We take your privacy seriously, but we also believe privacy policies shouldn’t require a law degree to understand. Here’s how we handle your data at poland.gg — plainly and honestly.
The short version: poland.gg is a free, login-free, public open-data viewer. We run no third-party analytics, no advertising, and no tracking cookies. The only personal data we touch is the email address you give us if you choose to subscribe to the newsletter, plus the basic technical request data every web server needs to operate.
Who We Are
Poland.gg is run by Matt Rybin, trading as MATT RYBIN MATTRYBIN (NIP: 6793260169, REGON: 524468418), based in Kraków, Poland.
For the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we are the data controller responsible for your personal data.
Contact: [email protected]
What Data We Collect
Newsletter — If you subscribe to our newsletter, we store your email address (and your language preference, so we email you in the right language). We use it to send you a one-time confirmation link and, once confirmed, the newsletter itself. There are no accounts, no passwords, and no payment details — poland.gg is free to use.
Operational request data — Like any web server, ours processes basic technical information for each request: your IP address, user-agent (browser/device), the referring URL, and connection details. We use this to keep the site secure and reliable and to understand aggregate traffic patterns. It is not used to build a profile of you, and it is not shared with any advertising or analytics network.
Why We Collect Your Data
Under the GDPR, we need a legal basis for processing your data. Here’s what applies:
Consent (Article 6(1)(a)) — Sending you newsletter emails. You opt in, and you can change your mind anytime by unsubscribing (every email has a link).
Legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f)) — Processing operational request data to keep the site secure, reliable, and working well. You can object to this (see Your Rights).
No Third-Party Analytics or Advertising
We do not use Google Analytics, the Google Ads tag, Microsoft Clarity, PostHog, or any other third-party analytics, session-replay, or advertising service. We do not sell or share your data with data brokers. There is nothing here to opt out of, because there is nothing tracking you in the first place.
Cookies
Poland.gg uses only strictly-necessary cookies — a session cookie that keeps the site working and protects against cross-site request forgery. These don’t require consent because the site genuinely can’t function without them, and they don’t track you across sites.
We set no analytics or advertising cookies. Because there are no non-essential cookies, there’s no cookie consent banner — there’s nothing to consent to.
Operational Telemetry
To keep the site reliable, we send technical request data (including IP address and user-agent) to our observability provider, Honeycomb, which we use purely for first-party monitoring and debugging — never for marketing or profiling. This data is processed in the European Union. This processing rests on our legitimate interest in a secure, working service, and you can object to it.
Newsletter emails are delivered through an email service provider acting as our processor solely to send the messages you asked for.
How Long We Keep Your Data
We don’t keep data longer than we need to:
Newsletter data — kept while you’re subscribed. Unsubscribe and we stop using your email; we remove it on request.
Operational telemetry — retained for a short period (a matter of weeks) for security and debugging, then aged out automatically.
Your Rights
You’re in the EU, so you have strong rights under the GDPR. You can:
Access — ask for a copy of the data we hold about you.
Rectification — ask us to fix anything that’s wrong or incomplete.
Erasure — ask us to delete your data (the “right to be forgotten”).
Restriction — ask us to temporarily stop processing your data.
Data portability — get your data in a structured, machine-readable format.
Objection — object to processing based on our legitimate interests, including the operational telemetry above.
Withdraw consent — unsubscribe from the newsletter anytime. That won’t affect anything we did before you withdrew it.
To exercise any of these, email us at [email protected]. We’ll respond within 30 days.
If you’re not happy with how we handle things, you can lodge a complaint with the Polish supervisory authority:
Urząd Ochrony Danych Osobowych (UODO) ul. Stawki 2, 00-193 Warszawa uodo.gov.pl
Children’s Privacy
Poland.gg isn’t designed for children under 16, and we don’t knowingly collect their data. If you believe a child has shared personal data with us, let us know and we’ll remove it.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we’ll update the date at the top. No surprises — just check back occasionally if you’re curious.
Contact
Questions about your data or this policy? Reach out anytime.
Email: [email protected] Phone: +48 452 904 992