Privacy policy

For the purpose of data protection legislation, the data controller Edukácia@Internet is responsible for your personal data (referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice).

General

We take your personal data protection seriously. The following gives a simple overview of what happens to your personal information when you visit our website or register to the Polyglot Gathering. Personal information is any data with which you could be personally identified. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be found in our privacy policy found below.

Data collection on our website

Who is responsible for the data collection on this website?

The data collected on this website are processed by:

What information do we collect from you?

We collect and process the following data about you:

Why do we collect this information?

We use this information in the following ways:

Data protection

How long do we keep hold of your information?

We will keep information about you for a maximum of 15 years after receiving your consent unless obligations to our regulators require otherwise or we are required to remove such data from our records.

In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data for our research or statistical purposes, and in such cases we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

Who might we share your information with?

We may have to share your personal data with the parties listed below:

We require that all third parties to whom we transfer your data respect the security of your personal information and to treat it in accordance with the law. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

You agree that for the purposes set out in the “Why do we collect this information?” section above, that we have the right to share your personal information with the aforementioned parties.

How is your data stored and kept secure?

We take your safety and security very seriously and we are committed to protecting your personal and financial information.

We have in place security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorisation. We also allow access to your personal data only to employees and partners who have a business need to access that data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they must keep it confidential.

When personal information is transferred over the Internet, we encrypt it using Transfer Layer Security (TLS) encryption technology or similar technology. You can recognize an

encrypted connection in your browser’s address line when it changes from “http://” to “https://” and the lock icon is displayed in your browser’s address bar.

We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any relevant regulator of any breaches if we are legally required to.

Transferring your data outside of the European Economic Area (EEA)

We use services from Google LLC, with its seat in 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States of America (further only “Google”). Data including your personal information are put into Google’s software and stored on their servers in the United States of America. This means your personal data is transferred outside of the European Union, namely to the United States of America.

We would like to inform you that GDPR allows transferring of personal data to third countries outside of the European Union provided, among other conditions, that the European Commission decided that this third countries ensures an adequate level of protection. According to the Adequacy decision of the European Commission, the United States of America are a country that provides an adequate level of protection through the Privacy Shield framework that was adopted on July 12, 2016. The Google company assures that, when transferring personal data from the European Union to third countries, it fulfills the conditions of legal frameworks that ensure a level of protection equivalent to the legal requirements of the European Union, including the Privacy Shield framework. Google provides detailed information about the legal issues concerning the transfer of personal data; you can find them on their website: https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks.

Personal data of people visiting the website www.polyglotbratislava.com are also transmitted to Facebook, Inc., with its seat in 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America (further only “Facebook”) through the Facebook Pixel service, but only after the visitor gives their express consent by clicking “Accept cookies” on the first visit of our website. We encourage you to read Facebook’s privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.

This website uses Google’s service Google Analytics to analyze visitor’s use of the website, but only after the visitor gives their express consent by clicking “Accept cookies” on the first visit of our website. The visitors’ IP addresses are anonymized.

What are your rights?

Where processing of your personal data is based on consent, you can withdraw that consent at any time.

You have the following rights. You can exercise these rights at any time by contacting us at the address above or by emailing info@polyglotgathering.com. You have the right:

Should you have any issues, concerns or problems in relation to your data, or wish to notify us of data which is inaccurate, please let us know by contacting us using the contact details above.

You will not have to pay a fee to us to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive, we may charge a reasonable fee or refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is only disclosed to the person who has the right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request in order to assist us in providing you with a fast response.

We aim to respond to all legitimate requests within one month, however, occasionally it may take us longer than a month to fulfil your request if it is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In such a case, we will notify you.

Third-party links

Our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on such links or enabling such plug-ins and applications may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy policies. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every third-party website you visit to understand their respective privacy policies.

Cookies

We use cookies to track how you use our website.

This enables us to understand your use of the site and track any patterns with regards how you are using the site. We use this information to help us to develop and improve our website as well as products and / or services in response to what you might need or want.

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. However, please note that if you choose to disable or refuse cookies, some parts of our website may become inaccessible or not function properly for you.

A cookie is a small text file that we store on your device. Our website uses cookies to distinguish from other users of you website. Cookies also provide us with information about how this website is used so we can keep it as up to date, relevant and error-free as possible. Our site uses the following kinds of cookies:

Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system in any way.

Your consent applies to the domain: www.polyglotbratislava.com.

Changes to our privacy policy

This policy may be updated from time to time. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.