Your privacy is important to us. In this policy, you will learn what personal data we collect about you and how we use it. This policy will always be kept up to date; however, we recommend that you review it from time to time.
 

About Us

We are a Slovak law firm providing various legal services to national, international, and foreign clients. In this policy, the term “we” refers to our law firm, including all of its associates and employees. Below you will find answers to the basic questions concerning the collection and processing of personal data. If you have any further questions or wish to exercise your rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Controller of Personal Data Processing

Mgr. Peter Prezbruch, Attorney-at-Law
Registered office: Školská 26, 931 01 Šamorín, Slovenská republika
E-mail: prezbruch@advpp.sk

What Data Do We Collect?
 

We may collect the following personal data about you:
 

• Identification data: first name, last name, academic title, date and place of birth, residential address, facial image, signature, gender, marital status, nationality, personal identification number or other unique identifier (e.g. health insurance number), data from travel/identification documents (such as passport number, driver’s licence, identity card or residence permit number, date of issuance, issuing authority, and expiry date);

• Contact details: postal address, telephone number, e-mail address, social media accounts, or other means of communication;

• Business and employment data: your business, trade, or other economic activity, information about your employer, job title/position, salary, or other income;

• Financial data: payment-related information (e.g. the name of a bank or other financial institution and bank account number);

• Technical data: data obtained from your visits to our website through cookies or analytical tools;

• Other data: any other information you have provided to us before, during, or after the provision of legal or other services.

How Do We Collect Data?

All of the above-mentioned data are obtained directly from you when you provide them to us, when we provide you with legal services, when you interact with our website and social media, or from publicly available sources (such as social networks and public registers). As a rule, we do not obtain your data from third parties, except for public authorities.
If you are not our client, we may obtain all of the above-mentioned data relating to you from our clients, business partners, or from publicly available sources. This typically occurs where our client has, or is about to have, a dispute with you or is engaged in contractual negotiations with you.

How Do We Use the Data?
 

• Provision of and payment for services: case review, analysis of solutions, strategy development, implementation of individual steps, provision of consultations and services, and setting up billing and invoicing processes;

• Communication with you: contacting you by phone, sending messages and e-mails, and informing you of all matters necessary in connection with the provision of legal services;

• Building our relationship with you: using data about your business or other activities in order to tailor our service portfolio to clients’ needs;

• Development of our law firm: analysing your interests, creating statistics, and monitoring analytical data from our website and social media in order to adapt to market needs;

• Performance of our obligations towards you and other entities;

• Pursuit of our legitimate interests as set out below.

How Do We Protect the Data?

We take all reasonable measures to protect your data against misuse or unauthorised access, whether physical or digital. Access to your data is granted only to persons who need it to perform the necessary tasks. However, in today’s technological environment, the internet is not entirely secure; therefore, we cannot guarantee that all data you provide to us or disclose electronically will be accessible exclusively to us. For this reason, you are also responsible for ensuring the secure transmission of data to us.
 

How Long Do We Retain the Data?

We retain your data for the duration of the provision of legal or other services and until full payment of all services and related expenses has been made. If you are our regular client, we may retain your data for a longer period, in particular for the purpose of ensuring the efficient and prompt provision of further legal or other services. In other cases, we retain data only where this is consistent with our legitimate interests or where we are required to do so by law.

To Whom Do We Disclose the Data?

Your data do not leave our law firm unless this is necessary for the provision of the requested legal or other services. In such cases, your data may be disclosed to public authorities, our tax advisers, accountants, business partners (e.g. translators, interpreters, couriers, and intermediaries), or cooperating law firms, while ensuring appropriate data protection safeguards.

On What Legal Basis Do We Process the Data?

Every controller of personal data processing must have a valid legal basis for processing personal data. The legal bases for the processing of personal data are set out in Article 6 of the GDPR and Section 13(1) of the Slovak Act on Personal Data Protection.

We use the following three legal bases for processing your data:
 

• Performance of a contract (identification data, contact details, business and employment data, financial data, and any other data where relevant to this legal basis);

• Compliance with legal obligations to which the controller is subject (identification data, contact details, business and employment data, financial data, and any other data where relevant to this legal basis);

• Legitimate interest (identification data, contact details, business and employment data, technical data, and any other data where relevant to this legal basis).

What Are Our Legitimate Interests?
 

• Providing high-quality and efficient services;

• Improving the quality and efficiency of the services provided;

• Developing and maintaining client relationships;

• Understanding our clients and their interests/needs;

• Acquiring new clients and adapting to their interests/needs;

• Ensuring security.

Do We Use Automated Decision-Making, Including Profiling?

No, we do not use automated decision-making or profiling.

To Whom Do We Disclose Your Personal Data?

As a law firm, we may disclose your personal data to various entities depending on the specific case. These will mainly include other, in particular cooperating, law firms, notaries, auditors, accountants, bailiffs, courts, law enforcement authorities, and other public authorities.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and other tracking technologies on our website to ensure its proper functioning, improve performance, and provide a better user experience. Below are the types of cookies that may be used on our website:
 

• Strictly necessary cookies are required for the proper functioning of our website. They enable basic functions such as page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, the website would not function properly.

• Preference cookies allow our website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, such as your preferred language or the region in which you are located.

• Statistical cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited most often or whether any errors occur while browsing the website. This information helps us improve the performance of our website and better understand the needs of our visitors.

• Marketing cookies are used to track visitors’ activity across websites. The intention is to display advertisements that are relevant and engaging for individual users.

• Third-party cookies may be present on our website and are created by other services or applications, such as analytical tools or social networks, which may track your activities across different websites.

How to Manage Cookies

You may disable or restrict the use of cookies through your internet browser settings. Please note, however, that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of our website.

Analytics and Tracking Tools

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a tool provided by Google LLC, with its registered office at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States of America (hereinafter “Google”), which enables website operators to obtain statistical data about users of their websites. Through this service, it is possible to monitor current and historical website traffic, user behaviour and characteristics, conversions, sales, and other metrics. Google Analytics uses cookies, whereby the information generated by cookies about the use of the website is usually transmitted to and stored on Google servers in the USA.

Cookies generate the following information about the use of our website:

(a) browser type and version;
(b) operating system used;
(c) referrer URL (previously visited page);
(d) identification of the accessing device (IP address);
(e) time of the server request.

In addition to statistical purposes, Google Analytics, together with certain cookies, is also used to ensure the delivery of relevant advertising by Google.

Cookies are stored on the end user’s device (computer, tablet, smartphone). Google anonymises part of the IP address associated with the end user’s device immediately upon collection, thereby enhancing the protection of your privacy.

If you wish to prevent the processing of your personal data via Google Analytics (and thereby withdraw your consent to the processing of personal data), you must install a browser add-on. This add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript code (gtag.js, analytics.js), which runs on our website, from sharing information about visitors’ activity with Google Analytics.

The procedure for installing the add-on is as follows:

(a) click on the link: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/181881?hl=en;
(b) you will be redirected to a webpage entitled “Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on,” where you click on the link “Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on”;
(c) you will be offered the installation of the add-on, which you initiate by clicking “Add to” (or “Add to [name of your browser]”) and subsequently clicking “Add extension.”

Further information about Google Analytics can also be found at:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites?hl=sk

Social Media

Facebook

In the course of our business activities, we also cooperate with Meta Platforms, Inc. (hereinafter “Meta” or “Facebook”) through plugins.

On our website, we use the services “Facebook Conversion Pixel” (now known as “Meta Pixel”) and “Facebook Remarketing”.

The Facebook Conversion Pixel allows us to track conversions from Facebook advertisements, optimise advertisements, create targeted audiences for future advertisements, and re-target advertisements to individuals who have previously interacted with our website. The Facebook Conversion Pixel works by placing a cookie that tracks visitors on our website for the purpose of further contact (retargeting). However, the

Facebook Conversion Pixel does not allow us to see which other websites you have visited. It therefore serves exclusively for statistical evaluation of the effectiveness and use of our Facebook advertising campaigns.

Facebook Remarketing enables users who have visited our website to be re-contacted through targeted advertising on Facebook. In this context, we do not collect or obtain any information identifying which Facebook users were actually shown such targeted advertisements.

Our website also uses the Conversion API provided by Meta to optimise our marketing activities and improve the user experience. The Conversion API allows us to collect and analyse data on conversions, such as purchases or other important actions performed on our website. These data are processed for the purpose of providing more accurate and relevant advertisements and analytical reports. The information obtained through the Conversion API may include technical data about your device, visits to our website, and actions performed on the website.

You may influence the processing of personal data under this subsection via www.facebook.com by adjusting the relevant settings in your account.
 

What Rights Do You Have?

The GDPR and the Slovak Act on Personal Data Protection provide a broad range of rights for data subjects in relation to the processing of personal data. However, the exercise of these rights does not automatically mean that they will always be granted, as both the GDPR and the Slovak Act on Personal Data Protection contain a number of exceptions.
Nevertheless, your request will always be duly assessed.

As a data subject, you have the following rights:
 

• Right of access to the personal data we process about you (Article 15 GDPR), including the right to obtain confirmation as to whether personal data concerning you are being processed, the right to access such data, and the right to obtain a copy of the personal data processed about you, where technically feasible;

• Right to rectification and completion of personal data if we process inaccurate or incomplete data about you (Article 16 GDPR);

• Right to erasure of your personal data (Article 17 GDPR). You may request the erasure of your data, for example, if they are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were originally processed. However, we must consider all relevant circumstances, such as statutory obligations that may apply to us, and therefore we may not always be able to comply with your request;

• Right to restriction of processing (Article 18 GDPR). Under certain circumstances, you may request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, for example if you believe that the data we hold about you may be inaccurate or are no longer necessary;

• Right to data portability. The data subject has the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to the controller, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and has the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided, where:
  (a) the processing is based on consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) or Article 9(2)(a), or on a contract pursuant to Article 6(1)(b); and
  (b) the processing is carried out by automated means.

  When exercising the right to data portability, the data subject has the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible (Article 20 GDPR);

• Right to object where the processing is based on legitimate interests, public interest, or where the processing relates to direct marketing, including profiling (Article 21 GDPR).

If you wish to exercise any of the above rights, or any other rights guaranteed by applicable legislation, please contact us at peterprezbruch94mail.com. As explained above, you may not have all of the above rights in every processing scenario. If you are unsure whether a particular right applies to a specific case of personal data processing, please contact us and we will be happy to clarify this for you.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint pursuant to Article 77 GDPR or to initiate proceedings pursuant to Section 100 of the Slovak Act on Personal Data Protection with the Office for Personal Data Protection of the Slovak Republic, which may be contacted at the address below, or to bring an action before a competent court. In any case, we recommend resolving disputes, questions, or objections primarily through communication with us.

Office for Personal Data Protection of the Slovak Republic
Hraničná 12, 820 07 Bratislava, Slovakia
Phone: +421 2 3231 3214
Fax: +421 2 3231 3234
E-mail: statny.dozor@pdp.gov.sk
Website: www.dataprotection.gov.sk