Terms and privacy

Using Agile Great Again

On Agile Great Again I publish articles, a blog, a glossary, a self-assessment of team practices and five tools: Planning Poker, a Kanban board, a Monte Carlo forecast, a retrospective board and a timebox timer. All are free to use without an account, subscription, email address or payment. The collection showcases designs. The items shown are not for sale on this site.

You start using the service when you open a page or tool and can leave at any time. You need a web browser and an internet connection. Interactive features require JavaScript. Use the site lawfully. Do not enter unlawful content, confidential client information or another person’s personal data in a shared room.

Leaving a one-time tip

If you found an article or tool useful, you can leave a one-time tip to support my work. Your tip helps me develop the site and publish new material. Everyone has the same access whether or not they tip.

A tip is voluntary. It does not buy additional material or a licence, give you other benefits, or start a subscription. It does not commission an article or commit me to a particular future publication. My business, Marek Mucha IT Infra Services, receives the payment.

The support button opens a page hosted by Stripe Checkout. The English and Spanish pages link to the euro form, which suggests EUR 4. The Polish page links to the złoty form, which suggests PLN 10. You can enter a different amount. The PLN form may offer cards and BLIK, and the EUR form may offer cards. Stripe shows the methods available for your payment. You see the amount and currency before confirming. You can close the page without paying. Confirmation authorises only this payment.

The maximum per tip is EUR 200 on the euro form or PLN 1,000 on the złoty form. These are independent, fixed limits. Each limit applies to the tip in the form’s base currency and excludes conversion costs. Stripe may offer payment in your local currency and will show the exchange rate and conversion cost before you confirm. You can keep the form’s base currency. Your bank may apply its own exchange rate or fees under its terms.

Go to the Agile Great Again support section.

Mistakes, complaints and refunds

If you make a voluntary payment for the amount you intended, I do not offer a refund solely because you later change your mind.

If something on the site does not work, you entered the wrong amount or you see two charges, email work@mmucha.eu or write to the postal address below. Describe what happened. For a payment issue, include the date, amount and currency and, if you have it, the confirmation reference. Never send your full card number, card security code (CVC), BLIK code or bank login details. If you do not recognise a charge, also contact your bank.

If you report a mistake in the amount, I will review your account of what happened and the payment details. I will return any amount you are legally entitled to receive. If you were charged twice for the same payment, I will refund the duplicate charge in full. I will respond to your complaint by email or post within 14 days of receiving it.

If the law does not require a refund, I may offer one at your request after deducting only the fee that Stripe charged me for that payment and did not return to me. I will tell you the documented fee and the exact amount I propose to refund. I will issue this refund once you expressly agree to that amount.

I issue refunds through Stripe to the original payment method. If a refund cannot be completed that way, I will contact you about it. The time it takes for a refund to appear depends on your bank and payment method. These terms do not limit your statutory rights, including your right of withdrawal where it applies.

Privacy

I am Marek Mucha, the controller of your personal data in connection with this site. My business details are in the contact section. To exercise your rights or ask about your data, email work@mmucha.eu or use my postal address below.

When you visit

Your browser sends its IP address and request details to Hostinger, which delivers the site and runs its infrastructure on my behalf. Technical logs may include your IP address, the time and address of the request and the browser type. I use technical data to deliver the page you request (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR). I use logs to detect faults, abuse and security incidents, which is my legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f)).

Hostinger protects the site against bots and attacks. Even before opening an ordinary page, you may encounter a JavaScript check of signals from your browser. After a successful check, a technical cookie records the result until it expires. I rely on my legitimate interest in keeping the site secure (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR), rather than consent, for this processing. I do not use the check for marketing. How Hostinger verifies browsers.

What stays in your browser

Fonts and resources needed to display the site load from Agile Great Again. An external site such as an article source on LinkedIn or Stripe Checkout opens when you follow its link. At that point its provider receives connection details, including your IP address, from your browser.

The site saves your chosen theme under aga-theme. The Kanban board, retrospective notes and actions, and answers to the self-assessment stay in your browser’s local storage. The Monte Carlo forecast runs on your device, as does the timer. The contents of these tools are not sent to my server. If you choose to copy results, notes or a round history as Markdown, they go to your clipboard. You decide whether to share them further. You can clear local records by removing the site’s data in your browser settings.

What other Planning Poker participants can see

Planning Poker runs on my server so people can work together. When you open the tool, your browser generates a pseudorandom participant identifier and stores it under aga-poker-pid. It also remembers your chosen nickname (aga-poker-name). When you join a room, your browser sends the identifier and nickname to the server. They may appear in request URLs and therefore in technical logs. Choose a nickname you are comfortable sharing. You do not need to use your real name.

Anyone with the room code or link can enter. Participants can see nicknames, the round topic, reactions and who has voted. The server receives your card when you submit it. Other participants see its value only when the cards are revealed. They can also see the history of recent rounds. I receive this information from participants and share it within the room to run the session they request (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR).

The room and voting history remain in server memory for up to 24 hours from the moment the room is created. Restarting the server may end the session sooner. To prevent abuse of room creation, the application uses the IP address in a rate limiter with a window of about ten minutes (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). This is separate from hosting logs. Room expiry does not clear the local participant identifier or nickname. You can remove them by clearing the site’s data.

When you pay or contact me

Stripe Checkout requires your email address and the details needed for your chosen payment method. Stripe shares the information needed to authorise and process the transaction with the bank and payment method provider. You can pay without saving details for later. If you choose Link, Stripe saves your details for future payments through its own Link service, separate from Agile Great Again. You do not need to give an email address or payment details to browse the site.

Stripe provides me with the amount, currency, date, status and transaction reference. Depending on the payment, I may also receive your email address, name and partial payment method details. I do not receive your full card number or CVC. A tip is not anonymous. I do not publish supporters’ details or use them for marketing.

I use transaction details to process and settle the payment you request (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR). I keep legally required tax and accounting records to meet those obligations (Article 6(1)(c)). When you contact me, you provide your contact details and message. I use these to reply and resolve your enquiry. This and the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims are my legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f)). Where the law requires a response or a refund, I also process the necessary details to meet that obligation (Article 6(1)(c)).

Recipients and international transfers

My hosting, email and accounting providers receive the data needed for their respective services. Payments also involve Stripe, banks and providers of the payment method you choose. Public authorities may receive data when required by law. Stripe processes payments on my behalf and also acts as a separate controller for purposes such as preventing fraud and meeting its own legal obligations. Stripe’s privacy policy.

Providers of hosting, external resources and payments may use infrastructure outside the European Economic Area, including in the United States. A transfer may rely on a European Commission adequacy decision covering the recipient, or on standard contractual clauses with appropriate safeguards. Contact me to find out the basis of a particular transfer or obtain a copy of the safeguards. Hostinger’s terms and Stripe’s data transfer terms.

How long I keep data

Technical logs help detect faults and abuse. Routine log rotation depends on the hosting configuration. If a record is needed to investigate an incident, I keep it until the matter is closed, and longer only as required by law or for legal claims. I keep correspondence and payment or refund records until the enquiry or settlement is complete. Records needed for claims are kept until the limitation period expires or the proceedings are finally resolved. I keep tax records until the tax liability is time-barred, generally five years from the end of the year in which the tax was due.

Your rights

You may request access to your data and a copy, rectification, erasure or restriction under the conditions set out in the GDPR. The right to portability applies to data you provided and that is processed automatically under a contract or with consent. I normally respond within one month. You can complain to the Polish data protection authority (UODO) or the competent authority in the EU country where you usually live, work or where you believe an infringement occurred. I do not make decisions about you based solely on automated processing that have legal or similarly significant effects.

Your right to object

You can object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to processing based on my legitimate interests. I will stop unless I demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or grounds for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims. Email work@mmucha.eu.

Who runs the site and how to reach me

I am Marek Mucha, a sole trader operating as Marek Mucha IT Infra Services. My Polish tax identification number (NIP) is 7343312458.

My postal address is ul. Bulwarowa 31A/50, 31-751 Kraków, Poland. For questions about the site, payments or privacy, email work@mmucha.eu.