Vision

The fundamental shared value of all members of the NGDO Platform (hereinafter “the Platform”) is respect for human dignity and human rights as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Members work together to protect and promote individual human rights, to improve the situation of vulnerable and excluded groups, and to achieve global justice.

Path to achieving the vision

• Members consider the impact of their activities on the human dignity and human rights of all individuals and groups with whom they cooperate, with special regard for the dignity and rights of vulnerable and excluded groups.
• Members continuously raise the awareness of their staff, members, supporters, volunteers and partners about human rights, a human-rights–based approach to development, and the social responsibility involved in pursuing global justice.
• In their activities, members strive to include vulnerable and excluded groups.

Minimum criteria for Platform members

• All documents of Platform members (project and programme documents, monitoring and evaluation reports, strategic and operational plans, etc.) are built on the principle of respect for human dignity and human rights in line with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• No project or programme of a member organization, nor any of its parts or activities, nor any conduct of the organization’s staff, knowingly and intentionally violates the human rights of the persons concerned.

Vision

In their work, Platform members respect a non-discriminatory approach and equality between women and men at every stage. They implement practices supporting diversity, equality, impartiality and non-discrimination, while respecting the values and culture of target countries.

Path to achieving the vision

• Platform members apply a non-discriminatory and gender-equal approach in their programmes and projects to all target groups of their interventions without exclusion, and they support their local partners in adopting the same approach.
• Through their conduct and internal rules, Platform members support gender equality and the efforts of women to exercise their rights.

Minimum criteria for Platform members

• Platform members do not exclude any individual or group from their development and educational interventions on the basis of sex, race or ethnicity, age or religion.

Vision

Platform members are aware of their shared responsibility for shaping the public perception of the usefulness and effectiveness of development cooperation and global responsibility, and therefore they present their work transparently — both in terms of the goals, processes and results of their activities. They maintain a clear management structure, transparent funding of their activities, and a transparent selection of partners, staff and service providers. This information is made available to the public to the extent needed.

Path to achieving the vision

• Platform members proactively disclose information about their activities, finances, partners and donors. Member organizations publicly subscribe to the rules, standards and codes that guide their work.
• Platform members publish contact details for the organization’s management on their website.
• On request, Platform members are willing to share the results of audits and evaluations of their programmes and projects.

Minimum criteria for Platform members

• Platform members always provide truthful and undistorted information about their activities and partners.
• Member organizations publicly disclose information about the sources of funding for their activities and how the funds raised are used (for example, in an annual report and/or on their website).
• Specific information about the management structure of the organization and its composition can be found on member organizations’ websites.

Vision

Platform members strive, through their activities and in a participatory manner, to bring about lasting change in the lives of the people they work with. They draw on the potential of the target groups and systematically expand it through their activities. Platform members take full responsibility for both the positive and negative impacts of their interventions and design those interventions so that the impact extends beyond the time horizon of their own engagement, while at the same time managing resources efficiently so that the impact is commensurate with the resources spent.

Platform members are aware of global interconnections and the possible impacts of their actions on the lives of people in developing countries. In addition to development cooperation and global education, they place importance on the concept of policy coherence for development.

Path to achieving the vision

• Platform members consider the long-term impacts of their interventions on the lives of the people they work with, at the planning, implementation and evaluation stages of their projects and programmes, and they act in line with the national policies of partner countries.
• Internal evaluations of projects and programmes include a participatory assessment of the expected and possible impacts after interventions end.
• Platform members support the advocacy activities of the Platform at national and European level aimed at policy coherence for development.

Minimum criteria for Platform members

• Platform members actively address any potential negative consequences of their work and seek to remedy them as soon as possible.
• Member organizations publicly report the ratio of resources covering operating costs to resources used for work with target groups.
• For their projects and programmes, member organizations consider so-called exit strategies — i.e. models of sustainability and ways of handing activities over to local partners after their engagement in a partner country/specific locality ends.

Vision

All development interventions of Platform members, as well as their global-education activities in Slovakia, take into account the environment in which they take place. One of the goals of these activities is also to support local communities in preserving biological diversity and limiting damage to the environment’s ecological integrity.

Path to achieving the vision

• Member organizations give preference to environmentally friendly solutions in their work.
• Platform members train their staff and volunteers about the possible impacts of development activities on the environment.
• Members also include education on responsible environmental behaviour in their work with target groups.

Minimum criteria for Platform members

• Through their activities, Platform members do not knowingly contribute to the deterioration of the environment in the areas where they operate.

Vision

Platform members treat all of their staff (those working at the organization’s headquarters, those deployed abroad, local staff, and the staff of local partners) fairly, and create suitable conditions for their work — including ensuring fair remuneration for the work performed.

Path to achieving the vision

• Member organizations ensure that all staff have the conditions they need to do their work and pay appropriate attention to staff safety.
• Members respect the qualifications, expertise and capacity of their (especially local) staff.
• Platform members also pay their local staff remuneration commensurate with the work they do, in line with local salary and financial conditions and according to the organization’s means (so that their salary policy does not create inflationary spiral effects or a “brain drain”).
• Member organizations encourage their local partners (and, within joint projects and programmes, create space for them) to apply to their own staff the rules described above that member organizations apply in relation to their own staff.

Minimum criteria for Platform members

• Member organizations cooperate with or employ all of their staff in accordance with the laws and labour regulations in force in the country where they operate.
• Platform members provide all of their staff with remuneration and related payments (taxes, levies, etc.) on time and in line with the laws of the country of operation.
• Member organizations create conditions for strengthening the professional capacity of their local staff as well as the staff of local partners.

Vision

Member organizations consider it important and useful to provide truthful and sensitive information about their activities and about the living conditions of the communities they work with. In doing so, they refuse to use stereotypical images and messages, because they are aware that doing so demeans the human dignity of the people they work with.

Path to achieving the vision

• In their public communication, Platform members seek to provide a comprehensive picture of their work with local communities and of the conditions in which those communities live, without limiting themselves to the negative aspects.
• In their public communication (not only for the purposes of fundraising from donors), Platform members prefer positive donor motivation to fundraising techniques that rely on emotional manipulation.

Minimum criteria for Platform members

• Platform members do not use depictions or descriptions of extreme suffering for the purpose of raising funds for their work.

Vision

Platform members build transparent, open and equal relationships with their partners based on shared development goals and values, mutual respect, trust, independence, mutual support and solidarity. They therefore share with their partners all information relating to joint projects, programmes and activities. Platform members fully respect the differing views, positions and experience of their partners and make decisions about joint projects and programmes together with them.

Path to achieving the vision

• Member organizations seek to support the development of their local partners, their capacities and their expertise. In locations or thematic areas where such partners do not yet exist, they seek to bring new partnerships into being and to develop them.
• Platform members strive to keep one another informed about their ongoing and planned activities so that their work can achieve synergies. Platform members gather concrete examples of incoherent policies from their local partners and, together with the NGDO Platform, work to remedy them.

Minimum criteria for Platform members

• Platform members do not misuse information about, or knowledge of, grant systems for their own benefit at the expense of their partners.
• Platform members provide partner organizations with complete documentation (including the overall budget) and information relating to joint projects or programmes in a language the partner understands.

Vision

Corruption is illegal conduct that undermines the functioning of the state and its institutions in every country and prevents fair access to the distribution of resources. In addition, by its very methods, it calls into question the goals that member organizations pursue in their work. Platform members therefore commit, through their conduct, to zero tolerance of corrupt behaviour, and they will use all available means to prevent corruption within their own ranks and in their environment.

Path to achieving the vision

• Member organizations introduce anti-corruption control mechanisms into their internal rules and directives.
• Member organizations regularly train their staff and local partners on the need for an active stance against corruption.

Minimum criteria for Platform members

• Platform members do not use, and do not tolerate, corrupt practices when raising funds for their work or when implementing their projects and programmes. The exception is extreme situations that lead to threats to the safety or lives of staff.

Vision

The goal of the development interventions of Platform members is also to support the empowerment and accountability of people and their full involvement in the design and implementation of development initiatives that affect their lives. Therefore, target groups must be actively and fully involved in all parts of the project cycle, and the projects and programmes carried out must fully reflect the real needs of local communities and their active engagement in achieving the goals of the interventions.

Path to achieving the vision

• Impulses for development interventions come from the target community itself. Member organizations avoid donor-driven projects and programmes that are designed primarily to satisfy the interests of a donor.
• Platform members involve the local community in carrying out activities and, through capacity-building, gradually hand the implementation of activities over to the local community, thereby ensuring the sustainability of the project beyond the project/programme period.
• Monitoring and evaluation of activities is carried out with the active participation of target groups, with the aim of learning from previous project implementation.

Minimum criteria for Platform members

• Platform members plan, prepare, carry out and evaluate development interventions only after appropriate consultations with the target group about the goals and methods of the intervention.

Platform members believe in the capacity for self-regulation, and the purpose of these rules is by no means to problematize, persecute or publicly pillory members who fall short in fulfilling these commitments. However, the binding force of any document depends on an effective control mechanism and the setting of possible sanctions arising from its violation. The degree to which the principles set out above are observed will be assessed in two ways:

Self-assessment (online form)

Platform member organizations undertake to carry out a truthful and realistic self-assessment of the degree to which they observe the principles of this Code in their work via an online form in the internal section of the Platform’s website, at least once a year. The results of this assessment are not public and serve only the organization that carries out the assessment, for its own use and reflection on how to further improve its observance of the principles of this Code in the next period. The Secretariat and Board of the Platform may use information from these assessments in anonymized form, for internal purposes of further refining this Code or the assessment system.

Ethics and Accountability Commission

Role and composition of the Commission

The Ethics and Accountability Commission (hereinafter the “Commission”) is established to assess specific conduct of a member organization and its (non-)compliance with the “Minimum criteria for Platform members” set out above. The Commission does not proactively seek out matters to address; it convenes only on the basis of a complaint from a Platform member organization, an external evaluator of a project or programme of a member organization, or a complaint from the public.

The Commission is composed of four representatives of Platform member organizations elected by the General Assembly for a two-year term, and one representative of the Platform Secretariat. The Commission decides on the (non-)compliance of a member organization’s conduct with the “Minimum criteria for Platform members” and on any sanction by majority vote of all members of the Commission, after careful consideration, which as a rule includes obtaining a statement (in person or in writing) from the member organization being assessed.

Sanctions for violations of the Code

The sanctions for violations of the “Minimum criteria for Platform members”, on which the Commission decides, are:

1. A written notice of non-compliance with the Code
2. A request for swift remedy
3. A proposal to the Platform’s General Assembly for the expulsion of the member organization

In the case of sanctions (a) and (b), the member organization concerned may appeal against the Commission’s decision; at the second instance, the General Assembly decides on compliance of the conduct with the “Minimum criteria for Platform members” of this Code by majority vote of the regular members present. Sanction (c), on the basis of a proposal from the Commission, is decided by the General Assembly by majority vote of the regular members present.

• This Code in no way replaces — but rather complements — the internal rules and directives that govern Platform members in the areas it covers. On the contrary, member organizations are encouraged to draw up their own codes of ethical conduct covering specific areas of their work.
• This document becomes valid and binding on all Platform members on the day of its approval by the Platform’s General Assembly. It takes effect six months after its approval by the General Assembly; member organizations may use this transitional period to bring their work into line with the criteria set out in this document.

Elected by the General Assembly on 11 November 2014:

• Nora Beňáková, People in Peril Association
• Allan Bussard, Integra Foundation
• Marián Čaučík, eRko – HKSD / Dobrá novina
• Andrea Girmanová, NGDO Platform Secretariat
• Andrej Návojský, Milan Šimečka Foundation

Controller:

SAVIO o.z., with registered office at: Miletičova 7, 821 08 Bratislava, ID: 30 79 95 62 (hereinafter the “Association” or the “Controller”).

Data subjects are:

1. donors;
2. participants in adoption programmes (registered donors);
3. visitors to the Association’s websites;
4. persons participating in the Tehlička public collection (in particular persons responsible for carrying out the collection, contact persons).

Joint controllers (in accordance with Article 26 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and § 33 of Act No. 18/2018 Coll. on the protection of personal data and on amendments to certain acts, on the basis of the Joint Controllers Agreement of 25 March 2023):

SAVIO o. z., registered office: Miletičova 7, 821 08 Bratislava, Slovak Republic, ID: 30799562;

Salesians of Don Bosco – Slovak Province, Miletičova 7, 821 08 Bratislava, Slovak Republic, ID: 00586421;

Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, Kremnická 17, 851 01 Bratislava, Slovak Republic, ID: 00677728;

Domka – Association of Salesian Youth, Miletičova 7, 821 08 Bratislava, Slovak Republic, ID: 31789218;

Laura, Association of Young People, Miletičova 7, 821 08 Bratislava, Slovak Republic, ID: 31955916;

Don Bosco Publishing House, Miletičova 7, 821 08 Bratislava, Slovak Republic, ID: 50434870;

Association of Salesian Cooperators in Slovakia, Miletičova 7, 821 08 Bratislava 2, Slovak Republic, ID: 00681393;

Association of Past Pupils and Friends of Don Bosco in Slovakia, Miletičova 7, 821 08 Bratislava, Slovak Republic, ID: 36070378;

SAVIO o.z. processes personal data to the extent that donors and participants in adoption programmes (registered donors) have provided them to the Association through a registration form, a pledge, or by other means — for example by e-mail, by phone or in writing. The Association processes in particular personal data in the following scope: first name, surname, e-mail address, academic title, address of residence, date of birth, and others.

SAVIO o.z. processes the personal data of users of the Association’s websites using cookies. See item 11 for more information on this part.

The personal data of donors and participants in adoption programmes (registered donors) are processed in connection with the financial support of the activities of SAVIO o.z., as well as with ensuring proper participation, support and communication in donor programmes and other activities of SAVIO o.z., in particular for some of the following purposes:

1. providing a gift, or taking steps prior to entering into a donation contract at the request of the data subject;
2. sending information about how donated funds have been used and appeals to support other activities of the Association;
3. ensuring participation, support and communication in adoption programmes organized by SAVIO o.z.;
4. identifying the donor and their gifts according to and to the extent of the data they provide, and including them in the list (database) of donors;
5. sending information about the activities and news of the Association (in particular in the form of newsletters and other promotional materials);
6. sending information about urgent and current appeals to support other projects or activities of SAVIO o.z.;
7. keeping and archiving the accounts of SAVIO o.z.
   

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   The personal data of persons participating in the Tehlička project (in particular persons responsible for carrying out the collection, contact persons, etc.) are processed in connection with the financial support of the activities of SAVIO o.z., as well as with ensuring proper participation, support and communication in the Tehlička project, in particular for some of the following purposes:

8. ensuring participation, support, communication in the Tehlička public collection, carrying out the public collection, and inclusion in the relevant database;
9. sending information about urgent and current appeals to support other projects or activities of SAVIO o.z.;
10. keeping and archiving the accounts of SAVIO o.z.

The personal data of donors and participants in adoption programmes (registered donors) are processed for the purposes listed in section 2 (scope and purpose) in a lawful manner, in connection with — and on the basis of — the following:

• the conclusion of a donation contract or the donor’s request, on the basis of which the Association processes the personal data necessary for performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party, or for taking steps prior to entering into a contract at the request of the data subject — for the purpose under point (a);
• processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Association — for the purposes under points (b) and (c);
• the consent granted by the donor to the processing of their personal data — for the purposes under points (d) to (f);
• a specific legal provision under which the Controller is required to process personal data to the necessary extent — namely Act No. 431/2002 Coll. on accounting as amended — for the purpose under point (g).

The personal data of persons participating in the Tehlička public collection are processed for the purposes listed in section 2 (scope and purpose) in a lawful manner, in connection with — and on the basis of — the following:

• the consent of the data subject to the processing of their personal data — for the purposes under points (h) to (i);
• a specific legal provision under which the Controller is required to process personal data to the necessary extent — namely Act No. 431/2002 Coll. on accounting as amended — for the purpose under point (j).

The consequences of not providing personal data for the purposes listed in section 2 (scope and purpose of processing) are:

• if a data subject does not provide personal data and/or their consent to the processing of data for the purposes under point (d), the data subject will not be included in the list of donors and it will not be possible to ensure their proper participation in donor programmes and other activities of SAVIO o.z.;
• if a data subject does not provide personal data and/or their consent to the processing of data for the purposes under point (e), the data subject will not be sent — free of charge — information about the activities and news of the Association (in particular in the form of newsletters and other promotional materials);
• if a data subject does not provide personal data and/or their consent to the processing of data for the purposes under points (f) and (i), the data subject will not be sent — free of charge — information about urgent and current appeals to support other projects or activities of SAVIO o.z.;
• if a data subject does not provide personal data and/or their consent to the processing of data for the purposes under point (h), it will not be possible to ensure their proper participation in the Tehlička public collection, the carrying out of the public collection, and they will not be included in the relevant database.

The personal data of donors will be processed in paper and electronic form in the Association’s information systems.

Personal data provided for the purpose under section 2 (scope and purpose of processing), point (a), will be kept for the period necessary for the performance of the contract, or for taking steps prior to entering into a contract at the request of the data subject — at most for as long as the donor participates in the donor programme.

Personal data provided for the purposes under section 2 (scope and purpose of processing), points (b) to (c), will be kept for 5 years from the date the data is obtained from donors and participants in adoption programmes (registered donors).

Personal data provided for the purposes under section 2 (scope and purpose of processing), points (d) to (f) and (h) to (i), will be kept for 5 years from the date consent is granted, or until it is withdrawn.

Personal data provided for the purpose under section 2 (scope and purpose of processing), points (f) and (j), will be kept for the statutory period of ten years following the year to which they relate, unless a specific provision requires the Controller to keep this data for a longer period.

The Association does not process any of your personal data falling within the special category of personal data set out in § 16(1) of Act No. 18/2018 Coll. — for example, data on racial or ethnic origin, political opinion, biometric or genetic data, and the like.

In addition to employees of the Association entrusted with processing and working with personal data, personal data about data subjects will also be processed — to the necessary extent — by the following entities that cooperate with the Association:

• DIMAR GROUP, s.r.o., registered office: Palisády 50, 811 06 Bratislava, ID: 35 840 846, entered in the Commercial Register of the District Court Bratislava I, Section: Sro, Insert No. 27045/B;
• Darujme.sk, operated by Centrum pre filantropiu, n.o., registered office: Baštova 5, 811 03 Bratislava, ID: 318 218 71, registered with the District Office Bratislava: OVVS-530/49/2002-NO;
• Ján Rešutík, residing at: Topoľčianska 3210/17, 851 05 Bratislava – Petržalka, ID: 50879081, Trade Licence Register No.: 110-257108;
• mSynergy, s.r.o., registered office: Pažitná 4/1805, Trnava, ID: 44 451 725, entered in the Commercial Register of the District Court Trnava, Section: Sro, Insert 22748/T;
• František Dravecký, residing at: Martina Granca 6, 841 02 Bratislava – Dúbravka, ID: 42364647, Trade Licence Register No.: 110-316112;
• Anna Bajčanová – ANAB, place of business: 851 01 Bratislava – Petržalka, Vlastenecké námestie 1186/9, ID: 34888632, Trade Licence Register No.: 105-19299.

Personal data may also be made available to other entities entitled to receive them under specific legislation (for example, law-enforcement authorities, the tax office, etc.), as well as to other recipients, under the conditions set out in Act No. 18/2018 Coll.

Donors’ personal data will not be transferred to third countries.

The personal data of data subjects will not be processed automatically, nor will they be profiled in accordance with Article 22(1) to (4) of the GDPR or § 28(1) to (4) of Act No. 18/2018 Coll.

The rights of the data subject are governed by § 19 to 28 of Act No. 18/2018 Coll. and Articles 13 to 22 of the GDPR.

The data subject has the following rights:

1. Right to information (in accordance with § 19 and 20 of Act No. 18/2018 Coll. and Articles 13 and 14 of the GDPR). In particular, the data subject has the right to know who is processing personal data and why; the Controller is required to inform the data subject in a concise, transparent, intelligible and easily accessible form, in clear and plain language, and to provide them with information about the processing of their personal data;
2. Right of access to personal data (in accordance with § 21 of Act No. 18/2018 Coll. and Article 15 of the GDPR). The data subject has the right to obtain from the Controller confirmation as to whether personal data concerning them are being processed, and the Association is required to send this information without undue delay;
3. Right to rectification (in accordance with § 22 of Act No. 18/2018 Coll. and Article 16 of the GDPR). The data subject has the right to have the Controller rectify, without undue delay, inaccurate personal data concerning them. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, the data subject has the right to have incomplete personal data completed;
4. Right to erasure and the right to be forgotten (in accordance with § 23 of Act No. 18/2018 Coll. and Article 17 of the GDPR). The data subject has the right to have the Controller erase, without undue delay, personal data concerning them;
5. Right to restriction of processing (in accordance with § 24 of Act No. 18/2018 Coll. and Article 18 of the GDPR). The data subject has the right to have the Controller restrict the processing of personal data in connection with addressing circumstances of the processing of personal data at the Controller;
6. Right to data portability (in accordance with § 26 of Act No. 18/2018 Coll. and Article 20 of the GDPR). The data subject has the right to receive the personal data concerning them and which they have provided to the Association in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and has the right to transmit those personal data to another controller, where technically feasible;
7. Right to object to the processing of personal data (in accordance with § 27 of Act No. 18/2018 Coll. and Article 21 of the GDPR). The data subject has the right to object to the processing of personal data concerning them on grounds relating to their particular situation, carried out under Article 6(1)(e) or (f) of the GDPR, including profiling based on those provisions. The Association must no longer process the personal data unless it demonstrates compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override the rights or interests of the data subject, or grounds for asserting a legal claim. The data subject has the right to object to the processing of personal data concerning them for the purposes of direct marketing, including profiling to the extent that it is related to direct marketing. If the data subject objects to the processing of personal data for the purposes of direct marketing, the Association will no longer process the personal data for the purposes of direct marketing.

The data subject has the right at any time to withdraw their consent to the processing of personal data concerning them, in whole or in part. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. The data subject may withdraw consent in the same way in which it was granted. From the date on which the withdrawal of consent is notified to the Association, the Controller may process personal data only to the extent of another legal basis for processing — i.e. in particular when fulfilling its legal obligations, or for the purpose of protecting rights and legal claims, as described above.

The Controller will ensure the erasure of personal data once the purpose of their processing has been fulfilled, including by all recipients to whom the personal data have been disclosed. Where a specific provision sets a period that does not allow personal data to be disposed of immediately, the Controller will ensure the disposal of personal data only after the period set in the specific provision has elapsed.

The data subject also has the right to lodge a complaint with the Office for Personal Data Protection if they believe that their right to the protection of personal data has been violated, in accordance with § 100 of Act No. 18/2018 Coll.

The data subject also has the right, on the basis of a written request to the Controller, to request information about the processing of their personal data and to exercise their other rights in accordance with Act No. 18/2018 Coll. and the GDPR. At the data subject’s request, the authorized person who will process their personal data must prove their identity and, where appropriate, provide further additional information — in particular notice of the specific law (legal basis) on which the personal data are processed and of the voluntary nature of providing personal data.

Further information about the data subject’s rights in connection with the protection of personal data is also available on the Controller’s website at www.savio.sk/o-nas/poucenie-ochrane-osobnych-udajov, or it can be obtained from the data subject at the Controller’s contact address.

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We use cookies in particular to manage our website and our social-media accounts in order to display their content as effectively as possible, based on testing and data analysis. We may also use cookies for marketing and retargeting purposes.

Thanks to the information we obtain from cookies and similar technologies, we can:

• collect, analyse and statistically evaluate information about how you arrive at our website, how you behave on it and what interests you;
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Types of cookies we use

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Social networks

Because we want to be close to you and communicate with you in the way that suits you best, we also use social networks (Facebook, YouTube) when communicating with you. In such communication, your personal data are processed not only by our organizations, but also by the social-network providers themselves, since they use so-called plug-ins — such as “share”, “like” or “pin” buttons — which work like cookies.

Whether you choose to communicate with us via social networks is your decision; in any case, we do not recommend providing us with your sensitive data this way. If you provide us with sensitive data, we recommend using a different means of communication.

You can read about how Facebook processes your personal data here and how YouTube processes them here. These cookies are not necessary for the site to function. They serve only analytical, marketing and other purposes for YouTube LLC, with registered office in the United States of America, and Facebook Ireland Ltd., with registered office in Ireland.

Third-party cookies / processors

Our website uses exclusively third-party cookies that provide services to us. You can find more detailed information about them on the following pages:

• Google Analytics
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We process and store cookies for the period necessary, in accordance with the terms and rules of the individual providers of the above-mentioned services.

You can block or delete cookies

Browsers usually accept cookies automatically in their default settings, but you can normally change the browser settings to refuse them or to accept only some cookies. If you do not want us to use cookies in your browser, you can change the settings so that the browser refuses them or notifies you of any attempt to store a cookie on your computer. Completely disabling the use of cookies may mean that some features of our website may not work properly.

Because there are many internet browsers on the market, and their settings differ and may change, we do not provide an exact procedure for configuring each browser. Each browser is, however, likely to contain a “Settings” section where you can find settings for the use of cookies.

If you have any questions related to the use of cookies, or you wish to exercise your rights, you can contact SAVIO o.z. at the contact address below.

If you have any questions regarding the processing of personal data, your rights and obligations relating to it, modification, erasure, restriction of processing or the exercise of any of your other rights connected with the processing of your personal data, you can contact the Controller at the following details:

SAVIO o.z., registered office: Miletičova 7, 821 08 Bratislava, ID: 30 79 95 62, e-mail: gdpr@savio.sk, phone: 0910 123 579