Privacy policy

1. Introduction

1.1 We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors and service users.

1.2 This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of our website visitors.

1.3 We will ask you to consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website.

2. How we use your personal data

2.1 This section provides:

  • the general categories of personal data that we may process;
  • in the case of personal data that we did not obtain directly from you, the source and specific categories of that data;
  • the purposes for which we may process personal data;
  • the legal bases of the processing.

2.2 We may process data about your use of our website and services (usage data). The usage data may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use. The source of the usage data are Google Analytics, TOPList and Flag Counter. This usage data may be processed for the purposes of analysing the use of the website and services. The legal basis for this processing is consent and our legitimate interests, namely monitoring and improving our website and services.

2.3 We may process information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us (correspondence data). The correspondence data may be processed for the purposes of communicating with you. The legal basis for this processing is consent.

2.4 In addition to the specific purposes for which we may process your personal data set out in this Section 3, we may also process any of your personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject.

3. Providing your personal data to others

3.1 We may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject. We may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.

4. Retaining and deleting personal data

4.1 This section sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal data.

4.2 Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

4.3 We will retain your personal data as follows:

  • Usage data and correspondence data will be retained for a maximum period of 10 years.

5. Amendments

5.1 We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.

6. Your rights

6.1 In this section, we have summarised the rights that you have under data protection law. You should read the relevant laws and guidance from the regulatory authorities for a full explanation of these rights.

6.2 Your principal rights under data protection law are:

  • the right to access;
  • the right to rectification;
  • the right to erasure;
  • the right to restrict processing;
  • the right to object to processing;
  • the right to data portability;
  • the right to complain to a supervisory authority;
  • the right to withdraw consent.

6.3 You have the right to confirmation as to whether or not we process your personal data.

6.4 You have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about you rectified.

6.5 In some circumstances you have the right to the erasure of your personal data without undue delay. Those circumstances include: the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed; you withdraw consent to consent-based processing; you object to the processing under certain rules of applicable data protection law; the processing is for direct marketing purposes; and the personal data have been unlawfully processed. However, there are exclusions of the right to erasure. The general exclusions include where processing is necessary: for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information; for compliance with a legal obligation; or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

6.6 If you contest the accuracy of the personal data, but you oppose erasure, you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data.

6.7 You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation, but only to the extent permitted by the legal basis.

6.8 You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes. If you make such an objection, we will cease to process your personal data for this purpose.

6.9 The legal basis for our processing of your personal data is your consent.

6.10 If you consider that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection.

6.11 To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal information is consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal.

6.12 You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to us.

7. Cookies

7.1 A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

7.2 Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

7.3 Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

7.4 We use cookies for the following purposes:

  • website settings - we use cookies to store your basic website preferences, such as the page language;
  • analysis – we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services;
  • advertising - to serve more relevant advertisements;
  • cookie consent – we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally;

8. Cookies used by our service providers

8.1 Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.

8.2 We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google's privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

8.3 We also use TOPList and Flag Counter services to monitor the number of visits. Privacy policy of these services are available at: https://o.toplist.cz/dokumentace/osobni-udaje/ and https://flagcounter.com/privacy.html.

8.4 We use Etarget to serve ads. Etarget's privacy policy is available at: https://www.etarget.sk/privacy.php.

8.5 You can see Facebook button "Like" on some webpages. Facebook's privacy policy is available at: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.

9. Managing cookies

9.1 Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via browser's webpages.

9.2 Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.

10. Data Protection Officer

10.1 If you have any questions about data protection or you want to apply your personal data rights, contact us at the email address .