Privacy Policy and Cookies

General Information

This document defines the rules of the Privacy Policy on the website https://ojs.chat.edu.pl/ (hereinafter referred to as the “Website”).

The administrator of the Website is the Christian Theological Academy with its registered office in Warsaw (01-771), at ul. Broniewskiego 48.

Rules of processing personal data on the Website

Personal data collected by the Website is processed in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016. on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), hereinafter referred to as: GDPR.

As the administrator of the Website, we take special care to protect the privacy and information provided to us by users of the Website. We select and apply appropriate technical measures, including programming and organisational measures, with due diligence to ensure the protection of the data being processed. In particular, we protect data against unauthorised access, disclosure, loss, destruction, unauthorised alteration, as well as processing in violation of applicable law.

Purposes and legal basis for the processing of personal data collected in connection with your use of the Website

We process your personal data for the following purposes and to the following extent:

1. We collect cookies, in order to verify the authenticity of your browser session, remember your settings and preferences, and optimise and improve the performance of the services provided by our Website.
2. Our Website uses Google's Captcha, in order to ensure security and verify the identity of persons creating accounts on the Website.
3. In addition, in accordance with the accepted practice of most websites, we also store HTTP queries directed to our server. The resources viewed are identified by their URL addresses. The exact list of information stored in the web server log files is as follows:

• public IP address of the computer from which the query came (this may be the user’s computer)
• client workstation name - identification carried out by the HTTP protocol, if possible,
• username provided during the authorisation process,
• time of the query,
• first line of the HTTP request,
• HTTP response code,
• number of bytes sent by the server,
• URL of the page previously visited by the user (referrer link) - if the transition to the website of the Christian Theological Academy was made via a link,
• information about the user's browser,
• information about errors that occurred during the execution of the HTTP transaction.

This data is not associated with specific individuals browsing our Website. In order to ensure the highest quality of service, we occasionally analyse log files to determine which pages are visited most often, which web browsers are used, whether the website structure contains errors, etc.

What is a reCAPTCHA file?

It is a feature that allows us to determine whether a person (or, in the case of malicious activity, a computer) has performed a specific operation. This feature on our Website is designed to protect the Website from being used by bots to create accounts.

Google's security check uses the following information in particular:

• Your terminal's IP address,
• Browser properties (e.g. browser type and version, screen resolution, language, time and date of access),
• Your Google account (if you are logged in),
• Your browsing behaviour,
• Your access behaviour (e.g. mouse movements on the reCAPTCHA surface),
• If necessary, tasks involving image identification.

The above data is collected when you register on our Website.

For more information about Google's data protection, please visit the following link https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=pl&gl=pl.

What is a cookie?

Cookies are small text files sent by websites you visit and stored on your computer. The information contained in these files can only be read by the website that created them. This means that a website cannot access other files on your computer.

Why does our Website use cookies?

Examples of how we use cookies on our Website:

• to establish, maintain and manage your session, as well as to remember your settings on the Website,
• to verify the authenticity of your browser session,
• to improve the security and performance of the Website.

What types of cookies do we use?

Cookies used on the Website are either persistent cookies or session cookies. Persistent cookies are stored on your terminal device for the period specified in their parameters or until you delete them. Session cookies are temporary files that are automatically deleted when you log out of the Website or close your web browser.

Our Website uses the following cookies:

• essential cookies, which:
• store your consent to cookies for the domain you are visiting. They remain on your device for 12 months or until they are deleted,
• are used to distinguish people from bots in order to create reliable reports on the use of the Website. They remain on your device permanently or until they are deleted.
• unclassified/functional cookies, which affect the functionality and security of our Website and are used to remember the last magazine you visited or your preferred interface language. They remain on your device until you leave the Website or turn off your software (web browser).

Can I refuse to accept cookies?

In the case of essential cookies, you can change your cookie settings at any time by specifying the conditions for their storage and access to your device. You can change your settings for accepting essential cookies using your web browser settings. Detailed information about the options and methods for handling essential cookies is available in the software settings (web browser).

How to change the settings of the following web browsers regarding the storage of essential cookies:

• Microsoft Edge;
• Internet Explorer;
• Mozilla Firefox;
• Chrome;
• Safari;
• Opera.

What happens if I refuse to accept cookies?

If you refuse to accept essential and unclassified/functional cookies, some features of the Website may not work properly or may be unavailable, as these cookies enable the verification of browser session authenticity and help optimise and improve the performance of the services provided by our Website.

How long can personal data be processed?

Personal data collected along with cookies will be processed by us for the period necessary to provide our services. The logs we collect are stored indefinitely as supporting material used to administer the website. The information contained in them is not disclosed to anyone other than persons authorised to administer the server and our Website. Statistics may be generated from log files to assist in administration. Aggregate summaries in the form of such statistics do not contain any personally identifiable information.

Recipients of personal data

Your personal data can be shared with the following categories of recipients:

• entities providing us with services related to the administration of the Website;
• entities providing us with hosting services for the Website.