Terms & Policies

Cookie policy

Effective day 3 July 2020

To provide smooth and secure operation of the FundingBox Platform, we use cookie support technology.

We use cookies for different purposes: some cookies are essential for you to use our site, others let us help you speed up tasks, and others help us improve our site or to protect your data.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website, mobile app or use an online platform.

Cookies are widely used by online service providers to facilitate and help to make the interaction between users and websites, mobile apps and online platforms faster and easier, as well as to provide reporting information.

Cookies set by the website and/or mobile app and/or platform owner (in this case, FundingBox) are called “first party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the website and/or mobile app and/or platform owner are called “third party cookies”.

Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website and/or mobile app and/or platform (e.g. like analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognise your computer or device both when it visits the website and/or mobile app and/or platform in question and also when it visits certain other websites and/or mobile apps and/or platforms.

Why we use cookies

We use first party and third party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our websites and/or App and/or Platform to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies.

Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our Users to enhance the experience on our websites and/or App and/or Platform.

Third parties serve cookies through our websites and/or App and/or Platform for analytics and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.

What we use cookies for

On the FundingBox Platform, we use three categories of cookies: “Essential”, “Performance” and “Analytics” for the following purposes:

  • Essential cookies are used for the purpose and to the extent necessary for the proper display of our websites. They are about providing basic functions such as security, network management and availability. You can turn them off by changing your browser settings, but this may affect the functioning of the site.
Administrator Name Type Objective How to refuse
FundingBox

fb_sd_token

 

fb-login-state

First party

To keep the user session

alive

Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the websites to you, you cannot refuse them.

You can block or delete them by changing your browser settings, but it has to be done in the way described below under the heading “How you can control and delete cookies”.

  • Performance cookies and functionality cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionalities of our websites but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionalities may become unavailable.
Administrator Name Type Objective How to refuse
Amazon Web Services with its registered office in the USA

AWSALB

AWSALBCORS

Performance

7 days

Third party

To allow us to deliver the service seamlessly from multiple services using a load balancer, so the cookie simply records which server cluster is serving you. To refuse these cookies, please follow the instructions below under the heading “How you can control and delete cookies”.
  • Analytics and customisation cookies are used to collect information that help us understand how our websites are being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customise our websites for you.
Administrator Name Type Objective How to refuse
Universal Analytics (Google) with its registered office in the USA

_ga

_gali

_gat

_gid

Persistent

Analytics

Third party

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.
Read Google’s overview of privacy and safeguarding data

 

To refuse these cookies, please follow the instructions below under the heading “How you can control and delete cookies”.

Alternatively, please click on the opt-out link below:

Google Analytics

Intercom Inc. with its registered office in the USA

ajs_anonymous_id

ajs_group_id

ajs_user_id

Analytics

1 year

Third party

To analyse users’ and visitors’ behaviour in order to improve, support and operate the Service. To refuse these cookies, please follow the instructions below under the heading “How you can control and delete cookies”.
Mixpanel Inc. with its registered office in the USA mp_

Analytics

1 year

Third party

To analyse users’ and visitors’ behaviour in order to improve, support and operate the Service. To refuse these cookies, please follow the instructions below under the heading “How you can control and delete cookies”.

You can withdraw your consent at any time by clicking on the appropriate opt-out links provided in the cookie table above. and suspend installation and data collection via cookies. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

How you can control and delete cookies

Most browsers offer the option of accepting or rejecting all cookies. You can easily change the cookies settings in the browser’s settings section. Please take into account that blocking all cookies may cause difficulties in operation or completely prevent the use of some of our Platform functionalities.

Managing and deleting cookies varies depending on the browser used. Detailed information on this subject can be obtained by using the Help function in the browser or by visiting the website http://www.allaboutcookies.org which step by step explains how to control and delete cookies in most browsers.

You can see information about individual browsers at:

You can exercise your cookie preferences by clicking on the appropriate opt-out links provided in the cookie table above.

Personal data vs. cookies mechanism

Information obtained through the cookies mechanism and operational data may constitute personal data within the meaning of GDPR in certain exceptional situations (for example IP address).

Such personal data are processed only to the extent that is necessary for the correct display of the page and provision of the Services.

Basis for processing of data collected through “Essential” cookies and operational data is the so-called legitimate interest of the Service administrator (Article. 6.1. (f) of GDPR). To this end, the following may occur:

  • occasional analysis of log files to determine: which browsers are used by site visitors, which bookmarks, pages or subpages are most or least frequently visited or viewed, whether the page structure has no errors;
  • prevention of unauthorised access to the website and distribution of malicious codes, interruption of denial of service attacks, as well as prevention of damage to computer systems and electronic communication systems.

You have the right to object to such processing.

However, if you agree for the use of “optional” cookies (e.g. provided by Google Analytics), the basis for data processing is your consent (Article 6.1 (a) of GDPR and Polish telecommunication regulations). You can withdraw your consent and delete cookies at any time (by clicking on the appropriate opt-out links provided in the cookie table above.). Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

Obtained data will be deleted or anonymised no later than the expiry of the limitation period for potential claims related to the use of the Platform (no later than within 1 year from the date of record), or sooner if you object effectively or withdraw consent.

Operational data – what it is and how we use it

As part of the implementation of the above-mentioned analytical purposes, the website also uses the so-called operational data.

Operational data are data characterising the way the website is used that the administrator might get, even if cookies are not installed. These are:

  • ID number assigned to your device;
  • markings identifying the end of the telecommunications network;
  • ICT system (type of device, operational, internet browser) that you use;
  • information about the start, end and extent of each use of the site.

These data are not associated with specific people browsing the pages. To ensure the highest quality of the Platform, we occasionally analyse log files to determine which pages are visited most often, which web browsers are used, whether the structure of the page does not contain errors, etc.

The data indicated above obtained through the installation of cookies and other operational data are not combined with such information as name and surname, e-mail address and other data enabling easy identification of the person visiting the website.