations:

• Spam Detection: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service (e.g., Akismet).
• Password Resets: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

4. How Long We Retain Your Data

• Comments: Comment data and metadata are retained indefinitely to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically.
• Registered Users: For users that register on our website, we store the personal information provided in their user profile. Users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username).

5. Your Rights Over Your Data

Under data protection laws (including the GDPR), you have rights regarding your personal data. If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to:

1. Receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you.
2. Request that we erase any personal data we hold about you (excluding data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes).

To exercise these rights, please contact us at info@leszekchrzastowski.com