The controller of the website https://www.circularinventory.eu/admin/ including its subdomains, and of the personal data of the data subject, is Technická univerzita v Košiciach, Letná 1/9, 042 00 Košice-Sever, SR, company ID: 00 397 610, email: dev.ekf@tuke.sk (hereinafter also referred to as the "Controller"), which hereby provides information in accordance with Act No. 452/2021 Coll. on Electronic Communications, 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 repealing Directive 95/46/EC (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulation") and with regard to Act No. 18/2018 Coll. on the protection of personal data and on amendments to certain acts (hereinafter referred to as the "Act").
The Controller has appointed a Data Protection Officer. The Data Protection Officer may be contacted regarding any questions concerning the processing of personal data and the exercise of data subject rights at email: zodpovedna.osoba@tuke.sk, tel.: +421 55 602 2137.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that may be stored on your computer, smartphone, or other device when you browse a website or interact with it.
Individual types of cookies are responsible for the proper functioning of the website, and depending on the type of information processed, they can collect various information about visitors, such as the IP address of the connection, information about their activity, browser fingerprint, preferred font size, default language, login details, or advertisements displayed. When you visit the same page again, they enable faster access on subsequent visits. In addition, the website will "recognize" you and offer you the information you prefer, ensure that advertisements you have already seen are not repeated, offer to auto-fill information you have already provided during previous visits to the website, and, based on this information, will display relevant content and offers of estimated activities and services that are likely to be of interest to you.
We may use cookies to analyze website visits through services such as Google Analytics, Google AdSense, and others. This is an analytical tool that helps website and application owners understand how visitors use their sites. For more information, please visit the websites of the individual providers of these services. For example, information on how Google uses cookies is available at this link.
From a personal data protection perspective, it is important to assess what data is contained in a specific cookie file. If the data stored in a cookie includes any identifier that, alone or in combination with other data, is capable of directly or indirectly identifying a natural person – a website user – then such a cookie must be considered personal data within the meaning of Article 4(1) of the Regulation.
Legal basis for processing personal data
Strictly necessary cookies are used without your consent where they are necessary to transmit a communication through an electronic communications network or to provide a service expressly requested by you. Where such cookies involve the processing of personal data, the legal basis under the GDPR is our legitimate interest under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR in ensuring the proper functioning, security and availability of the website, or Article 6(1)(b) GDPR where the processing is necessary to provide a service requested by you.
Analytics, marketing, targeting and other non-essential cookies are used only on the basis of your consent under Article 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may withdraw or change your consent at any time through the cookie settings available on our website.
What cookies we process and for what purpose
A detailed and up-to-date list of cookies used on the website, including their names, providers, categories, purposes and retention periods, is available in the separate cookie table on our website.
Technical cookies (so-called strictly necessary cookies)
These cookies are necessary for the proper functioning, security and availability of the website. They are used, for example, to transmit communications through the network, maintain basic website functionality, remember essential technical settings or provide a service expressly requested by the user. These cookies do not require the user’s consent.
Performance cookies
This cookie is generally used for tracking and analytics purposes, capturing user interaction and behavior on the site to improve user experience and site performance. We process these cookies based on your consent.
How to check cookie settings
You can change or withdraw your cookie consent at any time through the “Cookie settings” link available on our website. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
You can control or delete cookies as you wish. For more information, visit aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies stored on your computer, and most browsers can be set up to prevent them from being stored.
Cookies are useful provided that they are not used for unlawful or unauthorized data collection. If you do not trust the functionality of cookies, you can regularly delete them from your hard drive. In some cases, information obtained through cookies may be recorded incorrectly, which can cause problems with logging in to our web applications, for example. Instructions for deleting all cookies, including any that were recorded incorrectly, can be found below. Instructions for deleting cookies in individual web browsers
Internet Explorer™
https://support.microsoft.com/sk-sk/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer
Safari™
https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
Opera™
https://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/privacy/
Mozilla Firefox™
https://support.mozilla.com/sk/kb/odstranenie-cookies
Google Chrome™
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=sk&hlrm=en
Data retention period
The retention period of individual cookies depends on their type and purpose and is specified in the separate cookie table Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain stored on your device for the period specified in the cookie table, unless you delete them earlier or withdraw your consent where consent is required.
Information associated with strictly necessary cookies is retained only for as long as necessary to ensure the proper functioning, security and availability of the website. Information associated with non-essential cookies is retained in accordance with your consent and the retention periods specified in the separate cookie table.
Rights of the data subject in relation to the processing of personal data
As a data subject, you have the following rights:
Right of access by the data subject
You have the right to obtain confirmation from us as to whether personal data concerning you is being processed and, if so, you have the right to access such personal data and additional information pursuant to Article 15 of the Regulation or Section 21 of the Act.
Right to rectification
You have the right to request that we rectify your inaccurate personal data without undue delay and/or that your personal data be completed.
Right to erasure
You have the right to request that we erase your personal data without undue delay if the conditions set out in Article 17 of the Regulation or Section 23 of the Act are met.
Right to restriction of processing
You have the right to request restriction of the processing of your personal data if the conditions of Article 18 of the Regulation or Section 24 of the Act are met (e.g. the data subject contests the accuracy of the personal data; the processing of personal data would be unlawful; the controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of processing, but the data subject needs them to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims; the data subject has objected to the processing of personal data).
Right to object
You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data that we carry out for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in us, or where the processing is based on our legitimate interest or that of a third party, including profiling related to it. You also have the right to object to the processing of personal data for direct marketing purposes, including profiling, insofar as it is related.
Right to data portability
You have the right to obtain from us the personal data you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. You have the right to transmit the personal data obtained in this way to another controller without our hindering you. Such portability of personal data is possible if your personal data has been processed based on consent or a contract and if the processing has been carried out by automated means. If technically feasible, you have the right to direct transfer from one controller (us) to another controller.
Right to withdraw consent
If your personal data is processed based on consent, you, as the data subject, are entitled to withdraw this consent at any time. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing of your personal data prior to the withdrawal of this consent.
Exercise of rights
You may exercise your rights by contacting the Data Protection Officer at zodpovedna.osoba@tuke.sk or in writing at the Controller’s registered office.
The right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority
You have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority for the supervision of personal data processing. In the Slovak Republic, this authority is the Office for Personal Data Protection, https://dataprotection.gov.sk/en/, Námestie 1. mája 18, 811 06 Bratislava; phone number: +421 2 32 31 32 14; E-mail: statny.dozor@pdp.gov.sk
The transfer of personal data to third countries
Some third-party cookies or similar technologies, in particular cookies related to embedded YouTube content or Google services, may involve the processing of data by third-party providers and, depending on their configuration, may involve transfers of personal data outside the EU/EEA. Such cookies will only be used where legally permitted, in particular on the basis of your consent, and subject to appropriate safeguards under the GDPR.
Strictly necessary cookies used directly by the Controller do not involve transfers of personal data to third countries, unless stated otherwise in the separate cookie table.
Contact
If you would like to send questions or remarks regarding the processing of your personal data, you can contact the Data Protection Officer at zodpovedna.osoba@tuke.sk or write to the Controller’s registered office.
We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time. The current version will always be available on our website. In case of material changes affecting the use of cookies or the processing of your personal data, we will inform you in an appropriate manner.
This version of the policy was issued on June 15, 2026.