Data protection notice

A. Data protection in relation to the section “For engineers”

By clicking the box with the respective text: “I agree with the processing of personal data.” through a cooperation offer in the section “For engineers” or through the “Contact” form the data subject consents to the processing of their personal data by the controller ESFIA, s.r.o. having its registered office at Štefánikova 813, 020 01 Púchov, registered in Business Register of the District Court Trenčín, section: Sro, insert No. 36346/R, to the extent of the personal data given in the CV and/or the cover letter (title, name, surname, birth date, identification number, address of residence, nationality, education, career, telephone number, e-mail address, photograph) for the purpose of registering suitable job seekers in the data controller’s own database. The personal data shall be retained for a period of ten years. After that period they shall be discarded. The collected data are not subject to profiling or automated decision-making.

The personal data controller shall inform the data subject that their anonymised personal data (personal data modified in such a way that it cannot be attributed to the data subject to whom they relate) may be provided to the Clients to whom the controller provides or intends to provide services.

The data controller does not intend to transfer the personal data to a third country or an international organization.

Provision of personal data as well as granting the consent of the data subject to their processing are voluntary. The data subject may withdraw their consent at any time by a written withdrawal of consent to the data controller address or the e-mail address imre@esfia.sk. The withdrawal of consent shall take affect on the day of its delivery. Granting consent shall not affect the rights of the data subject.

The data subject is entitled to obtain confirmation of the data controller of whether the personal data concerning this subject are processed, and if so, the data subject is entitled to access such personal data as well as this information

  • processing purposes;
  • categories of personal data concerned;
  • recipients or categories of recipients to whom personal data have been or shall be provided, in particular recipients in third countries or international organizations;
  • if possible, the expected period of personal data retention or, if this is not possible, the criteria for determining it;
  • the existence of the right to request from the controller to correct or delete or restrict the processing of personal data concerning the data subject, or the right to object to such processing;
  • the right to lodge a complaint to the supervisory authority;
  • if personal data have not been obtained from the data subject, any available information about their source;
  • the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling.

The data subject has the right to have the controller correct any incorrect personal data concerning this subject without undue delay. With regard to the processing purposes, the data subject has the right to supplement incomplete personal data, including by providing a supplementary declaration.

The data subject is entitled to request ESFIA, s.r.o. to delete their personal data. All consents to the processing of personal data provided to ESFIA, s.r.o. are revocable. Please send your request to the e-mail address: imre@esfia.sk.
The supervisory authority is the Office for Personal Data Protection of the Slovak Republic. The data subject is entitled to lodge a complaint to the supervisory authority.

The data subject declares that the personal data provided are true, current and have been provided freely.

Data protection in relation to the other sections of the website

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 and service users; in other words, where we determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal data.
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.

1.4 In this policy, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to ESFIA, s.r.o. For more information about us, see Section 12.

2. How we use your personal data

2.1 In this Section 3 we have set out:
(a) the general categories of personal data that we may process;
(b) in the case of personal data that we did not obtain directly from you, the source and specific categories of that data;
(c) the purposes for which we may process personal data; and
(d) 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 is Google Analytics. 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 that you post for publication on our website or through our services (publication data). The publication data may be processed for the purposes of enabling such publication and administering our website and services. The legal basis for this processing is consent.

2.4 We may process information contained in any enquiry you submit to us regarding goods and/or services (enquiry data). The enquiry data may be processed for the purposes of offering, marketing and selling relevant goods and/or services to you. The legal basis for this processing is consent.

2.7 We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the protection and assertion of our legal rights, your legal rights and the legal rights of others.

2.8 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, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

3. Providing your personal data to others

3.1 In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data set out in this Section 4, we may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person. 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. International transfers of your personal data

4.1 You acknowledge that personal data that you submit for publication through our website or services may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use (or misuse) of such personal data by others.

5. Retaining and deleting personal data

5.1 This Section 6 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.

5.2 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.

5.3 We will retain your personal data as follows:
(a) usage data, publication data, enquiry data, notification data and correspondence data will be retained for a maximum period of 10 years.

5.4  Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 6, we may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

6. Amendments

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

6.2 You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.6.3 We m

ay notify you of changes to this policy by email.

7. Your rights

7.1  In this Section 8, we have summarised the rights that you have under data protection law. Some of the rights are complex, and not all of the details have been included in our summaries. Accordingly, you should read the relevant laws and guidance from the regulatory authorities for a full explanation of these rights.

7.2    Your principal rights under data protection law are:
(a) the right to access;
(b) the right to rectification;
(c) the right to erasure;
(d) the right to restrict processing;
(e) the right to object to processing;
(f) the right to data portability;
(g) the right to complain to a supervisory authority; and
(h) the right to withdraw consent.

7.3  You have the right to confirmation as to whether or not we process your personal data and, where we do, access to the personal data, together with certain additional information. That additional information includes details of the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned and the recipients of the personal data. Providing the rights and freedoms of others are not affected, we will supply to you a copy of your personal data. The first copy will be provided free of charge, but additional copies may be subject to a reasonable fee.

7.4 You have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about you rectified and, taking into account the purposes of the processing, to have any incomplete personal data about you completed.

7.5 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.

7.6 In some circumstances you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. Those circumstances are: you contest the accuracy of the personal data; processing is unlawful but you oppose erasure; we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of our processing, but you require personal data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; and you have objected to processing, pending the verification of that objection. Where processing has been restricted on this basis, we may continue to store your personal data. However, we will only otherwise process it: with your consent; for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person; or for reasons of important public interest.

7.7 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 that the legal basis for the processing is that the processing is necessary for: the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of any official authority vested in us; or the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party. If you make such an objection, we will cease to process the personal information unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

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

7.9 You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes on grounds relating to your particular situation, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.

7.10  To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal data is:
(a) consent; or
(b) that the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract,
(c) and such processing is carried out by automated means, you have the right to receive your personal data from us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. However, this right does not apply where it would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

7.11  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. You may do so in the EU member state of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.

7.12  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.

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

8. About cookies

8.1  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.

8.2 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.

8.3 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.

9. Cookies that we use

9.1  We use cookies for the following purposes:
(a) authentication – we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website;
(b) analysis – we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services; and
(c) cookie consent – we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally.

10. Cookies used by our service providers

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

10.2  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 this site.

10.3  We use Facebook Pixel to analyze the use of our website. This service uses cookies for making sure our ads are showed to the right people and building advertising audiences. You can view the privacy policy of this service provider at this site.

11. Managing cookies

11.1  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 these links:
(a) Chrome,
(b) Firefox,
(c) Opera,
(d) Internet Explorer,
(e) Safari, and
(f) Edge.

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

11.3  If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

12. Our details

12.1  This website is owned and operated by ESFIA, s.r.o.

12.2  We are registered in Slovakia under registration number 51 660 857, and our registered office is at Štefánikova 813, 02001 Púchov, Slovakia.

12.3  Our principal place of business is at Štefánikova 813, 02001 Púchov, Slovakia.

12.4  You can contact us:
(a) by post, to the postal address given above;
(b) using our website contact form;
(c) by telephone, on the contact number published on our website; or
(d) by email, using the email address published on our website.

13. Data protection officer

13.1 Contact details of our data manager: Ing. Michal Imre, imre@esfia.sk, +421 42 463 3000

14. Credit

14.1 This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal .