Privacy Statement
Thank you for visiting our website. As a visitor to our website, you are providing us with some of your personal information. We take the matter of data protection and confidentiality, your right to information, seriously and therefore adhere to the relevant national and European data protection regulations. We process your personal data in accordance with good manners and act in a manner that does not contravene the law. We make sure that we always process your personal data in accordance with the relevant legislation (in particular the Data Protection Act and the Data Protection Regulation, the so-called GDPR) and this information. In particular, Act No. 122/2013 Coll. serves as a legal prerequisite for us. Act No. 122/2013 Coll. on the Protection of Personal Data and on Amendments and Additions to Certain Regulations (hereinafter referred to as “Act No. 122/2013 Coll. on the Protection of Personal Data”) and Act No. 351/2011 Coll. on electronic communications. The most important aspects of our processing of personal data are explained below.
Who are we?
We are the Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (HÚ SAV), our registered office is Klemensova 19, 814 99 Bratislava, Slovak Republic. We are the processor of your personal data if you have provided it to us. This means that we are responsible for their protection and how they are processed.
- Collection, processing and use of personal data
Through this website, personal data is collected primarily for the purpose of informing you (the HÚ SAV provides information in accordance with Act No. 211/2000 Coll.), receiving and processing your requests, for sending you the Newsletter (we do not currently have this service activated), if you have subscribed to it, or for processing your enquiries and for improving our offer and services for you. According to Article 4(1) of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter referred to as “data subject”); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or by reference to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person. Under the law, it is also considered to be processing of personal data if we hold personal data even if we do not further handle it in any way. For example, if you email us and we have your name (or nickname) and email address.
The information we have access to includes:
Your IP address;
the page of our website you are accessing;
http response code
date of access and time of access;
the amount of data transmitted;
identification of your browser and the operating system you are using.
- What do we do with your data?
Insofar as there is an option to enter personal or business data (e.g. e-mail address, first name, surname) within the Internet offer, your provision of personal data is made explicitly on a voluntary basis. We only process and use your personal data for the purpose for which it was provided to us. In particular, to process submitted scientific studies, to process your enquiries, orders. For the provision of the services used by you, we partially entrust contractors (intermediaries), to whom only the strictly necessary and purpose-bound personal data are passed on for the execution of the contract. We do not share personal data with reviewers of submitted studies.
- For what purpose do we process your personal data?
Electronic submission of scientific studies to the journal
Communicating with people who are interested in our work;
informing you about our activities;
Managing our website and our social media accounts, in order to display the content of the site and accounts as effectively as possible, based on testing and data analysis;
if you are in a contractual relationship with us, using your personal data as set out in the contract for the purpose of fulfilling the contract.
- Period of processing of personal data
We only process your personal data for as long as is necessary, as long as the purpose of processing lasts.
- What are cookies and how are they used?
In order to ensure that your visit to our website is as comfortable as possible, we use cookies when displaying our offer. So-called cookies are small text files that are stored locally in the cache of the website visitor’s browser. Please note that some of these cookies are downloaded from our server or our partner’s server to your computer system, in particular so-called location-specific cookies. These cookies are characterised by the fact that they are automatically deleted from your computer system when you stop using your internet browser. Other cookies remain on your computer system and enable us to recognise your computer system again the next time you visit (so-called long-term cookies). Others record how long you stay on the site and which of our pages you browse. After a certain period of time, the cookie is automatically deleted from your browser. The cookies used on our website do not allow us to specifically identify the user of the site. We consider the use of cookies for the purpose of measuring traffic to our website to be a legitimate interest of ours. We justify their deployment on the basis of a legitimate interest under Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. We derive our legitimate interest from the public benefit purpose of our website. Of course, our website can also be used in a mode that does not allow cookies. You can set this in your browser. To set your internet browser so that no cookies are stored on your hard drive (disable their use completely) or so that cookies that have already been stored are deleted again, please contact the “Help” function in your internet browser or the software manufacturer for instructions on how to prevent and delete cookies. Cookies do not collect any of your personal data (e.g. email address, first name, surname), but without these cookies we cannot ensure the full functionality of the website. If they are blocked or deactivated, the functionality of our website may be limited.
- Newsletter
Our website uses the services of the Mailchimp platform (Intuit Mailchimp, 405 N Angier Ave. NE Atlanta, GA 30308 USA) for the Newsletter. The personal data you provide (email address) is used by the Mailchimp platform to send you an electronic Newsletter with information about our offer. You can unsubscribe from the Newsletter service at any time by unsubscribing via a link (worded: You can also unsubscribe here!) located directly on our website or found in each Newsletter. If the purpose for which your data was processed ceases to exist, then it will be deleted, except where we are legally obliged to retain the data. We do not currently have the Newsletter service activated!
- Use of social plugins
Our website uses the plug-in (“Plug-in”) of the social network Facebook and Instagram (Inc., 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA). In particular, they allow you to share the website content with your contacts on the internet network. Based on this, the internet network providers receive information about which web page of our internet offer has been activated. If you are logged in to the internet network, the internet network providers can assign your visit to our website to your network account.
- Links to other websites
Our website offer also includes links to other websites. The data protection instructions provided only apply to our website. We kindly ask you to pay attention to the data protection provisions of the linked pages. We assume no liability for extraneous contents that have been forwarded for use via links and are specifically marked, and we do not appropriate their contents. For illegal, erroneous or incomplete content as well as for damages resulting from the use or non-use of this information, the operator of the website to which the link (URL) refers is solely liable. The editors are only liable for the instructions of others if they have positive knowledge of such instructions, i.e. also of possible illegal or criminal content, and if it is technically possible and feasible to prevent such use.
- Disclosure of personal data to third parties
We use dedicated products and services of other companies to provide certain activities (e.g., statistics, traffic analysis, SEO). These are so-called intermediaries and may come into contact with your personal data. These are professional companies that will protect your personal data at the highest level. In addition to our processors, we may disclose or disclose your personal data on the basis of an order of a court or other public authorities entitled to require disclosure and/or disclosure and on the basis of or in accordance with an obligation imposed by the relevant legislation.
- Service improvement/marketing
In order to tailor our online offer to the user’s needs, our website collects, using Google Analytics software from Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, data about the use of the website, using cookies. Online marketing for the time being works on the basis of recording cookies. The collected data is evaluated anonymously, in the form of statistics, in order to improve the quality of the service. The IP address of the website visitor is also anonymised. You can object to this collection and storage of data by Google Analytics at any time with effect for the future.
- Data protection provisions for Google Analytics on the website
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service of Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, which are text (temporary) files that are stored on the user’s computer and through which the use of the website can be analysed. The information generated by the cookie about users’ use of the website is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The IP address transmitted by your browser within Google Analytics is not combined with other data from Google. You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly. In addition, you can prevent Google from recording the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address), as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available via the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. Please note that the use of the browser plugin on both the respective browser and the respective computer is restricted and may not be deactivated or deleted after installation in order to continue to preserve the deactivation of Google Analytics. Google’s data protection statement can be viewed at http://www.google.com/intl/sk/policies/privacy/. You can also prevent the collection of data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link https://adssettings.google.com/u/0/authenticated?hl=cs. In this case, an opt-out cookie will be stored on your computer to prevent future collection of your data when you visit this website.
- Marketing / improving our offer
This website uses remarketing via Google Analytics to generate interest-based online advertising. Our advertisements are included on the website by third party providers including Google. We and third-party providers, including Google, use cookies from the original providers (e.g. Google Analytics cookies) in combination with cookies from third-party providers (e.g. Martinus.sk cookies) in order to adjust, optimise and rank the advertisements based on the user’s previous visits to our website. We use Google Analytics reports to tailor delivery to demographics and interests. We use data and visit data from third-party providers (e.g., age, gender, interests) collected from Google’s interest-based advertising in Google Analytics for marketing purposes and to continuously improve our offerings. You can refuse the display of personalised advertising banners by Google in the future via the following link – https://adssettings.google.com/u/0/authenticated?hl=cs. In addition, we use Google Analytics to analyse visitor flows. The basis of this analysis is user identification. If you do not wish to have visitor flow analysis, you have the option to deactivate it in your customer account https://myaccount.google.com/privacycheckup under “My data” -> “Personal data”. If you are not comfortable with personalised third-party advertising on our website, we recommend, in addition to the above, that you use a well-known free or paid software (e.g. AdBlock) to eliminate it. This will resolve the non-displaying of advertisements on a full-screen basis, i.e. the advertisement will not be displayed on any Internet page you visit, not only ours, or within the scope of your program settings. On this website, information about the surfing behaviour of website visitors is collected in an anonymised form for marketing purposes via so-called retargeting technologies from various providers and stored in text “cookies” on your computer. Surfing behaviour is analysed using an algorithm. Subsequently, targeted recommendations of products of interest to you may be displayed on other websites as personalised advertising banners. This data can in no way be used to personally identify the user of this website. Nevertheless, if you do not wish to be shown personalized advertising banners of specific brands, products, services, you can refuse this collection and storage in the future. In the case of Google AdSense, the most commonly used advertising system in the world, click on the icon displayed in each advertising banner (“i”) in the top right corner to go to the respective provider’s website. There, you will again be explained the systematics of the retargeting technology and offered the opportunity to opt out (“opt out”). If you opt out, an “opt out” cookie will be stored on your computer, which will prevent you from seeing banner advertisements from the respective provider in the future. Please note that this opt-out can only be done from your computer and if you do not want to see any personalised advertising banners in the future, you may need to opt-out separately for each provider. In addition, the respective “opt out” cookies may not be deleted from your computer.
- Place of processing of personal data
We process personal data in the countries of the European Union. Some of our processors (e.g. Google) may also process various data in third countries (outside the European Union).
- Security and protection of your personal data
We protect the personal data in our possession to the greatest extent possible against leakage, misuse or damage. Files containing personal data are password-protected and can be accessed by a limited number of employees and co-workers. We assure you that our employees and associates who come into contact with your personal data are trained on how to handle personal data, how to protect it to ensure maximum protection and are bound by confidentiality of personal data. This continues even after our cooperation has ended. Apart from our employees, collaborators and agents, no third party has access to your personal data unless it is necessary for the fulfilment of the purpose for which you have provided us with the personal data.
- What recourse do I have against the storage of my data?
You have broad rights in relation to the protection of your personal data. You have the right to request, free of charge, upon written request, information about the personal data stored and processed concerning you. Restrict the purpose or scope of the processing of your personal data. You have the right to object to the processing of personal data that we process for legitimate interest purposes and also for marketing purposes. At the same time, you have the right, pursuant to Act No. 122/2013 Coll. on the protection of personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of the personal data you have provided to us. Withdrawal of your consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing that we carried out prior to its withdrawal. In addition, you have the right to rectification, blocking and deletion of this personal data. You have the right to lodge a complaint about unlawful processing of personal data. In such cases, please contact the person responsible in writing at our address or by email. Please note that we are entitled to ask you to complete the data and information in order to verify your identity before we provide you with any information in this regard.
- Data Protection Authority
You have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority at any time. You may contact the data protection supervisory authority of the country in which you reside or in which the controller is established. If you feel that we are not treating your personal data in accordance with the law, you can contact the Data Protection Authority with a complaint. However, we will be happy to rectify any shortcomings if you contact us first.
- Do you have any questions? How can you contact us?
If you have any questions about the storage, processing and use of your personal data, please contact our Data Protection Officer.
If you have any questions about the website or about exercising your rights in the processing of your data (data protection rights), you can contact the data protection officer of the controller. You can find the contact details at – https://www.architektura-urbanizmus.sk/contact/
This information on the processing and protection of personal data is valid from 1.1.2025.
Any future changes to the information provided above will be indicated on this website and, if necessary, will also be communicated to you by e-mail.
