Terms of use
The rules for using the atlas, the mushroom forecast and the guides, and for comments and flush reports.
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Translation This English text is a translation; in case of doubt the Polish version prevails: Regulamin serwisu.
1. General provisions
The website Grzybolog (grzybolog.pl) is run by [NAZWA WYDAWCY], [ADRES], contact: kontakt@grzybolog.pl. Using the website is free of charge and does not require an account. By using the website, you accept these terms.
The mushroom atlas, the look-alike descriptions and the mushroom forecast are no basis for considering any mushroom edible. Show every mushroom you have picked and have even the slightest doubt about to a certified mushroom inspector at a consultation point of a sanitary-epidemiological station (sanepid). If you have symptoms of poisoning, call 112. More on the safety and poisoning page.
2. Nature of the content
All content on the website is for information and education only. We make every effort to keep it accurate and up to date, and we give sources for content that relies on them. Even so, descriptions and photos cannot replace a specialist examining the mushroom in hand: the appearance of mushrooms changes with age, weather and habitat, and many poisonous species look deceptively like edible ones.
3. The mushroom forecast
The mushroom forecast is an index calculated from weather data (rainfall, temperature, moisture) for districts. It shows whether conditions favour a flush, but it does not guarantee that mushrooms will actually appear in a given place and time. Flush reports come from users and are not checked by us in the field.
4. Liability
To the extent permitted by Polish law, we accept no liability for decisions made on the basis of the website’s content, in particular for the consequences of eating mushrooms or plants, for trips planned according to the forecast, or for interruptions in the operation of the website. When picking mushrooms, follow the rules on forests and nature conservation; we summarise them on the foraging rules page.
5. Comments and flush reports
When you add a comment or a flush report, you agree not to publish:
- spam, adverts or off-topic links,
- unlawful, offensive or vulgar content, or content that infringes the rights of others,
- other people’s personal data,
- deliberately false flush reports or advice encouraging people to eat unidentified mushrooms.
Comments appear after moderation. We may refuse to publish, shorten or remove a comment or report that breaks these rules. If you believe some content is unlawful, write to kontakt@grzybolog.pl; we will deal with your report without delay.
5a. Account, finds and leaderboard
You must be at least 16 years old to create an account. You are responsible for the security of your password. Each person should have only one account.
By adding a find, you confirm that you took the photo yourself or have the right to publish it. You grant us a free, non-exclusive licence to display the photo and description on the website (including in thumbnails, leaderboards and on species pages) until you delete it. You keep the copyright in the photo.
The species in the photo is named by its author. We do not verify identifications, and publishing one does not mean that the mushroom is edible. Never eat a mushroom on the strength of a photo, comment or leaderboard on the website.
Points, levels, badges and leaderboards are just for fun. Measurements of specimens are given by users themselves. It is forbidden to give deliberately false measurements, to publish other people’s photos and to encourage picking protected species (these take part on the website only as observations, without measurements). A find reported by three people is hidden until a moderator has checked it. For breaches we may hide a find, remove measurements, delete a comment or block an account; hidden content earns no points.
6. Copyright
The texts, descriptions, compilations, illustrations and code of the website belong to [NAZWA WYDAWCY]. You may quote extracts, giving the source and a link to the page, but do not copy whole texts. Species photos come from Wikimedia Commons and are available under the licences given with each photo; landscape photos come from Pexels. Weather data come from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0) and administrative boundaries from PRG (GUGiK). The rights to these materials belong to their authors and publishers.
7. Personal data
How we process data is described in the privacy policy, and browser storage and cookies in the cookie policy.
8. Changes to these terms
We may change these terms, for example when we add new features or the law changes. The new version applies from its publication on this page; the date of the last change is shown at the top. Matters not covered here are governed by Polish law.